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Newspaper
Central Valley Post
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1927
Page
5
The LAK region reporter notes office activity at the home of Jesse Vince. Papers are available for sale at McMonavie and Rovers Drug Store.
Monroe January reports installation of officers for Monroe Lodge, Junior Order of American Mechanics, with names and offices listed. A second game in the series is noted near Thursday night after regular business, plus a list of attendees and a Children of Mary straw ride event with fifteen present. The column also mentions local residents and visitors, including Ina Hall, Marjorie Medina, and others, and notes travel to New York and Pinehurst, with several names and addresses referenced.
Milo Hepworth of Marlboro ships 450 barrels of Greenings and Baldwins to Hamburg, the largest fruit shipment from Marlboro to Germany. He has prior shipments totaling about 659 barrels, hauling from his farm storage directly to the boat, with refrigeration mid voyage and netting roughly $3.50 per barrel after costs. Space on steamers is scarce and advance planning is needed, making export success uncertain.
Frank Wesley Hewitt died suddenly in Pine Bush and was buried from his mother’s Union Street home in Montgomery. He was 35 years old, employed at T. B. Ellerman meat market, and a member of Washington Camp No. 19 Sons of America and Wallkill Engine and Hose Company No. 2. Hewitt was born in Montgomery.
A Maybrook car fire on the way to O W depot caused injuries to several occupants after a short circuit. The Maybrook fire department responded but declared the blaze largely under control before full damage. Local society notes list residents and officers, with meetings and dances planned by the Ladies L C N of the Baptist Church, the Maybrook fire company, and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Other items report injuries from a wrist sprain, a fall on ice, illnesses, a death in the Holman family, and a seriously ill relative, plus a sick resident at the Hink sley home.
A mid nineteenth century letter from the 124th New York Volunteer Infantry, dated April 6 1863 near Falmouth Virginia, describes march orders to Hartwood Church lines and a nighttime Confederate attempt at crossing. It notes a stormy night, 500 advancing cavalry, and a failed dash, plus daily life updates including bread from a bakery and improving health.
J J Toth of Port Jervis is named commissioner of jurors for Orange County retroactive to January 1. He will continue his term as county clerk does not seek reelection. The post pays 1400 dollars yearly plus expenses, with initial duties including weeding out the grand jury panel and staffing the clerk’s office under Justice ALM. Seeger and Wiggins are noted as overseeing officials.
Deep snowdrifts across Orange and Sullivan counties paused traffic for about a day and a half as 40 to 50 snow plows battled the deep drifts. A Saturday night gale driven by a 30 mile per hour wind and a wide temperature swing caused widespread road closures, with reports of 10 foot drifts and a mix of minor accidents. Officials noted roads opening gradually as plows cleared routes from Goshen to New York City, while Middletown and Port Jervis faced heavy disruption and emergency measures.
Central Valley January 20 Masons of Woodbury Lodge No 99 5 F and A M held a regular communication with W A McClellan as installing officer and B A Anderson as marshal Worshipful Master W M Gildersleeve Senior Warden John T Smith Junior Warden Charles J Murray Treasurer Morgan Elmer Secretary Joseph C Burrow Chaplain Nev George W Dumbell Marshal Howard B Gregory Senior Deacon Donald Patterson Junior Deacon Walter Belding Senior Master of Ceremonies John J Richter Junior Master of Ceremonies Jerome Stanfield Tiler Adam E Cooper Pianist Herbert Sendall Senior Steward Edmund Custard Junior Steward George Blood The annual meeting of Central Valley Savings and Loan Association will be held January 27 at their Central Valley office for director elections and other business A special business meeting of the T V s was at Roy Barnhart home last Tuesday George Fiedler of New York City visiting his parents in Central Valley and Celenda in Central Valley Price Fralick of Seville spending several days there and formerly lived in Central Valley.
Highland Falls aims to open a second movie house as part of local progress. The report details civic activity, social events, and community changes with several notes on residents, clubs, and church activities spanning January.
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