Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-07-28
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No visitors are to be admitted to Ep
worth Park on the Sabbath Day.
Mrs. HEINLEIN needs no introduction
to the people of st. Clairsville.
CHAPLAIN MCCABE is one of the at
fractions at the Cadiz camp meeting.
THE new stamping company at Bell
aire will employ over hundred men.
FOUR miners were badly injured by
fall of soapstOne at a Bellaire mine las
week.
SEND us 81 80 and receive THE CHRON
ICLE and the New York Tribuneone en-
tire year.
THE A. NJ f. Church, of Bellaire, i:
making arrangements for the usual Beth
ell camp meeting.
STUDENTS of Physical Geography
should not fail to hear the rare lecture
on Tuesday night.
IT might be well enough to get vacci-
mated during this hot weather, when you
have nothing else to do.
CONE out on Tuesday and Friday eve
nings of next week, and hear the lectures
and music in Court House Hall.
HENRY QUICKER has purchased neat
new wagon suitable for picnics or fishing
parties, or for moving household goods.
"NoT for twenty years." says the
Barnesville Republican, has base ball been
as dead in Belmont county as it is now.
Miss CARRIE LANDFRIED and w. J.
Kirkpatrick, the hustling young Repub-
lican of Bellaire, were married Thursday
evening.
THE Democratic Congressional prima-
ries will be held Saturday, to elect dele,
gates to the Bellaire Convention next
Tuesday.
DURING a severe electrical storm at
Ropley, o., last week, an 1S-year-Old girl.
who had been blind from childhood, re-
covered her sight
CADIz camp meeting is to continue
over two Sundays. This indicates that
it is to be run on business rather than
religious principles
WHEAT is mostly in stack and the crop
is much above the average Grass is
mostly cut and the crop is little light.
Oats promises good yield.
LADIES can get boarding, tuition, fur
Inished room. books (rented) fuel and
light at Franklin College, New Athens,
o., for $3.50. See catalogue.
Down in Washington township black
berries are so plentiful that it does not
pay to pick them. They have been sell
ing at one dollar bucket here.
1T is still thought that the purchase of
the Terminal Bridge and Railway Com
pany by the Wheeling and Lake Erie
Road is matter of the near future.
THERE are now in the penitentiary at
Columbus 1876 persons, the largest num-
ber ever confined there at one time. The
accommodations are becoming cramped.
A STEAM thresher coming over the
hills into Caldwell few days ago, was
thought by the people to be narrow
gauge train taking short cut into town.
THE nine POlanders discharged from
custody last week returned to the
Wheeling creek mines, but are reported
to be, one by one, getting out of the
country.
J.BOROFF Il Sons have had their large
store rooms from cellar TO attic COM
pletely equipped with incandescent lights.
The new lodge rooms of the Mechanics
has been similarly fitted up.
THE Worlds Fair management stoutly
deny the report which some malicious
person must have started, that their
treasury is bankrupt. They have, they
say, over two millions in bank.
FOUR glass workers of Martins Ferry,
one of whom, Nicholas Walters, is said
to be the finest glassworker in the United
States, have been employed by Toledo
firm to make glass at the Worlds Fair.
Hon. j. ]. BURNS, of Canton, o., will
lecture in Court House Hall, Tuesday
and Friday evenings of next week. His
subjects are Canada and the Glaciers of
the Selkirks," and Why l Read Shake
speare" Admission 10c.
E. E. AYERS, of Egypt, this county, de-
livers the English Philosophical Grafton
at the class day exercises at Mt. Union
College this week, and Ii. r. Wilson, of
Bethesda, the Valedictory. Both places
are regarded as high honors.
THE musical feature of the evening
lectures for next week has not been neg
lected. Mrs. Gertie Heinlein, of Bellaire.
will be with US, and delight the audience
with excellent music Music loving peO-
pie sould not fail to be present.
SECRETARY ELKINs has positively de-
clined to accept the Republican candida
cy for Governor of West Virginia. This
is great disappointment to the Repub-
licans of that State, as Elkins would
without doubt have been elected.
A NUMBER of young men at Bellaire,
who have been growing prematurely
bald and who don't like it,used prescrip-
tion recommended by barber The
stuff took out what little hair was left,
and badly blistered the bare pates of the
foolish youth.
A LADY, born and raised within seven
miles of Caldwell, and who was AZ years
old last Friday, visited that place on that
day for the first time. She expressed her
self as well pleased with the town, and
the places of business, etc, were very in
eresting to her.
On the night of August 9TH the planet
Mars, which is usually at distance of
one hundred and forty million miles from
the earth, will venture to within thirty