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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1885
Page
4
Fragmentary timetable entries show arrival and departure notes for EASTERN and SOUTHERN lines with times like 7:10 p m and 6:30 p m. References to DEFAML and DEFART plus locations Bree, FREDONIA and 3508 suggest partial station listings and schedule codes.
Probabilities signal station notes increasing cloudiness and warmer weather with local rains or snow possible in New England and the South Atlantic States. The Evanina Observer will be on sale at Maurice Beebs confectionery and Henry Weilers newsroom. Various local items include social notices, travel, and community updates with multiple names and venues in Warren.
Items report a constable Paling sale of office effects in Heyl block, oyster market disruptions along the coast, a death telegram for Ben Jooker of Angelica, Mrs. Lyon and Mrs. Wells traveling, A H Whitney’s New York goods trip for a new Center Street store, a meeting on a Gamble wideboard and wardrobe to aid Mr. Gamble, and a Columbus Hall Euripide Dramatic Club charity performance for St Mary’s Church with low admission.
Rev G F Spreng pastor of German Evangelical on Erie street attends Ecie Conference of Evangelical Association assigned to North East. He will depart next Wednesday after forty two years in ministry including twenty as presiding elder. His successor will be Rev L Scheuermann from Cleveland who arrives next week to take the charge.
Elisha Clark of Stockton reports March 4 a wild duck and two crows shot as signs of spring. The dawdling groundhog may delay its six week nap until March 16 but is seen eager for warmth as vernal forecasts shift southward winds toward milder days. Clark suggests the woodchuck aimed for Washington, perhaps tied to an inauguration.
Ex Comtatie Calahan sees a strangely acting Polish woman near Third Street early today. She ran into the street then back along Center and Poorth, muttering and unbalanced. Police took her to the station and a commission of lunacy will be appointed.
A court order allows Dunkirk Iron Works to restart under assignee Oran Smith. About four to ten workers are at the shop. Scrap iron has been sold, and little other activity has occurred. The Gowanda shop started quietly yesterday with Mr. Edwin Sellen attending to business there.
H Tivner offers entire stock including Hamburgs Towels Table Linens Hosiery at unbeatable prices to clear stock before move to new store. Located at 8 Center St Dunkirk. act quickly to take advantage of this strong sale.
A large crowd watched Warrens of Warren Pa. lose to the McDonalds in seven minutes in a Polo game described as tame. Perry scored the decisive third goal as teams named Reed Weeks Fehiman McNett Henry Keeler for Warrens and Perry Heyl Madigan Everts Martin Stanley Hurtbert Beecher for McDonald.
Michael Hyland reported a missing wheelbarrow last November. Constable Keough arrested Martin Kerpetski after Hyland found his name on the barrow on Kerpetski's Lion Street premises. The Pole admitted the theft, was jailed briefly, then fined $5 by Justice Durrell to support his family.
Aveusta Breniry, president, offers thanks for correcting donors’ gifts to the needy and aiding proper acknowledgment. She notes deciphering names and places was difficult, praises neighbors of Oregon and South Stockton, and mentions converting a cake gift into money for distribution to Executive Committee members.
In the Assembly yesterday a bill dubbed sapusl supp Tdil was introduced granting Vredania Normal School 919232 and 5000 to remove obstructions from Chantauqua Lake. The measure mentions Chantauqua University and Chantauqua Female College in related provisions.
A blaze near Sinclairville destroyed four calves hay a mowing machine wagon and more. It started from a lantern used early morning. A separate court notice in Gowanda declares Deacon Brown's wife Mary Townley heir to a vast English estate valued at about 100 million dollars.
The District Committee of the Y M C A met at the Y M C A building in Buffalo on Tuesday afternoon. Chairman Jones and State Secretary Hall presided. Thatcher was elected secretary for the year. Delegates outlined plans for early local conferences at Pike and transit and named Medina as the site for the annual conference. Westfield Lockport and Warsaw were assigned organizers with Rufus Stanley in Westfield, Wilson in Lockport, and Thatcher in Warsaw to solicit organization. A lyceum type meeting at Center Street office will consider forming a Y M C A lyceum. David Gordon, formerly Westfield, has been named secretary of the Y M C A in Charleston, D C, with a Buffalo reception to follow.
A Cleveland Telegram account reports a Lake Shore express incident where both driving wheels on one side broke loose yet the train limped on without derailment or major injury. Only a chef’s car clipped a horse, causing minor damage while the family was away. The report also presents last year’s engine mileage and costs, noting fuel and repair rates and efficiency across passenger and freight services.
Ice fishing continues with hook and line activity on the lake. Charles Guenther landed a twenty seven pound lake trout. R H Mollet of Third Street shipped about twelve hundred pounds of fish this morning, averaging six to eight hundred pounds daily.
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