Historical Wyoming County October 1958 - Old Fulton History

Page 26 October 1958
Effective, Sunday, August 3, all telephone numbers In Varysburg were
changed to the central office number of KEystone 5.
Mrs. Catherine Cobr^ Gunn, Bliss, observed her 100th birthday on
July li, 1958. A native of Centerville, N. Y., she removed to Arcade
98 years ago, was married in 1876 to Francis J. Gunn, and the couple
resided in Arcade and Buffalo. Since his death in 1912, she has
lived in Arcade, and in the village of Bliss since 19ii9. She and
Mrs. Lora Bryson, Attica, who observed her centenary Nov. 15, 1 Q 57,
are thought to be the oldest residents of the County.
The Eastman Antique House, on Lee Highway 11, Bristol, Virginia,
owned by Irving M. and Ruth Eastman, has rounded out 35 years as one
of the outstanding -firms dealing in genuine antiques and accessories
in the South. Mr. Eastman, a native of Attica, is brother to Mrs.
Edith Bullard, Attica Town Historian, and of the late Miss Catherine
Eastman, also of Attica.
During the early summer, Dr„ John A. O'Keefe, head of research and
analysis for the Army Map Service, Washington, D.C „ , was in the Pike
and Lamont area searching for possible fragments of a natural satellite
which plunged into the atmosphere in this region, Feb. 9, 1913.
Eye-witnesses of the "procession of meteors" on that night reported
a blinding flash more brilliant than lightning and sounds resembling
thunder. Gainesville residents reported the phenomena and there
¥ ersists a tradition that a crater was formed in the Lamont area,
his search, which to date has yielded no fragments of the celestial
visitor, was instituted by Dr. Alexander Mebane» therL a member of
the staff of the Institute of Meteorites, University of New Mexico,
back in 195k-« At that time, mention was found in the newspapers
that the procession was seen at Bliss, Castile, Gainesville, Lamont,
and North Java. Similar reports came form a wide area to the East
and south to Elmira. Readers having any recollection of this event
are urged to make It known since a single fragment might will provide
the key to important data needed in space-travele
Fredric Flader, formerly of Castile, who founded an engineering firm
bearing his name in 191+3, has retired form his North Tonawanda research
company, and the laboratory, a division of the Eaton Manufacturing
Company of Cleveland, has ceased operations. Much of Flader's
work was in the field of aviation and it played a vital part in the
development of the Nlao-pm Frontier's aircraft industry. Mr. Flader
is entering the teaching field.
A revision of the 19i4j- edition of Professor Clayton Mau's book, The
Development of Central and Western New York, priced at $>5«75> has
come from the press during August. It is a valuable and fascinating
compilation of original descriptions of the area of the state west
from the headwaters of the Mohawk River, and is chronologically arranged
from the Indian days to the end of the Civil War. The author,
resident of Geneseo, and retired from the faculty of the State University
Teachers' College there, has long been an authority on the
history of the state. This revision brings a volume enclosed in a
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