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m l-:-- rl PtLge Four THE UVINOSTON REPUBUCAN. CENTENNIAL EDITION, SEPTEMBER 23d, 1937. THIRTY-NINE PAPERS IN THIS COUNTY HAVE CEASED TO EXJST imn. But In Auguat, 1914, 40 ymra »at«r, J«»ey (at it it apnlted now) wrote n two cohimn atoi;7 for the i Elmira Telefrtm where he then \ Uveo. He told o€ tfae rmll mnd at Ids M i nov^ called the Union and Conttitu-j OENESEO S SOLE raiiro^i j^ J-'O N E OF GENESEO 'S and in Xwember it became tbe RAILROAD HAS ALWAYS ** brought the N'ormal Mu- PICTURESQUE SPOTS Mt. MorrU Union and tvaa conducted BEEN THE E E IE -1859 Gencco and returned them Jg brook \fj Jotm 9- OJcKe^' wbo sow tt in ---------------- home In June. Jt brought paWen- __ ________ The RepuwT^^wa* not the nrtt H^rry M. Roliaon and it waa Ceneseo ia far from being a Fill- geM lo dialanl pllC#f. AVOh DfIDf atream ' m e nepuiMican not. tne a™ ahwirhed hv the Picket Line Po«t I* center end never hw been, the center which bore them to N’ew ^ 0 aUH0U UML U HC pap,r For « .r , U .rpondod oo . ««*1. York. Bulf.lo f.«h« dM-' ‘^ J ' 7 ; '''' i*-<t :rr'',-J'rfro‘^'ho^r„^yTo4 : .hr of .otomohiUn* Cnsoo ohlu. , rm rm “ T T , "* to kid . Chrle ® J I in* the oldest Daoer in the county became one with other town* and In 1»00 an overhe^ trolley gave ^ tian Mfe. He looked up from the ' “o^y ' ^ n o loo*rr hml ,o dopond on brr for- ,hu vtlU*. ,l«:tnc ervic. to^h. f"“i' ud -w t-0 c<Hdp«Uo» The find papor puPlirtiM in in« xho v.Uoy cHm, >-y * ‘‘7 ,^ r ' “r T ‘‘ 7 7 ' co.inty A-a» the tJeneaee Parmer,* e»- Ferdinand Ward in r^eneseo in. 1%66 »«rvitor \ et the old Erie did a the demand for. the trolle^i UlU through a deep guU tabluhed at Leic«ter in January, and laated for a year The u m g - ^ aim<-t h ^ n y • aervice. ^ ^ extent, t 1%17. by Hezetaah Ripley. Later atom Democrat waa started in N’unda 40 >ears or »0 in the past . and many »Tre enabled tO remain never aeen it it ia well ' _ . . ~ Frankiir. Cowdery acquired an in- in 18«8 and laated eight year*. The; H was remarked that the local de- in Rochemer and attend city the- | *^th cota and blankcAa and with a te ^ n U uTenlarged and Geneaee VaUey HenUd wa* atarled > t did a businem of about $400 a alem. which was unhearO of as a ; ^ ‘ ^ .u a e of iU beauty, j ^ j^ y {couM call Co tbecn they i Uy about j spread the alarm. Several men extent. To thoee out In t wa^n Calletl the Moscow Advertiser and m Geneiwo in February. 186%. by day in freight and paaeenger*. And mcme attraction for many years. Marrim hiirhwav T^e ' -------- -- ---------- --------------- Gen«we P’a r m e r . Ripley agam be-' James W Clement, who conducted it the depot and freight hOUJe atlll AUlCmoblles wmv knotni bUt nOt ^ came l»oie owner and COnUnuetJ It for a year and then secured the Uv- thrive and prosper mauger the con- taken serK>ualy until perhap. a . doctor gave him a good exam- uxwier ftifferent tiUe- until January 8. ingaton RopubUcATi That same year tcnience of the automobile with its dozen years after the trolley w»sl^ k ♦ pk ♦ i nothing. J«»- 11.34 Th*p Jim»J pprciral IBurtit.tlic A yod Spnnplwnmi w« .n*,. .nu ,r„cK.nB TKU dfb wuh ts. aiiimVn OTYtrir.t J° * 4ty^.a> i It is only a few feet west ot the had climbed up 1910, •t ;P»n Brook. I few Oakee ware noticed by tog the dark pine irttm sggj^ „ very light anow flalcM. » * ha. been none .q,cc mg ^ men nearby caught it ^ Jz it adds to the in te ^ of tb. of PaU Brook. , It ai>‘l mfrve«4 not to pasj