125 Years Ago 1899
From The East Hampton Star, January 20
We have received a copy of Mills’ Seed Catalogue, which is handsomely illustrated and contains much of interest to those engaged in modern agriculture and horticulture. Any of our readers can secure a copy of the catalog by sending an address to F.B. Mills, Rose Hill, N.Y.
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The Penny Magazine, New York, which is the lowest priced magazine in America (20 cents a year), and which is owned by Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, the eminent American orator, wants a representative in this vicinity. It is a good opportunity for one of our ambitious young men or young women. Applications should be addressed to the Subscription Department, The Penny Magazine, Temple Court, New York City.
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John L. Sherwood, of the firm of Lyon & Sherwood, of Sag Harbor, and brother of Joseph Sherwood, of this place, will accompany Dr. C.S. Stilwell on his trip to Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. They go by way of the steamer New York, which makes an excursion from New York City on the fourth of next March.
100 Years Ago 1924
From The East Hampton Star, January 18
The country newspaper has found quite a respectable place in American literature, the State College of Agriculture at Ithaca points out this week in calling attention to Home Paper Week, which will be observed throughout the state February 3-9. Nor are these writings confined to the bits of verse which have appeared from time to time, praising the hometown paper. A number of American novelists have used the country weekly as a background for their stories, and some have made it play the leading role in their tales.
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As the beginning of a new year is the time for making out reports, it gives one a chance to go back over the past year and learn many interesting details.
Town Clerk Ketcham informs us that there were forty-five births in the township, as against twenty-nine deaths, and twenty-two births in the incorporated village against fourteen deaths. This shows a gain of twenty-four souls in East Hampton. This compares very favorably with preceding years.
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East Hampton was well represented at the Long Island Annual Older Boys’ Conference, which closed Sunday afternoon, where 120 representatives from various Nassau and Suffolk County towns met in sessions extending from Friday evening. The conference was held in conjunction with the local churches throughout the Island and the Young Men’s Christian Association of Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The Rev. J.W. Ellenwood of Troy, N.Y., and the Rev. E.S. Jackson, Floral Park, both Methodist Episcopal ministers, were the special speakers.
75 Years Ago 1949
From The East Hampton Star, January 20
Although no general poll on how men feel about their wives helping out with their businesses has been taken in recent months, one man, an East Hampton veteran, admits quite frankly that the success of his business is due in large part to his wife’s assistance. Herman Diamond, who first opened an upholstery shop in East Hampton way back in May of 1930, insists that major credit for the rapid growth of his shop is due to his wife, Grace, who not only does all the cutting and supervises the sewing room, but, during the war, took over complete charge of the business.
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The uncommonly warm winter weather is bringing out many signs of spring. Snowdrops are blooming in the library garden; daffodils are up; Miss Minnie Huntting had a primrose blooming in her garden ten days ago; Mrs. L.Q. Brooks has rosebushes with new leaves.
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Governor Dewey announced on Friday that he would name, this week, Bruce Bromley of Brooklyn and Wainscott as a Judge of the State Court of Appeals. Mr. Bromley, a Republican, 55, will replace Thomas D. Thacher, who resigned last fall because of ill health. He will serve for the balance of 1949 and is expected to run in November for a full fourteen-year term.
50 Years Ago 1974
From The East Hampton Star, January 17
After scarcely two weeks on the job, Norton W. Daniels Jr., who was elected Suffolk County Legislator from the First Legislative District last November, gives promise of being an energetic representative of the some 53,000 constituents living in his geographically vast District, which includes the Towns of Southold, Shelter Island, East Hampton, and Riverhead, about half of Southampton Town, and four Election Districts in the Town of Brookhaven.
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Two Southampton College students and an East Hampton High School junior have begun a month-long “internship” at East Hampton Town Hall, in an innovative program developed by the social science department of the College, Joseph F.X. Dunn, chairman of the High School’s social studies department, and Gail McFarland, East Hampton Town ombudsman.
Ann Marie Willette, a Regents scholar who hopes to enter law school after graduation from Southampton, and Thomas Herbert, who was recently elected chairman of the College’s “appeals court” and has been the recipient of numerous awards, are working five days a week at Town Hall during the College “wintersession.”
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The Jan. 9 public meeting of the East Hampton Town Planning Board at Town Hall was largely devoted to Board response to old business. The volume of subdivision submissions has increased so much that even maps submitted at the previous meeting of the Board fell into the category of old business.
The sudden increase in filed maps is due, reportedly, to the clamor by developers to file their maps prior to proposed upzoning. Planning Board members have indicated that maps filed under such circumstances leave much to be desired.
25 Years Ago 1999
From The East Hampton Star, January 21
Scallops on the half shell, anyone? An aquaculture product with the potential to solve many of the problems associated with farmed shellfish — such as the short season there is to work with — is being developed by at least two companies in the Northeast.
The possibility of producing it on the East End will be discussed tomorrow at the annual Long Island Fishermen’s Forum. Sponsored by the Cornell Cooperative Extension Association, the forum will be held at the Riverhead campus of Suffolk Community College.
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The East Hampton Town Trustees agreed at a meeting on Jan. 12 to consider asking the State Legislature to change their terms of office so that all nine are not elected en masse. At the same time, the Trustees decided to explore whether new beach driving permits should be issued, as had recently been suggested by East Hampton Town Clerk Frederick W. Yardley.
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Speaker after speaker at last week’s public hearing on the 99-acre oceanfront Shadmoor property in Montauk before the East Hampton Town Planning Board spoke of the historic value of the World War II bunkers there, and of the “breathtaking” views from its walking trails. But their words had no legal impact.
During its review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act of the environmental impacts of the plan, the Planning Board already had agreed to the removal of the bunkers, which were part of a Long Island defense system, provided that their history and location were documented.
