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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1889
Page
3
Belmont, Allegany County, bustles with hotel work and bridge contracts. Local institutions like Clark Bros and the Erie Railroad push projects, while residents attend picnics, balls, and church events. Arrests and social notes populate an active community page with travels, visits, and upcoming entertainments.
Olean through its Board of Trade gains another tannery located there within eighteen months. Hubbard and Blake of Boston will build a plant for 150 workers. Annual output nears 2 million leather pieces and 15 000 hides weekly. The Board has spurred capital of three quarters of a million dollars and drawn 2 500 new residents. Belmont Board of Trade praised for potential growth.
The Republican electors of Amity will caucus at the Engine House in Belmont on Saturday evening August 1 at 8 o'clock to elect four delegates to attend the Republican county Convention and handle other proper business. The Farmers' Club at Whitesville reports large attendance by ladies and a literary musical program. the club now lists over 500 members.
The Elmira Advertiser reports the Allegany Republicans have called a county convention to be held at Friendship on Thursday, August 21 at 1 p m to name candidates for judge and surrogate district attorney assembly coroner and to elect state judicial and senatorial delegates. The call notes the convention will consist of ninety six delegates and predicts a splendid ticket from the county’s material.
Erie railway offers a cheap excursion for Sons of Temperance Day on Friday August 16. Speakers include Walter Thomas Mills Reverend D W Lucas D D and Reverend J H Tector. Special trains depart Belvidere 8 07 Belmont 8 15 Seio 8 21 Wellsville 8 37 with round trip fares listed and return at 5 pm arriving Silver Lake 11 15 am.
The Crystal Butter package is advertised as airtight and durable, suitable for consumers and producers, with town rights in Allegany County sold by D. C. Chadwick of Friendship New York. Two dot tubs were sold in Friendship within eight hours. contact D. C. Chadwick for details. The Erie Railway plans a two day excursion to Niagara Falls and Toronto on Wednesday the 21st, with a round trip fare from Belmont at 8.00, special train at 9:59 am, station Demmer for further information.
Advertisements note a cherry finish four by four foot show case and a ten foot case for sale by Geo L Tucker. Freeland well on the hill is pumping just over a barrel of first rate oil per day, seen as a hopeful sign for Wellsville. Elmira reformatory workers make hardware chairs furnitures. Auburn prisoners to work on tin ware plumbers’ supplies tire castings and more. Alegany County Farmers Club to meet at Fillmore on September 4.
Local notices announce a Republican caucus and Prohibition caucus at the Engine House, a windup for Uncle Tom Cabin Co. performances on August 19, and multiple charity and temperance events. Reports mention new parenthood, a pike well depth, a lost parrot, and editor’s lighthearted village mishap with Charlie Parker.
A stream of visitors and locals flocked through Wellsville Belmont and surrounding towns Saturday and Sunday. Names include E W Chamberlain, Lute McDermott, John Dugan, Joseph Norton, Charles Dunham, Elijah Cappell Ivife, Mrs I W Boorn, Richard Tucker, Geo Li Tucker, I J Elliott, D H Bradley, Mrs S B Knight, Joseph Palmer, Mrs Henry Whitney, Wm Cranston, Hamilton Ward, Charles Winchell, L E Robinson, Fred Sortore, Mrs Chas Riley, L D Stone, Rev Bennett, A Litchard, and others visiting kin, meeting officials, or attending events.
Lingering notes in the choir echo across Wellsville and nearby towns with reports of a Republican county convention at Friendship August 21. Local oil output remains modest while rail traffic adapts. Wellsville and Angelica scenes include marriages, postmaster appointments, fairs, and political conjecture about judges.
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