The Daily News Batavia, Genesee Co., NY Friday Evening, March 6 1891 MERE MENTION. Justice ROBSON has moved his office to rooms over KOON's auction store, No. 32 Main street. RAPP & SCHOOLEY placed a new sign over their store on Jackson street yesterday afternoon. A reception to traveling men will be given at the PARKER House by Landlord GORDON on the 13th. This is the last day of winter term of the public schools. The spring term will begin on Monday, March 16th. The performance of "The Black Thorn" at the Opera House last evening was fairly attended. It was an ordinary entertainment. Committees on revising the premium list of the Genesee County Agricultural Society will meet at the PARKER House to-morrow. The circle of King's Daughters (The Willing Ten) will meet with Mrs. RICE, No. 103 Bank street, Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The engine on TURREL's Attica train is being run by John FRIEDLEY of Batavia, owing to the Indisposition of Engineer Harvey BACKUS. M. O'BRIEN on April 1st will move his grocery from the Dellinger block to the store in the Dailey block, formerly occupied by J.S. BROWN. The semi-annual meeting of the Sunday schools of Le Roy and Stafford will be held in Le Roy on Friday of next week, when the election of officers will take place. The fifth of the series of social parties to be given by the Royal Teetotalers' Club, which was to have been held on the 13th inst. at Odd Fellows' Hall, has been postponed until the 20th. A Farmers' Field Day is likely to be held in Batavia soon. Prof. ROBERTS and a class of Cornell students will be here and the Rev. A.C. OSBORN of Albion will read a paper on State roads. The hour for the funeral of Vernie S. SEAMANS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.A. SEAMANS of East Pembroke, whose death occurred yesterday morning, has been changed from Saturday at 2 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday. The Geneseo Democrat says that Dr. N.N. LEFLER, son of Dr. LEFLER of Batavia, and who for some years past has been doing business in Geneseo as a veterinary surgeon, will remove to Canandaigua the latter part of this week. State Missionary Lewis HAAS of East Aurora will speak next Sunday under the auspices of the town Sunday School Association in East Pembroke at 11 a.m. and at Corfu at 3 p.m. in the Methodist church and at 7 p.m. at the Presbyterian church. * PERSONAL. Le Grand WHITCOMB of Elmira is the guest of J.T. WHITCOMB. Miss Maud BAKER left last night for Washington to visit friends. John B. HEWITT and James H. JONES returned from California this morning, after an absence of four weeks. Mr. and Mrs. R.D. DEWEY and family leave next Tuesday for Turin, Lewis county, to visit the former's mother. Mrs. G.D. WILLIAMSON gave a pleasant reception to quite a number of her friends at her residence on Bank street last evening. E. Kirby CALKIN, who has been absent about four months in South America and Europe in the interests of the Johnston Harvester Company, returned this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. BROWN, who have rented their house on State street to F.E. BROWNELL, will board with Mr. and Mrs. M.W. HAY, who have leased the Dr. RAND house on Liberty street. Robbie CARSON, son of John R. CARSON, has been seriously ill for two weeks with catarrhal fever. Thomas DELBRIDGE, son of Walter DELBRIDGE, who has been quite ill for a week of the same disease, is improving. * THIS END OF THE STATE. At a big sale in Allegany county the other day thirty cows sold at an average price of $30 each. The house of Henry WALTERS at Rushville burned on Wednesday night. Loss, $1,200; insurance, $400. Leonard KUHN, implicated in the wrecking of the Faulkner bank at Dansville, was convicted yesterday. Sentence was suspended. A swindler giving the name of METCALF has been beating Monroe county farmers out of board and lodgings under pretense of buying farms. The trustees of Attica are considering the purchase of an $800 stone crusher, as against the purchase of stone already crushed at the Le Roy beds. A layer of four inches will be placed on the corporation streets this summer. Hundreds of muskrats and mink driven out into the fields by the high water have been shot and captured along the Genesee river from Portage to Mt. Morris the past week. Two hunters killed 149 muskrats and one mink in two days, and another sportsman shot 119 muskrats and three mink. * Prof. REYNOLDS Next Week. All next week Prof. REYNOLDS, the mesmerist, will be at the Opera House. The Detroit Tribune says of him: "The performances are very much in favor with all classes, and each night the hall is crowded with eager spectators anxious to prolong life, remembering that laughter is conducive of long existence. Prof. REYNOLDS as a mesmerist has no equal in this country and his control over his subjects is phenominal." * HOME MISSION--OTHER NEWS OF THE TOWN. Bergen, March 6.