In 1914, the past week witnessed the consumption of a business deal by which property changed hands after standing in one family name nearly 60 years. The place was the water powered flour and feed mill owned by E D. Holdridge and operated under the name of the Holdridge Milling Company, which was transferred by sale to Arthur Stewart and Frank Stewart, both of East Randolph. Water power at East Randolph had been used for milling purposes for at least 80 years and possibly for a longer period. The first mill probably stood about where the sheds were standing at the present mill and the dam was not a large affair, occupying only a small space somewhere between the highway and the mill site. A portion of the old dam remained in place until recently, although much of it had been removed long years ago. It was said that the timbers for the present mill were framed and put in place at least 65 years ago and in the early days, power was derived from an old fashioned overshot wheel which purred and murmured as it drove the mills and ground the corn and wheat for all the countryside.

Relatives of the late William H. Snapp, who was shot and killed by his stepson, Howard Smith, at their home near Mt. Jewett, were making an effort to locate Clayton Emmett Snapp, a son by the murdered man’s first wife. Since the death of the elder Snapp, the son, whose present residence was unknown, had become heir to some property and life insurance. The missing boy’s grandparents were looking after the interests of the missing lad and anyone knowing of his whereabouts would confer a favor by addressing John Snapp, at Mt. Jewett, Pa. The boy was past 12 years old and was thought to be with his mother, whose maiden name was Anna Carney.

In 1939, the usual last minute rush for new automobile license plates was in progress at the county motor vehicle bureau at Mayville this day, as registration plates for 1938 would go into the discard at midnight. All types of New York state motor vehicles had to display new plates and under the present law no extension of this expiration time was possible. Police officials throughout the state had been notified and were prepared to arrest operators of vehicles which were not equipped with 1939 plates.

Conflicting opinions on the sentiment of folks living in the villages of Ashville and Sherman toward alcoholic beverages were expressed and echoes of political reverberations during the 1938 election campaign were heard at a hearing conducted at Jamestown City Hall by Deputy Commissioner Charles I. Marfins of the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. The hearing made it evident that people living in both localities had the courage of their convictions. The controversial expressions flared up in the open when opposition to applications for permits to sell alcoholic drinks was voiced by several witnesses, some of whom told the world they were total abstainers and some of whom let it be known that they would take a drink when they felt like it.

In 1964, this was eviction day for 23 families remaining in the dying Warren County community of Corydon. The town would be flooded by the Allegheny Reservoir in a year or so. Other homes and businesses already had been vacated by owners who accepted settlements from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This was a day of waiting and watching. Waiting for the U.S. marshals to arrive and watching for the moving vans that had been promised to move the people. Several families flatly said they would not move. Authorities said the deadline for removal of the last residents of Corydon was set “because something has to be done about demolishing the houses before spring.”

Chautauqua County’s month-long March of Dimes campaign would come to a colorful climax in the coming weekend with a three-day winter carnival set for the Cassadaga Country Club. The carnival, featuring ski contests and parachute jumping, would get underway at 7:30 this night with a torch light ceremony, mirroring the current winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. Six torch bearers would make their way up the darkened ski slope to the top where they would light an Olympic lamp at a signal sounded by the fire siren at the Cassadaga Fire Hall.

In 1989, the lid on the cost of health-care plans popped off in 1988 as the expense per worker of employer-sponsored programs shot up 18.6 percent a survey showed. The jump came after increases of 7.7 percent in 1986, 7.9 percent in 1987 and “there doesn’t appear to be much relief in sight, according to a report released by A. Foster Higgins & Co., a New York-based benefits consulting firm. Health insurers absorbed some of the unexpected cost increases the past year and would pass them along this year, ensuring another big rise.

In a claim against the city, former Jamestown General Administrator James H. Schaum said he was misled into accepting that position. Notice of his claim was sent to The Post-Journal by Schaum’s attorney, John L. LaMancuso. In the claim, Schaum said he was assured a long-term employment position” with JGH and that accepting the position required “the uprooting of his family, the sale of his home and the purchase of a new home and relocation to the city of Jamestown.” Schaum’s basic contention was that, during interviews with city officials, his job at JGH was “misrepresented in a fraudulent and deceitful manner.”

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In 1914, physicians and attendants at the State Hospital at Gowanda testified at the investigation being conducted into the affairs of the institution by John H. DeLaney, state commissioner of charities and corrections, that the reputation of Dr. Daniel Arthur, superintendent, had been that of a periodical drinker. Numerous occasions on which the superintendent was alleged to have been intoxicated were testified to. A story was told of an occasion when he had a closet in the pharmacist’s office broken into that he might procure whiskey. Other testimony was to times that he was absent from the institution on account of drink. He was confined at Dr. McMichael’s sanitarium in Buffalo and at the Dansville sanitarium, witnesses said.

Accompanied by an excessively high humidity, the heat in Pittsburgh the previous day reached 72 degrees at 1 p.m., which was one of the highest marks ever reached during January in the history of the weather bureau in the city. People sweltered all day long under the blanket of heat which overcast the city. Samford H. Forree, aged 79 years, of Coropolis, was unable to stand the excessive heat and died the previous afternoon. Working men in the mills suffered severely.According to the weather bureau, a freezing temperature would arrive this day bringing a drop of over 40 degrees in the mercury.

In 1939, Sergeant C.E. Cobb of the State Police said he had dispatched four troopers with flares and emergency equipment to a point near Pavilion, nine miles southeast of Batavia, where he said an airplane had been circling over the district “for about two hours.” Cobb said residents of the vicinity reported at noon that the plane apparently was at high altitude but that they could hear its motor plainly. He said he believed the pilot had become lost in a wind-driven snowstorm. Troopers had been instructed to recruit truck drivers and any additional help they could find in their attempt to aid the plane. It was also theorized that the sound heard might be “something on the ground,” such as a heavy snowplow or a large truck that had lost traction on a hill.

Lakewood bladesters captured the major share of honors in the Chautauqua Lake Skating Association’s first meet of the season held under ideal weather conditions at Lakewood rink Saturday afternoon. With six firsts in the 13 events, four by Joe Freed of the well-known ice skating family, Lakewood representatives outclassed skaters from Salamanca, Fluvanna and Jamestown in that order. Although the ice was in good condition, no records were broken.

In 1964, Alan Ladd, who realized a dream of driving a limousine through the same studio gate where he once had to punch a time clock, was dead at age 50. The 5-foot-6 star, who walked tall as a movie hero for 23 years, was found dead in the master bedroom of his home in Palm Springs, Calif. A servant who had become alarmed when the actor failed to wake up from a nap found the body. A doctor said that Ladd died of natural causes, presumably a heart attack. At the height of his popularity at Paramount, Ladd received 20,000 fan letters a month. He employed eight secretaries to answer them.

An adventure in “togetherness” unique in local annals ended at noon the previous day when 24 area residents, toting blanket rolls, sleeping bags and other paraphernalia, emerged from a basement room at the State Armory on Porter Avenue in Jamestown and made a bee-line for a coffee bar across the hall. For 24 hours the group, two women and 22 men, shared the “protection of a 215-square foot fallout shelter under conditions simulating a nuclear emergency, their only sustenance, cracker-like “survival” biscuits, water and an impromptu “dessert” consisting of one tangerine segment apiece. The exercise was part of a course for future instructors in civil defense shelter management.

In 1989, people were literally lined up around the block in downtown Jamestown Saturday for gamma globulin inoculations being given by the Chautauqua County Health Department in connection with an outbreak of hepatitis in the county. Additional immunization clinics were held this day and were scheduled for the following day in both Jamestown and Mayville.

Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa was warmly greeted by large crowds during two appearances Sunday in Buffalo. The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner spoke first to a full house at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral at Main Street and Cathedral Park. The archbishop of Cape Town and of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, then appeared before the largest crowd ever for such an event at the Alumni Arena on the Amherst campus of the State University at Buffalo.

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In 1914, the report on benevolent institutions in the United States for 1910 had been issued by Director Harris of the bureau of census, department of commerce. It was prepared by Dr. Edwin M. Bliss under the supervision of Dr. Joseph A. Hill, expert special agent in charge of the census of institution population. The report on benevolent institutions was one of a series of reports issued by the bureau of the census on institutions for the relief and care of the dependent and delinquent classes. It included specifically those institutions which cared for the dependent, the needy and the sick, exclusive of those for paupers, the insane and the feeble-minded, which would be covered in other special reports. A total of 2,960,000 persons of all classes were received in 4,815 of these benevolent institutions during the year 1910.

In Carlisle, Pa., Laura Porter told the court that she had been compelled to take the place of a horse, which her husband told her was too hard to get. She claimed she was harnessed to a plow which her husband held and forced by him to do the work of a best of burden. Porter was seeking a divorce from William Henry Porter, who, she alleged, at times refused to give food to her. When timber was to be sold she had to clear the ground and load the logs. Then she had to split them and saw them with a cross cut saw. She said she was forced to walk barefooted to a Plainfield church of which she and her husband were sextons and to do all the work for which her husband took all the money. The testimony of her sister, Mrs. George Shetron, supported her.

In 1939, Lawrence R. Corey, 21, of West Union, N.Y. died in a hospital at Wellsville less than 24 hours after the death of his cousin, Donald Keefe, 24, both of whom were found unconscious in an automobile beside a Pennsylvania highway near Wellsville. Coroner P.R. Shaw of Coudersport, Pa., previously gave a verdict of accidental death by monoxide poisoning in the case of Keefe. Both were pipeline workers.

Joseph Melcher, 38, of Cleveland, business agent of Truck Drivers Local Union, 649, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America, was fined $25 when he pleaded guilty to a charge of third degree assault before Peace Justice Lee Putney of Irving. Melcher admitted assaulting Kenneth Pieffer of Lakewood, a truck driver employed by the Hector Transportation Company, during an argument in a Silver Creek restaurant Jan. 12, while a strike of drivers was in progress.

In 1964, Irving Fisher had planned a grand opening for his Nordic Service Station for later in the week. But he had it yesterday. A deer, with no ceremony at all, opened the place about 3:15 p.m. when it crashed through a big plate glass window. The animal rampaged through four rooms in the station at 217 E. Second St., Jamestown. It was believed to be an unladylike doe. It left a wake of scattered oil cans before bumping through the office door, where it should have entered in the first place. When last seen, the deer was traveling easterly at high speed the wrong way on one-way Second Street after scratching a parked car in a soaring leap. The deer was believed to have been severely cut by the glass as it left a trail of blood according to Police Warden Herman Page. Police cruisers were alerted but the trail was lost near East Second and Buffalo streets.

Firemen rushed oxygen to four persons on Jefferson Street in Jamestown who narrowly escaped asphyxiation, believed to have been caused by unvented gas heaters. Olive Nash, 56, who was sleeping in an upstairs room, woke up groggy and called police at 9:34 a.m. None of the occupants was unconscious when a Fire Department rescue squad arrived but all four required several minutes of treatment by inhalators. Nash awakened three other persons sleeping in downstairs rooms. Fire officials said they believed the partial asphyxiation was caused by fumes from unvented gas heaters in the home. Only four of eight heaters were vented.

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• In 1914, on Monday afternoon from four until seven, Miss Corene Cowan entertained a group of young ladies at her home in Frewsburg. The party was a farewell for Miss Esther Sutton who left Tuesday for New Orleans, La., for an indefinite time. Various contests were held and prizes awarded to Miss Anna Johnson and Lillian Pederson after which a dainty two course luncheon was served by Mrs. Cowan, assisted by Mrs. Clark. Just before the departure, a beautiful chatelaine mesh purse was presented to the honor guest as a slight token of the esteem in which she was held. A flashlight picture was also taken of the party.

• Lovers of skating races in Jamestown were assured of a treat early in February if present plans did not go awry. Elmer Jacobson, brother of Charles Jacobson, the local crack skater, who was booking races for his brother, announced that he had booked Robert McLean of Chicago, amateur champion of the world, for a race which would be held on or about Feb. 9, the weather permitting. McLean had been cleaning up by far the most of the events at the International Outdoor races being held at Saranac Lake and he would undoubtedly be the fastest man that the local crack had to compete with.

• In 1939, fire, which was discovered at 9:30 o’clock the previous morning, caused considerable damage to the storage warehouse and garage of the Otander Trucking Company at 25 Willard St., Jamestown. The cause of the fire was not definitely determined, although it was believed to have been caused by an overheated stove in the repair garage located near the east end of the building. The building was on an embankment adjacent to the Chadakoin river and for this reason firemen were unable to attack the flames from the north or river side of the structure. Four large trucks and a passenger automobile owned by S. Alfred Jones, president and treasurer of the concern were destroyed along with his overcoat.

• The Public Service Commission had before it this day a request from Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City to investigate telephone rates generally throughout the state of New York. A letter from LaGuardia read yesterday at a commission hearing on “short haul” rates charged by six telephone companies operating in the state, asserted a station-to-station toll call from Albany to New York city cost 75 cents while a similar call to Newark N.J. cost 65 cents.

• In 1964, a diminutive, 63-year-old kindergarten teacher stood “at least 10 feet tall” not only in the eyes of her 19 small charges but everyone else in the community of Findley Lake. Courageous action by Miss Ada M. Brown, without regard to her own safety, was credited with saving the life of a 5-year-old pupil who had accidentally fallen through an open manhole into more than five feet of water which nearly filled a large concrete distribution basin of the school’s septic system. Victim of the near tragedy was Francine Swanson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Swanson. The little girl was thrashing in the water when, without hesitation, Miss Brown lowered herself into the shaft and held on to the collar of the little girl’s snow suit, keeping her head out of the water until students could summon Clarence Post, the custodian, to the scene.

• Twenty-five hardy residents entered a civil defense shelter about noon this day, prepared to spend the next 24 hours there living under the most rudimentary conditions such as might prevail under an atomic attack. The contingent, including two women, would subsist on biscuits and water, their only food. Charles N. Jones, deputy Jamestown civil defense director, said the shelter was located in a basement room at the State Armory on Porter Avenue.

