Haverhill, Mass., was first settled in 1640. It was the thirtieth town within the limits of the state of Massachusetts, thirty-second in the list of incorporated towns, and forty-ninth in New England list.
It was a frontier town for more than seventy years, and there were few New England towns that suffered so severely from the depredations of the Indians. It’s early history is one long record of blood and misery. The early colonies suffered from six wars: first, the Pequot war; second, King Philip’s war; third, King William’s war; fourth, Queen Anne’s war; fifth, the three years, or Lovewell’s war; sixth, the second French war.
Hannah Eastman’s capture occurred during Queen Anne’s war, which commenced in 1703, and ended in 1713. The foes with whom the colonist contended were the Indians and Canadian French.
It would be hard for the present generation to conceive of the suffering of the inhabitants at that time. Haverhill village at this date consisted of about thirty houses, and it was rare to find a family that had not lost some of its members at the hands of the Indians. The men went armed to their daily labors, and went to church with a Bible in one hand, and loaded gun in the other. They were safe from Indian attacks nowhere; their fields, their dwellings and their churches were alike subject to their stealthy and fiendish raids.
It was really an “Age of Terror” for those hardy and courageous men. But history can show none more heroic and none that exhibit a more fearless and undaunted spirit.
At this period Jonathan Eastman and his young wife Hannah had made for themselves a home in Haverhill.
Jonathan was born in Salisbury, Mass., Jan. 8, 1680. He was the son of Thomas and Deborah (Corlis) Eastman, and grandson of Roger. Jonathan married Aril 8, 1701, Hannah Green, born Dec. 20, 1677, on the historic “Dustin Hill,” in Haverhill, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Green. Their first child, Thomas, was born March 17, 1702, and died July 20, 1703. The second child was Abigail, born Feb. 1, 1704.
The Indians seldom made their appearance before the opening of spring, and on this account less care was taken to guard against surprises during the winter months.
But as a means of defence, the selectmen had appointed six garrison and four “houses of refuge.” These were either built of brick or had a single layer of brick between the outer and inner wall. They had but one outside door, often so small that a single person could enter at a time. The buildings were of two stories, with windows two and one-half feet long, and eighteen inches wide, secured inside by iron bars. The glass was extremely thick and very small, was cut in diamond shape and fastened with lead instead of putty.
There were two rooms on the lower floor, and the entrance to the chambers above was by a ladder that could be drawn up, should the lower floor be taken by the enemy.
The fireplaces were of enormous size, and wood of sled length was often burned in them. The ovens opened on the outside of the building, generally at one side, behind the fireplaces and were very large.
Late in March, 1704, Jonathan removed with his wife to the fifth garrison, which was owned and commanded by Joseph Bradley. It was situated in the northerly part of the town, and has long since been torn down and no trace of it remains.
In one of the upper chambers of this garrison, their little daughter, Abigail, was born Feb. 1, 1704.
Eight days later (Feb. 8), Jonathan left the place to attend to some necessary duties at their old home, intending to return before nightfall. Before leaving, he stopped for a moment at the bedside of his wife. He was not a demonstrative man, but he bent down and kissed her and turned away and carefully drew the covers over the dimpled hand of his tiny daughter. Mrs. Bradley was in the lower room engaged in soap boiling. He stopped only to inform her when he expected to return and passed outside.
It was a lovely day; the air was crisp and keen, the sun shone brightly, the snow was deep upon the ground, and drifted in many places quite deep.
During the winter, the settlers had grown secure and careless of danger, and sentries were absent from their stations and even the gates were open. Little did Jonathan think as he rode forth that he was watched by cruel eyes, far less did he think that he was never again to see his infant child, or that many weary months would pass before he again met his beloved wife.
Why the Indians allowed Jonathan to escape will never be known. His powerful frame and commanding presence may have deterred them. However, they let him pass on, and waited until between three and four o’clock in the afternoon before attacking the garrison. They then cautiously approached, and finding the way clear, rushed through the open gates before they were discovered. Jonathan Johnson, a sentinel, who was standing inside the house, shot at and wounded one of them, but the savage, infuriated by the pain, made the air ring with terrific yells as he pushed forward into the house.
With great presence of mind, Mrs. Bradley filled her ladle full of boiling soap and threw it over him. He was so severely burned that he soon died. The rest of the party rushed forward and killed Johnson, and made Mrs. Bradley and some others prisoners. Only three persons escaped from the garrison. Then they mounted the ladder and entered the room where Mrs. Eastman was alone with her child; affrighted, she sat up in bed, but the movement disturbed the child and it began to cry and she took it into her arms, pressing it to her wildly beating heart.
With a fiendish yell, the foremost savage snatched it from her clinging hands and brutally dashed it against the doorpost, beating out its brains, when with a satisfied grunt, he threw it into a corner and ordered Mrs. Eastman to arise and prepare to go with him.
The poor woman was so stunned and horrified by the shock of seeing her child murdered before her eyes, that she could not move. The savage then seized her by her long hair, and brandishing his tomahawk over her head, forced her to obey.
The party hastily collected their prisoners and plunder and commenced a hasty retreat toward Canada. The captives were separated, some going in one direction and some in another. Night was coming on, the weather was cold, and the snow was quite deep, the wind blew keenly over the hills, yet Mrs. Eastman was compelled to arise from her sick bed. Her yearning eyes were fastened upon the little heap in the corner, and her arms ached to clasp again the tiny form, but it was not allowed.
Her captors were in a hurry, forcing her down the ladder, and with threatening words and gestures compelled her to go forward in her wary march towards Canada. They took her first to Ossipee Lake, where she remained until spring, when they went on to the “Ox Bow” in Newbury, Vt. Here they planted corn and remained until it was in the second hoeing, when they were visited by another party of Indians, who probably informed them that some scouting party was in search of them, for the next day they hastily packed up and left for Canada.
Pen cannot describe the tortures endured by Mrs. Eastman during this terrible journey. Weak and weary she dragged through the long days and the longer lonely nights. Often she tried to escape, but her captors guarded her so closely that she found no opportunity. The memory of that journey to Canada remained with her through life.
It was a deep, unbroken, and seemingly inexhaustible wilderness that daily grew between her and her beloved home and friends. Pathless mountains, swollen and almost impassable rivers lay behind and before her. No friendly smoke curled from the chimney of a white inhabitant, but she sometimes saw the red flames leaping heavenward – flames kindled by her savage captors, and telling the fearful story of other wrongs. When within a few miles of their destination, Mrs. Eastman was too exhausted to go on; she was therefore left alone to spend the night in the wilderness. A kind squaw gave her a piece of punk-wood set on fire to make a smudge to ward off mosquitoes. Their poisonous bite had caused her face to swell so badly that the Indians called her “Fat Hannah”. The next morning they sent a squaw to find her. The swelling had subsided, so as to show her extreme emaciation, and the squaw seeing her thus, pitifully exclaimed, “Why, Hannah!”`
The tribe were encamped at Three Rivers in Canada, near to a French settlement, and soon after their arrival there, a French woman became interested in Hannah, seeing she was a captive, and was very kind to her, and often gave her salt to season her food.
She finally proposed that Mrs. Eastman make her escape and offered to secrete her from the Indians. Mrs. Eastman gladly accepted the offer, but was obliged to keep out of sight, lest she be again captured. Winters passed with their snows and wind; springs succeeded with their early buds; summers followed, filled with flowers and sunshine; autumns brought forth their abundant harvest, but the heart of the lonely woman grew sick with hope deferred. For nearly three years she had been held captive, but she well knew that if Jonathan were living he would search for her, but she fully understood how small his chance was of finding her.
A plan for escape began to take form in her mind, for she felt an intense desire to return home. The thought grew upon her, and finally took definite shape. She shuddered as she remembered the fearful journey through trackless forests, invested by fierce wild beasts and ruthless savages. Could she hope to pass such dangers alone?
One day she stood beside her chamber window, thinking deeply on her plan of escape, when her attention was attracted to a man who was passing the house. Her breath came faster as she gazed upon the tall, deep chested, broad shouldered man, with a strong, serious face.
In the whole neighborhood there was not as splendid a specimen of manhood. He was fully six feet four inches in height, and of powerful frame. He was dressed in a long jacket, or what was called a “fly coat,” made something like a surtout, reaching half way to the thigh, a striped jacket under a pair of small clothes, like the coat, made of flannel cloth, that was fulled, but not shirred. His flannel shirt was buttoned loosely at the throat, he wore woolen stockings and thick leather shoes and a broad brimmed fur hat. There was nothing unusual in the costume; similar costumes were generally worn by men in moderate circumstances, when about their ordinary business.
But his unusual height, broad shoulders, and erect carriage seemed strangely familiar. She was almost certain that is was her husband that was passing. She called to him by name, “Jonathan,” when he stopped and looked around, but seeing no one, passed on. She called again, but this time he did not hear. She flew downstairs and informed the French woman, who immediately sent a little girl to call him back. The child could speak no English, but by motions and pulling his coat she persuaded him to return with her.
There were many changes in Hannah’s appearance, caused by exposure and hardship, and at first Jonathan did not recognize her, but it was the happiest moment of his life when he again clasped her in his arms.
Stella and Maurice at Franklin County Fair, Malone
Stella, Mayfred, John, Maurice
Maurice Miles, driving his team
Maurice Miles and two women!
Miles and Bruso kids at the Forge School: John Miles, Edith Bruso, Mayfred Miles; John Bruso, Norman Miles, Harold Miles, Dottie Bruso
Harold and Norman Miles
Harold Miles
Howard Miles
Bruso get-together: Herbert Leroy Bruso, John Miles, Norman Miles, Harold Miles, Estella Bruso, Howard Otis, Uncle Walter "Slim" Cruden; Lorraine Bruso (dau. Herb & Mary), Mary Kelly Bruso, Grandpa John Dennis Bruso, Mayfred Miles Otis, Allen Otis, Truman Haseltine (Maria Haseltine's son), Sarah Haseltine Bruso; Front row: first two girls are Jean and Jackie Cruden (not sure which one's which), one of Uncle Floyd Bruso's girls, Patricia Mae Blake; Far right, Joan Cruden (?) in front, unidentified, in rear.
