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Newspaper
Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Location
Belmont, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1890
Page
3
Local notes from Belmont cover rainfall, crop yields, and new shops. Highlights include gas shortages, a bass catch, Belmont Lecture Course by the New York Symphony Club, electric lighting plans for Wm McCracken & Bros, and improvements like a new hotel walk by Mr Devore. Community events list socials at the M E Church and Baptist Church, with tours, sales, and printing services.
Major Church was in town Saturday. L. J. McDermott was sick last week. Dr E. E. Hyde visited. Ed Rutherford and family spent Sunday in Angelica. D. S. Lanphear and wife in Hornellsville. Charlie Mills visited Friendship. Mrs L A Hickock visited relatives in Friendship. Henry Coleman home from Wellsville over Sunday. George Barnes holding cases on the Dispatch. Mrs S W Beard and child visiting Chambersburg Pa. E W Chamberlain had political business in Friendship. Norton of Friendship guests of Mrs F G Helme. S W Critten den expected home. James Hyde returned from Pennsylvania. Prof Stephen Pollard home from Wellsville. Pollard to be School Commissioner. George Watson started work in Belmont State Bank. Blanche Pease returned from Minnesota. Marks of new fall goods in Buffalo and Rochester. Reynolds and Tefft left for Hastings Michigan. TL Adams new foreman in Clark Bros. Benson and wife back from Shortsville. Elmore A Willets returns to Little Washington Pa. Rev Dr Gwynn moved to Machias then Belmont. Douds from Mainsburg accompanied Crittendens home. return to Pennsylvania. Rev F W Berlin new M E pastor preached. well regarded. Mrs A M Bennett and Mrs W A Willard returned from Elmira State W C T U. Mrs W J Richardson to return. Mrs Bert Clair ill with fever at parental home. Bert also ill at his mother’s. father died recently. Charles Collins busy training in new hotel. daughter ill with pneumonia in Hornellsville. Collins worried but returns Belmont.
Michigan Matters reports on F D Clark visiting Union City Pa while Mrs S J Pike and Grace travel in western New York. M M Pike expands cedar production on West Branch farm and markets stock including yearling colts from Babcock stock in New York. M S Osgood resigns as M C railway agent at Rondo, recommending A A Lansing as successor, and plans to retire as postmaster citing lack of real honor.
Belmont Union E A U will admit members free from initiation and certificate fees through December 31. Inquiries to Dr. Benjamin Norton at the Belmont Post Office. Also unclaimed letters at Belmont N Y post office dated Oct 14 1890 list names. Mrs Minnie Borner and others. A dispatch notes Mrs G A Palmer Co denies tariff hikes on millinery goods. Agnes Main accuses Oscar Bower of rape and paternity. Bower jailed. Revd Dr Gwynn departs Belmont for Machias. Rev J G Snyder and bride welcomed at the Genesee with a large reception. temperance meeting held led by W J Richardson. Janitor Sheridan Washburne for next Saturday.
The clipping reports diverse items from the era including a Cuba gas plant sale and fishing yields in Dunkirk, bios of local figures, health notes on diphtheria in Corry, and a tragic sawmill accident at Geneva Forks. It also includes ads for clothing, goods, and farm news across New York towns.
The Queen magazine sponsors a contest with 200 dollars for the largest list of words formed from letters in British North America, plus numerous prizes including silver teasets, clocks, and a sealskin jacket. Special rewards for hats and a pony for the largest entry in Canada or the United States, with further gifts for all who send at least twenty words.
A brisk message urges proactive effort to start a business and promote training. Bryant & Stratton's Business College offers thorough training with free catalogues by J C Bryant Prest Buffalo NY. Lost spectacles in a black leather case requested at Dispatch office with suitable reward.
Allegany county Board of Supervisors holds its annual session at the Belmont Court House on November 10 1890. All creditors must present verified claims to the Board on or before the third day of the session. Charles Stillman Clerk. Alfred Centre October 6 1890.
A large stock of ladies fine kid gloves arrives for sale by C.S. Riley in Belmont. Wm McCracken & Bros offer cheap stylish lines. J. Hoyt & Co announces carpeting and draperies with prices to view. Wellsville merchant prompts look-ins for affordable garments and home goods.
Bradford closed its conference last Tuesday. The list shows appointed pastors and suppliers for towns across the Olean district including Olean First H V Givler and People's Church R C Grames, Wellsville E P Hubbell, Smethport F W Chandler, and many others with supply names like W H Kellogg, W Miller, and J G Hann.
The Erie Ry. offers a Oct 16 excursion from Belmont at 7 11 p m to New York with a low one way fare and return validity to Oct 20. Pullman palace sleeping cars available. Territory includes Jamestown Dayton Bradford Attica Rochester Hornellsville and Owego with intermediate stations. Contact nearest Erie agent or Excursion Manager J O Prescott Buffalo N Y.
Local retailer announces 2500 dollars in new clothing arrivals including all the latest patterns and styles. An additional 1000 dollars in stylish men’s furnishings accompanies the shipment with emphasis on hats as the season’s must have accessory. The shop claims unbeatable selection in hats.
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