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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1883
Page
4
A busy Dunkirk column lists a boat race at 6, club meetings, and a craft cutter hire for Matteson Co. Ads note real estate transfers, a church basket picnic, and a Gothic Gallery design sketch. Local social notices cover marriages, excursions, piano sales, Liberal League meeting, and a variety of personal visits and arrivals at the Erie Hotel.
A special Common Council session discusses bids for Central Ave extension. T.J. Scally favored with bonds and a two month completion window. debates over bidder qualifications, town graft concerns, and street work details dominate.
A meeting at the Rooms of the M C A last Sabbath drew a modest attendance. The speaker, Hf. C. Wright, A M Supervisor of mails at St Louis, spoke on the association in St Louis and urged forming a committee to locate a vacant lot, lease land, and erect a cheap edifice to host a larger audience. Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Division 67 are called to meet at Wyld’s block Hall on Sunday Sept 2 to elect officers and a delegate.
A man attempted to secure a deal at the Cuba camp meeting but was attacked when a young woman threw a hatchet, striking him as he dug. The Western New York anticultural association schedules meetings in Olean on October 25 and 20 with Gov. Fenton and President Fadwards to speak, and Dr. Sturdevant may be invited. Local real estate sale near Buffalo involved water lots of 240 feet front sold to Delaware and Lackawanna Transportation Company for 200,000. Various ads note products, vendors, and services including Monroe’s Buffalo Mead on draught, Stoddard’s Mead, and grooming services at Wheeler’s parlors.
A Dunkirk Akron era column questions a sensational cholera report and links it to sewer schemes and inflated public spending. The piece accuses city officials of graft, warns citizens to scrutinize council measures, and urges vigilance to prevent further “freepots” and robberies in public improvements.
Mrs. Pierrepont, an elderly Cassadaga resident, fell in a cellar and sustained a broken arm, a dislocated wrist, head gash, and multiple injuries. Ellington lodge 97, U W cleared 929.82 from a Kinzuac excursion, with A J Stafford as manager and E J Boyle and J W Sikes handling the other half from Kengets. The excursion netted around a total not fully shown.
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