John and Howard Miles
Howard Miles (right) and friend
Estella Miles, Sarah Haseltine Bruso, Herbert Bruso, Ione Bruso Blake and daughter Patricia Mae Blake, Mary Kelly Bruso
Mary and Herbert Bruso (Uncle Herb was Stella's brother)
Daniel Hurley, Norman Miles, Howard Otis, John Miles, Harold Miles; Howard Miles, Stella Bruso, Mayfred Miles Otis, Robert Miles, Ruth Smith Miles, Pauline Lettus Miles
Jean, Joan & Jacqueline Cruden,
daughters of "Slim" Walter Cruden and Virgie Bruso Cruden
John, Pudgy, Howard Miles
John, Norman, Howard Miles
John, Harold, May, Norm, Howard
Norman, Stella, Pudgy
Stella, Grandma Sarah Bruso, May Miles Otis, Alice May Otis
Maurice Miles
Maurice Miles
Maurice Miles, before his death
Maurice and Beverly Miles (Titus)
John, Grandma Settie, Ruth, Maurice, Beverly Miles
Five Generations
Lena LaValley, who will be 101 years old on Feb. 15, had this five-generation photograph taken at her daughter's home in Burke in 2004. Seated from left are: LaValley, and her daughter, Ruth [Miles] Cromp. Standing are Jason Cromp of Chateaugay, great-grandson, holding his daughter, Destini, great-great-granddaughter; Dale Cromp of Burke, grandson; and Adam Cromp of Central Square, great-grandson, holding his son, Alex, great-great-grandson.
Malone Telegram, Feb., 2005
Lena LaValley
October 16, 2006 BURKE — Lena LaValley, 102, died Oct. 14, 2006, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Ruth and William Cromp, of Burke, while under the care of Home Health and Hospice of the North Country. She was born in Bellmont on Feb. 15, 1904, the daughter of Edmund and Minnie Jones Laplante and attended school at the Forge. Her first employment was at the Banner House on Chateaugay Lake. During the 1940s, she worked on the weeder wagon at the Langdon vegetable farm in Malone and also at the Malone Ballard Mill as a weaver. She and her son, Howard, operated the family farm for many years. Lena was a housekeeper and gardener for the late Mrs. Lillian Lawrence for more than 20 years and also for the late Franklin County Judge and Mrs. Lawrence of Malone. For a number of years, Lena worked on the potato harvester during the harvest season at the Heading and Seymore potato farms in Bellmont. She retired from the Green Bowl in Burke as a chambermaid at age 80. She enjoyed playing cards, was an avid bingo player, enjoyed visiting the casino and was an excellent seamstress; making fancy quilts was her favorite pastime. Her quilts and crocheted afghans earned her many blue ribbons at the Franklin County Fair. She continued to sew and live independently in her own home until past the age of 94, when failing health made it necessary to make her home with her daughter and son-in-law. Surviving are three daughters and two sons-in-law, Beverly Titus of Chateaugay, Ruth and William Cromp of Burke and Dorothy and Francis Titus of Cheateaugay; her grandchildren, Rosemary Hiscock and her husband, Gordon, Harley Titus and his wife, Sylvia, Marvin Titus and his wife, Tami, Dale Cromp and his companion, Paula, Maurice Cromp and his companion, Mary, Sheila Robbins and her husband, Edward, John Titus and his wife, Karen; 17 great-grandchildren, Mary and Holly Hiscock, Andrea Malachowski, Heather and Holly Titus, Jason and Adam Cromp, Bonnie and Kim Robbins, Josh, Kelcie, Brandon, Bradly, Bryan, Benjamin, Valerie and Victoria Titus; five great-great-grandchildren, Darcy Malachowski, Evan Brockway, Destini, Haylie, and Alex Cromp; and several nieces and nephews. Lena was predeceased by her son, Howard LaValley, on Sept. 5, 2002; a daughter-in-law, Jeanette LaValley, on June 6, 2002, a grandson, Ronald Crippen, on March 6, 1993; her mother on Sept. 12, 1938; her father on May 20, 1939; three sisters, Ella Merrill, Sarah Genaway and Maud Bracy; two brothers, Clarence Laplante, Albert Laplante; and nieces and nephews. Calling hours will be at the Chateaugay Funeral Home today, Oct. 16, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral service will take place at the Brainardsville United Methodist Church at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17. Burial will take place at Brainardsville Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice of the North Country or the Burke Volunteer Fire Department or Rescue Squad.
Margaret, Kenneth, Daniel & Otis Hurley
Daniel Thomas Hurley
Daniel Thomas Hurley
March 29, 1935
Kenneth T. Hurley
Many relatives and friends of Kenneth T. Hurley were deeply grieved to learn of his passing away at his home at Chateaugay Lake at 7:30 o'clock on Tuesday morning.
Kenneth is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Hurley. He was born at Brainards on January 9th, 1912.
Besides his parents, he leaves on brother, Otis D. Hurley, of Chateaugay Lake.
Funeral services were conducted at his late home Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, Rev. Lewis MacConnell officiating.
Otis Hurley
Otis and Geraldine Dolloff Hurley
Chateaugay Lake
The Ladies Aid Society of Chateaugay Lake, have in the last few months lost three members by death. Mrs. Jennie Taubenheimer who for a long period of years was an active member and until a few years before her death was a regular attendant and Christian workerl
Mrs. Gladys Shutts for years Church Treasurer and officer of the Ladies Aid.
Florence Douglas one who always did what she could and held several different offices in the Ladies Aid.
The members of the society mourn and deeply regret the passing of these members but God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit to take them to work for him over there.
Our love and sympathy goes out to their bereaved families.
Mrs. Belle Percy
Mrs. Settie Miles
Mrs. Elsie Adams
March 22, 1935
Sept. 11, 1942
The community was deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the sudden death of Frank C. Miles, which occurred at his home on Depot Street, Thursday morning. Mr. Miles was well and favorably known, having been employed for the last few years at the U.S. Customs. He was a member of the Frontier Lodge, F. & A. M. No. 517 Masonic Order, and was also an active member of the John E. Harrica Post of the American Legion. He had enlisted in the U.S. army on Wednesday and was to reenter the service on Tuesday, September 15th.
The deceased was born at Chateaugay Lake 44 years ago, a son of John and Settie (Blow) Miles and at an early age enlisted in the United States army, serving in the World War. For the past 22 years his residence has been in this village.
On September 13, 1917, Mr. Miles was married to Miss Jane Kerr, of Keeseville, and is survived by his widow, one daughter, Mrs. Joseph Tracy, two sons, Robert and Francis, of Chateaugay, his mother, Mrs. Settie Miles, of Chateaugay Lake, one sister, Mrs. Frank Lapoint, of Ellenburg Center, and two brother Theodore, of Mineville, and Maurice, of Chateaugay.
The funeral services will take place at the Chateaugay Funeral Home on Saturday afternoon, and interment will be made in the Evergreen cemetery.
Mrs. Moulton and Mrs. Douglas to Be Separated on Anniversary
For they are twins and April 24 is the 80th anniversary of their birth in the town of Bellmont in 1855. The two grand old ladies are widely known to scores of North Country residents. Both have enjoyed remarkable health thruout their lives and at present are in the best of health.
It is not expected that Mrs. Moulton will be able to come north to celebrate the anniversary but in spirit the two venerable sisters will undoubtedly live over all the birthdays that they have enjoyed together since they were children on the home farm, a mile west of Brainardsville on the road to Malone.
And in spirit they will undoubtedly will commune with each other and wish their physical counterpart the happiest of their many birthdays.
Mrs. Moulton lives near New York with her daughter, Mrs. Ethel Armstrong. Mrs. Douglas has two children, Leon A. Douglas and Mrs. Carrie Witherell.
April 21, 1940
Tho Unable to Be Together,
Twin Sisters Wednesday Will Observe 85th Birthdays
Chateaugay-Altho hundreds of miles will separate Mrs. Millard Douglas and Mrs. Albert Moulton on Wednesday, their 85th birthday, the distance will be bridged by the affinity that binds identical twins.
It is believed that they are now the oldest twins in this section of the North Country. Mrs. Douglas resides with her daughter, Mrs. W. L. Witherell, in this village, and Mrs. Moulton lives with her daughter, Mrs. Walter Armstrong, in Drexel Hill, Pa.
Fes of their 85 birthdays have been spent apart but in recent years it has been more difficult for the octogenarian twins to travel. Recently, Mrs. Moulton received a minor injury in a fall at her daughter's hom, otherwise it is probable she would have been here for her birthday.
MENTAL SIMILARITY
All thru their long and remarkably healthy life the Chateaugay twins-Mettie and Settie to their intimate friends-have been close in spirit as appearance. If one felt indisposed the other was quite apt to be.
Even when far apart, this strange affinity frequently has been noticed. One twin would just about be recovering from a minor indisposition when a letter would arrive with news from the other of a similar nature.
Their maiden names were Mettie and Settie Young and they were born just west of Brainardsville on April 24, 1855.
Mrs. Douglas is able to attend church regularly, the Methodist church being just across the street, and she enjoys doing the marketing and other shopping. Her hearing and eyesight remain excellent.
HOBBY IS TATTING
Her hobby is tatting with a tiny shuttle and she has made "yards and yards" of this dainty fancywork. She enjoys reading and attributes her good health to hard work and a life of activity. All of her life she was worked hard in her kitchen and in the garden during the many years they lived on a farm.
Both of the twins taught school, Mettie for just one year before she married, while Settie taught several terms. Mrs. Douglas taught in a typical one-room schoolhouse. She had 19 pupils.
She remembers attending the Franklin county fair 75 years ago and her memory is sharp and clear on early happening and conditions in her rural neighborhood. Pleasantest recollection of all, she said, was of when she was keeping house and all of her children and grandchildren gathered for Thanksgiving day dinner. It was like open house with sometimes as many as 25 around the table.
Because her twin sister will be unable to be with her, no special observance has been planned, but there will be an exchange of felicitations and both will look forward to spending part of this summer together as has been their cusotm.
Mrs. Eula Carr, wife of Miles Carr died suddenly at 7:30 o'clock on Saturday morning at her home here.
Mrs. Carr was born in Burke 61 years ago, and married Mr. Carr 39 years ago.
Besides her husband she is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Patrick (Eileen) Johnston, Burke; two sons Wendell, Massena; Donald, Burke; her mother, Mrs. Carrie Vincent, Burke; six sister: Mrs. Raymond (Marion) Sherman, Chateaugay; Mrs. Elmer (Ruby) Cook, Rouses Point; Mrs. Glen (Bernice) Wells, Saranac Lake; Mrs. Irene Russell, Mrs. Bernard (Inez) McGillic and Mrs. Edgar (Marjorie) Wyman, Malone.
A daughter Mrs. Nyles (Martha) Leach pre-deceased her mother three years ago.
Funeral services took place on Monday afernoon in Burke Center Presbyterian church. Interment was made in the Morningside cemetery at Malone.
Community Mourns Sudden Death of Mrs. Elmer McCann
Hundreds Pay Tribute At Last Rites Wednesday Morning
On Monday morning the unbelievable new was received that Mrs. Elmer McCann had passed away at the Alice Hyde Hospital in Malone at 3:30 o'clock that morning. The deepest gloom was cast over the community at the death of this most estimable young woman. Mrs. McCann had apparently been enjoying her usual health when she and her husband were guests Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hall on the Malone-Burke road. Late in the evening she complained of nausea. Dr. Alfred Hartman, of Malone, was called and found her in shock. She was taken to the hospital where her conditoin grew worse. Death was attributed to an internal hemorrhage.
