HERE AND THERE.
Beaudry
has a new advertisement on this page.
A litter
of five young foxes in the show window of A . R. Peck's shoe store is
attracting much attention from citizens.
See G. J.
Mager & Co.'s announcement on fourth page.
Old
newspapers for sale at this office for 20 cents per hundred.
A new
safe has been placed in the Town Clerk's office in Homer.
Marathon's
leather board factory is in operation and employs sixty ladies.
The vote
on State flower in the Normal was 371 for the golden rod and 134 for the rose.
The
King's Daughters will meet at Mrs. A. N. Johnson's, 32 Groton Ave., Saturday,
at 3 P. M.
The Wheel
club held a member's social in their rooms in the DEMOCRAT building, Thursday
evening.
F. N.
Harrington left for New York, Wednesday evening, with nine fine horses for the
city market.
Among the
recent edicts from fashion's court the publishing of lists of wedding presents
is declared to be out of good taste.
The
members of the Congregational church in Homer have raised about $2,000 to be
used in repairing the church edifice.
Governor
Hill has signed a bill making it a misdemeanor to obstruct a highway for more
than five minutes with a locomotive or car.
Chas. B.
Rumsey, superintendent of the Homer Wire Fabric Company, has invented a loom
with positive shuttle movement, which makes 300 revolutions per minute.
There is
no necessity of allowing wagon axles or bearings of machinery to grind out by
friction if you will read Fitz Boynton & Co.'s new ad. Potato bugs do not admire
their stock of Paris Green [arsenic—CC editor].
Rev. Dr.
Hervey, president of St. Lawrence University, will occupy the desk in the
Universalist church next Sunday. Dr. Hervey has the reputation of being one of the
ablest divines in the denomination.
[Telegraph] Operator
Glenn A. Tisdale is fitting up an office and board in the room over H. Banks'
barber shop, on Railroad street, and will soon be marking the tickings of the
stock market. The office is well lighted and convenient.
The
Hitchcock Manufacturing Company are building a dozen refrigerator wagons for a
large concern in San Francisco. The wagons are supplied with ice boxes and air
chambers for the purpose of carrying meats and vegetables.
At ten
o'clock Monday morning, a bond was signed before Police Justice Bull, by Daniel
Tucker and M. O'Brien, by the provisions of which Charles Ayers was bound over
to appear before the grand jury which sits June 1st.
Commencing
on Monday, May 25th, the mail service from this place to Texas Valley will be
made a daily service, instead of tri-weekly, as at present. This will be a great
convenience to the people of that section.—Marathon Independent.
The State Congregational Association held a
three days' meeting this week at Plymouth church, Brooklyn. Mrs. H. W. Bradley,
Mrs. W. D. Tuttle and Mrs. R. H. Rose represented the church in Cortland and
its missionary societies.
A commendable measure has been inaugurated by
the citizens of Homer with a view of creating a fund to be expended in purchasing
a new fence for the entrance of Glenwood cemetery, and having proper care taken
of the grounds. Lot owners and the general public are interested in the project.
Vesta Lodge, I. O. O. F., held another of
their popular socials last Saturday evening in their lodge rooms. Supper was
served to over one hundred persons, after which dancing and card playing was
enjoyed until 11:45, when the assembly dispersed having spent a most enjoyable
evening.
A $200 horse, owned by Augustus H. Lines of
Homer, was so badly injured by a barbed wire fence last Saturday that he had to
be killed. Mr. Lines had just turned the horse in the pasture when he ran into
the fence. These fences are dangerous things, and farmers ought not to be permitted
to erect them on their premises.
Memorial [Day] services will be held in the Armory
next Sunday evening, at 7:30 o'clock, and Rev. Edward Taylor, D. D., has
accepted an invitation to conduct them. Grover Post, G. A. R., and the 45th Separate
Co. will participate in uniform, and invitations have been extended to the
Women's Relief Corps, and to the Sons of Veterans.
Mrs. Patty Rooks fell from the north door of
the residence of her daughter, Mrs. B. F.
Greene, on Bradford street last Thursday, and broke her thigh bone. As she is
an old lady, and the injury is severe, it is thought to be fatal. Just how it
happened is not known, but she has been subject to dizzy spells from time to
time, and it is probable that she fell in one of these.—Marathon Independent.
May, thus far, has been a very cold month
with little rain, yet the destructive caterpillar is flourishing. Reports from several
localities agree that nests are built and eggs hatching rapidly. Many young twigs
are already stripped of their leaves. From
experience during past years the application of a medium quantity of kerosene oil
into the nests at evening or when the worms are inside, has proven a prompt destroyer.
