Spirit of the Times Batavia, Genesee Co., NY Saturday, November 5 1887 part 1 LOCAL RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS. WHAT WE SEE AND HEAR. TURNER & Son conducted over 1,300 funerals in this county, during the 7 years they were in the undertaking business here; an average of nearly 200 a year or about 4 a week. R.A. MAXWELL, State Superintendent of Insurance, arrived in town this Friday morning. Miss Mary COTES, East Main street, is in New York on a visit to her brother, Byron E. COTES. Hon. John G. SAWYER has our thanks for public documents received through his courtesy. A horse thief stole a brown mare and top buggy from John CHAMPLON's livery stable at Le Roy Tuesday night. There is a great scarcity of freight cars and shippers are experiencing some difficulty in getting enough of them to forward their fruit and produce. The new dormitory for Ingham University at Le Roy is completed and in use. A grand reception will be held there on Saturday evening of this week. Isaac T. PARKER, formerly employed on the Batavian for several years, left for New York last Wednesday to become a typo on one of the large dailies there. Frank E. TERRY returned last Sunday from an extended business trip to Pittsburg, whither he went in the interest of the Johnston Harvester Company. Two freight trains collided with fearful force at Silver Creek last Sunday, reducing fifteen cars to kindlings and killing both engineers and one fireman. Six cows owned by Frank FOX, near Darien Center, died last week from eating apples in which Paris green had been inserted by a maliciously inclined person. Messrs. Henry HEWITT, Frank DEPOT, J.H. JONES, and M.C. TURNER started on Monday last for an extended trip through the west, expecting to be gone six to eight weeks. It is said that over six hundred people attended E.A. BROWN's auction sale of grade stock at Pembroke last Thursday. Mr. BROWN got his bills at the Times Office. According to recent crop reports Western New York will produce this fall about 5,000,000 barrels of apples, nearly half of which will come from Niagara, Monroe and Orleans counties. The flow of gas at one of the Le Roy salt wells is sufficient, it is said, to light the entire village. If this is so why don't they put a barrel over the hole and catch enough gas to last a week or two. Mrs. Marie LUCE, of Auburn, has opened a dancing school in the Assembly rooms, in the Times building, and organized her classes Thursday evening. The opening night was very largely attended. The annual meeting of the Local Visiting Committee of the Genesee county poorhouse will meet at the house of Mrs. E.L. ENSIGN, Bank street, Batavia, on Wednesday, November 9th, at 2:30 p.m. O.J. WATERMAN has sold out his wholesale and retail liquor business to a Mr. DEWITT, of Havana, Schuyler county, who will take possession December first. Mr. WATERMAN intends to remove to Oregon. Prof. Carl E. KASELITZ, who was in Batavia a few weeks ago and organized a class in German, has been arrested in Rochester on a charge of attempting to defraud his landlord out of a sum due for board. We learn that, owing to some misunderstanding, the sale of the Elba hotel property has not been consummated. Mr. MORGAN thinks that if the sale falls through he will lease the hotel and conduct it. Next Wednesday, ENGLE's famous mammoth electrical clock will be exhibited in the State street rink. It is a master piece of skill and ingenuity and combines more features than any piece of mechanism in existance. The J. GARDINER farm, in Oakfield, was sold by F.S. WOOD, referee, on Saturday last at Wm. C. WATSON's office. The farm was purchased by Samuel WRIGHT, of Alexander, for $10,650 , a house and lot by E.M. VAIL for $410, and a piece of land of 46 acres was knocked down to Geo. W. REED for $2,310. While walking across the Central bridge at Le roy last week a boy named Darby fell off, a distance of twenty feet, striking the stone bottom of the creek. Both is wrists and head were injured and he was other wise bruised. It is almost a miracle that the lad was not killed. Geo. P. BROWN went to New York Tuesday evening to purchase holiday goods, an announcement of which will appear in the Times shortly. The Albany Evening Journal notices the marriage of Miss Nettie CROSS, Tracy place, and Mr. Harry M. LAY, East Main street, this village, which took place on Wednesday last at the residence of the bride's uncle, Mr. J.E. CROSS, No. 196 Park street, Albany, the J. Livingston REESE, D.D., officiating. Mr. and Mrs. LAY will reside in Batavia, occupying the fine residence now being built by Mr. LAY on Tracy place. We have received the first number of Drift, an illustrated monthly humorous periodical published in Buffalo. The management is in the hands of B.H. COLGROVE, editor; C.W. BRADLEY, late of London, Eng., artist in charge; W.H. HORNER, engraver; A.W. BURCH, Business manager. Price, per copy, 5 cents. It is well conducted and its low price ought to secure it a good circulation. * It Knocks Them All Out! What? Why that delicious Coffee that F.J. GAST is serving at his Lunch Room. Only 5 cents a cup. * to be cont'd. submitted by L.C. Schmidt