Some of the news itews on the Review of October 11, 1911
-At the Republican county convention held in McKeg’s
opera house. Montour Falls, the following nominations were made: Member
of assembly, S. D. Bolyen; county clerk, P. H. Bissell; county treasurer,
P. P. Birge; superintendent of poor, Chas.M.Pronson; district attorney,
Geo. M.Velie; coroner, Dr. I. L. Chapman.
-Rev. P. J. Williams came to the pastorate of the
Watkins M. P. Church from Canton, Pa.
-The first frost occurred Sept. 14th. in some parts
of the county ice rormed and vegetation was killed.
-The Prohibition party made the following nominations:
Member of Assembly, W. Arnold; county clerk, C. S. Gano; county treasurer,
I M. Weed; superintendent of poor. Griffln Smith; coroner, Dr. C. D. Clawson.
-W. N. Herrick of near Perry City caught a freak animal.
It was pure white and about the size of a woodrhuck. It had the head and
tail of a woodchuck, but the feet resembled those of a skunk. The skin
was while and with the exception a few scattering white hairs on the face
entirely bare with no indication of ever having been covered with hair.
-Miss Sarah Jane VanDuzer died Oct. 3rd at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Marvin Benham in Reading. aged 73 years.
-Four pound baskets of Concord grapes were selling
for fiffty cents. In trays, the price was $25
to $30 a ton.
-Frank Sreeves of Watkins Was ill with typhoid fever.
-L. C. Peck fell flearly 30 feet and landed. on a
concrete sidewalk while picking apples at S. H. Palmer’s on Decatur street.
He was rendered unconscious, but no bones were broken.
-The total yearly receipts of the Watkins Union School
District were $22,716.85, and the total expendiLures $13,518.29.
-Hazel M., 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P.
L. Van.Gelder of Pine Grove, died Oct. 3rd.
Samuel Couch of Odessa died Oct. 11th.
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-Two service stations in the village are undergoing
changes and improvements this week. Wednesday morning workmen began the
foundation work for a new ‘island’ at the Standard Oil Company station
on the Four Corners and forms for the foundation of an entirely new service
station were got up at the Texaco station on south Main street. The new
Texaco station will be 16 by 22 feet in size and will include a display
room, storage room and rest rooms. The building will be located further
from the sidewalk than the present building and will have three gas pumps
in front on a 14-foot islands Hugh Sproul, the manager of the station;
is considering moving their present building back near the creek and remodeling
it for a tourist cabin. The new island at the Standard station, managed
by Mrs. Mary Carkwill bring the three separate pumps to one place
in front of the station, and will result in a more usable drive-in area--Dundee
Observer. -
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-While Eugene Lyon was driving cattle on his
farm south of this village one day last week, a high-velocity bullet of
large calibre whizzed past him, missing him by inches. Then an automobile
which was standing in the highway, moved away rapidly. Mr. Lyon thinks
the hunter shot at a potato crate near him in the field, believing
it was a woodchuck. He thinks the shot was fired from the highyay.-Napies
Record.
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-The request of the village of Waterloo for a WPA
project to make additions and improvements to the present sewage treatment
plant at an estimated cost of $6,634.20 has been approved and an allotment
of $3,754.10 has been made by the WPA, according to Carlisle Pontius of
Elmira, field director. The contemplated work will enlarge the capacity
of the plant and bring it up to date. Work will be provided for twenty
- men for a period of tbree months.-
Seneca County Courier-Journal.
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-Drilling for water and discovering a flow of gas
caused some excitement at the Dr. J. M. Ward farm property in Bath road
Wednesday, noon. Barney Moravec, local well. driller, had been in charge
of drilling, operations on the Ward farm for the past several days, and
Wednesday. after the drill had penetrated to a depth of 135 feet, a natural
gas vein was uncovered. The property has been in the Ward family for more
than a hundred years and it Was the intention of the late Charles Ward
father of the present owner, that gas existed on the farm. However, nover
until Wednesday has that contenion been verified. “Of course, we
wanted the well, but if we find gas which can be used for fuel and lights,
then of course, we can try again for the well,” say the Wards-Penn Yan
Democrat
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Why Leaves changeTheir Color Explained
“Frosts hasten but do not cause the coloration of
leaves in autumn”, says Dr. Henry F. Meier. head of the department of forest
botany at the New York State College of Forestry, Syraouse, N. Y. The riot
of colors in the leaves of many forest trees at this season of the year
is due to a mixture of four colors-green, red yellow and brown.
‘‘With the coming of autumn with its attendant changes
of light and temperature, the leaf ceases to manufacture green pigments
(chlorophyll). The chlorophyll already present soon fades and the yellow
pigments (corotin and Xanthopyll) which are always present with the green
pigments, become visible.
