The Boston Globe ran a occasional column entitled "Cape Cod Items" from 1884-1186, at least. These ones appeared in a search of the Proquest database, and are transcribed from PDF images. The Globe had a broad definition of "Cape Cod." Boston Globe, 2 Dec 1884, p. 4 Cape Cod Items. The young men of Sandwich have formed a Young Men's Athletic Club. Dr. P.F. Haskins of Yarmouth has sold his drug store to Dr. Whittaker of Hinsdale, Mass. Rev. Mr. Jenkins of Northampton is to supply the pulpit of the Unitarian Society at Orleans. Messrs. Miller & Ladd of Boston have contracted to build a new summer residence for Hon. Robert Morse, Jr., of Boston at Falmouth. Russell Moody of Harwich is draining Dyer's pond, about ten acres, to convert it into a cranberry meadow. Several miles of bottom in Chatham bay have been leased by the Chatham Oyster Company and the Union Oyster Company. Both companies have been newly formed, and are to make extensive experiments in oyster culture. The selectmen of Marshpee have petitioned the Legislature to establish and define the boundary line between the towns of Falmouth and Marshpee, in and across Waquoit bay and out to the Vineyard Sound. The following epitaph is found upon a tombstone at South Dennis cemetery: He was the fourth to find a watery grave, The fifteen days had passed, the circumstance occurred, His body was found and decently interred. The total catch of blackfish in Wellfleet harbor ten days ago realized a sum of $15,400, for which between 400 and 500 claims have been entered by the fisherman who assisted in the wholesale capture. The American Oil Company of Wellfleet purchased 1900 of the fish, and the works have been repaired by machinists from Boston, preparatory to trying out the oil. This unexpected windfall was providential for many a fisherman's family on the Cape. Boston Globe, 20 Dec 1884, p. 2 Officers of an American Vessel Arrested for Murder. Liverpool, Dec 19.-- The mate and boatswain of the American ship Chapman, just arrived here, have been arrested at the instance of the American consul, charged with murder on the high seas. Cape Cod Items. Three hundred and fifty men are now employed on the Harwich cranberry swamps. A corporation under the general law has been organized by the Dennisport Fishing Company, with a capital of $50,000 for the purpose of catching, curing and selling fish. Howard B. Allen is president of the corporation and B.S.C. Gifford the treasurer. The general superintendent of the life-saving stations has notified the keepers of stations that they must not discharge members of their crew except for well-proven neglect of patrol duty, or for disobedience or insubordination at a wreck, or when life or property are imperilled, without authority from the Treasury Department. Much fault is found with careless or malicious sportsmen from abroad, who have shot numerous sheep and other domestic animals on the Cape this fall. The Sandwich Casino was broken into Tuesday night, evidently by someone whose purpose was only to destroy, as no property is missed, but glass and window sashes were broken promiscuously, and everything inside turned upside down and scattered over the floor. Boston Globe, 5 Jan 1885, p. 5 [poorly readable] Cape Cod Items. Daniel Weaver of South Dennis celebrated his ninety fifth birthday on December 29. The extra freight train between Hyannis and Middleboro was discontinued Saturday. There are [329?] vessels in the Cape Cod District in active service, aggregating [] tons. The schooner [- - -----eld], owned and commanded by Captain F.N. [-----] of Wellfleet, has been sold to Western Island parties for $6000. Captain Freeman Snow of Wellfleet presented his daughter with a [$3000 ? ----] at her marriage last week to J. Elwood Crowell of Provincetown. The [----] by [- - -----] of Sandwich to the person guessing its weight was drawn last Tuesday by William Burgess. There were eleven [] who guesses correctly, but unfortunately for them Mr. Burgess' guess was the first drawn. The wrecking company was at work on the schooner P------- at Provincetown and the prospect is good of getting her off. The vessel is good and is only one year old of 500 tons burden. Her cargo has been landed safely and the potatoes sold, bringing $ [] per barrel. The Cape Cod Music Association has elected the following officers for 1885: