100 Years Ago

In 1909, the Buffalo Express, commenting on the visit of the Chautauqua County Supervisors to the county poor farm at Dewittville said it would pay the Erie County Supervisors to inspect this institution in Chautauqua County which, according to all accounts, was a model one.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Fred Danielson left Sunday morning for a trip to the Pacific coast. After spending a week with Harley N. Ellsworth and family at Olympia they would proceed to Seattle and Portland, returning home by way of Salt Lake City and Denver. They expected to be gone about a month.

25 Years Ago

In 1984, after three nights of painstaking review, a proposed $85.3 million budget for Chautauqua County had been reduced by $50,285. Some of the reductions involved the Finance Committee removing $4,858 from the county attorney's recommended $309,141 in appropriations, and $2,250 from the county clerk's total. Following guidelines imposed by Chairman Bruce Kidder, R-Busti, that all personnel accounts not be increased more than 9 percent, Anthony Raffa, D-Jamestown, moved to reduce the county attorney's personnel account by $2,458.

It began as a search for a missing policeman under 25 feet of water in New York's East River. But the operation, in its fourth day, was continuing amid growing suspicion the area off Manhattan might be a favorite "cemetery" of the underworld. Six cars had been produced from the sludge at the bottom of the river so far - two containing bodies and a third with a bone inside. Homicide Detective Lt. Robert Larkin said it was apparently a human bone, and it had been sent to the medical examiner's office. "There are probably more cars down there," said Officer Julius Denger of the police Harbor Unit, adding the divers would be going back in the river off Ward's Island again. Divers did not find the body of slain police detective Richard Snyder, missing since Sept. 30, the first day, but turned up a luxury car containing the body of Robert Fratello, 53 of Randolph, N.J., who had been missing since January 1979. The divers continued the operation and discovered Syder's unmarked police car. When it was lifted out of the river, the detective's body was found in the trunk.

10 Years Ago

In 1999, a very special surprise homecoming party and family reunion greeted Sgt. Danny Gustafson after the Jamestown native spent eight months as a NATO peacekeeper at the border of Bosnia and Yugoslavia. With somber memories of the devastation he'd left behind, the Army Sergeant shared his experiences with 60 grateful family members and friends who gathered at his mother's home in Jamestown to say "Welcome Home."

Seneca Nation of Indians' President Duane Jim Ray thought it was important the story of the American Indian "gets out." That was why he was pleased to attend groundbreaking ceremonies in Washington, D.C. for the National Museum of the American Indian, to be built by 2002 on the mall. "It's been a long time coming," said Ray about the third national structure housing American Indian artifacts that, he said, "allow the general public to see and hear the story of the Native American."