Ruth McEvoy Collection 24 - Genesee County

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RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 68 SUBJECT TEXT DATE SMART Cooperative Extension plans a center on East Main Rd. as a recreational interactive educational center to cost $12 million. Show and Tell day to inaugurate a new program center adjacent to the 9-23-1999 Fairgrounds. 3-7-2000 SMART an acronym for: Science, Math, and Related Technologies. Twenty school children from Pavilion and Oakfield-Alabama learned how wasps 3-7-2000 injure the blueberry crop - picture. 3-23-2000 Smart Growth County Planning. First county meeting on planning reveals at least one objection - i.e. limiting sales of farm property. 11-29-2000 Speakers find the plan presents limits, costs. Editorial listing the advantages of. 11-30-2000 Discussed at a third meeting. Legislators review the revised plan, hope approval is near - to implement Bennett 12-7-2000 Heights water problem. 3-8-2001 Smart Dress Shop See: Johnson, Mrs. Florence. Smart 'N Sassy Dress Shop New dress shop opens in the Mall. Richard and Nancy Cina, owners - picture. 10-22-1976 Moving from Attica to the Mall - Special Section. 11-10-1976 Closes. September 1984 Smart Shop Caito Brothers lease 82 Main to Norman Goldberg for a dress shop. 8-27-1935 Soon to open. 10-8-1935 Norman Goldberg on a buying trip for. 4-29-1947 Smead, John Dead at 85. 5-1-1975 Smead, Mrs. Marian Obit. 11-9-1968 Smead, Mary Smead Marcy Obit - "Miss Mary", in Detroit. (Married Dr. Marcy late in life.) (Bit about Bryan Seminary.) 3-5-1935 Trietley on the Smead sisters, proprietors of Bryan Seminary. Obit - Mary Lucy Smead - 85. Marian Smead still alive - one of the survivors of 10-27-1951 Mary Lucy. 9-26-1967 Smead, Marian and Mary Took Bryan's Seminary after Ruth Beardsley Bryan retired in 1897. Misses Smead to reopen the school September 19. 9-5-1883 Move the school to Ohio. 2-9-1884 School a flattering success in Ohio. 6-19-1887 Visiting here. 8-17-1894 Miss Carrie and Mary Smead of Toledo, OH visiting their brother in Pavilion. Past & Present column: Smead School, Toledo, OH issues an invitation to the 7-3-1909 play "The Blue Bird." 5-31-1924 Smells Baking bread - Center Street. News print - ink doesn't smell. Blacksmith Shop - smoke, hoof, and horse. Smelly barnyard on Horseshoe Lake Road. Burning leaves - burning prohibited in? Taverns - especially a row on the north side of Main. New automobiles. Freshly mown hay field. Vanilla Fastor - 109-111 State Street. Smell of small boys - especially in winter. Smell of discontinued scents (Chanel #5) not Tabu. Shoe repair shops - leather, glue.
RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 69 SUBJECT TEXT DATE Smith, A. C. Smith Shoe Store. At 47 Main Street, closing his shoe store - will sell. 2-24-1909 Smith, Al Stop at the State School impromptu. 8-16-1926 Smith, Alice Smith and a friend on a 3 months tour of Europe. 5-18-1903 First woman to take an office job - shook the business world. Went to work for Holland Purchase Insurance Co. before 1875. Ruined her social status. Thought working woman somehow not normal. She went to work with no business training, but later took a business course. Several jobs later, worked Alfred Wright, a perfume manufacturer in Rochester. He sold out to a Philadelphia concern. She worked a couple of months for General Railway signal Co. then retired. In 1927 was living with her brother, Herbert E. Smith, 4-13-1926 at 117 Washington Avenue. Next year he moved to 207 East Avenue. 4-13-1926 Obit. Sister of Herbert E. Smith. Daughter of Alva Smith. 4-22-1930 Smith, Mrs. Allie (Lela M.) Obit. 2-10-1977 Smith, Alva Married Sarepta Townsend. Children: Wilber Smith; Mrs. H. T. Cross; Miss Vantia Smith. Married Ceilia Colt. Children: Herbert E. Smith; Mrs. R. A. Griswold Miss Alice Smith. Wilbur's son: William D. Smith - hardware merchant. Herbert E.'s son: Herbert H. Smith - electrician. Miss Smith of Rochester, buying all Alva Smith property - 3 lots face Washington - some move central. 8-9-1895 (Alice Smith) Children: Alice Smith; Herbert E. - Herbert E. (gassed in the war), Florence A. Nicholson. Price of Alva Smith estate $10,900. Lot 22 and 24 deeded to James P. Smith who turned over to Alva Smith in 1830. Alva came to Batavia in 1815 to clerk for his brother James P., north side of Main Street. Area burned February 15, 1850. (American H………) After the fire, set up A. Smith & Co. dry goods. Boyd with him - with brother James until 1843 when James retired; with David P. Warren until 1849. Then sold out. Was in 1850 at 94 Main as A. Smith & Son. In 1861 built a brick sales room 140' deep. Wilber (the son) sold the building to E. N. Stone November 12, 1878. Wilber died April 13, 1893. Alva gave up the business in 1868. Had branches in LeRoy, Albion, Holley, Elba, etc. Had interest in Lay Planing Mill on Evans Street and in Olmsted Lumber company in LeRoy. Died November 25, 1870. Left his house on Alva to his Celia A. Smith. Children: Wilber; Julia; Alice; Lavanlea; Colton B.; Celia; Hattie and Herbert E. Alice went into business - inherited the house of Wilber's wife Eva Smith. Alva - Celia → Wilber - Eva → Alice; Herbert E. No mention of the American Hotel. Alva Place named for, whose house was on the corner of Seaver Place in 1921. Seaver originally went back to Alva Place, later cut through to Washington Ave. Miss Alice lived at 116 Washington in 1921. Past & Present column. Recently sold to Emil Taggart. 4-17-1921 Past & Present column: on Alva Smith house, now Majestic Odd Fellows Temple. Once was on Ganson's Lane - Dr. Ganson had a office on the corner of what is now Main and Park Place. 8-10-1935 Article on the family due to taking down of the house - most recently the Majestic Temple. Listed as beneficiaries: Wife, Celia A. Smith; children: Wilber; Julia; 3-1-1947 Lavantia (spelling?); Colton B.; Alice; Celia; Hattie; Herbert E. 3-1-1947 Smith, Alva C. Retiring from the job he has held for 29 years - for Mancuso Motors on West Main Street. Worked for Burt W. Welch at the same address before that. Welch urged him to stay when the business was sold. 3-14-1959 Picture of the Alva Smith & Son storefront ca. 1870 10-14-2000
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