HiSTOrY

Years Ago in History

BY CindYBell ToBeY

120 Years Ago – Nov. 20, 1902

The Union School football team found that the eleven of Peterboro Academy was much heavier than the Cazenovia team and so canceled the game scheduled to be played at the former place last Saturday. In its place the home team arranged a game with the Seminary third team which was played on the Seminary athletic field Saturday afternoon, the Union School winning by the score of 5 to 0. All the backs for the Union School played especially good ball, Robert Burns, the quarter back, made no fumbles. The playing of the Seminary aggregation was very loose. Wiliam Davis at full back put up the best game for the latter.

110 Years Ago – Nov. 21, 1912

Manager Walter C. Miles, of the Cazenovia Opera House, suffered a loss of over $100 Tuesday evening when three films used in the moving picture performance burned. They caught fire at the close of the first performance and inside of ten minutes were a total loss. The blaze was inside the fireproof vault and so, of course, there was no danger to the audience. The accident occurred in a peculiar manner. While the carbons were being trimmed, a hot one was laid on a chair beside a reel of film, which, unknown to the operator, had been placed where an empty reel stood but a few minutes before. The fire was the fault of no one. Both Mr. Miles and William Collins, who was running the machine, fought the fire until they saw the films could not be saved. Mr. Collins was not injured in the least, but Mr. Miles’ hands were badly burned. The fire demonstrates conclusively that the vault is fire-proof. There was no damage except the loss of the films, which are rented.

100 Years ago – Nov. 23, 1922

About $175 was cleared at the movie show and vaudeville entertainment given in the town hall last Thursday and Friday nights for the benefit of the Young Men’s Club. There were large audiences both nights. The movie “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” was a strong picture and a popular one. This was followed by a two-act playlet “At the Theatre” in which were presented various vaudeville acts, including Lucille Williams and Emily Farley in dances. Albert Reidl in poems, Billy Fournier of Syracuse in popular songs, Robert Gabriel in a character study of Shylock, solos by Mrs. W. M. Davis, and Reidl & Wood in “Almost an Actor.” The vaudeville was entirely new to Cazenovia. The setting for the “theatre” was complete. There were ushers, popcorn boys, stage manager and an “audience” including Franklyn Klock as Ham and Francis Dwyer as Bozo, who made hits a funmakers.

90 Years Ago – Nov. 17, 1932

One of the most terrific gales that has ever swept Cazenovia and its surrounding communities occurred last Wednesday night and undoubtedly was the aftermath of the lashing Northeaster which pounded the Atlantic sea board and, a division of the tropical hurricane which passed over the eastern provinces of Cuba. During Wednesday afternoon the wind gained in velocity, causing pedestrians to turn homeward and autoists to house their machines for fear of damage by falling limbs. By early evening only those who had by necessity because of business were seen on the village streets, and as the storm gained headway, it was evident that householders would not sleep while the gale continued. By 10:30 that night the maximum velocity was estimated as registering 60 miles an hour and this did not cease. From 12:30 a. m. to 4:30 a. m. rain fell in torrents; electric circuits were cut off, temperatures varied, and finally having buffeted itself out, the tempest calmed down about sunrise. The day began somewhat colder, rising to a moderate temperature toward noon, but the havoc seen everywhere about the village to trees, buildings, telephone and electric lines surpassed everything in the knowledge of the oldest inhabitants.

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