19th century Chestertown — Sugar party with song

It was a sweet sound and a sweet taste.

“The concert given inside the Methodist Episcopal Church Wednesday evening by the Glen Quartet (of Glens Falls) was very entertaining,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star of Glens Falls on March 31, 1894. “After the concert a sugar party was given by the Ladies’ Aid Society. A number more selections were given by the quartet which were received with hearty applause.

In other 19th town of Chester news collected from historic newspapers of the region:

• “Several city guests are already domiciled at the Chester Hotel,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on May 12, 1894. “William H. Hills, the new barber who is located over W.B. White’s business, seems to be doing a thriving business.”
• “’Professor E. Guiellume, late of Paris, our popular shoemaker and French teacher, left town last Thursday morning for parts unknown,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star May 19, 1894. “Some of his enthusiastic admirers are now trying to sell second-hand clothes, while others are looking for a new source of information concerning the French language.”
• “George H. Stone of Chester was in town (Glens Falls) last night on his return from Proctor, Vt., where he purchased a large supply of marble.”
• “It looks like the practice of collecting tolls on the highway between Chestertown and Warrensburg might be permanently abandoned, the charter of the Warrensburg & Chester Company having expired on the 29th of January last,” The Glen’s Falls Republican reported on March 8, 1881.
• “Our hotels have received many applications for board. Cornelius Murphy, who successfully conducted the Friends Lake House last summer, is again in charge,” The Morning Star reported on June 22, 1894.
• “The Methodists held a chowder at the Chester Hotel lawn Wednesday evening,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Aug. 11, 1894. “The attendance was good, and a handsome sum was raised.”
• “The well-known and popular Chester House is having one of the most successful seasons in its history. It has at present about ninety guests,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Aug. 11, 1894.
• “Among the guests at the Rising House, Chestertown, is Judge Charles A. Flammer of New York. The hotel, by the way is having an unusually successful season under the management of Landlord Fosmer,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Aug. 27, 1893.
• “The trustees have secured the services of Professor D.N. Boynton, a graduate of Potsdam Normal School, as principal of the Chestertown graded school,” the Chestertown correspondent reported in The Morning Star on Sept. 1, 1894. ”The professor comes highly recommended as a successful teacher, and, no doubt, we will have a first-class school.”

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