125 Years Ago 1900
From The East Hampton Star, October 12
Stoves are beginning to go up, butter is becoming firm, straw hats and golf trousers have disappeared, and soon country sausage and griddle cakes will be in order.
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The Associated Physicians of Long Island held their eighth regular meeting here on Saturday afternoon. A special train bearing the physicians arrived here about 8:40, and they were met at the station by citizens in carriages and given a ride about the village. The executive and scientific sessions were held in Odd Fellows Hall, and the meeting was the largest that had been held by the association in a long time, there being seventy-five members present when it was called to order by President James M. Whitfield of Brooklyn.
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George Lester, son of Amiza Lester, is visiting his sister in Connecticut. He was in the woods there with his gun over his shoulder. A bush or a twig caught on the trigger and the gun was discharged, carrying away a part of Mr. Lester’s ear.
100 Years Ago 1925
From The East Hampton Star, October 9
East Hampton children and some grown-ups have had great sport the past week trying to catch a runaway monkey owned by Mrs. Richard Monsell, which escaped from its cage. The week of the fair, Mr. Monsell fell in love with this monkey, which was on exhibition at one of the side shows, and induced the owner to sell. He took the monkey home and placed him in a large cage.
The lively creature, however, strongly objected to being confined, and after thrashing about the cage for several days finally managed to make his escape.
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Tomorrow, October 10, marks the opening of the East Hampton High School’s football season. Southampton is to furnish the opposition.
This is the third year of the local school’s participation in football. They have yet to win their first game, a task which is not as easy as the too critical “lookers-on” imagine. They have been meeting teams which have played together since their grammar school days, whereas the local boys’ first game was in 1923.
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In order to educate the parents of school children as to the prevention of diphtheria by the use of toxin-antitoxin, small circulars sent out by the State Health Department have been issued to all school children the past week.
When asked about the matter, Dr. David Edwards, health officer, stated that there are four families who have been under quarantine since school opened in September, and recently another suspicious case has been discovered. Dr. Edwards added that it seems time that this plague was wiped out, especially as it is preventable.
75 Years Ago 1950
From The East Hampton Star, October 12
This year’s senior play, “What a Life,” will be presented at the John Drew Theatre in Guild Hall tomorrow night and Saturday night. The play is about Henry Aldrich, played by Robert Kelsey. Incidentally, this is the original Henry Aldrich play and was a success when first given on Broadway.
The plot, of course, centers around the escapades of Henry, who gets involved deeper as the play goes on. Before the final curtain, Henry gets blamed for everything evil that happens; the accusations range from minor study-hall disturbances to larceny.
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Announcement is made this week on page 3 of the opening of the Trude Dress Shoppe in the building formerly occupied by a Bohack store at the corner of Newtown Lane and Main Street. The business will be conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Katz, the former Miss Gertrude Rosenstein, of Sag Harbor. Mrs. Katz is the daughter of Mrs. Nettie Rosenstein, proprietor of the Fil-Net Shoppe, and of the late Philip Rosenstein.
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An amazingly wide variety of fall flowers, fruit, berries, autumn foliage and seed pods was expertly utilized by the thirty members of East Hampton’s Eastern Gate Garden Club in presenting their second annual Flower Show, held last Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Theodore Rowland. In spite of the lateness of the season, the show was exceptionally colorful and the large number of entries in each of six classes showed much ingenuity in the selection and arrangement of material available.
50 Years Ago 1975
From The East Hampton Star, October 9
An East Hampton Town Democratic opinion poll was under way this week and its sponsors appeared almost as shy of questions as some of the voters whose opinions were solicited.
Reportedly, members of the Highway Department who were telephoned by the poll takers had refused to answer questions, while other voters who did were said to have second thoughts about participating.
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The American dog tick has been co-opted by Republicans. Two G.O.P. candidates and a spokesman for Assemblyman Perry B. Duryea Jr. vowed Monday to seek funds for research into controlling biologically this vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
The research, proposed by Dr. Eugene T. Premuzic of Montauk, would focus on developing a sex attractant and synthesizing a hormone produced by this particular tick which, when sprayed, would reverse its life process, causing partial or premature development and death.
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A spokesman for the State Department of Parks and Recreation called the proposed 1,200-acre park at Napeague a “great parcel that’s got everything” yesterday when asked to comment on word filtered here last week that, with an unofficial price tag of $12,000,000 on it, the acquisition had become questionable despite an existing State appropriation of more than half the money needed.
The problem, John Barkevich, grant-in-aid coordinator for the department, explained, is that the State expects it will receive some $6,000,000 or $7,000,000 in Federal Land and Water Conservation funds this year from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and would have to rule out all of the other 85 proposed acquisitions, including Kirk Park Beach at Montauk, if it allotted all of the money for Napeague.
25 Years Ago 2000
From The East Hampton Star, October 12
The East Hampton Town Board doled out 3-percent pay raises to its members and other elected town officials without a word of disagreement as it took its first look at Supervisor Jay Schneiderman’s proposed $42.1 million budget for 2001 on Tuesday.
Board members had plenty to say about taking an ax — or, at times, even just shears — to the budget, chopping by as much as $20,000 requests for new vehicles and trimming by as little as $300 requests for new uniforms.
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Point Wells, the 82-foot Coast Guard cutter that has gone on search-and-rescue missions and drug interdictions as well as patrolling fisheries out of Montauk for 37 years, will be decommissioned in her home port tomorrow.
Then she will immediately start a new career in the Colombian Coast Guard as the patrol boat Cabo Manglares.
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Balancing supply against demand, the number of athletic fields in East Hampton Town against the call for playing time, the town comes up shortest on soccer and volleyball facilities, according to the team of consultants studying its recreational needs.
Soccer is becoming so popular here, the planners found, that some teams in the East Hampton men’s soccer league have to go to Riverhead to play “home” games.
