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HERE AND THERE.
Normal
Commencement in the opera house, at 10 A. M. July 1st.
Mr. Chas.
Mee, of this place, has taken out letter patent on a [bathroom] wall-pocket or
paper holder.
The
grading at junction of Church and Railroad streets is among the specialties of
the present year.
New walks
are being laid on the north side of North Main street and Arthur avenue near
Homer avenue.
Liveryman
John Morris has sold one of his bay team to parties in New York city, for
valuable consideration. The animal was shipped last Monday afternoon.
A stone walk has been laid in
front of the residence of L. V. Smith on Railroad street. With two or three
exceptions a [fair] walk now extends from Church street to the S. & B.
depot.
The
season for encountering rabid dogs is at hand. Several cases in which those "dear
creatures" have suddenly and seriously bitten their fair mistresses have
been recorded this week.
Temperance
picnic July 4th at Floral Trout Park. Address by the celebrated orator and
humorist, Rev. John H. Hector, known as the "Black Knight." Good
music will be furnished.
Architect
Beardsley has the plans underway for a double coal shute to be erected near the
Desk Company's works for Messrs. Holden & Seager. The structure will
be 144 feet in length.
An
exchange says that it is against the law for any person to place a barbed wire fence
along a public highway. The person so doing is liable for any damages or injuries
that may arise from the same.
The E. C.
& N. R. R. will sell round trip excursion tickets to all stations
July 3d and
4th, good to return prior to July 6th, at 2 cents per mile; and to Elmira July 4th at $2.00 round trip,
good July 5th.
The prospective
diminution of the ice supply has at last wrung from the rigid economist these
words of advice; "Wrap your chunk of ice in a woolen cloth before putting
it into the refrigerator, and it will last three times as long as without
it."
An
exchange lets fall the following caution, which is quite seasonable:
"Never touch a vine that has three fingered leaves, that is, leaves
divided into three parts. Vines that show five fingers may be handled with
safety. Poison ivy has three fingers."
An item
is going the rounds of the press, saying that, "a postal regulation
requires the stamps on letters be placed on the upper right hand corner of the envelope. The postmaster
has the right to forward to dead letter office all letters not so stamped." The
statement is not true. There is no such postal regulation and a postmaster has
no right to forward a letter, carrying the requisite amount of postage, to any
place other than the place of destination intended by the writer, if such
intention can be ascertained, whether the stamp is placed on the right hand or any
other corner. As a matter of convenience to the postmaster, the stamp should be
placed in the right hand upper corner of the envelope, as it is much easier to
cancel the same.
Remember
the celebration on the driving park, July 4th and 5th.
The work
of rebuilding the Calvary (Episcopal) church at Homer is under way. [See No. 9 above, images--CC editor.]
Farmers
north of the village have commenced gathering their hay, which will be a heavy
crop.
A force
of carpenters, tinners and painters are greatly improving the exterior of the
Arnold House.
Monday
and Wednesday evening drills are being held in the armory. The latter evening
is for recruits.
The
Cortland Bottling Works are now located and in full operation in A. J .
Goddard's new building on Railroad street.
The 45th
Separate company has received and accepted an invitation from the citizens' committee
to participate in the Elmira July 4th celebration.
Another
delivery window for call boxes is being placed in the post-office, which will
make it more convenient for both postmaster and public.—Homer Republican.
The regular semi-monthly meeting of the W.
C. T. U. will be held at headquarters, Saturday, at 2:30 P. M. The hour will be
devoted to the amendment question.
Tents for the Free Methodist camp meeting are
pitched at the foot of Benham's hill near the railroad bridge. Access to the
grounds can be made from Rickard or North Main streets.
Mr. T. F. Brayton has been putting in entirely
new machinery in his mills on Clinton
Ave., and is now prepared to furnish customers with extra fine flour. Read his
advertisement in another column.
The annual election of directors of the Cortland
and Homer Horse Railroad company will be held at the company's office, in the
Garrison block, between the hours of 12 noon and 2 P. M., July 1st, 1890.
