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H. J. Messenger Urges Cortland to Pave Streets



The Cortland News, Friday, February 1, 1884.
CORTLAND AND VICINITY.
   Saturday morning last the weather was the coldest of the season—the mercury standing at 31degrees [F] below zero at 5 A. M.
   Mr. C. F. Cogswell has become the manager of a variety store on the corner of Elm and Hubbard streets.
   Prof. J. M. Milne will deliver an address under the auspices of the Philologian Society at Academy Hall, Homer, on Friday evening, Feb. 1.
   The next meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. church will be held on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 6, at the residence of H. C. Beebe, corner of Clinton avenue and Washington street.
   Dr. T. B. Stowell will deliver the first lecture of the 1884 Y. M. C. A. lecture course in the Y. M. C. A. parlors Wednesday evening, Feb. 6, subject, "Brains." See the Y. M. C. A. items for directions for procuring tickets.
   Post Willoughby Babcock, G. A. R., of Homer, are to hold a camp-fire in Keator Opera House next Thursday evening, Feb. 7, and Post Grover has been invited to join them. As refreshments and good music are to be part at the programme, a fine time is anticipated.
   We are informed that it is the intention of Post Grover, G. A. R., to provide their members with uniforms, so that they can make an appearance on parade more in accordance with their standing as soldiers. We trust that they will receive the necessary encouragement from our people.
   Prof. Cromwell's lectures were the finest entertainments of the kind ever given in Cortland. Friday evening the Hall was crowded, as the exhibition was free through invitations, but on Monday and Tuesday evenings, when an admission fee was charged, the Hall was not half full. Comment is unnecessary.
   Some of our Cortland sportsmen propose to indulge in a fox-chase to-morrow afternoon. The dogs will start at 1 o'clock sharp. The purse is $25; $12 to the first; $8 to the second; $4 to the third; $1 to the fourth. Entrance fee, $1, to be paid by 12 M, at Miller's restaurant. A matched race and a shake purse afterwards.
   Rev. J. B. French will lecture in Taylor Hall on Tuesday evening, Feb. 5, on "The Battle of Gettysburg." The lecture will be illustrated by a chart showing the positions of the armies on each day of the battle. Mr. French was a participant in the battle, and the lecture will be of the utmost interest. A full house should hear him, as the proceeds are for the benefit of Post Grover, G. A. R. Admission, 35 cents; reserved seats, 50 cents.
   An exchange says that owing to the burning of the principal hotel at Cortland, the place of meeting of the annual session of the State Grange was changed to Canandaigua. Cortland has yet three first-rate hotels left, plenty large enough to accommodate all the grangers who would have come. — Syracuse Herald.
   At the recent poultry exhibition in New York Mr. Eugene Powers took first prize on Silver Penciled Hamburg chicks.
   Prof. Cromwell will be at Cazenovia soon with his beautiful pictures. The people of that vicinity have a rich treat in store for them.
   The clerk of the weather did after all get in a thaw before January closed. The first visible sign of an open winter this section has known.
   Mr. H. J. Messenger, in a communication to THE NEWS this week, makes an excellent suggestion in regard to the paving of some of Cortland's most traveled streets.
   Mrs. D. J. Sperry will soon take possession of the residence of Mr. S. M.
Benjamin, on West Court street, in which she will keep a boarding-house. Mr. B. and family will remain in the house.
   A bouquet of fresh flowers is a more beautiful and welcome sight, and therefore more appreciated in the winter than in the summer season. And that's what has ailed ye NEWS sanctum this week, for which we are under obligations to friend M. F. Cleary, of the Randall greenhouses.
   Each Hose company is now provided with a hose pung [sleigh], so that they can more easily get the hose to a fire through the deep snow. Preparations are also being made to attach runners to the wheels of the steamer. This is a good idea, for there are probably not two teams in the corporation which could pull the steamer on wheels through the deep snow on some of our side streets.
   Mr. Joseph P. Cleary, of Rochester, a captain on the police force and brother of our townsman, M. F. Cleary, was recently elected post commander of post E. G. Marshall, G. A. R., of that city. At the public installation in the city hall the company presented to him an elegant gold Grand Army badge.

Normal Teachers to be Paid.
State of New York, Board of Claims, Albany, January 24, 1884.
O. U. Kellogg, Esq.:
   DEAR SIR— In claim of J. H. Hoose the Board award salaries as follows: Prof. Hoose from Feb. 9, 1881, to April 26, 1882, at $2,500 per annum, less net earnings; Prof. Sornberger same; Prof. Stowell same; Mrs. Halbert and Miss Rase and Miss Saunders same; and wages of temporary teachers. I am to compute amount of each and draw award. No interest was allowed.
Truly yours,
E. M. HOLBROOK,
Clerk of Board of Claims.

Paving Streets.
Editor News:
   Please let me suggest to the village trustees the propriety of calling on the tax-payers for say $2,000 to $3,000, for the purpose of paving three hundred to five hundred lineal feet of South Main street from Port Watson street, and repeat the call yearly for more or less for paving some portion of such street as seem to most require it.
    It is nearly or quite twenty years since Main street was paved, and but little has since been done in that direction, and it seems to me our streets through and contiguous to the business portion of the village are not improved correspondingly with other improvements, and the increasing wealth, population, business and private enterprises. South Main and Railroad streets, and portions of other streets centering on Main, should be permanently improved.
H. J. MESSENGER.

PREBLE.
Correspondence of THE NEWS, Jan. 29, 1884.
   Mrs. Leander Durkee started last week for New York, where she will remain with her sisters for two months.
   The young ladies of this place think they must be up with the times, so they had a leap-year party at the Union Hall Friday night, and it was a success.
   Mr. Clark, our new painter, is turning out some extra fine work at H. Morgan's shop.
   By the way, one day last week some young men under the influence of cheap stimulants attempted a little sport with Wash. Maycumber, jerking him from a load of lumber into the snow so quickly that his reins slipped from his hands, allowing his team to escape. His cries for help were quickly responded to. Fortunately no damage was done. Wash. failed to see the joke, and settled it a few hours after before the justice.
   We notice that the Bennett Hollow farmers have set a pattern in breaking roads. They hitch a plow to the sleigh of the head team, followed by another team with a kettle filled with boys attached to their sleigh. We wish that every neighborhood would follow suit. Why not?
   Our horse dealer, Mr. R. Green, sold the dapple gray last week for $50. You did well, Ryan.

EAST VIRGIL.
Correspondence of THE NEWS, Jan. 30, 1884.
   Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Spencer, of Blodgett Mills, visited at R. M. Price's last Wednesday.
   F. I. Stacy, a graduate of the Cortland Normal school, spent a portion of last week at his uncle's, R. M. Price. He was on his way from Chicago, Ill., to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he expects to complete his studies in medicine.
   Last Wednesday, while her husband was away, Mrs. John Young, of Messengerville, sent her children on an errand to a neighbor's, then fastening the door, stepped into a chair, placed a cord attached to a hook in the center of the room about her neck, and ended her existence. Upon the return of husband and children at night the dreadful spectacle of her lifeless form met their gaze. She was an industrious, hard-working woman, respected by all who knew her. Ill-health, resulting in mental derangement, was the cause of the rash act. The afflicted family have the sympathy of all. Next Saturday (Feb. 2) the ladies meet at Mrs. Eugene Dickinson's to sew for the children, of which there are five, the oldest twelve, the youngest not yet two.

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