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VOLUME 50
NUMBER 31
TICONDEROGA, N. Y., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1923
SCHROON LAKE CARNIVAL PLOOF BOY MAY RECOVER
ESSEX CO. AT THE DAIRY
SHOW
LOTTERIES IN TICONDEROGA
MANY ATTEND HEALTH
CLINICS
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.50 PER YEAR
TI DEFEATS FAST NEWPORT TEAM
NOTHING DOING m POLI-
jnes
for 1Benefit Hope Entertained for Victim of
To Be Held Aug. 8-11
8-11 for
Crown Point R. R. CrossResident Swears Qnt Complaints Four in Essex County Last Week Myers' Fine Pitching and Bunch- Looks as if the Primary Election
of Catholic Church
and Prosecutions Will
Give Beneficial Results
;
ed Hits Brought 6 to 1
Will be a Tame Affair
ing Accident
The second annual carnival for
Start
At the Moses-Ludington hospital.
The Chest Consultation clinics'
Victory
Everything is very quiet in Essex
the benefit of the Church of Our
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Committee Named to Make Exhibit. Other Farm Items
Essex county will have an exhibit
When knowledge came to me of
Ticonderoga, this morning it is rea^ the National Dairy Show to be Lady of Lourd«s of Schroon Lake
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ported that there is some chance for the arrival of the carnival which was
held in Syracuse on Oct. 5th to 13th. will be held at that place on Wednesthe recovery of Amos Ploof, the in Ticonderoga July 11th to 14th, I
A committee to arrange for the ex- day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
eleven year old Port Henry boy, bad- determined to visit the same and if
hibit has been named as follows: Aug. 8-11. The committee announcly injured on Wednesday of last week there were violations of the law
^toMrt Phillips of Crown Point, Hon. es that, as in the case of last year's
in Crown Point when an automobile against lotteries to make complaints
L. Porter of Crown Point, successful and enjoyable carnival,
in which were he, his father, Joseph and try to have the violations supKelley of Keene Valley, H. E. there will be barrels of fun for all
Ploof; Wilbur Curran and Dewey pressed thus fulfilling the pledge
Potts and E. Mf. West of Willsboro, who attend, and, considering the ob- Weatherwax, all of Port Henry, was made by me in the columns of The
D. M. Johnson of Lewis, Hon. M. Y. ject of the carnival, it is expected struck at a crossing by a D. & H. Ticonderoga Sentinel some months
Ferris of Ticonderoga and F. C. that the attendance will be very train. The elder Ploof and Wilbur ago.. With this purpose in mind I
Smith of Westport. A committee is large. _ Among other attractions, Curran were killed and the boy and made such visits on the evenings of
being appointed in each county of the there will be sports and games of Dewey Weatherwax injured, the lat- July 11th and 12th and found lot3tate. Commissioner Berne A. Pyrke various kinds for young and old and ter not seriously. The boy sustained teries in operation,
is chairman of the State committee continuous free concerts and enter- a bedly fractured skull and if he reOn the first evening mentioned, afj tainments. Further details will be
and M. C. Burritt secretary.
covers, which is possible, it will be ter returning from the carnival
The Moriah Co-operative Associa- announced later.
something of the nature of the mi- grounds, I talked with Sheriff Wolfe
tion has done a ten thousand dollar
raculous . He is conscious, realizes on the phone, asking him to suppress
EXHIBIT OP JUNIOR ACHIEVE- where he is and what is going on the violations, which he* agreed to
business the past year.
MENT WORK
Essex county farmers have unaround him and is able to answer yes come to Ticonderoga and do on the
Announcement is made by Mrs. Al- or no to the physicians and nurses. 13th and he requested me to
usually good crops of alfalfa this
bert Weed, chairman of arrangeyear.
The two victims of shooting acci- visit the grounds again on the 12th
The first alfalfa field in the town ments of the carnival for the benefit
dents, Miss Lena Armstrong of Chil- and make further observations and
of Newcomb is being started on the of the building fund of the Mosesson
and Mrs. Robert Drake of report same to him between the hours
Ludington hospital, which is to be
John Anderson farm.
