"Alfred Sun"
Alfred, Allegany County, New York
March 6, 1884
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LOCALS:
Wellsville is having a skating rink.
Allie GLOVER of Hornellsville was in town on Monday.
Mrs. Thomas BRANDT, of Ward, is very low with typhoid pneumonia,
School closes next Wednesday, the 12th, vacation continues two weeks.
"Fred PALMITER, Alfred, cut his foot while chopping wood." - Register
Pasture for several cows can be obtained close to the village by the season. Inquire, at once of O.S. POTTER.
Mrs. J.G. BURDICK is improving under the kind treatment and watch care of her sister, Miss CRANDALL of Portville.
Baptism is to be administered next Sabbath morning at 10:30 o'clock at the usual place - near the bridge up Church Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Benj. BLISS, of Little Genesee, have been called here by the sickness of their son William. We are glad to know that Will is on the mend.
The name object of the Women's Auxiliary Tract Society was changed at a meeting held last week - the name of that of Women's Evangelical Society, and the object to general instead of specific benevolence.
All persons wishing to attend the Prohibition Mass Convention at Friendship, March 25th, the N.Y., L.E. and W.R.R. will sell excursion tickets to Friendship and return at $1.30, good from March 24th until 26th inclusive.
Just as we go to press, the team of I.M. LANGWORTHY started from John LANGWORTHY and ran into the team of Joseph VINCENT which was hitched in front of the building lately occupied by BURDICK & GREEN and both have run out of sight up Main Street.
The Rubinstein Orchestra, which held a concert at the Chapel in this village, on Wednesday evening, perform at Andover, in the Seventh day Baptist Church, on the evening of March 12th. They should have a full house, as we can guarantee good programme well executed.
A Prohibition County Convention will be held at Friendship, on the 25th of March, for the purpose of electing delegates to the District Convention. At this caucus of the Prohibitionists last Saturday evening, in this town, four delegates were elected to attend the County Convention.
A new officer - or an old office revived - was elected at Town Meeting last Tuesday, tat of Pound Master. It was put on the ticket as a joke, but we learn that the incumbent, John P. MOSHER, is to qualify himself and enforce the privileges of the office. He received a large majority VOTE.
A Building Loan Association is to be organized in this village. The laws governing such and institution can be seen at the store of A.E. & W.E. CRANDALL. As soon as enough shares are subscribed to warrant the completion of the organization, a meeting will be called. We hope that this call may be made in our next issue.
TOWN MEETING:
Town Meeting passed off quietly on Tuesday, with not a very large vote cast. There were only two tickets in the field - Republicans and Prohibition. The Republican ticket, with one or two exceptions, was elected with a small majority, as follows: Wm. C. BURDICK, for Supervisor, over Clark SHERMAN, 8; Joseph WILLARD, Town Clerk, over DeForest Whitford, 18; James R. CRANDALL, Justice of the Peace, over Peleg THOMAS, 18; Wm R. BURDICK, Highway Commissioner, over Stephen C. BURDICK, 3; Green CHAMPLIN, Assessor, over Wm H. LANGWORTHY, 16; James W. HOARD, Collector, over Joseph J. JEFFERY, 14; Republican Inspectors of Election, Isaac M. LANGWORTHY and John C. BURDICK received 159 votes; on the Prohibition ticket, John M. MOSHER received 152 votes and Daniel PERKINS 147; John WOOWORTH, Prohibition over A. Wheeler DAVIS, Republican, Overseer of the Poor, 12; Constables: James W. MOLAND over D.F. LEONARD, 60; James W. HOARD over J.J. JEFFERY, 12; Geo. B. SHAW over Lorenzo C. THOMAS, 11; Frank M. BEYECA over H.W. GREEN, 13; Silas C. BURDICK, Game Constable, over M.E. THOMAS, 15; The Prohibition Excise Commissioners were elected over the Republican by 30 majority.
The Republican ticket at Almond was elected with a majority ranging from 11 to 58. The Democrats elected two officers - one Overseer of the Poor and one Constable.
