Adirondack Enterprise, March 8, 1927 (reprinted in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise of March 19, 1962)
ELECTIONS
Political fate of parties and individuals will be decided one week from today in the annual village election and the taxpayers will act on improvement propositions totaling $71,000.
A total 2,731 persons registered and about one thousand of these as taxpayers could vote on the propositions.
Personal registration went into effect for the March election here for the first time this year. Names of 2,171 voters were copied from the town lists of last fall, when personal registration went into effect.
This total was increased to 2,731 when 560 additional voters appeared to register in person, predicting one of the largest votes even cast in Saranac Lake.
Though the Democrats and Republican had been working hard since caucus time, little discussion of the election had been heard around the village.
Interest has been manifest in the propositions, and it is evident that many are not aware mat the village will pay only one-third of the $66,000 bond issue asked to finance the paving of Petrova avenue. The other proposition is for $5,000 to raise the sidewalk level and provide a curb and gutter along Lake Flower Avenue. This expense would be borne entirely by the village.
In the case of two of the candidates, the campaign is being carried on by their friends, James Mannix being incapacitated by a broken shoulder bone suffered at the ice harness meet on Moody pond, and Eddy Whitby being convalescent from a severe illness.
Mrs. Mannix [sic] is a Republican and Mr. Whitby a Democratic candidate for village trustee.
Hartley W. Taylor, Republican, and Joseph J. O'Connell, Democrat, are the other trustee candidates.
For village president Fred C. Conrad, Republican incumbent, is opposed by John C. Morgan, Democrat. Eugene Keet, Republican candidate for re-election as assessor, is opposed by William S. Ames, Democrat.
Fragmentary copies of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise from March of 1933 had been used as insulation and were found in remodeling a house on Broadway into apartments. What follow are typescripts of articles of local interest that are legible; sometimes they are only partial.
March 14, 1933
Kiwassa Road To Be Built at $7,000 Cost
Town Board, Highway Superintendent Fix $13,678 as Tentative Figure for Year's Road Work; Will Employ Extra Laborers
An agreement for the expenditure of $13,678.40, set as the tentative figure for town highway construction and maintenance during the coming year, was arrived at by the Harrietstown town board and Alvin S. Whitman, town highway superintendent, at the town hall yesterday. The board and highway superintendent decided on permanent improvement of one and one quarter miles of town highway starting from the village line and running to Kiwassa lake, at an expenditure of $7,000. They fixed $5,250 as the sum for highway, culvert and sluice maintenance along the 70 miles of road in the town system, at an average cost of $75 per mile. Left in the reserve fund there tentatively remains $1,428.40, the residue of which will be spent late next fall after spring and summer repairs made necessary by storms, floods or other ungovernable factors. The highway estimate showed $1,560.90 as the balance, highway fund, all other monies. Town highway tax levied is shown as $8,500, and state aid to be recieved is estimated at $2,607.50. Mr. Whitman said construction of the Lake Kiwassa road will be started in May or June and will give employment for two or three months to about 25 Saranac Lake laborers. The board approved his suggestion that the town operate its own crusher, with consequent employment of local men, rather than buy stone for the road from an out-of-town contractor. Supervisor Dan S. Foster suggested that the State Temporary Relief administration might be induced to pay 40 per cent of the labor costs, if the project were approved as work relief. Distribution of town purchases of insurance and gasoline was suggested by several board members. They recommended that Mr. Whitman "shop around" for figures on gasoline. Mayor Seaver . . . [fragment]
c. 1933
Frances Parker Is Married to Peter A. Haase
Quiet Ceremony Unites Two of Saranac Lake's Most Prominent Families; Engagement Had Been Revealed to Friends
The marriage of Miss Frances Parker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Stanley Parker of Altavista lodge, to Peter Augustus A. S. Haase, son of Mrs. Marie Haase of Pinehurst was revealed today by parents of the bride and groom.The event took place quietly Saturday evening, Dr. and Mrs. Nelson Johnson attending the couple. Eugene Christian, justice of the peace, performed the ceremony. Plans for a religious ceremony and bridal trip were being made today by both families. Intimates had been informed several weeks ago of the engagement of Miss Parker to Mr. Haase. The bride is a graduate of Dana Hall, Wellesley, Pa., and of Erskine and Garland finishing schools at Boston, Mass. Mr. Haase attended . . . [fragment]
March 15, 1933, Page Twelve
Business Stimulus Follows Reopening of Saranac Banks
