Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-02-12

5sel,,tnttt Chronicle.
THURSDAY. FEB. -, 1891.
Town and County.
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LENT begun yesterday.
OVER sixty witnesses were before the
Grand Jury on Friday.
THE teachers monthly pay roll in Bel.
laire amounts to 1850.
LEWIS MILLS vicinity is suffering from
scarlet fever and measles.
A RAILROAD CAR filled with Florida
products has been on exhibition in river
towns.
KIDD's coal mines at Maynard have
resumed work after lay off of nearly
three years.
WHEELING's case of alleged smallpox
cost the city 81, 100. The boy was per
mitted to go home Friday.
RECENT revivals at East Liverpool
have resulted in 1000 conversions, and
the work is still going on.
A CHARTER has been procured, limit
ed, te 5000, and an oil company is now
being formed at Woodsfeld.
NOTE the time of the sale of the Nor
ton property, near Flushing February 81.
See the advertisement in this paper.
REPRESENTATIVE McKELYEY's bill,
providing for biennial sessions of the
Legislature, was defeated in the House
last Wednesday.
Hon. J. J. BURNS, of Canton formerly
of this place, is to be one of the judges at
the intercollegiate oratorical contest, at
Wooster, February 18th.
HARRISON COUNTY farmers have or
ganized to protect themselves from
hunters. Every man is sworn to protect
his neighbor in prosecuting cases.
THE Mt. Pleasant Farmers Institute
begins to-day and closes on Saturday.
The name of Hon. C. l.. Weems, of this
place, appears on the programme.
THERE has been some outside talk of
an effort to change the county seat of
Harrison county to Jewett, but CadiZ
papers say that the matter IS entirely
sensational.
THE Bellaire School Board unani- |
mously sustained Principal Myers in his
chastisement of the Long girl, and the
expulsion of her mother and aunt from
the school room.
The communion service at Bannock
Presbyterian church, appointed for the
third Sabbath of February has been post
poned until the fourth Sabbath. Preach
ing on Friday and Saturday, at 2 P. NJ:
nun Oil OOlh p01s, SOhI
posed of citizens of Wheeling and
Martins Ferry, applied to the proper
authorities of West Virginia for a charter
last week. The company will put down
well on Glenn's Run as early as possible.
WoODSFIELD kicks on S475 and st.
Clairsville complains of cost of 81 400
for street lighting per year. How would
they like $4,000 scald such as we have
in Cambridge, with now you see it and
now you don't see it, condition ?-GueIn- |
seq Times.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Legislature providing that Township
Clerks shall prosecute persons who refuse
to work two days on the roads, and the
Constable shall sell any thing except the
clothing on the person of such delin-
quents, in satisfaction of Judgment.
'THE Lotus Glee Club did not like
Barnesville, its people, its hall, its ac-
commodations, or anything connected
with Barnesville. They shook its mud
from their feet as quick as possible, and ;
left on the midnight train. Enterprise.
What is the matter with Barnesville? {
BELLAIRE is talking of canning fac
tory; person of experience in the can
ming business says that there is no better
point in the whole country for this bust
ness, because the fruits of the county are
of splendid quality, and the tomatoes and 4.
corn are the best favored of any raised
in the country. Such an industry as this
would be well adapted to st. Clairsville.
RATES of fare for the Grand Army En-
campment, to be held in Steubenville
from April % to 30, has been arranged as
follows: For all distances of fifty miles
or over, one cent mile travelled, for less
distances one fare for the round trip, no
rate for distances less than fifty miles to
be in excess of 81. Tickets may be sold
April 27 and 28, good returning not later
than May 1st.
THE report that Mrs. Rose Wood,
prominent temperance worker of Mar
tins Ferry. and at one time wealthy, had
been reduced to the necessity of seeking ,
refuge in a Wheeling institution main !
tained by Reymann, the brewer, is found !
to be untrue Mrs. Wood, recently after .
the death of her last near relative, son, !
procured admission to the "HOme for
Friendless Women" on Thirteenth street, !