Marjorie (Douglas) McCann was born on January 25, 1915, the only daughter of Leon G. and the late Florence (Taubenheimer) Douglas. She was graduated from Chateaugay High School in 1932 and the Chateaugay Training Class of 1933. She attended Plattsburgh State Teachers College summers and received her BS degree from that institution in 1941. She taught school in Malone at the Duane Street School from 1945 through 1947 when she retired. Prior to that she taught from 1933 to 1940 at Bellmont, 1940 to 1943 at Remsen, 1943 to 1944 at Ballston Spa and 1944 to 1945 at Keeseville.
Mrs. McCann was possessed of a sweet sunny disposition, her many charming qualities of kindliness, generosity and womanly grace well fitting her as a leader. If strangers felt the charm of her rare courtesy and joyousness, how much more so the members of her own family upon whom she lavished all the sweet earnestness and careful culture of her mind and nature. Strong and potent was the influence of this loving heart which gave of its gifts so generously.
In 1946 she became the bride of Elmer McCann, one of Chateaugay's most popular and successful farmers. During his recent campaign for Assemblyman on the Democratic ticket, Mrs. McCann was his constant companion and traveled throughout Franklin County during an extensive eight week's tour.
She leaves her husband, her father, Leon G. Douglas, and one brother, Millard T. Douglas, of Albany.
Funeral services were held at St. Patrick's church on Wednesday morning. the Rev. Edgar Gallagher, pastor was celebrant, assisted by the Rev. Clarence Devan, of Burke, as deacon; and the Rev. John Wiley, as sub deacon. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. J. R. McClure, of Saranac, former pastor, was in the sanctuary.
The choir sang the mass, accompanied by Miss Katherine Doige at the organ. Mrs. Dale Mellon was soloist.
Pall bearers were: Albert Seymour, Mr. McCann's campaign manager in the recent elections; Charles McCormick, Chateaugay; Roy Hall, Malone; James, Kissane, Allen Child, Malone; Gerald Barnes, John L. Sprague and John Miles, cousins of the deceased.
Delegations from the Grange, Farm Bureau, County Democratic Club, Jeffersonian Club, and Chateaugay and Malone Democratic Town Committees attended the rites.
Burial was in St. Patrick's cemetery.
Quasi Miles & Family History
1920-25
clippings From The Chateaugay Record
Compiled by Maren Dodge Miles
Chateaugay Lake
Thomas Hurley recently dug eight pounds of potatoes from one hill. The tubers were the Russet variety.
John and Michael D. Hurley, of Nashua, N.H., are visiting their brother, Thomas Hurley, at this place.
M. E. Church, Chateaugay Lake
Rev. U. B. Grant, Pastor
The following officers were installed for this year.
Superintendent - Rev. Grant
Asst. Supt. - Mrs. Abner Percy
Missionary Supt. - Mrs. Leon Douglas
Teachers of classes:
Beginners - Mrs. Leon Douglas
Young Men - Leon Douglas
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Barnes and family and Mr. and Mrs. Alonson Greene, of Chateaugay, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Douglas during the week.
Miss Russena Hurley, of Montreal, is visiting relatives for a few weeks.
The W.C.T.U. met with Mrs. C. J. Kirby Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Dan Hurley has been confined to her home for some time with an attack of grippe. We wish her an early recovery. Dr. Thurber is in attendance.
Ellenburg Center
Howard Bell, of North Hampton, Mass., is visiting his wife and other friends in town.
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Dan Hurley is slowly improving from her late illness and hope to see her out again soon.
Leon Douglas lost a registered Ayrshire cow last Friday by getting choken by a piece of bale wire. Mr. Douglas paid $250 for the animal.
John Miles and Purley Genaway were business callers at Lyon Mountain Saturday.
Chateaugay Lake
A Polander was killed at Lyon Mountain last Friday morning by a large coal pit caving in and burying him under the coal. He was buried at Lyon Mountain Saturday forenoon.
James Hoy, town superintendent of highways has a force of men with teams drawing stones and repairing the bridge at the Forge. The work is being done under the supervision of John Miles.
Mrs. Maurice Miles and son, John, and daughter, Mayfred, are visiting with relatives in Mineville.
A number of young men in this vicinity are spending their evenings playing checkers at Abner Percy's store. Purley Genaway appears to be the champion checker player. He defeats all comers.
AUCTION SALE
The undersigned will sell at public auction at the Vaughn farm, 4 1/2 miles north of Burke Village, on the Hampson road, on
MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1921
The Following Property:
15 head of cattle, consisting of 10 milch cows, part fresh, balance to freshen this spring, excepting two that freshened in August; 4 heifers coming 2 years old, 1 bull coming 2 years old, 1 pair chestnut horses, about 13 years old, weighing nearly 2,400 pounds, an extra good work team, and about 12 tons of hay.
As the farm has been sold, the above property will be sold without reserve.
SALE AT 1:00 0'CLOCK SHARP
Terms of sale--9 months time will be given by furnishing joint approved notes with interest payable The First National Bank of Chateaugay.
RALPH CARR
W. H. O'Brien, Auctioneer
Thomas Hurley, who has been quite seriously ill with acute indigestion for the past few days, is now recovering, which will be pleasing news to his many friends.
Ray Kirby, of Brainardsville, left Monday for Saratoga, where he has a good position awaiting him.
Miss Russena Hurley, of Montreal, is visiting with relatives and friends at this place.
Bannerhouse
At the annual school meeting the following officers were elected: Trustee, Mrs. W. M. Spear; Collector, George McPherson; Clerk, Mrs. Charles Sherman.
Brainardsville
From the Pastor's Report of Year Ending April 1, 1921: We let one member go to the Presbyterian Church in Mineville, N. Y., Brother Theo Miles.
Bannerhouse
M. S. Bellows and John Miles are painting their houses.
Chateaugay Lake
Henry Roberts lost two dairy cows last week from eating some poison in the pasture.
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. John Miles, who has been visiting with relatives in Montreal for the past few days, returned to her home at Lower Chateaugay Lake Last week.
John and Michael Hurley, Of Nashua, N. H. , who have been visiting with relatives and friends at Chateaugay Lake and vicinity for the past few days returned home last week.
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Maurice Miles, who has been suffering for the past few days with appendicitis, was taken to the Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh Sunday.
Oct. 21, 1921
Chateaugay Lake
Abner Percy was a business caller in Malone, Monday.
Oct. 31, 1921 session:
Grand Jury - Jurors drawn: Moira, Newell Dodge.
Oct. 28, 1921
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Maurice Miles, who was operated on for appendicitis in the Champlain Valley Hospital about five weeks ago has returned home and is now slowly recovering.
Nov. 4, 1921
Chateaugay Lake
Mr. and Mrs. George Eiss, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Percy and Abner and Charles Percy enjoyed a pleasure trip to Lyon Mountain, Dannemora and Plattsburgh Monday.
Ellenburgh West Hill
Fred Bruso has bought the threshing and sawing machine of John Dumont. Mr. Bruso is a good industrious citizen and deserves a share of the peoples patronage.
Nov. 18, 1921
Chateaugay Lake
Frank Lapoint, of Brainardsville, has sold his house and lot, located near the Lower Chateaugay Lake to Edgar Wilford, of Chateaugay. Consideration nominal.
John English, of Brainardsville, has sold his farm which he recently purchased of Henry Roberts to Frank Lapoint. The place is located about two miles east of the Forge and contains 169 acres of land. Consideration $6,000.
Dec. 2, 1921
Chateaugay Lake
No church services on Sunday on account of scarlet fever.
Wednesday, Nov. 23 the school rendered a program. Included was:
Recitation: "Baby's Part, Mildred Lapoint.
Jan. 6, 1922
Chateaugay Lake
Christmas exercises at the M.E. Church included: Recitation - Christmas Everywhere, Charles Blow; Recitation - Caught, Marjorie LaPoint; Recitation - The Gladdest Boy, Guy Coolidge.
Mr. and Mrs. Millard Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Witherell and family and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Barnes and family of Chateaugay, spent Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Douglas
Churubusco
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Patnode of Lake Placid spent the holidays in town with Mrs. Patnode's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Durkee.
Jan. 29, 1922
Chateaugay Lake
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hoy, of Brainardsville, are rejoicing over a daughter, born on Tuesday, January 10th.
Mrs. Mariah Welch is seriously ill at her home. Her children Have all come home for a few days.
Messrs. Frank Bell and George Pathier of east Hampton, Mass., former residents of this town are calling on friends here this week. Mrs. Ovid Tromblee and sister, Mrs. Burt Tromblee, of Lebanon, N. H., arrived in town last week, called here by the serious condition of their mother, Mrs. Maria Welch.
Feb. 24, 1922
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Michael Welch slipped and fell on the sidewalk on West Main street Monday evening and suffered a broken leg.
June 23, 1922
Chateaugay Lake
Children's Day exercises included: Solo - Days of Old, Millard Douglas; Recitation - A Wee Little Heart, Marjorie LaPoint.
Abner and Charles Percy have just improved the appearance of their store by painting. They have also remodeled the back of their store for a store room and will soon carry a full line of general merchandise.
July 25, 1922
Farmers are busy with haying and killing potato bugs.
Brainardsville
The annual picnic of Brainardsville W. C. T. U., held at the Taubenheimer camp on lower Chateaugay Lake, July 25, was an entire success. Those present incuded: Mrs. A. M. Chase, Mrs. C. J. Kirby, Mrs. John Miles, C. J. Kirby, Cecil Kirby, children, Marjorie LaPoint, Oscar and Adams Chase.
Ellenburgh Center
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Patnode are rejoicing over a new baby boy, Francis Edward, born July 21st.
Chateaugay Lake
Some wild animal has been heard screaming on several occasions near the Narrows and Lower Chateaugay Lake within the past few nights. The animal's terrific screams were heard Sunday evening and at three o'clock Monday morning in the woods near Abner Percy's store.
Deer and bear are reported to be quite numerous in the big woods this season.
Aug. 4, 1922
Ellenburgh West HIll
Mrs. Margaret Miles and son, Gordon, of East Hampton, Mass. are visiting relatives in this vicinity.
August 18, 1922
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Abner Percy has sold her parcel of land on the east side of the Lower Chateaugay Lake to Peter Clark, of Chateaugay. The land has a lake frontage of 30 rods and contains about two acres. Mr. Clark intends to sell the land in lots to parties, who will erect cottages near the lake shore.
