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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1889
Page
2
The Dispatch urges Belmont residents to make and keep good resolutions for the new year. It urges turning over leaves of the old year, sticking to resolutions, and aiming to move the depot downtown in spring. The piece emphasizes community betterment and personal effort.
Inked notes recount editor Grady’s death anniversary and a looming assembly speakership with Mr. Husted. The column surveys Christmas observances, local travels, choir thanks to A Miner Wellman, and racing talk on Antevelo and Adonis with aims for records in 1892.
The county electees take office at midnight as Hon. S. M. Norton becomes county Judge and Surrogate, with Edward Rutherford as Clerk. Chas. H. Brown is sworn in as District Attorney, Addison S. Thompson to the Assembly, succeeding Albert B. Cottrell. New coroners are Drs. H. A. Barney Theo. Thomas and B. C. Wakely. L. H. Ackerman will sit for Sessions.
Isaac Willets shipped ten head of fat cattle to New York, with the heaviest over 3,000 pounds, and Willets expects to net over £1,000 for the lot. The piece also covers horse care tips for worming, a salt-quassia remedy, and cautions about physic. It mentions 709 new 2:30 performers this season and profiles Electioneer and Tom Halsted as notable sires and horses, plus a note on trainer Ike Wedgins’s death.
A New York Press report from Ada Ohio describes a statue of Apollo ordered for a normal school hall. When unpacked it was nude, and a satin sash was draped around it to avoid unpleasant comment.
The Boston Journal views Mr Cleveland's nomination in 92 as likely and notes the President spent a few days on a gunning trip last week.
Indiana ministers form a 165 member temperance conference in Indianapolis. They abandon the third party movement as harmful to prohibition and pledge to support only candidates who favor strict liquor laws and enforcement. A Naval Academy report cites tobacco use causing intellectual confusion and impaired attention.
The undersigned Isaac Lewis declares readiness to attend to odd repair jobs including gas steam and water plumbing. Leave orders at his house or at Anderson's store in Belmont. December 17, 1889.
An old classified notice advertises positions with fixed monthly pay including ladies and gentlemen on £78, office men £375, and road agents $80. Applicants are directed to contact M Clement at Friendship NY, boarding house of Mrs A Simons.
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