Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-22
INTERESTING SHORT BITS.
Newsy Items Gathered from Town
and Country Paragraphs
Cleaned from All Sources.

| week.
THE new Opera House at bridgeport
is nearly completed.
An effort is being made TO start up the
Lafferty creamery again.
/ ROLLER SKATING is booming up again
as an embracing diversion.
JOHN DAVIS. of Bellaire, has bought a
hotel at Sistersville, a booming oil town
HEADQUARTERS for Window shades at
ALEXANDER Drug and Hardware
Store. 1851
IT is stated that some of the Barnes
vile canning factory stock sold for 40 per
cent above par.
EBENEzER Coss, of Martins Ferry.
died last week, and was buried at Lin
wood, Saturday.
THE next General Conference of the
VI. f. Church will be held held at Cleve-
land in May, 1896.
| A BIG farm situated near Freeport,
alongside railroad, was sold recently at
between Sl7 and SlS per acre.
1T is said that new lodge of the A. P.
4. Was formed at Wheeling, Saturday
night, with over hundred members.
A SALE at Jacobsburg last week got
together the biggest crowd known there
since the old days of General Muster.
A STRONG effort, originating in Pitts
burgh,is making to unite all the Christian
and Baptist Churches in one denomina-
tion.
| TIE Wheeling police are looking for
very smooth Italian who duped some
of his countrymen in that town out of
$780,
| THE Easter services, for which special
programme is preparing by the Methodist
Sunday school, will be held Sunday
evening.
ALFRED D. DRIeGs, of Woodsfeld,
died last week, aged SO years. He was
related to our former townsman, Judge
Ruggles.
Miss MARGIE ARRICK, daughter of
MIR. and Mrs. E s Arrick, of Blaine, was
married last week to Charles Wilson, also
of Blaine.
MoRRIsTowN LODGE, F. and A. NJ,
held a meeting Saturday night, working
in three degrees. The work was directed
by Judge Eaton.
A REPRESENTATIVE of a Wheeling
grocery firm was fined S25 and costs un-
der the pure food law for selling adulter
ated pepper at Cambridge.
WooDsFIELD will vote at the April
election on the question of putting SlO,-
900 into new school house, or spending
$1,000 on the repair of the old one.
READ our ad about Wall Paper. Then
tell yOnr neighbors about it.
3I5 If. F. TROLL & Sons.
LAKE county, the smallest county in
the State, grows a hundred Thousand
dollars worth of onions year. The av.
erage yield is about 400 bushels an acre.
A5-YEAR-oLD boy at Barnesville stuck
l
der the other day. The boy and little
sister were blown up and badly burned.
A YOUNG lady named Beatrice Kelley
was admitted to the bar. and will practice
law in Steubenville. The young lady
was at the head of class of eighty nine
students.
AN eight-ye old daughter of OrIeanis
Lucas, who lives on the Clark farm west
of town, died Thursday, of consumption,
and was buried Sunday at the NJ. E
Cemetery.
MANY teachers will go to Franklin
College, New Athens, o., next term, be
ginning April 3d. Seven courses, in
Guiding normal-coSt less than elsewhere
Catalogue free.
No MATTER how big the potato crop
is there is always scarcity about this
time of year and the price goes up
Farmers are advised to plant early vari-
eties early this year.
HARNESS should never be hang in a
stable, because continual exposure to the
fumes of ammonia will absorb the oil
contained in the leather, and cause it to
become hard and stiff.
WHEELING stOgie manufacturers have
sent representatives to Washington to
attempt to do something in the way of
influencing the tariff thinkers not to de-
stroy the stogie industry.
ALUMINIUM dimes are now widely cir
culated. The coins are the finest speci-
mems counterfeiting ever seen. and are
so nearly perfect that none other than
an expert can detect them.
THE Wood bill giving women the right
to vote at school elections, and which
came so near passing last week, has been
finally buried beyond resurrection by the
failure of motion to reconsider.
A NEIGHBoRING farmer killed beef
the other dav and upon cutting open the
liver found imbedded therein a neeile
The animal was fat and healthy, aud how
the needle got there is mystery.
PLEASANT GROVE is the last place re
ported to have gone into the cannery
business. Nearly enough stock has been
subscribed by people of that town and
neighborhood to start the plant going.
AT surprise party over in WooisfielI
the honored man received the following
useful gifts: A pair of pants, two pairs
of suspenders, handkerchief, two pipes
and tobacco, 100 cigars and plug Of ].
T. tobacco.
A CONTEMPORARY remarks: Those
+: sending spring poetry to this paper
should sign their names, not for publica
tion. but as an evidence of insanity in