Reader note on arrears for Dispatch subscribers
The Dispatch explains that an X mark after a subscriber’s address indicates the subscriber owes arrears. All indebted readers will see this mark after their name.
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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1891
Page
3
The Dispatch explains that an X mark after a subscriber’s address indicates the subscriber owes arrears. All indebted readers will see this mark after their name.
A compendium of Belmont area items from March 1891 includes social notes, theater and church events, accidents, obituaries, and upcoming elections. Mentions Fisk Jubilee Singers, local races for president and trustees, and notices from Cuba and Jamestown newspapers.
The B L A S Programme lists topics and authors including a Corean monastery, Mrs E S Davis on the great wall of China, Mrs A M Bennett on Women of the 19th century, Mrs C G Anderson on Confiding woman's faith, Mrs Hattie Mattons on atmospheric electricity essays, a poem by Mrs Richardson, Grace Armstrong on Electricity on tap, and essays on Old men's papers by Mrs Bissell. The New York R R Y M C A offered three prizes for best article on the Railroad of the Future, with Mr C J Nichols of this city named a winner for a set of scientific books. Nichols, formerly from Belmont, is a prolific newspaper correspondent. An article in Demorest's Family Magazine on Physical Culture presents Prof E B Warman's exercises for health and graceful form without gym apparatus.
The undersigned expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for kind help and warm sympathy from the community after a recent affliction. March 17, 1891.
Mr and Mrs c A Coleeman express gratitude to neighbors for many kindnesses during their illness and death of their child.
Belmont New York March 17 1891 unclaimed letters include Edna Mies Polly Grote G Grote G F Grote A J Lewis Anna Lane H L Mapes A D Newman C R Palmer Louis Rouel B P Starr Nellie Webb F Grote. Advertised notice appears with call to recipients. Riverside Sanitarium sends third issue of its Harbinger monthly magazine.
A list of newly appointed notaries includes Alfred centre Will H Crandall Al lentown H J coyle Angelica D D Dickson J H Eggleston John 8 Rock well Belfast Isaac S Hunt Belmont E W chamberlain George A Green Vv A Wwillard Bolivar Charles H Brown J M curtiss Canaseraga D H Holliday caneadea Benj fF Big elow Fred A Burr ceres John B Gleason cuba Robert 5 Anstrong W J Bement E D Loveredge Friendship F L Dayton W H Kibg Fred c Mulkin Hume George AV Harding Geo S Hopper Little Genesee Wm Cranston Cramel Wm E Hammond Rushford L E Hardy R B Lanning Scio M 8 Davis M c Smith Stan nards corners W Hayes Wellsville E W Barnes c L Farnum C A Farnum O A Fuller James Macken Charles F Vincent 115 notaries in this county total.
The Belmont Dispatch begins its third volume this week and is highlighted as one of the newspaper’s newsiest exchanges. Alfred Suni notes the publication’s fresh start and the paper’s lively, high-impact reporting tone.
The Household offers to send to brides six months or less a free copy by sending ten two cent stamps and a note of marriage. Three subscriber contests run March to August with prizes including a $700 horse and buggy, a Miller upright piano, or a Columbia bicycle. Seek March issue for details. send requests to The Household Co. 50 Bromfield St. Boston.
A mosaic of notices and anecdotes mentions medical quackery, new doctors in Hornellsville, commercial travelers forming a home for worn out drummers, a Cuba oil drill reaching sand at 140 feet, Wellsville license grants, a joke about buzz saws, locals aging and walking miles, the Belfast Champion teaser, and ads for stove goods and drain tile from Simons & Voorhies Wellsville.
The Erie and Northern Central Railway will run the final poplar excursion to Washington D C on Wednesday March 25. Tickets cost 10 dollars round trip with a ten day limit. For tickets, berth info, or further details contact Erie ticket agents or A W Bodle Buffalo NY.
The republican county general committee met at Cuba last Friday and organized with Joseph A Rutherford of Angelica Bank named chairman and Frank B Utter of First National Bank of Friendship as secretary. An executive slate lists Jones Stebbins Helme Atwood Seeley Malley Wells Witter Richardson. Mrs Eliza C Miller mother of Frank T Miller editor of the Canaseraga Times died aged 67. A new bill allows highway commissioners to fund wire fences along roads to replace hedges and stone fences where they cause snow drifts.
The Franklinville Rigg farm cheese project will produce soft cheese at one-eighth cent above Cloverfield make, with all rejections at the factory and full and half-pound classifications. A New York firm buys regional factories, seen by the Jamestown Journal as a scheme to control output, but farmers insist on fair milk handling. Castle factory data show 661,984 pounds milk, 60,116 cheese, $5,045 cash, $4,231 profit to patrons, 83.1 cents per pound, 11.01 pounds milk per cheese, and $1.20 per 100 pounds for manufacture. Johnny Wandusen runs the factory.
J.T. Scott of Maryville Missouri recounts an extensive, names filled history of the Hiatoga line. He traces sires like Rosdell's Hiatoga and Scott's Hiatoga through generations ending with Wamba and other progeny. He notes Wamba will stand at D. L. Corbin’s Friendship stables next season at $15 to insure.
Sam J Grady of Rochester credits Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy from Rondout N Y with curing boils that appeared on his ears neck and body after less than three months of use. The note mentions neighbor T N Arnold and dates for March 19 20 and 22 at Friend ship studio with subscription reference to the Dispatch.
Desirable house and lot on Trianna Street Belmont offered on easy terms. Contact Mrs. W. T. Barber for details or to arrange viewing.
Examinations for second and third grade certificates for the Second Commissioner's District of Allegany County are listed for 1894 with dates across towns including Wellsville Friendship Alfred Centre and Bolivar. First grade exams are planned for March and August at Alfred Centre and Wellsville with 9 am start. attendance required on the first day. Stephen Pollard, School Commissioner.
Col L F Copeland appears at the courthouse Saturday evening April 4 urging villagers to attend and hear him. He claims local ladies chose the best talent available for the village and invites proof of their decision.
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