August 25, 1922
Twenty-five years ago
Week of August 27, 1897
Married - At St. Patrick's Church, Chateaugay, August 23, 1897 by Rev. J. P. Devlin, William Welsh and Miss Emma Seymour, of Chateaugay.
Sept. 29, 1922
Mr. and Mrs. Myron McPherson and family were Sunday visiters at the home of Mr. McPherson's Mother, Mrs. Cornelia McPherson, and sister, Miss Sylvia, of Ellenburgh Center.
Sept. 29, 1922
Chateaugay Lake
School opened last Monday with Mrs. Florence Douglas and Mrs. Estella Miles, Intermediate teachers.
Miss Ruth Baxter, of Framingham, Mass., is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Metta Baxter, and other relatives.
Millard Douglas was the guest of his friend, Arthur Moore, in Malone Saturday.
Oct. 6, 1922
Brainardsville
Movies Saturday night showing a western feature. Come and hear the new player piano. Music that will please everyone.
Chateaugay Lake
The school in the Bannerhouse district is closed this week on account of potato digging.
Dec. 8, 1922
Chateaugay Lake
Abner Percy was a business caller in Malone last Saturday.
Brainardsville
Those having perfect attendance for the month of November in District # 13 Brainardsville were: Kenneth Hurley, Otis Hurley.
Dec. 22, 1922
Marjorie, the seven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Douglas, is quite busy nowadays, quilting, and doing fancy crochet work, when her school is not is session. The little girl recently pieced up a quilt, crocheted a yoke, and knit a girl's sweater. She was awarded second prize at the Franklin County Fair last fall for some of her fancy work. She is very intelligent for a girl of her age and is highly esteemed by all of her playmates.
The following program will be rendered at the school his Friday afternoon: Quotations - Dorence Blow, Millard Douglas, Maurice Blow, David Blow; Song - Jolly Old Santa Claus, Millard Douglas; Dialogue - Xmas Candles, Marjorie Douglas, Mildred LaPoint, Florence Percy and others; Recitation - The Story of Christmas, John LaPoint; Dialogue - Christmas Land, Marjorie Douglas and others; Recitation - A Stitch in Time, Marjorie LaPoint; Recitation - Christmas Day, Kenneth Blow; Recitation - Two Little Stockings, Marjorie LaPoint; Dialogue - Santa Calls the Roll, Emerson Blow, Kenneth Blow, Marjorie LaPoint, and others; Recitation - Santa Claus in Moracco, Charles Blow. Teachers - Mrs. Estella B. Miles, Mrs. Florence T. Douglas.
Dec. 29, 1922
Ellenburgh
The following officers have been elected for Mt. Herman Lodge, No. 572, F. & A. M., for the coming year: J. W. - Dayton Hutchins
Bannerhouse
The Ladies Aid Society, of Chateaugay Lake, met at the home of Mrs. Abner Percy on Wednesday of this week.
Jan. 12, 1923
Ellenburgh West Hill
A heavy fall of snow on Monday brought sleighs into general use.
Jan. 19, 1923
Ellenburgh Center
Raymond Bruso, of Chazy, is spending a few days in town.
Feb. 9, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
The following pupils of District No. 1, of Belmont were perfect in attendance during the month of December: Marjorie LaPoint, Emerson Blow, Charles Blow Kenneth Blow. Estella B. Miles, teacher.
Feb. 16, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
A valuable horse, owned in Standish, dropped dead on the road near Oliver Young's Sunday afternoon.
Feb. 23, 1923
Ellenburgh West Hill
Myron McPherson has let his farm to George Cook, who will take possession the first of March. Mr. McPherson has purchased a house and lot in Ellenburgh Center and has begun moving.
March 9, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
George Cook has taken Myron McPherson's farm and stock on shares for the coming year. The farm is located in West Ellenburgh and contains 150 acres of prolific land. Mr. McPherson has purchased a house and lot in Ellenburgh Center and has taken Possession of the same. Mr. Cook will take possession of the property March 10th.
Purley Genaway and George McPherson saw ten partridges in one flock in Thomas Smith's woods one day last week.
Friday, March 16, 1923Merrill
Tophile Gadway is making preparations to move the first of April, back to his own farm in the Shuttsville district.
John Gadway, who had employment at Piercefield during the winter, will move to his residence at Merrill April 1st.
April 6, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
Our school under the supervision of Mrs. Estelle Miles and Mrs. Florence Douglas have began serving hot lunches at noon to pupils who live a long distance from school, and is meeting with genuine approval with parents and scholars.
April 13, 1923
Ellenburgh West Hill
George Cook has got moved onto Myron McPherson's farm on Lake street and will work it on shares the coming season.
April 20,1923
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Abner Perch, John Miles and Wilroy Cheyne, of this place, were business callers in Malone Monday.
Daniel Genaway removed his family from the Bannerhouse district to the Forge last week. He moved in to a house owned by William Blow near Abner Percy's store. All mail now in his name should be addressed Chateaugay Lake, N. Y.
Friday, May 18, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Douglas and two children, Marjorie and Willard, were callers in Malone on Thursday of last week.
June 1, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
Leslie Collins has broken ground for the erection of a cottage on his lot in Brainardsville.
Abner Percy is quite ill. Mr. Percy has a host of friends who are hoping that he will soon be restored to health again.
Friday, June 15, 1923
Camps and Campers
Jack Clifford and a party of friends who he is entertaining at his camp on the west shore of the Upper Lake, were visitors in Chateaugay Sunday evening.
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Maurice Miles and Mrs. Leon Douglas closed their successful terms of school at Chateaugay Lake recently. The teachers and scholars enjoyed a picnic at Mrs. Jennie Taubeheimer's cottage after the schools were closed.
Mrs. Anna Kirby, who has been sick for the past twelve weeks is able to sit up.
Mrs. W. J. Hammond of Chateaugay spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Anna Kirby.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Soper, Mrs. F. P. Soper and children called on Mrs. Anna Kirby Monday evening.
June 29, 1923
Rural Regents Examinations
Marjorie LaPoint, Chateaugay Lake - Geography 75, elem U. S. History 77
July 6, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
Chicken thieves are operating in this part of the country. Roy Merrill had thirty hens and three roosters stolen from his hen house last Friday Night.
The Ladies Aid Society of Lower Chateaugay Lake sold ice cream and cake in Abner Percy's store July 4th. The net proceeds of the sale amounted to about $16.
John Miles and family had a mess of garden peas for dinner Sunday. The peas were grown in Mr. Miles garden this season.Mrs. John Percy is quite seriously ill at her home here. Her many friends are hoping that she will recover.
Brainardsville
Albert Robbins, who has been in the Alice Hyde Hospital, since he was shot about two weeks ago was able to be brought home last Sunday.
Mrs. C. O. English's Sunday School class motored to Nicholville Sunday, also Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Hoy and daughter Eleanor.
July 20, 1923
Merrill
Alvin Bruso, of Ellenburgh motored to Merrill Sunday with his Maxwell car.
Chateaugay Lake
Will Hurley, of Nashua, N. H., is spending his vacation with his father, Thomas Hurley.
Merrill
Richard and Marguerite Shutts motored to Cold Brook Sunday, bringing Ethel Gadway and Elizabeth Ives back with them. The trip was made in their Nash car. They found it to be 21 miles to Cold Brook.
August 17, 1923
Bannerhouse
George McPherson moved his family to Lyon Mountain on Tuesday, where he has employment.
There was quite an excitement in town Tuesday morning when a car loaded with booze was seized on the hill near Dan Hurley's.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Hoy and daughter Eleanor are spending a week with their father James Hoy, at their camp at the lake.
Aug. 24, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
The Ladies Aid Society, of Lower Chateaugay Lake, sold ice cream in Abner Percy's store last Saturday afternoon. The sale amounted to over $11. The sale would have amounted to several dollars more only for the shortage of ice cream.
Harry Smith, of Brainardsville, lost a valuable horse recently. The horse was found dead in a barbed wire fence.
A valuable cow belonging to J. Thurber was found with one of its legs broken in the pasture one day last week. The cow was killed to end its suffering.
Carlton Blow went to Tupper Lake Monday, where he expects to obtain employment. Raymond Blow, George LaValley and David Gardner went to Tupper Lake last week, where they had positions awaiting them.
August 21, 1923
Brainardsville
There was quite a little excitement in town last Thursday when an Elgin six touring car driven by Mr. Nay, of Connecticut, and a Ford car driven by Dan Hurley come together on the corner between the stores there, but no one was hurt. Mr. Nay's cat was slightly damaged, while the other car had one wheel broken, wishbone broken and the axle bent.
Mrs. Alfred Lewis, of Schuyler Falls, spent Saturday and Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Anna Kirby.
Bannerhouse
Mr. and Mrs. John Blow attended the Plattsburgh fair on Wednesday.
Chateaugay Lake
Joseph King and Carlton Blow, who had positions at Tupper Lake, returned home last Saturday.
David Gardner and Raymond Blow, who are employed on the new hospital at Tupper Lake spent Sunday at their home here.
Mrs. Abner Percy is visiting with relatives in New Bedford, Providence, Boston and other New England cities. She will also visit New York city before she returns home.
Albert Robbins went to the Champlain Valley Hospital for treatment.
Sept. 14, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
The Ladies Aid Society of Chateaugay Lake met Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Leon Douglass.
Mr. and Mrs. John Welch and daughter Jean, of Burke, Miss Blanche Witherell and Miss Marjorie Barnes were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Douglass recently.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Gillan, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hurley, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Douglas, Millard and Marjorie Douglass and Adolphas Lamere motored to the St. Lawrence last Sunday.
Ellenburgh West Hill
Anyone in need of pigs to winter would do well to look Riley Fifield's flock over.
Merritt Blow is doing quite a business with bees. He has a number of swarms. A swarm of banded Italians have put out three young swarms and 193 pounds of extracted honey, and have their winter supply on hand.
Sept. 21, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Amelia Blow is visiting relatives at Ellenburgh Center.
Brainardsville
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lamberton and daughter Marion, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Kirby and son Horace, of this place, and Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Adams of Bannerhouse, and Rev. and Mrs. U. B. Grant, of Nicholville, are enjoying a motor trip to Buffalo and other points of interest.
Oct. 5, 1923
Brainardsville
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Miles and Mrs. Elizabeth Moore visited with friends here last week.
Mrs. Harold Moore, Mrs. Charlotte Boyd, Miss Agnes Payne, Mrs. Anna Wright, Mrs. Elizabeth Moore and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Miles spent Saturday at Ellenburgh Center.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Soper called at Mrs. Anna Kirby's Sunday evening on their return home after a two week's trip to Burlington, Middleberry, Vt., Schnectady, New York city, Moriah Center, Bloomingdale, Bethlehem, Pa., and North Wilberham, Mass.
