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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1885
Page
4
A fragmented 1893 Dunkirk page mixes playful verse from Jean Ingelow with local ads for pipes, cement, hats, and furniture. It lists E C Perry Co sewer and water piping, Rudolph Moldenhauer stone works, Matteson Co hats, and other shop promos, ending with a note on Decoration Day preparations.
Dr J T Williams at home and Monroes column read. Mr O R Oakley in Westfield yesterday and Robert Nelson returned to Toledo. Awnings put up at the Hurlbert House. Miss Alice Simpson sick with scarlet fever. Miss M Bentley of Bullas street went to Erie for a week. Miss Jennie Rockwell left for Belle Plain Ind. this morning. Son of Mr Fred Heights seriously ill with typhoid. Erie expected to pass June interests, receiver talked of in New York. Knights of St Aloysius to play on Decoration Day in Westfield. Rufus Stanley returned from Atlanta YMCA convention. Lake Shore adds dining cars. one run on No 3. Young People's Lyceum preparing an entertainment for the Opera House soon. Frank May rents to Buffalo Bill driving park for June 11 Wild West show. Board of Health met. nuisances numbered six or seven reported and ordered shared. Signal Service: Up signals high southerly shifting to westerly winds at one this morning. Ladies of the Methodist church to give an ice cream social at Mrs John Durrell’s Ruggles street tomorrow evening.
City Clerk J B Murphy is expected to complete the city and water tax rolls prior to June 1. The G A M committee on Memorial Day will meet tomorrow night to arrange and program. Lost a small flat key with wire ring. The finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving it at this office. Superintendent C B Couch of the Eastern Division S S M R BR went to Buffalo on No yesterday returning on No 5 this morning. Will P L Rodier Centerville Pa D F Tanner Holland H L Sheldon Watertown D I and T H Patton Jamestown are at the Hurlbert. Tomorrow at the academy Miss Lapham of Fredonia will lecture on The Times and Contemporaries of Elizabeth. The opportunity is valuable. all who can should attend.
Advertises permanent cures for delicate diseases of either sex. Claims to provide a book of particulars on stamp requests. Gives the address of the World's Dispensary Medication at 668 Main Street, Buffalo, New York.
The Brooks Locomotive Works appoints J. H. Setchel as superintendent starting June 1, replacing H. G. Brooks. Setchel, long a master mechanic for the Ohio and Mississippi, brings wide railroad experience and will work alongside David Russell as assistant. The transfer follows Brooks stepping back from daily duties to focus on other matters.
A call was issued for a meeting of all depositors of the Miners Exchange to organize defenders of depositor rights. The gathering is set for 8 o'clock this evening at the city hall. Attendance is expected to be large. Mr Miner traveled to New York Friday night.
A Saturday reader cites a previous article by Mr. Russell on Miner's Exchanges fraud. The letter criticizes the piece and urges a response to expose ongoing deceit by a long-running scheme and its victims and perpetrators.
The letter condemns a local fraudster and his accomplices, detailing deceitful acts, forged documents, and stolen deposits. It calls for justice, warns residents to stay alert, and announces a meeting at o'clock this evening to organize action against the swindling ring led by Miner and Holt.
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