Century-old Ti — Strike up the band
This is the latest in a series of posts about news reported a century ago in the Ticonderoga Sentinel.
The Ticonderoga Band opened its summer 1920 outdoor concert series on June 1.
“A sweltering evening it was — just the kind that drives people outdoors and makes music in the open air very enjoyable,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on June 3, 1920. “Needless to say, the park and vicinity were packed with people and automobiles and the well selected and well rendered program was thoroughly enjoyed.”
Streetroad School was set to celebrate the last day of classes with a “picnic on the pines” in O.H. Johnson’s pasture.
George E. Cook, jeweler, opened at a new location adjoining the Drake Store.
“With the interior fitted up nicely and a plate glass window added, the new storefront is in every way more attractive than that which he formerly occupied on South Main Street.”
A group of area business men applied for a charter to establish the Carillon National Bank.
Members of the group were Forest B. Wood, LeRoy R. Mead, Alvin M. Barton and Charles E. Holden of Ticonderoga and William A. Keenan of Hague.
They planned to invest $50,000 — the equivalent of $613,370 in 2020 dollars — in start-up capital.
Two young men that grew up in Ticonderoga were active in the clergy.
John Mulroy Jr. was to be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest June 13, at Denver, Colorado.
“A brilliant young man and earnest in his church work. The future has much promise for him.”
The Rev. Robert Hack, son of Lester G. Hack of North Ticonderoga, was appointed pastor of Clarksville Methodist Episcopal Church, near Albany.
“Mr. Hack is also working and speaking for the Anti-Saloon League during four days of each week. He is a very busy man.”
The Ticonderoga baseball team lost 17–11 to Crown Point at Crown Point on Memorial Day.
J.P. Boyle of Crown Point was appointed special agent for the Census Bureau.
Riordon Paper Co., parent company of Ticonderoga Pulp & Paper Co., merged with W.C. Edwards Co. and the Gilmore and Hughson Co. to form a Canadian conglomerate that owned 12,000 square miles of forest land.
Fletcher Beadnell of Graphite bought a new Cleveland automobile.
The Graphite correspondent predicted he would come to realize that he would rather have a Buick.
“Trust Fletcher to try them all, but he always comes back to the Buick.”
G.H. Adkins was attending a meeting of the Adirondack Bee Keepers at Cedarwood Apiary in Lake George.
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