Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-01-21
INTERESTING SHORT BITS.
Newsy Items Gathered from Town
and Country.

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and Country.
Pithy Paragraphs Written or Pasted A
Melange Dished Up for All
/ Readers.
JAMES FOWLER, of Barnesville, died
last Friday from grip. He was 76 years
of age.
THE attendance of Franklin College is
now the largest in its history, with more
to follow.
The venerable John Stewart is lying
seriously i'll at his home three miles east
of town.
The Epworth League Assembly at
Bars Mills will be held this year from
August End to 18th.
MARTINS FERRY is making an effort
to secure the Be Stove Works which
are going to leave Wheeling.
JOB, says an exchange, learned to swear
when quite young, for it is recorded of
him that he cursed the day he was born.
A LITERARY contest between pupils of
the Barnesville and Cambridge schools |
will be held at Cambridge, Friday, the
10Th.
A SEMI annual dividend of 3 per cent |
has been declared on common and pre-
ferred stock of the Central Ohio Division
of the B. & o.
For Rent.-Desirable house on Main
Street. Inquire of
2t.A Mrs RACHEL BRowNLEE.
A aCITIzEN" proves at length in the
Barnesville Republican that the office of
Marshal should be filled by appointment,
instead of election.
THERE was much fear along the river
of food last week, but the cold snap be-
ginning Friday tied up the waters and
arrested the danger.
THE .deliver us from evil' in the
prayer acquires at the present time an
unwonted significance from the fact that
Congress is in session.
Plows ws-Twenty five South Bend Chill
ed Plows, complete with wheel and
jointer, at $40 each. Usual price $13.
I-14-2t VIC. STILwELL.
The river came up over the G.. L. & w.
tracks at West Wheeling on Saturday
evening but soon receded 1t would
have taken eight or ten feet more to have
done much damage.
THE young Republicans of Ohio are
falling into the front lines. One member
of the present Legislature is only 26 yeals
old, another is q, two are %, three are
80, and many under So.
LOMAN BECK, of Blaine, died Sunday
morning from chronic diarrhea, disease ,
he contracted during the war. He was a
member of the 5Oth o. V. L. His funer-
al took place on Tuesday.
Miss Carrie L. HAYES, for over seven 2
years trusted employe of the Children's .
Home near Barnesville, left last week to >
accept the position of Matron in the
Soldiers and Sailors Orphan Home at
XeEia.
CHARLIE CRAIG's absence last week .
from his duties as conductor on the
Northern Was not caused by grip, or by 8
his being de.alied for service on another .
train. The cause of of it was the arrival
of a new girl at his home.
MAUD TAYLOR whose death was men, 7
toned last week, was the daughter of /
Jas. Taylor. She was within one month I
of being twenty-five years Of age. Her i
death Was due to spinal meningitis, and t
she had been SICK just week.
Mrs. DR.. r. T. ARMSTRONG, wife of
the pastor of the Presbyterian church of =
W oodsfeld, died last week. Her maiden ,
name was Rebecca N. Newland. From =
1889 to 1S4S she lived at Morristown, this 7
county, and for twenty years thereafter f
she was resident of Bridgeport. z
Harness.
Until March 1st | will sell first-class
Hand made Yankey Harness for $26.OO,
usual price $50. Other harness rated f
the same. Stock and workmanship
guaranteed.
IT, ]. G. ELLIOTT, Flushing o. .
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To Our Readers. Il
We cannot too strongly urge upon our 0
readers the necessity of subscribing for )
family weekly paper of the first-clrss,
such, for instance, as The Satu1 day C
Eoening Post of Philadelphia. were we r
obliged to select one publication for the t.
very best reading, to the exclusion of all
others, we should choose The Saturday
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