VOL. XXXVI. WESTFIELD, CHAUTAUQUA CO.. X. Y.. WEDXESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1800.I m

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T H E R E P U B L I C A N .Correspondence solicited from all near-by

towns and upon all matters of local interest. We must insist that all communications be brief and to the point. The editor reserves the right to curtail all articles of over 300 words.

BROCTON AND PORTLAND.

T h e R e p u b l i c a n prints more and later new s—both local and general—than any other paper in the county. It has a large and stead­ily growing circulation throughout Northern Chautauqua, and especially along the lake shore

R e s o u r c e s o f W e s t f i e ld .

Population, over Three Thousand Five Hundred.

Valuation of taxable property, over Two Million Dollars.

Distance from Buffalo, Fifty-seven Miles, with direct rail communication—Twelve Trains Daily.

The Finest Grape growing Section in the State.

Contains Six Churches and the Finest Un­ion School and Academy a long the Lake Shore.

It is a good point for Manufacturing, with excellent Shipping Facilities. The Busi­ness Men’s Association invites corre­spondence from all manufacturers look­ing for a location.

H . W . T H O M P S O N ,PROPRIETOR OF THE

Lakeside PressPR INTING ESTABL ISHM ENT.

PUBLISHER OF

W h a t a C a r e f u l O b s e r v e r F i m l s t o W r i t e

A b o u t .

Last Sunday was one of the warmest days of the seoson, the m ercury indicating 90° in the shade.

H artfo rd and W orden grapes are being picked this week, and it is generally thought that commencement will be made on Concords that are grown on the gravel, next Monday.

S. B. O nthank obtained first premium at the Jam estown fair on the Stratton com­bination surry and phaeton for which he is agent.

J . Holbrook left for Saratoga Springs Monday afternoon, to attend as a delegate, the Grand Lodge of the K nights of H onor.

Prof. Darwin Eaton, of Brooklyn, is the guest of his sister, Mrs. H . Eaton.

Elmore Peck lias moved into a part of the house occupied by Mrs. L . Fay.

Seth Avery is carefully nursing a felon.Kev. S. M. Nickle has gone to Oil City

to attend Conference, which is in session there this week. H e has been with us only one year, yet has endeared himself to all and there are none hut that will wel­come his return.

L. Douglass has been having a new fruit packing house built.

Our three basket factories are very busy these days, supplying their customers.

C. R. Crosby has sold his lease of vine­yard property on land of Jonas M artin, to George H ull.

A. J . M ericle has sold 20 acres of his farm to a party unw illing to he named, for a consideration of *175 per acre.

The C. G . S. A. was never in better j shape to handle grapes for the patrons j than it is the present season.

Miss Sophiah H orsecroft is spending a j few days with Mrs. Couchman. i Miss Eunice F reer is home for a few ■ days and many friends congratulate her on i a near approaching happy event.

T h e W E S T F I E L D R E P U B L IC A N

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COMMERCIAL. BOOK and JOB

P R I N T E R .

F o r S a l e .

I have 400 cords of dry beech and maple wood for sale, which will he delivered at any place in the corporation.

D e x t e r X . M o r s e .

H o t A i r F u r n a c e s .

Coatsworth A Eddy, 39 Court St., R ut­in heating

t air, hot waU'r andfalo, are prepared to estimate

The L a k e s id e P r e s s . '

I your houses with hj air com bination, or steam. W rite us for

estimate before buying anv other furnaces. Is tbe best equipped office in Chautauqua j Also chandeliers and gas machines.Countv with which to produce everything m j

T h e S o n g o f th e H e ll.

Ding-dong ! vacation's gone,Playtime'sover, work begun,Good-bye to tennis and croquet,Pnt our bat and gnn away.Goodb ye to hoars of Idle ease,To summer s l a z y luxnrie ,To meadow green and forest still.To sandy shore and breezy hill,To summer's rest and summ ir e fun,

Ding dong vacation's done.

Dingd-ong ' for school's begun !Welcome winter’s work and fun !Come Jack and Jenny. Bess a n d Ben,Take up yonr books and slates again.Come with your busy hands and feet.Your happy hearts and voices sweet.Bring to yonr work the sturdy will.That makes the task a pleasure still.Come welcome winter’s work and fun.

Ding-dong ! for school s begun !—Selected.

