Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-12-03
OUR NEIGIIB0RING TOWNS.
Spicy Letters from Busy Local Con
tributors.
What Your Neighbors and Our Neishbors
are Doing, and Other Local
Events Happily Told.
LOUISVILLE

Thanksgiving day was passed here with every
little or no especial manifestation Of gratitude.
There being no public services number OF our
citizens spent the day in doing up the work atten-
dant upon the annual butchering- However, We
are not supposed to measure the depth of feeling
in the heart by the mere expression Of the lips or
by outward FORM There was not one feast worthy
of note on that day within the radius of our knOwl
edge.
The market men of the town and vicinity dress
ed for Thanksgiving occasion great amout OF
poultry for Wheeling and other markets. OrrisOn
& Wright, west of town, alone dressed near three
hundred turkeys, which were taken to the Pitts
burgh market and disposed of at a fair profit.
Lawrence P. Williams, who has been employed
by the dry goods firm of Black s Co., of zanes-
vile, returned home Saturday and will remain un-
til the New Year, when he will enter on new duties
as an employe of the firm of Hogue Simpson, of
Wheeling.
Miss Eva Shallcross has returned from Wheel
ing, where was called two weeks ago by the seri-
GUS illness of her cousin, Miss Sallie Shallcross
VIM. Craig and c. Z. Donner left Saturday for
Washington, Pa, where they will remain for a
few weeks.
VIM. Moore and wife were called to Barnesvile
Sunday by the illness of their uncle S. C. Hilles.
Miss Ida Hinkle, of Morristown, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Harry S. Estep.
Mrs. Amanda Hutchinson is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Henry BEEN, near st. Clairsville.
Mrs. Eliza Bowles, of Fairview, has been for the
past week the guest of her son, F. o. Bowles
Samuel Wiley and wife and L. W. Matthews,
wife and son. of St Clairsvie, spent Sunday here.
Mrs Marian Coffland returned recently from
protracted stay with western friends.
An oyster supper was given at the home OF Miss
Annie Williams on the evening Of the 9th for the
benefit ef the II. E. church. There were thirty
five couples invited, but owing to bad weather, the
crowd fell far below the estimate. However, an
excellent supper was served and the evening
thoroughly enjoyed by all present. McClelland
Hays and Ulysses Love, of Moorefeld, and Everett
Hayes and Emmett Taylor, of Uniontown, were
among those from distance.
An entertainment for Christmas is being pre-
pared by the Sunday School, to consist of literary
exercises, music and a treat for the little ones.
Smoke it OUT is an expression familiar to us
all, though until recently had not seen the ex-
pertinent tried; but are now fully convinced that
it is at least an effective though desperate remedy
The subject was the young Montana horse belong
ing to DIR. HewetsOn, of st. Clairsville, which VIM
Boyd and Samuel Lucas have undertaken to break
to harness. All attempts so far to start it when
stopped had been futile until one day last week
when the crowd collected fastened a bunch of hay
to pole, and after placing it under the animal,
ignited it. The horse Immediately started off, and
continued as docile as any ordinary horse the re-
mainder of the day, NJ.