The regular monthly meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held at the Banner House on Tuesday evening, Oct. 29th. The meeting will be in charge of Mrs. Louise Chase. (!!) Mrs. Gehring, county president, will give a report of the county Convention.
Friday, Oct. 12, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
Charles Percy has been appointed postmaster at Chateaugay Lake.
The postoffice has been removed to Abner Percy's store, which makes a convenient place for the office,
Brainardsville
C. L. Kirby bought a new milking cow from W. P. Merrill recently.
Oct. 26, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
John Blow has removed his family from the Narrows to Malone, where they will reside during the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Genaway and two children Lester and Earl, of Malone, Mr. and Mrs. James Underwood, of Burke, Miss Nellie and George Rust, of South Chateaugay, and Mrs. Ralph Hesseltine, of Chateaugay village, were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Genaway at this place Sunday.
William Blow dug a Russet Potato out of a hill in his field on day recently which weighed two pounds and eight ounces.
Raymond Blow, who is employed at Tupper Lake, came home last Saturday to spend a few days hunting deer and partridges which are quite numerous in the big woods this season.
Brainardsville
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Soper and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Soper, of Ellenburg Depot, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Martin and son, Ross, of Moriah Center, and Mrs. Alfred Lewis, of Schuyler Falls, called on Mrs. Anna Kirby and family Saturday.
Dan Hurley was in Burke last Friday.
Miss Patience Kirby had a large red perennial poppy blossom in her garden As these are spring blooming flowers it makes quite an unusual sight.
Nov. 2, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
A Hallowe'en party and box social was held in the school at the Forge one night recently. The proceeds of the social amounted to about $15 and will be used to purchase food for making hot lunches for the pupils during the winter months. The teachers Mrs. Judson Warren and Mrs. Maurice Miles wish to thank the public for their hearty support and also the Ladies Aid Society, who loaded the school many things. The teachers were highly complimented for their good management of the social.
Nov. 16, 1923
Ellenburgh West Hill
Merritt Blow received the sad new Tuesday of the death of his aunt, Mrs. Baxter which occurred in a hospital in the east.
Nov. 23, 1923
Chateaugay Lake
Carl Baxter, of Framingham, Mass., is visiting with relatives and friends at this place and vicinity.
The remains of Mrs. Henry Baxter, whose death occurred in a hospital in Framingham, Mass., on Monday morning of last week, were conveyed here for interment, arriving at the home of her sister, Mrs. John Miles at about ten o'clock Tuesday morning. Deceased was 49 years of age and was a former resident of this place, and well known and highly esteemed by all of her friends and associates. She is survived by her husband, Henry Baxter, of Framingham, Mass,. her mother, Mrs. Amelia Blow, of this place, and two sister and three brothers, Mrs. John Miles, of this place, Mrs. Joseph Laraby of Elizabethtown, William, Grant, and Lincoln Blow of Chateaugay Lake. Funeral services were held in the church at Chateaugay Lake at ten o'clock last week Wednesday morning, Rev. R. K. Sheffield, pastor of the M. E. church at Chateaugay officiating. Interment in the Brainardsville cemetery.
Mrs. Amelia Blow is visiting relatives in Elizabethtown.
William Blow sold four cows and J. Thurber three last week.
Dec. 8, 1923
Brainardsville
Mr. and Mrs. Soper spent Sunday at Mrs. Anna Kirby's.
Chateaugay Lake
Several deer have been seen near the Chateaugay Lakes and Brainardsville within the past few days. The deer were chased out of the big wood by hounds. One large buck was so badly frightened by the dogs that it jumped into a hen wire fence owned by D. J. Kirby, of Brainardsville . The deer was hung by the horns for a few moments and then it jumped and bounded until it made a large hole in the wire and hen it made its escape.
Abner Percy was a business caller in Malone Monday.
William Blow is confined to his home with a severe attack of asthma and lagrippe. His many friends are hoping that he will soon be restored to health.
Dec. 28, 1923
An entertainment and exercises were held in the school house at Chateaugay Lake Monday afternoon. The program consisted of songs, dialogues and recitations, which were well performed by the scholars, for which much praise was given the teachers, Mrs. Maurice Miles and Mrs. Judson Warren for the good instructions they gave the pupils. One of the interesting features of the exercises was a large Christmas tree which contained many beautiful and costly gifts for both teachers and scholars. William Merrill acted as Santa Claus and delighted the spectators very much while he was distributing the gifts by his droll acts and comic speeches. The entertainment was quite largely attended and much enjoyed.
Mrs. Abner Percy attended the funeral of Peter Clark, which was held at his late home in Chateaugay, at two o'clock last Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Amelia Blow, who is almost 82 years of age, has knit within the past few weeks 20 pair of woolen mittens and 12 pairs of woolen socks, besides doing her household work for a family of four.
A Christmas tree which contained many beautiful gifts for the family, was held at the home of Mrs. Amelia Blow Tuesday afternoon. Charles Blow acted as Santa Claus and caused much laughter by his droll acts while he was distributing the gifts.
Christmas exercises which were held in the school house Monday afternoon. The following students were included in the program:
Christmas Telephone - Mildred LaPoint
Play, Uncle Sam - Among others - Marjorie LaPoint
To Santa Claus - Dorrence Blow
What Mother's Do - Marjorie Douglas
Dialogue, The Run Away Stocking - Among others - Maurice Blow
How They Say It - Emerson Blow
Dialogue, The Wish Way - John LaPoint, Maurice O'Donnell
Santa Claus - Donald LaPoint
Christmas Morning - Kenneth Blow
The Coming of Santa - Millard Douglas
Ellenburgh West Hill
A family reunion and Christmas tree was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boyea Christmas eve. The following were present: Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cook, parents of Mrs. Boyea, Mr. and Mrs. George Cook and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cook, of Merrill, brothers of Mrs. Boyea, Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Blow and daughter, and Mrs. Fred Begor, sisters. The tree was loaded with useful things, stockings, mittens children's dresses, mufflers, handkerchiefs, writing paper, etc., and at 12 o'clock a bountiful supper was served and at an early hour Xmas morning the entertainment closed.
Jan. 11, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Lincoln Blow and son David, of this place, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Hutchins in Ellenburgh Center Sunday.
Raymond Blow, who has been visiting with relatives in Elizabethtown, for the past few days, returned home last week.
Ellenburgh West Hill
Merritt Blow and wife and daughter spent Sunday afternoon at Merrill.
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Game Protector Kirby was in Malone on Saturday and stated that dogs are working havoc to deer in nearby forests. Within the past two weeks a doe and two buck fawns have succumbed in the Chateaugay Lake country, having been pursued by dogs until exhausted. The carcasses were in prime condition. One was given to the Old Ladies Home, Malone, one to the Alice Hyde Hospital and the other to the School for the Deaf. They furnished some choice holiday dinners. Mr. Kirby does not favor the present law allowing the licensing of dogs for hunting partridge and hares in the Adirondacks. It is easy for he owners to remove the license tags and permit the dogs back on again. Mr. Kirby believes the law existing some years ago should be restored to prohibit dogs being kept in the Adirondack park or in the forests in habited by deer.
Jan. 25, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Several young people from this part of the country, have narrow escapes from being drowned while skating on the Chateaugay Lakes recently.
William Blow is quite seriously ill with a severe attack of asthma and some other ailments.
The thermometer registered 30 degrees below zero here Monday afternoon. William Blow's and J. Thurber's water pipes were frozen up during the day by the sudden drop of temperature. The wind was very piercing and was driven by a strong gale which came from the west. The oldest inhabitants say it was the worst day to be out that they have known for years.
Ellenburgh West Hill
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Blow Jan. 20, 1924.
February 1, 1924
Brainardsville
Results of Regents examinations held at Brainardsville School.
Emerson Blow, Geography 75; Kenneth Blow, Arithmetic 80; Marjorie LaPoint, Reading 90, Writing 90, Spelling 93, Elem. English 81, Arithmetic 82.
Those who received preliminary certificates included Marjorie LaPoint.
Chateaugay Lake
Abner Percy was a business caller in Chateaugay on Monday.
February 8, 1924
Among the Sick
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Winslow Hammond was stricken last Thursday with acute appendicitis and he was hurriedly taken to the Alice Hyde hospital that evening when an operation was performed by Dr. J. E. White, assisted by Dr. H. D. Tobin, who accompanied Mr. Hammond to the hospital. The patient is now making a fine recovery and will soon be able to return home.
Brainardsville
Dan Hurley has killed another Fox, making seven this fall and winter.
Eleanor Hoy and Lawrence Forkey are on the sick list.
Mrs. Alfred Lewis is visiting at her sister's Mrs. Anna Kirby's.
Feb. 15, 1924
Winslow Hammond returned home from Alice Hyde Hospital on Tuesday. He was operated upon about ten days ago for appendicitis and is making a very satisfactory recovery to health a fact which his many friends will be pleased to hear.
Chateaugay Lake
John Blow, who removed his family to Malone, about three months ago contemplates moving back onto his farm near the Narrows in the near future.
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Miles are rejoicing over the birth of a son born Sunday February 10th.
Ernest Bracy and Abner Percy were business callers in Malone Tuesday.
Abner Percy has sold his wood lot to William Santamore. The land is located on lot 16, south of Belmont Center and contains about 100 acres.
John Spear has sold a water frontage of about 17 acres of land on the east side of the Narrows to Abner Percy. Mr. Percy expects to sell the land in small parcels for cottage purposes.
Miss Rosetta Phillips, of Chateaugay was the guest of her friend, Carlton Blow, at this place, over Saturday and Sunday.
February 29, 1924
Ellenburgh West Hill
Warren Fifield and Merritt Blow made a trip to Lyon Mountain Tuesday of last week.
Our mail did not get through for three days last week on the R. F. D.
March 14, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Abner Percy transacted business in Malone last Saturday.
Ellenburgh West Hill
Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Blow and children spent Sunday with relatives at Merrill.
Brainardsville
Mrs. Alfred Lewis, who has spent the past four weeks with her sister, Mrs. Anna Kirby, left last week for Ellenburg Depot, where she will spend a couple of week before going home to Schuyler Falls.
Ray Merrill has finished the log job which he took of C. L. Kirby for cutting and drawing a stack of logs to F. M. Hoy's mill.
March 21, 1921
Merrill
Harry Gadway has taken the contract to erect a log bungalow for Mr. Saxe, formerly from Champlain. The site of the bungalow is a lot on Alfred Shutts farm.
March 28, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Abner Percy was a business caller in Chateaugay last Saturday.
Carlton Blow went to the Alice Hyde Hospital in Malone Monday and consulted with the staff of physicians in that institute about the condition of his throat.
Lincoln Blow was a business caller at Chateaugay Monday.
