THE ONEIDA DISPATCH, ONEIDA, N.Y. MAY 27, 1910
 

BREVITIES

Perch fishing is reported good at Oneida Lake.

Rome has one drinking place to every 233 inhabitants.

The 1910 bicycle side-path badges are not selling very rapidly.

There are five members in the graduating class of the Eaton Union School: Ethel Wheeler, Nellie Wootton, Nina Robie, Genevieve Sawyer and Earl Miles.

Frank H. Jones as executor of the estate of Bina Broaderick lot in Glenwood cemetery.

A new freight rate on stone from Manlius to Cazenovia, Georgetown and other stations of the Chenango branch of the West Shore will go into effect on June 3.

A new law provides that payment of unpaid school taxes may be made to district school trustees instead of to the collector without the present on per cent compensation.

In March there was one death in the state due to "heat and sunstroke" and four deaths due to "cold and freezing," according to the State Department of Health Bulletin.

The Romohawks, Rome's hustling boosters, propose to raise $6,000 for their carnival this year, which is $1,500 more than was expended last year.

Robert Paul's team attached to a wagon loaded with cow hides ran away on Sconondoa street Wednesday morning.  John Holt, the driver, was knocked down and his knee was inured.

One of the most peculiar optical illusions is the fact that a small front yard looks larger than the state of Brookfield when viewed from the rear of a dull lawnmower. - Merrillville Leader.

The State highway department is arranging to apply a thick coating of heavy oil to the improved turnpike through Lenox which will keep the surface from wearing away so rapidly.

The Lyons Medical society has decided to adopt a "blacklist" containing the names of parties who, while able to pay their bills, fail to do so within six months after pres4entation of demand.

Mr. and Mrs. Orin Orcutt, living on the Seneca turnpike, were struck by an auto Tuesday and thrown down an embankment.  Neither was injured, but the horse was badly hurt.  The auto did not stop.

Patrick Maloney, foreman at the Oneida Steel Pulley Works, was severely injured Wednesday morning by a pile of lumber that toppled over and pinned him to the side of the building.  He was removed to his home, 4 Fitch street, where Dr. Pfaff attended him.

Miss Sarah M. Wilson, for 20 years a resident of Sherrill, died there last Friday, aged 75.  She leaves four sisters and two brothers, two of whom are Mrs. Horace Yarrington of Kenwood and Thomas Wilson of Oneida Castle.  The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon with burial in the Castle cemetery.

Credit:  I did not do the footwork on this info.  I was provided a copy of the microfiche from S. Cook in Oneida, NY.  These gracious efforts included going to the library, looking up a surname and then located this page of history.  This person then spent their own money to copy and mail me (by snail mail) the photocopy of microfiche. A big thank you!
Note from transcriber: I have typed this as seen on a copy from microfiche (black background and white typing) - some of which is difficult to read.  Errors of names may be due to inability to determine certain letters.  Wording is word for word otherwise.

Auto Fatality from The Oneida Dispatch, May 27, 1910

 THE ONEIDA DISPATCH, ONEIDA, N.Y. MAY 27, 1910

ANOTHER AUTOMOBILE FATALITY
 

One Man Killed and Three Injured Near Sherrill Tuesday Night

A distressing automobile accident in which Joseph N. Knapp, a prominent traveling shoe salesman of Auburn, was instantly killed, and James G. S. Dey, Thomas E. Clay and the chauffeur, Elliott Brown, colored, all of Syracuse, were painfully injured, occurred at a out 5:30 Tuesday evening on the Seneca turnpike near Morrison's crossing, between Sherrill and Vernon.  The accident was due to the collapse of the right forward wheel of Mr. Dey's 60 horse power Franklin touring car, No. 5711.

The party was returning from a shoot of the Rome Gun club.  Mr. Knapp and Mr. Clay were in the rear seat while Mr. Dey and his chauffeur were in the front, Brown being at the wheel.  They had made a detour around Vernon and were again on the turnpike, running upwards of 20 miles an hour.  It is claimed that some one noticed that one of the front wheels wobbled and the car slowed down, but not quickly enough.  The four occupants were hurled out on to the ground.  Mr. Knapp striking on his head on the roadside and breaking his neck, dying almost instantly.  Mr. Clay was the first to gain his feet. He found Mr. Dey in the road badly dazed and Brown, the chauffeur in the ditch writhing with pain.

