19th century Luzerne — Cobweb party

This fun social was somewhat the 19th century equivalent of Twister.

Each player chose a string and followed it through an intertwined web that stretched from room to room to find a prize at the end — encountering comical interactions when getting tangled up in the process.

“A cobweb party will be given in the Presbyterian Church Thursday evening,” the Luzerne correspondent to The Morning Star reported on Nov. 20, 1890.

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

• It was a busy tourism season at Luzerne.

“Our hotels are doing rushing business just now,” the Luzerne correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Aug. 15, 1890. “The Wayside Inn has about 125 guests, the Rockwell House, about the same number, the River View 60 guests, and all the private boarding houses are nearly full.”

• Druggist W.W. Kendrick was sending his remedies on the road.

“Nelson LaSalle (of Glens Falls) is making a substantial and attractive advertising wagon for W. J. Kendrick, the Luzerne druggist,” The Morning Star reported on Oct. 9, 1890. “From the wagon will be dispensed spruce cough balsam and other of Mr. Kendrick’s remedies. J.J. Lawler of Troy will act as salesman.”

• “Henry Wright has opened a barber shop in the late widow Powers’ building on Morton’s Corner,“ the Luzerne correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Nov. 28, 1890. “The town now has three barbershops and there is no reason why the people of L:uzerne should wear full beards.”