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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1890
Page
3
Belmont residents read Dispatch reports on road conditions at The Belmont hotel opening and new piano, Supervisor visits, church events, and a planned county institute. News covers town society, patents, a maple sugar bounty discussion, and community meetings with multiple local names and venues.
The Supervisors met at the clerk's office Tuesday to canvass the A votes cast in the county last Tuesday election. Official figures show Congress candidates Hooker 8,060, Vaseseehessea, Shessvilee, Smith, Rogers. Assembly names Thompson Stanton Moston. Treasurer school suits and school shoes ab Wi. Piccracken & Bros.
Mr. Perry M. Hyde is the county’s first white settler in Allegany and Nathaniel Dyke, Yale graduate and Revolutionary staff officer, came from Connecticut to Allegany in 1795. Dyke settled on land now known as Andover near a creek named for him. Hyde’s grandfather arrived in 1796, settling near lands surveyed soon after while King and Bell of Potter county aided early claims. Further details mention surveys and settlements through 1804 with Dr. E. Hyde and Philip Church at Belvidere.
Publishers invite contestants to submit English words made from letters in the phrase British North America. Top lists win 200 dollars for expenses plus silver sets, watches, and more prizes. A seal skin jacket is for a lady winner and a Shetland pony for a boy or girl. Send six stamps for rules.
Fragmented notice lists dates and names including Col Sanford on December 12th and Mr Underhill on March 14th, with references to Col Copeland and Mr Ragan in between.
An engineer on a great railroad compares his locomotive to a living horse, noting its mood swings on steep grades. He says the engine can rush a train one day and balk or sulk the next, detailing a bond of affection and frustration with the iron steed.
After thirty years of service the Bryant and Stratton Business College earns high esteem and patronage. The school's graduates are in constant demand and many secure good positions. Mr. J C Bryant, President, Buffalo NY, offers to send catalogs on request.
Allegany county Board of Supervisors met at the court house and elected Fred A. Robbins of Angelica as chairman and Chas. Stillman of Alfred Center as clerk. The vote on chairmanship ended in a tie and Robbins won on the second ballot. Stillman secured the clerk’s post on the first ballot. The board adjourned to continue today.
The record notes democratic tidal waves at eight year intervals 1874 1882 and 1890. Democrats carried Massachusetts in 1874 and Butlerism won in 1882 while the Republican party persisted.
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