mto the atewm trains, and waa much more Wfy ttldOni VllUld GCn«0. ing da name to the Uvingrtdn Reg- different proprietors. Tl)e Livoma claw of canaliam not ; “ ‘ ‘ ' :han«- • e^l arul lived’for s«\-eral years under RailroadinK yet anyway, aatiafactory wnd up lo date. But even the trolley had csxne within two miles o£ the place. | OCCOOd f ^ l „ - jpy later In 1829 Anaon W e^ and Al- Advertiaer lived for one year only, and not m Ueneaeo. But even the trolley had to go. ht ^^^**“ ***‘ Sweat Briar, not y«t of len W arner were the owner*. Weed It was irtarted in 1809. The Dana-! Geheseo cryingly needed a rail- In December. 1935. the trolley wire ® ’ voting age. While at play With two rted In road in the early day*. The lira: with ita 11.000 volts, gave way to da>« killed herself by Jump- -,Lai>anioBa he fell over the cUtf. (bed m 1831 and Percival again be- viUe Daily Herald, eatabluihed In road in the early da3rs. The tlr«: with ita ll.ooo volts, gave way to came sole tAvner, Beginning in 1832 1861, existed for only a brief period ' railroad in the county waa suggest- modem progress, and no trace of ing ov’er the falls because she re- conapaniona he fell over the cliff, but more to the north than where for , two In 1871 the Avon. Reptirler was ed in 1831 to run from Rochester to the overhead syrem is seen, but is to marry a man . she did not ^ w ^ an/I fKat Hass alsll n\a«f ^ half wmy down, and it broke the Kliaif fTlark publiahed --- ------- , ---- ^ ------- -- -vva #ss . we ■ ..<^SSS .•'^ss^avsv # V«sa waiisvcsu OJ«iASSt sv ssa.vaa, wwv ** I J 4W 4 W {If *'ll years;- tn e n 'lt ,waa a^>lvl to WUliam .«itarte<l and lived for three years. UansviJle. It passed the legislature rt . Jac^ by a g.asoline sy»tem, fully* H Kelsey and Richard M. Dlel. D. The Livonia Courier fnd Adveruaer. ^nd there vv-as great enthusiasm A a.f satrsfactory and more economic.’**^ heard singing her plaintive love S Qurtjsa. Hugh HAnlifig. and John' monthly, .started in 1868 It was a ’ fall, although he rolled and alid to Kemfr«hHi; were publishers at vari-^ Jf>ke sheet, .started by a tramp print - out times and m 1840 it was disoon- qr and with a lu«licrous makeup. It tinue<l and the plant wa.s mf.>ved to wa.s of ver^^ short life The Union ‘ I*< rr y ‘. - Chtisin viTis published at Livonia for' In 1-.22 the' LivinKston Joum.'il thfeo years ,'in<l then moveil to G«ti- - wa.H bom in (ienesi-o with Chauncey os»‘o where it w; lh continue'! for .vx ; M'trtt*- a.-' 'd l t o r In isao Lovx Ilovey I<m«*-r Itji Aliinson becarri'*. editor, and in 1831 it w;»s HaiU-y. m s^.-d on that unuSual sfYoh- purehRM*«l by Benjamin Dennison mg of ••f'itwep ". In conm'cte n with whr> had mov'ti h»*re from Dans-^ it ran a daily for ab«ut ville. He rh.inged Its name to the u\ months.' I,.;ving-st*m C ouner. The firm, Evans The Avohlan ap; egred in Avon in A Wfxxlnjfr. next conlrolU'd the 187.5, UhSting ,six or seven years. For »h»-«-t; th. n Henry K. Evans directed ' one ye.ar. .starting in 1878, the In- It until it died in 18.34. In 183.5^ vinnW e wa.s Lssued at DaiurvlUe.In Iki’vid .Mitchell and William KeU*-y isso a paper callFsl Occasional was bought the defunct paper and .