Cattaraugus Republican, September 20, 1901

LITTLE VALLEY LOCALS

S. L. SWEETLAND, REPUBLICAN
REPRESENTATIVE,

Local Scribs [sic] and Agent for Subscriptions , Job Printing and Advertising.

— Miss Celia Heber is visiting in Buffalo

— J. B. F. Champlin was out from Buffalo yesterday.

— Mrs. Sophia Ansel is home from her stay in Batavia.

— Sorry to chronicle that Harry Bedient is yet very ill.

— Mrs. W. F. Hall is improving from her serious illness,

— Station Agent E. T. McCarthy has been ill this week.

— William Pass of Gowanda was here yesterday visiting.

— H. D. Phillips sports a new milk wagon for his route.

— Teachers’ institute at Gowanda next week and no school.

— There have been two or three slight frosts the past week.

— Mrs. Laura Drake of Cleveland is here visiting relatives.

— Will Boberg has lost a valuable dog. It was killed by the cars.

— All our business places were closed yesterday from 1 to 4 p. m.

— Mrs. Franklin Hall is very low and may not live another week.

— John Heber of Buffalo is spending a few days here with his family.

— Miss Alice Eastman spent Sunday with West Salamanca relatives.

— George Ward of Ellicottville was calling upon friends here Saturday.

— Don’t forget the gas and oil well meeting at the opera house tonight.

— H. J. Crissey is changing the second floor over his bank to living rooms.

— Miss Adah Phillips has begun attending the Buffalo Normal school again.

— Henry Fuller of West Salamanca called upon friends here Wednesday.

— W. W. Henry and family are entertaining Miss Jessie Shngart of Gowanda.

— W. W. Wilson is making some needed improvements about his home.

— Tom Wood entertained his uncle, G. W. Wood of Delevan, a few days since.

— Mr. and Mrs. Edward Merow and family are pleased with a new daughter In their home.

— Ernest Smith of Mansfield is desirous oi buying a farm and has a " want" adv. this week.

— Walter Bowen and wife spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H, S. Sweetland in Villenova.

— Job Case has been reported on the sick list. Their daughter Mabel of Nebraska is here for a visit.

— Last Saturday Rev. G. E. Hensbaw was called to Ellington to preach a funeral sermon of a former friend.

— Rev John Harmon and wife of Perry have besn here visiting their daughter, Mrs David Whipple and family, and friends hereabouts.

— Many of our business places and private residences have been decorated in mourning this week on account of the death of President McKinley.

— Wesley McMillen of Wisconsin is here visiting old time relatives and acquaintances. H e went from here in 1865, and naturally finds many changes.

— Judson D. Stevens of Haigles, Neb., who has been absent from here ior 18 years, is here visiting his brother, William Stevens, Zina Dudley and friends of years ago.

— Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Conklin have had as their guests of late Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Warner of Woodhull, N. Y. They with Mr. and Mrs. Conklin are at the Pan- Ara. this week.

— We learn that Mrs. F. M. Bailey has said her house and lot, the Dr. Twomley corner, to W. C. Parker, and that Mrs. Bailey has purchased Geo. M. Fuller’s house and lot on Rock City street.

— There was a horse race at the fair grounds Monday afternoon between Andy Case’s horse and Burt Crandall’s. Case’s horse won easily. Crandall therefore dropped his $50 and several others smaller amounts.

— Congregational church social on Friday of this week at the home of Mrs. McMillen on Court street. Supper served from six to seven. Everybody invited. Each lady requested to bring knife, fork, spoon and napkm.

— Last Sunday some of our citizens walked up the hill to the new reservoir, and just as they neared it a bare, naked boy was seen to scamper into the bushes near by and dress. H e evidently was about to take a bath in the new reservoir.

— Friday evening last there was a fair representation at the oil and gas meeting at the opera house, A. E. Darrow was selected as chairman and F . M. Merrill as secretary. After some talk by those present it was decided to appoint a committee to solicit shares of stock* and obtain leases hereabouts to the number of 3,000 acres or more The shares of stock were put at $10 each, and the committee were H. J. Crissey, Henry Hilsle and Christ Harder, The committee are having the help of several of our citizens and are meeting with fair success. This (Friday) evening they will have another meeting of the opera house. The name of the company will be the Little Valley Oil and Gas company. It is earnestly hoped that they will be successful in obtaining oil and gas if they go for it.

— We learn that Bill Burrell’s string came out ahead at the Dunkirk races, and Cap Power’s second.

