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Upon direction from the Governor, a Home Defense Committee for Yates County was formed on April 7th with seven members. Their job was to coordinate wartime activities in the county.

Yates County had 1229 registered automobiles - one for every 15 inhabitants.

It was announced on March 16th that the state legislature approved putting women’s suffrage on a statewide referendum in November. Mrs. Norman Whitehouse, Chairperson of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, predicted victory. She noted that 15 states have already granted suffrage to women, most recently North Dakota, Ohio and Indiana.

Billed as “The World’s Greatest Show” with the world’s largest cast, D.W. Griffith’s film Intolerance came to the Sampson Theater in Penn Yan at the end of March. “The theme of Intolerance is love’s struggle throughout the ages. The action of its four episodes takes place in ancient Babylon, medieval Paris, Judea at the time of the Nazarene, and a modern American city.” It included a full symphony orchestra and a chorus.

One of the last steamboats on Keuka Lake, the Steuben, sank at the dock in Hammondsport early in March, a victim of neglect by the Erie Railroad which had owned the steamboat line since 1904. The boat was never raised. Its remains still rest on the bottom of the lake out from Hammondsport.

It had been a tough winter. On March 1st the ice on the Penn Yan end of the lake was 24 inches thick. The biggest snowfall of the winter came on March 5th.

In late March, Bush’s Music Store had a demonstration in the Sampson Theater of the latest model of Thomas Edison’s phonograph,. They brought in a singer, Marie Morrisey, and had her alternate singing live and playing her recorded voice on the machine. “From time to time she paused and the audience confessed that it had to watch Miss Morrisey’s lips to tell when she was singing and when she was not.”