1925 Graphite — Filling ice houses

Sweed Pond was a busy place in the winter of 1925.

“The local people are filling their ice houses this week from Sweed Pond. Ice is eleven inches thick,” the Graphite correspondent reported in The Post-Star on Jan. 13.

“John McKee has filled the icehouse from Sweed Pond,” the Graphite correspondent reported in the Ticonderoga Sentinel on Jan. 29.

In other 1925 Graphite news collected from historic newspapers of the region:

• “All the people in this section are very glad of the stand The Post-Star has taken against bootlegging,” the Graphite correspondent reported in The Post-Star on Feb. 19. “As we are living on the bootleg trail, we know something about the dirty business they are engaged in.”
• “The people in this section are very glad that Fletcher Beadnell is to be our mail carrier for the next four years,” the Graphite correspondent reported on Feb. 26. “The Beadnells have lived here many years and have always been good neighbors.”
• “Merritt Lamb of Bolton Landing came over a few days ago and swapped horses with Fletcher Beadnell,” the Graphite correspondent reported on March 5.
• “Lee Frasier has moved into one of the American Graphite Co. houses,” the Graphite correspondent reported in the Ticonderoga Sentinel on Jan. 29.
• “Wallace Hudson has returned home after being away for the past two years, and, by all appearances, is glad to be back. Part of the time was spent in Chicago and the rest of the time was at the U. S. Air Services in Detroit,” the Graphite correspondent reported on Feb. 19.
• “Mr. Rhoades, the lineman of Ticonderoga, was in town Saturday to clear out lines and fix the telephones. We have been very lucky not to have had more this winter, as the woods are very hard up here at times,” the Graphite correspondent reported on March 12. “We all like Mr. Rhoades up this way. No matter how dreary the day, he is always pleasant and looking and expecting better days.”
• “The farmers are busy getting ready to make maple sugar and syrup. Some have already tapped and say the sap runs very good. All are afraid of a short season,” the Graphite correspondent reported in The Post-Star on March 12.
• “Fred Bolton is taking down the building known as the old boarding house owned by Graphite Co. and will use the lumber to erect a building on his place,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on March 26.