"Alfred Sun"
Alfred, Allegany County, New York
June 18, 1885

[Surnames that appear on this page: Bassett, Burdick, Burlingame, Coates. Conlon, Crandall, Cransion, Dean, Dunham, Eldred, Ellison, Hazzen, Niven, Randolph, Saunders, Scott, Stillman, Wood, A surname may appear more then once on this page. ]

• Band and Orchestra concert this (Thursday) evening.
• Wellsville is making great preparations t celebrate the Fourth.
• A.P. SAUNDERS is building an addition onto the rear of his house.
• Mrs. Dell WOOD of Andover was in town last week calling on relatives and friends.
• Prof. Henry W. HAZZEN on "The Lesson of History," at the Chapel, Wednesday evening June 23rd.
• E.J. DUNHAM, for some time telegraph operator at Almond has accepted a position as clerk and operator in the agent's office at Attica.
• Dea. RANDOLPH and Ed. STILLMAN have frames for their houses up and nearly enclosed and the work is being pushed rapidly forward.
• The Free Methodists will set up a large tent on River Street, Hornellsville, on June 24th, and hold services three times each day at least for one week "if the Lord wills." A number of able ministers from abroad will be present to preach the Word. All are invited.
•  Mrs. BURLINGAME, residing at West Almond attempted suicide recently, first by shooting herself in which she was foiled, but afterwards hung herself. She was discovered however, and cut down, and at last account. was alive. She is the daughter of Oliver DEAN an old resident of West Almond. Family troubles are the alleged cause.
• Will COATES is the last lucky man. It is a girl.
• Miss Corabelle CRANDALL arrived in town this noon.
• Give the boys a lift by attending the concert to-night.
• Sheffield BASSETT has begun an apprenticeship on the Sun.
• Mrs. Wm CRANSION of Little Genesee, has been visiting in town for a few days.
• The University Band is to give a lawn festival in front of the Ladies Hall, next Tuesday evening.
• At the concert this (Thursday) evening, Miss Della NINEN, contralto and A.E. BROWN, flutiest, of Hornelsville, will appear in several selections.
• Richard S. SCOTT, the teller of the Manhattan banking company of New York, has gone to Canada with $160,000 borrowed from the company's vault.
• Miss Ellen ELDRED, of Milford, N.Y., delivered a temperance address, from personal experience, at the church, last Monday evening. She was greeted by a very small audience. 
• During a game of base-ball at Canisteo recently between rival juveniles of Hornellsville and Canisteo, a little boy named  Jonnie CONLON of the latter place, had his skull fractured by a club slipping. Surgical aid was promptly rendered by Dr. ELLISON, and it is hoped that the lad may recover.
• Last Friday as Dea. BURDICK was at work on the house of Ed STILLMAN, he fell from the scaffold to the ground, a distance of eighteen feet. He was also struck by a plank, which fell from the scaffold. Although no bones were broken he received some quite severe bruises.

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