^art- pnnted m Dalton Later it becamic ed the Livingston Demficrat. It di'M the I>alton Kra and still later the in. Ih.'lT'. Th«-n the Livingston R e-; PJnterprisi*. It was discontinued some j publican appeared; and has now be- 2.3 years ago or .so. W. E. Booth j is ! publisheil a small lone* amid the houiinga of the au- ^ ^ , , - . . ^ the bottom, suffering only a few tumn tempests. • o .1 The deacent >i of the bank is rather ■asy for an athletic young person. is ^'also remembered thgt two and many have climbed down or up tie girls about 10 years old while and found it of only slight difficulty. P^y the falls suddenly had a heavy rock land near them. They Erie Depot, Geneteo, N. Y., built in 1875. weekly in Gem-seo j Charter even waa grant^. but un- 1 It cannot bo clalme<i that . the fbis village or this valley Ls a »tor> o.' the past. I but more people prefer to enter the *I gorge from below near the railroad. - and many a party haa been held :there and enjoyed, j Two men have fallen over the ; cliff. The 0rst of thi'sc was to Au- I gust, 1.864. and the other in May, J 1909. The Livingston Republican ^Vfid not feature the first fall as it ilo*erved. for papers in that day tended toward the ultracQnaervative. but it deserved sensatiimal headlines. All' that it printed was: ‘ ACCIDENT -On TXiesday a son com e H>0 y e a rs old a^nd it.«i .«kory told in, another article. I for nine months, discontinuing it in I fortunately it met vCith Relays, dis-j railroailmg In 1H2.3 the Living.sthn C la z e tte ! 1M9'2. It wa.s calleil the Argus. I appointments and embarrassments, begun in .VlOHCow (now Leipesten, | Charle.s Carpenter published a si mi - | and finally the enterprise was whol-. an<l continijcl for ats>ut a year. In ' lar paper-ht-re from Movemtoer. 1H9.^. |y abandoned Subsequently the I l^h lO bCCOmC I h f pAH . fOr J 18.30 the Viliage Chronicle wag itart’ , for aViut a year and a half. It was Gonest'e Valley Railroad w:ui built I j* '***^^ , *"'^^*’ *present day and €V1 in ' DansvlUe i Its nitme was ' calhsl the Musinvss Item. ' ►‘ I from RochefUor to Avon, flnishing in ' in^itution. patronized by chang‘e!,i to the Dhnsville Chr'iniclP. ‘ In 1898 (xacar Connell .HtartPd the lO ; and later Ihe line w'aa ex-1 unanimously pronouncwl It'hud A short e.xi.'ilence. The Mt. Living.rton C>>unt*>' Di.spatch In Avon ! tended to Mt.Morris, forming the ' necessary fer the peopi« Morrm .Sp<-ctator^ .'ita'rted in 1834 and later rhangwl its name to the ' ^^yon, Gfne.seo, an«l .Mt, Morrjs Rail- ^ 3*he L.v;ng.ston County Whig was Courier In 1903 it was absorbed ^-oad CO. which enlen*«l Geneseo in Ur.-*t j.'vme.l at .Mt .Morn.s in 1843 hy the Avon Herald. , l,Hr>9, but it was not until 1871 that Jam»-.s T Norton published a daily ^ In May. 1902, N’un<La T r u t h was | i>^s*ville was entered. The entire In .Mt .Morris for thn>e months In .Htarted and after a short exugence! |j„^, y, operated by the Brio .w,e. -T-v,..- im o he ra.nie flen- ^was bfMight out by the N’unda New** ' tUd not hear U fall and it atrye'k before they realized ' it. So close were the yihildren that it fell be- tween them, one on each side of the stone which fell from the bank near the botlora. It weighed fully 20 torvs or more and they probably would ^ve been instantly killed had It struck either child- The handsome home, B w ^ Briar, formerly the home of George Aus- ten and now of Mrs. W ln th ^ Chan- ter. lies a short .distance south of , ee<‘i> tnV.issiime control of the Re-^ artd absorbed by it. In 18.30 the Railway Co. , -he early delays were occasioned publican D (* Mitrhcll .«»tarted the Dansvillc. Herald was started, and* by the .lg«sati.Hfaction in >o- Ihin.svil.e Times In 18.3.3 .Nothing is under <lilTcrent owmers and waling the road .so far to the west. known of rhe huHtory,-of this ^heet. j tiths it has romaine<l in Danmllle In .Scjrfcmbcr.' 