Century-old Ti — Chautauqua

This is the latest in a series of posts about news reported a century ago in the Ticonderoga Sentinel.

The Ticonderoga Community Chautauqua was set to kickoff “six days of delightful and wholesome entertainment” the evening of July 15 under the big tent at the Butler Avenue grounds.

“Every child in the village is invited to meet on the grounds in front of the Central schoolhouse and take part in Junior Chautauqua Parade,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on July 14, 1921. “Dress in costume if possible, but come anyway. — We have hats and caps for you to wear.”

Featured entertainment on opening night was a group of Hawaiian singers and dancers.

Other entertainers throughout the week included Mordella Novelty Company, Beacon Concert Company, and Richmond’s Little Symphony Orchestra.

Lecturers included Alexander Cairns on “The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg,” Albert Edward Wiggam on “How Eli Got There,” and Dr. William Hung on “China in the World Drama.”

Season tickets cost $2.50 for adults and $1.25 for children — the equivalent of $38.56 and $19.28 in 2021 dollars.

In other July 14, 1921 Ticonderoga Sentinel news;

• Indirect impact of the strike at the Ticonderoga International Paper Co. mill, underway since May 1, was starting to show up in the community.

Civic and business leaders turned down a request from a semi-professional baseball team to relocate from Malone to Ticonderoga for the rest of the season.

“The Ti fans, while they would like to have a team in the field, are, on account of the paper mill strike and generally adverse business conditions, wary of taking up the proposition.”

• An investment group bought the Lake House hotel on the Gunnison property in Crown Point and redeveloped it as Camp Crown Point, a summer school for boys.

“The tens and bungalows occupied by the officers and students are lighted by electricity, as is the whole place, and are situated in a circle facing Lake Champlain, across which they get a view of unsurpassed beauty.”

Paramount motion pictures, shown every Thursday evening, were open to the public free of charge.

• Wisteria Productions was in Port Henry for about five weeks filming the motion picture “Cross Currents.”

The cast included Winifred Westover, Dolores Cassenilli, Marguerite Morris, Hope Sutherland, Florence Ashebrooke, Alice Chapin, Frank Sheridan, Joe King, Ed Roseman, Ralph Faulkner, and Frank Hagney.

• Roy Phillips, Wallace O’ Keefe and Fletcher Lee of Ironville spent the previous Sunday night at Silver Bay.

“The boys tell their hair-raising and nerve-wracking stories of how near they came to being stuck by lightning. What a comfort in the old saying, ‘A miss is as good as a mile.’”

• Mrs. Frederick Rafferty, Mrs. A.D. MacDougal and Mrs. E.M. Finkle donated green beans from their gardens to Moses-Ludington Hospital.
• News from Eagle Lake: “Mrs. Luthy’s pet woodchuck is still eating flowers in spite of the efforts of Boob McNutt.”

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