A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Pennsylvania > Tioga http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=1700 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=52297 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: The Wellsboro Agitator Article Date: May 13 1884 Article Description: Local and Minor Matters [Part 1] Article Text: Local and Minor Matters Facts and Comments. Local News Gathered Here, There and Anywhere. [Part 1] - Straw hats are out. - The mumps prevail at Covington. - This borough supports fifty stores. - The Fall Brook band boys are to have new uniforms. - Trout fishing is said to be much livelier than last year. - Mr. Mark Hoyt, of New York, was in town yesterday. - Keep your eye opened for the ___ tongued sharper. - Rev. E. D. Rawson, of Roseville, was in town yesterday. - There was a heavy frost in this region yesterday morning. - Two rattlesnakes were killed ____ Lawrenceville last week. - A Millerton man boasts of corn six inches high in his garden. - The Westfield street sprinkler costs its patrons $300 for the season. - The copious rains of last week have given the grass a good start. - Mrs. Frank A. Deans, of this borough, has gone to New York on a visit. - Hon. Charles Tubbs is to deliver the Decoration-day address at Osceola. - Senator Mitchell came home last Saturday fron Washington and returned last evening. - Mr. Willia Peake, of Round Top, whose leg was amputated a few weeks ago, is now convalescent. - Rev. John K. Murphy, of Philadelphia, preached at St. Paul's church in this borough last Sunday. - Mrs. Belle M. Allen will open a select school next Monday at the primary school building in this borough. - It is states that the contract has been let for building the telephone line from Blossburg to this borough. - Rattlesnakes are said to be out at Gaines. The smell of the oil well probable enticed them from their holes. - Mr. Theo. L. Weaver, representing the Elmira Advertiser, is looking after the interests of that journal in this section. - Prof. George E. Little, of Washington, D.C., has been engaged to give art instructions at the Mansfield Normal School for a few weeks only. - Mr. A. B. A. Briggs of Middlebury, furnished an instrument for use at the Camilla Urso concert at Blossburg last Tuesday evening. - About two hundred Italians are now employed in building the extension of the Addison and Northern Pennsylvania railway up Pine creek. - A young lawyer died of starvation in New Hampshire a few days ago, but no doubt the crop of law students will not shrink in consequence of this incident. - One thousand shingles wil cover one hundred square feet of surface, laid four inches to the weather. About five pounds of nails will be required for that number of shingles. - The Coal Trade Journal says that the Pine Creek route is likely to be a popular one for pleasure travel between Philadephia and Niagara Falls, taking in the coal regions by the way. - The County Commissioners have let the contract for building a new bridge across the Tioga river near Lawrenceville for $1,152. Mr. W. W. Bentley, of Mansfield, is the contractor. - A new bridge is to be built across Crooked creek near the depot at Tioga borough. The County Commissioners have let the contract to Mr. W. W. Bentley, of Mansfield, for the sum of $1,225. - A few days ago Dr. Wey, of Elmira, assisted by Drs. C. K. Thompson and H. L. Davis, of this borough, successfully removed a thirty-pound tumor from the person of a Charleston woman. - Several attorneys from this borough are attending the Supreme Court for the Eastern district which sits at Philadelphia this week. There are more than the usual number of cases to be argued. - Twenty families in the vicinity of Lawrenceville were rendered homeless and destitute by the recent forest fires and ___ appeal for assitence has been forwarded to Elmira by the Burgess of Lawrenceville. - A check for $100 has been presented to the Fire Department of this borough by the Fall Brook Coal Company in acknowledgement of the disposition manifested to render assistance during the late fire at Antrim. - The Sunday-School Association of this county will be re-organized at Lawrenceville some time in June. Hon. H. W. Williams is chairman of the committee on re-organization. All denominations are invited to assist in the work. - Messrs. J. H. Westbrook & Son, farmers, of Tioga township, last week sold their crops of tobacco and potatoes. The tobacco brought fifteen cents a pound and the potatoes, 600 bushels, were disposed of at an average price of 41 cents a bushel. - A new journal is to be issued in this borough about the first of June by a stock company lately formed. The outfit for the new enterprise has been purchased and is already on the ground. We understand the new paper is to be independent in politics. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com