— The East Randolph stage will hereafter leave here at r o’clock p. m. [sic], and returning arrive here about 7 o’clock.

— Mr. and Mrs. Enos Marsh have been entertaining of late John Marsh and wife of Walden. They are all enjoying the Pan-Am, today and tomorrow.

— Clarence Sprague and Walter Wilcox have gone to Syracuse, where they attend the university of that city. Prof. Earl L. Ackley is also taking a course there.

— Who would think that we had a man in this village who could so far forget himself as to say in substance that President McKinley got what he deserved. But, mind you, he didn’t repeat it or come down town and let his thoughts be known.

— While Little Valley citizens regret the departure of Rev. Minnigh to Epsyville, Pa., we are glad to know that Rev, S. M. Sartwell will preach here next year. He bas some acquaintances here and soon will have more. He and his family will be welcome.

— One of the best decorations noticed about town on account of the death of McKinley was that of W. C. Parker On the side of his house were the portraits of the martyred presidents, Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, with the stars and stripes intertwined with black.

— The new reservoir is completed and full of water. The new six inch pipe has arrived, and this will connect the new reservoir with our mains on Main street. We are also glad to say that there is to be a roof or cover over the reservoir to protect it from all kinds of filth.

— A recent issue of the Noble County Sentinel of Perry, Oklahoma, has a full page advertisement of B. J. Woodruff, a former merchant here and a Little Valley boy. The Daily Enterprise-Times of the same city also contains an account of a pleasant social event in the Masonic order there, of which Mr. Woodruff is master. Brad's friends here wish him well.

Napoli Notes.

Mr. Burt Wilcox and Miss Jennie Vining, two of the popular young people of Napoli, were married Tuesday afternoon September 17th, at the home of Mr. Hosmer Wilcox and Mrs. Wilcox, the bridegroom’s parents. The officiating clergyman was J. G. Evans of Napoli. It was done in the presence of the immediate family and the grandparents, the only parties out of town being Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson of Bradford relatives of he bride. After the ceremony a bountiful repast was served amid hearty congratulations and well wishes for a bright and happy life for the young couple. Music was furnished by the Misses Itha and Carrie Wilcox and others, and two very pleasant addresses made by Mr. Ferguson. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox will make their home at Napoli, where several generations of their people have lived and are highly esteemed by the community. We wish them bon voyage over life’s ocean.

Mr. and Mrs. Chauncy Boardman are entertaining relatives from Oklahoma.

That smile on Rob. Seaton’s face is on account of that new baby boy.

Rev. and Mrs. Evans and daughter Esther went to the Pan-Am. Wednesday.

A. B. Richmond is giving his bouse a fresh coat of paint.

Alfred Cave and H. H. Wilcox commenced filling their silos this week.

Farmers are cutting their corn as fast as the weather will permit.

Nelson and Darwin Bliss, Mrs. Anna Burt, Mrs. Henry Stud, Miss Emma Bryant and Mr. Frank Smith were at the Pan-Am. the last of last week.

Mrs. William Smith is having a monument set on her lot in the Smith Napoli cemetery.

Memorial Services.

Appropriate memorial services were held in Little Valley yesterday afternoon. At 1 p. m. the bells were tolled, and at 2 o’clock a large audience gathered in the opera house, which had kindly been of fered for the occasion by the Cattaraugus Cutlery company. The exercises opened with prayer by Rev. E, O. Minnigh, and an anthem by the choir. Rev. Mr. Minnigh then gave an address on "McKinley as a Christian." After an other selection by the choir Rev. G. E. Hecshaw delivered a fine and eloquent eulogy of the late president. The choir sang m closing "Nearer My God to Thee."

The music was in charge of J. W. Simons with Miss Helen Rich at the organ, and the choir was made up( of singers from both the church choirs.

Pan American visitors will find first-class accommodations at the house of Mrs. Nettie J. Sigman, 483 Breckenridge street, Buffalo, N. Y. Rates, 50c, 75c and $1.00 a day. Breakfast served. Take Bayne and Hoyt car on corner of Main and Exchange Streets.

I Have a good proposition for a man who understands selling and building Wagon Scales. Address Q. Jk F owler, Box 353, Binghamton, N. Y.

Wanted — I would like to purchase a small farm. Call on or address Ernest Smith, Little Valley, N. Y.

