Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee County, New York State September 15-1893 # 3 Local Record. Mr. Herbert GARDNER is having a fine silo built on the HATCH farm on the Elba road. Be sure and attend the Free Cooking school at the Fair Sept. 19th 20th and 21st. The Gun Works started up again on Monday, but are putting on but very few men, as yet. The foundation for the new electric light boiler is being laid at the Water Works building. The Batavia Business Men's Association will meet to elect officers on Friday evening of this week. Mrs. BLYLER will move into her new house on West Main street in a few days. It is a cosy little house. Ed FREEMAN's blacksmith shop in Alexander, was entered on Friday night and several tools stolen. Edson CROSMAN has received an order from Reading, Pa. for 22 of his fancy fowls. He left on Saturday for the World's Fair. The next meeting of the Darien Musical Association will be held at Darien Center on Saturday afternoon and evening of this week. John FIX is remodeling an repairing the ENSIGN house on Bank street, which he lately purchased. Hobert HAINES does the work. C.W. HUGGINS was elected Grand Recorder for the fourth term, at the annual convention of Select Knights in Olean this week. Charles E. LACEY is to put up new smoke stacks at the Ellicott and Evans street flouring mills in place of those recently blown down. Supervisor THOMAS is able to be about on crutches at the hospital in Rochester. It is expected that he will return to his home in Batavia this week. The Misses JOHNSON have built a fine addition, larger than the original building, to their house on West Main street next west of the school house. J.L. WALTHART has been retained as principal and Miss SOMMERS as preceptress of the Alexander Union school which opens with a large audience. Mule Race, Slow Race, Hitch up Race, shoe Contest, cigar and umbrella Race, Bicycle Races and other attractions at the Genesee Co. Fair Sept. 19th to 21st. Mr.and Mrs. George PALMER of San Francisco, Cal., are spending the week in town, stopping at the Hotel Richmond. Mr. PALMER was born and raised in Batavia. Mr. W.C. WOOLSEY has rented one of his new houses on Seaver place to Charles HEINTZ. The other one was rented to an employee at the Gun Works, but the Works shut down and he left town. Mr. George WIARD, who had a wooden plug removed from his wounded leg a few days ago in Buffalo, returned home from the hospital on Tuesday. Mr. Wiard does not improve very rapidly. On Wednesday the Commissioners to fix the value of the land for widening Church street announced that day that they had agreed on the sum of $1,850 as the amount to be paid by the village to the BRISBANES for the land. This Thursday evening, the Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church, will give a musical entertainment at the church, and Miss BIGELOW, the returned Missionary, will deliver an address. Ice Cream and cake will be served. There will be a happy wedding at the residence of Mr.and Mrs. John H. WARD on Ellicott avenue on Wednesday evening September 20th. Their daughter Gertrude is to be united in marriage to Mr. H.R. BARRINGER, a young medical student of Elba. Two tally-ho's, each drawn by four horses, came down on Batavia from the high hills of Attica Tuesday. They had two long horns which they loudly did blow, to make folks believe they were "English you know." Batavia has seen such sights before. Mrs. Harriet PERRY, a former resident of Pavilion, where she still has relatives and friends living, died at her home, in Battle Creek, Mich., Friday last, Sept. 7th, aged 77 years. She was an aunt of Mrs. R.S. LEWIS of Batavia. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. Libbie WILLIAMS of 347 West Madison street, Chicago. submitted by Linda Schmidt Web-Page Editor for Bethany BETHANY: Its Past and Present ~ Bethany Town Page [from the Genesee County RootsWeb Website] is now located at : http://www.arkwebshost.com/family/bluebird/TownOfBethany.shtml *********************************************