• In 1989, Movie World, Jamestown’s “video superstore,” started with a handful of tapes in a small store in Ellicottville and, in four short years, had blossomed into a giant of the industry, according to Joe Roosa, president of the company. “We’ve worked a lot of long, hard hours to do it,” Roosa said. The Jamestown store, on Third Street across from City Hall, started with 2,000 tapes. Now customers could select from more than 5,000 titles and dozens of new ones were added every week. In December, the Roosas opened a second Jamestown Movie World location in the Fairmount Avenue Plaza. This store boosted some 9,000 video tapes, the president said. The Fairmount store was unique among local stores in that it had an in-store children’s play area, complete with slide and teeter-totter. They also offered free popcorn. Movie World was the largest video outlet in the Southern Tier.

• Gannon University of Erie was proposing a bachelors degree program for people in the Warren and Jamestown area who had associate degrees. Howard Smith, Gannon’s dean for part-time and evening studies, said the university was willing to offer a 21 or 34 month curriculum in administrative studies in Warren. The 64 credit hours of study would be aimed at giving holders of associate degrees a chance to earn a bachelors degree without leaving their hometown.

In Years Past

In 1914, Herman Sixbey, a well known Mayville merchant and prominent G. A. R. man, suffered a severe fall while waiting on a customer in his store at Mayville shortly before noon this day. He had stepped upon a chair to get some article down from a high shelf, when he slipped and fell striking on his side on a corner of the counter. The fall rendered him unconscious. Dr. Prendergast was called and Mr. Sixbey was taken home. In the afternoon he was somewhat easier but there were indications of serious internal injuries. Mr. Sixbey’s friends were greatly alarmed over his injury.

John Sodusky of Lopez, Pa., who was injured several months ago in a mine accident and had since been bedfast, offered his daughter, Anna, aged 11, in marriage to John Skobon, 45 years, on condition that Skobon keep him for the balance of his life. The offer was accepted and little Anna was taken from the public school and forced to prepare for a wedding. She opposed the match and tried to fight it off but the father looked on the impoverished condition of his family and refused to reconsider the matter. The arrangements were made. The gown for Anna bought and made. A marriage license was secured. Before a priest could be secured, the authorities learned of the case and a hearing was held. After hearing the facts and learning that the child opposed the match, the court decreed that the marriage could not take place.

In 1939, massed floes were forming Niagara Gorge’s “ice bridge” just a year after a record ice jam destroyed famed Falls View bridge. For a quarter mile downstream from Horseshoe Falls stretched a sheet of shimmering white. Gargantuan icicles hung suspended from the cataract’s brink. This year’s ice bridge was being caused by floes from the river above the falls, while the previous year’s ice pack was augmented by thousands of tons that formed in Lake Erie. Tremendous floes, some of them a half mile long, floated into the Niagara River at that time. Crowding the narrow outlet into Lake Ontario, they thundered over the crest of Niagara Falls and choked the steep gorge below the cataract.

At Randolph, fire the previous day destroyed the building occupied by Hose Company No. 2 with contents, including a fire truck, more than a thousand feet of fire hose and other fire apparatus as well as some road building machinery belonging to the village. The flames had gained such headway when the alarm was sounded that although the entire Fire department responded, nothing was saved. The building, owned by the village, was a two-story farm structure. The first floor was used for housing the fire truck and apparatus, the second story contained a hall and recreation room.

In 1964, two persons were killed on Chautauqua County highways the previous day in accidents blamed on poor visibility and icy pavement. The dead were: Roger Erickson, 42, of Jamestown and Donald E. Moore, 47, of Dewittville. Authorities said Mr. Erickson, an employee of Marlin Rockwell Corp., was killed when his car skidded on ice on the Busti-Sugargrove Road, about four miles south of Busti about 1:45 p.m. Mr. Moore lost his life when his car and another collided head on about 4 p.m. on Route 60 near the entrance to Boy Scout Camp Gross, north of Cassadaga. Heavy wind-whipped snow made visibility poor at the time, according to police.

The creation of an artificial lake in Allegany State Park as an adjunct to the Kinzua Dam recreation complex was being eyed by New York State. Chautauqua County Assemblyman A. Bruce Manley said a $1.2 million appropriation was included in the proposed state budget for the project which would be known as Quaker Lake. It would be built in the Quaker Bridge region about 20 miles from Jamestown and marked the first move by New York State to set aside funds for developing dam recreation areas in conjunction with the $120 million Kinzua Dam currently under construction.

In 1989, the leader of the Democratic caucus of the Chautauqua County Legislature and County Executive John A. Glenzer expressed a willingness to resume talks about a south county office building. The project to convert the Unigard Building in Jamestown ran off track Wednesday when Democrats voted against a resolution calling for an additional $1.7 million to finance interior renovations.

In a small room off the library of Ripley Central School Missy Clicquennoi was learning marine science. Her teacher was in San Antonio, Texas. Missy, a senior who decided to become a marine biologist after she “fell in love with Jacques Cousteau,” was Ripley’s “pilot project.” She was the pilot for something called the TI-IN United Star Network. What is was, in fact, was a satellite learning center. From the San Antonio Center and several feed-in networks, classes in subjects ranging from Spanish to computers were simultaneously videotaped and beamed over the United States.

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In 1914, fire at 3 a.m. Sunday destroyed the Mayville House, the principal hotel of that village and a landmark of more than countywide reputation. The blaze was a fierce one. From the time Charles Caler, a boarder at the hotel, discovered the fire, until the building was a mass of smoldering ruins was less than two hours. Only the best of work by the three volunteer fire companies of Mayville prevented the destruction of adjoining buildings. The old Crossgrove meat market, standing across a narrow alley to the south, was badly scorched and at times six lines of hose dumped tons of water into that corner of the hotel and over the meat market building and it did not take fire. Sheriff Anderson was the first person from the outside to get on the scene. He made a trip through the hotel, visiting every room to be certain every person was out of the place.

A basketball bill that promised to surpass any on record, would be staged in the high school gymnasium on this evening. In the main attraction, the Jamestown YMCA team would battle with the strong Oswego five, while in the preliminary event, the Spirals, junior champions of the county, would clash with the Outlaws. Manager Vail of the YMCA five was living up to his promise to give local fans the best there was in the basketball line and all the teams that had appeared in Jamestown so far this season had ranked as top notchers. The Oswego team was no exception to the rule and in fact ranked a little higher than the rest, the Germans included. So far this season the Germans and Oswego had clashed four times and in three of the games the Germans were forced to taste the bitter dregs of defeat.

In 1939, an elderly woman was badly hurt when struck by an automobile at Eighth and Main streets in Jamestown the previous evening. Mrs. Emily C. Lindell, 62 years old, of North Main Street, was seriously injured when she was struck by an automobile driven by Paul Hoff of Lakewood. Hoff made a statement to police and was not held. Mrs. Lindell was taken to Jamestown General Hospital where it was said her condition was not believed to be critical. Hoff said that as his car came within about six feet of the crosswalk at the southwest corner of Main and Eighth streets an object suddenly appeared in the path of his machine and he felt an impact. He stopped and discovered the object was Mrs. Lindell. Hoff further expressed the belief that Mrs. Lindell must have been running because she loomed up so suddenly.

Winter’s coldest weather gripped the Chautauqua region and Upstate New York as the mercury tumbled to two degrees above zero in Jamestown. Virtually every section of the state reported minimum zero or sub-zero temperatures going to 40 below in the northern sector. There was a trace of snow in Buffalo where the temperature rose slowly after a low of 13 degrees below zero. County highway department plows and trucks were clearing away drifts in some rural sections this day and all roads were reported open and in good condition.

In 1989, efforts were underway by Chautauqua County to sell the Unigard Building in Jamestown, County Executive John A. Glenzer told The Post-Journal. “I intend to dispose of the building, and as far as I’m concerned, the process has already started,” Glenzer said. Glenzer moved quickly after the County Legislature failed to approve a resolution calling for an additional $1.7 million to finance the costs of interior renovations at the structure on Fourth Street. Legislators earlier had approved spending $2.4 million on the project. Some of them had said they believed this was to be the total cost of acquiring and renovating the building for use as a consolidation of county offices.

An improved 911 emergency services telephone system throughout Chautauqua County should be in place within two years now that a way to pay for it had been approved. The approach called for alternate ways of paying for the system’s installation and operation. If a telephone surcharge could not be used to collect money from residents, the county would pay half the cost, with the balance to be paid by the county’s towns, cities and villages or other public private funding sources.

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In 1914, once more Lyman H. Howe and his travel pictures had come to Jamestown and once more a large and enthusiastic audience had seen these splendid “movies.” The state armory where the first performance was given Friday evening under the auspices of Company E. 65th regiment, N.G.N.Y., was filled with the representative people of the city. The opinion was unanimous that the pictures were right up to the Howe standard in every way. As usual, the pictures showed many parts of the world beginning with a ride on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad through some beautiful mountain sections of the west, showing canyons, gorges, towering peaks and mountain streams.

Another case of smallpox had been discovered in the town of Villenova. The patient was Mabel Harmon. The discovery was made on Friday and the girl’s home was at once placed under quarantine. Harmon was a student at the South Dayton High School. The teachers and scholars there, particularly in her department, had been exposed to the disease. The South Dayton board of education held a special meeting to determine what course to take. It might be decided to close the school for a short time.

-In 1939, in Wrightsville, Pa., Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stowell escaped with their lives early Sunday morning when fire broke out in their store destroying the building with living quarters above. The blaze was discovered about 3 a.m. when Mr. Stowell was awakened by the barking of the family police dog, kept in the store at night. Mr. Stowell was attired only in his night clothing and started to secure clothing but the fire had gained such headway that he had to give up the attempt. A young man from Pittsfield and Ruth Jordan of the Lottsville Road, seeing the plight of their neighbors, drove their car directly beneath the porch roof and Mr. and Mrs. Stowell stepped to the top of the car and then to the ground. The Sugar Grove Fire Department was called but their assistance came too late to save the buildings. The dog was saved when the door of the store was kicked in.

Warner Brothers’ Athletic Club would sponsor a real old-fashioned skating party the following Wednesday night from 7:30-10:30 p.m. at the Roseland Park Rink in Jamestown, according to Louis W. Collins, chairman of the arrangements. Band music would be provided. There would be speed and fancy skating exhibitions, moonlight waltzes and other features, with prizes for the best decorated costumes. Buffalo fancy skaters had been invited to attend Red flares would be used in addition to the regular lighting facilities and plans were being made to make the party one of the most outstanding of the season.

In 1964, three women pedestrians struck by an auto on Foote Ave., shortly after midnight were all reported in fair condition in Jamestown General Hospital. The operator of the vehicle which struck Irene Nania, 41, Pauline Giambra, 43 and Clementine Fashino, 46, all of Jamestown, was charged with drunken driving, police reported. Police said the women, who had just finished bowling at the Satellite Bowl on Foote Ave., had crossed the avenue and were walking toward their parked car when hit by the northbound vehicle.

Need for better cooperation of Jamestown residents in facilitating collection of garbage and refuse during periods of heavy snow was stressed at the monthly meeting of the Board of Health in the Masonic Temple. Noting that there had been a number of complaints during the past month involving failure to pick up garbage and refuse, the board pointed out that, regardless of weather conditions, residents had an obligation to cooperate in facilitating collections. It was pointed out that city garbage and refuse collectors could not be expected to empty receptacles unless they were kept in places where they were readily accessible and were not buried under snow or frozen to the ground.

In 1989, compliance with Chautauqua County restrictions on smoking in public places generally had been good to date, county legislators were told. Despite good overall acceptance, many smaller businesses failed to realize the regulations applied to them, Robert Lincoln, assistant county director of environmental health services, told the County Legislature’s Human Services Committee. The restrictions went into effect Aug. 25 for county buildings and restaurants and later for private businesses and industries. Lincoln,said the Health Department was not receiving many complaints but acknowledged there was not 100 percent compliance.

The Army Corps of Engineers was planning a project to halt bank erosion along Mill Creek in Sinclairville. Erosion damage had come within 23 feet of Sinclairville Elementary School along the right bank and was threatening St. John’s Evangelical Roman Catholic Church along the left bank of the stream, a tributary of Cassadaga Creek.

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In 1914, Tosoder Stard of the Pennsylvania Railroad shops was crushed under a falling car the previous day in Olean. Stard lay on a small truck which was under a heavy freight car which had been jacked up during repairs. The jacks gave way, letting the car onto Stard and pinning him to the truck. It was hardly thought he would recover. He was taken to Higgins Memorial Hospital.

Wright D. Broadhead had resigned his position as president of the Swedish-American National Bank of Jamestown with a request that it be acted upon at once. The board was reluctant to accept the resignation and urged the president to continue in that position. It was finally agreed that action should be delayed for another month and it would not, therefore, take effect until the first of March. Broadhead began bank work at the bottom of the ladder, as clerk in the First National Bank when a mere boy. After 12 years spent in the various clerkships of the First National Bank, he resigned his position there to take that of cashier of the Bank of Jamestown when that institution was organized.

In 1939, a Curtiss Hawk 75 pursuit plane, one of 100 being constructed for the French government, had substantially exceeded all known speed records with a free dive of more than 575 miles per hour, it was announced this day. The record was established over the Buffalo Airport while the plane was undergoing acceptance tests, officials of the Curtiss aeroplane division of the Curtiss Wright Corporation, said. The tests were made by H. Lloyd Child, chief test pilot of the Buffalo Curtiss plant, who said he “felt no ill effects and did not realize” that the speed was “presumably the fastest man ever has traveled.”

Gordon Connelly, 13, of Barrows Street, Jamestown, received a broken leg around 12:45 p.m. when his sled collided with an automobile at Sciota and Allen streets. The driver of the automobile, whose name was not learned, took the boy to his home and later he was removed to WCA Hospital. The Connelly boy was sliding down Sciota Street hill just before the accident.

In 1964, the Barcelona Inn, one of the oldest landmarks in Chautauqua County, was destroyed by fire early this day. Built in 1827, the inn had been continuously operated as an eating establishment since that time, gaining fame in a widespread area. The structure predated by two years the Barcelona Lighthouse. The one-story wooden structure at the rear of the main part of the inn was completely engulfed by flames at the time the fire was discovered and Westfield firemen under the direction of Chief Robert Clawson, fought a losing battle. The roof of the brick, two-story structure, caved in at 7 a.m.

