NEW STATION AGENT AND METZGAR'S PROFITABLE FARMING

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, May 28, 1897.

NEW STATION AGENT.

TWO CORTLAND MEN WILL BE ADVANCED.

William E. Wood Will be Freight Agent in Syracuse—Mark Brownell Succeeds Him Here.

   Will E. Wood, as he is familiarly called, is one of those all-around good fellows whom it is a pleasure to know, and who naturally has therefore, many warm friends in Cortland. While they will be pleased to know that he has been advanced to a more lucrative position, they will at the same time regret that his good fortune makes his removal from our midst necessary. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have been very popular, especially in the younger society of the village, and no thoroughly good time has been quite complete without them.

   Mr. Wood has been appointed freight agent at Syracuse for the D. L. & W. to succeed T. E. Barnum who goes to Binghamton as division freight agent with headquarters in that city. The large manufacturing interests located in Syracuse, and the large volume of the jobbing trade of the city, make it a shipping point of more importance than any city on the line between New York and Buffalo, and the number of roads entering Syracuse makes the competition close. The appointment of Mr. Wood to so responsible a position is therefore, a recognition of ability of no mean order by the officials of the road, and is an acknowledgement on their part of the faithfulness, energy and ability which he has shown in the discharge of his duties in this place.

   Mr. Wood is a member of the Board of Education of Cortland, a director of the Tioughnioga Club and Cortland Base Ball Association, and will be missed very much.

   The advancement of Mr. Wood was entirely unasked and was unexpected and in the same way was it a surprise to Mr. Mark Brownell to be approached Wednesday afternoon by his son-in-law, W. T. Bushby, who asked to shake hands with the new Cortland station agent. Mr. Brownell has been in the freight office here for nearly five years and was, previous to that, in charge of the shipping of the Hitchcock Manufacturing Co. Thus he is entirely familiar with the business, having in addition sold tickets during the absence of Mr. Wood, for several years.

   The freight business was transferred Wednesday night and the ticket business yesterday morning.

Electrical Train Bulletins.

   Mr. Frank Jennings, the inventor of the electrical train bulletin, which is manufactured in Ithaca, was in town this week and has taken orders for several indicators. The Lehigh Valley company have endorsed them and they are in use over the entire system. When placed in a hotel or public place the indicator gives all particulars as to the departure of trains, the time due and whether on time or late and if so how much. It is expected the D., L. & W. will soon endorse and operate the indicators.

Profitable Farming.

   Monday evening we called at Miles Metzgar's farm, east of the village. We found Mr. Metzgar busy milking his fine herd of grade Jerseys. He has nine cows, all grades but one. From these fine, thrifty and well cared for cows, he is making a fine grade of butter for numerous customers, for which he receives good figures.

   Another very pleasing sight was thirty-six little pigs, ranging in age from two to five weeks They are of the improved Chester White breed. The little fellows with their mothers, in clean, well-bedded pens, are a sight well worth looking at. One noticeable fact was the evenness in size; no little or runt pigs among them. Mr. Metzgar has already sold forty-three pigs this spring and many of the present lot are engaged. He is becoming noted as a breeder of choice pigs.

   In the east part of the basement of his large barn, we found a lot of very fine early lambs. The raising of early lambs for market is no new feature of Mr. Metzgar's farming, and in his careful and thorough manner is making it profitable. His sheep are grade Shropshires. He had, this spring, from thirty-six ewes, sixty lambs, and only lost one, and that by an accident. One ewe has three lambs, which weigh 135 pounds A number of the lambs weigh 80 pounds. Early in June he will begin to market them to Cortland parties for shipment. Some of these lambs have made a gain of a pound per day. The lambs are fed oil meal, buckwheat and wheat middlings, and the sheep oats, peas, barley and oil meal. Roots are also generously fed to sheep and lambs.

   Mr. Metzgar is very successful in his dairying and stock raising and his farm is growing richer and better from this kind of management. It is our opinion that more of this kind of farming is needed.—Groton and Lansing Journal.

Cortland Opera House.

MAHAN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL.

At Cortland Opera House Next Week —Great Array of Talent.

   This annual event of so much interest to musical people, and the entire public in fact, promises to be of more than usual interest this year, and the prospects are that at the opening session next Monday evening a larger number of singers than usual will be present. The concerts both in the afternoons and evenings will be exceptionally fine, presenting as they will particularly fine programs in both vocal and instrumental selections. The advertisement in another column gives particulars, and it will be seen that the sale of tickets begins on Monday morning next at Mr. Mahan's store. A most interesting feature of the concerts this year will be that they will all close with the singing of national and patriotic songs, in which the audience will join. We add a few press notices:

   Of the many singers we have heard in several years. Mlle. Verlet is the most pleasing and gives the best impression, her voice is generous and solid, and sometimes brilliant, but always pure and agreeable. She is a pupil of Mme. Moriani, the only school perhaps where the traditions of the great art of former times have been preserved intact. Mlle. Verlet's articulation is infallibly correct, the melody well phrased, and the scales and trills easily done. We congratulate the charming singer on her success, and particularly flatter her on the applause she obtained in a circle ordinarily not lavish of praise.—"L'Ami de L'Ordre," Namur, December 20th, 1894.

   In this city the enthusiasm of her audiences has been unstinted, and her performances have received only the most favorable comments; and socially Miss Littlehales bids fair to be as great a success as she is musically."—Form.