Eight car loads of Binghamton people passed
this station Tuesday morning, enroute to Syracuse and Pleasant Beach [Onondaga Lake]. Protective
Hose company, of the Parlor city, conducted the successful excursion.
When the excursion train conveying the Odd
Fellows to Pleasant Beach pulled out from this station yesterday morning,
fourteen of the seventeen coaches were well filled. Engineer J. Caton managed
engine No.18, and each person felt secure.
A party of some fifteen local wheelmen will
take the early southbound train next Friday morning to Chenango Forks, and then
ride over to Greene to join in the celebration and races to be held in that
village. Several of our boys are to strive for wheel prizes.
Messrs. Edgcomb & Ballard, the well known
furniture dealers, have just put in a very large stock of new furniture of the very
latest patterns. It will pay contemplating purchasers to give their stock a
careful inspection. Read their new advertisement on another page.
The Holmes property, corner of Tompkins St.
and Reynolds Ave., was purchased last Monday, by Mr. Theo. H. Wickwire,
for $11,000. It is understood that the purchaser will erect a fine
new house on the site of the present one in the near future. The corner is a
valuable one.
A special collection will be taken next Sabbath
in the Presbyterian Sunday school, in aid of the Tribune Fresh Air Fund.
A large collection is anticipated, and should be realized for this, one of the
noblest charities ever organized in any land. Money is
needed to pay transportation charges. Thousands of homes are waiting with open
doors to receive these poor little ones and furnish them with two weeks of enjoyment
free of charge. This cause commends itself to every one, and should receive
generous support.
The election booths needed, under the new
law, must be at least three feet wide and the walls between them six feet high.
The average will be one booth to every 50 voters. Besides these booths there
must be room for the election officers and watchers and the ballot boxes. Under
the old law each candidate had to have printed only his own tickets or pasters.
Now if he wants to be voted for he will have to have his name printed with
every combination that has named a ticket. This means that instead of a small
ticket and pasters he will have to have paster ballots six inches wide and long
enough to have all the names of the candidates on them.
Gov. Hill has by his signature made a law of
Senator Linson's bill prescribing a short and simple form of deed, mortgage,
and executors deeds. It obliterates at a single stroke from the antiquated
common law conveying forms, a mass of senseless verbiage, obsolete expressions
and endless repetitions which served only to confuse the unlearned and add to
the revenues of the conveyancer and the recorder of deeds. The new form
of deed simply recites the fact that A conveys to B a certain piece of property,
free of incumbrances, for a certain sum of money. The mortgage and executor's
deed are almost as simple. The new law will greatly decrease the expense of
recording deeds and mortgages.
Census enumerator W. W. Gale, having completed
his labors, reports the population of school age in this village: First ward,
516; second, 668; third, 653; fourth, 326, a total of 2,163.
The Cortland Wagon Company has twenty fine
new box cars for shipping goods. The cars have all the latest improvements. Ten
were made at the E. C. & N. R. R. shops and ten by the Erie shops.
On the 10th of June, the Patrons' Fire Relief
Association of this county was carrying fire insurance to the amount of $1,130,615.00.
They have had two losses lately, $50 each, and only $5.00 previous for the
year, making $105.00 thus far for the year.—Marathon Independent.
Mr. A. M. Jewett, the jeweler, has had the
job of making the class pins for the Normal class of 1890. It is of solid gold
in the shape of a four-leaf clover and is handsomely engraved and ornamented.
On the leaves are the letters "C. S. N. S." with the figures
"90" in the center. He has already made between 30 and 40 of them and
they are very handsome. The work was all done in his own shop.
Much complaint is heard of the ravages of
bugs upon vines in gardens. Professor W. W.
Cooke says: "Dissolve one tablespoonful of saltpetre in a pail of water. A
pint poured around each hill of cucumbers or squashes is very good for the
plants and very bad for the bugs, both striped and black, which burrow at night
in the earth about the plants. Cut worms are also said to dislike earth treated
with saltpetre."
