ADK New Year — 1890

Employees at this Lake Luzerne factory didn’t appear to resent that New Year’s Day was not a paid holiday.

“The employees at West’s Mill presented their superintendent, James Mulrennan, on New Year’s Day, with a very handsome office chair,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Jan.3,1890.

In another New Year’s gift: “Miss Emma Wallace of Pottersville has received, through Groswold &Dunn, of that place, a fine piano. It is a New Year’s gift from her father,” The Morning Star reported on Jan. 1.

There was a celebrity wedding at Glens Falls on New Year’s Eve.

Charles M. Miller, better known as “Brocho Charlie,” was set to marry married Carrie E. Potter at 10 a.m. at the Bay Street, Glens Falls home of Bethuel Witherill, grandfather of the bride, The Morning Star reported on Dec. 31, 1889.

The Rev. George Collyer, pastor of Glens Falls Methodist Episcopal Church, officiated at the ceremony.

Miller, a wild-west showman who reportedly was a pony express rider, is buried at Bay Street Cemetery in Glens Falls.

Champagne was not served at this New Year’s Eve event.

“Last night a good-sized audience assembled at the (Glens Falls) Baptist Church to hear Rev. De. Gow read selections relating to temperance,” The Morning Star reported on Jan. 1. “The event was under the auspices of the Young Women’s Christian Temperance Union, a number of members of which society occupied front seats, as did the Loyal Legion, comprised of children.”

Mrs. Wallace Cole received the prize for best lady waltz dancer and James Hickey for best jig dancer at the New Year’s night dance that G. W. Murray’s Orchestra conducted at Corinth, The Morning Star reported on Jan. 3.

Dr. H. Allen, “an experienced dancer and musician,” was judge.

“Although it rained very hard there were thirty couples present.”

Seventy-two couples attended a New Year’s ball that Major Rising and his wife hosted at Chestertown.

“An orchestra from Schroon Lake rendered excellent music,” The Morning Star reported on Jan.3. “In getting up dances, Major Rising and his estimable wife cannot be beaten.”

About 40 “young people” attended a New Year’s night “social hop” that Mr. and Mes. Ernest Day, Nettie Hill, Ida Haviland and Gloria Norton organized at the Knights of Labor hall in the Opera House block at Glens Falls.

“Music during the early part of the evening was rendered by Miss Simms at the piano, but when the affair closed she was assisted by a four-piece orchestra that had played there,” The Morning Star reported on Jan.3.

The dance lasted until 2 a.m.