(died August 4, 1933)

Horace Salls, a young guide of Childwold, N.Y., met his death in the Racket river about a mile and a half from the main highway at Childwold about nine o’clock Friday night. He had been to Ellis Brook camp making preparations for the arrival of a party from Rochester. He was proceeding up stream accompanied by other men who have camps nearby. As they approached a grass stretch he rose to shut off his motor. In the process he lost his balance and fell overboard. The occupants of the boat state that he never struggled or rose to the surface. After reaching shore the party immediately went to the main highway and summoned aid. Effort was made to recover the body that night but it was not found until the next morning. The body was taken to the DeShaw undertaking parlors in Tupper Lake and later removed to his home. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon in Childwold church with Rev. Murdock of Faust officiating, with interment in the Gale cemetery. The victim was a son of Hector Salls and was born in Childwold about 31 years ago. He attended the local school and Piercefield High School. About four years ago he married Clare Minckler of Lyon Mountain. Besides his widow he is survived by his mother, father, one child, Keith, two years old. Horace was well known in Colton where he has several relatives and friends who mourn his loss and sympathize with the bereaved family.

(From the Friday, August 11, 1933 edition of the Herald-Recorder, page 6, courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ http://news.nnyln.net/).