Monday - with add-on re: Lyon's Mills.

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GARBAGE DAY

It's 43 degrees and still dark at 6:30.

The WKTV Weather Forecast: "A pleasant start to the work week. Sun will share the sky with clouds today with highs in the upper 50s. A bit cloudier north of the Mohawk Valley. The breeze stays with us again this afternoon.

Partly cloudy tonight with overnight lows near 40.

Another dry day tomorrow with a mix of sunshine and clouds. Highs again in the upper 50s to near 60.

An area of low pressure develops and heads our way starting Wednesday. Steady rain likely late in the day Wednesday, especially Wednesday night. Showers, clouds, and breezy conditions Thursday.

Cooling off with more sprinkles and showers Friday. Drying out while remaining cool just in time for the weekend."

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It didn't really rain all weekend - just whenever I went out looking for pretty pictures!

Sh0wers don't interfere with daily apple-hunting excursions by two, three or even more deer in my back yard.

Nature continues her Autumn display: these trees are on White Street.

Man- (or WOMAN-) made decorations on Babbott Avenue .............

................ and California Road.

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IN THE NEWS

Excerpted from an article in the Observer-Dispatch:

"Waterville 34, Cooperstown 0 John Piersma completed 7 of 10 passes for 101 yards, including touchdowns to Anthony Rice and Jim Melvin, and Dom McNamera rushed for 87 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries as playoff-bound Waterville (4-3) ended the regular season with a Class D East win at Cooperstown (0-7). Darien Green rushed for 70 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries and Rice ran for 54 yards on nine carries for the Indians, who will play a Section III quarterfinal game at Weedsport on Friday night. Waterville’s Kameron Hakimi had eight tackles. Waterville 6 14 14 0 — 34 Cooperstown 0 0 0 0 — 0 First Quarter W-Anthony Rice 12 pass from John Piersma (kick failed). Second Quarter W-Dom McNamera 13 run (Rice pass from Piersma). W-McNamera 3 run (Piersma kick). Third Quarter W-Jim Melvin 25 pass from Piersma (Piersma kick). W-Darien Green 5 run (Piersma kick).

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IN THE MAIL

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Speaking of "Donations" ......



Have you sent yours, yet?


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From Susan Carle Young, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this information about Anna Cleveland James - one of the many former Watervillians whom I find fascinating! She spent a good deal of her childhood in the Village and was the owner of "Illahee" - once the Eastern Star Home and now the Mack residence - for several years.

Ms. Young wrote: "Mrs. Cleveland James was my great-grandmother's second cousin, and led an exciting life, although it was not exactly the one she liked to portray in interviews. After finding your articles on "The Huddle", I was able to find a number of historical articles in the New York Times about her escapades and adventures. They are too long to write about here, and you may not be interested, but I'm attaching a copy of her obituary from the NYT just for fun."

(Click to enlarge.)

This is the first photograph I've seen of her!

Thank you, Susan!

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In answer to my query about what was manufactured at the Mill at Lyon's Pond, this letter from Mary Fanning:

"My parents' - now my oldest brother's - farm on Water Street bordered on the pond and there were lots of sun fish in it." and she added, "In the late 1950's and into the 1960's, wooden pallets were manufactured at Lyons Pond. They sent a tractor trailer load out from there each week."

Thanks loads, Mary! I'll keep hunting for information on the original mill products.

Bingo! (9:15 a.m.) I "googled" "Lyon's Mills" and, after a thirty-second search, I found this entry, online, as one of two references to "Lyon's Mills" in Dick Williams' new book, "Along Oriskany and Big Creeks..."

"Downstream one mile from Solsville is Lyon's Mills and a sixty-acre pond. A sawmill turned out ebnough wood to build three hundred homes a year and was owned by Warren Lyons beteeen the 1920's and the 1940's." And that "rang a bell" in my memory: I think that it ws John Cornelius who said, at one of our summertime Old Timers' Story Swaps, that parts of pre-fabricated homes were made there! (That adds up!)

Click HERE to preview / search the book!

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Another query. A gentleman who was having lunch at Joan's Diner in Deansboro, one day last week, asked if anyone knew who sharpened (circular) saw blades.

Not even Lester Bugbee had an answer! Do you?


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FOR THE RECORD

More when it happens!


Have a great day, everyone!