The Oswego Baptist fair and festival netted about $300.
"Joe" Hess will begin temperance work in Blossburg next Wednesday.
A small dummy engine is to be put into service on the street railway between Elmira and Horseheads.
The Supervisors of Chemung county are considering the feasibility of reducing the sheriff's fees for transporting prisoners to penitentiaries and asylums.
Ezra Ward, of Oswego, a mason, who was at work in Elmira, was injured on Monday by a scaffold falling, that he was standing on while at work.
**O. H. Zoller of Elmira, was struck by a train in that city on Saturday last, and died from his injuries on Sunday. He leaves a wife and six children.
A large number of engineers, firemen, brakemen and shopmen have been laid off by the D. L. & W. company on account of the declining state of the coal trade.
The mail carriers of Oswego delivered 25, 568 and collected 22,791 letters during the month of November, and handled 79,243 pieces of mail matter. A good showing.
The Gazette says it is rumored that an independent morning Republican paper is to be started in Elmira early in January, which will be sold for one cent. It is also reported that Luther Caldwell is to be the editor.
At a meeting held last week, the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, of the Methodist Church, elected the following officers: president, Prof. W. H. Ryan; vice-presidents, Mary Brown, Minnie Cargill, Clinton Elwell and Nellie Rockwood; secretary, Hallie Butler; treasurer, Chas. A. Tappan.Oswego Record
Athens Gazette, Dec. 8: -- Ed Campion, we learn, intends trying his fortune in the West.
**--- Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. L. Dyer, on Friday of last week, a daughter. ---
W.N. Bacon has opened a cigar manufactory.
Rev. Mr. Thomas intends selling his property here and will move to Carbondale.
--Mrs. Fred Perkins, of Waverly, spent a few days in town this week with relatives.
--W.H. Osborne, who has been confined to his bead for the past three weeks, is improving slowly.
--James Wilson, while out on the street Monday, was suddenly overcome with a paralytic stroke and was carried home by friends who were near at hand. We are pleased to learn that his condition is not considered serious.
--The social gathering from amongst the intimate personal friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Elsbree, on Thursday evening last, was one of the largest and most pleasurable of its kind that has ever occured in our beautiful village or may ever occur again. It was the occasion of the birthday of Mr. Elsbree, for which his wife prepared him this most agreeable surprise. The Elsbree Opera House was used for the evening, and fully two hundred persons were present. -----**Washington Pitcher, formerly of this place. but recently residing in Sayre, died last Friday, Nov. 30th, after a severe illness lasting over two years. He was a member of the Iron Hall and a committee from that organization accompanied his remains to Standing Stone Monday, where he was buried.
The Officers to serve Perkins Post for the ensuing year are as follows:
D. W Tripp
Senior Vice Commander --Michael Harrigan
Junior Vice Commander - Thos. Haley
Quartermaster - J. W. Alderson
Surgeon --T.D. Wood
Officer of the Day -- Charles Hinton
Officer of the Guard -- John Rifenburg
Delegates to Department Encampment --Major Gore and James Wilson
Alternates -- G. H. Curtis and G. L. Fuller
Trustees -- F. T. Page, D. F. Park and James Wilson
UNION VETERAN LEGION
Col Commander - Daniel Bradbury
Lieut. Col. Commander - Robert S. Edminston
Major -- D. W. Tripp
Officer of the Day - H. C. Hayes
Chaplain -- James W. Alderson
Surgeon - Henry Davenport
Quartermaster - Geo. L. Fuller
Representative to National Encampment -- C. T. Hull
Alternate -- H. C. Hayes
Trustees -- C. T. Hull, James H. Wilson, J. F. Miller
SONS OF VETERANS
Captain -- Charles Hosmer
First Lieutenant - A. D. Garrison
Second Lieutenant - John Grippon
Camp Council -- Frank Sairs, Edward Wright, A. B. Sliter
Delegate -- A. B. Sliter
Alternate - Frank Sairs
North Nichols Switch
-Ed Light, who has been quite sick, is improving.
-Alf Canfield took a fine beef to Sayre last week.
-The party at Jerome White's passed off very pleasantly.
-Jerome White talks of running a feed mill during the winter.
-John Fenderson, of Nichols, is retailing flour at wholesale prices.