FROM ALFRED:
Wheeler DAVIS is on the gain, so that he is out and around a little.
E. BEBEE has moved into M.E. THOMAS's farm, and settled down for business.
Kittie CALLEN was taken quite suddenly ill this morning and summoned a physician.
T.H. DAVIS has been very sick with pneumonia, but is reported as being somewhat better at present.
J.C. POTTER sold a lot of property belonging to Mrs. R.W. BURDICK. It sold very well. John makes a very good auctioneer for small sales.
D.F. WHITFORD 's little boy had a fit last week, which gave them quite a fright. The doctor called it spinal fever. [unreadable] the child was around the house at play in a day or two.
Pretty cold for Town Meeting is what a good many said this morning, but I thought it quite warm there some of the time by the way the Prohibitionists and Republicans talked. [March 4, 1884]
FROM INDEPENDENCE:
Our school closes next Friday.
Comrade F.M. WOOD is not enjoying very good health this winter.
Comrade J.T. LIVERMORE talks of buying E.B. GREEN 's old house near the cheese factory.
Mr. Willie R. CRANDALL called at the home of your reporter last Sabbath night.
Mr. Henry COLEMAN returned home from Geneva last Thursday, where he went to see his sick Mother.
The morning of the 29th, the mercury fell to 18 degrees below zero. It was terribly cold and the ice king reigned triumphant.
CLARK 's cheese factory is being overhauled and repaired, preparatory to the season's campaign. Mr. Wm. B. GREEN has the job.
E.B. GREEN, though a cripple, is "six of one and half a dozen of the other, " as he is a merchant, justice, post-master, telephone - operator, and "hail fellow-well-met."
Mrs. E.D. POTTER arrived home last Monday, and she thinks her sister, Mrs. Samuel BURDICK of Nile, has got a little, the finest, "broth of a boy" baby that ever tipped the beam at 8 3/4 lbs.
Comrade J.D. JACOBS was taken seriously ill, with an old fashioned Andersonville prison-pen chill, at the festival given by the G.A.R. boys on the 13th, but I am glad to learn that he slowly, but surely recovering. [March 2, 1884]
UNIVERSITY NEWS:
The verdict among the students concerning the past Regent's Examinations is that they were rather more difficult than common. Not withstanding this, a goodly number were very successful.
Alfred ALLEN who has been teaching elocution in the University for the past two terms, left town on Sunday for Boston where he will enjoy a course of elocutionary training at the New England Conservatory of Music.
The regular election of the Alleghamans occurred on Tuesday, March 4th, at their session room, at which the following officers for the ensuing term were elected: E.J. BABCOCK, President; J.J. MERRILL, Vice President; C.R. GARDNER, Recording Secretary; H.G. WHIPPLE Corresponding Secretary; E.C. BABCOCK, Treasure; C.A. CLARKE, Critic; A.N. COON, First Librarian; W.H. BASSETT, Second Librarian; M.D. ROGERS, First Teller, W.M. LEWIS, Second Teller.
CONFLAGRATION
MR. COOK COMPLETELY CLEANED OUT
SUBSCRIPTION STARTED
THE WANT OF A HOOK AND LADDER FELT.
The house occupied by Roswell COOK, on the farm rented by him, the past season, and owned by Wm. CRANDALL situated in the East Valley, was to-day entirely destroyed by fire together with all its contents, consisting of furniture which was nearly new, clothing, provisions and the most of his grain that he had raised the past season. The cause of the fire was, by some, conjectured to be from a defective chimney, but is not known. Mr. COOK had gone to Town Meeting, his wife going with him, as far as her father's, J.R. SHAW, and in their absence, the fire occurred. The men in the vicinity being at the village attending Town Meeting, there was no one to do anything to extinguish the fire. I do not learn as there any insurance on the property. Mr. COOK is a worthy young man, and just getting started. The loss falls heavily on him and leaves him rather destitute. As soon as the news reached town, a subscription was started, the people of Alfred, with their accustomed liberality, raising the sum of $59, besides a stove and other things to help them start again. [March 4, 1884]
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