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Newspaper
Central Valley Post
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1927
Page
5
The New York State Automobile Association urges ninety clubs to mobilize against a proposed gasoline tax. Middletown Automobile Club backs the effort arguing the levy targets motorists who run small businesses and delivery routes. The argument centers on tax fairness, impact on merchants, and how revenue would be distributed across state and local governments.
The State Automobile Association argues against a proposed gasoline tax asserting it replaces taxes that fund road upkeep and that only users should pay. They claim a large revenue hole in the legislature’s plans and say 2,000,000 motorists oppose taxing a necessity, urging defeat of the proposal.
Middletown's First National Bank will be renamed the First National Bank and Trust Company after OCC approval and Federal Reserve delegation of trust powers. The bank, organized August 18, 1864, is the city's oldest financial institution and lists officers including Walter L. Benedict as president and Lehman Stern as vice president.
Charles FE Madden formerly of this city has become a New York financier and is wintering in Miami Florida. He left town thirty years ago to pursue finance in New York and has prospered. He asked his old friend Harry G Dill to remember him to their acquaintances and is a grandson of E M Madden mentioned in the Biography of Middletown published in the Times Heral d.
A panel of 60 petit jurors was drawn at the County Clerk's office for the County Court term that begins on the second Monday in March in Goshen. The drawing was witnessed by Sheriff Henry Hull Justices George R. Farrell and Charles C. Coleman and Deputy County Clerk Carlton J. Smith. Jurors listed include Robert H. Gerow Newburgh Fabrikaid Patrick Conway Newburgh farmer and many others across Middletown Port Jervis Highland Falls and surrounding towns.
The Dolsontown school near Middletown sits high on a hill with white walls and black trim. Inside a bright green lined room houses desks two rows and a va ety of neat fixtures, while outside views include Middletown city and Orange County farmland. The district trustees, clerk A C Caskey, and collector John Bradley lead the small rural school where Mrs. A C Caskey teaches most grades.
Gasoline in Middletown drops one cent per gallon as part of a state wide decrease due to lower consumption from favorable weather. Retail price settles at 23 cents, with tank wagon to garage margins of 21 cents, and kerosene largely unchanged.
Nyack police Leroy Waters 25 shot himself after leaving a note to his wife saying he could not be a father. He died hours later, four after the shooting, as his wife 27 and he faced an expected first baby.
A Dutchess County Grand Jury indicted Justice of the Peace John F Hoppe Edward G Gray and Joseph V Lyon on 26 counts for allowing falsified bills to be submitted to the town of Poughkeepsie and for conniving at payment of these false claims All are members of the Town Board.
The Lexington Creamery Company of New York City buys High View Creamery in Mar 3 transfer and will take possession Tuesday. The new entity, supplying milk in New York, already operates several other plants and purchases from Jones Brothers Tea Company owner of Grand Union stores led by J Spencer Weed. The merged firm will continue supplying the Grand Union stores.
View creamery built forty years ago by Seymour Horton is the largest in the section and now receives nearly 150 cans of milk daily.
Terrence Fealon, 38, a former Canadian Army serviceman with no address, told Recorder Howard M. Starr of wartime nerves after pleading guilty to public intoxication. Fealon's sentence was suspended following his account of service on the Western Front in the late World War.
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