Wanted — Three girls At Rock City Hotel, Little Valley, N.Y,

Diptheria, sore thoat, cramp, Insant relief, permanent cure. Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil. At any drug store.

OLD MAN FATALLY SHOT

TWO BOYS CHARGED WITH THE CRIME

William Mills of Freedom, Near Sandusky, the Victim — The Boys Held for the Grand Jury.

Last Saturday evening Mr. William Mills, an old gentleman living near the village of Sandusky, was shot while sitting in his home, Mr. S. C. Hayden, The Republican correspondent at Franklinville, sends the following report of the transaction:

The home of Mr. Mills is about three fourths of a mile from Sandusky, in the hitherto quiet and prosperous town of Freedom. The house is a one-story, unpretentious building, but comfortable, and just the place for an old couple to spend their declining years. Mr. Mills was an old gentleman of 71 years. H e has been a carpenter, but four years ago he bought the 10 acres where he lived, and had done a little farming. He did not know that be had an enemy in the world, and everybody speaks well of him. His wife is several years younger. Last Saturday evening they sat in the back part of the house in the kitchen, Mr. Mills by the stove, and about 10 feet from the south outside doorway through which the shots were fired. His wife sat on the opposite side of the room near the table, reading aloud to her husband, a custom which had long prevailed. At about 8 o’clock there was a report of a gun and a load of shot came crashing through the screen door. The panel door was open, but the screen closed. The rattling of the shot on the screen making a confusing noise, Mrs. Mills jumped up and inquired what the trouble was, and noticing that he husband acted queerly, she asked him if that was a shot asked if he was hurt. He answered that he was. She then ran to the door, opened the screen door, looked out into the darkness and yelled "Murder! Help!" several times. She had scarcely closed the door when there was another report, and again the shot came crashing through. Mrs. Mills. thinks that it was the second shot which injured her husband most, but she was so flustrated as to be unable to decide. The door and the wall near where he sat was filled with shot. The shot was small bird shot — perhaps No. 8 —some of which penetrated the face, eyes, neck, shoulders and arms of Mr. Mills. He is unable to see and suffers much pain. The floor where he sat was bespattered with blood,

Whoever it was fired the shot must have stood within a few rods of the door, as there is a hollow farther away, and one could not fire a shot at from any great distance. Two boys were under arrest and having a hearing at the time ot <illegible> correspondent’s visit, with Attorney Geo. Spring of Franklinville looking to the interest of the boys, and Attorney John Knight of Arcade for the people.

The story was as follows: Two boys, Cleve Lucy and Ralph Knight, were seen in that vicinity with a gun. The Lucy boy, a lad of 17, came into the village soon after the shooting in a rather collapsed condition, claiming that a couple of tramps came along and wished to borrow his gun to shoot woodchucks, and that he went along with them to carry or keep track of his gun. He says that they had the gun and he heard them shoot twice, and that they then brought the gua to him and told him to run for his life. This story he claims to be true and continues to stick to it. The opinion of some is that the boys thought to scare the old people so fired into the door with serious results.

As a result of the examination at Sandusky Cleveland Lucy, aged 16 years, and Ralph Knight, aged 14 years were held for the grand jury on the charge of assault in the first degree. Sheriff Williams, who had been attending the examination, brought Lucy to Little Valley jail yesterday morning. Knight was committed to the Rochester reformatory pending the sitting of the grand jury. At last accounts Mr. Mills was living and expected to recover, although he has 32 shots in his person and one eye is destroyed.

CATTARAUGUS.

Mourning for McKinley—Death of Mrs. George Lattin — Burglary — Accident.

The tolling of the church bell at a few minutes past 6 a. m. Saturday morning announced to our people that the work of the vile assassin had been too well done, and that the most beloved president of all who have ever been chosen as the chief magistrate of this great nation had closed his eyes in death. The news seemed, like a dark pall, to envelop every heart, and never before were seen such genuine expressions of sorrow among all classes of our people. All felt that the blow had been struck not only at the embodiment of purity of life, but also at all those aims and purposes that have for their object the best good of every one of the race. In a short time the post office, many of the business places, as well as private residences were draped in mourning, which, with the flags at half staff, were evidences of the deep sorrow which pervaded every mind, and of the love and respect which filled all hearts for him who had been ruthlessly struck down,

Last week Thursday afternoon Mrs. Grace Harvey Lattin, relict of the late Dr. George Lattin, in the 51st year of her life, passed from thc shores of lime Into the boundless unknown, called eternity, The deceased was a lady of culture and