Chaplain H yde, of Jam estown, invoked the D ivine Blessing.

M any visited the noted half acre N iag­ara vineyard of G . E. Kyckman. The trellis is ou 10 foot posts, with four wires, and the yield of grapes simply wonderful.

Samples were shown of the new paper basket.

A basket of a new seedling blackberry, was shown by K. D. L uther, of Fredonia.

Kepo r ter .

WESTFIELD IMPROVES.

THE GREATEST OF ALL.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

I n t e r e s t i n g A d d r e s s e s b y S p e c i a l A g e n t s U . S . E l e v e n t h C e n s u s .

Saturday’s meeting at Brocton tilled the O pera House H all to overflowing.

Prom ptly at 10 a. in., T. S. Moss Esq., was named as chairm an, and he introduced Col. H . G ardner, of H am m ondsport, X. Y ., Special Census Agent on Grapes, who read an interesting address.

The reasons which led to making i t

special investigation of viticulture were found in the vast increase in the grape industry. In ten years the capital invested had increased from fifty m illion, to oue hundred and fifty million dollars, an in ­crease in the last decade, of one hundred million dollars. There are in the United States 200,000,006 acres of land, and of this certainly one per cent, or 2,000,000 acres, is as good grape land as can be found on the globe. C alifornia has now 1-50,000 acres planted to grapes. H e gave a detailed account of the Raisin Industry in that state, which last year reached a production of 1,600,000 boxes. The spec­ial investigations of the present census, are carried forward solely in the interest of the growers.

J . H . Hale, Esq., of South Glastonbury, Conn., was the next speaker. H is special work is to collect statistics of the Xurse-

T h e F o r t p a u g h a u d “ W i l d W e s t ” C o m - b i u e d S h o w s C o m i n g .

The great Forepaugh Show, with a quarter of a century of glorious history and pleasant memories, now under the proprietorship of Mr. Jam es E , Cooper, managed by Adam Forepaugh J r . , and reinforced with the famous “ W ild W est” exhibition, will unfold the wealth of its novel and varied attractions, for the edi­fication of amusement-goers hereabouts, in Jam estow n, W ednesday, Sept. 17. Erie, Thursday, Sept. 18.

It is safe to say that no such gigantic and consummate tented exhibition as this has ever been seen here, as even the dis­tinguished Mr. Jas . E . Uooper himself has this year surpassed all his splendid man­agerial efforts of the past. Ever since the opening of the season the huge hippodrome tent, which comfortably seats upwards of 15.009 people, has been crowded day and night wherever the show lias been exhibit­ed.

A great sensation has been created by the displays of th rilling and realistic scenes of life on the frontier, embracing representations of lasso-throwing, buffalo hunting, riding bucking horses, an attack ou the r lead wood mail coach by real Sioux Indians, exhibitions of shooting a-foot and on horseback, by Capt. A. H . Bogardus and his three sons, the noted scouts and dead shots; a grand, picturesque and start­ling portrayal of “ C uster's Last R ally.” introducing the savage survivors >>f that historical horror, and a score of other hitherto unattem pted features.

Adam Forepaugh, J r . , is gaining addi­tional renown bv his soul-stirring 40-horseries, the Florists, the Seed and Truck

gardeners, and the growers of semi-trop- j bareback act, while his rem arkable success

the printing line.

E x a m in e s a m p le s cf o u r w o rk , an d g e t o u r e s t im a te s b e fo re p lac in g

y o u r w o rk e ls e w h e re .

LAW CASES AND POINTS.

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field. Twelve a good barn, iveU and cistern. 1. best. < >ue and a-half acres t land

variety of sii• il shrubbery

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residences in West- in perfect i-rder, and

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tree.-, iruiti! flowers.Y. A . C om-'i

ical fruits. Speaking of tiie present out­look M r. Hale said. “ You who have a good crop of grapes, have almost a fortune in your hands to-day, as never before, the United States is almost bare of fruit. W ith a iudioious distribution of the crop you cannot fail t > realize splendid prices."

In the afternoon the question b"X had questions of much interest. We give a few as samples.

