Ruth McEvoy Collection 19 - Genesee County

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SUBJECT TEXT DATE Oddities (cont) Past & Present column: on a mailman trying to collect 5¢ postage on a letter - is given a deposit-due milk bottle to return to the grocery for his 5¢, which he did. Past & Present column: on fire nozzles missing from the High School in 1945 3-25-1950 or so, presented to Superintendent caftan on reunion of class. 4-15-1950 Past & Present column: on ? kept in Ellicott Hall in 1925. 4-15-1950 A prisoner escapes the City lock-up - no one knows how. 12-9-1953 Escapee caught - doesn't say how he got out. A cow seen tied up to a parking meter before the County Building - hurt in transit 1-19-1954 and left for a truck to pick up. 9-7-1955 Red Ionelli (a cat) returns after 10 month, 285 miles. 3-3-1956 A Robin brings metal foil to its nest - blacks out area. 5-2-1956 Irving Gillam, baton twirler, has a baton lodge in wires and blacks out Hamlin. 8-11-1956 Youngsters in Corfu admit painting a horse pink as a Halloween prank. 11-3-1956 The pink horse to be sheared - rubber based paint. 11-5-1956 Boys find a nest in Kibbe Park with a dollar bill woven into the material. Problem of what to do with a dog saves the owner from a jail sentence - drunk 3-20-1957 and disorderly. A woman in shorts refused even to enter the court house to be excused from 3-20-1957 jury duty. 6-4-1957 Sam, Branton's new milk horse, leaves driver and starts for home. 6-12-1957 Hula Hoop sell out at Kresges. 9-15-1958 See: Desimones - vaudeville alumni. The Health Commissioner Campbell says two sheep and a goat behind 12 Brooklyn not a health menace. They belong to Michael Casey - 4H project. Neighbors say they smell and depreciate property. The reporter noted no smell. 1-23-1960 Two articles. 7-15-1960 Picture of a huge footprint under a bridge. 8-1-1960 More "tracks" at City Hall. 8-2-1960 Huge tracks up the side of Fix Printing - picture - made by youthful Fix employee. 8-4-1960 Story of Officer DiAntonio and the skunk. 12-3-1960 See: Fifty Mile Hikers. Feb. & Mar. 1963 See: Abram George, Medium. Telephone operator Virginia Oberle gets a call - Mrs. Stanley Slivinski of no date 8773 Dorman Rd. makes a call and dies - Oberle makes contacts. 5-14-1964 Odd ordinances still on the books. Winegar tells the story of a woman who left Trailways without paying and sent 8-31-1964 it from Buffalo later. Oakfield boy sentenced by Richard D. Yunker to jail or digging a hole 6' square. 12-10-1964 Chose digging. 8-10-1965 The lad changed his mind and chose jail. 8-11-1965 A Shamrock flag flies over City Hall attached to the halyard with diaper pins. 3-17-1966 Sunds make a 1,400 mile trip in a garden tractor. 8-26-1966 Captain Kidd may have buried treasure in Cowlesville - says Dan Winegar. 2-1-1967 Robert Peil was tied up and robbed on West Main. 2-27-1967 Hold-up termed a hoax. 2-28-1967 A fleeing prisoner, in handcuffs, flees down Main Street followed by police. 10-16-1968 Jeff Myers of Pavilion barred from basketball because of the length of his hair. 12-20-1968 Parents appeal Myers ouster from the team to the State. Intruders force a door at the Presbyterian Church and return a microphone 1-25-1969 taken yesterday. Dennis Haintz had Louis Viele arrested for noise made building the Professional 8-21-1969 Building on Summit Extension. 6-22-1973 Viele and Haintz shake hands in Court. 6-30-1973 RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 64 SUBJECT TEXT DATE
Oddities (cont) An Oakfield woman chases two would-be hold-up men from her lawn with a broom. Gets shot, but not robbed. 10-1-1974 Story of a cow in the Creek - began earlier. 6-25-1975 Comments by Holvey on the cow affair. 6-26-1975 List of silly phrases like "Old baldies never die, they just flip their lid'' - Winegar column. 7-30-1975 After some weeks of publicity and gift of magazines from a publisher inmates at the County Jail get copies of Playboy magazine, plus the centerfold. 3-26-1976 Opossum first in the Mall - leaves footprints in cement of the pool. 7-9-1976 A woman on Vernon Avenue watches her neighbor clear his drive, throwing the snow on her driveway, calls the police and then takes a shovel and starts throwing it back. Police say resolution beyond them - if the disputants can't settle it they have to get lawyers. 12-26-1978 Winegar remembers Neal Smock - how he once pulled in a noisy wedding procession. 1-17-1979 Greg Phillips suns himself in a deck chair and bathing suit in 30° temperature to shame his boss at the Vinyl Jungle for not letting him go to Florida. 12-17-1981 Attica upset by Indian haircut - picture. 2-18-1983 Winegar tells the story of the great mule chase - repeated from the original, April 28, 1981. 7-26-1999 --------------- Rope walker walks a rope over Main Street from the roof of St. James to the roof of the Hooper House. 8-17-1883 Ad: M. S. Hayes says he has disposed of his vicious horse and is ready to take orders as usual if left at N. W. Stiles drug store. 11-14-1883 The Art Gallery on Jackson is the only place that serves up blind robins for lunch. If you've never tried them come in. Phil Peters. 5-3-1884 Young man flipping a silver dollar lost it into a spittoon. Offered to sell it for 50¢ rather than fish it out. The buyer found the dollar was lead. 4-22-1885 During the first week or so Special Delivery Service business was brisk. Only one letter delivered in December, at midnight, to Batavia editor scaring him almost sick. 1-8-1886 Oddo, Samuel Hearing for, who hit Luplow in a riot Sunday June 29. 7-7-1921 Odd's-N-Ends To replace Ryans. Factory bargains store. Moving to the corner Mall store built by Wendy's for permission to build in the 7-27-1984 Mall area. no date Opening a second store in the former Tops Store. 10-6-1992 Closing its Mall shop, consolidating in the Tops Plaza store. 2-22-1993 Odell, A. J. Of Syracuse, the new owner of J. Burt Jones Market, 5 Jackson Street. 9-1-1914 New fixtures at Odell Market - owned by J. E. Smith Butcher's Supply Co. of Buffalo. 2-7-1916 Odell's Market, 5 Jackson Street, sold to George C. Hollister of Rochester. 5-13-1918 Miss Emily Hollister to do business at Odell's, 5 Jackson Street. 9-13-1918 Odell Co. provision store closed for reorganization, 5 Jackson Street. 11-18-1918 Odell, Dr. Essie A. Chiropractor, 14 Main Street. 1-29-1919 Mentioned. 3-1-1920 Oderkirk, Cassandra Obit - 64. 7-9-1962 Oderkirk, John Obit. 9-3-1936 RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 65 SUBJECT TEXT DATE
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