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Ceres Mail, Wednesday, May 30, 1900
CERES AND VICINITY
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Did you see the 'clipse?
The oil market was $1.31.
Farmers are bringing their wool to
market.
C.B. Roberts had business in Olean
Thursday.
Sunday evening's rain storm was just
what we needed.
Dr. G.W. Hackett is nursing a frog
felon on his left hand.
Brakeman Laffin was in Rochester
a few days the past week.
That new side walk in front of F.H.
Call's residence is a dandy.
General Brock was sort 'o under the
weather during the past week.
Dr. J.P. Booth was up from Olean
on professional business Saturday.
They are small, but there is 5c worth
of smoke in a Cream of Roses cigar.
E.I. Maxson came up f....
own on business Saturday...
A Ceres man has gone...
doers by having his beard...
The Misses Daisy Robarts and Eliza Raymond were Olean visitors Friday.
John Frugan drove up to Shingle
House to transact some business Fri-
day.
Barton Holly was among the busi-
ness callers in town from Myrtle Satur-
day.
Ernest and Paul Maxson have been over on Newell Creek the past several days shearing sheep.
The rig is up and drilling has begun
on a test well on the Thomas Butler
farm at the head of Newell Creek.
A large number of people were at
work Saturday improving the looks of Evergreen Cemetary, near W. K.
King's.
Frank Langworthy wheeled over
from Alfred, and spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents, B.A. Lang-
worthy and wife.
A fast express train on the Pennsylvania railroad covers the distance between New York and St. Louis in 28
hours and 45 minutes.
Back pension amounting to $254.47,
and at original widow's pension of $8
per month has been granted to Mrs.
Nettie Maxson of Ceres.
Twenty-two narrow gauge car loads
of ties are being transferred at White
*ouse for use on the Shawmut Line be-
tween Bolivar and Olean.
While working in the mill Saturday
Thomas Nolan was hit on the right leg by a chunk of plank thrown from a buzzsaw. Tom is walking with a can.
In order to keep his vegetables from
growing too large and running over
onto his neighbors land, Frank Cole
has built a fence around his garden.
Mrs. Gilbert Harder of Wellsville
and Mrs. Robert Harder of Allentown,
were guests at the home of W.G.
Cornelison and wife last Wednesday.
Thursday George H. Case went to
Buffalo and had Dr. Park amputate
the index finger of his right hand close
to the knuckle joint. Mr. Case had a
close call to losing the entire hand.
Conducor Jack McLaughlin of the
Shawmut Line received a bad sprain
of his left ankle while unloading freight
at the Ceres depot Friday forenoon.
A broken plank let him down through
the platform.
Robert Herrick of Bolivar spent Sat-
urday in Ceres.
W.G. Cornelison and wife were
Bolivar visitors Thursday.
A Coudersport man was recently
fined $25 for Sunday fishing.
G. N. North and wife of Bellrun
visited Ceres relatives Friday.
Frank Blair of the Shawmut Line
was a business caller in Ceres Friday.
A twelve pound carp was caught by
Link Jacques of Little Genesee Satur-
day.
The ball room in the Hotel Ayers at
Oswayo has been made into twelve
sleeping rooms.
J.H. Coon and son, Arthur, of Eld-
red were calling on Ceres relatives the
first of this week.
Allie Ostrander of West Branch was
a guest of his parents in Ceres for a
few hours Sunday.
Mrs. Herbert C. Hendryx of Olean
was visiting among Ceres friends and
relatives Thursday.
Mrs. Will Wells and Mrs. N. Lan-
phere of Bellrun were callers in town
Wednesday afternoon.
Fred Coon of Erie, Pa., and brother
Lee, of Eldred were greeting friends
and relatives in Ceres Friday.
At Allegany Sunday the St. Bonas
were done up to the tune of 8 to 11 by
the Wilkesbarre base ball team.
The Central House at Eldred, recent-
ly damaged by fire, is being repaired
and will soon be doing business again.
Among the new subscribers to The
Mail this week are Elha Kilmer of
Bradford and P.A. Dickinson of Port-
ville.
G.C.HICKOK sells the paint that
wears twice as long as lead and oil--
Devoe lead and zinc, ground by mach-
inery.
James McLaughlin of Friednship is
now express messenger on the P.S&N.
between Olean and Bolivar. A good
selection.
Word has been received in Ceres
that Mrs. Ella Ostrander of Couders-
port has been granted a back pension,
also $8 per month.
It is reported that after June 1 the
Pennsylvania Ralroad Company will
run solid vestibule trains between Phil-
adelphia and Buffalo.
After a woman's son has been given
a job in a store, she can't understand
why his employer should feel and nec-
essity for going to the store at all.
