Correction. We reported last week that the extra chairs at the city hall numbered forty. A reader who counted reports forty-one. In this town, of course it was forty-one. We regret the error and are no longer surprised by the number.

Amplification. The winning tournament bag weighed nineteen pounds, four ounces — not nineteen-three, as the landing chalkboard briefly had it. The ounce belongs to the fish, and the fish, released, took it with them.

Corrections remain rare, and cheerfully entertained.

Selected from the bound volumes in the front room of the old creamery, where the past is kept in order of weight.

25 years ago — July 2001. The first Loon Lake Bass Tournament drew eleven boats and one argument — whether a pound of smallmouth should count the same as a pound of largemouth — which began at the weigh-in and, the record shows, has not concluded. This year it reversed direction (see Sports), which the founders would recognize as the same argument in its Sunday clothes.

50 years ago — July 1976. The sweet corn came in on July 19, the earliest anyone could remember, and the paper’s advice then was printed in full: “Butter, salt, and silence.” The advice stands. The corn, this year, is close (see Eunice).

75 years ago — July 1951. Lightning struck the water tower during a July storm. The tower, this paper reported at the time, “took it personally but stood,” and the town gathered the next morning to look up at it approvingly. The tower stands yet, and now spends its summers being the landmark by which the whole Chain judges the volume of band camp.