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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1889
Page
3
Trains depart Belmont on the eastbound timetable and reverse for westbound service. Details show limited schedule lines with departures labeled eastward and westward. The snippet notes Belmont as the origin point for both directions and implies a simple intercity service pattern.
A long column of Belmont area notes, meetings, weather quips, and campus and street updates. Arbor Day plans, Farmers Club meet ongoing, school grounds work completed, local businesses promoting goods, and community notices including obituaries and public events.
At the Annual Parish Meeting of St Philip's Church on Tuesday last wardens and vestrymen for the ensuing year were elected. Wardens: Whitney and Hyde. Vestrymen include McNett, Hyde, Chamberlain, Pease, Whitcomb, Ve Sortore, Vanderhof, Tucker. Vestry meeting Thursday elected James N Hyde as Clerk and Vanderhoof as treasurer. Rev Wells was favorably considered as a successor to Rev Clark whose resignation takes effect June 1.
The Rushford Spectator notes Belmont is busy and the DisPaTcH is thriving with local news and strong readership. Editors thank county press and readers as the two monthly publication proves popular, expanding job printing, advertising, and subscriptions.
The Belmont L. and H. Society invites all members to a May 8 meeting at 3 p m hosted by Mrs. Frank Van Campen. The programme includes music by Mrs. H A Barney, pieces by Mrs. M E Davis Mrs H Ward and Mrs J H Bissell a poem by Mrs Stillman readings by E W Chamberlain and other items.
W M Curry of Wellsville acts as Allegany county agent for the Etruscan Coffee Pot. The pot uses a new boiling and steaming process preserving oils and aroma. Six sizes priced from 1.25 to 5 dollars. Curry will canvass Belmont and visit Friendship and Cuba soon. Orders solicited. Next to the matrimonial tie nothing is sweeter than the neckties at Rileys.
Belmont residents and guests are mentioned with many short reports. People travel, visit relatives in Wellsville and Elmira, and attend events in Belmont, Hornellsville, and Silver Creek. Several names appear with local business, charity, and civic ties, including farms, machinery shops, and the Sons of Veterans group.
Belmont hosts the Allegany County Farmers' Club May meeting tomorrow with a program announced in the Dispatch. The session opens at 1 p.m. with Belmont Cornet band led by Miles Clapp and Sholes of Angelica performing a duet before minutes are read and business discussed. Dr F C Davie on the chemistry of agriculture delivers the address. Miss Sholes plays cornet and a question box follows before a closing quartet. Surprises are rumored and visitors can inspect the Allegany Stock Farm horses and E V Sortore’s fowls. Isaac Willets' cattle herd is highlighted with remarkable weights totaling about 10 000 pounds for mother and calves. An urgent invitation extends to all to attend with family.
Sunday happenings include Hardice Dobbins and Chas W Dunham from Wellsville in town, Miss Edith Knight visiting Miss May McCracken, Rev J G Schafer preaching, Eli Baker moving to Andover, and various townsfolk travels and events. Also noted are jail break attempt thwarted, rifle team results, and local church elections.
The Rondo notes Belmont items with Miss Mabel Longyear returning to Lansing after a visit, M M Pike leaving for Bay City, a cedar shingles mill producing up to 35 000 daily for Chicago, M S Osgood selling M W Pike lumber to Bay City and East Saginaw, Gracie Pike improving, no scarlet fever cases, and Hattie E Pike teaching music with a growing local class.
W He Clark urges the owner of the large oz that entered his enclosure Sunday to come forward and settle charges and claim the creature at once.
The note seeks information on John Thompson from Derbyshire England who joined the U S Army as a clerk or waiter. Friends fear he may be dead or missing and a sign-off from Mason thanks neighbors for kindness during illness.
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