Historical Wyoming County April 1957 - Old Fulton History

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MILESTO
April 1957
Beginning in December 1956, the four-story building of the former
Warsaw Button Company on South Main street, Warsaw, was razed to
make way for a NuWay supermarket. Following the sale of the salt
plants in the Oatka Valley, the firm was organized to promote local
industry with a capital stock of $£0.,000. In continuous operation
until 19^1j the plant turned out buttons made from vegetable ivory
and during the last few years made nobs for radios.
Clarence R. Runals, Niagara Falls attorney and native of Arcade, was
elected president of the New York State Bar Association in January.
He attended the public school in his -native town and was graduated
from the University of Buffalo School of Laxv in 1815- Admitted to
the bar in 1916, he has been engaged in the legal profession at the
Falls for many years. He has held positions of trust in civic and
professional organizations.
Announcement was made last autumn of the publication of a novel,
"One Small Candle" by Mary Clare Linehan Mackinnon, formerly a teacher
of Engliah. In Warsaw High School in 19.19-1920. From the press
of Crown Publishers, the book Is the story of a family life and the
author is the wife of a member of the faculty of the University of
California at Berkley.
The community of Varysburg paid honor on Sept. 25^1956, to the halfcentury
of medical service of Dr. George A. McQuilkin, 76, who with
Mrs. McQuilkin celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary a week
earlier. Back in 1906 when the doctor first hung out his "shingle"
in front of the same residence he has today, he made his calls by
horse and buggy and sleigh or trudged on foot many miles through
drifted and muddy roads. He has served as health officer for nearly
fifty years and been active in establishing the local medical profession
with a community hospital. The recipient of many testimonials
and-gifts from a grateful community, the doctor modestly
accepted the honors with the sentiments, "I feel I have only done my
duty."
Castile's weekly, "The Castillian" was sold in November 1956 to Mr.
& Mrs. Robert Aldrich of Fillmore, publishers of the "Northern Allegany
Observer." The paper had been purchased in 1955 by Mr. &
Mrs. Gerald Keith from Mr. * Mrs. Merlin Pitt.
Walter L. Ahhe'r, graduate, of Warsaw High School, and head of the
science department of Lawrence High School, Long Island, has just
issued his fifth publication In a series of manuals in physics and
chemistry. His latest, a physics laboratory guide, is said to be
popular in schools throughout the country.
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