The Busy Bee and John Mayles

Documents found undisturbed in a Walnut Street attic for nearly 50 years were discovered in 2015 – carbon copies of treasured Mayville history. The following is from the collection. The Busy Bee and John Mayles AUTHOR UNKNOWN “John Mayles, owner of the Busy Bee, came over from Athens, Greece, where he was born, in 1907. He went to Oshkosh first, where he worked in an ice-cream parlor