1925 Lake George — First traffic jam of the season

It was a sign of spring at Lake George.

“A large number of cars passed through this village yesterday,” the Lake George correspondent reported in The Glens Falls Times on March 23. “This was the first large traffic of the season in this village, and it is expected that the traffic will continue to grow from now on.”

It would not be long before the ice was out.

“The ice on the lake has practically disappeared and only in a few places any ice is left, and the ice will disappear within a few days, making the water of the Old Horicon again free to flow its course,” the Times reported on April 2.

The thaw continued.

“The ice has gone out 0f the lake completely and yesterday saw some of the boat owners making preparations to place their boats in the water,” the Lake George correspondent reported in The Post-Star on April 3.

“Lake George is now clear of ice, two weeks earlier than during the last ten years. … Small boys and grownups are today showing their trout tackle and matching their ‘Walton’ skills with the speckled beauties that have wriggled and slept unmolested through the long winter, now but a memory,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on April 9.

“The first motorboat to be seen in the water this season was discovered tied to the public wharf yesterday morning,” the Lake George correspondent reported in The Post-Star on April 18.

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

• Railroad infrastructure work was commencing at Lake George a century ago.

“The Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company is rushing to complete its balloon track at Lake George which will replace the old-time turntable,” The Glens Falls Times reported on Feb. 20. “The work team and a gang of men were sent to Lake George today. The company expects to have the track laid so that it may be used as soon as the frost is out of the ground.”

• “Painters are at work on the outside of the Hotel Maynard which is being overhauled,” the Lake George correspondent reported in The Post-Star on April 3.
• “The Lake George Lightning baseball team has organized for the season. … The ages of the players are between 14 and 16 years of age.” The Lake George correspondent reported in The Glens Falls Times on May 2.
• The Lake George High School was set to present that evening a fund-raising entertainment at Odd Fellows Hall that included the short plays “The Sniggles Family” and “Parted by Patience,” the Lake George correspondent reported in The Post-Star on May 2.

The program also would include monologues by Anne Sisson and vocal solos by Mrs. Louis Boulin.

“Tickets for the affair have sold to most of the residents, and a number of women have volunteered to act as patronesses.”

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