President, H.H. Heald, Sandwich; Vice-president, James Jenkins, West Barnstable; executive committee, Dr. D.B. [Gillot-?], Chatham; A. R. Weeks, Harwich, John S. [Stetson?], South Yarmouth; R.C. Bodfish, Falmouth; Samuel Fessenden, Sandwich; secretary and treasurer, A.R. Weeks, Harwich. Boston Globe, 20 Feb 1885, p.1 Cape Cod Items. Landlord Dimmick of Hotel Falmouth, Falmouth Heights, is to have the management of the Stearns House, Monument beach. The Falmouth Ladies' Sewing Society has sent several barrels of clothing and household articles this week to a missionary family in Greenfield, Dakota. The Wellfleet marine Insurance Company declares a dividend of $10 per share. Mrs. Charles Cunningham was found half buried in the snow at Sandwich last Tuesday, in the yard of Timothy Leary. She was taken to a house near by, and after much hard and earnest work on the part of her rescuers was resusitated. The decorating of the interior of the new Harwich Exchange, done by Messrs. H.E. Hartwell & Co. of New York, is believed to be second to none in this part of the state. J.S. Hurd, general trader, Orleans, is trying to compromise with his creditors at 20 cents on a dollar. Boston Globe, 22 Feb 1885, p. 7 Cape Cod Items. Orleans is to have a new skating rink. The old temperance union at Sandwich is to be reorganized. E.B. Robinson is building several yachts at Cataumet for summer visitors. Mrs. Seth Pope, the oldest inhabitant of Sandwich, died Tuesday, aged 91 years 8 months. Captain Albert Chase has purchased all the interests of the late Joshua Baker, Esq., in the Hyannis store. Thomas Harlow and P.R. Robinson of Barnstable have purchased of Matthias Smith the Jones farm at Scorton Neck. Captain and Mrs. E.E. Crowell of West Dennis celebrated the fortieth anniversary of their wedding Wednesday evening. The Active and Dauntless polo teams of Chatham played the second game in the home series Wednesday night, the Actives winning three goals. Leon Marston, who was taken to the insane asylum last summer for treatment, is reported in sound mind and soon to return to Provincetown. Mrs. Richard Baker of Harwich claims to be "cured by faith" from severe chronic dyspepsia and liver complaint at the hands of a Boston "faith cure" doctor. The Gibbs estate at the head of the bay, in Bourne, has been purchased by James W. Baker, Esq., of Falmouth. He will erect a club house on the shore of the property. The selectmen of Bourne have laid out a new highway at Barlow Village, Cataumet, to connect with the Wing's Neck road at a point near the residence of Captain Joseph Dimmick. A petition is being circulated at Falmouth asking for the appointment of E.C. Swift as postmaster, a well-known Democrat; also one for the retention of the present incumbent, Joseph C. Burgess. Stowell Hopkins, a 5-year-old son of Smith Hopkins, Esq., of Barnstable fell down a flight of stairs last Sunday and was picked up unconscious. He remains in that condition and gives no evidence of rallying. The residents of Cataumet, with the assistance of several of their influential Boston summer residents, have petitioned the Old Colony railroad to establish a ticket and freight office at their railroad station. Boston Globe, 17 Apr 1885, p. 8 Cape Cod Items. A young full-grown deer was killed by a wild engine on the railroad track below Sandwich a few days since. Paul Wing has given his large and varied assortment of school apparatus to the Sandwich High School. The Atlantic Fertilizer Company of Chatham has bought the schooner W.F. Miller of New London, Conn., and under the command of Captain C.W. Mayo, she will be used to transport their products to market. The Boston and Sandwich Glass Company has declared a dividend of $2 per share. Abram F. Swift of Bourne has received $1860 on an endowment life insurance policy. The Messrs. Simpkins and others of Yarmouth have formed a company to put in some fifty acres of cranberry bog at Hedge Neck Hockamom. William Anderson is superintendent. The basement of the new Harwich Exchange building is designed for the storage of cranberries, and will hold 5000 barrels. Work has commenced upon a new railroad bridge at Buzzard's Bay, Narrows, to be built before the heavy trains for summer travel on the Vineyard route of the Old Colony railroad are put on. The bridge is to be constructed on iron, and an extra large gang of