held in Ticonderoga on July 24th Schroon Lake, are also getting along of nine and ten in the evening, which
nicely, the hospital reports, and will I did. On this occasion he stated that
MANY AUTO ACCIDENTS SUNDAY and 25th, that one of the outstanding
recover. Miss Armstrong, while in he would surely be heard from" on the
Sunday was a day of automobile features of the carnival will be the
a boat on Fleming pond June 22d, following day
accidents on state roads in this sec- exhibit of work done by achievement
was shot in the abdomen when a rifle
I was inf.ormed, however, that the
tion but. as far as can be learned, clubs of Essex county. Miss Cathin the lands of a companion was oc- violations were continued on the
there were no fatalities or cases of erine Joubert, leader of the Lord
of the 13th, whereupon I
Howe Achievement Club of Ticonde- cidentally discharged. Mrs. Drake's aevening
seriously injured.
wound is also in the abdomen, caused S a i n talked with Mr. Wolfe, who
In Crown Point, on ill-fated In- roga, will have charge of the achievetook
by the accidental discharge of a .22
the position that upon investidian Ridge, a Buick closed car own- ment booth and demonstrations. The
rifle in the hands of a neighbor who gation he had found that the carni-ed by H. Tinnian of Bandon, Vt., boys and girls will have an attracTa
was
shooting
squirrels.
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had
been admitted to Ticondeskidded and upsot in the ditch with- tive exhibit of work in basketry,
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roga by the village board, that it was
out injury to any of the occupants of pyroxylin, sealing wax, sewing, milsponsored by the baseball team and
the car. The car, with a couple of linery, toymaking, lettering, etc. On LEAGUE TEAMS EXCEEDING SALARY LIMIT a P P r o v 6 d D v m o s t of the people. He
-wheels gone and the top smashed, Tuesday evening the achievement
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stated that a similar carnival had
clubs of Ticooideroga will stage demwas badly wccked.
been
P e r m i « e d recently at a nearby
These demonsLrations Ticonderoga and Burlington Only
Dr. Preusser of Port Henry and his onstrations.
point for t h e benefit
Ones Within the $600 Maxot the American
mother, in a Nash closed car, came to will be a try out for the selection of
Legion. He said that he did not feel
imum Agreed Upon
grief near the bridge just north of two successful teams to represent Tilike interfering against the wishes of
conderoga
in
Junior
Achievement
There are breakers ahead of the
the village when the steering gear
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nine-tenths of the people of TiconJ
locked and the car landed in the work at the Essex county fair in Au- , Green Mt. League ship and only cared e r o g a j u g t tQ p , e a s e ft f e w
r re_
ditch with its v/heels in the air. Neith- gust and in further competition at ful piloting will save the craft from
the Essex county fair for the free ( founderinf. The menace arises from m i n d e d h i m Qf h } g Q a t h
er was injured.
the law, upon which he stated that
A car ran into Clifford Parker of trip to the Eastern States Exposition excessive salaries paid by some it was necessary to use common sense
Ticonderoga in Elizabethtown and in Springfield, Mass, to be held from teams. When the league was organ- i n l a w e n f o r c e m e n t .
Sept. 16th to 22d.
badiy damaged his Buick.
ized it was agreed by members that
In fairness to Mr. Wolfe I wish to
the aggregate payroll of any team s t ate that on the evening of the 1 lth
should not exceed $600 per week. v / h e n h e a g r e e d io c o m e t ( j T i c 0 1 l d e .
Ticonderoga and Burlington have roga on the 13th, he had received no
h e l d t o the fetter of this agreement. hint that the carnival was sponsored
The 'others have not. The weekly by a local organization, but he undersalary aggregates of the four other stood it to have private gain solely
teams are running from eight to f o r i t s p u r p o s e
twelve hundred dollars. This condiT h p j d e a s e e m s t Q {)e q u j t e
preya.
tion has created general dissatisfac- I p n t t h a t 8 U c h U l j n g s a r P p e r m j s s a b l e
tion and, if the rush for players re- i f t h e p r o f l t I s n o t f o r p r | v a t e g a i n
gardlesP of price be continued, will b m f o r t n e p u b H ( , g o o d
T n e Jaw
make the lepgue race a lop-sided af- m a k e s n o s u c n d i 3 t i n c t i o n i a n d s u c h
fair and kill interest. The Ticonde- a p o s i t i o n i s u n t enable morally. As
roga and Burlington managers have x h a v e s t a t e d b e f o r e > the .influence of
filed protests with the league direct- s u c h l o t t e r i e S j w h e n s p o n s o r e d and
ors and it now remains to be seen u p h e l d b y g o o d p e o p I e i s m u c h m o r e
what they will do. Writing on this h a r m f u l t h a n w h e n t h e y f a i , t 0 n a v e
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such backing.
