Glens Falls area in 1925 — Municipal forest expanded

A lot more trees were headed to the Glens Falls “municipal forest” on city watershed land a century ago.

“The city of Glens Falls has placed an order with the (state) Conservation Commission for 300,000 young trees for planting the coming spring at its municipal forest,” the Glens Falls Times reported on Jan. 19, 1925.

The city had started the forest in 1910 by planting 60,000 white pines, 5,000 Scotch pines and 25,000 Norway spruce.

Subsequent annual planting had brought total plantings to 800,000 trees.

The new plantings would expand the number of trees 37.5 %.

“When the trees ordered this year have been planted the city will yield a valuable crop of timber and in the meantime will protect its water supply.”

In other 1925 Glens Falls area news collected from historic newspapers of the region:

• Herbert J. Marriott of 13 ½ Lower Main St. in Hudson Falls won first prize in the Glens Falls Times ‘Make-Your-Own’ crossword puzzle design contest, the Times reported on Jan. 17.

The prize was $3 — the equivalent of $53.44 in 2024 dollars.

“Mr. Marriott produced a puzzle which is perfect in every respect, containing no foreign or obsolete words, carrying four unkeyed letters and four abbreviations. His design is regular and interlocking throughout.”

Mrs. Marcus C. Townsend of 15 Pearl St. in Glens Falls won the second prize of $2.

Mrs. F. H. Liedike of 27 Chester St. won third prize of $1.

• St. Mary’s Academy defeated La Salle Institution 37–15 in high school basketball, and Glens Falls High School defeated Whitehall 35–17.

“The more astonishing of the two local games was St. Mary’s Academy’s utter rout of the highly touted La Salle club,” The Post-Star reported on Jan. 17.

• Simon Yaffee of Glens Falls, a senior electrical engineering major, competed on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute wrestling team, The Post Star reported on Jan. 23.
• “The ice houses are all filled with what is said to be the finest grade of ice obtained here in a number of years,” the Fort Edward correspondent reported in The Post-Star on Jan. 26. “This is the first time in years that the job was completed so early.”
• Robert Cashion, a Glens Falls High School graduate, received varsity letters in football and basketball from Colgate University, the Glens Falls Times reported on Jan. 29.

L. J. Brilla of Whitehall received a varsity letter in soccer.

• “Ground has been broken for the new addition to the old Glens Falls Academy on Warren Street (where Warren Tire is now), which, when completed, will be the show rooms, garage and service station of Mott & Frasier, Cleveland, Chandler, Star and Durant dealers. Mott & Frasier expect to be in their new home on April 1,” the Glens Falls Times reported on Jan. 30.

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