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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1890
Page
3
Belmont busy notes report excise committee meetings fishing season opening band music on Decoration Day, school exams and academy actions. Personal mentions include visitors, residents in Albany Syracuse Wellsville Jamestown and Hornellsville. Community life covers temperance events, socials, church programs, business changes and road work.
Adoniram Judson Hawley 68 died in Belmont on May 29 1890 from progressive paralysis and dropsy. Born 1826 in Franklin Delaware County he lived in the village except when in Oil City and Petroleum Centre Pa. Married Mary J Jacobs December 24 1951. two children Frank Hawley and Mrs B A Keane Jr survive. Funeral at Trianna Street residence at 2 30 pm Sunday with Rev J H Snyder officiating. large attendance.
The notice promotes Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as a throat and lung remedy and advertises J Hoyt & Co Wellsville with low prices on watches clocks and jewelry. It mentions special sales days and fare allowances for travelers from Belmont Scio Andover Petrolia Allentown Friendship Bolivar Richburg and loyalties to Duzitall and Lester boots.
School Commissioner Ellen Reynolds notified trustees that districts No. 1 and No. 7 in Friendship will be consolidated. An order of consolidation will be issued, signaling a merged district based on the commissioner’s conclusion that it serves the best interests of the communities involved.
Memorial Day activities in Belmont were led by Revere Post 195 G A R with parade from Main Street at 9 30 a m followed by cemetery ceremonies honoring fallen soldiers and firemen. The afternoon program at the Court House featured readings, music, a declamation by Miss Amy Sortore and an oration by Elba Reynolds, with Rev A M Bennett delivering the prayer and Eldyn Reynolds delivering remarks over Norman B Fuller’s grave.
The list names Allegany County enumerators for the 1890 census and the questions they will ask. It notes the final six questions are considered an insult and should not be answered. It ends with an advertisement for Ayers Sarsaparilla and a boast about Lester boots.
A noisy mix of local briefs notes a vacant store with a “To Let” sign, a sorrowful tenant, and complaints about lack of advertising. Buffalo grants 1886 licenses. Athlon street paving planned in Olean. Cuba picnic and Chautauqua events announced. Wellsville court dates set and news on Oregon elections.
Mrs. N. B. Fuller thanks neighbors for support during illness and death of her husband. Cuas Terri and Revere Post express gratitude to Belmont citizens for Memorial Day attendance, flowers, and thanks to the Belmont Band, performers, and others for their parts in the program. James Founson Com.
The Belmont Hotel Co will hold its annual meeting of stockholders in the hotel reading room on Saturday June with the election of trustees on or around 1 o'clock p m Dated Balmont N Y June 8 1880 By order of the trustees W Crittenden Clerk
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