April 4, 1924
Brainardsville
Newly elected officers of the Ladies Aid Society include Mrs. Cora Kirby as First Vice President.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Soper spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. Anna Kirby.
April 18, 1924
Brainardsville
Mrs. C. O. English, Mrs. F. W. Adams, Horace Kirby and Rupert Miller returned on Monday after attending the annual Northern New York Conference of the M. E. Church at Gouverneur.
Mrs. W. D. Merrill and Mrs. Abner Percy were callers at the parsonage on Tuesday.
April 25, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
David, the thirteen year old son of Lincoln Blow, landed a Rocky Mountain trout from the Thurber brook which weighed two and one fourth pounds, one day last week.
Abner Percy had several men with teams drawing ice from the Lower Chateaugay Lake and filling his ice house last Friday. The ice was about on foot thick and of fine quality.
A number of friends and neighbors of Mrs. Amelia Blow gathered at her home on Thursday of last week and helped her celebrate her 82nd birthday anniversary. She received many beautiful gifts including a purse of money from those who attended the celebration. She also received several gifts from those who were unable to attend. When the guests departed they thanked her for her hospitality and wished that she would live to enjoy many more birthday celebrations.
Brainardsville
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Soper and children, Wilbur and Doris, of Ellenburgh Depot, were callers at Mrs. Anna Kirby's Sunday.
May 2, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Miss Hazel Witherell, R. N. A., recent graduate of Mt. Sinai Hospital of New York city, Misses Kathryn Witherell, and Blanche Barnes, of Chateaugay were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Douglas.
Mrs. Maurice Miles and children are spending a few days at Fort Edward.
The hot lunches, which have been given out school pupils under the supervision of Mrs. C. Warren and Mrs. Florence Douglas, teachers, have been discontinued. These hot lunches have been given almost daily since January, consisted of cocoa, vegetable or tomato soup, and met with approval to all who could not go home for dinner.
Brainardsville
We are glad to learn the Mrs. Anna Kirby, who has been on the sick list for the past year, is able to ride out again.
May 9, 1924
NEARLY 6,300 PASSENGER CARS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY
County Clerk Harold G. O'Neil announced that there are approximately 6,300 passenger cars in Franklin county which has been licensed, or will be within the next few days. Plates have been issued for 4,800 passenger cars so far his year. Motor truck plates have run up to 780 and 240 bus licenses have been issued he stated. Additional plates have been issued for motorcycles.
A total of 1,500 plates are still to be made out by Franklin county residents, it is said, and when these have been taken he county will have practically 6,300 passenger cars licenses. The increased number of plates sold in this count is said to be on practically the same ratio as in other counties in the state.
Brainardsville
At the annual school meeting in Dist. No. 10 held Tuesday evening the following officers were chosen; Trustees for three years, J. H. English; clerk, C. J. Kirby; collector C. H. Chase.
HEAVY RAINS BRING HIGHEST WATER IN YEARS
The heavy rains during the past week raised he waters of Chateaugay Lakes and Chateaugay river to the highest level known in many years. At the Upper Lake the water overflowed the Owlyout Road to a depth of nearly a foot and the roadway at different point was badly washed out. Near the Tabberah store at Merrill the water undermined the roadway, causing quite a deep gully. A portion of the dam at Hoy's mill at Brainardsville was washed away on Saturday.
May 30, 1924
Ellenburgh West Hill
Mrs. Myron McPherson, of Ellenburg Center, spent a few days last week with friends on the hill. We were all glad to see her.
Mrs. Rose Blow and son Kenneth and their cousin Alex. Begor, of Mass, are spending a few days with relatives in this vicinity and at Lyon Mountain.
Chateaugay Lake
A Holiness meeting was held at Grant Blow's last Friday evening. Preaching services were conducted by Rev. Harvey Perry and Rev. George Dewey.
David Bell is driving quite a fancy chestnut horse, which was purchased in Malone recently.
George McPherson, of Lyon Mountain, was somewhat surprised and excited Sunday morning, when he came upon a pack of five wolves in the woods about three miles north of the mountain. He was walking along the road when he saw the wolves come into the road only a short distance from him. They stopped in the road and looked at the man for a few moments. One of the pack growled and showed its teeth and appeared very ferocious. They soon left the road however and disappeared in the forest. Mr. McPherson had a miraculous escape from being devoured as he was alone with the pack with no weapon of defense.
Brainardsville
Mrs. Alfred Lewis, of Schuyler Falls, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Lewis and daughter Hilda, of Mineville, and Mrs. R. H. Martin, of Moriah Center, were visitors at Mrs. Anna Kirby's on Monday.
Rev. L. E. Rose and C. L. Kirby made a business trip to Malone last Friday afternoon.
C. J. Kirby is riding in a new Overland touring car.
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Smith B. Hammond has been appointed to take charge of the local distributing station and is now engaged in getting the plant in readiness for the first consignment of fry which is expected this week. They will be reared in the ponds until 3 to 3 1/2 inches long, when they will be planted in the streams and lakes of the vicinity. The object of the station is to give larger size fish to a great number of applicants. It is expected hat a truck will be used to deliver the fish and that they can be placed in streams within a radius of fifty miles, within two hours after leaving the hatchery. Sportsmen in the northern part of the state are very much interested and promise hearty cooperation in restocking lakes and streams.
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June 6, 1924
Brainardsville
Children's Day program of 10:30 a.m. Program included:
Recitation - Otis Hurley
Recitation - Adams Chase
Recitation - Oscar Chase
June 13, 1924
Brainardsville
Mrs. Anna Kirby, Patience and Charles Kirby spent Tuesday and Wednesday at G. W. Soper's at Ellenburg Depot.
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Amelia Blow met with a painful accident one day last week which was caused by the wind blowing a hen house door against her left arm with great force, inflicting a bad injury.
June 20, 1924
Brainardsville
Mrs. Dr. Kirby and daughter Barbara, of Brooklyn, are visiting at C. J. Kirby's.
Friday, June 27, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Judson Warren and Mrs. Leon Douglas closed their successful terms of school here last Friday. Mrs. Warren and Rupert Miller have been engaged to teach the fall term of school.
Daniel Genaway has two hen's eggs on exhibition which have a well formed sunflower on each egg. The eggs were laid by a hen owned by Lincoln Blow.
John Blow, of Ellenburg Center, was a guest of Lincoln Blow at this place last week.
July 4, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Mr. and Mrs. James Underwood and son Vance, of Burke, and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hesseltine, of Ellenburg Center, spent Saturday afternoon with relatives at Chateaugay Lake.
Miss Marjorie Blow, of this place, underwent a serious but successful operation for appendicitis in the Alice Hyde Hospital in Malone last Friday afternoon. Mrs. Amelia Blow is visiting with relatives in Ellenburgh Center.
The Regents examinations were held at our school last week. The following is a report of the successful candidates: (It includes:)
Emerson Blow - Writing, 80; English, 80; spelling, 80; U. S. History with civics, 76.
Pupils entitled to Preliminary Certificates included Emerson Blow.
The following is the report of the seventh grade examinations:
Kenneth Blow - Reading 82, writing 80, spelling 84, English 92, history 97, nature study 88.
The following are the results of the 5th grade examinations:
Maurice Blow - Reading 84, writing 80, spelling 88, English 94, geography 86, arithmetic 90, physiology 81.
David Blow - Reading 75.
Millard Douglas - English 82.
John LaPoint - Reading 86, writing 80, spelling 94, English 82, geography 76.
Brainardsville
The regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held at the home of Mrs. Louise Chase on Wednesday evening, July 29th. The meeting will be in charge of Mrs. Chase, and all members are urged to be present.
Dr. Guy Kirby, of Brooklyn, arrived home on Wednesday to spend a two weeks vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Kirby.
July 11, 1924
Mrs. Charles Kirby and Mrs. Warren Witherell are entertaining fresh air children. Mrs. Jason Hesseltine invited one, but for various reasons, the children were not sent.
Chateaugay Lake
Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Hutchins and four children, of Ellenburg, were the guests of Mrs. Amelia Blow and family last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pond, of Agawam, Mass., Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Douglas of Chateaugay, spent Thursday and Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Leon Douglas.
Mr. and Mrs. Jennie Taubenheimer, Clayton, George and Jacob Cheyne, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Douglas, and Adolphus Lamere are spending a few days in camp.
Miss Marjorie Blow is home from the Alice Hyde Hospital.
Children's Day Program included:
Recitation, "Welcome" - Millard Douglas
Song - Leonard Grimshaw, Gerald Cheyne
Recitation, "The Children's Hour" - Marjorie Douglas
Recitation, "A Hard Task" - Leonard Grimshaw
ELLENBURG CENTER IS FIRE-SWEPT
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Neighboring Village Sustains Heavy Loss In Midnight Blaze Saturday__$50,000 Goes Up In Smoke.
The pretty little village of Ellenburgh Center was the scene of a destructive fire last Saturday night, which destroyed seven buildings and entailing a loss estimated at between $40,000 and $50,000.
The fire was discovered at about 11:30 o'clock in the grist mill owned by Ralph Good, who purchased the same early last fall. In this building was the electric light plant which furnished lights for the village. This plant was owned my N. L. White, of Ellenburg Depot, and was operated by Mr. Good. The low water in the river made it necessary to run the plant with a gasoline engine, and it is believed that the origin of the fire was due to the over heating of this engine. Mr. Good closed down the plant between 11 and 11:30 and it was only a few minutes after he left the building that the fire was discovered. Everything was apparently in safe condition at the closing hour, and the theory is that a spark from the overheated engine must have found lodgement in the nearby waste, causing the outbreak of the flames.
The fire was quickly discovered and an alarm soon spread about the village, bringing out all the inhabitants, who at once realized the seriousness of the situation.
From the grist mill the flames spread to a nearby planning mill, also owned by Mr. Good. Both buildings were soon reduced to ashes, and clouds of flying embers were blown by a strong south wind across the north branch of the Chazy river into the business and residential section of the village, where the first structure to be attacked was an ice house in the rear of J. J. Blow's store. In rapid succession Mr. Blow's store and dwelling house were on fire, as were also the market building of J. Robideau, the town hall and Odd Fellows hall, and for a time this section of the village was a seething mass of flames.
The village fire department, aided by every able-bodied member of the community, was working with might and main to check the onslought of the fire, but the strong wind defied all their effort in this direction. The workers, however, succeeded in saving many dwelling houses, as well as the store of E. A. McPherson and the Maple Grove creamery building. Forming a bucket brigade these latter buildings were kept well wet down and incipient blazes caused by flying embers were extinguished before serious results occurred, and in this way still greater destruction was averted. The power of the wind during the height of the fire was illustrated when a long ladder was placed against the McPherson store to enable one of the workers to reach the roof, and as he had reached the height of seven or eight feet, the ladder was blown several feet and lodged against an adjoining building. The worker jumped to the ground and escaped uninjured.
