19th century Schroon Lake — Capturing a bear

He thought he saw a bear. He did see a bear. He trapped the bear.

“John Laymond, the seventeen-year-old son of Dan Laymond, the experienced and successful lumberman, caught a large bear at North Hudson this week,” the Schroon Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 25, 1895. “This young man has spent three terms at the Moriah Academy and is spending his summer this year in trapping bears. A good beginning for a young man.”

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

• “C. F. Taylor is about to resume work on the new hotel and boarding house,” the South Schroon correspondent reported in the Ticonderoga Sentinel on March 21, 1879. “He filled his icehouse last week. The ice crop is very good and is much more plentiful here than potatoes and hay.”
• Schroon Lake was a multi-lingual community in the 19th century, as evidenced by Dr. J. H. Potter’s advertisement in the Ticonderoga Sentinel on Dec. 13, 1878 offering free consultations in French, German, English and Spanish.
• “Mrs. Thilo and Miss Josie Bostwick will next week open a first-class millinery establishment in the parlors of the Ball House,” the Schroon Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 9, 1895.
• “The baseball game between the Schroon and Pottersville nines, which took place at Pottersville recently, was a walk-over for our boys,” the Schroon Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 9, 1895 “A return game will be played here in short time. Henry Thayer is more than an ordinary pitcher and to him is due in a great measure the victory.”
• “Mrs. Putnam, wife of the well-known New York publisher, and her friend, Miss Davenport, who have spent several seasons at Paradox Lake, are guests at the Adirondack Inn,” the Schroon Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 9, 1895.
• “Whitney & Wood, livery men of this place, have leased of M. O’Connor the Ondawa barns and will run them in connection with their livery stable, which is connected with the Leland House. Emerson Rhodes of Crown Point will have charge of the Ondawa stable,” the Schroon Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 18, 1895.
• “Pathmaster Whitney has made a decided improvement in the sidewalk on the Congregational Church corner by grading and lowering the walk nearly two feet. The street will be further improved by the addition of a new church fence,” the Schroon Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 18, 1895.
• “William McKenzie has returned from his winter’s business in South Carolina and will open his Grove Point House in a few days for the reception of guests,” the Schroon Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 18, 1895.
• “The Leland House will be supplied with pure spring water this year from a mountain spring one and one-half miles from here,” the Schroon Lake correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 25, 1895. “The pipe is already laid, and the plumbing in the house will soon be completed under the direction of Fred Talbot, an experienced plumber from Crown Point.”

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