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25 YEARS AGO — 1984 Clinton County legislators vote the City of Plattsburgh taxpayers get a break by softening the impact of the State Department of Equalization and Assessment's decision against the county tax methods. Now the towns of Plattsburgh, Champlain and Mooers will get less than anticipated.
Mineral exploration leases that more than 300 landowners in the tri-county area signed in 1982 with Ohio Oil and Gas Co. are null and void — the result of a State Supreme Court ruling on behalf of landowners who charged the company with fraud.
Drunken-driving cases in Essex County soon will meet the individual attention of a special prosecutor. The annual salary of $10,000 and expenses will be provided by STOP-DWI.
Owing to the action of the New York State Legislature, Essex County District Attorney John McDonald will receive a pay raise of almost $15,000 in 1985. The raise will boost McDonald's salary from $53,298 to $68,000.
50 YEARS AGO — 1959 The Grand Union supermarket in Willsboro was a blazing mass, but a wall of water sent up by firemen from six departments discounted possibility that the fire might spread to nearby structures. Damage was estimated at $75,000.
City police began what would be a series of crackdowns on small-time gambling in Plattsburgh by raiding a poker game at a Standish Street home. Eight persons were arrested as a result of the raid.
Workmen are now tearing down the Goldman building on Margaret Street in Plattsburgh, which was damaged in a fire that destroyed Meyer's Drug Store. Both structures are now in the process of coming down.
Snow and ice return to plague motorists, putting a coat of ice on highways in the southern and western sections of the area. Accidents were few, however.
75 YEARS AGO — 1934 The cost of Thomas Showers's murder trial in Franklin County, at first estimated at $12,000, has been determined to be $7,528.56. He was convicted of killing Cleo Tellstone, 14, of Bloomingdale.
Eight state troopers raid a $10,000 illicit distillery 9 miles west of Plattsburgh on a dirt road between Cadyville and Dannemora and arrest two downstate men, who they found operating the still with an output of 2,000 gallons a week. It is the largest still seizure in the area in years.
Little interest was shown in the special election in Plattsburgh for the purpose of approving the sale of water bonds in the amount of $85,000. The vote was 195 in the affirmative and 15 in the negative.
A new Skinner pipe organ is installed at St. Patrick's Church in Chateaugay. This beautiful instrument was formerly in the residence of the late Silas Barber in Plattsburgh, the original price of which was $30,000.
100 YEARS AGO — 1909 The Board of Trustees of the Plattsburgh City Hospital have arranged to raise the funds necessary for the completion of the hospital by the sale of 6 percent gold bonds, the payment of which is secured by the first mortgage of the real estate of the hospital by Plattsburgh National Bank.
The beautiful new YMCA building in Plattsburgh is informally opened to members and the public. Orders for the new furniture were given two months ago, but the factories being so busy with other orders, the furniture cannot be delivered for one or two weeks more.
Tupper Lake is anxious to get a new sanitarium, which, it was recently announced, would be built by Foresters for use by members of the order in the Adirondacks.
Owing to the scarcity of water at Piercefield, the paper mill there has reduced its workforce almost in half, employing only 143 men.
— Compiled by Contributing Writer Sue Botsford, who can be reached at 834-7201 or botsford@westelcom.com
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