workmen will work every day and Sundays until completed. MonohansettBoston Globe, 22 Apr 1885, p. 4 Cape Cod Items. Summer travel to the Cape has commenced. The Marshpee Indians are enjoying a vigorous religious revival. The Buzzard's Bay railroad bridge is to be finished in about six weeks. Albert Thatcher's store at Dennisport was burned to the ground last Wednesday. A fifty-foot finback whale was towed into Provincetown Friday by steamer Fannie Sprague. Rev. Bernard Paine of Sandwich has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Orthodox Church at Saybrook, Conn. David E. Long of Pawtucket, R.I. has bought the Cove Bridge House at Dennis and will take possession at once. Postmaster Owen Eldridge of Woods Holl died last Sunday of heart disease, aged 72 years. He was postmaster for twenty-nine years, and was a member of the firm David & Eldridge. The Nantucket and Cape Cod Steamship Company has chartered the steamer River Queen to the Staten Island Rapid Transit Company to run between New York and Staten Island. The Monohansett will take the place of the Queen on the Nantucket route. The following gentlemen have been appointed as enumerators for Barnstable county, to take the census for 1885, the work to commence May 1 and to close before the latter part of June: Barnstable, Samuel Snow; Bourne, Nathan Nye; Brewster, Freeman Snow; Chatham, Benapah Crowell; Dennis, Isaiah B. Hall; Eastham, Myrick Clark; Falmouth, R.C. Bodfish; Harwich, Thomas Ellis; Marshpee, W.H. Simons, Jr.; Orleans, Joseph W. Rogers; Provincetown, Joseph W. Atwood; Sandwich, Thomas G. Newcomb; Truro, John B. Dyer; Wellfleet, George T. Wyer; Yarmouth, F. Winthrop Smith. Boston Globe, 24 Apr 1885, p. 8 Cape Cod Items. The Harwich Congregational Society has extended a call to Rev. Mr. Cutting to supply the church. About 100 Old Colony railroad workmen are engaged inlaying steel rails from Buzzard's Bay to Hyannis. Mrs. Clara Bassett has leased the Booth Farm at South Dennis and will turn the farm into a large hennery, Mark F. Nickerson's term as registrar of voters for the town of Harwich expires April 30, and Darius F. Weeks has received the appointment. Russell Marsten has erected a mammoth windmill at his summer residence in Centreville, for the purpose of supplying to his own and several adjoining houses. Mrs. John F. Cornish, after forty years as a member of the Congregational Church Choir of Centreville, and as an instructor of the young in choir singing, has resigned. Boston Globe, 29 Apr 1885, p. 8 Cape Cod Items. Joseph King has bought Manuel Silva's house, farm and stock at Truro. The Andrew Hallett homestead at Yarmouth has been sold to Patrick Kenney. A sum of $2000 has been pledged towards the erection of a new Congregational church in Orleans. Over 150 acres of thickly wooded land at Brewster caught from a brush fire Thursday, and was for the most part destroyed. The schooner William Martin, that has been lying on the beach at Provincetown for two years past, has been sold to Heman Smith of Boston by the owners. She will be taken to Boston and fitted for a whaling cruise. Miss Jennie F. Hamlin of Falmouth has had a difficult surgical operation performed upon her eye, the sight of which was destroyed several years ago by an accident. She went to Boston for treatment, and it proved highly successful. Boston Globe, 30 Apr 1885, p. 2 Cape Cod Items. Two Indian skeletons were unearthed last week in Captain Joseph Taylor's cranberry bog at Orleans. Three young persons at Brewster pay the town of Harwich $25 each for the privilege of attending the Harwich High School. The Sandwich First Parish Society has extended a call to Rev. M.C. Brown. He has accepted and will return from Brookline. Master John Humphrey took the first prize in the orange race at the Sandwich rink Tuesday evening. The rink closed Tuesday for the season. C.O. Lowell of New York has sent a check to the Centreville Congregational Church repairs committee, sufficient to defray the entire expense of the extensive repairs that are being made on the society's property. Sunday 100 men were put to work on the new iron bridge at Buzzard's bay. The road-bed and a new track were laid over the partly finished structure in season for the the safe passage of trains Monday morning. The bridge will be entirely completed in about three weeks. Boston Globe, 