Mrs. John H. Wright presented a copy of the new book on aviatrix Amelia Earhart to the James Prendergast Library. The book, “Courage Is the Price,” written by Earhart’s sister, Muriel Earhart Morrissey, of Medford, Mass., gave intimate details of Earhart’s family life not published before. Wright was a close personal friend of both Earhart and her sister. Wright planned to present a copy of the book to the Batavia Public Library in the coming spring.

In 1989, a proposal to charge hikers $10 to walk on New York state lands was meeting skepticism from one area state legislator. “There are many people who use this land – whether you can catch them all, I don’t know,” said Sen. Jess J. Present, R-Bemus Point. The proposed fee would apply to state lands in the Adirondack and Catskill mountains and to other state forest lands. Present said he did not know how Governor Cuomo defined “state forest land.” The state could not fence in the Adirondacks, Present said, adding that forest land was not like the Thruway, where the state could se up toll booths to catch everyone.

The New York State Board of Regents had killed a controversial proposal that would have hurt rural libraries. The most expensive part of the plan called for all libraries to be staffed with a director with a master’s degree in library science. That was the recommendation most severely criticized by libraries.

In Years Past

In 1914, the rumor that steps were being taken by prominent Chautauqua County people looking to the filing of a petition with Gov. Glynn asking for the removal from office of Chautauqua County Sheriff Gust A. Anderson, was admitted by Attorney Robert H. Jackson of Jamestown. It was understood that four men of local prominence had asked Jackson to take hold of the matter. Jackson had been investigating the facts connected with the Beardsley case with this in view and had taken affidavits of a number of persons connected with the case. The petition, if made, would allege failure to properly perform his duty on the part of the sheriff, both in leaving Overseer of the Poor Putnam unguarded while they were in the Beardsley house at the very outset of the affair and failure to perform his duty later when given a warrant for Beardsley’s arrest and not serving it inside of a proper and reasonable time.

Silas W. Taylor, aged 61, a resident of Ashville, was dead at Partridge’s morgue as a result of being struck by a traction car at Gardner & Bly’s curve, a short distance beyond the Warner farm shortly after 6:30 p.m. Thursday evening. Coroner Illston would hold an investigation beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday morning. According to officials, Taylor boarded the 6 p.m. car to ride up the lake. He made so much trouble on the car that Conductor Timothy Johnson put him off at Ashville. The car continued on its run and after it had gone, Taylor started up the track. About an hour later, the 7 p.m. car came along. Swinging around the curve, the motorman perceived Taylor on the track a few feet ahead. The car could not be stopped in time.

In 1939, Genevieve Marshall Thomas, comely entertainer, who said she was once arrested for “doing the same dance as Sally Rand does only I had my clothes on,” had her day in court this day. Arrested a fortnight ago on a charge of selling liquor without a license, she described her vocation as “playing the piano, playing the accordion, dancing and entertaining the customers.”She emphatically denied that she illegally sold liquor to the complaining witness, one Leroy Anderson of R.F.D. 4. Instead she said she merely threw a birthday party for the piano player of the orchestra at the cafe where she entertained and the complainant, “horned in.” The case was still in progress in the afternoon at Jamestown City Court with Judge Allen Bargar and without a jury.

The weather went from one extreme to the other over the weekend, bringing four inches of snow, strong west winds and a sharp drop in temperature, reminiscent of an old fashioned winter. Saturday’s mild weather was followed by blustery gales on Sunday morning with snow being swirled through the streets and roads of Jamestown and the Chautauqua region. The maximum temperature of 42 degrees dropped to 10 above zero this day but the blizzard had subsided and there were prospects of relief from the cold wave.

In 1964, need of more space at the Fenton Mansion to develop it as a museum was expressed at the executive committee and board meeting of the Fenton Historical Society at the Medical Arts Building. Mrs. Calvin C. Torrance presided. C. Malcolm Nichols, curator, said that only one room was used to store articles offered for museum purposed. Ernest D. Leet and DeForest W. Peterson supported Nichols in his plea for more space. Presently, the Jamestown Health Department occupied much of the first floor and veterans organizations occupied some of the second floor. Mrs. Richard Graham, membership chairman, expressed a hope that the society would reach its goal of 1,000 members by May.

The Southwestern Central School Board approved the appointment of Clarence “Flash”Olson as football coach at a meeting Wednesday evening. Olson, a physical education teacher in the school system and former freshman football coach, would take the place of Edwin Stupka, whose resignation would be effective on Feb. 1. Appointed to assist Olson were Richard Shevalier of the physical education department and Anthony Scarry, a science teacher, both in the school system.

In 1989, depending on ones idea of fun, it might cost a little more to have a good time in New York state in the coming summer. Gov. Mario Cuomo, trying to close a state budget gap of up to $2.3 billion, included more than $800 million in new taxes and fees in his proposed 1989-90 state budget the past week. Along with so-called “sin tax” increased on beer, wine and tobacco products, there were a host of what lawmakers liked to call “user fees” and what hikers, boaters and swimmers might call “fun fees.”

The Resource Center, Jamestown’s fourth-largest taxpayer, began work this month on a contract from the United States Department of Defense to assemble 38,400 ground rods, according to Patrick Walker, plant manager. “This job will be recurring,” he said. “When the contract comes up again, we’ll get it automatically.” Walker said the contract had received National Industry for the Severely Handicapped status. The rods would be used to ground electrical equipment, Walker said.

In Years Past

In 1914, the tension under which the residents of Mayville and vicinity had lived for the past week, was perceptibly relaxed due to the knowledge that Edward Beardsley, the so-called Summerdale outlaw, was safely behind the steel bars of the Chautauqua County jail. Officers, citizens, all concerned in fact, were down to earth again and in a few days the Beardsley affair, from being a sensation featured on the front pages of all the newspapers of the state, would be but more than a police court case of little interest. In Mayville, interest centered chiefly on the Beardsley children who, late in the afternoon, had been brought from the squalid farm house to the village. Edith Austin, the mother, accompanied them. They were given a good-sized room at the hotel and supplied with food which they ate ravenously.

The smallpox outbreak in Sinclairville and the town of Charlotte had been suppressed by the vigorous steps taken by the town board of health and Health Officer Dr. Charles Cleland and this day there were but four cases still under quarantine in the township and these were not considered serious in any way. School throughout the township, except at Charlotte Center and the Sinclairville school, were opened on Monday of this week. The two schools still closed would reopen on Monday next. Churches in Sinclairville were to be permitted to reopen on Sunday when regular services would be resumed. It was stated that during the entire outbreak there had been 26 persons under quarantine in the town of Charlotte, including Sinclairville village.

In 1939, the solicitor general and Mrs. Robert H. Jackson of Jamestown, were guests at the dinner the president and Mrs. Roosevelt gave on Thursday night for the chief justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. It was the first appearance at a state function of Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, who had just taken the oath of office as associate justice. Of the Supreme Court, the only absent members were Justice Louis D. Brandeis, who never attended evening functions and Justice J. Clark McReynolds, bitterest anti-New Dealer on the court. Retired Justice Willis Van Devanter was there as well as Attorney General Frank Murphy and other leading members of the judiciary.

Coroner’s Physician J. Louis Preston endeavored to determine the cause of the death of a man whose frozen body was found in a car on an Allegany State Park trail. Preston said the dead man was Walter Meyers, 50, gas station attendant at Steamburg, N.Y. Preston was informed that Meyers came to this vicinity from Princeton, N.J. as an enrollee in the veterans’ CCC camp in the state park. The camp was transferred two years previously but Meyers remained in the community. He had been employed by Mrs. Reeves’ service station at Steamburg for some time. It was stated that it was impossible to determine the cause of death until an autopsy could be performed. It was believed that Meyers drove the car to the spot where it was found some time prior to it being found as there was no snow under the machine. He had not been seen for eight or nine days. It was not known if he had any relatives.

In 1964, an unwelcome visitor wandered into Jamestown the previous afternoon and before she left, one police officer was kicked and several autos were slightly damaged. A 130-pound deer took refuge in Pline’s Garage on W. 4th St., in the downtown area, entering via the Washington Street ramp. Dog Warden Herman F. Page was summoned and with little trouble administered a shot, which he said would knock out a horse. The stubborn doe, however, remained conscious long enough to kick Page and raise a fuss in general. Page and Officer Walter Stanton hung on to their respective ropes, which were looped around the deer?s legs, in the face of flying hooves. Damage to several autos, a broken radio aerial and scratched hoods, was estimated at $100. Eventually her injuries were taken care of and she was back in her natural habitat.

The State Senate was in the driver’s seat on a bill to rename the New York Thruway the “Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway.” The measure was passed unanimously Tuesday by the Assembly but only after that body’s Democrats protested that the Thruway, although built during Dewey’s administration, was conceived during the Democratic administration of the late Gov. Herbert H. Lehman. Assemblyman Christian Armbruster, R-Westchester, who introduced the bill, said the renaming would honor the Republican governor while he was alive. A similar bill was vetoed in 1955 by former Gov. W. Averell Harriman, a Democrat, on the ground that no public works projects were named for persons.

In Years Past

• In 1914, Edward Beardsley, who for exactly one week successfully defied the law officers of Chautauqua county and whose defiance had attracted wide-spread attention, was now locked in a cell in the Mayville jail. No one would be permitted to see him. Although his attorney, R.F. Pickard, said he was willing that the newspaper men should interview him, sheriff Anderson refused them admittance. Beardsley was arrested in his home on the Summerdale hill by Charles Backus, a special deputy, brought to Mayville. Mr. Backus, for the past week had spent a good share of his time at the house and had won the confidence of the man. He figured that he could get into the house, disarm him and bring him to Mayville unaided.

• Early in the morning fire destroyed the fine, newly remodeled horse barn on the Norton farm, the old Red Bird Tavern, on the Jamestown road just south of the village of South Stockton. The farm was owned by E.M. Cobb of Chicago and had been greatly improved under his ownership. The fire started in the horse barn near where a 1913 Cadillac automobile was stored. What caused the fire was not known as there was no one on or around the premises. The fire burned the barn to the ground, the loss amounting to several thousand dollars, including 15 tons of hay, 200 bushels of oats and a quantity of seed corn. The auto was badly damaged but was saved by Ray Norton, the caretaker of the place, who returned home in time for this. Mr. Norton was severely burned about the hands while saving the auto.

• In 1939, two Salamanca young men were in the city hospital, one with a possible fracture of the spine, the other with a bruised leg, as the result of a tobogganing accident in Allegany State Park. Two others were reported slightly hurt when the toboggan struck a tree on a steep hillside in the Big Red House valley area of the park. Edwin Guthrie suffered the possible spine fracture and Glenn Shimp was the one with the badly bruised leg. All four boys were employed at a local plant in Salamanca and were taking their first toboggan ride on their day off. The hill on which they were sliding was not the location of the regular toboggan slide.

• When Harry Doty, 43, drove his light coupe in front of an eastbound train on the Pennsylvania railroad on a crossing one mile east of Garland, Pa., he and his daughter, Luella, 17, met sudden death. The accident occurred in view of a large number of persons in autos on both sides of the crossing. Mr. Doty was driving his car towards Garland, according to coroner Ed Lowrey of Warren. Eyewitnesses said that the blinker lights on the crossing were operating and that for some reason Mr. Doty drove around the cars that were waiting and onto the crossing directly in front of the train. It appeared that Mr. Doty was taking his daughter home for the weekend as she was a student at Warren Business College.

• In 1964, a year-old boy was rescued from his crib in a smoke filled room in the attached living quarters as volunteer firemen kept a wind-whipped fire from spreading in the White Horse Inn, Main Street Extension, Cassadaga, during a snow storm the previous evening. The loss to the building and its contents, from flames, together with dense smoke and water, was not estimated. The child, Mark James Powers, who turned one on Jan. 18, was the son of the owners, Jimmie and Marylou Powers, who were in the inn when the fire was discovered by Lawrence Palmer. Almet (Toots) Josephson, 23, who also happened by when the fire was discovered, rescued the child and took him to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cady where he was given shelter.

• An 18-foot-high snowman apparently turned out to be an abominable one and was ordered taken down in Celoron much to the chagrin of four teenage boys who built it. Jerry Schrecengost, 17, one of the four who spent several hours Saturday and Sunday sculpturing the giant-size snowman, said he was thinking of circulating a petition protesting the action. “The grownups,” he said, “complain about us kids doing nothing and then when we do something they tear it down.” The snowman, wearing a large-size deputy’s badge and mock gun belt was built as a testimony to Village Police Chief Steven Showers. “All us kids like him,” he said. “We think he is a nice guy. The snowman was destroyed by the Village Highway Dept. after some residents complained that it constituted a hazard.

• In 1989, when Emory Olson and Donald Johnson locked the door for the last time at Baldwin Jewelers at 7 East Third St., Jamestown, they would leave behind them a combined 88 years in the business – 44 years apiece. The pair had been busy the past few days clearing the premises of what was left over following their going-out-of-business sale after the building was bought by Norstar Bank. The business dated back to 1913, when it was established as Baldwin’s Jewelry Shop by the late Charles Ernest Baldwin on the second floor of the Wellman Building in downtown Jamestown. It specialized for years in jewelry manufacturing and repairs. The business moved to its current location in 1934.

• Many farmers in Warren County were struggling for survival. Times might be tough but it was a life they preferred. “Most of them are just trying to hang on – robbing Peter to pay Paul and continuing business as long as they can,” said Pete Block. “Some stay at it even beyond reason just because they enjoy the lifestyle. They don’t want to face the prospect of changing their life, so they try to keep the farm going as long as they can,” Block said. And Block should know. He was president of the Warren County Farmers Association and owner of Twin State Farms in Sugar Grove.

In Years Past

In 1914, a call for medical assistance sent in from the Beardsley house to Dr. George W. Reynolds of Mayville, was the chief event of interest in the seventh day of the Beardsley siege. This authentic call for help set at rest the rumors that the alleged accident to one of the women in the house, was fake. Reynolds was told that the gunshot wound in her right thigh was beginning to swell and had become very painful. The gunshot wound was said to be the result of an accident. A dense fog shrouded the Beardsley home all the early hours of the day, cutting off both the prying eyes of would-be spectators to whatever was occurring there and the efforts of photographers and moving picture men to get further views of the scene of the siege. The fog afforded an opportunity to escape but at this time it was not thought that any move of this kind had been made by Beardsley. The besieged man seemingly felt too confident that his bulwark of women and children was impregnable to make any effort to get away. This was probably true.

