Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-04-22
Town and Country.

CHlP mats are spTouleu.
THE fruit trees are blooming.
FRIDAY of next week is Arbo- Day
Plant a tree.
THE garden is claiming special atten
ton at present.
STONE for the new depot is arriving
at Martins Ferry.
The West Wheeling paper mills are
shut down for repairs.
MEASLES are abundant in BarnesviIle,
but are of mild form.
I'd. w. COOPER, p NJ" is now signed
to the Belaire lett, T list.
MAYOR DAVIES starts out well-s5
and costs for plain drunk.
WILD flowers are out. and so are the
youi g folks-out after them.
A PERMANENT base ball association is
being talked of at GAINESVILLE.
APRIL has the nect ssary "r," but the
oyster went out of date on The 1st.
THERE were 629 pupils enrolled in the
BIrnesville schools during the year.
NINE employees of the B & o shops at
Bellaire, were discharged last week.
FRIDAY was the 2Ist anniversary of
the assassination of President Lincoln.
THE street commissioner with force
of men, cleaned up the streets last week
SOME mean fellow has predicted a
three inch snow for next Sabbath-Eas-
ter.
THOSE who believe in the moon will
plant potatoes the latter part of this
week.
SAVE your money and carpets by buy
ing moth proof carpet felt, at F. Troll &
Sons. 15-2t
TEE small boy is now sick until after
the school bell rings, and then he goes
fishing
JOHN SUTTON. of this place, a veteran
nurserymaO, says the peaches are not
injured.
Ice cream and soda water are in sea-
son; but there is none of the latter in
this place.
THE U. 5. circus, to show in Bellaire
on May 4th, pays 800 for the use of the
public square.
Book agents, organ grinders and the
like are on the go; they are as regular as
the spriBg-time.
some say they cannot afford to adj
vertise; they mistake, they cannot afford
not to advertise"
D. W. COOPER, ESQ, in his last month
AZ Dallaira in,
fines and licenses.
THE young men of Martins Ferry now
have the bicycle craze. They all either
have or want them.
COMPETITION in the ice trade, and
big supply, will make that commodity
cheap this summer.
FRED EBERLE is the president of the
new council of Bellaire, and Ii. g. Har-
tenstein vice president.
THE lights around about us at night,
shows that the winters accumulation of
rubbish is being burned.
MRS ELIZA MILLER, of Barnesville,
aged rs years, died on the 9th inst, from
lung and stomach trouble.
Four tons of Sweitzer cheese were
landed in Bellaire last week from Monroe
county for shipment west.
Mrs. JEFFGEYs, aged 81, died at her
home in Barnesville on Saturday, 10th
inst, from general debility.
BARNEsvILLE is happy--their brass
band is to be re-organizsd. They have
been inconsolable without it.
A BILL has passed the Legislature au-
thoriZing Guernsey county commissions
ers to repair the National road.
THE buzz of the parent house fly, as he
foolishly butts the window pane, is
heard. A fly never had any sense.
JOHN VoGEL, former Bellaire lad,
was run over by the cars at Washington,
Pa, Thursday and fatally injured.
CARPETS and Oil Cleth, largest stock
we ever had; in fact, everything that be-
longs to carpet department.
l5-2t F. TROLL & Sons.
IT is thought 2Scts will be the opening
price for wool. See what a Wheeling
buyer says in an article printed in this
paper.
J. W. YosT, architect of our court
house, has been employed to furnish
plans for new court house in Perry
county.
BARNEsULLE is very much pleased
with the Salvation Army, and a great
amount of good is being done in the town
by the Army.
J. HEED and Al Heed, Barnesville
cigar manufacturers, have consolidated
their business. They will give 100 per-
sons employment.
JAMES DUFFY, c & P conductor. got
the lantern in the Catholic fair contest
at Bellaire, having 1913 to $3S for Truax
of the narrow gauge.
THE grocery firm of S d Corbett, Bel,
laire, has made an assignment to James
Tallman, Behr & Son, of Wheeling
being the principal creditors.
ASK your neighbor about the Pear
shirt. F. Troll & Sons is the only plact
in st. Clairsville where you can gel
them. 4I52t
Gov. FORAKER, of Ohio and Gov. Viii
son, of West Va, have promised to bt
present at the Pennyroyal Reunion, neal
Fairview, on August IS and 49,
Miss JESSIE LoNGLEY. of st. Clairs,
vile, has started fiourishing kinder
garten school in the Exchange banE
building.-Martin's Ferry News.
THE trustees of Smith tp., have beer
petitiOned to repair that part of the War
mock pike in their township. Last year
Richland township put over $1,000 OF
this pike.
GEORGE HoRNER, of Cincinnati, will
superintend construction of the Martin
Ferry water works Operations will
commence as soon as contracts can b
legally let.
REV. HIssOM closed bis revival a
MOrristown, the direct results being, s.