Friday, September 28, 1917
Plattsburgh Sentinel
News and notes from Chazy Lake
Howard King recovers, Phil King celebrates joining the army and lots of other happenings.
Friday, January 10, 1919
Chateaugay Record
Chazy Lake House Burned to ground; loss between $25,000 and $40,000
Tuesday, February 25, 1919 Plattsburgh Sentinel
Frank Sawyer of Chazy Lake returns from War
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March 7, 2008 at 3:27 pm
These news clippings are fun to read. Both Howard and Philmore were in WWI. Phil was sent over to France, but he never mentioned combat. Howard once showed me his bugle and played a tune for me. I think that it was “chow call”,”Won’t you come and get it…” Howard’s six- week illness was probably influenza. About that time there was a very virulent strain of it that spread worldwide. In fact, it is said that more U.S. doughboys died of influenza than in combat.
There is mention of a new school near Badger’s. Dad once told me that he helped his father build it. It was on the lake side opposite the hotel. I remember that the shell of it was still standing in the 40’s as well as the foundation and brick chimney of the Chazy Lake House.
Louis Alpert is mentioned. Shortly after Séraphim moved to Troy to live with his daughter, the house changed hands several times. That is when Louis Alpert owned it briefly. He had a grocery store in Dannemora. Later Louis’ daughter, Anna, became my first grade teacher at the Chazy Lake School. Once Miss Alpert invited me to spend the week-end with their family. Obviously I was her pet student, and, as a five-year old, I fell in love with her. Maybe that is why I always liked school and became a teacher myself.