Lindley Presho Genealogy and History Blog

Copied From Star Gazette Article March 25,2015 Pick up stamps with your pizza at Brownies in Lindley Ray Finger, rfinger@stargazette.com | @SGRayFinger 8:27 a.m. EDT March 25, 2015 Brownies Mini Mart in Lindley sells stamps, flat-rate materials as supplement to local post office Although the window hours were reduced at the Lindley Post Office, postal customers can still get some products and services at Brownies Mini Mart two miles to the south. (Photo: RAY FINGER / STAFF PHOTO) Buy Photo Story Highlights Village Post Offices in local businesses can supplement cut window hours at some rural post offices Approach tries to meet customers' needs while being fiscally responsible, U.S. Postal Service says Not a replacement for post offices but an attempt to provide more convenience to postal customers 1 CONNECT 3 TWEET LINKEDIN COMMENT EMAIL MORE LINDLEY – Add stamps and pre-paid priority mail flat-rate envelope

State Line Restaurant 1961 Photo courtesy of Steuben County Historian-Eleanor Silliman This was located where the present Brownie's Mini Mart is located in New York close to the New York - Pennsylvania State line.  Check out those cars of yesterday!!!!!

                                     Donated by Marion (Adsit) Brion                                                ( Daughter of John and Bessie Adsit .) This would be across from the Presho Church . Looking at the trees, I wonder if it could be near  the parking area across from the  present Church. This would have been close to the approach to the old Presho bridge that was destroyed in the 1946 flood. If anyone can help with a more specific location or date of the Old Home Days, please call or send me an e-mail. The cars look like the 1920'-30s period. Old photos like this for the files are always welcomed. They help tell the town's history. Kitty

From an old postcard   Article copied from an on-line genealogy site - written by Dick Eastman Kitty Genealogy Newsletter The Daily Online Genealogy Newsletter "The Myths of St. Patrick’s Day Dick Eastman · March 14, 2015 · History ·                 Many people of Irish ancestry love to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. After all, it is a great way to celebrate one’s Irish heritage. However, some of the celebrations are a bit questionable. In fact, many of the commonly-held beliefs about St. Patrick are wrong. Before making plans, you might want to consider a few facts: St. Patrick wasn’t Irish Patrick was probably born in what is now England, Scotland or Wales around A.D. 390. Different historians have different beliefs about his place of birth. After all, the borders moved a bit over the years as well. Most agree that St. Patrick’s parents were Roman citizens living in the Bri

       1928 CAR REPAIR MAILER     This only 87 years ago 1928 CAR REPAIR MAILER. AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR ADVERTISEMENT IN 1928... SENT ON A PENNY POSTCARD 1914 Model T Ford Station Wagon. May 31, 1927, the last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line. It was the first affordable automobile, due in part to the assembly line process developed by Henry Ford. It had a 2.9-liter, 20-horsepower engine and could travel at speeds up to 45 miles per hour. It had a 10-gallon fuel tank and could run on kerosene, petrol, or ethanol, but it couldn't drive uphill if the tank was low, because there was no fuel pump; people got around this design flaw by driving up hills in reverse.  Ford believed that "the man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed." The Model T cost

Durland Weale  - giving a program -  "Growing Up in Lindley "    The Lindley- Presho Historical Society will come out of hibernation on   Wednesday March 11,2015   7 P.M  at the Middletown (Addison ) Museum at 41  Main Street---Addison,N.Y.  The meeting is free and open to the public.      The guest speaker will be Lindley’s own native son –Durland Weale.  Durland who grew up in Lindley is a member of the LPHS. He has donated  several items to the Lindley Historian files and has presented several  interesting programs at our meetings.  As one of our few remaining  “youngsters of his generation”, he has been very helpful in adding to the  Lindley History files.     The topic of his program on the 11th will the Depression Years in   Addison. (*the Great depression occurred after the collapse of the stock  market on October 29th,1929 and was known as” Black Tuesday “. It affected  the United States and the World Economy.) (*Ref. announcement in

1920-1930's July 2001     February 2015   An obituary found in my mother's newspaper clippings :     ?-?- 1941                                                           Arlus W. Carpenter "Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania              Arlus Wesley Carpenter 72 ,died suddenly Saturday afternoon at his home Milvan Inn , Lindley.               He was born in New Hudson, Allegheny County, November 20, 1869, the son of Willis and Harriet (Vaughn ) Carpenter.               Mr. Carpenter's early life was spent near Cuba, New York where he acquired several farms and which he has always been interested in.              For a time, he was engaged in shipping race horses and with his brother was engaged in the cheese business in Allegheny and Steuben Counties.              Mr. Carpenter came to Lawrenceville in1898 and established a cheese factory over the line in Lindley which he operated several years; Later reconstructing the building into the hotel Milv