Years Ago in History

By Cindy Bell ToBey

120 Years Ago – July 9, 1903

The Cazenovia Canning Factory, when completed, will be one of the best equipped factories of its kind in the state. The equipment throughout is of the latest improved machinery.

The machinery for canning string beans, corn, etc., has not yet been placed in position, but will be installed as soon as the crops are ready for canning. Peas are now being canned in large quantities.

As the bucket elevators and side-walk conveyors are not yet completed, it necessitates at present, considerable more work being done by hand than will be found necessary at present, considerable more work being done by hand than will be found necessary a little later.

110 Years Ago – July 10, 1913

The frequency with which sales of Madison County farms to westerners is recorded is becoming a subject of comment.

Just last week was recorded the sales of two farms in this county, one in Nelson and one in Georgetown, to men from Montana and Alberta, Canada.

The farm lands in this county are among the best in the state and people who have had experiences with the high priced lands of the west have no trouble in returning to this county and making money on the farms here. Madison county leads every other county in the state in dairying and thoroughbred cattle.

100 Years Ago – July 12, 1923

When Tilden was elected governor, Democrats all over the state had big celebrations. Harris Miner, a DeRuyter lawyer, borrowed a federal cannon at Cortland for a DeRuyter celebration.

Several of the young men from Cazenovia attend this celebration and asked Mr. Miner to loan them the cannon for a blow-out to be held here. But Mr. Miner refused on the grounds that he was responsible for the safe return of the cannon to Cortland.

That evening, George W. Irish, Abraham Lockman, Joe Coley and Byron Hawes drove to DeRuyter in Mr. Irish’s rig, loaded the cannon on the wagon and started back.

They were met at Sheds by Mr. Alvord. However, on the return trip they became suspicious that they had been discovered and were being pursued so drove into the barn of Mr. Coley near New Woodstock and hid the cannon under a pile of cornstalks.

There it lay for several weeks when it was brought to Cazenovia and hid in the charcoal bin of George and Charles Brown, who conducted the hardware store now owned by Floyd F. Marshall. It remained there for several months until one day a detective arrived in town trying to get trace of this cannon and some other ordnance that had disappeared.

That night the cannon was taken out and dumped into deep water in the lake near the blind island. None of the above men are living with the exception of Mr. Alvord.

90 Years Ago – July 13, 1933

Another thrilling page in Cazenovia’s sailing history was written last Wednesday, July 5, as roaring winds and raging billows threatened to prevent the running of the opening race of the first Wednesday series.

Vice Commodore Brooks, ranking official of the race committee, took the unprecedented step of declaring a bonus of three points for any boat which would put to sea and cross the finish line right side up.

Only four of Cazenovia’s skippers answered the challenge of wind and wave, and with crews no less daring of three, and in one case four members, cast off in the teeth of the storm. Sailing twice around the triangular Beckwith-Norton course, the boats crossed the line exactly three minutes apart, battered by waves and drenched with stinging spray, but triumphant over what Vice Commander Brooks declared to be the stiffest wind ever raced in on this lake. Ted Hancock, sailing the “Hemacon” (No. 5) with a crew including Helen Hancock and Charlie Posts, finished first.

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