The Cortland Democrat, December 12,
1890.
Supervisors' Proceedings.
NINETEENTH
DAY, Dec.2.
Mr. Muller offered as a resolution that the
Supervisors of the several towns have the authority to amend and perfect
descriptions of non-resident lands.
Mr. Childs offered a resolution that should
the money raised for any of the different funds prove insufficient, the county treasurer
be empowered to borrow money on the credit of the county to pay the same.
The official bond of the county treasurer-elect
was read, and on motion of Mr. Dye the same was accepted and the sureties
approved.
The papers in the mandamus proceedings brought
by William Y. Bliss, M. D., were read, placed on file and further action
deferred until the following day.
TWENTIETH DAY, DEC. 4.
A communication was read from Wallace A. Noble,
Superintendent of the Onondaga County Penitentiary, stating that the Board of
that county had just passed a resolution empowering the officers of the Penitentiary
to make contracts for board of prisoners but he could not at present give
terms.
On motion of Mr. Bennett the chairman and
clerk were empowered to contract with the institution with which they could
obtain best terms.
On motion of Mr. Kelley:
WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Board that
the sum of twenty cents per folio for printing the session laws is exorbitant. Therefore
be it,
Resolved, That the Member of Assembly of this county and Senator from this district
be requested by the clerk of this Board to use all honorable means in their
power [break in newspaper print—CC editor]
Messrs. Hubbard, Muller and Bennett were
appointed a committee to confer with Judge
Forbes as to what changes be required in the Court House and that they have
full power to make such alterations and additions as they may deem necessary.
Messrs. Greene and Bennett were chosen to
take charge of the county interests in the mandamus proceedings brought by Dr.
Bliss, with power to act as they see fit in the matter.
On motion of Mr. Miner the several town
collectors were given until the 15th day of February, 1891, to settle with the county
treasurer.
The several bills for supplies and repairs of
the present session were passed upon.
TWENTY-FIRST DAY, DEC. 5.
After the formal opening of the session, Mr.
Pierce offered a resolution directing the clerk to draw an order payable to W. J.
Moore, M. D., for amount of bill No. 230.
Mr. Childs made a motion that the vouchers of
the county treasurer now in the hands of the county clerk be destroyed and
those for 1889-90 be deposited with the county clerk for safe keeping.
On motion of Mr. Miner the taxes as extended
upon the assessment rolls of the several towns as presented to this Board was
confirmed and warrants issued to the collectors of the several towns for
collection.
A vote of thanks was extended to Chairman Greene,
Clerk Bourne and Janitor Rice for their faithful attention to their several
offices and the Board adjourned without day.
Item.
It seems to be accepted as a definite intention
that the New York Central railroad will construct a line from Utica to the Thousand
Islands. The new lines will run parallel with the Rome, Watertown &
Ogdensburg road and prove a strong competing line. For years past the Rome,
Watertown & Ogdensburg road has had a monopoly of the Thousand Islands
business, and the New York Central, after fruitless efforts made to buy the
former road, has in view a line of its own. The engineer corps of the road will
be put to work next week and will push the work rapidly toward completion. It
is the intention to build the line this winter and spring, to be in readiness
if possible for traffic next summer. The relations between the Central and the
Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg road have been anything but satisfactory, so
it is reported.
NEIGHBORING
COUNTIES.
CHENANGO.—A daily paper is soon to be established
in Norwich.
Nearly 300 men are employed in the Oxford
stone quarries.
A swindling spectacle peddler is operating among
Chenango county farmers.
A gold sovereign, dated 1826, was found on
George Bullock's farm in Sherburne last week.
Two smart Guilford boys have been making
money in a novel way. The town paid a bounty on the tails of woodchucks killed
in that town, and these boys cut whole skins and ingeniously made them into
tails which were palmed off onto a justice as genuine, and paid for. The scheme
finally was discovered.
MADISON.—The Oneida Post has been sold to F.
M. Rathborne and Walter Ryan.
Oneida Methodists netted $100 by the lecture
of the Esquimaux lady.
Nike Brown has sold the West End Hotel, Earlville,
to Arthur H. Burdick, for $4,000.
I. S. Head, of Lebanon, recently shot a fine
eagle, which was handsomely set up by S. B. Benedict.
Judson Davis, of Verona, recently shot a large
snow-white owl, which when stuffed and mounted, will make a fine specimen.
Four of the state game authorities were at
South Bay last Friday afternoon and captured seven large trap nets, which were
burned Friday night.
TOMPKINS.—Chas. Drake of Lansingville, has
an owl which measures four feet three inches across its wings.
A Trumansburgh lady has brought action against
that village for $7,000 damages, because of a fall from a bridge not supplied
with guard rails.
The sheriff of Tompkins county is required
to give a bond in the amount of $10,000. Captain Tibbetts, the sheriff-elect,
has furnished the required surety, the following names appearing on his bond: J.
Warren Tibbetts, Frank E. Tibbetts, Robert Reed, Welvin W. Quick, Richard A.
Crozier.
