Christmas Opening and Holiday Hints at Erie Store
The Erie store hosts a Christmas opening this evening with ads for holiday gifts. Notices warn of oil prices, frozen pipes, and winter weather while vendors like F D Matteson Co promote gents holiday goods, silks and handkerchiefs. Mrs Sperra dies. a pig race fails. celestial sights hint at ancient star events. social events at Brooks works and the Presbyterian church supper draw locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
1St Presbyterian Church
McCarthy & Monroe
China Hall
Meriden
Roger Bro. Silver Plate Co
Royal Dresden Pottery
Royal Pottery
Worcester
Old Hall
Miller
Crown Derby
Copeland & Sons
Personal items and gatherings in Warren notice
Local brief lists residents and visitors with minor ailments and travel plans. Mr E P McMahan suffers jerysipwlas in his right hand. J H W Purcell of Binghamton registered at St James. Miss Gross of Buffalo Street to spend holidays in Canada. Miss Fredie Fabrinet left for Canada. EK W Bentley of Buffalo and F C Williams of Rochester at the Eastern. Miss Bessie Harrell ill at the rink and conveyed home by sleigh. I C Siegel Erie A H Diem Buffalo and D L Crax Oil City among late Erie arrivals. Emma Timperly confined at home. Rev Dr E B Crane to Linesville Baptist church for six months. Manager Lackey proposes a grand policemen's benefit with cash prizes and invites officer participants and others to join fat man’s race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lackey
Peshong
Naycroft
Jordan
Walter
Callahan
Keough
Ife
Vihan
Leap Year Ball at City Hall in Dunkirk Promises Gala Night
The December 26 dress party organized by Dunkirk society leaders will features Kratt music, ducked floor, ornate programs, Pretzel era decor, and carnages in attendance. Mrs Brown of Fredonia will supply a caterer and women are invited to participate. men and older socialites anticipate invitations for the seandiest event yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aeap
Dunkirk
Kratt
Brown
Fredonia
Pig Race and odd tales from Elmira and Pensy Vanished
Pig Race at the rink features Henry Brooks and Charlie Brooks among entrants as pig refuses to run, later races see Brooks win the pig and a separate 4 mile race with Herman Bohm. local quips touch judge’s Menken sentence date, a Pensy family’s bullfrog diet, and a Friendship doctor’s eccentric pharmacy display with odd numbered bottles and a bark peeler anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lackey
Flo
Jeff Cameron
Henry Brooks
Lerman Boehm
Charlie Brooks
Mr. Pig
Uly
Chas. Brooks
Herman Bohm
Ee Brooks
Hiram Hague
Prof
Phillips
Hiram
Binghamton, Attica, and Erie News From The Region
A compilation notes Binghamton gains a new opera house and Attica to dedicate a Free Will Baptist church on December 24, while Erie area storms damage structures. Reports include a Polish church wreck in Erie, a Jamestown frame structure fire, and local odds and ends from Wyoming Allegany and Cattaraugus counties. Other items cover a postal clerk appointment, a corry law student, meadville theft, and regional economic notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leet
Mayville
New Free Will Baptist Church
Attica
Railroads in Dunkirk open up competing lines for the city
Dunkirk sits at the crossroads of five railways linking Minnesota wheat, Pennsylvania coal and oil fields, and Eastern manufacturing. The L. E. & M. and N. L. E. & W. carry most freight through town as policies seek favorable terms. Proposals to place a downtown depot on Center Street spark debate, with calls for early action to capture Dunkirk patronage before real estate declines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunkirk
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
Allegheny Valley
Pittsburgh
Buffalo, New York
Philadelphia
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
New York Central
New York
Fredonia
Buffalo
Oi! City
Nickel Plate
Center St
J. Lansing Moore
van Buren Point
Sheridan
Morian
Yon Bureo
Government Park
Front Street
B. F. Horner
Center Street
Surrogate Court Probate Highlights Two Weeks Ending Dec 16 1984
Summary of business transacted in Surrogate Court listing estates from Pomfret Ellicott Jamestown and other towns. Wills admitted to probate letters testamentary issued guardianships and administrations granted and judicial settlements completed for multiple decedents including Ira Porter Louisa Hitchcock Margaret Hutson William Miller E Jay Swery Herman Scharf Philo Osborn John Burdick Geo Tinker Melissa Mazen and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira Porter
Pomfret
Louisa Hitchcock
Ellington
George W. Hitchcock
Margaret Hutson
Busti
Sarah Mattison
William Miller
Pom‘fret
Jane Miller
E. Jay Swery
Harmony
Ida Swery
Herman Scharf
Dunkirk
Mathilda Marratt
Philo Osborn
Sheridan
Sarah Osborn
John M. Burdick
Julia P. Burdick
Geo. Tinker
Jamestown
Joshua Tinker
Melissa J. Mazen
Charlee Hazen
Mina
Jane
Henry 8. Connelly
Clymer
Lamora A. Connelly
William P. Fuller
Adeline E. Fuller
Jesse Brown
Thankful Smith
Harie
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Vening
A. i
Ig P
Sefart
B. WD
Ata
Western
Freedonia
Washington Observation
Bunkirk
Erie
Mr. Murphy
Jack Frost
Olaf Girrord
F. D. Matteson & Co's
F. D. Matteson & Co
F.d.matteson & Co
Gents
The.o
F. D. Matteson & Co.’s
Quillinan
Patrick Murphy
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Tucsay
Earl & Wilson
Cartwright & Warner
Beth
Brooks Works
Ueson
Prof. Baker
Frank Lipsey
Silver Creek
Ows Sra
HIVE
Mr. E. P. McMahan
Jerysipwlas
J. H W. Purcell
Binghamton
the St. James
Mise Gross of
Buffalo Street
Canada
Misa Fredie Fabrinet
EK. W. Bently
F. C. Williams
Rochester
Bessie Harrell
I.¢. Siegel
A. H. Diem
D. L. Crax
Oil City
The
Emma Timperly
Central Exchange
Waarren Mail
BE. F. Crane
Baptist Church
Warren
Linesville Baptist Church
Elmira Gazette
Andea Oe
Martin
Menken
Pens Yan
Thesehldren
Elmira
Frendship
Wyoming County
Bradford
Genesee County Bible Society
Enos W. Barnes
Wellaville
Alfred 8. Brown
Alpha
Corry
Omega
George Tate
Fredonin
Salamanca
Kent
Oi City
China
A Wonsa
Meadville
Bolivar
Ile
Pound Manufacturing Company
East Lockport
Geneva
Memorial Church
O. A. Tousey
Olean
Dunns’ Commercial Agency
W.l.harvey
Union City
Meadville Pitt
Times and Express
Allegany
Republican
City
Root & Keating
New Orleans
E. B. King of
Wellsville
Board of Supervisors
Allegany County
W. R. Bliss
Gawley Hag
Justice
Gawley
Mullen
David Smith
C. Gusacti
Heland
Republican Club of
Tidioute
H. Qumings
T. W. Irvine
Baker
C. P. Bucklie
W. J. Elder
J. R. Brady
A. J. Nobte
W. H. Morris
BRE Scott
D. L. Johnson
Hamlet
Wm. Marian
Cherry Creek
Murray
Marian
Mra. Johnson
Williams
Mra.Johnson
Mra
Dr. Williams
George Hill
Florida
Heyl
Westphalia
Horehound
John
Harper
N. Price
Union Hardware
G, A
S.M. Hamilton
Cor
Eagle and
W.third St
Christma
Headquarters For Christmas Gifts
Marsho Gad
Roger Bro
Corrie
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