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(JCJ 1/22/1930) - Biggest Snowfall of Winter
Adams is still shoveling out from the 4 or 5 feet of snow which fell over the weekend. It snowed a little Saturday but the big surprise came Sunday morning when residents woke up to find 2 feet of snow piled up with snow clinging to trees, bushes and buildings. It was certainly a white world, and a beautiful one.
The snow continued to fall thick and fast all day and the following night, so that Monday it looked as tho there would be enough snow to last well into the summer. Early pedestrians waded to their waists but gradually shovelers got busy and marrow paths ran hither and thither walled up with banks of snow. As Whittier says in "SnowBound" We looked upon a world unknown. On nothing we could call our own.
There has been such a weight of snow on roofs that most property owners have thought wise to shovel them. This had added to the snow banks and some alleys are practically full of snow.
The storm was local, being centered in Adams and not extending much beyond Adams Center or Pierrepont Manor. Therefore trains had no trouble in getting through and were not very late.
Monday morning busses from Watertown did not go south of Adams but followed the usual schedule to Watertown. Busses are running as usual today.
Although the state highway is open other roads near Sandy Creek, Pierrepont Manor, Mannsville and Adams are snowbound.
At Adams the milk is being delivered several hours late, being hauled in by teams and bob sleds. Monday milk usually delivered around 10:30 and 11 a.m. arrived at 6 p.m. and later. Town plows are doing all possible. An effort to open the Lorraine road is under way. The Lorraine and Adams Center milk trucks took several hours in getting to Adams.
Monday afternoon over 60 cars followed the plows into Adams, headed for Watertown.
The mail deliveries were all many hours late, while rural carriers failed to make their routes. Rural Deliveries are being made by horse and sleigh. No motor vehicles are operating on the county and town roads.
Monday snow was removed from the Main Street by flooding the street with water from an open hydrant. Much snow was carried off into the creek.
A similar situation exists at Pierrepont Manor where the village is snowed under. Mail deliveries were all late. No milk is coming into the village form the east. About half of the milk was delivered Monday, coming in via teams and trucks.
Mannsville and Sandy Creek are both shoveling out but report heavy snowfall. Mail and milk deliveries are being made by horses and sleds. Monday about half the milk was delivered. Many cars were marooned in snow banks Monday morning but moved Monday afternoon after the plows had gone through.
Similar reports of heavy snowfall came in from Henderson, Belleville and Ellisburg, all roads being more or less blocked.
More snow is predicted for tonight.
(JCJ 1/29/1930) - Green Settlement - We have been snowed in for the last 4 days. Your correspondent has lived in the Settlement for many years and it was the worst on the 25th we have experienced. The storm was so bad at one time we had to turn on the lights.
(JCJ 1/29/1930) - Green Settlement - Our faithful mail man beats the record for delivering our mail. He came through the Settlement in the very worst of the storm and some did not know he had been through until Sunday afternoon when they went to the box to clean out snow and found their papers for 3 days, which they were glad to get. Thanks to Howard, but he should not try it again in such a storm.
(JCJ 1/29/1930) - Shannons Corners - Mrs. Harvey Shaw, who has been in Syracuse caring for her daughter, Mrs. Elsie Smith, returned to Adams Center Saturday. On account of the road being quite bad, she had to stay at the center. She walked home Sunday. It took her from 8 to 2 o'clock to walk 3 ½ miles.
(JCJ 1/29/1930) - Lorraine - In compiling the news items for the Journal you correspondent can find little activity in the community. Most of the residents are busy shoveling snow and keeping fires. An attempt has been made to keep the road to Adams open, but this seems almost futile under present conditions.
(JCJ 1/29/1930) - Dean District, Mannsville - There isn't much to write about this week except, snow, snow and more snow. Milk teams have been able to go only about twice. Last week Tuesday a number of men and teams worked loyally all day, breaking the roads out to Ellisburg, Mannsville and Cobblestone, so cars could get through, but the furious snow and blow that night undid all their hard work and we've been snowbound most of the time since.
(JCJ 1/29/1930) - Mixer District - This community has been storm bound for several days. No mail, and the milk men got to Adams only once in 3 days.
(JCJ 1/29/1930) - Henderson - Henderson has certainly been snow bound during the unusual storm of the past week, with snow 4 feet deep on the level and a fierce wind. In spite of a snow plow and shovelers working every day, we were isolated from the outside world, two days being unable to get mail.
