"Alfred Sun"
Alfred, Allegany County, New York
March 13, 1884
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LOCALS:
More snow.
Rain and slush.
Spring freshets.
Weather probabilities: Variety.
Prof. H.C. COON is visiting Cornell.
Remember the meeting next Tuesday evening.
Rev. W.C. TITSWORTH has procured a type writer. Good!
Miss Estelle BABCOCK spends her vacation with her mother at Scott.
Charlie CLARKE and sister Grace, will spend the vacation with friends in Nile.
Miss Mae CARTER is home from Cuba, spending her vacation with her mother.
Rev. L.A. PLATTS preached in Rev. Mr. TITSWORTH pulpit last Sabbath morning.
Profs. A.B. KENYON and Geo SCOTT are visiting Eastern Colleges, during the vacation.
Board and rooms for two at Mrs. HESELTINE's. Also would like a few table boarders.
Rev. W.C. TITSWORTH baptized three candidates at the usual place last Sabbath morning.
The family of Cash LEWIS have been spending a few days at the home of Mrs. L's father.
Geo. SISSON has left Scio and returned to the town of Alfred, settling in his father's farm.
Mr. and Mrs. William WIGHTMAN, of Nile, are visiting at their daughter's Mrs. C.E. GREEN.
Do not fail to attend the meeting called for next Tuesday evening at the Graded School building at 7:45.
Frank SISSON and wife, who have sojourned in town for some time, returned to Westerly, R.I. last week.
Dr. James MCNETT, a graduate of Alfred University, has been appointed physician for the poor in Hornellsville.
Postmaster George GREEN, of Andover, in company with his wife, made a call on his brother, C.E. GREEN last Sunday.
Everett SAUNDERS is the father of a girl. We should have mentioned this last week, but failed to gather the particulars.
Mrs. Thomas T. BRANDT, whom we mentioned last week as being very low with typhoid pneumonia, was buried last Sunday.
Chas. VINCENT's (now of Friendship) boy was born on the 29th of February, hence his birth-day will only occur once in four years.
The runaway team rushing up Main Street just as we were going to press last week, we understand, were stopped between here and Wellsville.
Hornellsville is soon to have a new and important manufacturing establishment, in the shape of a cigar manufactory, employing about 50 hands.
The regular session of the W.C.T.U. of Alfred, will meet next Tuesday afternoon, March 18th, at the home of Mrs. Dr. SAUNDERS, at 2 o'clock.
The Ladies' Benevolent Society met with Mrs. Chandelier GREEN last Wednesday afternoon. There was a very fair attendance and a good time generally.
A wagon load of Theolgues and others went to Almond last Friday to see and hear Rev. Mr. HAMMOND, the Revivalist, who was there for the afternoon.
The University Bank has been furnished with screen, which adds much to its appearance, and is just as it should be. They are from the manufacture of E.T. Barnum, Detroit, Mich.
Mrs. O.G. STILLMAN, of Hornellsville, and Miss Frank WITTER, of Stannard's Corners, now teaching at Mt. Morris, made a short visit among friends last Tuesday and Wednesday.
On and after Sunday, March 16th, the office hours of the University Bank will be from 9 A.M. to 12 M., and from 1 to 4 P.M. This change is made hoping to better accommodate the public.
Rowland BARBER and wife, and John LANGWORTHY, of Portville, were in town last week, the former looking for a house in which to live, so as to educate their younger children in school.
Professors KENYON and SCOTT and Mr. Sheridan PLACE, are Alfred Centre's representatives in the great Metropolis during this vacation, and expect to make a visit upon our friend Ira A. PLACE.
Our Cashier, Mr. A.E. CRANDALL, was taken suddenly sick on last Saturday evening, and has been confined to his bed since then. At this writing he is somewhat better. Mr. W.H. CRANDALL is filling his place in the bank.
A quilt is being made in this section to be sent, when finished, to the wife of Rev. D.H. DAVIS, China. For ten cents the name of the donor will be worked on the quilt. We understand the money so raised is to be used in the China mission work.
The family gathering held at the residence of Rowland A. THOMAS last Thursday was remarkable from the fact that it brought together five generations of the same family, the oldest being 83 and the youngest one year old. This is something of a very uncommon occurrence.
