Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29
Town and Country.
Doe days are coming.

coming Fair.
OATS are being harvested at lively
rate this week.
The B, 2 & c read will run Sunday
passenger trains.
SUNDAY was the hottest church going
day of the season.
DIR. D. @. STEERE is the new health
officer at Bellaire.
BARNEsvILLEi is proud of her bali club,
and it is good one.
AUGUST comes in on Sunday. The
yeaI is wearing away.
GAINESVILLE expects prohibition to
go into effect October L.
The city fathers meet in monthly ses+
sion next Monday evening.
THE Martins Ferry stove orks re-
sumed operations this week.
The A M E camp meeting at Martins
Ferry commences on Saturday.
STOCK running at large destroy lawns
and gardens at Martins Ferry.
The threshing shows the wheat crop
I'd be even better than expected.
THE small boy will soon begin to real
iZe that his vacation has an end.
a NEW street sprinkler now lays the
dust on GAINESVILLE thoroughfares.
BURR's MILLS camp meeting will COM
mence one week from next Tuesday.
The st. Clairsville girls put no faith
in the stories of ice cream poisoning.
The Richland township trustees meet
in regular monthly session on Saturday.
ENGINEER NORTON is laying out walks
and fixing up the public square, Bellaire.
Ed. GALLAGHER, of Burr's Mills, is
the new telegraph operator at Barnes
vile.
The NJ E Sabbath Schools annual pic
mic will be held to-day, at Ridgeway's
Grove.
THE American Express Company has
established an Office at Holloway, this
county.
PETER KERN will start a wholesale
candy manufacturing establishment in
Bella1re.
The Prohibition party will hold their
county convention at ST. Clairsville, on
August II.
THE Harvest Home picnic in Ault's
Grove. on August 5, promises to be a
grand affair.
Rev. HAYS preached in the Bridgeport
Presbyterian church Sunday, on sabbath
dissertation"
LAST Thursday was the 22d birthday
of the Cadiz Sentinel. live Democratic
and local paper.
THE Bellaire Herald tells of snake
seen near Key, which was II feet long
and foot thick.
WILL BowsER, for hitting Jack Smith
with mallet, was fined S25 by Mayor
Brown, at Bellaire.
WIN. HABERFIELD, of Wheeling, has
challenged He'll, of Bellaire, to boat
race, for $3.50 side.
BURR's MILLS camp grounds are said
to be more beautiful and inviting this
season than ever before.
JOHN PoRTERFIELD, of this township,
threshed his wheat Friday, and it aver
aged SO bushels to the acre.
JOHN SHILLITo died at his home in
Bellaire On Friday morning, aged IA
years. Interment on Sabbath.
THE Martins Ferry council proposes
to pass an ordinance, making $50 the
lowest fine for liquor law violations.
A SHED burning on the Cottage House
lot, Martins Ferry, on Friday night. was
torn down in time to save confiagration.
MATTHEW WALLACE. who resides
west of Bellaire, was seriously hurt by a
fall into an excavation, one day last
week.
THE Methodists of Warnock and vi
cinity commenced a camp meeting in
Strahl's orchard on Monday, Rev. Hissom
in charge.
THE tenth annual reunion of the 126th
regiment o V l, will be held at Thorn
vile, Perry county, Ohio, on Thursday,
August 26.
The primaries to elect delegates to
the Congressional convention, will be
held ON Saturday. The convention is
next Wednesday.
The Bridgeport Lodge K of P is in a
fiourishing condition, with $4,000 in the
treasury. They contemplate the erec-
tion of building.
IR. LANE, ESQ. B & o ticket agent
at Barnesville, left last week for San
Francisco, to attend the national encamp-
ment of the G A r.
THE Barnesville Fair is advertising
as an attraction, Miss Elsa Won Blumen.
the famous bieyclienne, who will ride
against fast horse.
REV. DENNY will finish bis labors as
colporteur of the American Bible Soci
ETY. for this county, this week, leaving
five townships to be canvassed. Rev.
Denny has been transferred to Maryland.