Sugar Grove seemed to be getting its share of snow and drifts and everyone had a hard time getting around during this week. Both stages were tied up, the Jamestown stage tipping over and having to be shoveled out. Tuesday they did not try to go at all. The mail started for Youngsville Monday at the usual time. They got as far as Chandlers Valley and had to stay all night and be shoveled through to Youngsville Tuesday forenoon. Tuesday, the four rural mail carriers did not try to go at all. Some of the pupils from out in the country had not returned to school.

In 1939, it must be just that good old country air! Anyways, Watson Truesdell, over 80 years of age and one of the oldest residents of Ashville, made up his mind he would go coasting. Picking North Maple Street hill as the spot for his epoch making ride, Truesdell on Thursday borrowed a small sled and walked to a good height and under excellent coasting conditions zoomed down the hill at breakneck speed. He seemingly enjoyed the ride, according to reports, although he didn’t venture to try it again.

The case of a coal peddler who was arrested for weighing his coal in a manner different than the law prescribed, was disposed of in Jamestown City Court this day. The coal peddler, William H.. Barr, of Marble, Pa., who was convicted Jan. 5 of a technical violation, received a suspended sentence. He got in wrong with the law because he did not dump his load at the nearest scale, weigh his truck then reload and weigh both coal and truck to check the net weight. Instead, Barr weighed his truck with the load on, delivered the coal to the place of consignment and returned to the scale and weighed the empty truck which the law said you mustn’t do.

In 1964, Clyde L. Carnahan of Jamestown, 79, owner of the Carnahan-Shearer Co., a retail clothing firm, and prominent in church and civic affairs, died this day at WCA Hospital where he had been a patient for two weeks. His death came on the threshold of the store’s move from the Fenton Building at Main and Second Street, to the former Enterprise Store on West Third Street, near Cherry Street. Since he came to Jamestown in 1924 to open the Carnahan-Shearer Store in Jamestown, Carnahan had taken a noteworthy interest in the community’s public affairs and particularly in activities of the First Presbyterian Church, the Jamestown Area Community Chest and the Boy Scouts. He was also president of the former Empire Worsted Mills from 1932 until it was sold in 1948.

Chautauqua County Assemblyman A. Bruce Manley was back in Albany with high hopes that work might be resumed this year on the State Park at Long Point on Chautauqua Lake. Manley said he had been told that an appropriation of $350,000 for work at the park was included in the 1964 state budget. The funds would be used to provide roads and parking areas for the recreation area near Bemus Point. Manley also pledged his backing to efforts to get construction started soon on the Southern Tier Expressway.

In 1989, coming down quickly was the old Lakewood Motor Inn on Route 394 in Lakewood. The demolition contractor had been busy over the week bulldozing the structures that once made up the complex, loading the debris into trucks and hauling it away. No plans had been announced for the site once it was cleared.

A showdown on the future of the Unigard Building in Jamestown as the consolidated home of Chautauqua County offices in the south county was expected when the County Legislature would meet on Wednesday night. Members of the legislature’s Finance Committee voted to send to the legislature, without a recommendation, a lengthy amended bond and capital note resolution. It called for increasing the appropriation for the building by $1.7 million from the original $2.4 million earlier approved in connection with the structure. The additional amount would be used primarily for interior renovations at the Fourth Street building. The principal critic of the project was Joseph Trusso Jr., D-Jamestown, who long had viewed it as an albatross hung around the county’s neck.

In Years Past

In 1914, there were two interesting developments in the siege at Summerdale, near Mayville, Sunday. Edward Beardsley was still defying the sheriff’s department to arrest him for shooting Poormaster John Putnam. One was an interview with Attorney Ray F. Pickard of Jamestown in which Beardsley promised to give himself up to the authorities on Wednesday, providing he was assured that his brother, Charles, of Titusville, would be permitted to take the children. The other was a signed statement given exclusively to The Journal, written by Beardsley. Part of the statement read: “To you fathers and mothers, if you have a vacant place around the table, think of the one that is gone from you, bringing the pang of sorrow. Now what is life after your home is destroyed though it be ever so humble? … Did I do right? Do unto me as you would have others do unto you is a motto we all love.”

There were 918 less drinking places in the state of New York than there were in 1896, when the present excise law was passed. The total number currently was 23,472. In New York and Brooklyn the total decrease the past year was 109. At this rate of decrease, commissioner of Excise, Farley, estimated the limit of one drinking place to 500 population would be reached in six or eight years.

In 1939, Mary A. Mahoney, of East Buffalo Street, Jamestown, principal of R. R. Rogers School, a Jamestown public school teacher for a period of 47 years, died this morning at the Jamestown General Hospital aged 67 years. She was at her post at the school the past Friday, although she had been in failing health for several months but was a patient at the hospital since Sunday. Mahoney was a member of a prominent old Jamestown Irish family, born in 1872. She graduated from Jamestown High School in 1892 in the teachers’ training course and began her long teaching career in September of that year. She taught first at the old Central Branch school on the site of the School Administration building from 1892-95. Mahoney joined the ranks of the sainted group of women who guided the destinies of hundreds of school children during the early days of the public school system here.

Fire of undetermined origin caused damage totaling several thousands of dollars at the plant of the Endress Ice and Coal Company at Harrison Street and Foote Avenue, Jamestown, early in the morning. The fire was confined to the walls of the ice storage plant. They were insulated with cork, which burned and smoldered for hours. The fire was difficult to extinguish but was not of a spectacular nature. The flames were discovered about 2 a.m. by Patrolman Harold Johnson who turned in an alarm. All apparatus responded because at first it was feared that the fire might spread to the Maddox Table Company and other factories in the vicinity.

In 1989, the lack of snow over the winter could spell trouble the following summer for New York’s farmers. It was too early to tell for certain if there would be enough snow the rest of the winter to offset low snowfall levels early on but forecasters at the National Weather Service said the chance was about half and half. Farmers in New York weren’t worried yet but snowfall – and winter insulation for annual crops and life-giving spring runoff -had been sparse this winter.

Jamestown Community College administrators heaved a collective sigh of relief. But in Fredonia, the sigh came from another round of tightened belts. At JCC, administrators’ relief came as they listened to a teleconference presentation of the governor’s budget. “Community colleges appeared not to have suffered as much as I though (they would),” President Paul Benke said. The news was not so cheerful in Fredonia, where a few moments after Cuomo’s budget proposal was released, President Donald A. MacPhee learned that the State University of New York got only $35 million of its $90 million request for more state aid.

In Years Past

In 1914, a delegation of church people, including two or three ministers, according to pretty reliable information, was to leave Dunkirk very soon on a short visit in Pittsburgh for the purpose of hearing Evangelist Billy Sunday, the religious lecturer. Sunday was engaged to conduct a revival campaign in Dunkirk in 1915, this arrangement having been made by a committee representing the majority of Dunkirk Protestant pastors. The local committee in charge of the proposed campaign in Dunkirk had learned that at one meeting the great evangelist talked to 22,000 men -more than the entire population of the city of Dunkirk.

The long-heralded blank form to be used by individuals required by the new income tax laws to make an annual return of their net annual income had been issued at the treasury department. It was to be known as form 1040 and had to be used in accordance with instructions. This return should be made by every citizen of the United States, whether residing at home or abroad and by every person residing in the United States though not a citizen, having a net income of $3,000 or over for the taxable year and also by every nonresident alien deriving income from property owned and business, trade or profession carried on in the United States. The normal tax of 1 percent would be assessed on the total net income, less the specific exemptions.

In 1939, at Buffalo, aeronautical engineers were turning to a new type of airplane for an effective weapon against one of modern warfare’s greatest terrors -the bombing plane. Fighting in Spain and China had uncovered limitations of anti-aircraft guns and military observers were inclined to believe the answer to the bombing plane problem might be found in fast climbing and heavily armed “interceptor” planes. Within the past two weeks, one large builder of military airplanes, Curtiss-Wright had announced the development of a new style “interceptor” airship and the adoption of a pursuit model already was in use for the purpose.

A dog which was faithful unto and after death was responsible for the recovery of the body of his master in a thicket on Hough Hill this morning. The dog, a brown and white hunting hound named Buck, barked and attracted the attention of a search party who were looking for Andrew Magnona, 56, of East Second Street, Jamestown. They reported that had it not been for the dog, the body might not have been found for several weeks and that Magnona’s disappearance would have remained a mystery. Magnona, who was thought to have died from a heart attack, went hunting the previous morning and when he had not returned home at an early hour in the following morning, members of his family became alarmed and notified police.

In 1964, South Vietnam Communists shot down a U.S. Army escort helicopter in a Mekong River delta battle and two American servicemen and a British officer aboard it were reported missing and feared dead. The helicopter was downed near the mouth of the Mekong River. Two crewmen were fished out of the water near the crash site, unhurt. Five U.S. crewmen were killed and three wounded Friday in operations supporting a Vietnamese government campaign to crush Red bases in the delta.

An Olean trucker narrowly escaped serious injury when his load of steel shifted as he rammed the tractor-trailer into a snowbank to avoid striking a stopped car. The truck driver, Harry Williams, was proceeding west on Route 17 at Mayville when he observed a Chautauqua County Highway Department auto stopped at the railroad crossing at the east end of the village. Williams said he began braking his unit and shifting into low range but it became obvious he could not avoid the stopped car if he remained on the highway. He elected to plow his loaded unit into a large snow bank on E. Chautauqua Avenue. The sudden stop caused a crated 8,000-pound crankshaft aboard the trailer to shift forward. The impact collapsed the cab next to the driver, forcing him against the steering wheel.

In 1989, work on the interior of the Reg Lenna Civic Center theater auditorium was underway. “This will be a close-to-complete renovation,” said Jack Kammer, construction manager of the project. The $3 million renovation should be completed within the next 15 months. All seats would be taken out and completely redone. “This new upholstery is designed to outlast the leather or plastic of the original seats,” Kammer said. There would be completely new stage lighting. The orchestra pit would be reconstructed, new curtains would be hung at the front of the stage and the walls would be redone with a combination of wood and fabric.

An Ashville slaughterhouse and meat packing company had decided to seek a court order limiting the number of striking employees that could picket the company in the wake of reports of violence by pickets and the arrest of one of them. Otis Barber, spokesman for Fairbank Farms, told The Post-Journal that the company planned to seek an injunction limiting the number of strikers on the picket line. No date had been set for a hearing on the company’s petition.

In Years Past

In 1914, Edward Beardsley was still barricaded behind the boarded-up doors and windows of his house and the police power of Chautauqua County was, as yet, powerless to serve a warrant for his arrest charged with shooting John G.W. Putnam. Activities on the Summerdale hills had not served to dislodge Beardsley, although information was at hand that he had made positive promise to give up the children and then come out and surrender. With no reporters permitted closer to the Beardsley house than the Bradshaw schoolhouse a mile away, stories of what had occurred at the site of the siege this day were hard to obtain.

Four persons lost their lives in an apartment house fire at Brocton this day and five others were injured by jumping from upper stories. The dead were: Mary J. Moynihan and her son, W.B. Moynihan; A.C. Lininthal and an unidentified man who lodged in the Lininthal home. The burned building was a three-story brick structure on North Main Street in the Montello section. The blaze was discovered at about 3 a.m. by a neighbor. When the firemen arrived, exit by way of the stairway had been cut off and life nets were stretched. There were many thrilling escapes. When the ruins were searched, the bodies of the dead were found in their beds. They had died from suffocation.

In 1939, the government denied the right of the International Railway Company of Buffalo, N.Y. to rebuild without specific authority from Congress, the Falls View bridge at Niagara Falls, destroyed by an ice jam the past winter. Answering a suit brought in District Federal Court to compel the secretary of war and the chief of army engineers to approve the company’s plans for a new bridge, the government declared the two war department officials lacked authority to grant such approval except by an act of Congress. The railway company contended it had the right to rebuild the bridge under authorizations obtained from the state of New York and Canadian governments more than a half-century ago.

Alleging that he was injured when assaulted at a South Stockton barn dance last August, Henry J. Johnson, 43, Frewsburg-Kennedy Road, was the plaintiff in a $700 damage action against his brother, Paul Johnson and Herman Crandall, being tried before Judge Lee Ottaway at Mayville. Johnson, who worked about the dance hall, assisting his brother, claimed that he was slapped by Daisy Condon and that when he asked his brother to have her removed from the place, Paul Johnson and Crandall secured a piece of rope which they tied about his neck and dragged him out from the floor. The plaintiff said that Crandall held his arms and he was taken to the basement of the place and beaten up. Then he claimed the two other men tied his arms and legs and placed him in a truck.

In 1964, details concerning Jamestown’s growing water demands and shrinking supply would be relayed to the Federal Government for possible future grants to aid projects estimated at $3.5 million. Information on the water problem would be sent to Rep. Charles E. Goodell who recently assured local officials he would investigate possibilities of obtaining federal aid. At a meeting of the Board of Public Utilities, William A. Taylor said little more could be learned about the city’s chances for government financial aid until the board received a report from Goodell.

Injured in a 15-foot fall, Frank Brink, 23, of 60 Chautauqua Ave., Lakewood, was in “satisfactory” condition in WCA Hospital. He received head and left wrist injuries. A hospital report stated Brink fell from a ladder to asphalt paving while washing a window at Chautauqua National Bank’s Spring and Fifth Street branch office. He was employed by Jamestown Window Cleaners.

In 1989, January usually meant harsh winds, bone-chilling temperatures and lots of snow, but not this year. From the Midwest to Maine, snowfall had been below normal and temperatures had been above normal. “Looking at the weather map and temperatures across the nation … one would never realize that it is the middle of January,” the National Weather Service said in a statement the previous night after the mercury climbed into the 40s and 50s across much of the country. The relatively mild season had been a boon to motorists, joggers and municipal budgets but a bane for snowmobile dealers, winter festival organizers and ski resort operators.

