Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-03

An mdenominational Sunday Schoo
Convention will be held in st. Clairsvill'
the first week in June, under the auspices
of the Belmont County Sunday SchoO
/ Union.
The Secretary. Mr. J. c. Bethel. OF
Flushing. was in town on Saturday, con
ferring with the pastors of churches and
the active Sunday School workers of this
place.
4 conference of the best workers il
this useful field -Presbyterians, Metho,
dists. Baptists. and all other evangelical
denominations cannot but be fruitful OF
much good, and a cordial invitation is
therefore extended to the Sabbath School
workers of Belmont county to be present.
st. Clairsville, with her accustomed hos
pitality, will entertain all delegates, and
will seek to make the occasion pleasant
and profitable to all who may attend.
The programme will appear next week.
THE SUMMER SCHEDULE
OF the Baltimore and Ohio R. r. went
into operation on Sunday. Trains arrive
and depart from st. CIairsville as follows,
local time:
Depart -6.21 A. NJ, S.5l A. NJ, 1906 P. NJ,
AL P. NJ.
Arrjce-S.i6 A. NJ, $50 4. NJ, ESQ P. NJ,
6.41 P. NJ.
The G.21 A. NJ. train makes direct con-
nection at BenwoOd with the Pittsburgh
Express, for all points East The S.51 A.
NJ. train connects at the Junction with the
Mail train for GAINESVILLE and the West.
A CONCERT, festival and fair will be
held in the new Court House Han Thurs,
day and Friday evenings of next week,
for benefit of the A NJ. E. congregation,
who are endeavoring to raise funds for
the erection of a new church. The con-
cert exercises will occupy about an hour
each evening, after which the fair and fes-
tival branch of the entertainment will
take place 1t is hoped that our colored
friends will be patroniZed literally.
ATTENTION is called to the advertise
ment in this paper of the Roofing House
of VIM A List & Co, of Wheeling. They
claim that their material and manner OF
laying is the best. They are also dealers
in felt roofing, tarred paper for lining
poultry houses and for wrapping trees to
keep off vermin. And large jobbers of
building papers which is now extensively
used as a cheap substitute for plastering,
for lining houses.
4 TELEGRAM was received here on
Tuesday announcing the death, from
lung trouble, at his home, in Peoria,
ILL.,, of James B. wilkins, son of R. NJ
wilkins, Esq, of this place. Deceased
was about 45 years of age, and leaves a
family, consisting of a wife and one
child. Mr.. wilkins and daughter, Miss
Lydia, left on Tuesday evening for
Peoria, to attend the funeral.
Mr. SHERMAN II. DOYLE, of this place,
who has been attending the Theological
Seminary at Allegheny, was granted Ii
cense to preach the coming summer, by
the st. Clairsyille Presbytery, in session
at Cadiz last week. He will preach for
the congregation at Unionport, Jefferson
county, during the college vacation.
a LETTER from Prof. c. E. Hitchcock,
at Wellington, Kansas, received on Satur-
day, brings the cheerful findings that
Mrs. Hitchcock, whose life has been hang
ing in the balance for the past three
weeks, is better and there is every pros
pect that she viii be restored to health.
THE premium list for the next annual
Exposition and State Fair at Wheeling
has been issued, showing that the next
Fair will be more attractive than any
held. As usual Belmont coun-
ty viii be apt to patFonize the exposition
iberally.
PETER TRIGG, the Is year old son of
VIM. Trigg near Jacobsburg, fell from an
ox-cart which he was driving, on We'd
nesday of last week, and one of the wheels
passed over his body, inficting injuries
from which he died on Thursday.
ENGLISH sparrows' heads are worth
ten cents dozen, the money to be paid
by the treasurer of any village, city, or
township within which the sparrows are
chance is afforded the boys
to get into the show.
AsAresult of the extortionate demands
of the Wheeling Natural Gas Co., nego-
tiations are pending for another pipe
line to bring the gas to the maunfactur-
ing establishments on the river front.
Mr.. RoBT. NJ. DENHAM, residing few
miles South of town, who has been in
poor health for sometime from kidney
trouble, is lying very low and his early
death is anticipated
Mrs. NORA KAUFMAN, wife of Chas.
Kaufman, of Bridgeport, died on Mon
day, after long illness, aged 80 years.
a husband and two children are bereft
by her death.
NOTWITHSTANDING the sweet intlu-
ence of few spring-like days just previ-
Gus, the chill air of Tuesday, reminded us
that this is variable climate
WINFIELD ROBINSON, the Bellaire den
tist, who went to Colorado in search of
health, and returned a few weeks ago,
died on Friday night.
THE news of the settlement of the flint
glass strike, was cheerful information for
the men, who have been idle since Decem-
Der.