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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1889
Page
4
A garbled East Standard notice references Belmont origin and an express mail route. The fragment suggests a freighter or delivery schedule with eastward movement and timing details, but specifics are obscured.
The dispatch records Peter Pransio’s plausible pending run for county judge and surrogate against M Norton of Friendship. Wellsville notices report Mrs M E Yale of Syracuse and Mr and Mrs M L W Potter as guests at Reds stockett’s. Mrs Yale heads to Rochester toward future home. Salamanca Republican notes Arba Wellman funeral. Italian orchestra provides music for Hyde’s woods party with a later social at the opera house. Reports recount Peter and Rob Tompkins' narrow escapes in the Johnstown flood and an odd tale of Edgar Allan Poe’s cottage auction ending with a sentimental payment. A Paris to Europe ride from Lubin to Paris is described with cost and method by Lieut Assayeff.
Friendship items report Rev C H W Norris on a three week vacation at Silver Lake where he built a cottage. Prof Lewis filled the pulpit. A W McQueen welcomed a baby boy born the 10th. Will Vandeventer built a barn for Alvardordan and is praised for the work. Hale Whitcomb of Belvidere survived a bowel congestion scare after aid from Dr Paul. Ay E Williams returned from Silver Lake after promoting Diamond Brand paints at Camp Wesley. J M Bullard resumes factory work. Geo Miller moved to Hornellsville for car shop work. The graded school building progresses toward a fall opening with proposals advertised. Nile notes a death and editorial feuds are questioned.
A Paris artist M Boutet on Avenue Victor Hugo died after a glass shard from an awning severed his neck while his housemaid fell through glass without injury. He tried to staunch the bleeding and fainted en route to a nearby druggist, dying two hours later.
In China a son’s strength guarantees loans, while daughters receive no financial help. A son’s debt can bind his father for three generations, whereas a daughter is only liable for her husband’s debts.
Examinations for second and third grade certificates will be held in the Second Commissioner’s District of Allegany County for the remainder of 1880. Locations include Friendship August 18 Whitesville September 2 Alfred Center September 10 Bolivar October 5 Belmont November 2.
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