POTPOURRI: We’ve accumulated some odds and ends on various RTS
subjects:

Jim Herzog of Smethport sends along a copy of a clipping from
the McKean County Democrat dated Feb. 23, 1928, and perhaps
resolves a question we had about the trolleys which once operated
in the region.

“Dismantling of the equipment of the former Olean, Bradford and
Salamanca trolley line, abandoned last fall, was begun last week.
Crews have started to take down the trolley wires. As soon as
weather conditions permit, the street cart rails will be removed
and the company will replace and relay the bricks in the pavement
as per an old agreement,” it states.

The article is from the Hamlin Library website which lists
McKean County papers from 1833 to 1978, Jim reports.

Meanwhile, Jack Randolph showed us three old postcards from Main
Street in Bradford, looking east, where the trolley cars are
clearly visible. Only one has a postmark – Rew, Oct. 10, 1908. It
was mailed to an Archie Yerdon of Falconer, Chautauqua County,
N.Y.

Not to be too snoopy, but we read the text: “Dear Archie, Will
send you a few chestnuts so you can have a taste. I suppose Father
will be at your house tomorrow. We are all well. Am going up to
Bess to stay tonight.” It was signed, “Blanche.”

Clyde Johnson of Port Allegany asks readers’ help with an object
in his 1927 GMC motor home. It is a glass paper weight – apparently
made from a shifting knob – with the name Jonny Fitzgerald in
it.

“I thought maybe he was a prominent band leaders in the ’30s in
the Bradford, Olean area,” he writes.

Nancy Lyons stopped by with a photo of a team known as the
Custer City Colts which apparently was not a high school team but
some type of community team. She tells us these Colts reportedly
beat Falconer in a game Oct. 9, 1932, by a score of 6-0. And there
was an all-Bradford game on Nov. 3, 1932.

On the picture of the team, someone drew an arrow pointing to
player Paul Knight.

ON WING: Earl Wilber called Monday evening to report seeing a
flock of about 40 white ducks in Farmers Valley. “It was the first
time I’ve ever seen it,” he tells us. Today is the start of spring,
so we’ll probably be noting an ever-increasing number of
migrants.