The volunteer workers, made up of men, women and children, labored incessantly until 6 o'clock in the morning and it was due to their efforts that the entire village was not wiped out. Many residents moved their household effects from threatened areas, and the morning following presented a dreary aspect in what was a few hours before a thriving and prosperous village community.
The heaviest money loss was incurred by Mr. Blow, who valued his property and stock at $25,000, with $16,000 insurance. The town hall was valued at $10,000 , with $3500 insurance; I. O. O. F. hall at $7,000 with $3000 insurance; the meat market at $2500 with $1000 Insurance; the two mills at $4000.
The town records were safely cared for in a large safe and these were found to be intact. Other records, such as chattle mortgages, etc., were in the custody of Town Clerk Goodspeed, and were likewise saved. A moving picture outfit owned by B. H. Hobbs was removed from the Town Hall before the flames reached the building.
Aid was sought from nearby towns, thee message to Chateaugay being responded to by Village President Fritz, who assembled such help as was available at that hour. When they reached the Center the fire was under full headway and hey rendered such aid as was possible under the circumstances.
It is understood that a portion at least of the burned section will be rebuilt. A special town meeting will soon be called to enable the tax-payers to vote on a proposition to rebuild the town hall. The Odd Fellows have a progressive organization in that village and it is more than likely that they will erect a modern building. Messrs. Blow and Robideau will also rebuild, it is said, and altogether there is all likelihood of a modern up-to-date structures will soon adorn the burned area. The grist mill and planning mill will not be replaced is the general opinion.
July 18, 1928
Chateaugay Lake
Raymond Blow, who has a position at Lake Placid, spent Sunday at his home here.
July 25, 1924
Brainardsville
On Wednesday, July 16th, the members of the Brainardsville W. C. T. U. held their annual picnic at the Lamberton cottage, Lower Chateaugay Lake. Included in those who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Chase, Adams, Oscar and Pauline Chase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kirby, Mr. and Mrs. Guy C. Kirby, Barbara Kirby, Mrs. John Miles, Marjorie LaPoint.
August 1, 1928
Chateaugay Lake
Frank LaPoint, of West Ellenburg, had a valuable young Holstein cow stolen out of his pasture one night recently. Who committed the crime is still a mystery.
It is reported that sheep dogs have killed a number of sheep and lambs in West Ellenburg within the past few days.
Mrs. Amelia Blow is visiting relatives new Ellenburgh Center.
A man living not far from this place says that he saw a man leaning against a store in a village some time ago that he was so drunk that he could scarcely stand up. He says that several men and a little dog were watching the drunken man's performances, when all at once he emptied the contents of his stomach all over the dog. The intoxicated man looked at the little dog for a few moments and then said, "Gentlemen, I can remember where I swallowed the beer and where I swallowed the whiskey, but I can't remember where I swallowed the dog."
John Blow, of Ellenburg Center, was a guest of Lincoln Blow at this place last week.
August 15, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Fred W. Adams, proprietor of the Bannerhouse , had two trucks and a team drawing clay and gravel last week and putting it on his tennis ground, which is being fitted in fine shape for lawn tennis players.
David, the 14 year old son of Lincoln Blow, was knocked down by a car near the Banner House Sunday evening and rendered unconscious for several moments. Dr. Sprague was called and found after an examination that the boy's right shoulder and one side of his face was badly bruised but fortunately no bones were broken.
Abner and Charles Percy were business callers in Malone on Monday.
August 29, 1924
North Burke
Mr. and Mrs. John Welch and Miss Jean spent a day last week with friends in Ellenburg.
Friday, Sept. 5, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Mr. and Mrs. John Blow and two daughters Almira and Mildred and David Bell attended the Plattsburgh fair last week. They report that they had a pleasant and enjoyable time.
Loren and Rupert Miller, Peter Baker, Maurice Cook, Horace Kirby, and David Johnson motored to Ogdensburg and Alexandria Bay last Saturday. They also enjoyed a boat ride Alexandria Bay to the Thousand Islands. They returned home Sunday night. They report and enjoyable trip.
John Blow, of Ellenburgh Center, was a guest of Lincoln Blow at this place last week.
Mrs. Abner Percy is visiting with relatives in New Bedford, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Blow and two children Dorence and Edith, who have been visiting Mrs. Blow's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lester in Richmond, P. Q., the past three weeks, returned home last Thursday.
Floyd Genaway and Charles Percy were business callers in Malone last Thursday.
We are pleased to hear that one of our young cattle breeders, Marshal Cheeseman won first prize at Clinton County Fair on his Ayrshire heifer he recently purchased of John Welch in Burke. Mr. Cheeseman had several other exhibits at the fair as had several other parties from here.
Friday, Sept. 12, 1924
Brainardsville
Mr. John Miles attended his sister's funeral, Mrs. Ewart, in Montreal Monday.
Friday, Sept. 19, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Frank LaPoint drew a load of early potatoes to Chateaugay Wednesday, where he received 75 cents per bushel.
Mrs. Abner Percy, who has been visiting with relatives and friends in New Bedford, and Boston, Mass., for the past two weeks, returned home last Friday.
Charles Blow cut two of this fingers on his right hand quite badly with a jackknife one day last week. The young lad has not been able to use his hand since the accident. Dr. Thurber dressed the injured member.
Brainardsville
Mrs. G. W. Soper and Mrs. F. D. Soper spent one day last week at Mrs. Anna Kirby's.
Mrs. William Kirby, of Manchester, visited friends here last week.
Friday, Sept. 16, 1924
Ellenburgh Center
The new I. O. O. F. and Town Hall are now under construction by Dayton Hutchins, who has the contract.
Ellenburgh West Hill
Mrs. Rose Blow, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Millie Prespare and other relatives the this vicinity, has returned to Massachusetts.
Brainardsville
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Adams, of the Bannerhouse, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Kirby, Horace and Cecil Kirby, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lamberton and daughter Marion, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hoy, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Hoy and daughter Eleanor, and David Johnson made a trip to Saranac, Tupper, Loon and Silver Lakes on Sunday, making the home trip by way of Plattsburgh.
October 3, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Several of our young people are attending High School in Chateaugay: Misses Marjorie Blow, Marjorie LaPoint, Emerson Blow.
Charles Blow met with another accident last Saturday morning. He was running after the cows in the pasture, when he stubbed his toe and fell headlong to the ground, striking his left hand on a sharp stone inflicting an injury which will cause a lay off for some time.
Ellenburgh Center
Wendall Welch and wife and son called on relatives and friends recently.
James J. Blow, a former will known businessman of this village and ex-supervisor of the town of Ellenburg, has entered into business in Malone where he has purchase from the Austin-Ryan Co. the extensive feed and produce business which was established several years ago by the company, at the location on the south side of Elm street near Malone Junction, together with the real estate, feed mill and equipment, and stock of feed and other products in the establishment at the time of the sale. The real estate includes a large store house formerly used for the storage of potatoes. The purchase was made at the reported price of $20,000, the stock of feed and products standing in the transaction at the present market prices. The mill is of modern construction, and the plant is equipped to carry on extensive business in feed and produce lines. Mr. Blow has already taken possession, the details of purchase having been completed on September 25th.
Ellenburgh West Hill
Messrs. Milo and Wendall Welch of Cadyville were business callers on the Hill Thursday of last week.
October 10, 1924
Ellenburgh West Hill
Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Blow and children of Lake Street, and Miss Hester Green, of Bannerhouse, were guests at the home of Warren Fifield on Wednesday.
Friday, October 24, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
William Blow is confined to his home with a severe attack of asthma.
Charles Blow dug one potato out of a hill one day recently, which weighed three pounds. He also harvested 1,000 bushels of potatoes from about two and one half acres of land or a yield of 400 bushels to the acre.
Mrs. Edward McPherson, of Ellenburg Corners, and Mrs. Amelia Hault, of Troy, were the guests of Mrs. Amelia Blow and family on Thursday of last week.
Friday, Oct. 31, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Amelia Blow is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kennon of Clinton.
Deer and bear are reported to be quite numerous in the big woods this year. Several deer have been killed near Figure Eight and the Lakes since the deer hunting season opened. Frank Miles killed a large buck on the west side of the Lower Lake Sunday.
Friday, Nov. 7, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Amelia Blow, who has been visiting relatives in Ellenburg corners for the past week, returned home on Sunday afternoon.
Ellenburgh West Hill
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hutchins and Mr. and Mrs. W. Moulton, of Manchester, N. H. were callers on the Hill Thursday of last week.
Friday, Nov. 21, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Amelia Blow, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Hutchins at Ellenburg Center, for the past week, returned to her home here Sunday.
Joseph Underwood of south Chateaugay, had his left hip badly bruised by falling from the roof of a sugar house which he was helping to roof for Lincoln Blow last Saturday morning.
Brainardsville
Mrs. Henrietta Genaway is visiting at Mrs. Anna Kirby's for a few days.
Mrs. Dan Hurley, who has been on the sick list, is better again.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Soper and Mrs. Alfred Lewis, of Ellenburg Depot, spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. Anna Kirby.
Ellenburgh West Hill
The funeral of Russell Cook was held Friday afternoon and a large attendance from Merrill and Lyon Mountain attended the funeral. Mr. Cook leaves besides his wife, three daughters, Mrs. Fred Boyea and Mrs. Merritt Blow, of Ellenburgh West Hill, and Mrs. Fred Begor of Lyon Mountain, several grandchildren, four brothers. Mr. Cook was 57 year of age. The esteem in which he was held was shown by the large congregation that gathered to pay their last respects
Dec. 5, 1924
Brainardsville
Mrs. Anna Kirby is confined to the house with bronchitis.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Kirby were in Malone recently.
Dec. 12, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Leon Douglas sold four good Holstein cows to George Bracy last week.
The following pupils were perfect in attendance at the Forge school during November: Kenneth Blow, Maurice Blow. The following pupils have a standing 85 percent or over and are on the Honor Roll: Kenneth Blow, 89.8; Marjorie Douglas, 86.5; Maurice Blow, 86.4; Millard Douglas, 85.5; John LaPoint 85.5.
Dec. 26, 1924
Chateaugay Lake
Mrs. Amelia Blow, who is almost 83 years of age, has knit 21 pairs of woolen mittens and eight pairs of woolen socks, besides doing their household work for a family of four this fall.
William Blow is confined to his home with a severe attack of asthma.
Brainardsville
Some of Malone's best basketball tossers came out last Saturday evening and tried conclusions with our team. Captain Duffy, the Malone favorite, bravely led his team to our court and just as bravely led them off again to the tune of 67-22 in favor of, who? Brainardsville. The score would indicate a loosely played game, but it was not so and we will say it was a clean game from start to finish. The lineup was as follows:
Malone--Duffy, forward; F. Kirby, forward; Ketchum, center; Miles, guard; Rennie, guard.