IL w can the farm* rs obtain th* reports | i] of your departm ent of the census 1

Ans. bv Col. Gardner.—We warn

with the lower animals was never more vividly exhibited than in the performance of “ E clipse,” the trapeze-leaping pony, whose sagacity and in trepidity have excit­ed wonder and enthusiasm everywhere. Young Forepaugh ' >ther notable features —the dancing, fighting and clown ele­phants; the rope-walking “ B londiu” horse and “ Ja c k ” and “ Ri se,” the l .nier.'tuill- throwing d.-gs—will also be seen here onthe occasion of the approaching vi:

i conjunction with over one hundred aero 1 hatic, gvmnic and equestrian stars, anil th

A F e w o f t h e M a n y I m p r o v e m e n t s th a t A r e B e i n g M a d e .

The following are a few of the im prove­ments that have been made here recently :

H on. S. F . N ixon has graded and im ­proved his lawn, and has laid a fine stone walk from the street to the entrance.

Thomas Peacock is making arrangem ents to build a tine large barn on his place, cor Jefferson and Franklin streets.

The Misses W hitcomb have made quite extensive repairs to their residence on Pearl street, which adds greatly to its a t­tractiveness.

A. W ratten has enlarged and improved his residence on school street,

Jo h n Ard has fitted up a very pleasant residence on West Main street, and built a large barn on Gale street.

8. C. Thompson, who sold his residence on Gale street, a short time ago, has built him a very comfortable home on Chestnut street.

J .G . H arris has greatly improved his new purchase on Clinton street, by having the house and barn painted in a very taste­ful m anner. H e is pleasantly located in his new quarters.

The Catholic church has been newly shingled.

Mrs. Roberts has built a tine two-storv house on N orth Portage street, which she will oecupy as a residence and bakery.

Mrs. Hathaway has the frame up for her new house on South Portage street.

Mrs. Flvnn has her new residence, near the Nickel Plate depot, about completed, and it is a decided improvement to that part of the town.

H. W. Gibbs has had his premises cleared up, and is having his house and barn repainted.

Edward W aterman is putting up a build­ing at Barcelona, which he intends to use as a store.

Thomas W aterm an, J r . , of Barcelona, is erecting a new house.

George M. Bilsborrow has put up a pack­ing house on the place he purchased of the Rumsey Bros.

Mr. F rance, on Bliss street, i ' building a large barn and packing house.

T h e K n o l l - M c V e i l C o n c e r t .

Tiie Knoll-McNeil Concert Co. gave one of their fine entertainments in Virginia Hall Tuesday night. There was not a tiling on the programme that was not tirst- elass : but of course M iss McNeil and Mr. Knoll carried off the honors of the eve­ning in their cornet specialties. Mr. Knoll divides the honors .if c.iinetist with the fa-

P i t t s ' B u r g l a r y .

Last Y\ ednesday night a burglar entered W. L. P itts ’s house and as none of tlie family were at home he had things his own way. From the wardrobe of M r. P itts and his brother he dressed him self up very nicely, took a razor,a pocket knife and some other articles and went on to Erie w here he got arrested as a suspicious char­acter. On learning of the burglary Mrs. Pitts telephoned her husband who was at the Conneautville, Ohio, fa ir, and on his way home and waiting for a train at Erie, Mr. Pitts learned through the pa­pers that a suspicious character had been arrested. On going to the police station lie identified the clothes and some other things as his own. The prisoner gives his name as Dennison and is being held for a New Y ork officer, on suspicion of being a dangerous crook.

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BANK STATIONERY,Checks. Drafts, Deposit Slips, etc.

LABEL PRINTING.In one or many colors.

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a n d I f Y o u D o n ’ t B i k e I t P u l l O u t .

It is a great good thing to love one’s town and to serve it, as one in a large re­lation may love and serve one’s countrv. Really, loyalty to country must begin at home, and he who cannot unite with his neighbors to serve the community wherein he lives, and do so gladly, is a poor patriot at best and under ail conditions, savs an exchange.

W hen one finds he is out of sympathy with his town, and can only say a good word for it coupled with an apology, he ought to get out. If he can not find a con­genial town on the face of the earth he should serve his race by living in the u t­most retirem ent.

