Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-09
Town and Country.
Autumn is here.

SCHOOL commences next Monday.
THE Steubenville council voted 9 to
against prohibition.
SEVERAL cases of typhoid fever are
reported from WarnOck.
WHEELING Fair is drawing many st
Clairsville people this week.
THE Salvation Army at Somerton has
gained 12 or Is new recruits.
THE D,Nice ball club, of Wooster,
done up Barnesville last week, 9 to 1.
THE North Wheeling rink which cost
$500, was sold on Saturday, for $3.50.
THE Fair is over, and nothing to look
forward to till Thanksgiving and Christ
mas.
THE Wheeling letter carriers handled
26S, ,453 pieces of mail matter during Au-
gust.
The new hotel at Finishing is now
under a slate roof 1t took 1615 tons of
slate.
THE tobacco crop is being gathered.
Somerton reports the best yield for many
years.
DAN. CURTIS, well known colored
man of Martins Ferry, died on Sabbath
evening.
BARNEsvILLE is to have circus on
Thursday of this week, and rejOiceth
thereat.
JAMES WEEKS, of Martins Ferry, died
on Friday, from the effects of Il stroke of
paralysis.
THE K of L Journal was issued daily
during the X of l. festival in Bellaire
last week.
NEW stone sidewalks are being laid at
Glencoe, making big improvement on
the village.
THE Democratic daily paper at Bell
the 10Th inst.
FRANK PIPER, son of DR. Piper, of
Glencoe. will enter the medical college
ct Baltimore.
BENZ. PoLLACK, an old resident of
Flushing tp., died suddenly on Monday
of last week.
The new c g. P depot at Martins
Ferry is completed, and is being used by
that company.
MCKMs machine shops, Martins Fer
~, were compelled to shut down on ac-
count Of a dry well.
THE hollow ware glass workers of
Bridgeport have been organized into a
lodge of the K of L.
Tou1I Dp,r~rrp Of Po-nocyilIo xuae ca
verely injured in a runaway accident, at
the fair at that place.
A CLOTHING man at Martins Ferry
has a chandelier in his store that has
been in use 119 years.
SEVERAL Flushing gentlemen are ar
ranging for tripin carriage fIom that
place to Baltimore Md.
MICHAEL A. COINS, a we'll known COLI
ored man of GAINESVILLE, died on Satur-
day, 2Sth ult, aged 81 years.
DENNIS CALLAHAN. a Martins Ferry
man, was robbed of $50, on the Wheel
ling ferry, on Saturday night.
THE RichIand township school board
meets iD regular semi i-annual session,
one week from next Monday.
JENK KIRK. a Flushing lad, was hit
with bat while playing ball. He wears
mashed nose and black eye.
THE W FM S of the Steubenville dis
trict, held a convention 10 Martins Fer
ry last week, closing Friday.
GEO. PITNER, BeIlaire lad, one of
the carriers of the Bellaire Independent,
died on Saturday after short illness.
r. NJ. FULTON, ESQ. will remove from
Kansas to Marbletown, near Warnock,
where he will teach school the coming
winter.
SINCE the night police have been on
duty at Martins Ferry, there has been
much less drunkenness and police court
business.
FRANCIS MURPHY says, "the political
Prohibitionists are queer crowd, who
want office more than they want tenn
perance."
SOME shares of Barnesville First Ma
tional bank stock were sold at 50 per
cent premium, at recent public sale in
that place.
IT is proposed to pave Belmont street,
Bellaire, from the & o bridge to the
public square, at the expense of the abut-
ting property.
T. G. CULBERTsoN, Martins Ferry. re.
ports two tomatoes, aggregatipg three
pounds and five ounces. One of them
weighs two pounds.
FATHER MARTINA, of Wheeling, will
hereafter have charge of the Bridgeport
Catholic church, and services will be
held every Sabbath.
THE Jefferson county Fair will be
held at Smithfeld. September %, 90 and
"a. The secretary writes the CHRoNI'
Gle that the prospects for good Fail
are unusually fattering.
JOHN TREUsCH. a leading German cit
izen of Martins Ferry, died on Sabbath
morning. from heart disease. He hat
been connected with the Buckeye glas!
works since they were started.