THE OWEGO RECORD Tioga County News. October 12, 1899 OWEGO PERSONALS. A dash or two of rain Sunday raised hopes of a general down pour. Another heavy fog this morning. Fred FORD was in Binghamton Tuesday. Charles BALDWIN is ill with rheumatism. Miss Ella CHATFIELD is visiting in New York. Mrs. E. D. CRANE is passing time in town. D. W. FISK, who runs the Gaskill creamery is ill. Dr. and Mrs. J. M. BARRETT have gone to New York. Fred L. HUGHSON of Big Flats was in Town yesterday. Hugh TROY went to Owego Friday afternoon. - Ithaca Journal. Clarence SHERMAN was in Owego Thursday. - Waverly Advocate. H. M. COONS has moved from112 Chestnut street to 118 Franklin street. Miss Minnie MABEE and Mrs. Nina E. JOHNSON were at Binghamton Tuesday. Miss HUTCHINSON was in Binghamton Tuesday visiting the public schools of that city. Fred KNICKERBOCKER of Greene, is visiting his cousin, Miss Gertrude CAMP, 447 Main street. Miss Madison PARKER of Speedsville has been the guests of friends in Owego. - Ithaca Journal. Misses Grace and Edna RING are spending two weeks in Owego and Binghamton.- Spencer Needle. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. MILLER left Tuesday for a visit in Owego. - Ithaca Journal. Abram Van PATTEN is able to be dressed and get down stairs to his place of business and to ride out. Mrs. Elizabeth W. TAYLOR has been visiting County Clerk, F. W. RICHARDSON and wife at Owego. - Waverly Advocate. Fourteen ladies under the efficent chairmanship of Mrs. Eugene F. BARTON, served a very enjoyable supper for the Thread and Needle society at the Congregational church parlors Thursday evening, the proceeds from which amounted to about $9. Lehigh Conductor Austin WHEELER, while doing a trainman's duty of coupling Saturday at Sayre, lost a foot. He was taken to the Packer hospital and the amputation was preformed. He stood the shock well and his physicians hope that he maybe out in three to four weeks. Three Waverly boys, brothers, were standing on a bridge in that place, were deliberately fired upon and each was wounded by a man, supposed to be a farmer whose chestnuts had been stolen. None of the wounds were serious. Investigations are being made by the police. Hon. Samuel D. HALLIDAY, J. A EISTON, Esq., and Simon SMITH, Esq. were in town Monday on professional business. C. P. BROOKS, who was critically ill at Ridgeway, PA, arrived at his home in this village Saturday and stood the trip well. Mrs. Harry HERRINGTON of Owego is the guest of her sister, Mrs. George SUTHERLAND of this place. - Waverly advocate. Miss Lano LORING left Tuesday afternoon on Lackawanna train 6 for a visit of several weeks at Scranton and New York. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. BROOKS of Tioga Center are passing two weeks at Mrs. BROOKS former home, Athol, Warren county, NY. Mrs. S. B. GRIFFIN of east Temple street is entertaining her niece, Mrs. WOOLEY of OSWEGO, IL, and Mrs. ECKLES of Aurora Hills. Mrs. John Jones, who has been the guest of her daughter, Mrs. George S. TARBELL, returned to Owego Saturday morning. - Ithaca Journal. Miss Fannie STEBBINS will soon close her home, 560 Fifth avenue, for the winter and will board at T. B. OAKLEY'S, 337 Front street. G. E. SAGER and wife of New YORK have been visiting Mr. SAGER'S sister, Mrs. H. J. CATLIN. Mr. SAGER is one of the Broadway squad, "the finest" in the world. E. H. PROSSER, eastern manager of the Knights Templar and Masonic Mutual Aid Association of Ohio, is in town looking after the interests of that organization. Frank LIVERMORE came up from New York Saturday night to pass Sunday and Monday at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. LIVERMORE. Mrs. L. F. DURPHY of 35 Lake street has left town to pass some time with her daughter, Mrs. Fred M. SACKETT of Waterbury, CT, and Mrs. H. D. BEACH of Bridgeport, CT. W. W. BALL of the hustling Front street clothing firm of BELL & STEVENS went to Syracuse and Utica yesterday to purchase additions to their already large stock of fall and winter clothing. Mrs. Nannie METCALF, one of New York state's commissioners for the Paris exposition is passing some time in Owego, her former home, and is stopping at C. P. STARR'S, 290 Main street. Mrs. John DEARSTYNE and daughter, Mrs. Charles POOLE, are stopping for a few days at the residence of R. H. WALKER, 40 Fox street, after which they will leave for their future home in Albany. Frank HAENTZACHE, representing J. E. WILLIAMS, the Binghamton directory publisher and two assistants are in town making a canvass for a directory of the village, which they intend to issue about Nov. 1. Rev. W. A. HARRIS of Millville, NY, while on his way from the annual session of the Genesee conference at Bath, was in town yesterday. He will spend two weeks with Mrs. HARRIS at her former home in Candor. Rev. M. D. FULLER, D. D. and Rev. Geo. FORSYTH, P. E., went to Binghamton Tuesday afternoon to attend the twentieth century convention of the Wyoming conference which met in the Centenary M. E church Thursday afternoon and evening. Dr. W. E. HILL was in New York this week on account of the yacht race. He attended Tuesday evening the wedding of Adelbert T. BUNZEY of Jersey City, NJ, and Miss Fannie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson B. BAKER of Prospect avenue, Jersey City which occurred at the BAKER residence. E. R. BOOTH of the Owego Bridge company is in Cleveland, Ohio Mrs. K. DEMING will go to Towanda, PA, soon to pass the winter. G. S. THURSTON is in Scranton today on business for C. P. THURSTON. Mrs. L. B. COLEMAN of Owego is the guest of Mrs. E. D. RUNDELL. - Towanda Review. O. A. McCOY of Orange, NJ, is a guest of his mother, Mrs. McCOY, 137 North avenue. J. P. McCANN, traveling passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific railway was in town today. Mrs. BROUGHAM and son returned Tuesday evening from a visit in Owego.- Ithaca Journal. John QUIRK, who has been visiting his cousin Mrs. John McCARTHY, has returned to his home in Pittsburgh. Miss Emma BOOTH and children of Owego are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. BOOTH. - Groton Journal. Hon. A. L. DECKER of Waverly spoke from the stand point of a layman on the needs of higher education before the Twentieth century convention of the Wyoming conference at Binghamton, Tuesday afternoon. J. WINNER of Apalachin who is under arrest for non-support, was brought before Justice C. H. GILES, at that place Monday and the case was adjourned to Tuesday when he was sentenced to 60 days. Wheeler STEDMAN of Flemingville, who is about to move to this village, secured two slices of the $200. in the 2:30 class at Binghamton Thursday. May COLBERT, b. m., took second and PICCOLO, b. m. took fourth money. A young Central school lad was extremely cute when he remarked that the "the way they keep 'changin' things nowadays, I know more about jaggafy then the jaggafy itself. - Cortland Democrat. Bill Grummons @ [email protected] Much more news of Tioga county may be gleaned at: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytioga/index.htm