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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1885
Page
4
A long update from a Erie region paper notes Valentines at the Erie Store, local names and attendance at social events, races, and meetings. It lists railway delays on the Erie line, visits from GMs and residents, school board and council notices, and a wide sweep of local society items, travel, and entertainment.
A Dunkirk notice calls a 4 AM meeting at the YMCA rooms to discuss forming a Women’s Auxiliary. A preliminary committee is listed and Secretary Thompson promotes the movement. Details recount YMCA progress including daily visitors rising to ninety, a gym with eighty four members, and new boys' Bible classes.
In exposed places this morning the thermometer dropped to 9 below zero marking the coldest stretch of winter so far. Wind was light though. W P Stevens formerly of Mayville reports from Grand Forks Dakota that January 22 thermometer read 44 C below zero with blizzard conditions.
Last evening a group of Mr. George Peshong's friends surprised the popular Third Street barber with a fine gold chain and charm. He expressed gratitude in a brief speech and invited the donors to his home where they sang and feasted to celebrate what was stated as his 26th birthday.
Candlemas and Lent will be observed at St Marys church with a special mass sung at 8 30. Candies will be blessed and consecrated for the year. Three priests will take part in the services. Next Sunday will be observed as usual on Septuagesima Sunday with Purpie worn in token of the approaching penitential season.
Mr Harry Brooks has disposed of his stock of pianos organs and music at his Center 81 store to New York parties and will not keep a store hereafter. He cites being away from home tending to customers as the reason. Mr Brooks will keep a few fine sewn instruments at his Eagle street home and invites customers there.
James Hook Overseer of the Poor and the Ladies Charity Committee feed 300 families in Dunkirk with an average of four children per family. Many beneficiaries are Poles amid a large need in Bradford, where hundreds lack bare necessities due to business downturn and unemployment. Local churches and groups aid the destitute, but funds and relief are stretched thin. In Central Avenue a pair of prowlers looked into several homes last Saturday night, stealing only a child’s sled after it broke and alerting a servant who caused their escape before the police were notified.
Mr EB A Stone has resigned after nine months as pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist congregation. The resignation takes effect tomorrow and he seeks a charge where he can be more useful, though his destination is not yet decided. During nearly a year in Dunkirk he gained a strong reputation for earnestness and moral worth. The society has not chosen a successor yet.
An Ecclesiastical Council met January 28 at 21 m in the Baptist church Stockton Chautauqua County with fifteen churches represented appointing Rev R R Prentice moderator and W J Pratt clerk. Brother J Male spoke on his Christian experience call to ministry and doctrine. Ordination followed with invocation reading sermon prayer laying on of hands and charges to pastor and church.
The General Term of the Supreme Court adjourned with local decisions. Joseph Callahan’s conviction for highway robbery is affirmed and he will begin a ten year sentence. Other rulings upheld or reversed various actions including Clough v Gulman, and references to county treasurer reports referees in multiple counties.
Fort Orange Lodge No 79 K of P adopted resolutions of heartfelt sympathy for D A A Nichols on the death of his daughter Mrs W B Rumsey. They quoted comfort from the Father to the fatherless and directed the resolutions be entered in the lodge minutes and a copy sent to Nichols. Also notes on bank elections listing directors and officers for Lake Shore National Bank with W T Commas president M K Hiswas vice president and A J Lest cashier.
The Dunkirk Charity Entertainment Executive Committee urges farmers to respond to suffering by bringing in foods to town. They request pork beans potatoes onions apples and other eatables to aid the needy. Oakley Center Street offers his store cellar for storage while ladies manage distribution. Avevera Buortsr, President.
A club scene reveals a man’s loneliness and a chilling dream of his wife in a white sheet warning him of happiness owed to a good wife. He reports a sleepless night, a second wild dinner, and a waking moment when the apparition strikes and reveals his wife had been home waiting all along.
New Orleans correspondent notes Colorado’s exhibit features mountain scenery and irrigation devices in a three sided frame. A miniature Denver Rio Grande railroad runs through the Grand canyon of the Arkansas with snow sheds and Palms take. Pike's Peak and other peaks appear in the background. The display emphasizes farm products from Fort Collins and a refined collection of Indian relics and taxidermy.
A visitor to Mexico is astonished by hosts who offer their homes and goods to strangers. Polite be generous etiquette leads to awkward moments as residents insist items are “yours” while the guest must refuse. Strong social customs cause humorous misunderstandings.
The Argonaut reports a humorous scene where Lucius Sejanus rebukes Catus Gracchus for foreign interference amid a tavern encounter over a Tarentum saddle rock. The piece mentions a Danish New Zealand inventor Duncan Sinclair and a sea voyage record preservation device with rings and cork fittings.
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