Following information regarding picture taken from Courier Tribune June 24, 1915, 

"The gutters were wholly inadequate to carry the the volume of water  Main Street resembled a river on a small scale.  at the Wempe and Huerter Block the depth was sufficient to launch a small boat by Albertus Scoville Jr. and the wags had a good time over the transforming the Main Streets of a small town into a Venetian Canal." 

This picture was  taken from Fifth and Main looking south. This water came in from the west on Main as well  as  from  off what is the Golf Course today in 2005.   Since that time the City has installed  storm  sewers and added a terrace to what is the golf course  to divert the rain which fell on this land to the creek on the west edge of town.  These water fountains were taken out when in later years you could get ice cold water or  a fountain coke at the drug store.

The building  to the left is at this time The Harsh Drug Store as sign the indicates. This was the first brick building in Seneca and it stood until in the 50s.

I have been told that the word "wags" refer to people who tend the horses or animals.  The two black people with young Scoville may have been  the horsemen of A. L. L. Scoville. The stories is that one of these people get the team out and bring the carriage or buggy and  pick him up each day  and deliver him to his business and again come and pick him up whenever he wanted to leave the Hardware  on business or to go home.   A. L. L. Scoville had  three  building with his hardware business.

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