May 11th Mr. S. J. Palmiter missed from his general
repair shop on Railroad St., a rifle, two revolvers, fishing pole and other
sporting articles. Little publicity was given the matter previous to Wednesday,
when sheriff Borthwick arrested and took before Police Justice Bull three lads named
Ward Kinney, Charles Bailey and Ed Hugennen charged with taking the goods. The
examination was set down for late in the afternoon yesterday and is in progress
as we go to press.
The law makes it the duty of overseers of
highways "to cause noxious weeds on the side of the highway within their
respective districts to be cut down or destroyed twice in each year, once
before the first day of July and again before the first, day of September, and
the requisite labor shall be called highway work." If farmers would see to
it that these requirements of the law are complied with, much of the annoyance
caused by the negligence of shiftless neighbors would be obviated. Make the overseers
do their duty or know the reason why.
Last Saturday night a pair of horses
attached to a top buggy were frightened by a passing bicycle on the Grant-st.
walks. A general wreckage of the buggy occurred at the North Main-st. corner.
Subsequently the owner of the rig, a pottery ware traveller, wrote village
president Smith that an action would be brought to recover damages. There is no
ordinance directly prohibiting wheelman running on the walks, yet the utmost
care should be taken not to run down crowded thoroughfares or frighten teams.
In several cities certain streets and avenues are named for the use of
wheelmen.
TOWN
REPORTS.
PREBLE.
F. D. Coltier lost a horse this week.
Our new townsman, John Davis, is making
quite a record as a criminal practitioner in town. John, hang out your shingle.
Do the good people of Preble know that they
haven't any Excise Board? One resigned, one did not comply with the law and the
other has to go it alone.
The Hitchcock Co.'s [steam] traction engine
put in an appearance again this week after being repaired and drew one load of
lumber to the depot. The second load proved too much and it smashed another
drive wheel and now stands in the street, an ornament out of use.
SOLON.
Joe McKendrick is on the sick list, threatened
with fever.
Mrs. W. P. Halzeton, who has been sick for
some time is gaining slowly.
Miss May Dox, who has been attending the
Normal at Cortland, is at home helping to care for her grandmother, Mrs. Hazleton.
A new long distance telephone has been placed
in the store which makes a great improvement over the old one, which was completely
worn out.
The funeral of Mrs. Bingham was largely attended
from the Baptist church here Friday last. The services were conducted by the
Rev. W. P. Hazleton. Mrs. Bingham leaves a large family and a host of friends
to mourn her loss.
Marathon.
James Livingston, Jr., has had several orders
for iron bridges since the flood.
Miss Nellie Adams who has been teaching
school at Norwich, N. Y., has returned home during vacation.
Hilsinger & Salisbury are fitting up
their market in fine shape. The boys are doing a good business and keep a
clean, tidy place.
A new curbing has been placed in front of
the store of J. E. Maricle, and also in front of the premises of Mrs. Wm. A.
Bentley, on East Main street.
We wonder if Chas. C. Brown would like to
feast on fish procured from the Willett reservoir? The fish were exceptionally
good, but the rats proved that to their entire satisfaction.
One of the State fishery detectives was in
town on Friday last, and arrested three men for alleged illegal fishing. The
parties were Messrs. Lane, Burt and Pierce, all of this place. It is rumored
that others will be arrested for spearing.
An alarm of fire was given on Thursday
forenoon of last week about half past eleven o'clock. The fire occurred in the foundry
and blacksmith shop owned by James Livingston. The supposed cause was from a
spark escaping from the pipe of the foundry flask, and falling on the roof
igniting the shingles. The fire department was out with the steamer and hand
engine. The fire was extinguished with but little damage.
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* [pen name symbol of correspondent]
SCOTT.
B. L. Barber, George Fox and H. I. Whiting
are upon the sick list.
Ernest L. Barber, who has been attending school
at Alfred Centre is expected home soon.
Charles Webster late of Spafford, died at
the Cortland Co. Alms house, and was buried on Wednesday. He had been insane by
spells.