"The Alfred Sun favors the establishment of a fire department in that enterprising University town, and to arguments in the affirmative, we say amen. Belmont has a small beginning that it has already saved the town a disastrous conflagration." - Post
Some dozen or more from this place, and several from Andover and Wellsville, made John LUSK and family a surprise visit Monday evening last. The party spent a very enjoyable evening, leaving Mr. and Mrs. LUSK presents amounting over $47. Our reticent friend, T.A. BURDICK, presented the articles in behalf of the friends, with an appropriate speech.
ALFRED:
Mrs. Dell TRACY is in town, visiting her sister and other friends.
Mr. F. WHITCOMB is home from Allentown for a few days on business. He talks of putting up a house there.
There is considerable of a moving going on, some ten or twelve loads of household goods being counted in one day on the street last week.
J. SPINK has moved down into Mrs. WHITNEY's house, while Mr. SCOTT moves into the house he vacates by the rocks, having bought it of Mr. BEVEA.
There was a rag bee at the home of H.M. BURDICK last Wednesday, for the purpose of preparing rags for a carpet for Mrs. BURDICK, who has been quite poor all this winter.
Among other employees on the railroad, D.F. WHITFORD, the helper at the depot, got his discharge last week, and has gone to work for G.C. SHERMAN in his machine shop. The operators do not take very kindly to handling the freight and baggage.
FROM INDEPENDENCE:
Comrade J.D. JACOBS had a fine five year old cow die, a few days ago.
March has a decidedly eventery look, sleighs are in requisition again.
Last week Tuesday, the wife of Mr. Myron LEWIS presented him with a son.
I am sorry to learn that Mr. N.P. COATS, an old pioneer of this town, is in very poor health.
Mr. Frank BELL, Examining Pension Agent, is in town, investigating alleged irregularities in pension claims.
The derrick looms up on Mrs. Caroline FORSYTH's farm, and the drilling will be commenced as soon as practicable.
Rev. S.L. BOVIER held a musical convention, lasting four days, at Spring Mills, and wound up with a grand concert last Friday evening.
The Graded School at Whitesville closed the 29th, and the Spring term will open the 17th inst., with the same corps of teachers as the last term.
Mr. C. Floyd CASEY, formerly of this town, but lately with Coats Bros's of Wellsville, has accepted a position in a furniture house in Boston, Mass.
Mr. Legrand HULL has taken S. Ellery WHITE's farm, on the Cryder Creek, to work on shares.
The Republicans elected their entire ticket at our late town meeting. Comrade M.F. FORSYTH was re-elected Supervisor and J.Q.A. WOODCOCK was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late B.F. WOOD.
A young man named BARNES, who was stopping at the house of the sexton of the church at Spring Mills was robbed by the latter of over $200 a few days ago. The guilty party placed the money in an oyster can, along with his won watch, claiming his watch was stolen, and hid the can in the loft of the church, where it was discovered. The light fingered gent was arrested and tried before J.M. SPICER, Esq., sent him to board at the Hotel de Elliot, of Angelica till the September term of court convenes.
It is reported that the wife of Mr. Adolphus JONES, in a fit of temporary derangement, arose about 2 o'clock A.M., the 2d inst., got a razor and cut her wrist, intending to sever an artery, but not being satisfied, took a bed quilt and wandered to a strip of woods near the house and lay down on the quilt, and when her husband, who was at the caucus, returned home, he made search for her, and did not find her till about 6 o'clock A.M. When her son approached, she ordered him to keep back, and, as he still advanced, she drew the razor across her throat several times, but did not succeed in inflicting a mortal wound. She is under the care of Dr. COTTRELL, and is doing as well as possible. [March 9, 1884]
UNIVERSITY NEWS:
President ALLEN supplied the Chapel pulpit last Sunday morning.
The small boys took advantage of the coasting on Chapel hill last Monday.
Miss Susie BURR left town on Tuesday to spend her vacation at her home in Vermont.
Miss Ophie MAXSON goes home with Miss Effa BURDICK to New York to enjoy her vacation.
Miss Addie PROSSOR returns to her home at Petersboro, N.Y. to teach school this coming spring.
Misses Mae CARTER and Corabella CRANDALL, '83, were present at Chapel exercises on Tuesday morning.
Miss Addie BROWNELL, left town for good on Monday afternoon for her home. She does not return next term.
The Spring Term opens Wednesday morning March 26th, at nine o'clock. Examinations occur on Wednesday afternoon, and recitations on Thursday morning.
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