Assemblywoman Patricia K. McGee, R-Franklinville, reminded new police officers of the importance of their training and a commitment to equal justice during remarks to the 34th graduating class of the Chautauqua County Sheriffs Academy. “One of the most basic tasks of government is the protection of its citizens against violence,” McGee told graduates of the basic law enforcement course, quoting John Foster Dulles, secretary of state to President Eisenhower.

In Years Past

In 1914, Edward Beardsley, the Summerdale outlaw, still held the fort. For 72 hours he had kept the officers of the law at a distance. To all outward appearance the situation was the same with this exception, the sheriff was trying to accomplish by strategy what he had failed to accomplish by display of force. He was trying to make Beardsley think the guard had been withdrawn. He hoped that Beardsley would leave the house and try to escape. The county roads had been closed for a distance of a mile and a half. The sheriff guard was stationed on the Mayville side of the Bradshaw schoolhouse which was a mile from the Beardsley house.

A.N. Kidd, superintendent of the Borden Condensery at Randolph, delivered an instructive lecture on The Care of Milk in the First M.E. Church parlors in Jamestown at a mass meeting. Those in attendance were members of the board of health, several local milk dealers and citizens interested in pasteurization and sterilization of milk. Kidd put great emphasis on cleanliness. The farmer’s stable should be kept clean and foul matter removed every day and windows so placed that cows could have light. In the summer the windows should be screened so that the flies could be kept out. If the place was thoroughly screened, flies could not get into the milk.

In 1939, James A. Moran of 14th St., Jamestown, and members of his family went downtown Sunday afternoon about 4:30 p.m. to see a movie. Returning home a few hours later, blissfully unaware of impending disaster, the Morans found that their home had been swept by flames and badly damaged during their absence. The cause of the fire was not known, but evidently it started in the basement directly under the front door of the house. It spread upward with the result that not a room in the house escaped damage. When firemen arrived, the whole front of the house, on the inside, appeared to be a mass of flames with the focal point at the front door. Before getting to the heart of the fire, firemen had to don gas masks.

The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Busti Federated Church was entertained by Mary Stoddard, Mrs. Wilbur Strickland and Mrs. George Crandall at the parsonage. Dinner was served by the hostesses assisted by several of the men. It was announced that there would be an amateur entertainment put on by the young people of the church on the evening of Jan. 20. Mrs. Lyle Boardman, who made collecting bottles her hobby, gave a talk. She stated that she had over 800 bottles in her collection, many of historic value. She brought several bottles for display.

In 1964, six Republican senators offered legislation to provide a public-private health care plan for the aged that they described as the most comprehensive presented to Congress. One part would provide 45 days of hospital care, up to 180 days of skilled nursing home care or more than 200 days of home health care following treatment in a hospital for all persons over 65. This would be financed by an increase of .5 to 1 percent in the Social Security payroll tax to be deposited in a separate health fund. The American Medical Association opposed and Congress stymied the late President Kennedy’s program to provide hospital, nursing and out patient care for the elderly by boosting the Social Security tax on employer and employees .25 to 1 percent.

A recommendation that Chautauqua County soon should establish “a clear and definite statement of future bridge policy” had been made by Robert M. Howard, county highway superintendent, in his annual report to the Board of Supervisors. It was explained that annual inspections of town bridges by county highway employees continued to reveal serious deficiencies in many of the structures. “Town roads are rebuilt, widened and improved but the old narrow bridges remain and deteriorate progressively each year,” Howard said.

In 1989, no new negotiations were scheduled in a strike by members of United Food and Commercial Workers, District Local One, against Fairbanks Farms, a Blockville slaughterhouse and meat packing company. Members of the union, which had between 160 and 180 members, voted at Ashville Fire Hall to go on strike after rejecting the company’s offer of a two-year contract. Eric Glather, union representative, said the company was the lowest-paying meat packing plant on the East Coast. In a company statement, spokesman Otis Barber said the strike came after more than 20 years of “harmonious labor relations” at the operation.

The closing of five businesses in downtown Jamestown within the past few months, four of them since the end of December, was a reflection of what was happening in other cities the size of Jamestown, according to Jamestown’s director of development. “It needs to be pointed out that, like downtowns everywhere, Jamestown’s is a changing business district,” Samuel Teresi said. Downtowns were becoming less oriented toward retail outlets, he said. They were becoming dominated by government offices, professional services, banking and financial organizations and dining and entertainment.

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In 1914, there was no change in the situation on the Chautauqua hills near Summerdale where a haggard man with two rifles, a shotgun and a revolver, had stood off a sheriff’s posse for over 48 hours. They were seeking to arrest the man for the shooting of John G.W. Putnam, the overseer of the poor of the town of Chautauqua. Edward Beardsley had thus far successfully defied the power of the law. He was still grimly guarding the little farm house in which he was barricaded with a woman and nine small children. It was reported that Sheriff Anderson had issued an ultimatum to the effect that if he did not give himself up by 2:30 p.m. the posse would rush the house. That meant that at that hour the watchers would make a general assault on the house. The possibility of someone being injured was great but the sheriff’s department had waited long enough and planned to take Beardsley at any cost.

The 12th annual Buffalo automobile show would take place at the Broadway Auditorium under the auspices of the Buffalo Automobile Dealers Association during the first two weeks of February. The first week would be for the display of the pleasure cars when touring cars, runabouts, roadsters and all styles of motor vehicles and accessories would be on exhibition. The second week would be for the commercial vehicles, at which time trucks, delivery wagons and every kind of motor car for business purposes would be displayed. It was the first time in 12 years that the dealers of Buffalo had taken the hall for two weeks but the growth of the automobile business and the general use to which the cars had been put necessitated the exposition under the present plans.

In 1939, Jamestowners awoke the previous morning to find 10 inches of snow covering the barren ground after a week of mild temperatures that brought flowers into bloom and kept firemen busy extinguishing grass blazes. The snowfall was accompanied by a slow but steady drop in temperature. It was reported at the City Hall weather bureau that an inch of snow fell between 1 and 5:30 p.m. Friday, with nine more inches following during the interval ending at 8 a.m. City and county plows were called into service. All main roads were reported in good condition by noon.

Jamestown had a normal year in 1938 as far as contagious diseases were concerned, according to figures compiled by Dr. William M. Sill, superintendent of public health. During the 12-month period a total of 1,418 cases was reported as compared with 1,338 in 1937. The total number of cases in the various diseases reported during 1938 were: Chicken pox, 154; german measles, two; measles, 710; pneumonia, 127; scarlet fever, 436; typhoid fever, 14; vincents angina, one; whooping cough, 68; encephalitis, one; undulant fever, two; bacterial dysentery, two; and amebic dysentery, one.

In 1964, H.A. Shepard, president of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Inc., the multi-million dollar outfit that recently announced it would combine with Marlin-Rockwell, Inc., said his company followed a policy of decentralization. Marlin-Rockwell, he said, during a visit to Jamestown for a luncheon in the Town Club, 210 Pine St., to meet local company officials, would remain an autonomous operation. He reported the management of both companies were in agreement with only approval from the shareholders needed to cement the deal, said to involve an exchange of stock worth $52 million.

Bitter cold added woe to misery as the eastern half of the nation continued to dig out of its worst snowstorm of the winter. Thousands of motorists and others were stranded and more than 140 deaths were blamed on the blizzard-like onslaught. New York City sanitation men, 8,000 strong, were bolstered by 3,000 extras hired at $2 an hour to shovel snow from streets. Manhattan’s Great White Way was just that. Scores died from overexertion or exposure as they shoveled snow, tried to dig out stuck autos or trudged through the deep expanse of white. In Raleigh, N.C. Michael N. Summy, 6, was killed when his sled ran under a truck. The cold weather covered nearly all sections of the country, with temperatures generally below freezing except in southern Florida, southern Texas and the extreme southwestern areas along the Pacific Coast.

In Years Past

• In 1914, Edward Beardsley shot and seriously wounded John G. W. Putnam, overseer of the poor of the town of Chautauqua. Mr. Putnam was there in the Beardsley home to take the nine children to some institution where they would be properly cared for. He was accompanied by Gust A. Anderson and Gerry W. Colsgrove, sheriff and undersheriff. Later a posse was organized which guarded the house through the long, cold night. Some of the men in the posse suffered from frost bites but the vigilance was not relaxed. Occasionally a shot was fired.

• A 5,000,000 foot gasser had been struck at Red House according to an article in the Bradford Herald. One of the biggest gassers that had been struck in this vicinity was brought in the previous afternoon by the Bradford Oil & Gas Company which had a large acreage in Red House and vicinity. It was estimated that the well would make 5,000,000 feet a day when completed. It was only three feet in the sand and the flow of gas was so great that the drill had to be stopped. The gas from the gusher would be sent to Bradford through the line which the company recently constructed into that city.

• In 1939, the worst storm of the new year spread over the nation this day with snow and sub-freezing temperatures general from the Atlantic Coast to the Rocky Mountains. Sleet, rain and snow caused many traffic fatalities. Four persons died when a Northwest Airlines plane crashed in flames in a snow-covered coulee near Miles City, Montana. A blizzard, sweeping through New England, buffeted New York and Rhode Island with particular fury, although all the North Atlantic states suffered. A 10-hour snowfall covered New York City’s streets and jammed traffic so badly in Manhattan that police asked radio stations to broadcast appeals for people not to attempt to drive their cars into the city.

• The 31st annual show of the Chautauqua County Poultry and Pet Stock Association, which had been in progress in Jamestown all week in the furniture market building on West Second Street, would come to a close at 10 p.m. Judging of the dog classes was the featured program the previous evening, when the attendance exceeded that of the past year. Fred (Doc) Newton, Salamanca, spent the entire afternoon judging the large and varied class of canines, with Beller’s Walfee, a Pomeranian senior male puppy, owned by Mrs. Allen Beller, being declared the best dog in the show, winning the association cup. Fawn, a Great Dane senior male puppy, owned by Samuel T. Bowers, was the reserve winner.

• In 1964, the howling snowstorm that blasted much of eastern United States left scores dead in its wake. Huge drifts marooned thousands of travelers overnight. The death toll was at least 71. The storm system that swirled into blizzard proportions in the Northeast dumped more than two feet of snow in some sections. Gale force winds whipped the snow into drifts – some 20 feet high. About 3,000 travelers spent the night at Kennedy Airport in New York after all flights were canceled because of drifts on the runways. In Pennsylvania, 250 pupils were marooned overnight at a high school. Their reaction, as one put it: “Down with snowplows. This is the swingingest party of the year.”

• Robert N. Gustafson, R.D. 1, Falconer-Frewsburg Road, Frewsburg, was named the winner of this year’s Junior Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Young Farmer Award the previous evening. Jaycee members from Jamestown, Falconer, Frewsburg and Lakewood, named Mr. Gustafson the winner at the session in the Hotel Jamestown. Mr. Gustafson received the award for his progress in agriculture, conservation of natural resources and contributions to the community, state and nation.

• In 1989, his racing teammate called him “a nice, quiet, laid-back country boy.” But to colleagues in his endurance auto racing circuit, Alistair Oag was a rising star. Make that Rising Star, as in the Eastern Airlines Rising Star, an award for up-and-coming drivers presented to Oag by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). Oag, from near Gerry, won the award in the Touring Division of IMSA after his team finished second in the 10-race Firestone Firehawk Endurance Championship. “Being named an up-and-coming driver is kind of funny,” Oag said, “because I’ve been in motor sports so long.” Had he come away with the championship, it would have marked the third year in a row that Oag had won an overall title. In 1987, he won the Sports Car Club of America Escort Series championship. The year before, he won the VW Cup.

• It was possible to find a parking place in downtown Jamestown. The parking ramps were not dangerous, creating more on street and lot spaces was difficult, perhaps impossible, in the business district and the situation was bad but not as bad as people seemed to think. Early in the week, The Post-Journal checked on the availability of on street spaces. Though not a scientific survey, the results indicated spaces were available. Between 11 and 11:20 a.m., 24 open spaces were photographed between Washington and Main streets and between Second and Fourth streets.

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In 1914, except for the flurry caused by the report of two deaths, there was nothing new in the smallpox situation at Sinclairville, and as a matter of literal fact, one of the deaths reported was not due to smallpox in any way, and the other, the death of Mr. Spear the past Saturday, was only due to smallpox as a contributing cause. The death the previous day of Fred Westley, although it occurred in a family which was quarantined for smallpox, had no connection with this epidemic. Mr. Westley had suffered from tuberculosis of the bone for a number of years, and his death was due to the advance of this disease. He did not have any symptoms of smallpox.

With the winter wind howling, snow filling the streets and the temperature playing tag around the zero mark, the reading of the following postal card, caused something of a sensation in The Journal editorial room. The card read: “The annual Chautauqua County basket picnic will be held at Sycamore Grove, Saturday, January 17, 1914. Should it rain, the picnic will be held the first pleasant Saturday after. Bring your friends and help make this a good time.” It was signed A. B. Hawkins, President, Elizabeth S. Langdon, V. President and Mrs. R. P. Robertson, Secretary. Upon looking at the postmark, it was found to have been sent from Pasadena, California. An accompanying note said: ” We would be glad to see you all in this wonderful place. I know you would enjoy it same as we do.” Mrs. R. P. R.

In 1939, Jamestown’s city hospital was going to advertise. Decision to print and distribute informative circulars about the city-owned institution on Jones Hill was reached at a meeting of the health and hospital board when Rev. Dr. Alfred E. Randell and a committee were authorized to prepare the advertising matter for distribution with the city tax bills which would go out in the spring. It was stated that this was being done in other hospitals and Miss Dorothy Dotterweich, hospital superintendent, informed the board that she had received two such brochures.

Members of a Jamestown Chamber of Commerce committee would confer with Donald G. White, president of the White Aircraft Company of Buffalo, relative to the proposed establishment of an amphibian airplane assembly plant here in connection with the Jamestown Municipal Airport. According to members of the committee, Mr. White hoped to conduct a flying school in connection with the city’s airport on North Main Street extension, as yet unfinished and unused. The school would be in charge of an experienced instructor who had been connected with the work for some time. Mr. White would also seek to operate the airport using the hangar as an assembly plant. The company manufactured amphibian planes and sought to locate here because of the proximity to Chautauqua Lake and because many of the parts could be manufactured in Jamestown.