Last Thursday the bay mare "She,"
sired by Cortland Wilkes and owned by Hon. O. U. Kellogg
of this place, was sold at the horse sale held in Syracuse to W. H. Dewing, of
Utica, for $200. A bay mare, by Mambrino Justice, owned by Hon. L. J.
Fitzgerald, was sold to D. J. Tracy, of Homer, for $130, and a chestnut
gelding, by same sire, and also owned by Mr. Fitzgerald, was sold to Richard
Baker, of Watkins, for $125. Later in the week, horses sold for higher prices.
Ed. Harvey lost the top of the thumb on his
left hand in a machine in the Hitchcock factory, last Monday.
Our thanks are due Mr. J. F. Maybury for a
copy of the Colorado Springs Gazette, containing a full report of
President Harrison's reception in that place.
The train on the D. L. & W., due
here at 6 A. M., did not reach this place Wednesday until 3 P. M., owing to the
wrecking of a coal train near Scranton.
A mail box for letters has been placed on
the lamp-post at the Cortland House corner, and another is to be placed near
Cooper Bros.' foundry on River street.
The Homer band went to Richfield Springs,
Wednesday morning. They were to give a concert in that place in the evening, and
on Thursday they accompanied the Masons of that place to Utica.
The "Jolly Three" gave a dance in Wells'
hall, Wednesday evening, which was well attended. Valentine's orchestra furnished
the music. There were thirty-two couples present and the affair was managed by
L. Parker, N. Crance and J. White. It was one of the pleasantest of the season.
NEIGHBORING
COUNTIES.
CHENANGO.—A Mrs. Eggleston, residing near
Oxford, died Sunday from an overdose of laudanum, taken by mistake.
The Oxford Academy building is to have a hot
water heating apparatus put in during the next vacation.
There were ten witnesses in the Bainbridge-Livingston
case, says the Republican, whose ages averaged over 78 years.
Lewis Close, of Smyrna, is the champion sheep
raiser. A year ago in January he had one sheep which last year raised three lambs.
The same sheep had three lambs again this spring, and of the three last year's lambs
one had twins and the other two one each. So now he has a flock of eleven.
MADISON.—Potatoes retail at $1.40 per bushel
at Canastota.
The 38 children in the Peterboro Home are
having the mumps and have been exposed to the measles.
A stock company of ten will build a fine hotel
at Oneida, which village has long been noted for its first class inns.
Willis Rhodes of Higginsville, aged 22 years,
was kicked in the stomach by a horse at Oneida Saturday, from which he died the
next day.
At a recent sale of the residue of the Rasbach
estate, C. F. Pennock of Chittenango purchased about 8,000 acres of land located
in nearly a dozen different counties of the state.
William L. Collins, of Lebanon, has a horse
33 years of age, and H. N. Pool of the same town has one 30. Both animals are
capable of doing labor, showing what proper treatment will do for horses.
TOMPKINS.—A movement is being made toward
forming a brass band for Ithaca.
Torrent Hose Co. No. 5 will have an excursion
and dance at Glenwood, on Memorial day.
The Arbor Day vote of the school children of
Ithaca for the state flower was rose, 938; golden rod, 412.
There are now three trains a day each way
over the Ithaca and Auburn branch of the Lehigh Valley railroad.
The "Cayuga" went north last week with
a large tow, the first of the season and returned Friday morning with fifteen boats
to be loaded with coal.
The class in dairy husbandry is the earliest
in the entire University. It meets every day at 4:45 A. M., and the wonderful
part of it is that there has not been a cut all this term.
The Ithaca Water Works Company have purchased
the Van Natta mill property which will be utilized to furnish East Hill with a much-needed
supply of water. The preliminary surveys have been made and the company have
practically decided to go to the Enfield creek for water. The company estimate
that it will cost from $40,000 to $60,000 to continue their mains from
Buttermilk creek to Enfield creek and to build the necessary reservoir there. The
Van Natta mill property is to be used as a pumping station, water power being considered
cheaper than steam. It will cost the company $50,000 to carry out its plans for
East Hill in addition to the cost of the water power and pumping stations. In
all, the improvements and extensions will cost from $125,000 to $140,000.
To
Mothers in This Town.
[Paid Advertisement.]
The remarkable children's worm medicine
called Mother Gray's Sweet Worm Powders,
is the recipe used by Mother Gray, for years a nurse in the Children's Home in
New York. These powders are now sold at all drug stores, and mothers everywhere
use and praise them. If your child is fretful and sickly, worms often cause it.
Ask for this remedy. Harmless as milk. Destroys worms and gives new life to the
child. Price 25c.
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