In 1910, the committee appointed by President Rumple of the Jamestown Common Council for the purpose of investigating the proposition to install public comfort stations in this city met recently and Frank M. Stearns, one of the members, suggested that comfort stations be located at the corner of Main and Third streets in the very center of the business section of the city. Mr. Stearns' plan met with hearty approval of the committee and would provide for two comfort stations, one for men and the other for women, underneath the sidewalk. Both stations would be fully equipped to meet every requirement.
The splendid vaudeville bill headed by Hays and Johnson, the heavy girl comedians, and including the Alexander troupe of Russian dancers, would be presented at Celoron Theater in the evening for the last time and, as large audiences had been the rule all the week, it was expected that every seat would be taken. In accordance with its policy of giving the people of Jamestown nothing but the very best in the vaudeville line, regardless of expense, the Celoron Amusement Company had secured for next week Potts Brothers and Company who presented a comedy sketch - a big laughing hit from the Cleveland Hippodrome.
In 1935, police investigation of the sensational blaze which destroyed 1,775 celery crates piled high along side the Erie Railroad tracks off Jones & Gifford Avenue, Jamestown, ran into a blank wall this day although belief that the fire might be of incendiary origin, persisted. The stack of crates were piled high along the railroad tracks near Todaro's celery patch. The flare from the blaze shot high into the sky and attracted the attention of hundreds of persons for more than half an hour. Todaro was grief stricken at his loss.
Llewellyn Strobel, 19, of Hornell, New York, planned to eschew all strenuous athletics for the rest of his life to avoid "lightning death" from a small piece of tin lodged in his heart. The youth was injured July 5 when a firecracker was exploded under a can and a piece of tin about the size of a dime was blown into his heart. He was convalescing at his home after seven weeks in a hospital. It was decided that any attempt to remove the tin would mean death for Strobel.
In 1960, Police Chief John Paladino had little use for a section of the State Vehicle and Traffic Law whose application reportedly had resulted in a sharp rise in left turn accidents in Buffalo but fortunately had caused no serious problem in Jamestown. The law legally gave a left turning motorist right of way without waiting for a long line of oncoming traffic to pass in front of him. The law's original intent was to reduce traffic jams at intersections but Chief Paladino said that so long as Jamestown had only one major north-south route, its application was not feasible locally.
"I like American very much," Miss Mari Julia Rubio, the vivacious, dark-eyed brunette from Barcelona, Spain, who was Jamestown High School's American Field Service foreign exchange student, told The Post-Journal. Miss Rubio, or "Julie" as she is being called here, arrived at the home of her American "parents," Mr. and Mrs. Gerald E. McConnell, 9 Hess St. The 17-year-old high school senior said the houses were what she liked most about Jamestown so far because in Barcelona everybody lived in apartments.
In 1985, a massive search continued for at least two people missing after two boats collided off Long Point on Chautauqua Lake the previous night. More than 80 rescuers from the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Department and area volunteer fire companies were on the lake, searching for the operators of both boats. According to police reports, a 22-foot fiberglass boat driven by an Ohio man allegedly broadsided an 18-foot fiberglass boat loaded with seven teenagers. Six of the teens were injured, one critically, in the accident.
A Cattaraugus County man died accidentally in a silo on the Francis Anders farm on Martin Road in the town of Great Valley. The victim was identified as Robert Hope, 20, of the Farm to Market Road, Great Valley. A ruling of accidental death due to inhalation of silo gas was issued by Cattaraugus County Coroner Dr. Paul W. Sum.