1840, the fln^ paper' ever .since. Toiiay it is published in Nun'ln was .startexl, the Genesee ' with anotlii Valley H*-<’o rd e r A year later It* name was chang«-tl to the Intlepen- tk'nt (tazette and another year later It w a s st(»pp*-<l Ir.'i WLsner was Its In IMl' the W*vdern New Yorker w as .<darte<l in IVansviUe by A. Stev- ens * S»»n. lAter under different owners it berame the btyurvllle Cour- paper ah the Oenes«'e- It WAH felt that it should be along thi upper plateau and nearer the centyr of the village. Finally in Country Kxprt^.ns. succeeding the | ^ ^„rme<l to com- Ihuisvdle Advertiser and Dansvllle ^ ^ Kxpri-ss Tho AdvertCIhr was estabr ' , . __ • year later a new company ikarted lisheil bv A O. Bunnell in I860, and 1 • ♦ . # . and a contract for the work was ler and iSan-ivllle Democrat and the pbuit w-op sold to George Saimders who move<l it to (7eneiseo in 1956. became a ptwerful influence, a* Mr. 1 Bunnell was a'rare newspaper man ' and stootl hi^h in state and national journalistic circles The-present edi - tor Is Ernest E. Quick. This brings us down to present dny county Journalism. Geneseo has two papers, the RspubticAn and the made. A depression followed* and operations were .wispended but in 18%30 were rewumed again and the first train entered Geneneo on New Year * day. 1859. along its route. I’erhaps the auto- mobile and the airplane will in time place it in the clajis with canal*, but for the present the railroad seems dt-stineil. to remain a valuable part of ouf economic. 9>ntem. One or two dates are ot Interest: In 1875 the present Erie depot was built; and the old depot was usetl as the present freight hou*«. In 1872 the Erie roAl took over the forpter Avon. Geneseo, and Mt Morri* company. In 1RH6 Colonel E. Bt*nnet of Call- coon came to Ceneaeo to be glation agent, remaining until 1937 when he was succeeded by Fred H. Clapper. Prior to Mr. Bennrt the agent had been a Springwater man named W.lthJngton who remained only very The Dansville Ropublican was estab- ! Livingston County I>eader, formerly jlsh<M in 1842 and cooduct^-d during j called the Livingston Democrat and OALLIBJAUFRY As appears eUiewherd in thi* papfr Its career by David Fairchild and estabUahed in 1884 It* editor Is Republican. was started by the his familyfn / | Donald R Sanders. Avon had three In 1.843 Uie Geneseo Deiqocrat was paper* until very recently, the Her- started by Ollberf F. Shankland a ^ I aid. the Independent, and the News In 184.'^ was removed ’to Nunda and The. Independent sold out and COm- puWlshctl for a while as the Nundn bined with the News, and then that Democrat and thep taken to BUlcott- j paper combined adth the Herald. Al- vllle, Oittaraugus county. The | Haon C. VanAlIen i* editor, apd Earl Truth Teller wah .startenl in Dans- \ LntiCks business manager. ville In May, 1844 but lAsteif. only' C3Uedonia * only paper l-s the Ad 10 weeks. The Avop Reporter be- I gan in July.