Souvenirs
COMPLETE LINE OF
Aluminum
AND
Leather Souvenirs
Take something with
you to remember
Ticonderoga by
Mail Orders Given
Careful Attention
L. C. DRAKES SONS
CASH DEPARTMENT STORE
ESTABLISHED 1873
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CARPETS, BOOTS, SHOES
AND RUBBERS
WALLPAPER AND BUTTERICK PATTERNS
Fhone36
Ticonderoga, N , Y.
held in Essex county last week were
With Myers pitching airtight ball ounty politics,quiet #ven to the poin t
well attended, and very successful.
and given brilliant support Ticonde- of stagnation. And this with the
They were held as follows:
On roga pn the home ground last Friday time for circulating designating peTuesday, at Ticonderoga, K. of C. afternoon registered a victory over titions at hand and the primary elechall; on Wednesday, at Port Henry, the strong Newport team by a count tion but a few weeks away. Up to
Red Cross rooms; on Thursday, at of 6 to 1. The Ticonderoga hurler his time there has been no announceSchroon Lake, in the school hall, and allowed but seven hits and these ment of condidacies for the Republion Friday, at Ausable Forks, in the w ere so widely scattered that they can nominations, for member of as-school hall.
did no damage. In the" sixth, how- sembly, county clerk, county treasurIn all 126 persons were examined e v er, he lost the range of the plate er and county superintendent of the
and X-rayed, and at all the points a n d , after walking two men, scored poor outside of the present holders of
through the county the physicians in one of them with a wild pitch. Ti- those offices. It is not at all likely,
each place came in with their patients conderoga did some lusty stickwork. at this !at^ date that any opposition
and remained through the clinic I n the fifth they bunched hits on will develop and the primary will be
hours, expressing their appreciation Chadwick for three runs, followed nothing more than a formal endorseof the value and need of the clinics, UP with another in the next inning ment of the candidacies of the incumboth to themselves and their sec- a n d in the eighth a cluster of hits bents of the above offices. That there
tions of the county, and anxious that s e n t two more runs clattering over s no opposition may be taken as a
such examinations might be held the pan. The batting heroes of the :ompliment, and one that is deserved,
more frequently, if possible.
game were Kochek, Harris, Beucher :o Assemblyman Porter, County
Practically every section of the a n d Myers, each making two hits, one lerk Barnard, County Treasurer
of
county was represented in those atKochek's being a triple and one Parker and Superintendent of Poor
tending the clinics. One family drove of Harris' a double. It was & prettty Braisted and an endorsement of the
fifteen miles in a horse and buggy, exhibition of timely hitting, every- efficient administrations they have
to be examined. One young man, one of Ti's six runs being earned, given as county servants.
missing the Port Henry clinic, went The box score.
Symptoms of scraps are to be obto the one at Schroon Lake at his
Newport
A.B. R. H. O. A. E. served, however, in various towns
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over town offices. The office of highown expense.
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w^lr*' *tu
0 3
way superintendent and collector
Eight children in a family where Mitchell 3b
1 1
will, as usual, be the chief bone of
the mother had died of tuberculosis Maloney, l b
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contention and it is certain that the
a few years ago came in to- be look- Keefe, c
primary in some of the towns will be
ed over, as did also a family of five R £ a ? h > c f
Chalmers, rf
anything but a funeral affair.
children where the father had died Snyder, If
recently.
Hill, p
This evidence of interest proves
TWO CATHOLIC CHAPELS
30 1 7 24 18 0
Rev. Father McCarthy, pastor of
that the laity themselves are realizA.B. R. H. O.
E. the newly establ#hed Catholic paring the need of just the sort of ser5 1 2 15 0 0
vice that the State Department of Harris, ss
4 0
5 0 ish in Hague, with Horicon as an out
Health makes available* when it send Wood/cf
4
0 3 1 0 mission, has announced to his con0
2 0 gregation that the erection of a
its staff of specialists and its equip- Moore, 3b
3
2 2
^0 0 chapel in HorfiSdn will be begun in
ment through the county.
Ford^' "
3 0
1 0 September anl pushed to completion •
Arrangements for another series of p a trus 2b
3 1
3 0
clinics to be held during the autumn Myers, p
3 1
5 0 as rapidly as circumstances will permit. He assured the people that
will be considered and it is hoped Burns, rf
2 1
mass would be celbrated in the new
can be carried through.
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6 10 27 18 0 church on Christmas day. A monthly
In this way, says County Nurse
S c o r e b y inning8:
Miss Casey, we feel we will be able Newport
_0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0-1 collection is taken for the building
to detect the disease while in the Ticonderoga-0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 x-6 fund, which is growing rapidly. Conearly stages where it Is curable, and u T w ° base hits—Norton Harris. 3- tributions are solicited from former
....