Many people fall into a sort of uncon­scious habit of growling and do not mean anything by it. It is as dangerous for a stranger to take sides with them as it is for the average mortal to interfere in a quarrel between husband and wife. But it is a miserable habit. Such people .make them ­selves peculiarly independent. The town is precisely like the individual. The ind i­vidual has about all he can do to get along under his own loads, and he wants help and encouragement from those going h i ' way, and who are identified with him in in tere 't. So with the interests to care for.' and it needs all the pluck, all the energy, and the co-operation and helpfulness i t ' citizens can provide and bring t" bear

Every man is a part of his town. The town embraces the fortunes, and in sotue measure at least, takes on the character of the man. well-shap* is right to stand nti

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BALLS AND PA RTIES.Invitations. Programmes of Dances, Badges

and Dodgers.

AUCTION B IL L S AND PO ST E R S,All styles aud sizes, neatly, quickly and

cheaply executed.

PR O M PTN ESSAnd Quality of Work guaranteed.

PR ICESAs low as can tie furnished by any responsible

office.

HORTICULTURAL PRINTING

a Specialty. Grapegrowers in need of Cata­logues. Price Lists, Shipping Tags. Ac., will get better service here than elsewhere.

Every Job the Best and the Price

Made Right.

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NEW YORK STATE FAIR.

Kuorm cus F n tries of C attle, anil very Large in all o th e r D ep artm en t'.

The largest num ber of entries ever be­fore made for a New York State F a ir was: Cattle 1 43; horses 140; sheep 580;- swine 236; poultry 970. There are entered for the State F air a t Syracuse, Sept, 11 to 18, 1,220 tattle; 600 horses; 670 sheep; 350 swine; 1,050 poultry. As large as are the new buildings, they will be packed like sardines in a box.

This will be by far the largest and best show ever made by this honorable Society. Its semi-centennial shows it in the full vigor of manhood.

W ith the very low excursion rates on the railroads there ought to be an immense attendance.

None b u t SKILLED WORKMEN a r e e m ­

ployed, and the general details of our W e s t ­

field office are identical with those o f a c i t y

establishment.

BINDING. ENGRAVING and ELECTRO­TYPING.

In fact, there is notlting in the.line of type printing that we cannot do. Send specifica­tions for estimates. Samples of work fur­nished on application.

Blail orders promptly attended to.For further information call on or address

T H E L A K E S ID E P R E S S ,

WESTFIELD, N. Y.

A G r e a t S c h o o l .

Probably no institution of learning known to the history of the world has had a career ol such rem arkable and uniform success as Eastm an Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York. D uring more than th irty years its doors have never been closed—and per­haps never will he. Between 35,000 and 40,000 students have availed themselves of its advantages, many of whom are among he most prom inent m erchants and finan­ciers in the United State to day.

W hy isn’t th is a good thing? D r. F en ­ner’s K idney and Backache Cure is war­ranted to give satisfaction in every case or money returned. Such a proposition couldn’t be thought of it the m edicine was not superior to all others.

Answered by M;ss Etfie S nithwnrth, of I the Entomological Dept, at Washington.

There are two kinds of mildew . The j powdery mildew , which is a parasite. It j does not tiile'i't tlie tissues of the fruit. The j downy mildew which attacks the under j side of the leaves. Miss Southworth gave i the experience at Washington, in treating the black rot. At first, they were quite unsuccessful and could not understand why j the remedies failed. The application used i IIU‘rmnS :i was the Bordeaux Mixture. It was soon | chita a,ld Hutchinson, Ka found that ail earlier application was need- Ldmuuil', lathe: "1eij | ing his son a visit.

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Mr. and Mrs. 1 w i re at Frank Th

Henry Tbaver Buffalo by the illiuss ,.f 1 very low with fevt r.

Mr. and M rs. Neanci. spending a few weeks at left lor Wilkesharrc. i ’a.. Meinlav morning. Mr. and accompanied them as far as 1

Frank Cochran left for the Monday afternoon, with a !

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mien nave airemlv taken <tej <> ;ur t.tie ircenient of tiie law. They adopted a lilti ut requesting the commissioners of

instruct the police force t > arre«t nors as thev find using cigarettes or

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Mr. and Mrs. 1. T . Hawley left Tuesday for a visit with their sons at Wi-

F. W. mak-

Now, tlie first application i ' made before the vine is in leaf, and the remedy is used once in ten days thereafter. In V irginia, where the rot is very bad, a boy was sent to count the clusters, and on the treated vines, he found only two tenths of one per cent of diseased grapes. On untreated vines it was impossible to find a healthy cluster.

Mr. H ale gave an address on “ Big berries and lots of th em .”