   Miss Horlocker's rich voice was very efficient in a song by Bohm. She sings with rare deep feeling and intelligence —New York Mail and Express.

   Miss Zora G. Horlocker sang "O Love, Thy Help," from St. Saens' "Samson and Delilah." She has a rich contralto voice, and knows how to use it. One of her selections was not enough for the audience and she received an encore.— Jersey City Journal.

   "Miss Becker's rich and sympathetic tone, her marvelous technical skill and artistic bowing which she exhibited in her selections, combined with her graceful and ladylike ways, command for her the highest respect." Thomas Orchestral Concert.—N. Y. Keynote.

   "Miss Becker played Sarasate's Gypsy Dances with skill and easy mastery of the difficulties."—N. Y. Recorder.

   In Max Bruch's "Kol Nidrel" Miss Littlehales played with great depth of feeling, firmness of tone and beautiful expression, captivating the audience. Syracuse Post.

BASE BALL.

Cortland May Join the State League. Meeting Sunday.

   The Cortland team met Canandaigua last Saturday and won by a score of 9 to 4. The game was a good one in every respect. Yerkes was in the box for us and his support was first class. The visitors played a strong game but were unable to score except in the fourth inning.

   Since Saturday's game Persse and Gorman have been released and Ross and Berger, a brother of our captain, signed. Fallen was given his release Monday. His work had not been satisfactory and Saturday night he had a "shine on" which ended in a "scrap." The directors of our association are bound to have men who can be depended on, hence the release. Negotiations for another pitcher are going on and he will probably be here soon.

   Yesterday Cortland was playing the Auburn state league team as we went to press. To-morrow our team goes to Sayre where two games are to be played Monday. Sayre will be here and play two games.

   There will be a meeting in Syracuse Sunday of the officers of the state league to perfect arrangements and lay out a schedule of games providing Cortland enters the league which it probably will.

In Larger Quarters.

   Messrs. G. L. Reeves and M. J. Turner, who have been running a general job shop in the old Carmichael building on Port Watson-st., found their quarters too small for the increasing business and have, the past week, moved across the street to the second floor of the foundry building. Here they have more room and plenty of power. They manufacture screen doors and windows, ice cream coolers, buggy bodies, bicycle racks, etc. Both members of the firm of Reeves & Turner are expert wood workers and with the equipment in their new quarters, they are prepared to build anything that is made of wood. They are having hard work to keep up with orders for ice cream coolers which are in use at nearly all the soda fountains in town and many away and are pronounced the best thing of the kind on the market.

HERE AND THERE.

   The shoe store of Baker & Angell is receiving a fresh coat of paint.

   The store of Kellogg & Curtis has been connected with the Main-st. sewer.

   Burgess, the hustling and progressive clothier, has a change of advertisement.

   Tuesday's ball game, Shamrocks of Syracuse vs. Cortlands, was declared off on account of rain.

   A party of Lehigh Valley officials passed over the road on a tour of inspection on Saturday of last week.

   The primary department of the Normal [School] gave a Mother Goose entertainment at Normal Hall on Saturday evening.

   Mrs. A. S. Burgess entertained about forty of her lady friends at whist at her home on Church St., yesterday afternoon.

   The Y. P. S. C. E of the Congregational church gave a Hindu tea in the church parlors on Tuesday evening. A musical and literary programme was given.

   Mr. W. A. Doubleday was in town last week and placed the agency for tourist bicycles with the Cash book store where may be seen a complete line of wheels.

   North Solon and Blodgett Mills correspondence received too late for this issue. Correspondents must not expect items to appear that do not reach us until Wednesday and Thursday.

   The book social at the Y. M. C. A. parlors on Tuesday evening was a decided success. A large number attended and something over two hundred volumes were contributed.

   Bingham Bros. & Miller make their bow to the public again this week. They are making a special drive on suits at from $5.00 to $9.00. They are a hard crowd to beat. Read their ad.

   The Lincoln-ave. Juniors met Palmer Cox's fabled Brownies from the West End in a game of base ball on Saturday last. The Brownies were too soon for the Juniors by a score of 9 to 5.

   Edison's projectoscope, which has exhibited at the Opera House three nights this week, has drawn very good houses, and amused and pleased many people. The engagement closed Wednesday night.

   Congressman Sereno E. Payne of Auburn has recommended Dr. H. C. Hendrick of McGrawville, Dr. E. A. Didama of Cortland and Dr. F. H. Green of Homer as pension examining surgeons for Cortland Co.

   The June convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Cortland county will meet with the Cincinnatus Union June 9, 1897. An interesting programme is prepared for the day and a good speaker for the evening.

   About twenty members of the cycling division of the Cortland Athletic Association made a run to Ithaca on Sunday last. The boys were entertained by the Ithaca Cycle club and report the roads in good condition and a fine time generally.

   Friends of the family will regret to learn of the death of the little five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Latimer on Thursday morning of tuberculous meningitis. The funeral will be held from the home of his parents, Saturday at 2 o'clock.

   Our Prohibition friends held a meeting in the hall over the store of C. W. Collins on Tuesday night, and were addressed by Rev. C. H. Mead of the Silver Lake quartet on the temperance issue. After the address, E. M. Van Hoesen, having resigned as chairman of the county committee, Adolph Frost, Jr., was elected to fill the place. A Prohibition club was also organized, and the following officers elected: President, C. W. Collins; Secretary, W. J. Riker; Treasurer, Albert Dilthey.