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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1889
Page
3
Belmont residents read about local events and people as The Dispatch notes concerts, exams, building work, business moves, lodge activities, personal notes, and upcoming social events. The column highlights community ties, trades, and ongoing changes across Belmont and neighboring towns.
Correspondence mentions Chase's condition, nursing by Mrs. King and Mrs. Allen, hopeful doctors, and a Belmont connection. I O G T supper funding dispute, rival entertainments, parish activities for a church fair, and a runaway colt on Washington street. Hamlets update residents about travels, store changes, and price-conscious shopping.
An old newspaper ad promoes a free subscription to The Dispatch for the rest of the year and states one dollar pays for delivery until January 1, 1891. The copy urges immediate subscription.
The Allegany County Board of Supervisors adjourned at Belmont to reconvene December 9 in Angelica. The body praised for duty, raised district attorney salary to 1200 annual, and set surrogate clerk at 600. Equalized town valuations are listed for 1889 with Clarksville showing the largest decrease and Amity down 5588.
A crowded sale ad lists discounted fabrics linens towels ribbons plush and hosiery from Price and Roser 7 and 9 West Main St Friendship Also mentions top students at Belmont Academy and Graded School with high averages for November 15 1889 and promises railroad tickets with every $10 bill at Lane’s.
Erie time card update takes effect the 17th but does not affect westbound trains. Eastbound departures from Belmont include No. 10 at 10:87 am, No. 14 at 6:48 pm, and No. 12 at 7:09 pm. Also notes bank vault delay, W. E. Hammond praised as chairman, and gas drilling prospects near Belmont with a $500 subscription offer from Isaac Willets.
The Dispatch offers a one dollar subscription valid until 1891 with expanded local news literature poetry and stories and promises improvements next year. Also notice says cords of wood are wanted immediately at the Dispatch office.
An advertisement urges ambitious youths to pursue Actual Business Training at Bryant and Stratton College in Buffalo New York. It emphasizes thorough preparation as the key to success and offers to send a Catalogue.
The Allegany Gas Co. reveals gas supply woes likely to hit Belmont and Friendship hard. It plans a 38 percent rate increase after Dec 1 1889 and warns meters may be installed to measure usage. No rebates for shortage and possible disconnections if gas is wasted.
A collage of small town items reports a fire loss of 75 000, diamond sales in Friendship, New York, and corn and apple crop concerns in Niagara. It notes possible resignations at the Buffalo Fair and a large holiday stock at Lane’s in Friendship. Also covered are cigarette deaths, a perpetual motion prize claim, a Wellsville counterfeit case, and a 60th wedding anniversary in Arcade with long-lived abstinence from liquor and medicine.
The undersigned has taken charge of the barber shop in the basement of M. E. Davia store and solicits a share of patronage.
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