-Alf Canfield shipped his potatoes last week, at twenty-eight cents a bushel.
-Peter Ryerson has taken a job of cutting wood for Rev. F. A. Matteson.
-Nick Lounsberry managed his father's farm very successfully during the past year.
-Mr. Ellis, of Waverly, who worked for Alf Canfield last week, has returned home.
-Mr. Osborn, who was seriously injured by falling from a load of wood, is slowly recovering.
-Jerome Whitehas fulfilled his contract of furnishing wood for the district school for this year.
-Mrs. Eli Light will lease her farm and fine dairy the coming season. Here is a good chance for an enterprising man.
-Peter Rouch, having finished work for Mr. Watkins, will work for Mrs. Eli Light this winter, to ake care of the stock and do chores.
-Fred and Clara Clary, of Oak Hill, attended the envelope party last Friday evening at Mr. Darling's with Rev. F. A. Matteson and family.
-Waterman, says he received full value for the twenty-five cents he paid for his envelope. The name was small, but the bundle of goods large.
-Hon. J. C. Latimer's twin daughters, who are fine riders, often take a gallop down our street on their fine saddle horses. There is nothing more benefiecial to health than horseback riding, and ladies should indulge in it more than they do.
Lockwood
-H. N. Hanford and wife, or Waverly, were visiting friends at Reniff and this place last week while here Noah built what he called an "ark."
**- Mrs. S. Barnard, mother-in-law of Rev. Mr. Jewell pastor of the M.E. Church here, died at the residence of Mr. Jewell on Friday evening, November 30.
West Hill
--Mr. and Mrs. Rol. Smith of Elmira, visited friends in this vicinity last week.
--Mr. and Mrs. John M. Alliger and son are spending a few days with Sheshequin friends.
--David Mandeville and son, Sayre, of Lockwood, were calling on relatives here this week.
--Mrs. W. B. Kline, who has been seriously ill for some time past, we are pleased to learn is recovering.
Ridgbury
--C. W. Hanlon was in Waverly on Tuesday.
--Mrs, John Seely was in Wellsburg last week.
--Miss Nancy Loomis visited East Troy last week.
--H. O. Harris is drawing buckwheat to Wellsburg.
--Lote Mathews visited at Sam Baxter's on Sunday.
-- Eugene Allen visited at T. B. Davidson's last Sunday.
--Miss Lillian Seely visited at Joel Peterson's last Thursday.
--James Loomis was drawing grain from East Roy last week.
--Amanda Warren of Chemung, is visiting at James Colwell's.
--Lewis Squires andvisited at Chemung on Sunday.
--Jas. Loomis had twenty bushels of potatoes frozen last week.
--Mrs. John Squires visited at Samuel Colwell's last week Friday.
--Mrs. Belle Kinner and F. M. Hanlon visited at C. W. Hanlon's on Sunday.
-School commenced November 26, with May Stewart of Wilawana, as teacher.
-F. W. Hanlon has made his son Fred a present of a fine colt. It is valued at $150.
Lewis Squires, of Wilawanna, is agent for Farm and Home, which is 30cts a year.
--Charles Ross, who has been visiting at Waterloo, returned home, and has now gone to Maryland.
--C. W. Hanlon raised a turnip that measured nine and one half inches in diameter, thirty inches in circumference and weighed six and one-half pounds.
--Minnie Larson who is attending college at Elmira, comes home every Friday to play the organ at the Hanlon Hill Sunday School.
Dec 10, 1988
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Fred Thornton of Spenser, has moved to Athens.
It is said that Blind Patterson of Elmira, will not receive a pension, as he has been placed on the rolls as a deserter.
At the annual meeting of the Bradford county agricultural society, the follwing officers were elected for the year 1889:
President, R. H. Laning; vice-presidents, the Hon. W. T. Davies, D. C. DeWitt, J. B. Hinds, S. M. Welles, D. C. Hollon; treasurer, Geo. W. Blackman; secretary, James H. Codding; corresponding secretary, J. O. Nicholas; managers, G. H. Vandyke, W. R. Pickering, Joel Stevens, G. B. Mills, J.W. Nichols, E. A. Coolbaugh, P. W. Morey, William Snyder, Hugh McCabe.
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