--Next Sunday evening a Home Missionary praise service will be held in the Congregational church. The exercises will consist of singing, responsive Scripture readings, recitations and a collection, and will begin at 7 o'clock. The presence of every lady connected with the church and congregation is desired. The LEWELLYN place on McKenzie street was sold at auction last Wednesday on a foreclosure by Referee PRENTICE at Batavia, and was bought by the occupant, John W. DAVY. Miss Mary MYERS is visiting in Henrietta. Miss Maud MYERS, who went to Elba on Wednesday, will not return until Monday. Her place in the school is being filled by Miss Belle HUBBARD. Mrs. James F. GORDON and her sister, Miss Kate ROSS of Rochester, were visitors at D.and D. J. McPHERSON's yesterday. Miss Helen L. WILCOX went to Scottsville this morning to spend some time with her sister, Mrs. Schuyler BUDLONX. The News will tell her what is going on in Bergen. The Busy Bees will meet at the parsonage to-morrow afternoon at 2:30. * BORN. McPHERSON.--On Sunday, the 1st inst., to Mr. and Mrs. D.E. McPHERSON of Alexander, a son. * TO WALK ON WAGER. >From South Alabama to Batavia in Two Hours-News in Oakfield. Oakfield, March 5.--An arrangement has been made between Robert HUTTON and Alexander NICHOLSON by which HUTTON agrees to walk from the Postoffice steps at South Alabama to the West End Hotel, Batavia, in two hours. He loses $5 forfeit in case of failure and wins a like amount if successful. The walking is to be done the first fine day. A citizen caucus has been called to meet at CHAMERLIN's Hall next Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock to nominate a President, one Trustee, Treasurer and Collector for the village of Oakfield. The corporation election will be held March 17th at CHAMERLAIN's Hall. The Postoffice will be moved to the building adjoining S.A. WEAVER's block, now occupied by J.L. DUNHAM, on April 1st. The Town Clerk's office will hereafter be found at RATHBONE's hardware store. The PARKER saw mill has been sold to J.H. WARD of Batavia on foreclosure. The revival meetings being held at the M.E. church are well attended and considerable interest is manifested. John HALE of South Alabama, who was arrested for being drunk and disorderly on March 4th, was tried before Justice HAWES and a jury Thursday afternoon. Verdict, not guilty. Mr. LAWTON will occupy W.W. STEVENS's house, south of the railroad, instead of W.H. MARTIN's, as previously mentioned. The venerable widow of Deacon HOSSELKUS is in very feeble health. She will be 92 years old on her next birthday. Miss Minnie McVEN is sojourning in Syracuse for a few weeks as a guest at the Rev. A.D. DRAPER's, formerly of Batavia. * THE TOWN OF BETHANY. West Bethany, March 6.--A robin greeted this community with its familiar chirp yesterday. It is uncommonly early for the harbinger of spring to appear. The mercury this morning marked 3 degrees below zero. The sugar festival at the West Bethany church on Wednesday evening was slimly attended on account of the severe storm. A pleasant time was had by those present. The proceeds amounted to about $7. The D.L.&W. are erecting a wire fence along their line; not the barbed wire, however. George MORRIS, who is working the LINCOLN farm, has commenced his sugar business by tapping 400 trees. George WILSON is quite seriously sick with bilious fever. Dr. MILLER of Alexander attends him. Bethany, March 6.--George BARROWS has rented a portion of Alva MARTIN's house and will move in about the 1st of April. Scarlet fever is in this community. Two or three cases are reported. The Rev. E.B. McGHEE has been preaching at the Presbyterian church every night this week. Miss Katie WELKER has returned to town. Mrs. C.A. HUGGINS has been on the sick list for some time past. George MIX being away, Clarence BARROWS drives the stage and carries mail this week. * THE NEWS IN ALEXANDER. Alexander, March 6.--While three teams belonging, respectively, to Winfield SPINK, Oel S. KIDDER, and Cortland CROSMAN were standing under the hotel shed, Mr. SPINK's colt frightened the other horses, causing all to run away. Mr. SPINK's wagon was dashed to pieces. The others escaped without much injury. Miss Blanche BROWN is quite sick with the measles. Mrs. H. NESTELLE of Akron, Ohio, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Allen MOUTLON. Mr. ENOS has rented the rooms over C.B. EGGLESTON's paint shop. * NORTH PEMBROKE NOTES. North Pembroke, March 6.--Miss Nellie DENTON will teach school at Cowlesville, Wyoming county, the coming summer. Mr. ALLEN, the school teacher here, boards at Henry SWAN's. Henry CONIBER is confined to the house with sciatic rheumatism and is attended by Dr. PARMELE of Batavia. Mrs. George DONIBER is suffering from the grip. Martin STONE is laid up from the effects of a fall. * Personal. Owing to the large number of calls Madam MILLER, the fortune teller, has decided to remain over, leaving here Sunday for Rochester. Continental Hotel. Ladies 25 cts. * Wanted. Wanted--If you wish information regarding anything or wish to obtain anything or wish to dispose of anything, make known your wants at The Red Light Employment Bureau and Information Commission Agency. Consultation free and strictly private. Room 4, over 57 Main St. * A Perfect Ale Unadulterated! The Pure Extract of Hops and Malt. That is our Guarantee. You know when you drink a glass of GAMBLE's Ale that it is Pure! The Batavia Brewing Company is responsible and their guarantee cannot be questioned. * submitted by L.C. Schmidt