- 1847, and lasted four or five years ■ aph' stai vertiser-Rra, a combination of the A<lvertlser established In 1870 and late Samuel P. Allen. An interest ing piece of history 1* aa*ociated The paper was COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS HAVE FUNCTIGNED MOST PROUDLY Livingston county has an active Bar Association. Foremen's Aaso- cialion. Teacher* Aawclaiion. M«n- The (TuylejA-illo Telegraph started by L. F and C. L King in November, 1847, under F r a n k l i n p a p e r , tl with its first i startetl at the request of WTiig poli- ticians of the county. Allen had some money arid secureil his print- in* M d hild the initlld ,toe*here. onc«lzed ber of the paper on the hand press | ready to be worked The first sheet was pulled off and the politicians | wa.s idarted in 1894 and ceased to j . lookcsi over the Mitorials w-hlch Mr ffunction In 1901. but was revived .and I ^ I reorganized in 1929* and still func- | Picturesque Fall Brook near Genesee, of Mrs. David Jenie, aged'about lO ' Fall Brook.'but the gorge and brook ycani, while at play near FaU Brook itself belong to the \yodsworth ee- fell over the precipice into the chan- I tate. On October 16. 1916, a private nel. The distance is some 50 or 60 chapel at Sweet Briar was defeated feet, yet with the excefiAion ot by Rev. ' Father A. A. Ifughes of ■pralnlng a wrist, u d one or two Geneaeo. The unusual privjllegs was 1 slight cuts and bruits he appeared . granted by the Holy See to altow j to have received no permanent to- the Mossed sacrament to be re- |jury.” served there. 1 And that is the whole story of the And as an interesting incident It I accident, a-sample of 1864 Journal- is officially on record that to July, THE SIONIFIOAKCE o r THAT* THREE-LEGGED EMBLQl So long as the Kilkp block >• mains to mei^ory, githoi^ u ii aZ 0»e ICtoclder blo,^ the pec,]? emblem gracing it# front n*arT rOQ^ will _ _______ _ rootf will esoette curioaity. ike emkl< of the lisle of ^ w , w . lUiHp, owncjr of th* buil^ weU-trained and and sang Soloe I *r. in dueu^ quartets frequently arid «]«> a choir and could ^Hay a pipe otHf well, and was orgqniat at the 8ks! copal church for I yearn. He^ postmaafer at o n f time, tad f, years was town overseer of toe poor The emblem of thie laie of ^ three legs radiated flora a craur' and bent at the knees, so ths t may be thnw ra ah.\*where sad be upright, standing on one % » two.^ The Latin matto accoB^jb- It is of th^ee words, the last oof b». ing "Stabtt,” tr8n^a(ed " n «];; stand.” We don't recall the othe two words but they con^ete tk sentence which sky* that hoserer It may be thrown jit wiU stand, it Killlp rap the drug store'in tte: corner building o h e e - ye*. erer a long ago, as he Ijas- been dead fv about 30 year*. )and retlrsl fm bufltoesB long, bofbre he died. He never tired of trilling an eemahn thing that happei^ed to hia expetf- ence. A colored iwennan died, ud l|tbe husband was l ^ to meet funnii expensesc and had | almost no mcner it was a desperfttri situation for tkai poor negro. Mr. KilUp’s heart eu touched With pUyj and be «nu mo*. e d ' to do something charitahle. Be called the old darkey into.h)* itoce and said: “ Ben, il’m sorry for jw in your loss, and ’ Jn.. to do something : or } tou. Now jr Just look around - thei in this store ml b r i b i n g you need and want, and I'll give it to jm free; I think you spept some time goods on the cot nteni and rinim "WeU. Mr. piip. and then said: If yoii don’t m im . I do need a ne» set of fiddle striigs.” He go^ the strings. I thought rd dk deserve It.” B« looking over tM OALLIHAUFRT Once there wah a town pump « Main Bt. An art esian well waa dor for About 400 feel but found and in 19C5 a wen where the Bolt h( a depthi of 650 Struck no strea^ of water, w* section to not-geologically fawnlh to artesian wells beds of shale th -ough which 4*k" run off instead- o f rising to the W* cal Society, and similar organiza-!ij| The Bar Associatioo. men- In I The Firemen’s Association i ipuse now standi *» feet, but tjw i- account of larp PAINE’S u™ h*, but Ob. n*o.r th. R .