In 1964, twenty-nine cars of an eastbound New York Central freight train left the tracks at the North Gale Street crossing in

Westfield at 7:30 a.m. No one was injured. The 85-car unit was bound from Cleveland to Buffalo with James Baldwin of Buffalo as engineer. The derailment came as the diesel engine and 35 cars had passed the North Gale Street crossing. The following 29 cars left the rails, 21 remained on the tracks at the rear of the train. The damaged cars were comprised of flat bed, tank and box cars, mostly empty.

A 32-year-old Dunkirk man was killed when his car was struck by an east bound Nickel Plate Railroad freight train shortly before 2 p.m. the previous day at the Main Street crossing. Authorities said that Ralph F. Howard Jr., died a few minutes later as he was being rushed to Brooks Memorial Hospital. It was the second highway fatality of the year in Chautauqua County. On Friday afternoon, a Sherman woman, Mrs. Roselyn Coburn, the mother of eight children, was killed during a blinding snowstorm in the Town of Mina. Last year at this time there were no traffic deaths in the county. According to police, marks on the road indicated that Howard tried to stop the car but that it skidded onto the grade crossing.

In 1989, a pair of idiosyncratic talents captured the bulk of Grammy Award nominations, with the feel-good sound of Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” contrasting with the bleak poetry of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car.” Miss Chapman’s somber, haunting folk songs won her six nominations, including best song, record, album and best new artist. McFerrin’s ebullient vocals earned five nominations, including record, album and song. The two symbolized the diversity of nominees for National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences trophies and represented a break from the mainstream.

Teacher contract negotiations were stalled in Falconer. After two unsuccessful sessions with a mediator early in January, the district and the teachers were taking their cases to a neutral listener, a fact-finder appointed by the state. He would hear the cases Feb. 2. According to Falconer Teacher Association President Michael McElheny, the sides were divided by salaries and financial benefits, health insurance for retirees, teacher work load, a teacher request for additional parent-teacher conferences and an effort by the district to increase the length of some teachers work day.

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In 1914, in response to a complaint made by Amy Pryor Tapptug, Chautauqua County agent for Dependent Children, Sheriff Gust Anderson made an investigation of alleged serious conditions at the home of a Beardsley at Summerdale. They found matters in such a condition that prompt steps were being taken to relieve them. There were four adults and nine children living at the place, the oldest child being but age 7. The children were practically without clothing. There was no food in the place and no apparent means of securing any. Anderson said that in all his experience this was the worst case of destitution with which he had ever had to deal. There was no question but that the children could not be left there. They would be placed in some institution until homes could be procured for them. The matter was reported to the Overseer of the Poor, J.G.W. Putnam, at Mayville.

The first suggestion of genuine old-fashioned Chautauqua County winter weather was afforded Jamestowners this day. It was not much in comparison to some storms the old timers told about but it was considerable for this season. The wind Sunday night got a position in the northwest and by morning had developed into quite a lively gale. It was cold enough to make things unpleasant outdoors, particularly when the weather for the preceding few weeks was taken into consideration. Fortunately, the snowfall was not unduly heavy. Otherwise the usual breaks in the train and trolley schedules would have been reported. As a matter of fact, the railroad people apparently had little trouble. It was reported that the D.A.V.& P. morning train, southbound, was stalled in a snow drift at Moons Station.

In 1939, with the exception of some 60 dogs, which this day took over the benches vacated by cats, judging had been completed at the 31st annual Chautauqua County Poultry and Pet Stock association show in the furniture market building, West Second Street, Jamestown. Fred Newton, Salamanca, would begin to judge the canine blue blood entries the following afternoon. There was a large crowd on hand the previous day for their last glimpse of the feline exhibits and to witness the special entertainment program presented during the evening. Clyde L. Thrall, Jamestown, gained the honor of owning the grand champion bird of the show, a Light Brahma male cockerel.

“While I still abstain from direct prophecies, I feel confident that war will come in Europe in the very early spring,” said S. Miles Bouton, former Berlin and Stockholm newspaper correspondent before the Kiwanis Club at its weekly lunch meeting at the Masonic temple in Jamestown. “That is the opinion generally held by well-informed observers. It seems also to be universally assumed that it will come in the form of a thrust eastward by Germany. You will doubtless be astonished when I say that this assumption may be wrong. I do not guarantee the accuracy of what I am to tell you but my information comes from a source which had proved reliable throughout the last four years.”

In 1989, the coming construction season promised to be a busy one at the Chautauqua County Landfill as plans were implemented to expand it by 6 acres. Richard D. Sturges, deputy director of public works, said the county expected the state Department of Environmental Conservation to issue a construction authorization permit soon for the $3 million project. Sturges said the landfill was in the first stage of a three-phase operation which encompassed an area considered adequate to the county’s landfill needs for at least the rest of this year.

Jamestown’s Community Energy System, also known as the District Heating System, was one of the best in the world, according to those who helped create it. The District Heating system provided hot water heat to customers throughout the downtown Jamestown business district. “Our system is impressive, even to people from other countries for several reasons,” said Douglas Champ, district heating supervisor. “Visitors have seen that, in a very short period of time, we have been able to construct a fairly significant system.” Jamestown was a small city with a municipally owned power plant, Champ noted. In cities the size of Jamestown without a city-owned power plant, “They have institutional and other barriers against developing a heating district system.”

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In 1914, hundreds of people in Jamestown unable to obtain seats were turned away the past Tuesday at both afternoon and evening performances of Pasquali’s masterpiece, “The Last Days of Pompeii.” The management at the Winter Garden immediately made arrangements to re-book the film and it would be shown at the theater the following Monday, afternoon and evening. The picture, in eight reels, was dramatized from Lytton’s famous novel and made a most impressive spectacle.

Charles Baeder, proprietor of the Big Tree Inn at Geneseo, for many years past and one of the most capable and best known hotel men in the Genesee Valley was in Jamestown, the guest of Charles M. Dow. He had just leased the Glenn Iris House at Letchworth Park and would conduct it in connection with the Big Tree Inn. The Glenn Iris would open for guests about the first of May. Baeder was a former Jamestown boy and still had many acquaintances here. Visitors to Letchworth Park would be assured of proper accommodations during the coming summer by reason of his acceptance of the Glenn Iris House.

In 1939, because of other events which conflicted, the President’s Birthday Ball for the benefit of infantile paralysis sufferers would be held on Saturday evening, Jan. 28 at the new state armory instead of Monday evening, Jan. 30, according to announcement made by William C. Shanahan, general chairman of the affair. Fifty percent of the net proceeds of the ball would be retained for use among infantile paralysis victims in Chautauqua County while the other percent would be sent to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. which was promoting the President’s Birthday celebrations all over the country.

Installation of equipment at the new high school athletic stadium resulted in a net deficit to the Jamestown High School athletic council of $99.48 despite the fact that gross receipts for the past football all season totaled $6,349, according to the annual report of the council treasurer, Carl L. Carlson. Expenditures totaled $6,448. The board spent $1,270 during the season for improvements to the stadium, the most expensive item being the moving, erecting and storing of bleachers at a cost of $402. A total of 16,290 persons attended the five games, 5,185 of these attending the Bradford, Pa., game which represented the largest attendance at any one game.

In 1964, Chautauqua County recorded its first traffic fatality of the new year in the death of Roselyn C. Coburn, 41, of Sherman. The accident occurred at 2:15 p.m. in the Town of Mina, on Route 430, the Findley Lake-Sherman Road. Coburn was a passenger in a car driven by her husband Gerald A. Coburn, when the auto became stuck in a snowbank. Coburn got out and walked to the rear of the car where she was struck by another car, pinning her between the two vehicles.

Grace Bumbry, widely hailed new singing star, would appear in concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Merton P. Corwin Auditorium at Jamestown High School under auspices of the Jamestown Concert Association. Bumbry, mezzo soprano from St. Louis, Mo., created international headlines in the summer of 1961 when she became the first Negro artist ever to appear at the revered Bayreuth Festival in Germany. She had since become a prime European favorite and in her first American tour last season she won ecstatic reviews across the country. Last June in her debut at London’s Royal Opera House, as Princess Eboli in “Don Carlo.” Bumbry won one of the greatest ovations in London history.

In 1989, work was progressing rapidly on replacement of the Sixth Street Bridge in Jamestown. Already in place were two concrete support columns. Once the new bridge was open to traffic, it should solve some of the traffic-flow problems being encountered by downtown motorists.

Recognizing the popularity of ice fishing, the Mayville Village Board intended to continue having crews plow a parking area at the village park for fishermen. However, the board might have to consider charging a parking fee to cover the cost. Another concern of the board centered on the village water supply which, during the peak summer tourist season, often ran low. Recent cleaning of one of the village wells did not improve the water supply.

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In 1914, Charles Buckley, an employee of the Pennsylvania Gas Company in Jamestown, lay in a semi-unconscious condition at his home on Prendergast Avenue this day as the result of falling down the flight of stairs leading to the toilet room in the Hub on West Third Street the past Monday evening. He suffered a bad scalp wound causing concussion of the brain. Dr. J.J. Mahoney, the physician attending him, stated that until this morning Buckley had been totally unconscious but that he had partially regained consciousness. He stated that it was impossible to say whether Buckley slipped or suffered a stroke.

There was great interest in the announcement made on this morning at the local Salvation Army headquarters that the distinguished Salvation Army leader, Commander Eva Booth, daughter of the world renowned founder of this great religious movement, would be in Jamestown and would lecture here on the evening of Monday next. Booth would deliver her great address, “My Father.” It was illustrated by more than 100 stereopticon views and by more than 3,000 feet of motion picture film, making in all an entertainment of the highest class.

In 1939, declaring he encountered a case of “no nickel, no police” when he tried to telephone police after his gas station was robbed, Chauncy Pontius of Lancaster was asking the village board to investigate. Robbers held up Pontius’ service station taking every cent he had. As the bandit car disappeared down the highway, he dashed across the road to a pay telephone. Pontius said the operator demanded he deposit a nickel before connecting him with police. Pontius argued. The operator was unimpressed. Pontius despaired. Finally, someone produced the needed nickel. Pontius got the police but the bandits were miles away. Mayor Ralph Young appointed a committee to investigate the telephone company’s action.

Submitting his annual report to Chairman Fred E. Bigelow and members of the Jamestown Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Committee, Manager Charles Laycock reported 5,270 delegates attended 16 conventions held in the city during the year 1938. Outstanding from an attendance standpoint were the Knights of Columbus convention, the New York Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution and the New York State Grange. The money left in this city by conventions in 1938 was an amount exceeding $125,000.

In 1964, a fierce windwhipped snowstorm crippled northern Chautauqua County, practically paralyzing highway travel and closing at least 16 schools. While Jamestown had sunshine, gales up to 50 miles an hour sent a solid curtain of snow across highways beyond the so-called snow ridge, reducing visibility to zero. By afternoon, snow squalls began buffeting the Jamestown area, blotting out the sun. Traffic on the New York State Thruway was closed shortly before noon between Lackawanna and the Pennsylvania state line. Travel west of the Thruway at the Pennsylvania state line was halted about 8 a.m. after a pileup of tractor trailer trucks at Interstate 90 and Route 20 near North East. One person was killed.

Favored by nearly ideal weather, the 1963-64 program of winter sports sponsored by the Jamestown City Recreation Department promised to be an outstanding success according to reports received at a meeting of the Recreation Commission. Wally Carlson, who was in charge of skating at Allen Park, reported that during 17 days since the rink opened on Dec. 17, there had been 26 skating sessions which had attracted a total attendance of 6,937 participants. Revenue for the period was reported at $2,049.

In 1989, whatever couldn’t be cut from this year’s budget or generated with new revenues should be borrowed so New York wouldn’t finish the fiscal year with a deficit, Gov. Mario Cuomo said. Cuomo said that “a couple of hundred million dollars” might be needed to close the gap, which stood at about $1 billion. Cuomo late last year had raised the possibility of taking out short-term loans to pay off the deficit but his aides had said that it was only one of several options at the state’s disposal to close the deficit.

Jamestown City Schools’ mathematics department was doing well, according to a view from the trenches. Department chairman Kenneth Sohmer attended Monday’s school board meeting to talk about his department. True to his profession, Sohmer brought statistics. Those statistics said the department was succeeding. The statistics showed that 32.7 percent of the class of 1988 finished school prepared to take a college-level mathematics course. That compared with 15 percent nationwide, Sohmer said.

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In 1914, Patrick W. Eagan, Erie Railroad passenger train conductor, a man honored and respected by hundreds along the system of the Erie road, as well as in his home city of Meadville for years, was sacrificed on the “cross of liquor.” King Alcohol was directly responsible for his death through the clutches of a drunken trainman, who failed to close the switch after the freight train had drawn into the siding, as was his duty. Had the trainman been sober instead of sleeping in a drunken stupor in the caboose of the train, he would no doubt have attended to his work, the switch would have been closed and the passenger train of which Eagan was conductor, would have passed on in safety and there would have been no accident, no death.

The Board of Supervisors of Cattaraugus County adjourned at 11:30 a.m. the previous day after auditing the bill of the O’Grady secret service and patrol agency for $1,569.09 for services rendered in the Buffum case. The bill of Minnie E. Sullivan, the nurse, for her care of the Buffum children, was also allowed at $360.85 and Dr. Hillsman’s bill for $300 was ordered paid. Dr. J. Ross Allen’s bill for $116 for his services in the case of Baggio Vorelli, the man indicted for the murder of Carlo Fabricci, was favorably reported upon by the committee to which it was referred and was also ordered paid.

In 1939, Max Ehmke, Lakewood police chief and the sheriff’s department, were continuing their investigation of the reported holdup Saturday evening of Nora Colvin, 65, at her home in Beechwood. Colvin was alone in the house about 8 p.m. when she opened the door in response to a knock. She was confronted by two men who forced entrance and demanded money. Colvin was reported to have had nearly $100 in a pocketbook pinned inside her dress which she was said to have received from an insurance policy on her late husband. She refused to hand over the money but in the scrimmage which followed, the men struck her and took the pocketbook.

