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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1883
Page
3
Special reporter notes Miss Bemis begins kindergarten next Monday the 17th instead of the 20th as previously announced. Readers are informed of updated schedules for local church socials, stock closeouts, and community notices amid a sequence of regional events and frost damage reports.
A Louisville Commercial correspondent extols Pulaski County Kentucky for its vast dried apple output. Despite small orchards, nearly every farmer contributes, sun drying or evaporators gradually rising. evaporated fruit sells higher and cleaner than sun dried, with broad local demand and steady production.
The county relies on dried apples as currency in trade with merchants and households. Prices hover around four to five cents per pound, about 300,000 pounds shipped in a light year and 1.3 million in a bumper year with peaches a minor share. Revenue from dried fruit alone exceeds $60,000, with many small stores buying and shipping fruit though exact totals are uncertain.
Uiisis Black Diamond Coal Mining Company treasurer recounts a report from workers who blasted into a coal seam east of Caseyville Illinois. They found a live toad sealed in a coal cavity 35 feet underground, surrounded by solid rock with no apparent air or water access.
A Yokohama correspondent describes Japan as reveling in life through outdoor amusements. Summer nights see booths offering cooling drinks, inviting passersby, while bands play and many professionals pursue dancing and music. Storytellers urban legends of love war patriotism and loyalty captivate listeners.
A Topeka woman received an anonymous note from an admirer asking a meeting at a corner that night. She took the note to her mother who confronted a fashionable young man waiting by the fence, and a sharp exchange followed about what could have happened if the mother had not arrived.
In Easton on September 12 Alderman Jones ruled against the Bethlehem Iron Company in forty five suits for thirteen thousand dollars brought by employees from the recent strike who claim wages were withheld. A real letter writer arrived during the incident and then vanished as the scene cleared. It is reported three hundred more suits may follow, with potential ante totaling thirty thousand to ninety thousand dollars.
Governor Knott sets October 1 as the day for the execution of Ellis Craft who was found guilty of the Ashland Ky murder and child abduction case. The Court of Appeals denied a new trial. Craft will follow Bill Ellis who was hanged by a mob. William Neal remains to be tried.
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