“The red color is due to a pigment known as orythrophyll
or anthocyan. Some plants normally have a large amount of this red pigment
dissolved in the liquid part of the cells of the leaves as in Japanese
maples and copper beeches. The red pigment in autumn leaves, however, is
produced luring the fading of the green pigments. This fading lets the
light bring about the chemical reactions between the sugars and the tannins
and possibly other substances that roam the red pigments. That light does
play an important part is suggested by the fact that the red coloration
is most abundant in sunny climates and bright seasons; also by the fact
that if a leaf is intensely shaded by other leaves, it will not turn red.
The yellow pigments are present in all red leaves but are not visible because
the red outshines the yellow. The oaks, maples and sumacs have either large
amounts of sugar or tannin or both in their leaves and consequently show
the most brillant reds,
“Brown is due to several sources says Dr. Meier. “Yellow
pigments mown as flavones break down and give rise to brown coloration;
probably oxidation of other substances like tannins in the cell wall brings
about the same brown color which occurs in wood when exposed to light
a long time. Autumn coloration most brilliant where transition from summer
to autumn is rather abrupt as in New England where we find autumnal coloration
as beautiful as anywhere in the world.
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Heavy Rains in State [ca1899]
The tropical storm that crossed Long Island on September
21 and moved northward caused heavy rains over most of the state; lowlands
long the Mohawk and upper Hudson were flooded, according to the report
or the week ending September 27 it the weather bureau of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture at Cornell.
High winds also caused much damge in central and eastern
New York. Wheat seeding has been delayed by wet grounds, but recent rains
have improved pastures. In a few areas potatoes are a failure, but in others
the crop is fair to good. Apple picking has been delayed, and some damage
is reported. Some buckwheat still remains to be cut, and cabbage yields
are good, the report says.
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Items of General interest in
Neighboring Counties
[ca 1938]
-Resigning last week when he arranged to take over
the management of a local restaurant, Trooper Abram Ryder, one of the most
popular and efficient members of Troop D, New York state police, decided
the following day that he would rather be a trooper than a restauranteur,
and asked Captain McGrath to be permitted to withdraw his resigaatior.
The request was quickly and gladly granted.-Skaneateles Press.
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-Last week Lewis C. Williams sent from Middlesex valley
an ear of Sweepstakes corn grown on the Gray Brothers farm and containing
736 kernels. This week Milton Shaw of Crystal Springs brought in an ear
of the same variety containing 772 kernels, in 14 rows averaging 55 kernels
each. The beautiful ear is a foot long and was on a stalk 13 feet and 9
inches tall.-Penn Yan Chronicle-Express.
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-Mrs. Charles Hartley of Keuka street received a letter
Tuesday from her daughter, Miss Florence Hartley, who is studying voice
in Austria, Mrs. Hartley says that Florence does not seem to realize the
danger they are in and that she is of the opinion that the papers have
exagerated the foreign situation a great deal-Penn Yan Chronicle-Express.
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-Two Penn Yan persons have been honored by having
their names placed in the “Who’s Who in America, for 1938, published every
two years by Marquis Company, Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Walter A. Hendricks,
217 Main street, whose work for the Seneca Indians at Tonawanda Reservation,
has been recognized by the federal government, and Lawrence S. Armstrong,
son of Mrs. H. K. Armstrong, 312 Main street, at present United States
consule to Mexico are the two local names in the book of famous personages-Penn
Yan Democrat.
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-In response to a request for police service at Interlaken,
State Troopers W, C. Keeley and M. G. Dean of the Waterloo substation paid
a visit to this place Sunday afternoon and evening. They arrested four
motorists in the village and one in the town of Fayette on the way here.-Interlaken
Review.
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-While trimming berry bushes at his home one day this
week, Joe Dibble discovered that some of the bushes were growing a second
crop of black caps, being well covered with both ripe and green berries-Interlaken
Review, September 28.
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-George H. Weatherby, welfare officer for the town
of Addison has resigned his position. Ill health has forced him to relinquish
the position which he has held for several years. Mr. Weatherby suffered
a heart attack recently and retired to his home in Maple street to recuperate,
which he is doing at the present time. However, he deemed it best to relinquish
all duties and hence presented his resignation to the members of the town
board-Addison Advertiser.
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-While Eugene Lyon was driving cattle on his
farm south of this village one day last week, a high velocity bullet of
large calibre whizzed - past him, missing him by inches. Then an automobile
which was standing in the highway, moved away rapidly. Mr. Lyon thinks
the hunter shot at a potato crate near him mt the field, believing
it was a woodchuck. He thinks the shot was fired from the highyay.-Napies
Record.
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-The request of the village of Waterloo for a WPA
project to make additions and improvements to the present sewage treatment
plant at an estimated cost of $6,634.20 has been approved and an allotment
of $3,754.10 has been made by the WPA, according to Carlisle Pontius of
Elmira, field director. The contemplated work will enlarge the capacity
of the plant and bring it up to date. Work will be provided for twenty
- men for a period of tbree months.-
Seneca County Courier-Journal.
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