19th century Stony Creek — Lively Christmas Eve

It was a lively Christmas Eve.

“This is getting to be a progressive town, as evidenced by the fact that we had a Christmas Tree (social) at the church, a Free Methodist meeting at the schoolhouse, a dance at Dean’s Hall and a fight at the hotel, all on Christmas Eve,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Dec. 29, 1894.

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

• Stony Creek was catching up with modern communications technology.

“The telephone line is completed and works perfectly,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star of Glens Falls on Nov. 2, 1894. “Mr. Hemstreet has put in a phone in the grist mill and, no doubt, all the business places will have them eventually, and then we will be abreast of the times.”

• “A train of fifty-six cars loaded with wood went down the Adirondack Railroad last Sunday,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Nov. 3, 1894.
• “Dogs are to be taxed this year. Supervisor Winslow has posted notices notifying owners that this is the case,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Nov. 16, 1894.
• “Winter has come at last. Snow enough has fallen so that people are using sleighs,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Nov. 15, 1894.
• “Mrs. W. Mills has sold her cow to Charles Cudney of Corinth for thirty dollars. … D. M. Dunlap killed a spring pig on Monday that weighed 300 pounds,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Nov. 24, 1894.
• “Charles Gill has purchased a new coal stove from a firm in Syracuse,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Dec. 17, 1894.
• “Large quantities of pulp wood is being hauled from Harrisburg to the station since the late snowfall,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Jan. 5, 1895. “Bark is being drawn to the tannery and business begins to brighten up.”
• “Eugene Combs has taken possession of the Aldrich Store and has opened a barber shop,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on March 2, 1895.
• “Over 150 carloads of pulp logs and about the same of pulp wood have been shipped from the station this week,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on March 9, 1895.
• “L. W. Brooks and Charles Swanson, two of our veteran lumbermen, are just getting home from their jobs in in Herkimer County. They report a successful winter’s jobbing,” the Stony Creek correspondent reported in The Morning Star on March 23, 1895.

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