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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1885
Page
4
Freight and passenger timing details show arrivals at 8 30 am and 12 30 pm with departures noted as My Pathage F245 and related routing through Fredonia. The fragmentary timetable cites Og pm and local station references without full context or complete names.
Dunkirk brief highlights on weather and traffic notes, local names, and upcoming events. Messages report warmer, fair weather then possible rain, plus a shifting southerly wind and falling barometer. Community items include store openings, home sales, residents visiting Rochester and New Orleans, and a note on a new Erie locomotive project.
Messenger letter recounts travel from Lutskirelen to Saar Union and Strasbourg. It notes towns like Saurgemun Offenburg and Villinger, the German railway through the Black Forest, military presence and local industry, with stops to visit friends and colleges. The writer, T d, promises to report again.
Rev. A K Rose of the Baptist church preached to a good audience using Matthew 16 sentence strong and well put. Easter sermon planned at the same church next Sunday morning. Communion services in the Presbyterian church next Sunday. Preparatory lecture at 8 30 Saturday. Fine musical programs in several churches next Sunday. Catholic services yesterday featured solemn blessing of palms and processions commemorating Christ entering Jerusalem.
A large crowd attended the Young Men's Lyceum service at the Y M C A rooms Sunday afternoon led by Mr J C Stidlman with remarks from Rev Mr Martin. The Y M C A Lyceum oil meet is set for tomorrow night. Thomas J James, secretary of the Y M C A Lyceum, departs tomorrow for Horacksville to resume work as master mechanic on the Erie road, living with his sister Mrs Duncan. A joint meeting of the Y M C A Board of Directors and Woman's Auxiliary Executive Committee will be held at 7 50 tonight.
Mr S J Gifford cashier at the Lake Shore freight office resigns and will re enter the insurance business April 1 as a partner of Mr J H VanBuren under the firm VanBuren Gifford. The successor to Gifford will be named tomorrow. Joel Streight of Laona pleaded guilty in police court and was fined 5 dollars for offering veal for sale. Mrs Mary Costin was arraigned on a charge of keeping a disorderly house between here and Fredonia. trial adjourned to later this week.
For sale 28 acres of productive land three miles west of Brocton Station on Main Road. Contains house barn and good well. One acre of young grapes and a flourishing orchard. Cash buyers only. Enquire at WM Zoumaeewars Dunkirk NY.
Live Oaks of Fredonia lose to McDonalds with Perry scoring three goals. Frank Irwin nets the lone Live Oaks goal. Referee Pred Keller from Fredonia oversees a tense, late-start game with detailed lineups. Upcoming McDonalds games pit them against Jamestowns and Salems, while Cameron Hilton and Toomey prepare for a weeklong Cherry Creek tour.
Three reasons urge Hood's Sarsaparilla for spring health. It strengthens the system, purifies sluggish blood, and offers greater overall benefit now. Take it now. Daniel McGuire, 22, a Buffalo division fireman, was killed Sunday when struck by the Madison street bridge at Wetlaville. He lay on a freight car with his back to the bridge. the impact threw him to the track where he was terribly mangled. He resided at Hornellsville and had just boarded to go to Andover. Four or five bridge fatalities have occurred in recent years, sparking anger that the structure remains inadequately raised.
The ad asserts frailty in women and endorses Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a superior restorative for female weaknesses. It promotes the product through druggists with a reduced price of one dollar, reflecting period marketing rhetoric and authority claims.
A 400 pound valve was installed in the suction pipe at the pumping house during a water shutoff between three and four o clock Sunday afternoon. The operation involved replacing a large valve to restore service.
Sherman residents plan a meeting on April 1 to organize a Board of Trade. Sheridan dealer Geo A Wilder has sold his trotting stallion Eye Lid for 600 dollars to Elmer Osborne of Silver Creek. Sackett Post G A R post entertained at Wells's Opera House in Westfield. Western New York Congregational churches to mark a fiftieth anniversary in Jamestown. Oil City boy Martin Walls, twelve, has vanished, with Kennedy missing in the same area.
D W Caldwell named receiver by Judge Jones in the Court of Common Pleas. Bond set at 200000 with J L Wade and Samuell B Williamson as sureties. Foreclosure of second mortgage and sale of road assets anticipated. unions trust Co of New York and Chas A O McClellan filed the petition. Major liabilities 4000000, assets 1000000, with mortgages in Cleveland and Buffalo totaling 230000 each.
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