. , base hits—Norton, Kochek. Earned residents of the town, either of cash
in this way we can control its spread. r u n s > T 1 6 . B a s c s o n b a i l 3 _ O f f Hlli or material and fittings for the
With the aid of the clinics from 5, off Myers 3. Struck out, by Myers church. Socials will be held monththe State Department of Health, and 1- Double plays—Norton to Woodin ly by the ladies for the fund.
with the cooperation of the physi- t 0 Maloney, Myers to Harris to
Father McCarthy will also estabcians throughout the county, and Leffon' bas^—New]
lish a chapel at Huletts Landing for
with the interest of the people them- roga 7.
the benefit of the people of that secselves, we can be assured of success
Burlington 3, Ti 1
tion of his parish. A carnival dance
in keeping the people of Essex counPlaying on a muddy field Sunday to raise funds for this chapel will be
ty well and strong.
at Ticonderoga, the Burlington team held at the Landing next Tuesday
And this is the function of the Es- by bunching hits in the second, sev- night.
sev County Committee.
onth and eighth, counted once in
each frame and defeated Ti 3 to 1 in
SOUSA'S BAND AT LAKE PLACED
MOTORCYCLIST FATALLY INas pretty a game as one could wish
Lieut Com. John Philip Sousa and
Jl'RED
to seo. In each of these innings the
his band of eighty-eight pieces will
Raymond Thornton, 19, of West Vermonters collected three hits, z
be at the new Agora theatre at the"
Benkmantown, died in a Plattsburg couple of them of the scratch variety
Lake Placid club on the afternoon
hospital Monday night as a result of in order to get the winning runs and evening of July 28th. Thi3 is
a collision of a motorcycle and au- Oldenboom cculd not get his curves the opening of the club's new theatre
It is interesting to f-ompare the tomobile near Wilmington Sunday to working right with a wet ball and and the first appearance of John
SEAGLE SINGERS AT CROWNHo was in the side car of was not as effective as usual though Philip Sousa in Lake Placid. The
view point of Mr. Wolfe with that
POINT
of Ex-Governor Nathan L. Miller as a motorcycle that his brother Law- b.© pitched himself out of some tight
Several singers from the Oscar expressed at New York city Sept. rencp was driving. The cycle and a holes. He was given gilt edge sup- concerts will be held at 3:00 and
8:30 o'clock, daylight saving time.
Seagie music colony at Schroon Lake 29. 15*21.
Governor Miller said, r-ar driven by an officer from Platts- port by his teammates and tv/o of the
have been,secured to give a concert "Whr-i; we hp.vo laws it is neither burg
Barracks
collided.
Young plays behind him were real big AUTO ACCIDENT VICTIM STILL
at the Crown Point M. E. church on for the individual citizen nor for Thornton sustained a fractured skull league stuff.
In the third Harris
LIVING
Aug. 2d. This will be a concert of 'hose charged with responsibility for and died without regaining con- made a brilliant one-hand stop of
Arthur Strong, a Port Henry boy,
extraordinary merit, as some of the the executicn of the law to choose sciousness. His brother was unin- Whalen's slashing grounder over secwho was badly injured, his intesfinest singers in the United States what laws will be obeyed or enforced. jured.
.
, ond, stepped on the bag for a force tine being ruptured, two weeks ago_
come to Schroon Lake each summer Ir n o^ not rur» on« PV:1 to commit a
Essex county authorities are in- out of Norfeldt and by a quick snap hen his car plunged through a
O
to study with Oscar Seagie.
District to Kochek got Wh?len at first, comgreater evil. I cannot choose ihe vc-stigating the accident.
Details of the program will be an- laws which I will enforce. It is un- Artorney Brewster has examined pleting a lightning double play. In guard rail near Port Henry and
nounced next week, but plans are fortunate when any considerable Lawrence Thornton and will also ex-, the sixth Patrick doubled and tried turned turtle, is still living though .
his injuries were at first thought to
being riadr- for an entertainment body of the community feel that they minje Wilmington residents who wit-] to score on Mayfelt's single to right,
be fatal. He is in the Mineville hosvery m u d out of the ordinary. The are at liberty to choose the laws nessed the collision. Thornton alleg-il>ut Ford's quick and perfect return
pital and now has a good chance to
fp.me of the concerts given at the which they will obey."
ed in his affidavit, Mr. Brewster said, J of the ball to Wells, who speared it recover.