......
a cordial invitation is extended to all.
W.G. Robarts has been appointed
postmaster at Eldred. This will be
news that his old Ceres friends will be
glad to hear. It carries a salary of $1,
300 with it.
B.A. Langworthy called at this
office and renewed his subscription.
He also advanced the subscription to
The Mail sent to R.H. Maxson of
Lakewood, N.Y.
A tightrope walker by the name of
George W. Lesly, who was giving a
performance in Olean Saturday even-
ing, fell and broke both of his legs.
His home is in Elmira.
Talk about your easy running mowing
machines, but did your team ever pull
a McCormick? It would make a horse
laugh to be hitched to one. Better see
Raymond about a McCormick.
We heard a man say yesterday that
if a certain Ceres citizen didn't keep
his cattle from running the streets, he
would be compelled to lock the cattle
in his barn and make the owner settle.
On Friday afternoon a very interest-
ing mother's meeting conducted by
Mrs. C.S. Bissell was held in the
church parlors, after which Mrs. T.J.
Bissell of Rochester delivered an in-
spiring address full of sound advice
and encouragement to all mothers.
Light refreshments were served, and
the occasion was a pleasant one to all.
Elba C. Kilmer, a shooter for the
Bradford Torpedo company, had quite
a narrow escape Thursday while putting
a shot in an oil well in the Chipmunk
field. He had lowered 60 quarts of
glycerine to the bottom of the well,
and 20 quarts more had been let down
about 240 feet when it "went off." The
casing was blown out and the rig badly
damaged, but Kilmer was not touched.
This is his second accident within a
short time.
Frank B. Palmer the express mes-
senger on the P.S.&N. between Olean
and Bolivar made his last trip over the
road Saturday. He has been transfer-
ed to the Buffalo & Susquehanna route,
and will run between Austin and Wells-
ville, Galeton and Ansonia. His salary
will be advanced $25 a month, a fact
that Frank's many friends along the
Shawmut Line will be glad to hear. He
will reside in Austin. Good reliable
men always forge to the front.
Let us do your printing.
Oswayo wants a National Bank.
Good time to pay your subscription.
When you want a good smoke, ask
for a New License.
David Rixford has been appointed
postmaster at Millport.
Henry and Frank Butler of Glenn
were in Ceres on business Friday.
The best 5c cigars in the market are
New License and Cream of Roses.
Among the business callers in Bolivar
from Ceres Friday was F.H. Raymond.
Among those who renewed their sub-
scription the past week was C.E. Mac-
Donald of Ceres.
Nearly everyobody was looking at the
eclipse of the sun through smoked glass
Monday morning.
John Nelson, an inmate of the poor
house at Smethport died last Wednes-
day, aged 77 years.
Miss Grace Carrier wheeled up from
Olean and passed a couple of days
with Ceres relatives.
The Pennsylvania's new fast train
between Buffalo and Washington made
its first trip Sunday.
Miss Myrtie Cooper of Bolivar will
teach in the high school at Athens N.
Y., the coming term.
M.J. Woodard and Miss May Hamp-
hill, both of East Hebron were recent-
ly united in marriage.
At a basket social held at Eleven
Mile a few evenings ago, $17 was rais-
ed for Rev. W.W. Tubbs.
Hi Eaton of Bolivar has leased 1,200
acres of land near Genesse Forks, and
two test wells will soon be drilled there.
Unknown parties tried to wreck a B.
R. & P. passenger train between Brad-
ford and Mt. Jewett a few adays ago,
but failed.
On June 6 will occur the marriage of
Ned L. Rumsey and Miss Ella May
Head. Both are well known Oswayo
young people.
O. Richards of Buffalo was an
agreeable caller at The Mail office
Wednesday, while on his way to visit
his mother, Mrs. Richard Richards of
Bellrun.
Under the superintendency of Do*
B. Freeman, the old sawmill on the
creek at North Olean known as Brown's
mill, is again in operation, says a cor-
respondent.
Twenty-nine liquor licenses have
been grnted in Potter county. Gene-
see Forks ws the only town in the
.....
....worthy and W.B. Horn-
.....J.K. Gardner of
Ridgeway has just purchased a tract of
8,000 acres of timber land near Van-
dalia and will erect a saw mill and get
the lumber out of the tract. The mill,
it is said, will be a large one.
Potter Journal: The dismissal of
Etes G. Rathbone as Director of Posts
in Cube, as the result of fraudulent
oractices discovered in the department
of the Island, is a shock to the people
of this county, the native home of Mr.
Rathbone. His steady ascent of the
hill of fortune has been the special
pride of his old neighbors, who still
hope that investigation will acquit him
of blame.
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