With only two Southern Tier cities, Jamestown and Olean, reporting themselves prepared to enter teams in 1939, formation of a Western New York and Pennsylvania Class D Baseball league appeared delayed after a meeting of the proposed circuit’s promoters in the Hotel Richmond Sunday afternoon in Batavia. President Oliver French of the Rochester International League club, one of the new league’s sponsors, appointed a committee to investigate the possibility of clubs in Batavia, Wellsville, Perry, Hamilton, Ont., and Bradford, Pa., and to report back in two weeks. French indicated unless at least a six-team league could be formed within two weeks the project would be dropped until 1940.

In 1964, gale force winds up to 40 miles an hour closed traffic at Jamestown Municipal Airport and was not helping utility crews busy repairing wires ripped from houses by melting snow and ice. A sort of miniature “Ice Age” fed by recent heavy snowfalls was causing havoc in Jamestown and Chautauqua County as it tore utility wires from houses and spread a glaze on streets early in the morning. Light rain the previous night combined with melting snow piles made city driving conditions extremely slippery but salting crews had the problem generally solved by mid-morning.

A spokesman for International Hotels said that it had not sold the Hotel Jamestown although it had taken part in sales talks some time ago. International Hotels bought the Hotel Jamestown in 1955. Reports that it had been sold came from a story in a Buffalo newspaper listing the new owner as Hoffman House Corp., headed by Dr. J. Henry Hoffman, a dental surgeon, who was devoting full-time to business matters. The story said Hoffman had purchased the Alexander Hotel in Hagerstown, Md. The International Hotels spokesman said Hoffman discussed buying the Hotel Jamestown several weeks ago but nothing further had been heard from him.

In 1989, a management reorganization consolidation at Bush Industries in the town of Ellicott had resulted in the elimination of several management level positions, according to Lewis Aronson, vice president of human resources. Aronson said, “We did have a management reorganization/consolidation but not in the numbers being reported.” Reports had been received by The Post-Journal that about 35 employees were affected. Aronson said the number was far smaller but declined to comment more specifically on the extent of the terminations.

A proposal by Gov. Mario Cuomo that would permit voter registration until the polls closed on Election Day had been criticized by Chautauqua County Democratic Election commissioner Joseph Porpiglia. Of the proposal to extend registration until the polls closed, Porpiglia said, “That poses a major headache from an administrative standpoint at the Board of Elections. But I’d like to have the opportunity to review his administrative recommendations for this process,” the commissioner said.

In Years Past

In 1914, the death of Patrick W. Eagan, the Erie railroad conductor injured Tuesday in the collision at Conewango Valley, occurred the previous afternoon just after The Journal went to press. Eagan had been reported from the hospital as resting easily but his body was paralyzed from the neck down and his condition was such that recovery was practically impossible. Eagan had been in the employ of the Erie Railroad for 34 years. He was 69 years old and would have reached the age of retirement in March of this year.

Contrary to expectations, the Jamestown YMCA basketball team did not go to Tonawanda for its scheduled game with the strong Company K team of that city on this afternoon. The reason for this was the fact that the soldier aggregation of Tonawanda had disbanded for the season, calling off all the games remaining on its schedule. Manager Heerdt said the team was having some trouble with the armory people at Tonawanda, who demanded such a high rental for the games, in comparison with the crowds that were drawn, that he believed the matter would end in the disbanding of the team.

In 1939, prominent baseball men from all sections of Chautauqua County would attend the second organization meeting of the Class D Baseball League for Western New York, Pennsylvania and Canada, to be held in the Hotel Richmond at Batavia. Oliver French, president of the Rochester Red Wings of the International League, who was in charge of organization as representative of the promotional department of the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs, would preside. Jamestown’s delegation would include Stuart C. Maguire, Sr., Stuart C. Maguire, Jr., Harold R. Beaustrom, Denton J. Moon and George F. Dodds.

The Chautauqua Lake Skating Association was formulating plans that might develop winter sports in this region to a point making it possible to hold a national championship meet here in the future. The Association, headed by Clayton R. Webeck, was composed of clubs from Jamestown, Salamanca, Fluvanna, Lakewood, Falconer and Erie, Pa., and was affiliated with the Western New York Speed Skating Association which in turn was governed by the Amateur Skating Union of America. Officials of the local group were devoting their attention to the younger skaters of the district in an effort to produce a higher caliber of skating for future events.

In 1964, a heavy influx of patients into area hospitals had forced the institutions to either cancel or curtail elective surgery. Elective surgery, operations that could be postponed without injury to the patient, had been canceled at WCA Hospital, at Warren General Hospital and Brooks Memorial Hospital, Dunkirk. Jamestown General Hospital reported that elective surgery cases had been cut down but not canceled. The crowded conditions had forced the hospitals to place beds in the corridors and put restrictions on visitors. A spokesman for WCA Hospital said the decision to restrict elective surgery was made in the face of an increasing patient population. The hospital’s 136 beds, excluding the maternity ward, were occupied and about eight beds had been placed in the corridors, the official said.

The Viking Male Chorus of Jamestown was making elaborate plans to entertain the Eastern Division, American Union of Swedish Singers, at convention here July 2-4. About 200 were expected for the event. A group of prominent businessmen, industrialists and fraternal leaders of the Jamestown area had been named as honorary members of the convention committee. Those included Swedish Vice Consul Daniel A. Isaacson; Attorney D. Lawrence Carlson; Reginald A. Lenna, president of the Blackstone Corp.; and Richard L. Swanson, president of Jamestown Lounge.

In Years Past

• In 1914, Supervisor Leonard of Persia at the meeting of the Cattaraugus County Board of Supervisors at Little Valley, introduced a resolution providing for the division of Cattaraugus County into two counties. The resolution would not be acted upon at the present but the idea was to get the matter before the people in order that they might consider the plan. It was proposed to divide the county by a line running north and south, the city of Olean and the towns east of the line to compose one county and the city of Salamanca and the towns west of the line to form the other.

• Although Conductor Patrick W. Eagan, the Erie conductor badly injured in the wreck at Conewango Valley the previous day, had a broken neck, he was still alive on this afternoon and reports from the WCA Hospital stated that he was resting comfortably. In fact, there seemed to be reason to expect his recovery. While not an unheard of case, this was very rare and one of the first ever known in Jamestown. Additional details of the accident seemed to place the responsibility on the rear brakeman of the freight train. He seemed to have been asleep in the caboose of the train, instead of out to close the switch after the train entered the side tracks as he was supposed to do. How he escaped death in the wrecked caboose was almost unexplainable.

• In 1939, Mrs. Melville Martin, 66, and her neighbor, Mrs. Eldred Oakes, 45, were severely burned shortly before 2 o’clock in the afternoon when an explosion blew the roof from the two story frame Oakes’ home at Lakewood and Townline roads. Both women were in the WCA Hospital and were burned about the face, chest and hands. Mrs. Martin had gone to the Oakes home with a bowl of broth for her neighbor who had just returned from the hospital. Mrs. Martin went to the gas stove to heat the food and as Mrs. Oakes joined her, Mrs. Martin turned on the gas. A terrific explosion followed, the blast rocking the house from its foundation and sending the roof hurtling through the air some distance away.

• The new half million dollar Cassadaga Valley six year high school became at last a reality as ground was broken for the erection of this great structure which would dominate the valley, would be visible to the traveling public for many miles up and down the valley and to residents in six of the nine townships in which the school was to be located. This WPA project had been made possible by the cooperative efforts of the people in four villages and 27 common school districts in the Towns of Charlotte, Gerry, Stockton, Arkwright, Pomfret, Ellery, Cherry Creek, Ellicott and Ellington.

• In 1964, the Record Shop, 211 E. 3rd St., extensively damaged New Year’s Day by falling debris in the collapse of the adjoining Zuckerman Building, was the scene of a small fire, believed to have been caused by a pair of youthful looters. Three city fire trucks were dispatched to the location after employees of Scalise Brothers Construction Co., engaged in removing rubble from the damaged buildings, observed smoke rising from the basement of the one-story building in which the Record Shop was located. The blaze, confined to paper and refuse in the basement, was quickly extinguished by firemen, using a booster line. A pedestrian had observed two boys climb from a rear window of the shop shortly before the fire was discovered. They were seen running up Stillers Alley with their arms laden with what appeared to be record albums.

• The final pickup of Christmas trees for the annual “Little Burn” at Beechwood Park in Lakewood would be conducted on the coming weekend. Discarded Christmas trees would be picked up at the curb from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday by Lakewood Jaycees with the cooperation of the village’s highway department crew and the Boy Scouts. The “Little Burn” would take place at 7 p.m. Sunday. Music and refreshments for the event would be provided by Lakewood merchants. Mayor Roland C. Rapp would light the fire for the “Little Burn.”

• In 1989, at least two Jamestown businessmen were upset over some details of the proposed Civic Center Development Plan. The plan, designed by an out-of-town consultant, involved extensive new construction and renovation of existing buildings. The suggested renovation appeared to eliminate Busti’s Shoe Repair and the Humidor newsstand. Fred Sutter, owner of the Humidor, had placed a sign in the window of his business. It read: “Does anybody out there know where the Humidor went?” The illustration of the facade renovation in the Civic Center Plan did not show either the Humidor or Busti’s. “I’ve been here for the past six years but the newsstand business had been in this same location for the past 60 to 70 years,” Sutter said.

• Gary and Nancy Olson of Warren hoped to be dancing among Washington socialites and top political figures at a presidential inaugural ball later in the month. They, along with the socialites and politicians, would be dancing among floral decorations Olson would place as a member of a Society of American Florists inaugural decorating team. “The people who participate in the decorating of a particular function will be allowed to get into that particular function. I have asked to be assigned to one of the balls…so the potential there is that my wife and I would be attending one of the balls,” said Olson, a Jamestown native. Olson was owner of Girton’s Flower & Gifts Inc. of Warren.

In Years Past

In 1914, the Buffalo passenger train on the Erie, due in Jamestown about 11 a.m., ran through an open switch at the Conewango Valley station this morning, ripping into the rear end of a freight train standing on the switch, badly wrecking both trains. In the wreck, Conductor Patrick W. Eagan of the passenger train was so badly injured that his recovery was considered in doubt. Eagan was rushed, in a special engine, to the WCA Hospital in Jamestown. The responsibility for the open switch had not been placed but Agent Batchelder of Jamestown came to Conewango Valley immediately upon hearing of the accident and was conducting a searching examination.

The Jamestown Fire Department answered a call the previous evening which proved to be in the kitchen cupboard of a house on North Main Street occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Young. The fire was first discovered by Napoleon Borg, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Borg, who saw the smoke. The kitchen was in the basement and the fire, starting from this point, quickly made its way to the attic. The house was practically torn to pieces and rendered almost useless. The furniture in the house was pretty well damaged. The fire was thought to have been started through a combination of rats and matches. The Youngs were away from home at the time of the fire.

In 1939, Genevieve Marshall, comely 26-year-old girl night club entrepreneur, floor show hip-shaker and dance stylist extraordinary, was in the toils again. Genevieve, who had long been a feature attraction at various hot spots in the area and who was once arrested for doing a naughty dance, was again in wrong with the law. This time she was charged with selling liquor without a license in violation of the alcoholic beverage contract. The short word for it was “bootlegging.” Genevieve had been displaying her charms at the Hollywood Cafe with No. 1 billing. The cafe dispensed liquor under license. Not content with her earnings there, police alleged that she had been peddling intoxicants after hours at her home on Washington Street.

Milkborne diseases was the subject of a talk by Dr. Paul B. Brooks, deputy commissioner of the state department of health, at a dinner meeting of the Jamestown Milk Dealers Association. Mayor Erickson spoke and admitted that all he knew about milk was driving a cow to pasture as he had done in former years. He said, “The cost of inspection of milk here comes to less than half what some other cities spend. However, I think we have the finest, purest milk of any city and this is due to the cooperation of you dealers. We citizens take for granted that you will deliver a pure grade of milk and we believe in you.”

In 1964, a public information program designed to point out to residents the need for a Chautauqua County sales tax was in the offing. Town of Ellery Supervisor Richard O. Evans, Bemus Point, chairman of the board of supervisors, said he planned to appoint such a committee at the board’s next meeting. The committee’s job presumably would be to change or at least modify stormy public hostility demonstrated the past Friday afternoon when a sales tax proposal was presented and hastily tabled. More than 200 placard-carrying persons jammed the boardroom in Mayville, protesting the measure which would have gone into effect on June 1.

A public-opinion poll had indicated near-unanimous support of a movement in Warren to name the Allegheny River reservoir and dam the “Kinzua Dam.” A total of 1,191 out of 1,351 votes were cast in favor of the name, according to the Warren Junior Chamber of Commerce which conducted the poll. Released the previous day, the results included 40 votes to associate the name with the late President John F. Kennedy and 50 other various names.

In 1989, Erie County Sheriff’s Department deputies searched along the shore of the Niagara River about 10 miles from Niagara Falls. Authorities were searching for as many as three illegal aliens who might have drowned while trying to cross into the U.S. from Canada early Tuesday. The body of an Asian woman, a rubber raft and a purse with a passport belonging to a different woman, were found earlier by the U.S. Coast Guard. “These are tragic victims of an outrageous crime,” said Benedict Ferro, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Buffalo. “Anyone who would have put them into a dime store raft at night in that weather … was outrageous.” The woman was accompanied by another woman and two children, aged 13 and 7. They are all presumed to have drowned.

Sinclairville residents were questioning the removal of the Bloomer Street bridge. The Village Board said it had received a letter from the county Public Works Department office concerning the question. The village had previously abandoned the bridge because of the cost of repairs, which amounted to abut $15,000 to the village and $88,000 from the county. The bridge served three homes in the area.

In Years Past

In 1914, it had been nearly 13 years since Meadville had seen any such snowstorm as that which buried it and all the section around it under a mantle of fully 22 inches of fleecy whiteness. On the morning of April 20, 1901, this section awoke to face a greater snowfall, the figures for that storm being a fall of three feet in about 17 hours. In the present instance, conditions were not quite so bad but they were bad enough. The snow was about 22 inches deep on the level. It began falling early Saturday and kept busy pretty much all the time until well along into Sunday. Those who pinned their weather faith to Prophet Hicks would be stronger than ever in their adherence for this was distinctly a Hicks storm, and came right on time.