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Seagie place at Schroon Lake has
In further fulfillment of (he pledge that the automo'bile was on the with his bare hand, cut him down at
, been widespread, and opportunity is
mentioned before I have sworn out wrong side of the road. "I am not'the plate. Duba of Burlington also KEENE MAN AN AUTO VICTIM
j now to be offered this section to enformal complaints before Justice prepared to say that there wa* any got a big hand when he took Moore's
An automobile accident Tuesday
• joy a similar treat .
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;8mith against all those whose names criminality," the District Attorney i
morning sent Burton Torrance of
jlI know whom I saw engaged in the said, " but we intend to make a thor-'
Keene Valley to a Plattsburg hospital
i LIGHTNING STRIKES BARNS AND
violations. I have shown no favor- ough investigation. Sheriff Wolfe is MOSES-l/h>INOTON HOSPITAL
with one arm broken and badly
\
HOUSE
CARNIVAL PLANS COMPLETED wrenched. The injury resulted from
itism but have included friends and co-operating with me."
i A severe electrical storm that pass- business customers and fellow church
The committees having the coming a collision between his car and anj ed over this section Sunday afernoon members. In a letter under date of SIX MILLION TREES PLAXTJED US- carnival for the benefit of the Mosesother, owned by Bert Tryon, also of
ESSEX COUXTY
idid much damage in Vermont. The July 14th District Attorney Brewster
Ludington hospital in charge have
All previous records in planting completed their work and are now, Keene. The Torrance car was overdwelling house and barn of Henry has assured me that arrests and
forest trees on private land were looking forward to a successful finan- turned and he was thrown out.
; Donar in Bridport were struck by
prosecutions will follow.
I have
lingtning and both were totally de- done this because I have become con- eclipsed during^ the spring season
al realization of their efforts.
stroyed. In Cornwall two barns own-,' vinced that with the help of-a few just passed. The counties of the Ad- As heretofore stated the carnival FROM PRISON TO UNIVERSITY
George Lewis oi Crown Point, who
. ed by Samuel Jewett were struck an earnest citizens lotteries in Ticonde- jirondacks and Catskill regions where will open Tuesday afternoon, July
large tracts of state land are located 24th, in the K. of C. hall at 2:00 graduated last month from the Uni• burned.
i roga can be suppressed, and I behave,the highest records. Franklin o'clock. Here will be found a won- versity of Illinois, has accepted a po; lieve that I can secure that necessary
county leads with 13,503,000, Essex derful array of carnival activity, with sition as instructor in physiological
BLISTER RUST FIGHTERS
help.
comes next with 5,999,000 and Orange the various booths displaying their chemistry in the University of MichiThere are forjty men at the camp ,
Chas. C. Holden.
county third with 3,229,000. Fulton, wares to tempt the most exacting gan at Ann* Arbor. The young man
for blister rust, fighters established
Oneida, Oswego, Otsego and Saratoga buyer. Each of the five local church- is employed this summer as a guard
'• at Johnson Pond in the town of North
ADVERTISING SCHROON LAKE
counties have all planted more than es will have a booth, as will the Girl at the Windsor, Vt., state prison."
Hudson and much is being accom7/.- town of Schroon will hold a 1.000,00p trees.
plished towards eradicating this disScouts, and to addition there will be
special town me z'Av.% on July 31st to
DOYLE IX ADIRONDACKS
ease from our pine trees.
a food booth, where food will be sold
vote on a proposition to appropriate
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the faTHROWN
PROM
HORSE
RAKE
both
days
of
the
carnival,
and
five hundred dollars for advertising
mous English author, and his wife
Ross Brooks, well known Crown where delicacies will be found that
LIGHTNING KILLED COWS
: th' ?rn ;? a ?ur.mcT and winter reand children are at Loon Lake forPoint farmer, was badly bruised and, will please the taste of old land
During a severe thunderstorm Satthe summer.
uruay night four valuable young cows sort. Knowing thzt'a number of re- shaken up Tuesday when his team, young. Besides there will be a booth
placeg
rQ u g e d t W g a d v e r t i s i
hitched to a rake, ran away and he for candy and ice cream and a duck
belongmg to Lee Moore, an Ironville.
c e l l e n t r e 5 U k s i t u was thrown to the ground.
He was pond for the children. The local
Crown Point, farmer
struck and probable that e xthe
question will
killed by lightning.
tortunate to escape with no broken Court of Amaranth will have a booth
Sentinel Adira. Pay
carried.
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