Question: I grew up in Sanger and had never heard of the Hockett-Bristol-Cowan Music Co., but I wonder if Bristol could have been a relation. Who was he?

-- Scott Bristol, Fresno

Answer: Joseph Sanford Bristol was a partner in a music store with S.S. Hockett as early as 1911.

The 1920 Census lists Bristol's wife, Gertrude Bristol, as the store's bookkeeper. His brother, Glenn Bristol, was a salesman, according to Fresno County librarian Melissa Scroggins.

Bristol apparently left the business by 1923 because the store became Hockett-Cowan Music Co. That same year, Glenn Bristol is listed in a Fresno city directory as a collector for the store.

The Fresno Bee obituary for Joseph Bristol on Feb. 25, 1941, said he owned a grocery store. He died at the family's home at 137 Valeria St. following a long illness. He was 63 years old.

Bristol was a native of Kansas who lived in Fresno for 31 years. In addition to his wife and brother, he was survived by a son, Paul Bristol of Texas; a daughter, Mildred Wilkins of Bakersfield; another brother, Albert Bristol of Chicago; sisters Cora Wolf of Fresno, Elsie Bristol and Carrie Singer of Los Angeles, Jennie Dias of Florida and Edna Runels and Lottie Campodonico of Arroyo Grande; and grandchildren Jewel Bristol of Texas and Leslie Davis of Bakersfield.

Q: I recently saw a 1950s-era map that labels Pine Flat Lake as Boone Lake. Who was Boone Lake named for?

-- Doug Schultz, Fresno

A: The Boone Lake name is for William Pell Boone of Dinuba, an early proponent of Pine Flat Dam, which created Pine Flat Lake after it was completed in 1954.

But Boone Lake was never the official name of the lake, says Tom Ehrk, Pine Flat park manager. The name Pine Flat Lake was designated by Congress in 1944.

According to Boone's obituary in The Fresno Bee, he was born in Mississippi in 1864 and came to Dinuba in about the mid-1880s.

A leader in Valley irrigation for more than three decades, Boone was chairman of the Kings River Water Association and director of the Alta Irrigation District for many years.

Boone also was involved in the controversy over which federal agency should build Pine Flat Dam. The U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers began construction in 1947. "He was kind of a dealmaker and peacemaker," said his great-grandson, Jerry Halford of Dinuba, who also serves on the Alta Irrigation District, as did his father.

Boone owned businesses in Dinuba and several ranches, a dairy farm, vineyards, orchards and cotton fields.

He died on July 4, 1944, in a Visalia hospital following a long illness. He was 80 years old.

More on The Milky Way café: After the answer to a question about The Milky Way café ran April 4, Dr. Kammie Juzwin of Chicago called with remembrances of her grandmother, who was one of the owners.

"My grandmother, Amelia Barbara Bertino Rossetto Mon Pere, was an extraordinary woman," Juzwin said.

Mon Pere was born to Italian immigrants in Texas in 1906. She married Abraham Rossetto, but divorced him in the 1940s, a time "when Catholic women did not divorce," Juzwin said. "She was truly an independent woman."

Juzwin's father, Jim Rossetto, worked at the soda fountain and counter in high school. The specialties of the house were split-pea soup, gingerbread men and handmade pasta for Italian dishes.

Mon Pere's friends called her Millie and to her grandchildren she was Mimi.

"She was a gracious and classy lady," Juzwin said. "She was devoted to her church and to her family. She was sweet and funny. She was very smart and extremely hard working."