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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1883
Page
4
Local items report on the Haze steamer reaching port and exterior work on the Avenue hotel. Harrison opens the restaurant season on Third Street. Boat race postponed due to lake conditions. Dunkirk Chapter convocation and funeral procession covered. Library lamps discounted, Stevens-Brooks wedding article in progress, and preparations for the fourth Fair week with a new refreshment hall underway.
Mims 4c B. Kean visits Buffalo to see sister Mrs Pes. W L Austin to preach as usual tomorrow morning and evening. Frank Sauadepe bound for Peekskill to attend funeral. Geo Saunders and C U Sherman traveled to New York and San Francisco respectively. Gerry to host a Free Methodist Gerry Seminary, a two story 50 by 70 foot building for 100 pupils, costing about $6000, on a scenic Cassadaga valley site. Sellen of Dunkirk helps lead as fund drive attracts regional support.
A reader argues that French and German are purely perfunctory in the course of study and should be dropped to save time and raise school efficiency. The citizen urges the Board of Education to expunge both languages, contending only competent teachers and real pronunciation knowledge count.
In Edinboro farmer William Stafford perished after being struck by a freight train near Erie while at the circus. Chautauqua sees rapid building with four cottages, six school of languages structures, and a planned university, signaling years of expansion. Jamestown sees a joke of mistaken romance as a husband’s kiss lands on an elderly nurse, while Dr J Harry Manville faces a New York registration case. Westfield resident EK Whitney dies from morphine overdose after a restless night. the town mourns a prominent figure and a saddened family.
The county fair drew large crowds with a long parade and a strong cattle display. Durhams, Red Russians, Suffolks, and Cheshires featured in many pens across Busti, Kiantone, Ellery, and Harmony, with notable animals and yokes of oxen. AL Pennock drove the Kent colt to victory in a five year old trotting race.
A Boston broker advises funding a county bridge via bonds to approve the project and to hire a builder through commissions and subcontracts. The representative resists, warns of corruption, and returns home to report patching the old bridge is wiser. Also a brief note on Wisconsin cranberry crop prospects.
Local advertisements feature low prices on clothing from Masonic and labor brotherhood lithographers in Rochester, with fall lines for men youths and boys. One Price Cloth Store offers cheap, newest patterns at Center Street Dunkirk, plus poultry oysters ham sausages and barber services and a medical claim for Sheloes Con sumption Cure.
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