Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-04

Bel1ttpttt Chronicle.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1890.
Town and County.
COMMON PLEAS CoURT began at Cadiz
on Tuesday.
A CHAUTAUQUA circle is to be organ
lied in Bellaire shortly.
THE Clairsyille public schools will re-
open next Monday, September 8.
THE Fair is booming in exhibits. The
main thing now is to patronize it.
THE price of milk in Wheeling has
advanced two cents per quart-from 6 to
cents.
ONE HUNDRED dollars is the size of the
fine imposed upon saloonists in Steuben-
vile for Sunday selling.
FINE TEAs-Gun Powder, Young Hy-
son, Japan and OOlong black. We know
we can please you. 2t GEO. JEPSON.
THE Hicksite society of Friends, held
their yearly meeting at Mt Pleasant on
Sunday, and there was large attendance.
THE long carpenters strike in Wheeling
which fell to pieces sometime ago by its
own weight, has been formally declared
off.
A o. BARNES has declined the oppor-
tunity of being defeated for Prosecuting
Attorney on the Harrison county Demo
cratic ticket.
MELONS have had to pepform extra
service in this season of scarce fruit, and
in consequence there has been large
traffic in them.
PURE SPICES "A full line Always
fresh. You can depend on us for quality
and price. 1t GEO. JEPSON.
JJ. HARPER will sell on the old Harp
er farm ~ miles south of St. Clairsville,
Saturday, September 13, lot of stock
and farm implements. See bills.
THE Ohio State Fair will open at
Columbus on Monday, September 18th,
and close on September 18th. Reduced
rates via the Pennsylvania Lines.
"
A MEETING of the stockholders of the
Ktna Iron and Steel Company is called
for the 30th inst. to consider the propri-
ETY. of increasing the capital stock of the
company to $4,000.
COMMISSIONER BERRY is going into
the milling business. He has purchased
the old Lockwood mill at the mouth of
Pipe creek, and is having it refitted with
new roller process machinery.
TRY OUR CoFFEE-We know what it
is. We select our Coffee green and have
it roasted. No package coffee at all like
it. Nobody sells "Jepson's Coffee" but
ct JEPsoN.
WORD was received here last week that
Mrs. w. S. Cowen had been taken sud-
denly ill, the result of too close attention
to her duties in the U. S. Clerks office, at
Cincinnati. Her sister Miss Julia Frasier,
went to the city and will accompany her
home to day.
THE Managers of the West Virginia
State Fair, at Wheeling, have every pre-
paration made for the comfort and enter
tainment of the big crowd of people
which will be in attendance next week if
the weather is favorable.
THE NJ. E. Church at Louisville, Rev.
j. L. Morton, pastor, which has been re-
painted, relitted and greatly beautifed,
will be re-opened on next Sabbath, at
o'clock. Rev. DR.. Hollingshead, of this
place, will preach the opening sermon.
WORK on the piers and abutments of
the new Back river bridge, near Bridge
port, is being pushed forward rapidly, |
and it is expected that the stone work
will be completed within the next six
weeks, when the iron will be placed in
position.
"E. b. P."-ExcelsiOr Baking Powder
is as good as any at Gny price. We know
it is pure; have sold thousands of pounds |
of it. Why then pay 30 per cent. more for
any Baking Powder? Call and answer.
S-27-2t GEO. JEPsoN.
THE agents of the alleged English syn
dictate which took an option on the
Standard Iron and Steel Company's
Works at Etnaville, several months ago,
have failed to put up the necessary cash,
and the deal has been declared off. They
desired an extension of time but it was
not granted.
THE Smyrna Fair will be held next
week, beginning on Tuesday, 9th, and
closing on Thursday. Farmers, stockmen
and others always take commendable
interest in this Fair, and good exhibit
is the result. The free for-all pace for a
purse of 800 occurs on Wednesday, and
the trot on Thursday.
JOHN ULRICH, well known German |
citizen, resident of Burlington, formerly |
of Ktnaville, died on Saturday from
typhoid fever, and his funeral occurred |
on Sunday under the direction of the
Knights of Pythias, of which order he |
was member. Interment at Riverview |
Cemetery, above Martins Ferry.
A MERRY party of Colerain young peo- |
ple picnicked at Mount Clair Grove ON |