Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee County, New York State August 5-1870 Found.-A set of Coopers' tools.-Loser please enquire at the Office of the 'Batavian.' Mr. William H. Davis has our thanks for a basket of most excellent harvest apples. Personal.-J.R. Mitchell and wife left town Thursday on a visiting excursion to Maryland. Hon. E.C. Walker has purchased the house and lot of C.Stube, west side of State street, for $2,800. You man, you can pay for two or three good weekly papers by saving what you would expend for one cigar each week. Not worth filing. A dull exchange. We don't file the 'Batavian.'--'Attica Argus.' Of course not. We're too well-tempered to be filed by so soft a tool. Our Village Trustees are having the street lamps and posts dressed in a new uniform of red and black. It greatly improves their appearance. The Genesee District Preachers' Association of the M.E. Church, will meet at Scottsville, on Monday next, 8th inst. Opening sermon by Rev. J.N. Simpkins. On Monday last the entrance of Mr. Cary French, with a basket of excellent eating apples, caused a large amount of jawing in our office. The office boys heartily forgive Cary. A meeting of the Board of Managers of the Warsaw Reformatory, has been called at that place on the 17th of August, to perfect the organization, and adopt a plan of operations. A Subscriber queries: "If running a West Bethany Cheese Factory makes a man a Col., how many skippers must he slaughter to become a Lieut. General?"-West Bethany's turn next. Tax-Payers Attention.-The Assessors of Batavia have completed their Assessment Roll and advertise in another column where it may be found for examination. All interested please read the advertisement. The German Methodists of this village will lay the foundation for their new church building on Centre street this fall. The house will be 87x60 with eighteen feet poots and seventy-five feet tower altitude. Howe of Le Roy 'Courier' had a mess of green corn sent him the other day, and says he did think, at first, of dividing with us. Probably the share he designed sending us was the Prodigal son's part; but even that was too much for his biberality; and he gobbled the whole. Horse in a Well.-On Sunday last the large sorrel hors-power with which Sandford propels his sprinkler through our streets, fell, partly, into the well between G.W. Graham's and Bloomfield's on State street, and was only extricated by great labor. The 'Batavian' last week published one of Mrs.. Beulah M. Smith's letters, descriptive of life in South America, but failed to give any credit for the same. Credit to whom credit is due, Friend Lewis. -'Avon Journal.' Undue censure, Cotter. We gave credit and called especial attention to the letter by an inside article. A Gentleman thanked us the other day, for publishing, last spring, a method of saving trees when girdled by mice. He stated that Immediately on reading it he tried it on some thirty nice young apple-trees which had been girdled; every one of them was thus saved and are now living. The receipt was given us by E.B. Morgan, Esq., and is this: "Cover the injured part with several thicknesses of paper, each layer being pasted on as paper is pasted on a wall. This will save the injured tree in almost every case." Endorsed as above, we re-publish it for the benefit of our readers. Bethany.-Old Men's Base Ball Play.-Saturday last some of the old men of the town met at Henry Staats, on "Middle Road" and engaged in an old-fashioned game of ball. There were N.I. Stevens, 60 years old; O.R. Croff, 55; Shubel Walker, 50; D.B. Knowlton, 50; Harvey Brundage, 70; J.R. Thompson, 50; Edmund Brainard,, 65; B.F. Norton, 55; Henry Bostwick, 45; Harvey Bostwick, 40; and a number of younger men. The old boys moved around right lively and did some fine playing. There were quite a number out, men women and children, to see the fun, and the occasion was one of much enjoyment. submitted by Linda Web-Page Editor for Bethany BETHANY: Its Past and Present ~ Bethany Town Page http://www.arkwebshost.com/family/bluebird/TownOfBethany.shtml Contributor for the BUFFALO and Western NYS Website: www.buffalonian.com ~ History Through Newspapers