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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1883
Page
3
Evening Observer correspondence from Hegeseeing Towns by our letter writer. News gathered by a corps of observers reports local occurrences and ideas from town to town.
Forestville news recounts residents ill with muscular rheumatism and illness in families, a secret wedding, arrivals and visits from Philadelphia to Rochester, town improvements, a busy hotel and horse trade, church events, and small business notes including a washing-machine agency and new fire extinguishers.
The youngest son of Bathania Titus of Portland Center, Wm Titus, died in an accident on the Toledo division of the L S M S R Co. He was a baggage tester turned freight brakeman. In Goshen Indiana he was killed while drawing a coupling pin. He lived about an hour after the incident. His brother Chapin Titus accompanied the body to Elkhart and then home to Portland. Titus was a skilled musician and former Portland Cornet Band leader who composed a dirge played at his funeral.
Local column from Smiths Mills reports light news with farm struggles and wet weather delaying harvests. Mentions Frank Lawton’s illness, a favorable Dunkirk area land assessment, and a Forestville liquor controversy tied to a Fourth of July event.
Grass is decent but wet weather limits haymaking. Potatoes appear healthy with minor tops trimmed. apples show a light crop and drop badly due to rain. Oats look poor but pastures are good. grasshoppers emerge to keep growth in check. Robert Reid Jr moved to Jones Street farm. Phoebe Jones and Mrs. W K Jones visit from Wichita to see native place. The community looks forward to a pleasant end of term. Philetus Bement settles in.
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