The wheels of business resumed their normal spinning in Saranac Lake today as the Adirondack National Bank and Trust Co. and the Saranac Lake National bank opened at 9 o'clock under authority of the Federal Reserve and the department of the treasury. Saranac Lake's businessmen esperienced a revival in trade this morning as word spread about that merchandise could be paid for as bought and that payrolls would be met with regularity, through the reopening of the financial institutions. That "the era of fear" has definitely lifted from this community was apparent in the rush to deposit funds in the banks here. Officials of both institutions declared that deposits, in number and volume, enjoyed a better than a two-to-one average over withdrawals. As far as could be learned at a late hour this morning, all member banks of the Adirondack Bank Association were reopened. Among Northern New York banks that were reopened according to President Roosevelt's and Secretary Woodin's plan for sound banks in communities not having clearing house were: the Bank of Lake Placid, the Tupper Lake National bank; People's Trust Co., Farmers' National bank, and Citizens' National bank, Malone; Plattsburg National bank, Merchant's National bank, Plattsburg, and the Bank of Ausable Forks. The "holiday" over, tellers and clerks in the banks here expected to labor until 2 o'clock or later tonight. Here, as everywhere else, hoarding of gold or gold certificates was decidedly unpopular. Gold coin has rattled across the counters during the past few days and a few old-style yellow-backed notes were received at the Saranac Lake National bank. State banks and trust companies in Northern New York which this morning were allowed to resume full operations were announced as follows by State Superintendent of BanksJoseph A. Broderick, according to the Associated Press: Bank of Ausable Forks, Bank of Gouverneur, Bank of Lake Placid, Chester-Schroon-Horicon Bank, Chestertown Plattsburg State Bank, State Bank of Ellenburg, Adirondack Trust Co, Saratoga Springs and Massena Banking and Trust Co.
March 15, 1933, Page Twelve
Thomas P. Smith's Rink Is Winner by Margin of 20 to 5
The rink of Thomas P. Smith defeated the team of Dr. S. F. Blanchet, 20 to 5, at the Saranac Lake Curling club last night in another of the Denny matches. A match between the teams of Floyd Green and Dr. Charles C. Trembley is scheduled tonight. The line-up last night: C. Duquette; A. S. Walker; E. Christian; T. Smith, Skip - 20. F. Koernig; C. Wood; E. Finnegan; Dr. Blanchet, Skip - 5.
c. 1933 Entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Carl M. Fink of 18 Shepard avenue entertained at dinner Monday night for members of the Weinstock family and for Mrs. Rose Raphael who after a residence of two years here is leaving for New York City. Guests were Mrs. Sara Weinstock, the Misses Ida, Anna, Harriet and Eva Weinstock, Miss Beck of Glens Falls, and Mrs. Raphael. The former Miss Rebecca Weinstock was married Sunday to Clarence Fink, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fink.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, March 15, 1933
CONSTRUCTION AT GOLF CLUB NOW UNDER WAY
Lockers, Lounge Prepared for Increased Women's Membership; 125 to Constitute Total Membership in New Season
Enlarged women's quarters that will give them adequate locker space, showers and lounging room, improvements upon the men's quarters and reconstruction of the seventh and eight greens feature the work being done now at the Saranac Lake Golf Club in preparation for the coming season this spring. With about two months more of waiting necessary before local golfers can get out on the Meadowbrook course, various committees of the club have been functioning in anticipation of a record breaking saeson. Already 45 new members have promised to join, boosting the membership from 70 to 125, announced Dr. Nelson Johnson today, chairman of the membership committee. Of this number 18 are women. It is understood that women's activities are to be one feature of the season, following up the inaugeration last summer of a series of weekly women's tournaments. A large addition to the present tea room is now under construction to care for the increased feminine enrollment. This will contain 36 lockers, a lounge room and a dressing room. Hot water pipes are being laid [damaged original] . . . a shower. Until this . . . were eight lockers assigned [to women]. Improvements . . . quarters designed to make a more comfortable club house include the addition of a lounge room off the present locker space. A fireplace will be installed. Landscaping is planned for both men's and women's buildings. Hallie Sutton, chairman of the house committee, is in charge of the improvements which are being financed by contributions solicited from the present membership in order to save general club expense. Golfers will find several changes on the course this spring w[here] work under Dr. Lawrason Brown, greens chairman, is being complet . . . [end of fragment]
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, March 15, 1933
English Authors' War Novels Topic at Reviewer Club
War novels by contemporary English authors were the subject of discussion by the Reviewers club at a meeting held last night at the home of Mrs. Robert Reed, Woodycrest road. Mrs. N. S. Davenport reviewed The Silver Spoon by John Galsworthy, stressing analysis of character and the author's fine psychological treatment of the reactions of varying personalities to war conditions. Mrs. J. Cloyd Downs discussed All Our Yesterdays by H. M. Tomlinson, a book which she said revealed the full horrors of war as the English saw it.
