The Cortland News, Friday, August 4, 1882.
CORTLAND AND VICINITY.
Street commissioner Davern has been doing some extensive grading on Mill [Clinton Avenue] street.
Farmers are paying two dollars
per day for a good hand through haying and harvesting.
Mr. A. B. Chamberlain, of
Elmira, has been appointed receiver for the Utica, Ithaca & Elmira
railroad.
The next meeting of the social
circle of the Universalist society will be held at the residence of Lewis Davis
this Friday evening.
Messrs. D. F. Wallace and O. C. Smith
are in New York for the purpose of obtaining goods, principally wall papers, for
the fall and winter trade.
The building now being erected
on Port Watson street by Mr. A. Schermerhorn, for a wagon factory, will be a three-story
brick. Mr. D. G. Corwin is the builder.
Messrs. Day & Bangs are
making a specialty in the manufacture of a strong, substantial, yet easy and
fine-looking chair at their factory. It is the embodiment of Mr. Bangs' ideas,
and a great demand has already been created for them.
Miss Julia B. Slafter, daughter
of E. P. Slafter, and a graduate from the Normal, class of June, '82, has
accepted a position in the primary department of the new high school in Ithaca—a
position which she is excellently adapted to fill
Proprietor of store in village
on line of N. Y. Central R. R., on seeing a gentleman enter with samples of
wall papers: "There comes the good-looking man with the good-looking
patterns." O. C. Smith was the man referred to; but we wish it distinctly
understood that Otis did not give us the above story.
The Japanese wedding at Hitchcock's
new wagon and cutter factory last Friday evening drew together quite a large audience,
the whole affair passing off in a decidedly smooth and pleasant manner. The
bell …did well, the wedding was a novel ceremony, the orchestra afforded
excellent music, while Miss C. E. Hillman, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., who is visiting
in town, sang a couple of songs in a manner that greatly delighted her hearers.
We have received the first number
of a weekly paper entitled Justice,
published in New York city, and devoted to anti-monopoly principles. It
advocates and will support and defend the rights of the many as against
privileges for the few. It claims that corporations, the creation of the State,
shall be controlled by the State. It says that labor and capital see allies, not
enemies, and will work for justice for both…
Mr. John Ryan is laying a
flagstone walk in front of his saloon.
B. F. Taylor has laid a new
plank walk in front of Smith & Kingsbury's
store.
Mr. Caleb Hitchcock has
purchased and will soon put in his new cutter and wagon factory a fifty-horse
power engine.
The net profits of the
entertainment [Japanese wedding] at C. B. Hitchcock's factory for the benefit of
the Women's Auxiliary amounted to $68.
W. H. Wild will hold a grove
meeting at Hoxieville, Sunday, Aug. 6, at 11 o'clock A. M. Subject,
"Origin, Nature and Destiny of Spiritualism."
Henry Gleason, Esq., manager of
the Hitchcock wagon and cutter factory, is gaining health so rapidly that he
intends soon to go west on a business tour.
Rev. J. L. Robertson has
accepted the call of the Presbyterian church to become its pastor, and it is
expected will enter upon his duties Sunday, Aug. 13, inst.
Mr. Andrew H. Day has sold his
interest in the chair factory to a brother of Mr. Elmer Bangs, and the business
will hereafter be conducted by the firm of Bangs Brothers.
Mr. Geo. W. Roe has been doing some
good work in house painting, as the houses of B. A. Benedict, H. Wallace, Harrison
Wells and others, lately painted by him, fully show.
O. U. Kellogg, Esq., has sold
his house on Elm street, which was partially destroyed by fire a short time
ago, to Mr. Woodard, foreman of the Wagon Co.'s blacksmith shop, for $2,000.
The agent of the Syracuse Morning Standard has
located an office at the Cortland
Wagon Company's office for the
convenience of the many employees of
that company who are taking that paper.
The [Cortland] trustees have
decided to run the sluice across Main street near the post office corner under
the cross-walk, instead of as now, so that by removing the flagstones the
gutter can be cleaned in case it becomes clogged.
Jumbo was in Albany last
Saturday, and The Argus says
that in the street parade of over half a mile in length, the three elephants,
Jumbo, Queen and Bridgeport (the baby) do not appear. The great show is in
Rutland, Vt., on the 8th inst.
The National Bank of Cortland
has declared a dividend of three and a half per cent, besides passing four and a
half to surplus. Charlie Selover, the Moravia boy, had something to do with that
record. He is one of the most reliable and popular cashiers in the State.—Moravia
Rep.
Wednesday morning a little son of John C.
Seamans, three years old, partook of his breakfast as usual, though appearing
somewhat stupid. Becoming seriously ill at once, Dr. Nash was sent for and he
pronounced the attack one of diptherial croup. No relief could be afforded, and
at half-past one P. M. the little sufferer died.
The digging of the trenches for
the ties of the horse railway brings to light much of the old plank
constituting the road formerly in use between Cortland and Syracuse previous to
the opening of the S. & B.
railroad. Some of it is as sound as when in use.
The Cortland Steam Mill Company,
on Port Watson street, are making an extensive addition to their mill. On the west
ten bins or elevators are being constructed to a height equivalent to a three-story
building, each about ten feet square, and with a capacity in all of 15,000
bushels. On the east side an addition of equal height will be erected, the roof
of sheet iron to be raised and to cover the entire building, and the sides to
be protected by corrugated sheet iron. When completed, the building will be 49
feet front by 64 feet deep, and will have a capacity for storing 30,000 bushels
of wheat.
Pahtay, the Burmese student from
the State Normal school at Cortland, delivered a very entertaining and
certainly a most instructive lecture on the life and habits, customs and
history of Burmah, in the Baptist church here, last Monday evening. It was not
as largely attended as it should have been, but the speaker had the close
attention of his audience throughout the entire lecture. He appeared in his
native dress, exhibited specimens of Burman industries and utensils, and his
audience were certainly more intelligent upon this comparatively unknown
country, its people and manners, than when they assembled. Mr. Pahtay spoke in
Auburn on Tuesday evening.—Moravia
Rep.
Jumbo Killed by Train: http://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2013/12/jumbo-killed-by-train-and-cortland.html
Rise and Fall of Plank Roads in Central New
York: http://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2013/01/rise-and-fall-of-plank-roads-in-central.html
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