Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-22
Town and County.

Town and County.
THE InteHigeneer, of Friday, has the
following: Last evening Officer Shorts
arrested Kinney Davis, colOred youth,
late of st. Clairsville, on a charge of steal
ing. The boy pawned a pair of opera
glasses. and il is said gold watch also
He formerly worked short time for
Clara Moss, and he ran up bills for mer-
chandise in her name after she had dis
charged him. He entered plea, when
arraigned before the justice, of guilty of
petit larceny.
THE real property of the late Jas. A.
Barnes was sold at public sale by the ad-
ministrator, during the past week. The
farm of 1l2 acres was bought by George
w McBurney for S3l55. Four lots and
Ia acres at GAINESVILLE brought S6O5,
and was purchased by Mrs. Annie E.
Sheldon. Az acre lot at Barnesville,
bought by JOS W. Barnes, brought S405.
The residence at st. Clairsville was pur
by the widow of the deceased for $500.
Mrs. JANE LEE, died at the residence
of her daughter, Mrs. w. E. Stamp, on
Saturday morning, from general debility,
aged about 68 years. She was native
of this county, and had bean an invalid
for many years. Her funeral occur
red on Sunday, Rev. DIR. HOllingshead
officiating at the services. Interment in
NJ E. Cemetery. Deceased was an aunt
of Messrs. A. II. and Wilson Mitchell, of
this place.
THE new flag, which was recently pro
vided by the Commissioners for the
Court house, was unfurled from the
top of 26 ft. flag staff at 6 o'clock on
Monday evening. 1t is 16x24 ft. in di-
mensions and floats grandly over the
dome of the splendid new Court house.
Thomas (Pete) Taylor accomplished the
somewhat hazardous task of placing the
flag staff in position, without accident.
THE news of the success of Rev. W. a.
Williams, President of Franklin College,
New Athens, Ohio, in building up that
institution, has reached the far West.
Efforts have been made to secure his ser
vices as President of two western col
leges, one in Dakota and the other in
Colorado, with salaries of S1,SOO and S2-
900 respectively. y.-InteIligencer.
OLD Belmont is great county. Her
schools are first class and numerous, and
her educators among the finest in the
land. There are 1856 school houses with
in her limits, which cost nearly 100000.
She is one of the great counties of Ohio.
Wheeling Nea0S Letter.
JOHN JONES, a Bellaire man who was
travelling with little palace show on the
Ohio river, was stabbed to death by a
man named McClintOck, above Point
Pleasant, one day last week. The two
men quarreled about rowing a skiff. The
murderer was arrested.
ATTEND the Republican primaries
next Saturday and vote for delegates to
the county convention who will do the
very wisest thing at the convention on
Tuesday for the success of the Republi-
can party at the election in November
THE pipe line from the Stitt oil well to
the Ohio river road, on the Virginia side,
has been completed and tested and the
shipment of the crude oil from the Bel
mont county oil field to the Parkersburg
refineries will begin at once.
THE Ohio State University offers a
Free Scholarship in the Two Years
Course in Agriculture, to one student
from each County in the State, to be Sc
lected by the county Agricultural So
ciety.
J. w. TAYLOR and Miss Martha Dan
ford, of Washington Tp., were married
on last Thursday morning and took in
Harvest Home" picnic, at Stewards,
grove, as part of their wedding tour.
JAMES ENGLE, aged about forty years,
residing at Dyson's, slipped off train
while it was in motion at Cambridge, on
Thursday, and was thrown under the
wheels and killed instantly.
AN address of DR.. w. III. Carson,
formerly of this place, to the State Den
tai Association, of Wisconsin, of which
.he is President, was published in the
Chicago Inter Ocean recently.
TRUMAN BETHEL, formerly of near
Lewis Mills but later of Barnesville, died
at the home of his father in the latter
place. on Tuesday evening of last week,
aged abont 20 years.
THE Mansfield Shield and Banner
notes the presence in that city on Tues
day of last week of Hon. Thos. Cochran,
eS-PrObate Judge of Belmont county.
THE camp-meeting of the A. NJ. E.
church at Miners grove, near Morris
town, was well attended on Sabbath,
about 1900 persons being present.
Miss CARRIE, daughter of DIR. ann Mrs.
II. w. Baker, of BaFaesyille, was married
to Mr.. Myron Cole, of that place, on
Thursday evening of last week.
THE Smyrna Fair will be held Sept 10
to IL. The free for all pace is set for the
second day, and the free for all trot on
the last day Of the Fair.
THE annual meeting of the Christian
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at MorristOwn, beginning on Friday and