Monday, March 10, 2014

Balloonist Nellie Thurston at Onondaga County Fair


1851 balloon
The Cortland News, Friday, October 13, 1882.
CORTLAND AND VICINITY.
   Mr. C. H. Buell, formerly publisher of THE NEWS, has lately been appointed a member of the liquor license board of Washington, D. C.
   The burglars to whom we alluded last week as operating in this village managed through the friendly aid of darkness to make their escape.
   The Onondaga County Fair held last week was unusually successful, and is considered one of the fullest and most interesting exhibitions ever held. Over 40,000 people visited the ground on Thursday, when Nellie Thurston made a successful balloon ascension.
   Repairs of sidewalks are being ordered by the trustees, a large number of residents having been notified this week. This is right. All such matters should be thoroughly attended to before snow flies. By right every citizen should not wait for an order from the trustees before putting his walks in order.
   The removal of the village postoffice is still the locally agitated question. As will be seen by resolutions published elsewhere, the business men have entered a protest against its removal from the centre of the village, and petitions are being generally signed asking postmaster Nixon to retain the office near its present location.
   Robert and Luke Gerrard were employed at the gas factory. On the morning of the 4th inst. a wordy quarrel arose between them in regard to Luke's delay in getting to work, though he is foreman, and from words they proceeded to blows. During the fracas Robert struck Luke two for three blows, one of them on the head with a piece of gas pipe, which ended the fight, as the blow cracked Luke's skull. Drs. C. Greene, of Homer, and F. Hyde, of Cortland, [were] called, who removed from the left side of the head a portion of the skull, and the patient is now improving.

Postoffice Removal.
   The following resolutions were adopted at a meeting of the Business Men's Protective Association of Cortland, N. Y., Oct. 12, 1882:
   WHEREAS, It has come to the knowledge of this association that the building now occupied by the postoffice of Cortland has been recently sold, necessitating a change in the location of said postoffice; and,
   WHEREAS, It is currently reported that liberal inducements have been offered Mr. Jas. A, Nixon, the postmaster, to remove the postoffice from the business center of the village; therefore,
   Resolved, That it is the sense of the association that such action on the part of our postmaster wilt be prejudicial to the interest of a great majority of those who are now engaged in business, and will be a source of great inconvenience to a large majority of our citizens.
   Resolved, That we earnestly protest against the removal of said postoffice from the business center of our village to either extremity, and that we urge upon Mr. Nixon the importance of considering as a public officer the wants of the people in the premises.
E. A. FISH. Pres.
CHAS. F. BROWN. Sec'y.

CORPORATION PROCEEDINGS.
   At a meeting of the board of trustees held October 2, 1882; Present—Irving H. Palmer, president; H. Wells, D. E. Smith and C. C. Taylor, trustees.
   Resolved, That a walk be laid of stone across the proposed Frank street on the south side of Tompkins street.
   Resolved, That the president be authorized to contract with W. W. Davis for flagging stone for street purposes.
   Resolved, That the Cortland and Homer Horse Railroad Company be and they are hereby required to immediately restore the streets of the village of Cortland, wherein the tracks of their said railroad have been laid, to their former condition, or as nearly so as is practicable, and to such state and condition as not unnecessarily to impair the usefulness of said streets.
   Resolved, That the president of the village be and he is hereby instructed to cause the foregoing resolution to be promptly enforced in respect to North Main street and South Main street by any lawful means at his command. The following bills were allowed and ordered paid: [bills omitted by CC editor.]
   Resolved, That the sidewalks in front of the several premises named below be repaired and that notices requiring the same to be done within thirty days of services be served in the usual printed form upon the parties named below:
   Mill street [Clinton Avenue—CC editor]—Dr. E. B. Nash; No. 42, George B. Jones; No. 54, Mrs. H. C. Gazlay; No. 50, Mrs. S. Covill; No. 58, Mrs. Straat; No. 62, John Ireland; Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad; Stebbins' Steam Laundry; No. 98, Horace Bliss; No. 107, Theodore Stevenson; No. 116, Mrs. Snider; No. 117, Mrs. James Kane; No. 129, C. Snider; No. 128, Philo Phelps; No. 125, R. B. Fletcher; No. 136, M. Griswold; No. 142, Josiah Wilcox; No. 147, M. Harrington; J. D. Doran; No. 158, Mrs. Maggie Kane.
   Elm street — Sally Bonney; No. 54, Edwin Kinney; No. 29. R. Bennett; Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad; No. 24, R. D. Woodford; No. 25, H. P. Dunbar.  
   North Church street—Mrs. J. Hamilton; Mrs. Johnson; No. 69, Webster. Grant street—No. 38, H. J. Messenger, agent.
   On motion, meeting adjourned.
JONATHAN HUBBARD, Clerk.

Nellie Thurston:
2)  http://www.ballooninghistory.com/whoswho/who'swho-m2.html (scroll down page to Ellen Moss entry)

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