Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-18
INTERESTING SHORT BITS.

| In EnEO1 1NU OllUul Did,
Newsy Items Gathered from Town
and Country-Pithy Paragraphs
: Cleaned from All Sources.
THE project of establishing a creamery
at Freeport has fallen in.
THE Alliance store at Antioch, Mon
roe county, recently failed.
THE Scotch Preserving Company has
been reorganized at Bellaire.
The mines on the c., L. and W. are
only running one day week.
AT meeting at Burton Station re-
Gently sixteen persons Joined the church.
BEFORE the cold weather of the past |
few days, grasshoppers were out grass |
hopping about.
AN old saying and true one: As the |
days begin to lengthen the cold begins |
to strengthen"
THE General Assembly of Virginia,
now in session, is composed of 56 farm
ers and Sc lawyers.
AN effort is being made to organize a |
canning and preserving company among
the farmers at Key.
HIS first grand jury in Harrison coun-
ty gave the new Prosecuting Attorney
over sixty cases to look after.
In response to call from Bridgeport
last week, Mrs. l. s. Powers gathered to-
gether box of clothing and sent it down.
For Sale or Rent-House on north
side Main St., End door west of Railroad
st. Apply at Post office. l-182t
AS soon as the weather prophets began
| to predict that the mild weather would
last all winter, forthwith cold wave
came
THE Pittsburgh council voted to issue
S6,OOO,OU bonds for park and street i'm
provements to give work to the unem-
plOyed.
ONE hundred thousand unemployed
workmen in the city of New York, is the
problem the metropolis of America has
to solve
A JOINT stock company has been
formed and all the stock subscribed for
the purpose OF building a grist mill at
Belmont.
w, j. MCCLAIN has been awarded the
contract to rebuild the Chittenden Hotel
at Columbus which was recently destroy
ed by fire.
PosT 2O3, G. A. R., meets next Satur-
day evening, at which time the new Off
GERS viii be installed All members are1
requested to attend.
PROFESSOR WILSON declares that
free trade would tend to prevent con-
sumption. 1t would-consumption of
food and clothing.
AT Temperanceville stock company
of farmers known as the Tobacco Grow
ers Association has been organized and
contract let for building. |,
1894. New Wall Paper. 1894.
5000 Rolls New goods now in stock
cheaper than ever.
11l2t JF. GRASSLAND & Co.
The euphOnious term, Nudsock desig .
mites an old swimmin' hole down the
Northern, and it also is used as the name
of town out near Columbus.
THE reduced wage scale has been sign
ed by the employees of the Wheeling Iron I
and Steel Company at BenwoOd. The ,
plant has been idle since June.
WooDsFIELD is being piped for natur
al gas The well is only mile and three
quarters from the town, and it is thought {
the work will be done by February. q
REV. FATHER p. j. DONAHUE, rector :
of the Cathedral at Baltimore, has been :
appointed to succeed the Rt. Rev. J. j, :
Kain, as Bishop of the diocese of Wheel
ing.
$4,000 to Loan at per cent. Secu .
rity must be real estate double the amount
of loan Address
WM. A. MCMECHAN, ST. Clairsville, o.
THE amount given to State charity in P
Ohio foots up s1,TOO,OOO This shows
that Ohio hast tnothing Of which to be
ashamed in the care of her helpness and :
needy.
WILLIAM BLACKS latest serial story y
will appear in Harper's Bazaar. Its title b
is Highland Cousins" and the first in
stallment appeared in issue dated Janu-
ary 9th. :,
WOODsFIELD now aspires to become a a
manufacturing town. Since the discov
cry of plenty of gas, prospective manu-
facturers have been looking over the =,
ground. ::
January Clearance Sales. g
All our 1893 stock of Wall Paper at "
Cost this month only G.
11l2t J. F. GRASSLAND & Co.
THE mild weather is great boon to Z
the needy. The difference up to date:bess u