A companion car occupied by C.L. Faatz of Seneca Falls and Charles Dailey of Baldwinsville, and which was preceding them, soon turned back and brought Mr. Dey to the Broad Street Hospital in this city where an examination by Dr. Carpenter showed that he had sustained one broken rib, sprained muscles of the back and abrasions on the forehead, right cheek and temple.

Campbell's ambulance was sent to the wreck and brought Clay and Brown to the Broad Street Hospital and the body of Knapp by direction of Coroner Lewis to the morgue.  Clay received lacerations of the scalp and was able to go to his home Wednesday forenoon with his wife, who arrived here about midnight.  Brown sustained a broken right shoulder, abrasions of the arm and hands and injured kidneys and ligaments of the back.  He will be confined to his bed for some time, but will recover.  Mr. Knapp's brother, Charles Knapp of Auburn, arrived here at midnight and at 11:23 Wednesday took the body to Auburn.  Knapp leaves a wife, two sons and a daughter.

Mrs. Dey was advised of the accident and arrived in Oneida about 8 o'clock.  She has remained with her husband at the hospital since.  On Wednesday Donald Dey's son, nephew of the injured man was also here.  Mr. Dey is a member of the firm of Dey Brothers & Co. of Syracuse.  He is badly injured, but it is believed that he will recover, although he will have to remain here in the hospital for a week or more.

At the hospital yesterday afternoon Mr. Dey and Mr. Brown were reported doing well, with no change in their condition.

The cause of the accident seems to be a mystery.  While it is attributed to the collapse of the right front wheel, every spoke of which was broken, there is a suspicion that the tire burst, which caused the machine to swerve and hurl the occupants out.

Credit:  I did not do the footwork on this info.  I was provided a copy of the microfiche from S. Cook in Oneida, NY.  These gracious efforts included going to the library, looking up a surname and then located this page of history.  This person then spent their own money to copy and mail me (by snail mail) the photocopy of microfiche. A big thank you!
Note from transcriber: I have typed this as seen on a copy from microfiche (black background and white typing) - some of which is difficult to read.  Errors of names may be due to inability to determine certain letters.  Wording is word for word otherwise.
 

AMONG THE CHURCHES

The Madison County Sunday School convention will be held at Hamilton next Wednesday and Thursday, June 1 and 2.

The veterans of John R. Stewart Post, G.A.R., will attend service at the First Presbyterian church next Sunday evening.  Rev. Dr. Jessup will preach the memorial sermon.

Bishop Ludden is expected to visit Canastota and administer confirmation at St. Agatha's church next Sunday afternoon.

Rev. Martin C. Stanton, who was pastor of St. Agatha's church in Canastota, some years ago and who died in Albany last year, left a legacy of $30,000 to the Franciscan Fathers at Hoboken, N.J.  Those who knew Father Stanton here are surprised at the extent of his wealth.

William G. Ewing of Chicago, former Judge of the Superior Court in Illinois, will lecture in Syracuse on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock at the Wieting opera house.  Subject: "Christian Science; a Religion of Doing."

The Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist church contemplates serving a strawberry shortcake supper on Friday, June 3.

At the First Baptist church, Sunday, morning service at 10:30 o'clock.  Sunday school at 12m.; Christian End…(cant read) or 6:30 p.m.; evening service at 7:30 o'clock, with preaching by the pastor, Rev. Frank T. Latham.  All are welcome.

Regular services at the Methodist church at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, with preaching by Rev. W.H. Yard, the pastor.  The evening service will be a union memorial service with the Presbyterians.

The Senior and Junior Epworth Leagues of the Methodist church will hold a social and entertainment in the church this evening.  A program of music and readings will be given, the principal feature of which will be Jean Ingelow's "Songs of Seven" in tableaux.  After the entertainment a lunch will be served.

At the Diocesan convention in Syracuse on Wednesday Rev. W.R. McKim of St. John's church, Oneida, was elected a member of the committee on Sunday school offerings for diocesan missions.

Miss Eva Petzoid of this city is on the program for the Sunday school convention of the Evangelical Association to be held at St. Paul's church in Oneida July 6 and 7.

The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist church will hold their annual meeting with a banquet at the church next Wednesday afternoon.

Credit:  I did not do the footwork on this info.  I was provided a copy of the microfiche from S. Cook in Oneida, NY.  These gracious efforts included going to the library, looking up a surname and then located this page of history.  This person then spent their own money to copy and mail me (by snail mail) the photocopy of microfiche. A big thank you!
Note from transcriber: I have typed this as seen on a copy from microfiche (black background and white typing) - some of which is difficult to read.  Errors of names may be due to inability to determine certain letters.  Wording is word for word otherwise.