The Bellville Weekly - 16 February 1877

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The Bellville Weekly - 16 February 1877

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Source:  The Bellville Weekly, 16 February 1877, Vol. V, No. 46  (source document held by Bellville / Jefferson Township Historical Museum)


* INCOMPLETE ISSUE *


Rev. G.W. WALKER is holding a series of meetings at the M.E. Church.

An Ice Cream Social will be had at Mr. JOHN LAFFERTY's, on Thursday evening, Feb. 22nd.

No clue as yet to the perpetrators of the outrage of breaking in of the front of VANDORN & WADDELL's Drug Store last week.

W.F. CHARLES' family tender their thanks to the String Band who discoursed such fine music at their residence one night last week.

A good top buggy for sale cheap.  -- C.L. MILLER

On last Friday fire was discovered in the roof over SWANK & Son's grocery, which was soon extinguished.  It probably caught from a spark falling from the chimney.  Another remarkable escape.

B.L. BEVINGTON has opened out a new Drug Store in this place.  It is one door south of the Clifton House.  Everything is new, and the store presents a very neat appearance.

Mrs. B. RIDENOUR and Mrs. WHITTEN, have been quite ill for some time past;  also Mrs. T.J. ANDERSON.

As we go to press we hear that PETER MEASEL is hurt by being thrown from his buggy near N. HARDESTY's.

RE-DEDICATION -- Dr. L.B. GURLEY, of Delaware, O., assisted by Rev. G.W. WALKER, of this circuit, re-dedicated the M.E. Church at this place last Sabbath.  The Dr. preached in the morning and evening to large audiences.  He delivered scholastic and instructive sermons, which were well received by the people & which they proved by their liberality.  The building now has a new roof, new foundation timbers, new stoves, flues, new alter railing, and new carpet;  and the hall, class-room, and the inside walls and ceiling are papered and painted;  the seats painted and grained, and the windows fixed.  It looks neat and beautiful inside.  R.D. STUMP done the principal work in papering, painting and graining.  All it needs yet to make it compare favorably with most any church in the country is a couple coats of paint on the outside.

PRIMARY SCHOOL -- Scholars having attained the highest marks in their examination exercises, for the month ending January:  WILLIE JOHNS, MAGGIE PATMAN, GRANT AUNGST, BESSIE HARRINGTON, HALLY HARRINGTON, WARDIE FAUS, ANNIE HAWLEY, MARY SCHULER, AGGIE ADAMS, FRANK RUMER.  There was but one scholar perfect in all, WILLIE JOHNS.  -- HANNAH DILLON, Teacher.

A house and lot for sale cheap.  Inquire of A.H. REDDING, Esq.

AMOS FRY offers for sale a very finely matched span of mules, 4 years old.

DIED -- McCLURE -- In Bellville, Ohio, on Monday, Feb. 5th., 1877, Mrs. SARAH McCLURE, aged 75 years and five months.  SARAH McDONALD was born Sept. 5th., 1801, in Hampshire Co., Va.  At the age of 18 she was married to WILLIAM LOCKHART, by whom she had three children, all of whom survive her.  They came to Ohio in the fall of 1820 in their own private conveyance, which was the only mode of traveling in those primitive times.  And on New-Years day 1821, they arrived in Jefferson Township, Richland County, and began to clear up a farm where Mr. JOHN DURBIN now lives, which was then an unbroken forest.  It would be both interesting and instructive to tell of the trials, disappointments and self denials inseparable from pioneer life, together with the compensating blessing of warm, neighborly love and good will, resulting from mutual trials and sufferings.  After nineteen years of toil, and when they had won from the forest a productive farm, death cast his shadow over their till then unbroken household, and left her a disconsolate widow.  In the year 1839 she was married to THOMAS McCLURE, with whom she lived till the time of his death, April 7th., 1864.  Sister McCLURE united with the Union Church when she was 23 years of age, and was a zealous and consistent member of that church for many years, till she heard a conversation in which one of the parties said "there was no authority in Scripture for sprinkling" which startled her so much that she determined to search the Scriptures for herself and learn what her duty was in the matter.  She did not at that time understand the proper division of the Scriptures, and so she began at Genesis and read through both the old and new Testaments, and failed to find any authority for sprinkling.  Some three or four years afterward, Elder DOWLING came and preached in the Disciple Church, which then stood where the warehouse now stands.  She heard him gladly, for he rightly divided the word and she saw a beauty and harmony in the Scriptures which she had never seen before.  With several others, she obeyed the gospel in the divinely appointed ordinance of baptism, and arose to walk in newness of life, and was never more happy than when meeting with her friends for social worship.  Though she suffered more than tongue can tell, during the weary months of her last sickness, yet she bore it all with fortitude and resignation, till at length her Savior has said to her:  "It is enough;  come up higher."  -- M.

BURNED -- On Friday evening Feb. 2d., the dwelling house on C. SWANK's farm, joining L.K. LEEDY's on the south, was set on fire by an unknown person and burned to the ground.  The house was vacated a short time ago.  The deed no doubt was a piece of incendiarism.

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Advertiser's Index

  • Bellville Weekly (job printing)
  • Dr. L.W. Armentrout
  • Mrs. R. McBride (millinery)
  • J.B. Lewis, M.D.
  • Dr. S.R. Stofer
  • G.M. Wilkinson (clocks)
  • L.W. Nevius (dental rooms)
  • A.J. Flaharty (tanner)
  • O.B. Rummel (hardware)
  • James C. Lee, M.D.
  • W.H. Smith (livery)
  • C.L. Miller (County Auctioneer)
  • L.O. Singer (furs)
  • G.S. & R.W. Bell (dry goods)
  • D. Johnson (blacksmith)
  • James Rhinehalt (blacksmith)
  • Bevington's (perfume)
  • H. Glosser (picture frame moulding)
  • John H. Lewis (barber)
  • Wm. Lanehart (furniture)
  • Dr. James R. Bristor (dentist)
  • John Simpson (Bellville Mills)
  • A.H. Condict (various goods)

Transcribed by Amy E. Armstrong, Monday, June 04, 2007


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