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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1884
Page
5
A slice of Dunkirk life with ads for Palace Drug Store and Lyon Bros covers paints, wallpapers, ice prices, trusses, confections, cigars, and a broad mix of local notes. It reports street improvements and social events, including a St Johns Benevolent Society ball, theater reviews, and personnel moves across Dunnkirk businesses and nearby towns.
A reader defends Mrs. 1. P. 8 against being labeled insulting to Mr. Adams and urges hearing him preach before judging. She recalls past letters, notes the church’s unfulfilled requests to call the pastor, and expresses hope for reconciliation through prayer and guidance from the congregation.
A large crowd laughed through Mr. M. B. Curtis in Samuel Plastrick at the Opera House. The native of Posen portrayed progressive Hebrews with thrift and business sense. supporting roles by Albina De Mer, Josie Wilmere, J. J. Morgan, E. L. Davenport and others drew praise for their performances.
In M B Curtis’s company Mr T K Minds and Mr Hindes, a Baltimorean heir with Virginia aristocracy ancestry, playfully mocked by disguises and a hidden “lay figure.” After heavy drinking and prankish setup, Hindes falls asleep entwined with the faux rival under his bed, his left eye kept on the floor in a nightly vigil gone awry.
Services will be held at Tabernacle Baptist Church tomorrow with preaching by Rev EB A Stone at 2 PM and 7 PM. Future services move to 11 AM and 7 PM daily. A social and reception for the newly called pastor will be at Mrs. Bacon's, 30 Center Street, Thursday evening May 15.
From our column readers learn Miss Langtry visits Buffalo next week while Brooke Loco Works workers find jobs in city machine shops. Freight handlers strike headlines and the tug Bryant with an alighter aid the Geo. King ashore at Dunkirk as dock affairs quiet down with saloons closed during the dispute.
Westfield special reports a surge of fish from Barcelona via Jakeway Walker and Carlin, and notes on JeAniceD Farrer's Chicago graduation. Herman Sixby buys Harrington stock. Pratt to manage locally. Commentary on competition and local grocers, roots of enterprise, and the Shaw Douglas/Douglass firms remembered by workers. Construction at Reuben Wrights residence proceeds. Emma Newell of Sherman visiting. Wm Prendergast moving to Maine Street. paper mill active. Mrs Fitch of Buffalo expected at old home.
The gossip column notes Missi Parvner’s August call for the United States and L M Carrenter signing with Rob son and Crane for 1884 85. It records Saran Ber xianni missing Parisian crowds, Bartrey Cawpeece’s England trip, plans to produce My Partner in Paris, and new copyrights. It lists multiple star earnings and tours including Jons McCameron in Denver and Brooklyn, Hartney’s matinee for the Actors Benevolent Fund, and the Alice Gates Opera Company’s fourteen week season in Baum’s Pavilion. Mary Anderson’s £50 000 earnings and Tony figures on Nell Gwynne sale are noted, with London portraits and American tour uncertainty. It closes with remarks on Misa Canrie Swan’s marriage rumors, and presidents Lincoln and Grant’s theatre habits.
About seventy men will be released on parole from the Elmira reformatory between now and the first of June. The Meadville Trotting Association inaugurates races starting May 97 and continuing four days. In Yorkshire Center twenty-seven babies born since June 1, twenty-two boys. Meadville seeks Dr Palmer's Normal Music School again. Warren Masons occupy new Judge rooms in Library hall. old rooms sold to Good Templars. Cooper Opera House walls begun. ready by August 1. Secretary Swift arranges free one way transport for stock to Valley Point Fair. Cattaraugus County Agricultural Society fair dates September 8 to 12. Chas Milks near Gowanda welcomes 22d grandchild. eight pounds. Corry child nearly drowned after falling from water tank. rescue timely. Lewis Miller of Akron elected president of American Locomotive Electric Headlight Co. map from Salamanca to Corry lodged for safekeeping. Peter Gallagher jailed for seduction under promise of marriage. Erie murder trial verdicts convicted for Hineman. Weber acquitted. Miss Carlotta Pinner declines opera, may tour Germany. Gamble held for grand larceny after eight hundred dollars stolen from McGowan. Jamestown Rink record attempts by Lawson and Cornish. best London record cited. Jenne kills Ellis in dispute over logchain. Jenne surrenders. Dr. E. K. Thompson admits Geo. B. W. Brown to partnership in Titusville drug business. George Whitley killed at H. R. Case shingle mill. belt to temple. seven hours dies. Beta Theta Pi fraternity forms alumni club. buys twenty acres east of lake between Jamestown and Mayville for future use.
An ad laden page lists Mons for children clothing hats and gents furnishings at the Buffalo One Price Clothing Store 47 Center Street. It also promotes Hamilton's Coal Yard with cement sewer pipe plaster and related goods, and notes hairdressing services at Wheeler Bros. barber shop with additional notices about clothing and liquor offerings and a dressmaking move.
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