"Alfred Sun"
Alfred, Allegany County, New York
August 6, 1885

[Surnames that appear on this page:  Abbott, Allen, Bertram, Briggs, Burdick, Champlin, Charles, Chipman, Clarke, Crandall, Davis, Howell, Kenyon, Larkin, McCormick, McNett, Potter, Powell, Shaw, Stillman, Ward, Weber, Westlake, Whitford, Williams,   A surname may appear more then once on this page. ]

• Miss Flora P. CLARKE left for her home in Clayville, N.Y. Monday.
• Vegetation was very much enlivened by the refreshing showers of Monday.
• Prof. N.W. WILLIAMS and Alfred ALLEN returned from the west Tuesday.
• Prof. J.M. STILLMAN is now holding a musical convention at Lewisville, PA.
• Mrs. POWELL is to be added to the list of our enterprising citizens who have put down flag-stone walks this season.
• In a private letter from Rhode Island, Prof. A.B. KENYON says, "Having a glorious time in a cottage by the sea."
• Wild raspberries have been very plentiful in this section, and people have generally been allowed to gather them without being stampeded.
• B.B. WEBER, one of the editors of the "Cattaraugus Republican", and postmaster at Salamanca has been suspended from office as an "offensive partisan."
• Lucian WARD of Belmont, has received a pension of $2,100 and $10 a month for the future. Henry W. DAVIS has also received a windfall of $1,000 and $6 a month.
• Benj. WESTLAKE, Horseheads, has for sale either at the depot or in this village, three kinds of brick, viz., fine pressed, select common and kill brick, at the lowest market price. Orders may be left with Prof. E.P. LARKIN.
• Dr. MC NETT, of Belmont, won the handsome solid silver medal which was given at Coshocton Friday for breaking the largest number of glass balls. The medal is a beauty and was the highest prize given at the tournament. 
• Excursion tickets are on sale at the Alfred station, for those desiring to attend the funeral of General Grant, or to view the body which is to lie in state at the city hall from the evening of Aug. 5th to the morning of Aug. 8th. Round trip tickets, good until Aug. 15th will be sold for $7.20.
• The Corning "Democrat" reports that in the excavation at Corning brick works, the workman last week found what was evidently the remains of an Indian camp. An Indian skull and other bones were found; also pottery and implements buried with the remains, such as Indians usually place with the remains of their dead,
• Mrs. Ida F. KENYON is at the Battle Creek Sanitarium for treatment.
• Ed. CHIPMAN is running the Ladies' Hall during the absence of Mr. WHITFORD's people.
• Mrs. E.G. CHAMPLIN and Mrs. Elisha POTTER are spending a week at Chautauqua Lake.
• On account of a land slide near Port Jervis, the mail train was thirteen hours late on Tuesday.
• Miss Tina HOWELL and Fred CHARLES were at the home of Miss HOWELL on Monday and Tuesday.
• C.C. CHIPMAN left Tuesday night for his old home in Hope Valley, R.I. on a ten days trip.
• Mr. ABBOTT has moved into the rooms over SHAW's Jewelry store lately vacated by Charlie BERTRAM. 
• Mr. and Mrs. Silas C. BURDICK are in Buffalo this week. Mr. BURDICK is on business in relation to his extensive variety store trade.
• Will H. CRANDALL, of the firm of A.E. & W.H. CRANDALL, accompanied by wife, left town Monday evening for a business and pleasure trip. They contemplate visiting Niagara, Buffalo, Rochester, Montreal and the Thousand Islands.
• Job. BRIGGS is at his old home in Rhode Island for a few days.
• Mrs. Ed MC CORMICK and children, from Binghamton, are in town at her father's, Deacon A.C. BURDICK.

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