The Cortland
News, Friday, May 7, 1886.
New Library for Cortland.
On Saturday last
letters of incorporation were filed in the County Clerk's office for the Franklin
Hatch Library Association. The
incorporators are Franklin Hatch, Frederick Hyde, Edward D. Webb, R. H. Duell
and C. F. Wickwire.
The object and business of the association are
to be "the purchase of a site and the erection of a library building, the
founding, continuing and perpetuating of a library, which shall be located in
the village of Cortland, the proper care and preservation of the property
belonging to said society, the application of the income therefrom in
maintaining said library building and library, and augmenting and increasing
and enlarging the same, and the performing of such other duties and the
transaction of such other business as may pertain to such society."
The directors of the society for the first
year are to be the above named persons. Judge Foliett has approved of the
certificate and as soon as a copy is filed with the Secretary of State. Mr.
Hatch will transfer to the society, enough real estate and money to amount to
about $7,000. The incorporators have the refusal of a lot between the Arnold
House and the Horatio Ballard house, and will in all probabilities build there.
Hatch Library Building.
W. B. Stevenson, of this place, has been awarded the
contract for the erection of the Hatch Library Building. It is to be 27 feet [front]
and 69 feet and 8 inches deep. The front part, or to a depth [sic] of 53 feet and
four inches, it is to be two stories high, while the rear portion will be only one. The front is to be constructed of pressed brick, with terra cotta
trimmings and with plate glass windows. The interior will be finished in
cherry. On either side of the entrance, columns will support a limestone arch
with the inscription "Franklin Hatch Library Building."
The
contract price is $4,750 and the building is to be finished by February 1, 1887.
Cortland News, July 23, 1886.
A HISTORIC CASE.
The Widow Dennis Again
Successful in Obtaining Her Large Estate.
The celebrated
case of Wm. Keeler against Mariah Dennis, which has been before the courts in
various ways in Cayuga county, and in fact in the whole judicial district, was
on the calendar of the Auburn Circuit Court, which commenced its session last
Monday in that city before Justice Francis A. Maycumber, of Rochester.
The case has already been tried before two
juries and the defendant has succeeded both times in obtaining her beautiful
farm of 275 acres, situated in Niles, Cayuga County, the whole history of the
contest having heretofore appeared in full in these columns.
The plaintiff, through his attorneys, made
an attempt to put it over the term at Auburn last Monday, and the application,
after occupying most of the day, was finally denied and the court directed that
the trial must go on Tuesday morning last, at which time the plaintiff and his
attorneys did not appear and the defendant took the verdict of the jury again
and obtained a third judgment in her favor, awarding to her the farm in dispute with
costs.
This case has already attracted very much
attention in legal circles and has been before nine different Supreme Court
judges in one form or another. Mrs. Dennis has been in actual possession since
she was married in 1852, and among the other things which have happened there
was the experience of having her husband shot dead in her presence on the night
of May 9th, 1861, when they were retiring, by an unknown assassin. The farm is
a very desirable one and is said to be worth about twelve thousand dollars.
There have been no changes in attorneys since the case commenced, Mr. Keeler
having been represented by Judges Day, Howland and Hughitt, and Mrs. Dennis by
J. & T. E. Courtney and Judge Smith, of this place.
CORTLAND AND
VICINITY.
Hon. Francis
Hendricks will please accept our thanks for a copy of the legislative manual for 1886.
Dr. F. P. Howland, formerly of Marathon, has
opened an office at No. 13 Mulberry street, Syracuse.
Mrs. Sarah A. Bryant, of Marathon, celebrated
her 102d birthday on Friday last. With the exception of failing sight her health
is extremely good and bids fair to last many years yet. She is the oldest citizen
in this section.
The following officers have been elected by
the congregation of Grace church: Wardens, H. B. Hubbard, H. L. Rogers; Vestrymen,
S. M. Benjamin, A. Mahan, E. M. Hulbert, C. H. Parker, E. D. Webb, Geo. L.
Warren, G. J. Mager, Horace S. Dibble.
The village of Whitney's Point has been sued
by Patrick O'Brien for injuries received from falling through a defective sidewalk.
The village of Cortland has paid two judgments within the past two years for
similar reasons and unless a great many walks are repaired at once, are liable
to have more actions brought.
W. K. Niver, for many years past
Superintendent of the Syracuse & Binghamton division of the D. L. & W.
railroad, has resigned his position on account of lack of time to attend to his
own private business. It is rumored that Adolph. H. Swans, general freight
agent at Syracuse, has been named as Mr. Niver's successor.
I. H. Holcomb's employees commenced work on
the eight hour system Monday morning.
It you want to
hear the best minstrel troupe in existence go to the Opera House Monday
evening, May 10, and listen to Thatcher, Primrose & West.
There will be a ball
game on the fairgrounds next Saturday afternoon between nines from the
Hitchcock Mfg Co.'s shops and from Wickwire's wire mill, for $25 a side. Ten
cents admission will be charged.
The trouting season opened on Saturday last
and all local sportsmen who could get away were whipping the streams for miles
around at an early hour. Although not a first-class day for angling several of them
returned home with nice messes.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Cortland Opera House was held at the office of Judge Duell on Tuesday evening
last, at which time R. H. Duell, C. W. Collins, B. A. Benedict, A. Mahan, C. P.
Walrad, G. J. Mager, H. Wells, L. J. Fitzgerald, F. C. Straat, Madison
Woodruff, H. M. Kellogg and C. E. Ingalls were elected directors. At a meeting
of the directors immediately afterward, R. H. Duell was elected president; A.
Mahan, vice president; C. W. Collins, secretary, and H. M. Kellogg, treasurer.
The Cortland Mechanics Band gave their first
open air concert from the Cortland House balcony last Saturday evening to a
large audience. The people who listened to their excellent music were greatly pleased
with the fine quality of the article, and were somewhat surprised at the rapid
strides made by the band. Numerous hopes were expressed that more concerts
would follow. They probably will, if the citizens will only appreciate them and
make them remunerative, as it takes money to run a band and the boys are not
all millionaires.
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| Emma Thursby |
MAHAN’S MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
The twelfth annual festival, given by Alex
Mahan, will be held at the Cortland Opera House, June 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18,
1886, under the management of J. Mortimer Wiske, of New York. Last season far
surpassed any other of Mr. Mahan's popular festivals, but this one is bound, from
the eminent array of talent, to leave that one in the shade.
The mere mention that Miss Emma Thursby,
soprano, of New York, has been engaged for the grand concerts is a sufficient guarantee
that the entire festival will be of a high order. The Lotus Glee Club, of
Boston, and Wiske's Quintette Club, of New York, will also assist. Mrs. Martha
Dana Shepard, of Boston, the popular accompanist, has also been engaged. Sale
of tickets will commence Saturday morning, June 12, at Mahan's music store at
the following prices: Chorus or singer's tickets for seat on stage, each, $1.
Subscriber's tickets, admitting at any time to seat in parquette, including
reserved seat for concerts, each, $2.50. In balcony, including reserved seat for
concerts, each, $2. Admission to
concerts, parquette, $1. Admission to concerts, balcony and gallery, 75 cents. Admission
to matinees and rehearsals, each, 25 cents. Seats tor concerts reserved without
extra charge. Orders for seats by mail or telegraph will have prompt attention.
Reference:
Emma Cecilia Thursby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Cecilia_Thursby
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