19th century Stony Creek — Late thaw

The late thaw was hampering industry at Stony Creek.

“Hall’s steam mill has been shut down for some time because the remaining logs are held fast in the embrace of old Jack Frost by being frozen into the ice on their pond,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on April 5, 1895.

Another mill owner was taking advantage of down time to make improvements.

“A. D. Scribner is putting on an addition to his steam mill to be used as a manufactory of chair stock.”

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

• “Town meeting was a tame affair in Stony Creek,” The Morning Star reported on April 4, 1895. “There was only one ticket in the field and only seventy votes were cast. The registration last fall was 340.”
• “Asabel Holmes who, who runs the Creek Center and West Stony Creek stage, has moved into his new house at Creek Center and is now running daily trips,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 4, 1895.
• “Although sixteen months has eclipsed since the post office was removed from Dunlap’s store, a party living not two miles from Creek Center called there the other day and inquired for mail,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 11, 1895.
• “The recent frost damaged fruit trees very much in this vicinity,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 18, 1895. “Nine years ago, your correspondent saw the ground white with snow the morning of the 25th of May, and twenty-one years ago we had a foot, and back on hills eighteen inches, of snow which came the last day of April and lasted for four or five days. It is well enough to be looking backward every now and them.”
• “Our mail and stage route to the station has changed hands again. James Cahill and Scott Hemstreet bought out Alfred McDougal, the former proprietor, along with the livery business,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 18, 1895.

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