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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1891
Page
3
Belmont notes Decoration Day plans and a Farmers Club picnic at Cuba, a ball game in Wellsville, safety bicycle purchases, a temperance meeting, a risky corn sale poisoning incident, and a forged check scam involving a Florida tripper, with local officials urged to prosecute.
Samuel Hanks and Henry Coleman from Wellsville visit Belmont. Numerous residents and visitors are listed including Mrs. Julia Chase from Poplar Ridge visiting Mrs. D. T. Williams, and Judge Ward returning from Mayville. Local officials and merchants appear in references to politics, health, and business.
The county and all subordinate officers will be re-elected about July 1. State officers to be re-elected in November. State Alliances names Charles M. Rider as State Purchasing Agent from Sardinia. Ralph Beaumont, editor of the Citizens Alliance, will lecture at the Court House on June 16. he is regarded as a leading reform speaker.
The Elmira Advertiser notes Helen M Gouger a prominent prohibitionist from Indianapolis repudiated the Cincinnati People's Party convention after learning a saloonkeepers' officer led the local committee. She announced that as a sober prohibitionist she would not be associated with the convention and led her followers out. There are no insects on Helen.
Miss Miller travels to Chicago. Belvidere Hotel seeks a cook while Mrs. McFee hires from Belmont. Victorine Casterline hired by E Worth of Angelica visits W W Worth. A Belvidere car arrives briefly and is not daily. Mrs. Charles returns to West Almond with her son. Landlady may soon rely on a boarder to run the hotel. Mr. George Post keeps house. daughter expected back this week. George Scott visits on business. locals glad to see him. Praey.
A collage of local items. a founder’s memorial address announced in Belfast. jail and harbor news from Meadville, Erie, and Allegany. bridge and streetcar plans in Almond and Hornellsville. a Cuba dairy school with free instruction. various criminal fines, sports notes, and public notices including jail transfers, horse sales, and local appointments.
The Allegany County Clerk’s Office publishes jurors drawn to serve at the circuit court and court of oyer and terminer in Angelica on June 8, 1891. Grand jurors and trial jurors are named by town, including Angelica, Almond, Belfast, Caneadea, Centerville, Granger, Grove, Hume, New Hudson, Rushford, and West Almond, with officers A Green as Clerk.
A large heating stove and gas fixtures now in use in the store will be sold at a bargain by W. Crittenden. The sale offers a chance to acquire functional heating and gas fittings at reduced prices. Included are items currently in use, available to interested buyers.
The Agricultural Department reports a wheat specimen averaging over 101 bushels per acre. Despite fears, farming remains strong in the United States with large yields anticipated. Livingston county peach growers report no damage to buds from the cold snap as orchards bloom.
Brief item notes the Erie R A certificate plan fare of one and a third for those attending the Farmers Club Picnic to be held at Cuba New York on June 8 1891. A legal proceeding before a referee at Elba Reynolds law office sought an order to sell Christopher Crandall estate to pay debts Crandall once confined to Binghamton insane asylum. Superintendent Weaver attended with counsel A J Hibbard and proved a county claim of 290 dollars.
Randall County waterfront tale reports Axel Anderson catching a ten pound alligator like fish in the Conewango. The reptile reportedly barked when hauled from the water, one of several increasing gator sightings in the stream.
S W Crittenden announces in this issue that he is closing out his stock in Belmont and requests all accounts be settled at once by cash or note.
The American Hearthstone presents improved family story paper with varied departments and one page for youth. New subscribers offered 50 cents a year, or higher bundles including tools and prizes. Clubs earn watches for 15 members, with sample copies and outfits free. Rockaway, N. J.
Tools for the Greenwood gas well have arrived and the rig is being erected on the foundry lot. A report claiming Hornellsville capitalists back the effort is false as every stockholder is a Greenwood resident. Lake Erie trotting circuit dates are Meadville June 2 5 Warren June 9 12 Jamestown June 16 19 Bradford June 28 26 Tonawanda July 1 4 Dunkirk July 7 10 Erie July 14 17 with purses at 400 and trot rates 2 av to 8.00 in each location.
Geo H. Graham, agent for the American Express Company in Jamestown, is charged with opening registered letters and has made a full confession. He attributes his downfall to whisky and opium which he says paralyzed his moral sense.
One full length bath tub one refrigerator and one Jewell's patent filter offered at half price by S W Crirrenpen.
A. P. Powers offers .23- Chester White pigs at $2.50 each with contact at his market near J. Sortore & Son’s store. Wm. McCracken & Bro advertise stylish suits at the leading clothier. A desirable house is available to rent via Mrs. M. W. Pike.
Notice of a special school meeting in Union Free School District No 1 Amity Allegany County N Y to raise 4500 for adding to the new brick schoolhouse. Meeting set for Saturday June 6 1891 at 7:80 PM in Belmont courthouse with installments proposed and bonds to be issued after existing bonds are paid.
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