GALA DAY AT NORTH SOLON

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, July 23, 1897.

GALA DAY AT NORTH SOLON, N. Y.

   Friday, July 16, dawned bright and beautiful and the hearts of many children were light and gay as they were conveyed into the woods of Mr. Harlow Bliss, where their teachers had planned for a real gala day. It was a decided success.

   At noon the following exercises were successfully carried out under the instructions of their teachers, Misses Julia Underwood, Hattie Gates and Carrie Tuttle:

   Both teachers and scholars are to be congratulated upon their success. A large number from out of town were present. Among those from McGrawville were the Misses Helen Hemingway, Effa Henry, Anna Greenman, Sarah Maybury, Messrs. Grove Henry and Kendall Moss Walker.

   NORTH SOLON, July 23.—Mrs. Stebbins and daughter Myrtle and Chas. Ellis, Jr., were recent guests at W. D. Shular's.

   Our Sunday-school is growing both in members and interest. New seats will be added to this department which will be very convenient.

   Mr. J. E. Fish of Marathon was in our vicinity Sunday and preached in the

schoolhouse in the evening. A large company of people were there to welcome him and a very interesting and beneficial meeting was held. He returned home Monday.

   Miss Mary Wadsworth of Solon visited at the home of Miss Maud Bingham last week.

   Mr. E. A. Warren, Floyd Gilbert and Ernest Bingham, the Misses Lottie Gilbert, Genevieve M. Phelps and T. Gertrude Bingham visited Virgil's cherry orchards the first of the week and report good success.

   The intensity of the heat last week so bewildered A. L. Shular as to cause him to narrowly escape serious injuries. He was hurriedly drawing several loads of hay to the barn before the shower which was nearly upon them when two of the loads fell from the wagons, nearly burying Bert beneath them. But Bert is fast recovering from the slight bruises, and is able now to ride out. 

   VIOLET [local correspondent].

HOMER.

Gleanings of News From Our Twin Village.

   HOMER, July 28.—The addition of a new piazza has been made to the Baptist parsonage on Cayuga-st.

   The services of William Blaney have been secured by O. B. Andrews & Co. to take charge of the meatcart on the road.

   Mr. John S. Wells of Tully has been employed by Mourin, Wolfe & Co. to work in their produce store.

   Mr. Harry Quick of Middletown is the guest of his aunt, Mrs. Adelbert Mainard, on Cortland-st.

   Mr. Fred Ford returned to his home in Holyoke, Mass., Wednesday morning accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Charles A. Ford, and sister, Miss Florence.

   Miss Sarah Fox, who has been visiting her cousin, Mr. H. W. Knight, at Seneca Falls for the past two weeks, has returned to her home on Prospect-st.

   Miss Mary Wolfe was called to her former home at Tunkhannock, Pa., yesterday morning by the severe illness of her father.

   Mr. James Clarke and daughter Fannie are visiting relatives at Hamilton this week.

   A new ventilating system is being placed in the primary department of Homer academy. This will be a great improvement in the sanitary conditions of the building.

   Mrs. C. M. Clarke of Chicago is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Newell Jones on Cayuga-st.

   Mr. Fred C. Atwater made a business trip to Tully Wednesday accompanied by his mother, Mrs. J. C. Atwater, who spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Murray at their cottage at Tully Lake park.

   Mr. Charles Johnson of Syracuse was in town on business yesterday.

   Miss Nina Coon and Miss Bertha Wilbur, who were delegates to the Epworth league convention at Toronto returned last evening.

   Mrs. Theron Blackman, who has been visiting relatives in Pitcher, has returned.

   Mr. Fred Tower of Brooklyn, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gates, has returned to his home.

   The members of the Episcopal Sunday-school held their picnic at Little York today.

   Mrs. Julius Pomeroy, who has been the guest of Mr. Pomeroy's parents, left yesterday morning for Hornellsville where she is to visit her parents before her return to her home in Winona, Minn.

   The game at Dryden against the Homer team Wednesday was an unusually interesting one. The Dryden boys were hardly equal to the occasion and were very badly beaten by the Homer team. At the close of the ninth inning the score stood at 21 and 11 in favor of our boys. Following is the report of the game by innings:

UMPIRE'S UNHAPPY DAY.

Sheridan Knocked Down by Hawley and Later on Rotten Egged.

   PITTSBURG, July 23.—The 5,200 people at the ball park saw a prize fight, an umpire rotten-egged and two good games all for one price of admission.

