19th century Hague — Snow for Thanksgiving

Hague had a white Thanksgiving.

“The first snow of the season came Tuesday night. About two inches,” the Hague correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Nov. 25, 1893. “Brayton Baldwin has commenced grading for the foundation of a new barn which he intends to build in the spring.”

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

• “A deer was killed in the western part of the town on Friday last. Mr. Watson bought the head, paying seven dollars for it,” the Hague correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Oct. 14, 1893.
• “Two lady evangelists, Mrs. Gordon of Wentworth, N.H., and Mrs. Roscoe of Proctor, Vt., are holding a series of meetings at the Wesleyan Methodist Church this week,” the Hague correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Nov. 11, 1893.
• “Bears are unusually numerous in the north woods this winter,” The Morning Star reported on Dec. 8, 1893. “In Hague, Eugene Doolittle, Daniel Archer, Jay Leech, and Edward Roberts each trapped a bear.”

Bear-sightings at Hague were not uncommon.

“Henry Shattuck killed a bear last week that weighed 250 pounds,” the Hague correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Jan. 13, 1894.

• “There has been a further reduction in wages at the graphite mine. Common laborers are now getting one dollar and fifteen cents (the equivalent of $40.88 in 2023 dollars) per day,” the Hague correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Feb. 10, 1894.
• “There will be a horse race on Lake George opposite Hague Center on Saturday, 10th,” the Hague correspondent reported in The Morning Star on March 3, 1894.
• Incumbent Hague Supervisor Albert Dolbeck, with 93 votes, won reelection against Republican John J. Wilson, who received 73 votes, in a year when Republicans generally polled well around Warren County, The Morning Star reported on April 5, 1894.

“To the Democratic mind, Hague presents the only oasis of hope in the desert of defeat. In that town they saved the head of their ticket, but the Republicans succeeded in capturing several of the other offices.”

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