Ruth McEvoy Collection 19 - Genesee County

To run for supervisor. 7-31-1963
Picture of, candidate. 11-4-1963
Distributor of General Foods - dead at 65. 8-27-1974
Newstead, Robert E. Joins the advertising department of the Daily News. 5-17-1932
Taking an advertising job at the Batavia Times. 3-23-1937
Reaches the age of 30, released from the service, put on the reserved list. 9-22-1941
Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant without attending Officers Candidate School. 6-4-1943
To be head of the Classified Department of the News. 6-30-1960
New head of the Advertising Department of the News. 11-7-1972
Retires - full page of pictures. 2-26-1977
Dead. 4-5-1983
New Street Seneca Avenue, so called in 1911, New Street to run from Summit to New Street. 5-2-1911
New-Way Rentals 1 School Street.
Melinda Bryan, co-owner with her husband Wendell - opened in March 1993 -
picture in ad. 11-1-1996
New Woman Figure Spa Gone from Kings Plaza - signed a two year agreement 7 months ago (Sept ?).
The District Attorney is probing the health spa - an Ohio based business - officials
4-8-1976
said Batavia was too far from their home base. 4-10-1976
N. Y. Assn Railroad Passengers Kenneth Bird and the Assn meet with a railroad representative on persuading
the trains to stop. 9-10-1978
New York Canning Crop Growers Canning crop growers have their headquarters here - not stated where. Started
Co-op Inc. in Monroe and Orleans Counties after WW I. Now includes 1,500 farms - as
far west as Erie County. Organized 15 years. William Hamilton of Perry,
president. Objective: To negotiate contracts with processors. 9-17-1960
New York Central Rail Road Flowers raised at the Central greenhouse to be set out next week. 5-30-1903
New turntable used for the first time. 7-1-1903
Setting out 57,000 plants from the Central Greenhouse. 6-1-1904
Flower beds going in at the Central Station - in charge, Patrick Flint. 5-1-1891
New freight house to go up on Ellicott Street for Erie, Central. 7-2-1891
The fountain at the depot taken apart - to be put on a new foundation. 4-27-1905
The Central station to be enlarged - 40' on the west.
Past & Present column - on the speed the Central may or may not have attained
8-2-1907
on the Byron grade. 8-20-1910
Automatic signals completely installed, Rochester to Batavia. 8-30-1910
New switch line now in use. 11-17-1910
Automatic signals in operation.
RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION
3-27-1911
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New York Central Rail Road (cont) New signal towers to work stop-go system, one at Ellicott Street, one at Center
Street - probably one at Jackson Street later on.
The NY Central yard east of the station is being paved - as soon as the north wall
1-9-1925
of the depot is rebuilt the ornamental shed on the west to be torn down. 8-20-1928
Rumor has the Central building a large freight yard here. 1-17-1927
Makes appropriation toward rebuilding the Batavia station. 8-17-1927
Speculation on the Central station and yards. 10-4-1927
Gets complaints from the Council on the station. 7-20, 24-1928
A gasoline-electric car on the Tonawanda Branch of.
The railroad nursery soon to be abolished. Four acres of growing plants.
Established in 1923 to beautify stations. Greenhouse established in 1893.
11-7-1928
Since 1923 it has distributed 10,000 plants to stations along the railroad. 2-12-1932
Old railroad days recalled - 1840s. 4-10-1937