Century-old Ti — W.C.T.U not ‘a band of old hens’

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

The local Women’s Christian Temperance Union chapter had a charitable as well as social advocacy focus, the South Ticonderoga correspondent to the Ticonderoga Sentinel asserted.

“Some people seem to labor under the erroneous idea that we are a band of old hens seeking to make trouble for some booze seller, etc. While we would gladly stir up trouble for the said bootleggers, it is not our only aim in life,” the correspondent wrote in the June 30, 1921 issue. “Our chairwomen, Mrs. Knights and Mrs. Ira Bartholomew, think of many other things we can do to gladden people’s lives — share our flowers with the sic, lend the helping hand to the down and outers, etc.”

The next meeting on July 12 would be a sewing bee of children’s garments.

“All members please bring needles and thread and come by two o’clock. … We hope to be able to do some poor, tired mother a whole lot of good.”

In other news reported in the June 30, 1921 Ticonderoga Sentinel:

International Paper Co., for a second time, rejected a union request to submit a contract dispute to arbitration, even as more than a dozen other smaller paper companies in United States and Canada were beginning the arbitration process.

IP employees, including those at the company’s Ticonderoga mill, had been on strike since May 1.

The Crown Point mail carrier and assistant carrier counted mail boxes on the route, and determined the total number of mail boxes was the same as went the route was established in 1911, but the geographic layout was different.

“From the office to Ironville, the number was about the same, but less from there over Hogback. Over the hill there were more.”

The Rev. S.B. Smith, a recent graduate of Colgate Seminary, was holding services for the summer at Hague Baptist Church.

Roman Catholics were monitoring the weather.

“In Catholic churches of northern New York, located in the diocese of Ogdensburg, prayers were made Sunday for rain. The continued dry weather is causing loss of crops.”

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