1925 Glens Falls — Girl Scout meal preparation contest

Mirror, mirror on the wall — Which Girl Scout troop can prepare the finest meal of them all?

Mrs. J. T. Finch put up prizes of $5 each for the two area Girl Scout groups which planned the finest meals.

Taste was not the only element of the competition.

Scouts also were critiqued on presentation and serving.

“This is a home dinner and is without the services of a maid,” The Glens Falls Times reported on March 23. “These two tables will be set out at our outdoor rally in June.”

In other 1925 Glens Falls area news collected from historic newspapers of the region:

• “Spader Johnson (Mose Brown), dean of the clowns with the Barnum and Bailey and Ringling Brothers Circus, and a former resident of Glens Falls is ill at his home in Tottenville, Staten Island, and is unable to attend rehearsals for the opening of the season in Madison Square Garden in New York Saturday,” The Post-Star reported on March 26.

Johnson had recovered from pneumonia and rejoined the circus at Baltimore, The Post-Star reported on May 29.

Brown, who used the stage name Spader Johnson, was born in Glens Falls and grew up on Cherry Street, but he had not been back to the city for many years.

• William J. Gates was promoted from assistant chief to chief of the Glens Falls Fire Department.

“Chief Gates has been a member of the local fire department since 1894 when he joined the Cunningham Hose Company,” The Glens Falls Times reported on March 28.

• The Glens Falls Academy basketball team defeated Fort Edward 39–26 in the final game of the season for both teams, the Times reported on March 23.

“Glens Falls held the situation well in hand throughout the game although the visitors put up an excellent exhibition.”

• “The new library which is being built in Chestertown in the rooms over the barber shop is fast approaching completion,” The Post-Star reported on March 23.
• “John Schleiger, clerk of the Woodlawn Hotel, claims the honor of seeing the first robins in the south end of the village. Mr. Schleiger a few mornings ago saw two red breasts perched on a limb of the tree near the hotel,” the Hudson Falls correspondent reported in The Post-Star on March 23.
• Glens Falls merchants were prepared for the annual Cooperative Spring Opening event to be held March 26–28.

“Virtually every Glens Falls store which carries anything in the wearing apparel line will cooperate in making this one of the biggest and best spring openings held in this city,” The Post-Star reported on March 25.

• Dr. Harry Depan of South Street, an avid sportsman, organized a local chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America.

“The Walton League is a national body of sportsmen who are fighting the game hog and the stream polluters and who are conducting an education campaign among sportsmen of all classes to prevent the useless slaughter of game and gamefish and careless burning of our forests,” The Glens Falls Times reported on March 27.

• “Walter Barbard furnished the entertainment for the Rotary luncheon held this week. He read several poems composed by himself. His poem on ‘The Old Sheep Farm’ was especially interesting. It was published in a college paper,” the Times reported on March 27.

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