Mrs. Willet Frink. who had been in poor
health for several months past and under the doctor's care, was taken worse last
Friday night and died the next morning. Funeral at the house on Monday. Sermon
by Rev. W. D. Fox. She was buried in the new cemetery. Mrs. Frink will be much
missed in the neighborhood. She was an industrious, hard working woman,
cheerful and good natured, possessed of a kind heart, ever ready to help those who
needed help and sorrowing with those who were in sorrow. But the sunshine of her
life has departed and will serve no longer to light up the pathway of those who
yet linger on earth. Her age was 40 years. Her mother, Mrs. Augustine from Ithaca,
and two sisters were at the funeral.
Four drunken coots, some or all of them from
Cortland, made an exhibition of themselves in Scott Hollow and at Scott village
last Sunday, toward night. Ray Jenks
came near being killed while walking along the road in the Hollow. These drunken
fellows in running past another team encountered this man Jenks, and he just
escaped and that was all. They afterward came to the village and made another exhibition.
They seemed to have more mouth than brain; but we think whiskey had control of
both. One of them was arrested but he was suffered afterward to go. We hear it
frequently said that liquor won't hurt any one if they let it alone; but
according to our idea of the matter, it came very near hurting somebody in this
case, and those who saw Mr. Jenks at the time say it was a marvel how he
escaped.
McGRAWVILLE.
Col. D. S. Lamont visited his family over
Sunday.
A. P. McGraw and E. C. Palmer are rusticating
at Thousand Islands.
Mrs. Louisa Stevens, wife of Albert Stevens,
died of consumption on Wednesday morning.
Within the space of one week there died in
this vicinity, four old people aged respectively 81, 82, 84 and 90, whose
combined ages amount to 337 years.
Mr. Hartley K. Alexander and Miss Hattie
Warren were married at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Warren, Tuesday evening June 24th.
NEPOS.
SOUTH CORTLAND.
Daniel Griswold lost a valuable
Jersey cow last week.
Oliver Griswold has sold his
carriage horse to Willie Beckwith of McLean.
Miss Clara Rood closed her
school in the Morse district on Tuesday of this week.
A larger acreage of buckwheat
has been sown in this vicinity than was ever known before.
Wilbur Sanders has repaired
and painted his store which is a good improvement in our place.
It is now thought that the oat
crop will be an entire failure this year. Some new insect is at work in the
roots causing it to die.
We notice in traveling about
the country that, notwithstanding the hard times a good many farmers are making
various improvements in the way of repairing and putting up new buildings.
Geo. F. Jones' grocery cart
that has lately started out seems to be doing a lively business. George says
that one day last week he took in three hundred dozen eggs and it was not much
of a day for eggs either.
FREETOWN.
Mrs. Andrew Bean is quite
sick. Dr. D. K. Allen attends her.
Miss Nellie Topping, of Homer,
is visiting her brother, Rev. E. Topping.
Mr. Lora Merihew is helping
Mr. T. Shepherd make cheese. We are glad to welcome him in our midst.
To-day the funeral of one of
our oldest inhabitants was conducted by Rev. E. Topping. Mr. Alanson Underwood
a member of the M. E. church has gone to join the church triumphant. He was 82
years old and lived to see children and grand-children and
great-grand-children.
KATE.
EAST HOMER.
School closed in this district
Friday last.
Mr. Wash Maycumber and
daughter, of Preble, were here over Sunday to see his mother.
Dr. Frank Hoag, of New York
city, and Mr. Will Perkins, of Cortland, visited this place last Friday.
Rev. B. F. Weatherwax, of
Cortland, occupied the pulpit of the M. E. church at this place, Sunday.
W. W. Salisbury, of Little
York, was in town last week looking after the interest of the Cayuga, Cortland
and Tompkins Fire Relief Association.
UNCLE SI.
Recommended:
Ballots, pasters: http://law.justia.com/codes/new-york/2006/election/eln07-126_7-126.html
Fresh Air Fund: http://www.hopnews.com/Fresh_Air_Fund_Fact_Sheet2010.pdf
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