-l* '"'''''. 1' “ ,'“P ition. w«h lnl.r«t Th. Med- um a nA8 out one paper, me Re ^j,at before the s^H-ontl shtTt was j CV«»-der>- A year later Peter lAW- ^corder. started in 1869, and now ,^.„ru.-d off he must b.^ reimSur*.Hl ‘C*! Society hokls ajuarterly meet- . renc- ixH'.ame ,-ditor and soon after-) and .conducted by the Livonia ,^(^1 for expenses he ha.t Mn n to or ' Inga and discuss.^ topics of B tech-j . wanls the pap^T dietl .Thri I r in ^ 1 n o p a p e r w o u ld be i.«mue<l This.was ' nical nature, flmling its meoting* • Ghronicle wa-n ostabl^ed m , U\xmia has but one paper, the Oa- ^ Gunner; the men gofma.! and highly valuable The i>«che™ As-; 1848. and l.aste<l for throe y e ^ .;^ite«l by Thonuw Alvord. ,^-ore and tore around but went out sociation holtki an annual meeting, houmain. a ttmperance she«^. wm cdite<i it for many the money and paid it al.ao many tma-n meeting* and a! ^ t » I ■ ’ for two ^ ”* * ^ * ^ was ertabllhsht'd in 1875 ^over ami the paper came out and monthly meeting • of high s c h b o l n y A i. >px. -I Mt. xrorri.H has three papers, the h.-t* never mi.ascd an issue .nince t ^ t principals.- or school men. To. these y**?" . _ ^ , 1 from the office ht be added the Genesee Coun- ' The Nlimla Telegraph started in Ihcket Unc Post, as has been IPW ftPU l‘v«l ' * - — Niimia Dmes started in isni and w:ts ^ ^ <the late Fred VanDorn. one of the den.; It to Nuiyla’s only paper (the ; bejlig the promotion of interest Lima \>eeK> f cleverest news writers ever known in Dalton Reporter being in the town ' ^nd welfarr of the Genesee Country - j lr>* Asaoclation. organized I Mretdy mmllonnl. int richri Wnf pop, by v. K sandm . « conducted JJJ j p j q yrxxn ouy coarfon ,..-r * starte<l in June. 1899. bv to.tay by hui son. Walter B San-' pprr>' as first pnwidem; and us ob-1 ? ami soon ^ a m e , this state His death in 1907 whs but not the village of Nundal Gazette. su^n ’ i moilt untimely and Uie local Jour-j During the present century, from' , their teens' nAUstic field lort a valuable man. % 1900 to date, this county has seen ^ 1 4 V mda t h e ' *” *” ’'**'’^ ^ * " ” * '^ ^ * '^ ’****'*‘^ ^ But ' papers that no longer "exist includ-' In 1854 It moved to Nufida tfiri " gallimaufry •'ll.. ■ ^'Indian Built Fir Allen Is/ mil In 1789 ^rind the irl r* ripxt vear as the Youn« America In paper was taken over by Harp' ing the two Avon papers already I State officers from Livingrfon 8^6' nded The Urtngwton 1 ^ Rolison and is well conducted mentioned, the Dansville Weekly | county include John Young, govern- 18 it * “ 1^ _____________ -ptip other Mt. Morris paper, the En-I Breeze. N Sentinel of DaitovUle lasted from 1A87 tUl 18M n t® Danm iUe from Gen«we6 whore It had been railed the Geneseo Democrat. In. 1656 a mocthly health pubUoa- tlon was bro>u^it to £>aiJsvlll« from €l6n Haven. It unui 1W3 , and was called tbe Z^eCter Box and Ihter ike Law* ol Life. ThI DIM* rule Dally Register was erWabUabed in June, 18M. and discontinued af- ter about a "year and a half. In 1860 the OoartituUon was be- gun at CtoiM*M>. and was sold to 1M2 to Httgh HaMMAg and mefffid wltll the Union at Mt. MorrlB., Tlito was The oUier Mt. Morris paper, the En- Breeze. Nunda Truth, the DaKon terpnse. was established In 1875 b>*. Enterprise, and