(JCJ 1/29/1930) - Adams itself has not suffered the past week to the extent that out neighbors to the north and west have. Henderson, which usually escapes with a light snowfall, was buried under 4 feet of snow Saturday. Due to the burning out of a bearing the town snowplow was out of commission and the roads were not broken out until Monday. Watertown also got a downfall of snow which put that city in a class with Adams.
Locally we see more horses and sleighs on our streets than we have seen for some time. Autos and trucks are still extensively used but only on the main highways and in the village.
The Colonial busses could not get through Saturday but service was renewed again Sunday and Monday buses were run on the regular schedule.
Rural mail carriers can cover only part of their routes and the roads which are less accessible are without mail.
R.C Scott, undertaker, with a team drove to Rodman Friday morning to conduct the funeral of James M. Wright. It took 3 hours to make the trip. Returning the hearse tipped over once.
Rural mail men, with horses and rigs, cannot make deliveries. A team from Lorraine started Friday but had to turn back.
(JCJ 1/29/1930) - Pierrepont Manor - Nicholas VanBrocklin, who teaches at Diamond, is having his vacation at home. On account of the storm he walked home Saturday.
(JCJ 2/5/1930) - Allen District, Lorraine - Talk about snow in Diamond! I don't think it can beat Mannsville as the last two snow storms hit us and hit us hard. We saw our mail man only once in over a week.
(JCJ 2/5/1930) - Bunnell District, Henderson - S.D. Burley drew the milk from this street with a team to Smithville, where they broke the road thru to Adams, on Sunday. The truck had been unable to get on the shore since Tuesday, altho the Shore Road has been passable, all but one day. The cross roads were drifted full. No mail but 3 days in 2 weeks.
(JCJ 2/5/1930) - Henderson Stage Driver Has Missed Only One Day. D.C. Ostrom, driver of the Henderson stage, has failed to carry the mail between Adams and Henderson only once during the severe storms of the past 2 months, an don only two days has he made but one trip. He regularly makes two trips a day. The fact that the Henderson snow plow broke made the trips more difficult.
Monday morning it was impossible to reach Adams by the regular route so he brought the mail around by way of Sackets Harbor and Watertown. Alice Austin and John Jones, students at Adams High School, made the trip with him.
(JCJ 2/12/1930) - Rural Hill - The people of this section who have been hibernating for some time, were aroused several night ago by a monster passing through our street pouring forth vast streams of snow and throwing immense blocks of it many feet into the air. It proved to be C. Hodge and his helpers piloting a huge snowplow. They left canals in all directions and many feet deep. They are now working day and night in a brave fight to keep these roads open. It is a great help to our mail carriers and men who must draw milk, and school children who have to go long distances to school.
(JCJ 2/12/1930) - VanAukens Corners, Worth - Diamond School opened again on Monday Feb. 10th after 2 weeks vacation. Nicholas VanBrocklin walked on snowshoes from Pierrepont Manor to Diamond Monday Monday through the blinding snowstorm to begin school Tuesday. He started out at 9:30 a.m. and arrived at his brother Jed's home at 2:15 p.m.
(JCJ 2/12/1930) - VanAuikens Corners - There is no news from this locality this week. Nothing but snow storms, breaking roads, shoveling snow to get into buildings, etc., no travel only milk teams. Our daily mail comes quite regularly. Only a few times when the carrier could not get through. People have been quite well, only a case or two that required medical attention. Then they had to go where there was a doctor as none can come here through the snow. Again I say, why cannot some good M.D. see the necessity of settling in Lorraine to cater to these rural districts?
(JCJ 2/12/1930) - Shannons Corners - John Ramsey and a few others were obliged to leave their cars at Mr. Holliwood's and Mr. Covey's last Sunday as the roads were so full of snow they could not get any farther with them. The women and children had to stay at Mr. Covey's until Monday morning. Wm. Washburn cut his wire fence last Sunday evening to let Richard Hockey through with his horse and cutter. He was on his way home from Watertown. His little son got quite cold by the time they got to Mr. Washburn's, so he had to let him get warm before going on home from there.
(JCJ 2/12/1930) - Snow Fills the Roads. Another cold wave with blinding snow storms have been experienced for 2 days with a drop in Temperature on last Wednesday night of 28 and 30 degrees below zero, the coldest yet.
Sunday morning gave promise of a bright, clear day, and autos were again seen upon the highways. Before night, however, everything looked different. Busses and autos were stalled in the drifts, As many as 30 from Adams Center to Watertown were obliged to wait for hours before being able to get through. A disabled snow plow on the road added to their difficulties. One driver was 5 hours getting into Watertown from Adams Center, a distance of 10 miles.
