Rochester, Monroe, NY

Democrat & Chronicle

Wed Aug 1, 1900

 

MONROE

 

Pittsford Pastors and Their Plans for August Services

 

The Rev. Joseph B. FERGUSON, of Pittsford, accompanied by his wife and mother left yesterday for his annual vacation of one month. During his absence the Presbyterian Church will be closed for regular service, with the exception of next Sunday evening when the Baptist Methodist and Presbyterian Churches will hold their bi-monthly temperance service under the auspices of the Pittsford Woman's Christian Temperance Union and on the following Sunday evening when the Baptist congregation will unite with Presbyterians in the latter place of worship.

 

The Rev. Charles A. BROOKS of the Baptist Church, will preach on both occasions. The Presbyterians will unite in service with the Baptists in the Baptist Church on the mornings of August 5th and 12th.

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--To-morrow the Methodist Sunday-school of Fairport will hold its annual picnic at Newport.

 

--The Sunday-schools of East Henrietta and Ridgeland, by invitation of the East Henrietta Baptist school, will picnic at Genesee Valley park August 9th.

 

--Only one regular service will be held on Sunday's during the month of August in Christ Church, Pittsford, and that will be the morning service at 10:30 o'clock. The vested choir will not sing during this time.

 

--Charles B. EMMONS and George CADY will represent the Pittsford firemen at the firemen's convention to be held at Port Byron August 1st and 2d. The former as delegate from Active Hose No. 1 and the latter from the Iroquois.

 

--The annual school meeting of Chili, Riga and Ogden, district No. 6, will be held in the school house at North Chili on the evening of August 7th, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year and transacting other business.

 

--Some of the farmers in Chili and the adjoining towns have thrashed their wheat, but it has not turned out as well as in previous years. The average will be from about seven to ten bushels per acre. Oats will be a fair crop this year.

 

--A few days ago George SANDERS, a section hand, found a package containing about $4,000 on the railroad near Fairport. The money was given to the express agent and forwarded to headquarters. SANDERS received a letter of thanks from the company and a pass on the railroad, which is good for his lifetime.

 

--Mr. and Mrs. James THOMPSON, of Lyell avenue, Rochester, who are spending their vacations at Mendon ponds, made the greatest catch of the season Monday, landing two carp weighing thirteen and fourteen pounds. The ponds were stocked with 8,000 carp some fifteen years ago, and but few have been hooked since. More have been captured this season than ever.

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YATES

 

The case of William N. WISE, as trustee in bankruptcy of Russell & Birkett, against Frances E. HOYT and others, has been referred to Hatley K. ARMSTRONG, of Penn Yan, for trial. The defendants in this case number over seventy-five, and the action is brought to determine the rights of these defendants to certain grain and produce delivered to Russell & Birkett prior to their adjudication as bankrupts, for which they had warehouse receipts issued by the firm.

    Only a small percentage of the grain and produce represented by these receipts ever came into the possession of Trustee WISE, but as suit was brought by one defendant for recovery of the goods, and similar suits were threatened by others, the trustee brought the above action, the complaint in which asks the court to determine the rights of all defendants in the matter, and to direct the plaintiff as to the disposition of such property. The grain and produce which did pass to WISE, as trustee, were sold pursuant to an order of the bankruptcy court and the proceeds of the same have since been held by him.

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--Miss Mary NELSON, of Denmark, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Chris TOMPSEN, in Penn Yan. This is the first meeting of these sisters in twenty years.

 

--Yesterday, before Police Justice BAKER, of Penn Yan, and a jury, was tried the case of the people against Pearl DOUGLASS, who was arrested on the charge of entering McCRACKEN's candy store on Sunday, July 22nd, and stealing therefrom about $3. The jury brought in a verdict of acquittal, and the lad was discharged.

 

--Monday afternoon Supervisor A. Castner TOWNSEND, of Torrey, was exercising a horse which had not been out of the stable in several weeks, by leading it around, when the animal let go with his hind heels, striking Mr. TOWNSEND in the face, knocking out three or four teeth and cutting his face so badly as to necessitate the taking of several stitches.

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ORLEANS

 

--The Orleans County Christian Endeavor Societies will hold their annual convention in Holley August 28th. There will be an interesting series of services throughout the day.

 

--A series of services largely attended have been held the last three evenings in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Albion by messrs. GREENSMITH and LEE. Over 115 stereoptican views were shown last evening with excellent singing. These temperance evangelists have been doing good work in Orleans county.

 

--Rev. F. S. DUNHAM, Ph. D., rector of Christ Episcopal Church at Albion for the past seventeen years, left yesterday for New York and sails to-day on the Red Star steamer, Westernland, to be absent traveling in Europe until the second Sunday in October. His pastorate began at Albion in 1883, and has been a prosperous one for the church.

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SENECA

 

Waterloo's Drowned Man Identified as Patrick Sparrow, of Geneva

 

A new chapter in the case of the man found drowned at Waterloo was opened yesterday. Mrs. SPARROW, of No. 18 West avenue, Geneva, went to Genung's undertaking rooms and asked to see the clothes of the unfortunate man whose body was buried in the old cemetery Saturday. Her request was granted, and the woman immediately recognized the garments and the knife and handkerchief as belonging to the husband, Patrick SPARROW, whom she had not seen for two years. "I could swear to them," said Mrs. SPARROW to the Democrat and Chronicle correspondent. She was accompanied by her daughter, the eldest of her four children, a bright little girl of perhaps 13 years. Mrs. SPARROW described her husband as being rather a large man, about 35 years of age and five feet and eleven inches tall. He had been a kind husband to her, she said, but acted rather queerly at times. They had been married fifteen years. Some two or three years ago she had her fortune told, and was warned that one of these days her husband would go away and be brought back dead. She revealed this to him, and it seemed to disturb him very much and make him more erratic than ever. When asked if it were possible that her husband might have committed suicide, judging from the state of his mind, she readily assented to the theory.

     The evidence of Mrs. SPARROW tends to do away with the theory of murder in the case. Four weeks ago, certain Waterloo people heard screams coming from the island between 12 and 1 o'clock on a Sunday morning. Some argued that the hands of the body, found lying on its face, were clutching at the mud and eel grass as though the man was forced into the water and was trying to escape. People in general, however, believed the man to have deliberately tied the big stone to his neck and plunged into the river.

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