Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-21
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Newsy Items Gathered from Town
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Readers.

Miss MARY BLAIR will act as pianis
during the Institute.
A Y SOCIETY has been organized b,
Bridgeport young ladies.
THE Bethesda Normal School close
this week, after successful season.
THE ages of six pail bearers at Cadii
funeral last week, aggregated 4O4 years.
A WILD WEST man has made arrange
ments to run a summer show in Wheel
ing.
VIM. WEBER lost valuable COW Tues
day.
Ar several points in the county farm
hands are too few to harvest the grea
crop.
THE tomato crop is unusually back
ward, and seems to have gone largely tt
vine.
SHERIFF SCOTT has between twenty
five and thirty summer boardtrs at hi:
hotel.
SEND MS 81 90 and receive THE CHRON
ICLE and the New York Tribune one en-
tire year.
THE Kidd coal works. above Barton
resumed work last week, after a rest OF
six weeks.
SEVERAL more good oil wells have
been struck in the neighborhOod of Sis
tersville.
w. ]. MILLER has had his tin and
hardware rooms equipped with incandes
cent burners
AN Ohio tax inquisitor has discovered
that brewery agents in this State must
pay the Dow tax.
WE give the New York Tribune one
year, with every advance subscriber to
THE CHRONICLE.
FIFTY CENT lectures for ten cents
Tuesday and Friday nights of next week,
in Court House Hail.
The Woodsfeld Fair will be held
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Au-
gust 30, 81 and September lst.
THE music, both vocal and instrument
al, will be furnished by home talent, for
the first lecture in the course, July 26.
SEVERAL carloads of watermelOns from
the Georgia farms of Belmont county
people have been received along the river.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made
whereby all trains, except the early
morning train east, stop at Epworth
Park.
A. W. KENNON, of this township, and
E. N. Boggs, of Colerain, are members of
the Democratic County Executive Com
mittee.
OUR offer of the New York Weekly
Tribune, and THE CHRONICLE for l.5O,
one years subscription in advance is
still open.
ANOTHER of the Danavin brothers,
who assaulted B. & o. Engineer Wig
field, was captured at Newark and bound
over to court.
THE Noble County Republican, the
bright and prosperous paper of Caldwell,
completed with last weeks issue its 33d
volume. Long life to it.
THE Texas, the first steel battle ship
of the new navy, is being built at the
Norfolk navy yards by Will Baxter, a
young man from Carrollton, Ohio.
MISSES MAMIE AND MARY SHANNON
entertained their friends Wednesday
evening of last week, with an enjoyable
entertainment of music and dancing.
WILL REED, a youth from New Cum
berland, attempting to part two men
who were fighting, Friday night at Tor
onto, was stabbed by one of them and
will die.
A WHEELING man has discovered
plan whereby he can manufacture alumni
mum from clay by an electrical process,
which greatly reduces the cost of pro-
ductiOn.
THE Jag doctors have left Bellaire,
whether because they had cured all the
jaggers, or because they could not sue
cesstully combat the Bellaire jag is not
stated.
THOMAS MILES, who killed Gordon Pc
ters at Byesville was last week tried at
Cambridge, and the jury reached no YER
dict. He will have another trial Septem-
Der 9th.
DANDRUFF is due to an enfeebled state
of the skin. Halls Hair Renewer quick
ems the nutritive functions of the skin,
healing and preventing the formation of
dandruff.
LAST year over 25O,OO0 buckets of
blackberries were carried by two boats
alone from points between Wheeling and
Parkersburg, and this year the shipments
promise to be far greater.
THE Wheeling Fair this year will have
several races at night, the track to be
lighted by electric lights. This would be
a good drawing scheme for for the man
ayers of our Fair to adopt.
CONGRESS passed a bill making the
Caldwell reunion national, and directing
the Secretary of War to send four pieces
of artillery, 1900 stand of arms, and 49,
600 rounds of ammunition.
RICHARD RICE, an old soldier, and
prosperous farmer, of Guernsey county.
is insane, and sits at an upstairs window
with all sorts of weapons, allowing no
one to approach except daughter who
brings him food.
A PIQUA man killed COW last week,
and found darning needle imbedded in
the flesh near the heart. The COW had
evidently accomplished the hitherto i'm
possible feat of finding needle in hay