6 May 1885, p. 8 Cape Cod Items. Craigsville camp meeting will commence July 27. The Sagamore brass band realized $100 from its fair last week. Hon. Alpheus Hardy of Boston has given the Chatham Congregational Sunday school a valuable library. The Congregational Church Society of Sandwich has raised $800 for repairs to be made on the church edifice. Hon. Jonathan Bourne gives $100 of the sum. The high school scholars of Provincetown will give an entertainment, Memorial day, for the benefit of the G.A.R. Rev. J.A. Morse of Wellfleet will deliver the address to the soldiers ans sailors in the afternoon. Boston Globe, 24 Jun 1885, p. 5 Cape Cod Items. Scarlet fever is raging at Chatham. Miss Sylvia Donaldson of Falmouth has been appointed principal of the Union School at Brockton. Captain Nat Robbins of Harwich shows a stalk of rhubarb cut from his garden that weighs one pound and ten ounces. Captain William W. Hallett of Centreville caught 600 bluefish yesterday, the largest number ever brought into that port by any one. The friends of Dr. George N. Munsell of Harwich are congratulating him upon his election to the vice-presidency of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Mrs. Eliza A. Forster of Barnstable has been awarded $246 by the court of commissioners of Alabama claims, as executrix of the estate of Captain Heman Forster. Obed Nickerson of Harwich has begun suit against Ezekiel Wentworth on account of a long standing difficulty between the two over a right to a certain cranberry bog. The Orleans almshouse has been closed for lack of patronage. A few years ago it had twenty inmates, but the number dwindled down to two, and last week one of those died. It was thought best to board out the remaining pauper. Elaborate preparations are making by the members of the Barnstable Unitarian society for the conference to be held in that town on Thursday and Friday. The committee of arrangements consists of the president, Major S.B. Phinney, Mrs. Eben B. Crocker, Miss Minnie Smith, Miss Emma Holmes, Miss Caroline Nye. Rev E.C. Butler of Beverly will deliver the opening address Thursday, and on Friday forenoon Rev. J.H. Hayward of Melrose will deliver an essay. Boston Globe, 10 Sep 1885, p. 3 Cape Cod Items. Mrs. Franklin Homer and family have removed to Jamaica Plain. The number of inhabitants in Chatham is 2028, a loss of 222 since 1880. Professor Frank L. White of Boston is the guest of Judge Harriman at Wellfleet this week. The Ladies' Aid Society of Harwich will hold their annual harvest festival and fair October 15. The members of the Cape Cod Historical Society have arranged for a railroad excursion to Plymouth, Saturday. The annual meeting of the Barnstable County Baptist Association occurs at Chatham on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Boston parties are to erect at once, on the lot corner of Clinton avenue and Shore street, Falmouth, a hotel to contain seventy rooms. The heavy taxpayers of Chatham are: Levi Eldridge, $182 80; Isaac H. Loveland, $129 49; Leander F. Gould, $114 64; Rufus Smith, $104 92. Yesterday Postmaster Thatcher of Yarmouth removed the post office from its former location to a room in George P. Matthew's building. Mr. John Perry has purchased the Captain John Phinney homestead at Falmouth for $855, and fifteen acres of woodland was sold to Mr. S.G. Cahoon. Captain Edward Lewis is announced as a Republican candidate for the Legislature from Yarmouth district, and Mr. E.D. Makepeace, the well-known cranberry grower of Barnstable, comes forward as a Democratic candidate from that district. Mr. William C. Chipman of Spring hill, Sandwich, has in his possession an original copy of the Vicksburg Daily Citizen of June 30, 1863, four days before the surrender. It is printed on the back side of wall paper and conveys the impression that Grant's forces are about to leave Vicksburg in peace. Boston Globe, 17 Nov 1885, p. 2 Cape Cod Items. Mrs. Eliza I. Vincent of West Tisbury has knit since July 1 100 pairs of stockings. The total income of the Nantucket railroad for the year ended September 30 was $9032 68; total expense, $3852 69; net income, $5179 99; interest accrued, $4060; surplus for the year, $119 99. The total income for the Martha's Vineyard railroad for the year ending September 30 was $6130 84; total expense, $3982 66; net income, $2148 