the Springwater En Geoige M. Shull and A. H. Knafi^ ! terprise. TTie present editor* are Inez Hay- j A county monthly was published wood and George I^ywood. It ha* In 1913-14 in Ml. Morris, and dif- evldently pwipdwd U It OrM lU j f^rmt hljll htvf i«U6(l pa- own, plant and has a good patron-{per*, also tbe Geneseo Normal with or; PhUo C. FuUer. James W. Wads- worth. and (Xto Kelsey, state coriip- troUera; Gen. James, S Wadsworth, regent of univerMty for iO yeans; James W Wadsworth. Jr.. U. S. sen- tior: Oiarlei D. Newtoo, auoniey general: and the foUowln* prestden- Its present Lamron and former Nor- ! tlal elseioi*—Dafilil BlU tll 1S36 ■ The Dxiswille Genesee C^ou&try Gxprtflp pa® menUoned. I>ajis-j mallan: but tbto article is treating | John Whe^erT 1S40; Ben)anSn Hsr vlUe’s other paper ia a daily, the ' of the vUlage >weekUe* wood. 1846; t— ...■ ibidrea* and Broeze, this county*! only daily and. The mott recent arrival in the Jamet 8. Wadgworth (at i*rf«)i visitor in the homes Jn j field is the* Dslton Reporter which j 1860: Kidder M. Soott. 1872; Jolin Also ther* bare owners present year and seems like a "Vve- I been several dsputy posltiotis. Slid I Jy younfster” aad dofttoed to sue-1 positions on stau commissions, Mate 'CX 4 • y .. I tet^len of tlis re|ioi wai erected •zer Alltn, cilled **!•• diRB" Allen loni reiidence tmenl PAINE DRUG COMPANY its section. Bayard H. Knapp and was launched In the summer of the J B. Abbott. 1932. WsKer C. Knapp are the and pubUMien. Ttie Nunda News, astabllMied to ' ceed. It* editor to M. R. Burt. I boanto, etc. I Zitoni C M tin i hi B u im tii (&u^ JSM ) 24-26 EAST MAIN ST. CALL MAIN 1920 thf IndlOBf. W9I locate Aqifduct5trttti»n*w, Ju t • few f tho site of I^cbffwr'* Pioneer Dm| i Store. small mill ta iitf of the by Eben-' froiA bl* The fldU d where SiHY.APP# IN FORMES recorded N«afly ““ ^ county today a very *01400* t o tjn Other® -otorised *PP«-» asBiiMncc impo-Mbl C6t* a n y the history to the VI county The to <**pter of it# OA ,Bten®e intcreet. Mt NU!II 8 the figure® hiultlpMod by th valuation*. A.xH>a —Desmbe ^l^gCruciion of tl a huge structuK lo»- Avon-A ver vi^ed Avon on ,ad still ^todo of the worrt. It for aU time. Tl dressmaker®. IM postoffi<c. Thej Ujq parety had the building, t clothing store i In flame*. The fhtnous in Av< bath day* Moot office, and it oi traveled both wi but faster towai irlod blew that south of the d o to flames at th< 'Of wooden *tni< sene barrels eiq flame* rage t building® on th wood and were and dWelHng. it and dwelling at an open mptutH ytUKh flanked b firemen made a UiU point and i an hour that 1 battle to stop flame®. They water-aosked c* United Staitf® 1 ind historic fiercely and the north , wall Th« loss In A figured at abo fire In that se would reack fo Avon-‘-Deoe destroyed the railroad tra d Erie depot az spring* hotel the depot. I' bou®e acroas -A row of hou Rochester »tT« great exertioc Mroyed were barber shop i tags *outh a Pattee. Six I burned with 470,000. . Avon—T>ec« I 00 the heels < came one of and costly in county, ghoi broke out In *>uth ;*ide of which stood V the present d 4 party that •sne of the and went to i ‘8>ened the IhinW . of flam< ^ been aom found who h« flame cm . ^»read to an “Ing from U The hotel wai go. also a g furniture st a fraine bulk f«l>b gallery ^ comer fa •**6 w as d«s east on •Aop in Its p* ^ M6««ir “**'6ware ator ^ Where tl ataad, it i carpet JW. find m Ncket* sad k jonquered, bu « thr at