The new double track of the Jamestown Street Railway Company through the village of Lakewood was completed and in use. It was cut in the past week and immediately after it was in commission, an extra car was put on the Lakewood line and all the cars ran through the village to Lowe Avenue, the extreme northwestern limit of the village. One could now ride many miles on the street cars for five cents. Taking a street car at Lynndon Park below Falconer, one could ride to Lowe Avenue by taking a transfer at Jamestown. Few, if any, street railways in cities the size of Jamestown furnished as long a run for a nickel. Believing that reduced fare would make Lakewood a more desirable place for a summer residence, the people of the village were making plans for the improvement of the village. One plan was to purchase the old Kent House property, remove the old hotel and utilize the grounds for a public park.

In 1939, the dramatization of “The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew” by the Clare Tree Major players from the New York Children’s Theater on the previous afternoon proved an exceedingly delightful excursion. The Jamestown High School auditorium resounded with howls of appreciation from the moment 1,000 pairs of eyes were focused on the footlights until the final assurance that those dear little Peppers were going to live happily ever afterward. The play proved one of the finest productions in the repertory of several seasons, starring Catherine Cosgrove, formerly with the Priscilla Beach Summer Theater at Plymouth, Mass., as the sweet mother, Mrs. Pepper and 17-year-old Betty Ann Shore as the diminutive Phronsie Pepper, the adorable baby role, who shed at least 10 years from her age in both voice and appearance.

C. Donald Pusbach, pharmacist, residing at Superior Street in Jamestown, parked his automobile across from Mason’s News Room on East Third Street in the city yesterday afternoon. He entered the news store, selected a magazine, paid for it and as he started out the door he saw his car being driven toward the corner of Main and Third streets. As he reached the street he saw the machine head down Main Street. He raced to the corner of Main and Third streets in time to see his car go through the green light at Main and Second streets and continue south. The car, a light coach, was still missing on this afternoon. Police were looking for it and also for the man who stole it.

In 1989, firefighters with the Kiantone fire department responded last night to a blaze at the Patrick Hartzell residence on Stillwater Street in the town of Kiantone. The fire started about 9 p.m.. Flames damaged a bedroom. The rest of the home suffered water and smoke damage, according to Kiantone Fire Chief Edward Sandberg. Family members at home at the time escaped without injury. Firefighters from Frewsburg and Busti also responded.

A two-car accident sent a Jamestown girl to the hospital, according to State Police based at Falconer. According to police, a vehicle driven by Holly Martin, 17, of Sumner Street, struck a second vehicle at 7:45 a.m. at Stillwater Corners, town of Kiantone. The driver of the other vehicle, Brian Schott, of Russell, Pa., escaped injury. Martin was taken to WCA Hospital by the Kiantone Rescue Unit and remained in the emergency room this morning.

In Years Past

In 1914, two serious woods accidents were reported in Sherman this day, one a fatality near Volusia where Clarence Oakes was almost instantly killed by a tree falling on him. The other was near Walt’s Corners in which Clarence Casselman was very seriously injured by being hit by a falling tree. Oakes was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Oakes and lived on the old homestead about six miles from Sherman on the Westfield Road. He had occupied his farm for a little over a year, buying it from his father. He was about 29 years of ages and had been married about 9 or 10 years. He left a wife and two small daughters.

Starting shortly after 8 a.m. in the morning and lasting for four hours, a very heavy snow fall occurred in Jamestown and the surrounding area. The temperature remained above the freezing point and the snow was wet, soggy and packed easily, causing some telephone trouble and much more to the street railroad line. The regular cars were entirely unable to make any progress through the hard packed snow until helped out by the sweeper and as it could not be on all lines at the same time, some vexatious delays occurred. The Willard Street cars had their first experience with snow on the hill.

In 1939, President Roosevelt told Congress and the world that peace had not been “assured” at Munich and that “storms from abroad” directly challenged American democracy. Addressing a joint session of the Senate and House in a packed house chamber, the Chief Executive asserted that “undeclared wars, deadly armaments” and “new aggressions” threatened the three institutions indispensable in America – religion, democracy and international good faith. And he added, only through a nation united both physically and spiritually could these storms be kept from American shores. “A war which threatened to envelop the world in flames has been averted but it has become increasingly clear that peace is not assured,” Roosevelt said without mentioning by name the Munich pact which resulted in the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia.

Jamestown Post Office receipts for December totaled $45,288 to break all existing records for the month, although the 1938 receipts showed a decline from the 1937 figures. An increase in the volume of Christmas business accounted for the December increase, Postmaster E.R. Ganey pointed out.

In 1964, Mrs. Norman Carr of Weeks Street in Jamestown, proudly cuddled her infant daughter whose arrival at WCA Hospital at 12:25 a.m. New Year’s Day, gave her the distinction of being the first baby born in Jamestown in 1964. The father, Calvin Carr, had no problem seeing his daughter. He was a mechanic with Otis Elevator Co., currently installing new equipment at the hospital. Being Jamestown?’ first citizen of the year had won for her a host of gifts from Jamestown businessmen in The Post-Journal’s annual Stork Derby.

The area’s accumulation of snow took a heavy toll when six barns and a seven-car garage collapsed under its weight. The garage, owned by the Erie Lackawanna Railroad Co. and located on Chandler St., in Jamestown, collapsed about noon the previous day. Leo Smith, agent, said the empty structure was a total loss and would probably be torn down. Soggy snow stamped heavily along Fluvanna’s Townline Road, caving in roofs of three barns. n Dry Brook, heavy snows collapsed a new pole barn at the Vincent Beightol farm. The barn housed a large quantity of farm machinery which was extensively damaged. Two barns on the Lyle Rideout property buckled under the snow. Both buildings were empty.

In 1989, a spokesman for Rep. William F. Clinger, R-Warren, said the congressman felt that, based on initial reports, American pilots were justified in their reaction to a perceived threat from a pair of Libyan jet fighters that were shot down early in the day over the Mediterranean Sea. David Fuscus, Clinger’s press secretary, told The Post-Journal that early reports reaching the congressman indicated that Libyan pilots over the Mediterranean Sea locked their radar onto the American jets, so the Americans shot down the Libyan planes to defend themselves. Once the kind of radar the Libyan planes used was locked onto a target, firing a missile was inevitable, Fuscus explained.

An Ohio woman became Chautauqua County’s 44th and final highway fatality of 1988 when she died of injuries received in an accident Dec. 28 on Route 17 in the town of Mina, about a mile from Sherman. She was identified as Jacquelyn Hochbert, 47, of Quaker Heights, driver of the car that was eastbound on the Southern Tier Expressway when it was struck by another vehicle. According to the police report, a van driven by Margaret James, 43, of Lakewood, Pa., skidded on the icy road and slid into the other lane where it collided with Hochberg’s oncoming car. The county recorded 30 highway fatalities in 1987.

In Years Past

• In 1914, the Chautauqua County Teachers who had been attending the meetings of the Associated Principals and Academic Teachers of the State of New York and of other allied teachers’ associations at Syracuse the past week arrived home the past night. There was a large delegation from this county present at the meetings, headed by Principal Milton J. Fletcher of Jamestown High School, Principal William A. Torrance of the East Second Street Grammar School, Principal George A. Persell of the junior academic department of Jamestown, Superintendent N.J. Englehart of Dunkirk and Principal H. M. Bowen of the Agricultural High School at Sinclairville.

• The ice on Chautauqua Lake from Lakewood to Mayville was as nearly perfect for skating purposes as had been noted in recent years, although there were obstacles here and there on the way. There was a stretch of rough ice extending from shore to shore across the lake just above Lakewood. Beyond that there was a long stretch of crystal ice, clear and smooth as glass. At the point near the narrows where the Bemus Creek entered into the lake on one side and Ball Brook on the other, there was a strip of slush ice piled in various forms and hummocks. Crossing that, one had a clear sweep to Mayville on the finest kind of ice.

• In 1939, Captain Herbert Sackett, 67, Buffalo business executive, who, with his wife, 41, and their daughter, 2, was instantly killed when their automobile was struck by a Lehigh Valley passenger train in the town of Amherst, just outside of Buffalo, was widely known in Jamestown, especially among members of the Masonic order. A captain in the old 74th regiment, National Guard of New York, he was for 12 years, commander of the Arab patrol of Ismailia temple, Ancient Arabic order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and, in that capacity, visited Jamestown on numerous occasions.

• More building permits were issued in Jamestown in 1938 than in 1937 but total volume of building construction in dollars and cents was less – $33,000 less to be exact. These and other interesting figures regarding the building program of the year just ended were contained in the annual report of John W. Wheelhouse, building inspector. The total amount of estimated construction in Jamestown during 1938 was $251,912 as compared with $282,153 in 1937. In comparison with other years the record for 1938 was not promising as it was the lowest building year since 1933 when only $211,000 worth of construction was done.

• In 1964, the condition of Mrs. Helen Wellman, 41, of Price Street, Jamestown, seriously injured New Year’s Day when the family was crushed beneath an avalanche of bricks and debris following collapse of a three-story building across from City Hall, was described as serious by a spokesman at WCA Hospital. Mrs. Wellman was unconscious when rescuers, using hacksaws and crowbars, succeeded in extricating her from the wreckage. Mrs. Wellman’s husband, Ira, and their 8-year-old son, Daniel, both hospitalized with injuries, were reported as in satisfactory condition. Meanwhile, equipment and employees of Scalise Brothers Construction Co., were busy knocking down dangerous upper walls of the structure and hauling debris away. The owners of the property had made no decision as to whether the structure would be razed or rebuilt.

• Back in 1911 when the Lyric Theater building across from Jamestown city hall was two years old, a picture was taken by Leo Whitney, the movie projectionist, atop the structure with a searchlight, used at night to advertise the movies and vaudeville playing there. Mr. Whitney was employed at JHS and made a hobby of aerial photography. As shown in the photo, the roof, which collapsed New Year’s day under weight of snow, was constructed like a check mark, a gradual slope from the rear to the front with a sharp rise of the final four feet facing Third Street. This created a valley near the front wall and the collection of snow and ice at this point probably pushed the wall outward into Third Street.

• In 1989, New York’s conservation officials, concerned that the deer population was still too high after the past fall’s hunting season, would ask the state to change the law and allow hunters to take more deer. The Empire State’s deer population hit a record 800,000 the previous year with their numbers being heaviest in western and central New York.

• Kristen Michelle Terry appeared to be the first baby born in the New Year in The Post-Journal’s circulation area and the winner of the newspaper’s 48th annual “First Baby Contest.” Kristen checked in at WCA Hospital in Jamestown at 1:29 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 1. She was the 4-pound, 15-ounce daughter of Craig and Brenda Gustafson Terry of Falconer Street, Jamestown. Mother and daughter were scheduled to go home before noon this day to join the Terrys’ other child, Nicholas, who was 2 years old on Monday.

In Years Past

In 1914, a good many Jamestown folk watched the old year out and the new year in at the Hotel Samuels grill room. The event was one of the most interesting of the kind ever noted in Jamestown, for it was almost as if a section of New York City had been moved to Jamestown. Down New York way they made a good deal of fuss on New Year’s Eve. They have what was termed watch meetings in every big restaurant and those who desired to attend these meetings had to reserve their tables in advance and pay a pretty penny for the privilege. Landlord Hurlbert of The Samuels used to run a hotel in New York and he imbibed some metropolitan ideas. Among others was the New Year’s Eve celebration. He arranged one of his own on very much the same lines as in the big town and his patrons had a very pleasant evening.

The New Year’s open house and gift reception at the Warner Home for the Aged in Jamestown was an encouraging success and the members of the governing board who had it in charge were gratified. A large number of persons visited the home during the day and the gifts of both cash and supplies were generous. It was expected, however, that gifts would continue to be received for some days.

In 1939, the younger set, over 500 strong, danced the new year in at the 16th annual New Year’s Eve informal ball of the Alpha Rho chapter, Pi Phi fraternity, held Saturday evening at the Pier Ballroom, Celoron. The ballroom was decorated with holiday festoons and the Pi Phi banner occupied the center of the stage. At midnight a large cluster of balloons was released and noisemakers were given out, as 1939 was welcomed. Due to the fact that the dance lasted until the small hours of the morning, many of the younger set attended various breakfast parties.

Jesse Martin, 84-year-old dulcimer player, who obtained a measure of national fame several years back when he won a musical contest staged by Henry Ford in furtherance of Ford’s promotion of interest in old-time music, died at Warren General Hospital Sunday afternoon. Martin and his dulcimer were, for a considerable period, a novel and interesting part of the local scene. After his appearance before Ford at Detroit, for a time he conducted a theatrical tour in various cities. Martin formerly resided at Frewsburg and more recently he had lived at Youngsville, Pa.

In 1964, a building across from Jamestown City Hall collapsed under the weight of snow the previous afternoon, sending tons of brick in a massive tidal wave into the street, leaving three persons injured. The building housed three stores and a restaurant on the ground floor. The three injured were riding in a car which fate decreed should be passing by at the precise moment the upper floors of the three-story building crashed into Third Street. Most seriously injured was Helen Wellman, 41, of Price St. She suffered head injuries and was rushed to WCA Hospital. Her condition was critical. She was riding with her husband, Ira, 61, and their son, Daniel, 8. They were on their way to attend a movie at the Dipson Palace Theater. Rescue workers said it was a miracle the family survived. The car was flattened and battered in like a toy. The collapsed building had once been the Lyric Theater.

A 73-year-old motorist was injured, two cars and a panel truck were crushed and two buildings were damaged when a New York Central Railroad eastbound freight train derailment of 36 cars hurled 15 boxcars upon two streets in Dunkirk below a 15-foot railroad embankment. City officials estimated the loss “conservatively” at $200,000. Police and railroad officials were unable to determine the cause of the wreck, the worst in the history of the city, which also blocked railroad traffic on the Central’s four main track lines for more than 10 hours. The force of the impact split and crushed most of the derailed cars, scattering tons of merchandise, thousands of cans of soup, along the tracks and on the streets below. One of the cars was so badly damaged that its cargo, propane gas, was leaking from it.

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