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=52305 Submitted by: Barbara Article Title: The Wellsboro Agitator Article Date: May 13 1884 Article Description: Chatham Notes and Affairs in Brookfield Article Text: Chatham Notes. The Refreshing Rains - Heavy Taxes - Preparations for Decoration Day. Correspondence of the Agitator. Chatham, May 9, 1884. - The recent rain had put a stop to farming hereabouts, also to the forest fires which had been raging for about a week, doing immense damage to timberlands, fences, etc. Owing to a depleted treasury, our township will have a heavy tax this year, both special and school. Alfred Toles Post No. 320, G. A. R., will decorate the graves of fallen comrades in Chatham and vicinity. The Post will meet at Toles Hall (Post-room) at nine o'clock a.m. on Decoration-day, where all the friends, the Sunday-school and all others interested will join them in a body or by committee with their floral offerings. There will be a memorial sermon at the M. E. church by Rev. J. W. Miller. Rev. O. J. Mann will assist in the services both at the church and at the graves. Further particulars will appear next week. Bucyrus. ------------------------ Affairs in Brookfield. Material Improvements - Losses by the Fires in the Woods - A Generous Piece of Work - The Way of the Candidate With The Farmer. Correspondence of the Agitator. Brookfield, May 8, 1884. - Mr. Edward Baker has built a new horse barn this spring. Mr. W. R. Charles is making cheese each day in the Brookfield Hollow cheese factory. Messrs. Bean and Matteson are turning out six per day at their factory. Mr. Plumer Parker has raised the frame for his new barn on the E. Parker farm. It is 36 by 52, with 20-feet posts and gambrel roof. Ira Metcalf has the job of building and finishing it ready for use. Mrs. I. W. Joseph, of Brookland, Potter county, is in town visiting her children and other relatives. Mr. Bowman Joseph, of Moore Hollow, Potter county, but formerly of this town, lost a barn and a quantity of hay, stock and farm tools, last Friday, the 2d instant. The woods were on fire, and the wind blew very had on that day, setting his barn on fire. His nearest neighbor's barn was burned down at the same time. The fires in the woods last week did a large amount of damage to some of our townsmen who owned timber, and long stretches of fence were burned up. Mr. Theodore Palmer, who has been very sick, is getting better. On Monday of this week 9 men, 4 spans of horses and one yoke of oxen sowed his plowed land to oats and dragged them in, and logged what timber there was on one fourth of an acre of ground. Theodore's neighbors furnished the seed oats. Brookfield has generous, benevolent and kind-hearted people. They believe in helping those who need help, and practice what they preach. We had a splendid rain last Sunday, and another on Tuesday. I never saw grass grow faster than it has since the rain. Winter wheat is looking splendidly. A. J. Simmons has the largest spring wheat there is in town. The office-seekers are thicker than butterflies. Oh, what smiling faces, and terrific grips of the hand! They praise up our farms and admire our old and young horses. If they go into a farmer's herd of cows when he is milking, they say: "what a nice large flock of cows yours are. Such large messes of milk I never saw milked from a like number of cows. Your winter wheat does look splendid. I haven't seen anything quite equal to that in my electioneering trip through the county. I didn't know that your town was such an excellent one for farming purposes. You have more grain and grazing land and in a great deal better condition than I ever imagined you could have. There isn't a better town for farming in the county, according to its acres than Brookfield. Well, friend, I will now make my business known: I am a candidate for office, and shall be a thousand times thankful if you will attend the causus to vote for me and get your neighbors to do so. I am worthy and well qualified.! " The farmer says: "I will think about it, and make some inquiries in regard to you; perhaps I will vote for you." "You needn't be afraid of losing your vote if you vote for me," is the reply; "I am the strongest candidate in the field - I mean for the office I am asking for. It is generally conceded that I am the man." The farmer replies: "I don't want to promise you positively that I will vote for you. I want a little time to think of this." The candidate shakes hands again, bidding the farmer a good day, and away he goes to the next townsman with the same story. Sylvester. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com