The Sun and the Erie County Independent from Hamburg, New York • Page 3

Eden Students in Chorus nf the Eden Central gUUCM cchool Chorus, under the direction of Mri Carl Gangl. took part 1 the Erie County Chorus on u.rch 19 and 20. A concert was on frontier THE HAMBURG SUN 4 Thursday, Apr. 8, 1965 cent of the immediate neighborhood, and noted that the Zoning Ordinance cites a 20 percent objection as significant in making a ruling. Nelson Keem, head of the building group, explained the apartment plans, which were revised after the board had turned down a previous proposal for six apartment buildings on the Pierce tract and the back lots of the nearby Kronenberg and Abbott properties.

The question of apartment house parking was discussed. The board indicated it would make its decision known within two weeks. See Village Tax Drop off $7 in '65 from page 1 the village sanitation, recreation, urban renewal and public works programs. Trustees John F. Gilbert and Leon Lancaster were sworn in for two-year terms.

An estimated 150 persons completely filled the new Village Hall during the evening as a public hearing was held on a controversial Main St. apartment proposal and the board received a report from the Planning Commission on another apartment project adjacent to the Forest Glen subdivision. The board tabled both proposals, and explained that the ap- J. Boardman Scovell of Lewiston, to the Appomattox National Park where it is on permanent display. plication for the Forest Glen apartment units would not be acted upon until trustees had an opportunity to study the Commission's report.

Mayor Castiglla -told Forest Glen Association president Richard Blake that the report was presented "only minutes" before the regularly scheduled meeting. While observing that the board had "no legal obligation" to deny a building permit before passing on the Commission's recommendations, he concurred with other members that no action would be taken without prior notification of association representatives. Atty. Paul Belts appeared for a group of 17 homeowners in the immediate proximity of the Pierce property on Main to file another petition against the plan of Lexington Homes to construct four apartment buildings. He said they represented 80 per- "4 f(j JiU PUNC-TU-ATE YOUR EVERY MOOD Every week 52 weeks in a year THE SUN mirrors the life of the South Towns I Copy of Grant's surrender document was saved by Hamburg Capt.

Morris Alberger. It is one of three in existence, and now "SHOE FITTERS YOU CAN TRUST" preserved at Appomattox National Park. Hamburg Captain Saved Surrender Copy from, page 1 of an East Aurora lawyer, Brig. Gen. Brainard Prescott, head of the Buffalo Civil War Roundtable, who delivered a paper on the surrender before the Buffalo and Erie Historical Society three years ago.

Part of Gen. Prescott's talk recalled the role of Capt. Alberger, the Hamburg resident who was captain of Company of the 24th Corps: "Withinthe space of an hour the officers had arrived (at Appomattox), met and departed from the McLean house, and the machinery of the Federal Army was In motion, issuing 25,000 rations to the hungry Confederate soldiers. "To a young quartermaster captain in the 24th Corps, Morris H. Alberger of Hamburg, fell the lot of handling the distribution of these rations and it Is due to his foresight in saving a copy of the surrender agreement that more than two are in existence.

"The surrender agreement was prepared in triplicate by Maj. Gen. John B. Gibbon of the 24th Corps. One of the originals, Gibbon's own copy, is in the archives Seaton Hall right on the dot in a dashing textured homespun suit an American look of casual elegance.

I In Baltimore. Lee's copy is in Richmond. and Grant's copy apparently went to Washington, but was stolen." The copy was written on a sheet of ledger paper in pencil, and it is assumed that Capt. Alberger made his rounds distributing rations, showing it to Confederate soldiers so they would know its terms. In 1962 Gen.

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