Ceres Mail, Wednesday Aug. 14, 1901
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           SHINGLEHOUSE

  SHINGLEHOUSE,  Aug 13, -- Mrs.
F. L. Baker was up from Ceres Satur-
day afternoon.
  Say a good word for your town every
time you get a chance.
  Town pump is again doing business
after a few days' idleness.
  Met Hawks of Coneville was among 
the callers in town Saturday.
  Leda McDowell has returned from a
visit with Williston relatives.
  The glass factory is beginning to
loom up like a big battleship in a fog.
  Ed Varney of South Branch has been
a guest of relatives in town the past
week.
  That is a nice wide porch Bert Mor-
ton has built onto the front of his
residence.
  There are a few holes in some of the
sidewalks about town. Better slip a
new plank in.
  Grace Duncan went to Bolivar yes-
terday for a visit with her aunt, Mrs.
Mary Clifford.
  Victor De Wilton is now working on 
the B. R. & P. railroad with headquar-
ters at Buffalo.
  Will Brundage, C.E. Drake, Fred
Newton and Will Bly wre among those
who took in the Olean races last week.
  Dr. Crosby of Oswayo has bought
the Nate Johnson tenement house. He
will erect an office on one corner of the
lot.
  W.S. Parish returned from the Pan-
Am Saturday. While there he met his
brother from the East and had  a visit
with him.
  The town board met at Sharon Cen-
ter Saturday to see about some repair
work to be done on the two bridges 
across the Oswayo creek.
  Williard Jones, wife and son arrived
in town from Portland, Ore., last Wed-
newday for a visit with his mother, Mrs.
Laura Newton.
  A. Salomon has a change of adv.
this week. It's about clothing.
  Miss Celia Pearsall has returned to
her home in Harriman, Tenn., after an
extended visit with relatives in this
vicinity.
  C. Ross Nichols and wife were among
the Pan-Am visitors the past week.
While in Buffalo they were guests at
the home of Harry Nichols.
  Miss Grace Jacobs, who has been
spending the summer with relatives at
Reesville, has returned to her home in
Shinglehouse.
  Dr. William Howe of Shingle House
and Miss Lavinia R. Guild of Hector
were united in marriage a few days
ago. Dr. Howe has only been located
in our town a short time, but has made
many friends who join with the writer
in congratulations and best wishes.
  Joe Connors has opened a tailor
shop in a building next to Mrs. L. A.
Nichols' residence. He only does clothes
pressing and cleaning now, but on Sep-
tember 1 a first-class tailor will be em-
ployed.
  The young men about town tried to
hold a dance in the Hall Friday even-
ing but had to give up the attempt, as
only four girls were present What's
the matter, boys, haven't you used the
girls right?
  About 3,000 cords of bark has been
peeled on Bert McDonald's jobs at
Bellrun and Clara this summer and
most of it was peeled during the month
of June. Bert said that very few of the
boys returned to work after the Fourth
of July: work in the hay fields offered
better wages.
  Dodge & Cole have torn down and
removed their old storeroom on Hone-
oye street, and are talking of moving
the building next to Russell's barber-
shop out of there and erecting a good
business block on the site. If this is
done, it will make that end of the street
look fifty per cent. better.
  After an illness of only five weeks,
but five weeks of intense suffering, Mrs. 
Frank Farley passed peacefully away
at 5:40 o'clock Thursday morning. Her
death was caused by a complication of
diseases; first she was taken ill with
grip, which was followed by typhoid
fever and Bright's disease. Mrs. Far-
ley was born in Shingle House in 1857
and had resided here nearly all her 
life. She was a good Christian woman,
a kind neighbor, dutiful wife and mo-
ther, and will be  missed not only by
her immediate family but by the entire
community. The funeral services were
conducted in the m.E. church by Rev.
Bancroft at eleven o'clock Sunday
morning, and the body was laid at rest
in the village cemetery. A husband,
one son, Wright, and three sisters,
Mrs. W.B. Brightman of Coudersport,
Mrs. M. J. Bridge of Little Rock,
Wash., and Mrs. Charles Warner of
Mountain View, Cal., are left to mourn
her death.