18; interest accrued, $2011 09; surplus for the year, $137 09. There is but one windmill in use in Chatham, where formerly there were eight, and that is the one built by Colonel Godfrey nearly 100 years ago, and known later as Uncle Christopher's, and afterwards as Uncle Oliver's. It is now in charge of Zenas A. Nickerson, The following have been elected officers of the Dukes County Educational Association: President, David Mayhew; vice-presidents, H.H. Smith, John N. Pierce; secretary, J.W. Mayhew; treasurer, Samuel Keniston. It was voted to hold the next meeting at Cottage City. A neighborhood convention will be held in the Methodist church, Myricks, Friday, November 30, with the following exercises; 10 o'clock, devotional service, led by Brother J.M. Manning of Raynham; topic, "Reading in Revelation to Growth in Grace," opened by Rev. H.P. DeForest of Taunton; 1.30, praise service, led by Brother I.W. Leach of Lakeville, 2 o'clock, business and discussion of the topic, "Sufficient Evidences of the New Birth," opened by Rev. A.E. Drew of New Bedford; closing address by Rev. B.S. Bachelor of New Bedford. Boston Globe, 25 Dec 1885, p. 8 Cape Cod Items. Truro boys have organized a skunk-hunting club. There was a Christmas tree, supper and entertainment at the North Lakeville chapel last night. All nun, can and bell buoys in Buzzard's Bay and Vineyard Sound have been removed and spar buoys substituted for the winter. The Church of the Good Shepherd at Wareham will observe Christmas in an elaborate manner. The choir will sing special music. Carols will be sung by the Sunday school scholars and a Christmas tree will be the closing feature. When the facts connected with the country postoffices are all known there may not be so many hunters after those much-coveted berths. The Wareham postmistress has paid money amounting to $1065 in three months past, the business requiring five account books. Incoming orders are payable at sight, and she is thus compelled to transact the business on her own capital and, business or no business, she must forward to Washington every Monday morning a full statement of the affairs in the office. Her pay for this service for tree months has amounted to $2.59. Boston Globe, 13 Jan 1886, p. 8 Cape Cod Items. Joseph Eldridge's barn at West Barnstable was blown down by the gale and totally demolished. At the annual parish meeting of the South Dennis Congregational Church the pews were sold for one year for $1002. The upper portion of the Hyannisport Land Company's wharf was carried away by the storm. The damage is about $500. The United States government has filed an order with the Hurd Brothers of Orleans for a supply of 10,000 two-pound jars of cranberry sauce for the United States navy department. The Hyannis Library Association, at its twentieth annual meeting, elected the following officers: Mrs. Doane, president; Mrs. Pitcher, vice-president; Mrs. Hannah Crowell, librarian. The old Freedom Hall Assocoation met at Cotuit Monday and chose officers for the ensuing year as follows: Clerk and treasurer, Captain John Handy; chairman, Captain George H. Fuller; directors, A.E. Nickerson, Asa F. Bearse, C.B. Nickerson. Cape Cod Lodge, Knights of Honor, of Yarmouth, installed the following officers Monday evening: P.D., A.H. Eldridge, 2d; V.D., Alfred D. Kelley; A.D., J.G. Thatcher; chaplain, E.D. Paine; reporter, Joel B. Hall; F.R., R.H. Harris; guide, E.W. Hallett; guardian, William J. Davis. An elegant wedding occurred at Sandwich Thursday at the residence of S.C. Percival. The groom was Seaver C. Lapham of Cotuit and the bride Miss Mercie F. Percival, daughter of Mr. Percival. Rev Robert Samuel of Barnstable officiated, and a wedding reception was tendered the large assembly of guests in the evening. A liberal supply of choice wedding gifts were received. Boston Globe, 17 Feb 1886, p. 3 Cape Cod Items. Schooner Reporter, ashore at Brewster, has been got off the bar, seventy tons of her cargo having been lightered off. The loss on the building and stock of Erastus Chase's clothing and grocery store, totally destoyed by fire Saturday night, is $9000, with less than $3000 insurance. Officers at Yarmouth seized a large quantity of beer and cider at I.F. Smalley's store, Thursday, and searched the premises of Isaiah Ellis without success. Mr. Smalley has appealed, and proposes to fight