A young man of Ithaca, on Wednesday of last
week, obtained his mother's savings bank book, and by forging her name to an
order, secured $50. He spent $26 of this money during the day and left town. His
mother is crushed at the criminal deed of her son. No formal complaint was entered
against the offender. The young man has been wayward for some time and has of
late been employed as a clerk in one of the wholesale liquor stores of this city.
HERE AND
THERE.
Physicians are in duty bound to report all
cases of contagious diseases to the Board of Health.
A large and well pleased audience listened to
Dr. Taylor's lecture upon "Courtship and Marriage," at the
Congregational church, Sunday evening.
Corrected time of the D. L. & W., and E.
C. & N. railroads, and closing of mails at the Cortland post-office will be
found on our second page.
"Wedlock and Padlock" will be the subject
of the Rev. Mr. Hammil, of Dundee, at the Homer avenue church, this evening.
Supper from 6 to 7:30 P. M.
Have you noticed the miniature sawmill in full
operation in Tanner Bros.' window? If you haven't, take a look at it, for it
will carry you back to earlier days.
Saturday Mr. Dorr C. Smith filed his bond
with the County Clerk and took his oath of office as Justice of the Peace. His
term of office will begin January 1st, 1891.
Lewis S. Hayes, Esq., has resigned the office
of Railroad Commissioner of this town, and Judge Eggleston has appointed Hon.
William H. Clark to try and fill the vacancy.
Dr. G. H. Ball, the well known veterinary dentist
of Rochester, will be at the Messenger House, Friday and Saturday of this week.
Owners of horses will do well to give him a call.
R. R. Van Bergen advertises a sale of twenty-five
horses at the Messenger House stables, on Saturday of this week. Good workers
and drivers can be bought cheap. Sale
commences at 10 A. M.
Readers of the DEMOCRAT who have use for an
apparatus for elevating heavy bodies, should read the advertisement of
Isbell & Gillett's Hoisting Machine, to be found on our 7th page. It is especially adapted
for filling ice houses.
The telegraph orders received by Cortland's cutter
manufactories last Thursday and Friday keep the employes [sic] hustling to ship
out the work, and soon the business men of the county will share in the circulation
of the capital which has been tied up for over a year.
An educational exchange remarks: "A teacher
who discourages the asking of questions pertaining to the study, and who is cranky
with pupils, is worse than an epidemic in school. It is the baleful influence
of such teachers that causes so many children to hate school and to ultimately become
truants."
Mr. Eugene Morse, of this village, formerly
of Cuyler, has purchased an interest in the grocery business heretofore successfully
conducted by Mr. A. S. Brown, in the Keator block. Mr. Morse is a young man
possessing excellent business qualifications and has many friends wherever he is
known. The business will be conducted under the firm name of Brown & Morse.
A law which goes into effect next April allows
a bounty of two cents per pound for lots
of 500 pounds or more of maple sugar testing not less than ninety degrees by the
polariscope or one and three-quarters cents per pound on sugar testing between eighty
and ninety degrees. It is necessary for the producer to secure a license from
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue authorizing him to manufacture with a view
to securing the bounty. Producers of less than 500 pounds will have to combine
with others in order to secure the bounty. But little maple sugar is sent to market
testing as high as 90 degrees. The average of the best is from 84 to 86 degrees.—Exchange.
The new mail wagon for
delivering mail in the outskirts, is quite a novel institution. Mr. Theodore
Sheely is in charge.
The hotel at Harford Mills was
sold at referee's sale in this place, on Wednesday, for $1,000. Mr. O. S. VanHoesen
was the purchaser.
Cortland can boast of scores
of enterprising business men and citizens. You can tell them by the appearance
of the walks after a brief thaw.
Mr. John Felkel has purchased
the meat market formerly conducted by Webster & Corning, Clinton
avenue, and took possession Monday evening last.
Mr. W. S. Freer will give a
Christmas party at his hall in Higginsville, Wednesday evening, Dec. 24th.
Music by Talbot & Palmer's full orchestra. Bill, $1.25.
XMas Candy, 10 cents; French
mixed creams, 15 cents; mixed nuts, 15 cents; oranges, bananas, Malaga and
Catawba grapes, new figs and dates at Beaudry's.
Should there be a sufficient
number of Cortland people desiring to attend the teachers' institute in Homer
next week, the street car will run extra any evening.
Orient Hook and Ladder company
elected their officers on the 3rd inst., as follows: President, George Downing;
foreman, Frank Sticker; secretary, C. Stearns; treasurer, C. C. Wakefield;
property clerk, Dell Mynard.
There was a large attendance
at the meeting of the teachers' association held in the court house Saturday.
Various educational subjects were discussed during the forenoon and literary
exercises consumed a portion of the afternoon session.
December 2, the Homer Cornet
Band elected E. B. Jewell, president; Charles Maas, vice-president; Levi T.
Adams, secretary and manager, Charles Creque, treasurer; E. Clark Ercanback and
Patrick Conway, trustees. The band will give a concert in the Keator Opera house
on the evening of the 13th inst. Admission 25 cents, children 15 cents. The
announced programme is superb.
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