   In the third inning of the first game Sheridan gave a batsman his base on balls and when he went out behind the pitcher's box to watch second, Hawley said something to him and Sheridan struck "Pink" a blow on the cheek. Hawley retaliated and with two well aimed blows knocked Sheridan down and out. Hawley was put out of the game and Hastings substituted.

   In the second game Hawley was put in to pitch and Jennings, the third man up, was given first on what Sheridan called an illegal delivery. This set the crowd wild and in a few minutes a shower of ill-smelling eggs fell around the umpire and he had to stop the game until Captain Donovan could come in from the field and restore order. Score:

BEAR TREED BLOOMER GIRLS.

Horse Scared Him, He Scared the Horse, and Then Came a Mixup.

  POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., July 23.—Two wandering Russians, a trained bear, a horse and five woman bicycle riders in bloomers engaged in a mixup on the road near New Hamburg, Dutchess county.

   The Russians were leading the bear along the road when John Wixon drove up with his horse. The bear became frightened at the horse and made a plunge which broke the chain by which one of Russians led him.

   Bruin took to the middle of the road and frightened the horse, which started off on a gallop. The bear passed him and took a lead of about 60 yards. Bruin was slowly drawing away from his pursuers when a new enemy appeared immediately ahead in the shape of a party of seven bicycle riders, five of whom were women in bloomers.

   Just as the bicyclists abandoned their machines and took to a stone wall the bear concluded that he, too, would leave the highway. He made a rush, and the owners of the bloomers ran shrieking across the open and began to climb the trees on the estate of Mrs. J. Lenox Banks.

   The Russians caught the bear, and the bicyclists came down from the trees and rode away.

Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

SULTAN WITHDRAWS.

Evacuation of Thessaly Will Shortly Take Place.

   ATHENS, July 23.—The Turkish military authorities have ordered the surrender of the Volo and Larissa railway to the Greek railway officials within eight days.

   It is stated that the evacuation of Thessaly has already commenced. Eight regiments of Turkish troops from Domoko passed Larissa enroute for Elassona. Several officers have started for Salonica.

   Edhem Pasha, commander-in-chief of the Turkish troops in Thessaly, is expected to arrive at Volo shortly to superintend the evacuation.

   General Smolenitz, commanding the Greek forces at Arta, has been summoned to Athens.

A Conference Agreed Upon.

   PITTSBURG, July 23.—The arbitration commissioners who are trying to settle the coal strike have finally gotten consent of a majority of the operators of the Pittsburg district to join in a general conference to discuss the true uniformity plan. The date for the conference has not been set, but it will be fixed for some day within the next week and probably will be Monday or Tuesday.

Big Fire at Olean.

   OLEAN, N. Y., July 23.—Fire in the Exchange bank building this morning destroyed the Western Union Telegraph company's office and otherwise damaged the building to the extent of $2,500. The fire which broke out in the telegraph office is supposed to have been caused by lightning.

BREVITIES.

   —St. Mary's church is being treated to a fresh coat of red paint, which materially adds to its appearance.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—Bingham Bros. & Miller, Warm

Weather Clothing for the Little Men, page 4.

   —The Rochester Auxiliary of the George Junior Republic have arranged to send ten children from that city to the Republic for the summer.

   —President McKinley has sent to the senate the nomination of Dwight H. Bruce for postmaster at Syracuse to succeed Milton H. Northrup.

   —The peach crop in the country between Cayuga and Seneca lakes is reported to be very large this year. The grape crop will also be a good one.

   —Gas has been struck on the sanitarium property at Watkins in a quantity probably sufficient to supply the sanitarium with fuel and avoid an annual $6,000 coal bill.

   —The New York Sun has now evolved what it terms "the bicycle blush." It is probably that appearance of the skin where only the outer or scarf skin has been scraped off. That is the commonest sort of a bike blush.

   —Henry B. Greenman, late of company B, Third regiment of New York Light Artillery Volunteers, who resides in this village has just been allowed a pension of $6 a month and for the future. L. P. Hollenbeck of Cortland is his attorney.

   —The large twelve-barrel oil tank used at the Cortland station of the Elmira Oil Co. for delivering oil to local customers is undergoing repairs and being repainted at the factory of the Ellis Omnibus and Cab Co. A ten-barrel tank was sent from Elmira yesterday to be used until work upon the old tank is completed.

   —The Cornell Heights Land company, which is practically identical with the electric railway company, have let a contract through Mr. Bergholtz to the Groton Bridge company for a bridge across Fall creek opposite the university campus. The bridge will have a span of nearly 200 feet, and will be 35 feet in width; it will cost about $10,000, and is to be completed by Oct. 15. The electric railway thus extended will open a very choice residence addition to the city.—Ithacan.