History Column
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35 Years Ago – November 1973
The Arkansas Lassies, a nationally known all-girls basketball team, will meet the Richfield Springs faculty men’s team, under men’s rules (yes, men’s rules) at the RSCS gym on December 4, at 8 p.m. The Lassies will bring many years of road experience and nearly a million miles of travel and fun-making to town. They have played in all 50 states and have won 149 in their last 151 games.
Leslie Gorney has retired after 29 years service on the Star Route out of the Richfield Springs Post Office. The past several years he was always accompanied by his collie “Sam.” Co-workers remembered “Losh” with a fine calendar watch and a sum of cash to make his retirement a little brighter.
40 Years Ago – November 1968
Miss Justine Estigo is one of 25 high school sopranos throughout New York State to be selected to participate in the All-State Choir which will perform at the New York State Music Teachers Association Conference in Buffalo on December 7. This is the second year in which Justine has been a member of the All-State Choir. Miss Estigo, a senior at Richfield Springs Central School, has been a member of local school music organizations since the sixth grade.
West Winfield, Schuyler Lake and Richfield Springs firemen were called Saturday to a barn fire on the former Yourno farm at Barstow’s Corners. The property was recently sold to John Kennis and Mrs. Agnes Roche of New Jersey. The barn on the unoccupied farm was leveled by the flames which originated in the center of the barn. The barn was not wired for electricity and authorities suspect arson since fresh tire tracks indicated that a vehicle had been driven out of the barn after a severe rain storm that evening. Rags and gasoline cans were found in the vicinity of the fire.
50 Years Ago – November 1958
Postmaster Robert J. Conklin of the Richfield Springs Post Office is in receipt of a letter, dated November 10, 1958, from U.S. postal authorities, stating that effective November 30, 1958, the post office at Warren, New York will be closed. He has been advised to notify all interested persons of this decision. The order is considered final.
Advertisement – At the Capitol Theatre – Walt Disney’s Most Dramatic Motion Picture – “Old Yeller,” a deeply moving story of a truly remarkable family and a wonderful, homely ‘old yeller’ dog – with Dorothy McGuire and Fess Parker in Technicolor. Admission This Show Only – Adults 75 cents, Children 35 cents.
60 Years Ago – November 1948
School Notes – The last soccer game for Van Hornesville high school girls took place at West Winfield last Wednesday, and the locals defeated their hosts 8 to 0. Goals were made by Nellie Mead, freshman, Martha Hoke, sophomore, and Clara Witkowski, junior. The game climaxed the undefeated season for the VHS girls. Other scores for the season were VHS 7, Bridgewater 0; VHS 8, Cherry Valley 1; VHS 10, Springfield 0; and VHS 3, Richfield 2. Twenty members of the VHS music department will accompany Arthur Schnell, music director, to a concert at the Stanley Theatre, Utica, by Clifford Curzon, world-renown English pianist. Frederick Price’s senior social studies class took a trip to Marcy to visit the Institution for the Mentally Sick on Thursday. Since the seniors are studying insanity the trip was helpful.
75 Years Ago – November 1933
Timely Town Topics – Alfred Van Valkenburg bagged a nice buck Sunday. Milton Lennebacker is another successful local deer hunter. Frank Armstrong, Harrie Armstrong and Lee Sheldon returned from a hunting expedition, each with a deer. A chicken pie supper in the Methodist Church is planned this evening at six o’clock, price 50 cents. Menu – chicken pie, mashed potatoes, squash, cranberry sauce, cabbage salad, pickles, rolls, coffee and sponge cake with whipped cream. The thermometer registering from four to ten above zero about town at seven o’clock Wednesday morning probably put November 15, 1933, among the record breakers for cold weather.
100 Years Ago – November 1908
The vaudeville bill at Shaul’s Theatre tomorrow evening will include the following talent: Wilson & Rich, black-face comedians, in singing, talking and dancing; Rankin & Leslie, funny musical artists, in a comical musical sketch; and the Great Anibro, in comedy juggling. The new moving pictures will include “The White Chief,” “Lost and Found,” “A Disastrous Flirtation,” “The Motor Boat Race,” “The Way They Fooled Dad,” and “The Magic Dice,” all beautifully colored throughout. Prices of admission – 10, 15 and 25 cents.
Resources for this column have been provided courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library.
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