H e, and his brother have on tiieir farm in the Connecticut River Valley, 25 acre ' strawberries, and several acres each of raspberries and other fruits.

For fertilizers they apply from one and one-half, to two and one-half tons per acre, of a high grade commercial fertilizer. T heir yield ranges from 5,000 to 11,000 quarts per acre. The berries are grown in matted rows, the* plants being kept in a space about eight inches wide. The question of varieties he affirms to be a purely local affair. A variety succeeding well in one locality, will utterly fail in another locality.

D inner was served in splendid style by the ladies and committee of arrangem ents. The Trustees of the Baptist Church kindly giving the use of their Church parlors.

All of the new building' are pi gressing nicely.

Re-unions are very plentiful hereabouts. On Tuesday 290 of the Wood family met at Sam. W ood’s. Thursday 10o of the Dorman family were at Luzerne Dorm an’s. The Stebbins people also celebrated their annual at Jo h n Stebbins’. The Swezev families met at A. i>. W estcott’s, and held

; an annual outing. < >u Saturday, the Dut- | ’on relatives were at N irmitn Bailev’a for j their annual re-union.

Mr. Breckinridge Ini' returned from Bradford, aud is moving into a part of Mrs. Schaffer’s huiise.

C. J . Palm er has moved into his lately purchased Louse ou F rank lin street.

Shall we incorporate or not ? is the ques- ti“ n that is now disturbing tbe minds of our citizens. It will be decided Monday evening, when the votes are counted.

Miss Carrie D ant, of Ashtabula, Ohio, is visiting at T . R . Coveney’s.

Dr. Allen Dutton, of M ichigan, is visit­ing among his relatives in this vicinity.

Threshers report oats a very light yield, twenty bushels to the acre being the excep­tion, not the rule—more often only twelve to fifteen.

\ tobacco in any form upon the public stree t' I nr in tinv public place. This w ill be the j action of all other cities and the law wiil be generally observed in all large j.laces. ! \\ here it will almost be a dead letter is in the smaller villages and hamlets where small boys are unnoticed, thus it becomes the special duty of our police force to hear in mind that a small boy. or a good sized one. following on behind a cloud of smoke is regarded as an unm itigated nuisance as

-partnership.W ork for your town then. If you can

not trust your fortunes with it, it is your plain duty to get out. Don’t be a dead­weight. Don’t throw yourself in the way of others and insist that the only way for the procession to move is to run over you or t<> carry you bodily. W herever vou may be. get right into the traces and pull. It wiil make you strong.

well as a violator o should be arrested.

the law an^ therefore

F o r S a l e

A line-toned piano, sowing machine and several articles of household furniture. Call at Mrs. H aw kins’, F ranklin St.

HYMENEAL.

H o w e l l —F o x .—At State Line on Sep­tember 2, by W. E. Chaffee, Esq., E . A. Howell and M atilda Fox, both of W est­field .

—The September num ber of The ( >ld Hom estead, the southern literary, fashion, and domestic monthly, published a t Savan­nah, (rs ., is up to its usual standing. It has complete and serial stories, poems, and essays by some of the most brilliant south­ern writers, while its fashion departm ent, handsomely illustrated, is one of the best in the country. The Old Homestead is the literary magazine of the south, and its freedom from erratic and sensational matter makes it a welcome visitor in tlie most refined homes. Its only purpose is to encourage literature and to elevate and refine. I t is a magazine of forty pages 11 x 15, with a subscription price of $1 per year; sample copy free. Davis Bros., publishers, Savannah.

N o t i c e .

W hereas, my wife and daughter have re­fused to live with me, I forbid anyone trusting them at my expense.

J . K . W into.n .

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for hemlock lumber prom ptly D. C. P r a t t ,

Sherman, N.

—A movement is on foot to tender ex- Superintenilent C. B. Couch a reception, which will probably be held at the Union Depot Hotel. The reception will be on a grand scale and will be attended by repre­sentatives from every branch of the road. It is intended to giye a grand banquet ar.d some suitable fiOtrvenior to tlie re tiring superintendent and bu enjoyable time is expected. M r. Conch was well liked by the men under his charge and they desire to return his kind considerations by paying him this honor. T he reception will be attended by both officials and employees who will join together in wishing M r. Couch a successful fu tu re .—E rie Tim es.