the authorities to the bitter end. Boston Globe, 21 Feb 1886, p. 2 Cape Cod Items. The town debt of Falmouth is $6306 81. Wellfleet will have a fire protective association. The Squambetty Iron Works lost from $15,000 to $20,000 by the flood. A.W. Pierce of Myricksville has made 90,000 gallons of cider the past season, using 2812 barrels of apples. The cutting department in the Sandwich Glass Works has shut down for an indefinite period. The glass business is dull. The Old Colony railroad is preparing to build a side track to Town Neck, in Sandwich, for the accomodation of the Cape Cod Ship Canal Company. Yarmouth has voted a bounty of twenty-five cents for every muskrat caught. They are one of the greatest pests cranberry growers have to contend with. Trouble of a serious nature is reported at the Chatham almshouse. Several inmates have preferred a commitment to the house of correction to a return to the almshouse. Since Captain I.G. Fisher took charge of Paeked Hill bars life-saving station, Provincetown, in 1880, his crew has rescued 133 persons from fifteen wrecks, having assisatnce in only one case. G.H. Long of Harwich, proprietor of the Highland Hotel at Onset Bay grove, a summer hotel, visited his house yesterday. It had been closed for several months. He found that theives had forced an entrance, and ransacked the establishment from cellar to garret. They had taken about $100 worth of property. Boston Globe, 17 Apr 1886, p. 3 Cape Cod Items. The First National Bank of Provincetown has declared a dividend of 5 per cent. Captain J.S. Nickerson of Provincetown has had a new steam whaler of thirty tons burden built in Maine. Acids used by the Fairhaven Iron Works have penetrated the soil and contaminated the well at the Rogers School house. Rev. A.M. Rice, having spent about three and a half years with the Congregational church at West Tisbury, closes his labors as pastor Sunday. Parties have visited Provincetown with a view of purchasing the Cape Cod Oil Works on Long Point, and establishing guano works in the vicinity. Oyster thieves are said to be stealing oysters from the grants of J.C. Dean and others at Marion. Mr. Dean says he has lost nearly 100 bushels. Boston Globe, 8 May 1886, p. 3 Cape Cod Items. Falmouth has a new brass band, with Frank Lumbert as leader. Mrs. Ellen G. Adams and two children of Falmouth have arrived home from Honolulu. A copper coin dated 1749 was recently ploughed up on the farm of Dr. E.G. Ward in Falmouth. Hon. Elijah A. Morse of Canton will lecture on temperance in the Harwich Congregational Church Sunday evening. Wellfleet people are collecting and shipping violets to Boston. Two thousand flowers were shipped the other day by one person. The Church of the Messiah, Wood's Holl, has elected the following officers: Wardens, Henry H. Fay, Almon P. Sturgis; vestrymen, E.P. Beebe, E.E. Swift, Eliel T. Fish, J. Howes, H.T. Davis, Herbert C. Childs, A.F. Shiverick; clerk and treasurer, E.E. Swift; auditor, Jotham Howes; delegates to annual convention, J.S. Fay, H.H. Fay, H.C. Childs. Boston Globe, 5 Nov 1886, p. 2 Cape Cod Items. Cottage City will expend $1000 for a fire alarm service. An effort is being made to start a shoe factory in the Eastham skating rink. Two hundred and fifty thousand box boards were shipped from Marion last week. Rev. Joseph Hammond has closed his pastorate with the Truro Congregational Church and will remove to Wakefield. The net fishermen of Truro complain that vessels sailing there in search of bait have destroyed more than the usual number of nets this season. Henry C. Nye, for ten years station agent at Marion, has been transferred to the freight department at New Bedford. Warren Swift succeeds Mr. Nye. The schooner George Appleton, Captain Fred Eldridge, was robbed at Chatham of all the stores, cooking utensils, crockery, clock, mirror, and table linen. A benefit ball is to take place at Beacon Villa Hall, Fairhaven, next Thursday evening, for "Uncle Ned," the hermit of Beacon Grove, who recently had a stroke of paralysis. The signal service, H.H. Curley, agent, will be removed from Cottage City to Vineyard Haven during the winter, where it will be located at the Mansion House. The telephone to Gay Head is completed, 876 poles and fourteen miles of wire having been used in its construction. A line to East Chop is also contemplated.