19th century Chestertown — Horseshoeing record

It was a feat that made his hometown proud.

“Michael Sullivan, a popular Chester boy, now residing at West Stony Creek, shod in one day twenty-one horses, besides doing considerable repairing,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star of Glens Falls on March 1, 1890. “Beat that, if you can. And if you do, Mike will set you up another pattern.”

In other 19th century Chestertown news collected from historic newspapers of the region:

• “Thanks to Mrs. H. H. Downs, the public library here is an assured feat,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Aug. 6, 1895. “Through her efforts the amount required has been raised, rooms have been secured in Gold and Moody’s furniture store, and the volumes of choice reading matter will soon be placed at the disposal of the public.”
• “Most of the city guests have departed for their houses. The season has been one of the best ever known to this section,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Sept. 8, 1894.
• “Jessie Thurston is putting in a new carriage and track at the sawmill. When completed, he will have one of the best equipped sawmills in the section,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Nov. 24, 1894.
• “About 100 cords of bark daily is being received at the Chester tannery,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Jan. 19, 1895. “The bark from the Griffin tannery, a distance of thirty miles, is being brought here, giving employment to a large number of teams.”
• “The bark at the Griffin tannery has all been hauled here. Upwards of 100 teams were engaged in the hauling. Good wages were made, the price being five dollars per ton,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Feb. 2, 1895.
• “Bark drawing to Chester tannery is nearly completed. A more favorable winter has not been had in years,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on March 2, 1895.
• “Weather signals are displayed at the telegraph office every day, a set having just been received from the weather bureau at Washington,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Feb. 2, 1895.
• “Kettinbach Brothers have connected their house and store by telephone,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on March 2, 1895.
• “Mrs. Henrietta Smith has been making extensive repairs to her dwelling house, which, together with fresh paint, materially improves its appearance,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on April 5, 1895.

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