Brainardsville--Cooper, center; H. Roberts, guard; O'Donnell, guard; R. Roberts, forward; C. Kirby, forward.
Referee--Miller.
Charles Kirby Miles (1872-1897)
Grandpa John D. Miles?--tintype
Grandpa John D. Miles (?), sitting, and Charles Kirby Miles (?)--tintype
Charles Kirby Miles (?)--tintype
Mettie Angie Blow Baxter and Settie Alice Blow Miles
Settie Alice Blow Miles and Lois Amelia Blow Laraby
John D. Miles (1867-1939)
Friday, May 10, 1940 At his home at Chateaugay Lake on Tuesday evening occurred the death of John D. Miles, following an impairment of health of about a year's duration from the effects of a shock which he suffered.
The deceased was born on the old homestead in the town of Bellmont 73 years ago, a son of the late William B. and Lydia (Kirby) Miles and has resided in that vicinity all of his lifetime. Mr. Miles followed the occupation of farming and also done considerable lumbering in the woods at Chateaugay Lake.
On November 1, 1890, he was united in marriage to Miss Settie A. Blow, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. David Blow, of Chateaugay Lake. Survivin g are his widow, one daughter, Mrs. Frank Lapoint, of Ellenburg, three sons, Theodore, of Mineville, Maurice, of Merrill, and Frank, of Chateaugay, 19 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren, many nephews, nieces and cousins.
Possessed of a pleasing manner he gained and retained the friendship of a wide circle of friends and there is yet to be found a man who does not speak of him as an upright and honorable citizen. As a neighbor he was regarded as a man of rare qualities, and in his death not onlye does the stricken family mourn, but the community in which he lived feels the loss of an esteemed member.
The funeral services were held on Thursday afternoon at the M. E. church in Brainardsville Rev. Mrs. W. S. Pittenger officiating. Interment was made in the Bunker Hill cemetary.
October 29, 1954
Mrs. Settie Miles is ill and being cared for by Mrs. Grace Johnson.
November 5, 1954
Mrs. Settie Miles Died Saturday After Long IllnessMrs. Settie Miles died at her home at Chateaugay Lake at 7:15 on Saturday evening, after a long period of ill health. The past two weeks her condition was such that it was known that she could not long survive.
The deceased was born on October 18, 1872, the daughter of the late David and Amelia (Hawksby) Blow. Her marriage to John D. Miles took place on November 1, 1890. He died May 7, 1939.
Surviving are two sons: Maurice J., Brainardsville; Theodore J., Mineville; one daughter, Mrs. Frank LaPoint, Brainardsville; a grandson John D. Miles has made his home with Mrs. Miles for the past 26 years. She also leaves 19 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Lois Laraby, of Elizabethtown; a brother, Grant Blow, of Chateaugay Lake.
Mrs. Miles was a member of the Chateaugay Lake Methodist church and of the Womans Society of Christian Service of that church. She will be greatly missed by her many friends whom she was always ready to help in time of need. Her cheery disposition made her much loved by young and old of this community.
Bessie, Maurice
Bessie, Frank, Maurice
Maurice, Bessie, Frank
Bessie Miles LaPoint
Bessie Miles LaPoint
Grandpa John, Maurice and John
John D. Miles
William Bell Miles (1824–1885) came to Franklin County in 1825 from Bath, NH with his parents, John D. and Martha Emerson Miles, who settled on the west side of Lower Chateaugay Lake adjacent to the Drew place. His father, sometimes referred to as “Squire Miles,”(1) was a stonecutter who learned his trade in Bath, where his brother operated a mill. John Miles and John B. Jackson, another early Chateaugay Lake settler, ran the Jackson and Miles mill,(2) located northwest of the bridge later known as “The Forge,” until it was taken over in 1826 by Roswell Weed.(3) In 1832, John was later supervisor of the Town of Chateaugay.(4) William’s surviving siblings were Adaline Young, Martha Jane Kirby, Olive Susan Cantwell, Abner, and Josephine Percy. Martha and Olive were schoolteachers in the early school district;(5) Olive later married William P. Cantwell of Malone, and was an instructor at Franklin Academy. William married Lydia A. Smith prior to 1850, who died in 1856. William then married Lydia Maria Kirby (1829–1902), When William enlisted in the Union Army, he left behind his wife with two young daughters, one of them an infant. During his later years, William was a farmer, and he served as superintendent of the local Methodist Sabbath school,(6) was a steward of the church,(7) and was an election supervisor in Bellmont.(8)
The letter that follows was written during William’s Civil War service in October 1861, at Camp Graham near Washington, D.C., where the 22nd Reg. NYSV was guarding the capital. The recipient, James Sweet of Chateaugay, was an ancestor of the late Dr. James Sweet, also of Chateaugay. In the letter, William mentions both Fanny and Ezra Sweet; Ezra worked in a sawmill on Chateaugay River near the Sweet family farm.(9)
Daniel Dockum(10) has provided information about William’s Civil War service:
William B. Miles was born October 30, 1824. He enlisted in the Union Army with the 22nd New York State Volunteers on April 28, 1861. He was 36 at the time but his enlistment record indicates that he was only 29. He enlisted in Schroon Lake, New York in Company I under the command of Captain Lyman Ormsby.
The 22nd NY was part of a brigade which contained the 22nd, 24th, 30th and 84th NY regiments. The 84th was also known as the 14th Brooklyn. The 2nd US Sharpshooters were also, at times, a part of the brigade.(11)
William’s statement “I have been only two days since I have been enlisted” is odd, considering his April 28, 1861 enlistment date. Has a word been omitted, such as ‘sick’, after ‘I have been’? Another anomaly concerning William’s service record was his age: although he was actually 36 when he enlisted, on his service record his age was given as 29. Finally, since most of the soldiers from Franklin County enlisted in Malone, why did William enlist as far away as Schroon Lake? Did he try to enlist locally, and was turned down because of his age? Did he lie about his age in order to be accepted, in an area where he was not personally known? Given the fact that other area soldier enlistees such as David Blow and Nathan Thurber were William’s friends and neighbors from Chateaugay Lake, it’s difficult to know.
William comments on his living conditions(12) (“…we have poor beds I have not slept on a bed since the twenty egith of last April only on the ground all last week and fore part of this we have had no shelter ober us a few cornstalks…) and gives some information regarding how he supplemented his income scavenging grease: “…the company makes my wages up to twenty dolars a month when I was in camp in washinton…I use to make three dollars a week a saveing grease…”(13)
Finally, William gives an account regarding how he shot a “rebel” soldier while on a scouting patrol: “…I shot one rebel it was when I was out on a scouting party he was behind an old stone chimey and he was first taking aim at one of our men and I was just behind of corn so he did not see me I just took aim and he fell…”
Dockum adds the following details regarding William’s Civil War Service:
The brigade served under Brigadier Generals E. D. Keyes, C. C. Auger, John Hatch, and finally, Colonel Walter Phelps who originally commanded the 22nd regiment.
The brigade was part of General lrwin McDowell’s Corps (Army of Virginia) in the early part of the war. Much of the regiment’s early service (June 1861 to August 1862) was in northern Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, protecting the capital city. They fought at Groveton and Gainesville, Virginia on the 28th and 29th of August 1862 and then in the second battle of Bull Run (Manassas) on August 30. Between these two battles, Union losses were 14,800 killed, wounded or missing. Confederate losses were 10,700 killed, wounded or missing.
General Joseph Hooker became the new Corps Commander and led them at South Mountain, Maryland on September 14, 1862 then at Antietam (Sharpsburg, Maryland) on September 17. The battle of Antietam resulted in more than 30,000 casualties making it the bloodiest day in US history. They then fought at Fredericksburg, Virginia on December 13, 1862. The Union lost 1,180 killed, 9,028 wounded and 2,145 missing in that battle. The final big battle for the 22nd was under Major General J. F. Reynolds at Chancellorsville, Virginia on May 1–4, 1863. The Union lost 1,512 killed, 9,518 wounded and 5,000 missing in that battle. Confederate losses were 1,581 killed (including Stonewall Jackson) 8,700 wounded and 2,000 missing.(14)
Soldiers of the 22nd then returned home to New York in June 1863. Records show that William Miles mustered out at Albany, NY on June 19, 1863.(15)
(1) Merrill, Charles E., The Old Guide’s Story of the Northern Adirondacks (Burlington, Vermont: George Little Press, 1973), 100.
(2) Seaver, Frederick J., Historical Sketches of Franklin County and its Several Towns with Many Short Biographies (Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Company, 1918), 174.
(3) Ibid.
(4) Hurd, Duane H., “Chateaugay,” History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York, (Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1880), 462.
(5) Seaver, 182, 176.
(6) “William B. Miles obituary,” Chateaugay Record, vol. 8, no. 4 (May 1, 1885).
(7) Hurd, 464.
(8) Hurd, “Bellmont,” 442.
(9) Recently, James Vaugh, a family member who now has the original letter among the papers left by Dr. James Sweet, contacted me regarding William Miles’ Civil War service. At a later date I received digital copies from James that were taken by his photographer friend in North Carolina.
(10) Daniel Dockum is a great-great grandson of William Miles.
(11) Correspondence to John Miles from Dr. Tom Clemens, a noted Civil War historian. Regarding the brigade and who was in it, Clemens cites Frederick H. Dyer’s Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, vol. 1 (Dayton, OH: Morningside Press Reprint, 1978), 284. Clemens comments further, “That the brigade was called the Iron Brigade can be found in William F. Fox’s Regimental Losses of the Civil War (Dayton, OH: Morningside Press Reprint, 1985), 117.”
(12) In quoting from the letter, I have retained William’s unique spelling and punctuation.
(13) Miles served as a cook for the 22nd NYSV.
(14) Christian J. Heidorf, Shoulder Arms! Letters and Recollections of the 22nd New York Volunteers and a Community at War (Glens Falls, NY: Chapman Historical Museum of the Glens Falls-Queensbury Historical Association, 1998). Correspondence to John Miles from Dr. Tom Clemens: “…casualty figures are from Heidorf’s book, the only history of the 22nd published.…”
(15) NY State Adjutant General’s Records, 22nd NY Vol. Inf., Albany, NY. Dr. Clemens was so kind as to respond to my queries regarding the information he gave to Dan Dockum several years ago.
I've created a new myspace page for anyone else in the family to come and visit. Right now I'm uploading all of the old photos but maybe I can create a blog. I'm also trying to remember what the music was that Settie and I used to listen to, as there should be a playlist.
See you there!
Here is the link:
myspace.com/grampmiles