Fay Patten accompanied Stanley Fisk of Watertown and M. Shepard of Carthage on a fishing trip to Henderson Harbor early Sunday morning. About noon it began to snow and with the rising wind the storm became a blizzard, making it hazardous traveling, as it was impossible to see the holes where ice had been recently harvested. Upon gaining the highway the men started for home, anticipating a quick trip when they learned the Henderson snow plow was ahead. At Scotts Corners the plow was unable to continue and the men were forced to push and shovel several other cars ahead before they could continue. Some left their cars by the roadside and others tried to force their way through.
Harold Fairbanks, Guy Bishop and Leonard Odell of Adams were among the number, and after leaving their car near the Collins and bates home, continued to Adams, arriving at 7:30 after 5 hours of fighting the snow drifts from Scotts Corners. The fishing parties brought back good catches of perch and pickerel.
(JCJ 2/12/1930) - Belleville - Rex Eastman spent Sunday night in his car, stalled near Paul's Corners. Three cars were stalled near Elwin Poor’s and several others on the Ellisburg road. The new snow plow worked all day Sunday and Sunday night. Some winter we are having!
(JCJ 2/12/1930) - Dean District (SW of Mannsville) - We appreciate the fact that our new road superintendent is confronted by a new task in the shape of opening our town roads, but we do feel discouraged that already two weeks have passed by and nothing has been done on this road yet, so the school bus can get through. It throws the driver right out of his job in mid-winter and the man who owns the milk route through here hasn't been able to get thru in 4 weeks. He has a sizable family and has had a heavy hospital and doctor bill for several weeks now but is unable to earn a cent with his several trucks, due to the filled roads. I think it is high time our locality was shown some consideration and not let one end of the town completely monopolize what our money is helping to pay for. Farmers are also struggling thru lots and fences trying to draw ice, hay, coal and milk and enduring real hardships and making slow progress.
(JCJ 2/19/1930) - Greene Settlement - The roads in this section are the worst they have been this winter. Sunday the big plow went from the Center to Lyons Corners and could get no further. It is a one-track road with no turning out places except at the farm driveways.
(JCJ 2/19/1930) - Ellisburg - Supervisor C.H. Williams started out last Thursday to shovel thru the snow drifts on the main highway from Woodville to G.E. Hammond’s corners, a distance of 1 mile. In a short time there were 11 men with shovels and a team with a plow and scraper at work. In 4 hours the road was open to traffic. This stretch of road has been closed all winter to cars and some of the time to teams.
(JCJ 2/19/1930) - Rodman - The roof on trhe sheds near the town hall, which are used for storing the town machinery, has collapsed under the heavy weight of snow.
(JCJ 2/19/1930) - Log London - Snow Plow Needed.
Your correspondent noticed in the Dean District in last week's Journal an item regarding the snowplow keeping the town roads open. Now we have just as much snow here in Log London as they have in Dean District, and children that have to take the school bus to attend school in Mannsville, and no snowplow has showed up to plow our roads out up to this writing. Two of our citizens called our new road superintendent on the telephone and asked him very pleasantly to come and plow out road out just a short distance so the school bus could come and get the pupils, and all they received was a promise; that the plow was broken down and as soon as it was repaired they would come and plow it out. A week has passed and yet no plow has shown up. Why didn't the town buy two plows, one to use while the other was in the garage for repairs? The plow has been up the Ellisburg-Manor road and plowed it out several times, and all we saw of it was they f8illed the cross roads full of snow so people had to shovel the snow away before they could get off the cross roads onto the state road. I think every voter in this district should think twice before he votes to give up our little school if we have such winters in the future as we have had this winter and no better facilities to carry our pupils to school. Ever since the snow came the children have had to be carried on sleighs out to the main road to take the bus regardless of how bad it stormed. I think it is time we were shown some consideration as they look for our money in helping to pay for this plow as well as those that are getting the benefit of it.
(JCJ 2/26/1930) - Ross Corners - Cars are again seen on our streets. Lyle Lyng, our milk man used his truck Sunday, after a hard struggle in the snow banks.
(JCJ 2/26/1930) - Southeast Rodman - Friday afternoon Road Superintendent Sheldon, with the snow plow and a force of men with shovels, opened the road from Rodman to Tremaines Corners. Austin Ward and George Hodkinson, milk men from Barnes Corners, and Mark Kelley of Rodman, go as far as Clark's with the trucks and are met there by teams.