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Newspaper
Maybrook Enterprise
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1927
Page
3
Government and relief agencies race to assist after a powerful Japan earthquake leaves over two thousand dead and about 70,000 homeless. Officials report ongoing aftershocks and emergency shelter efforts as aid teams mobilize nationwide.
Kyoto prefect figures show 4275 dead and 4100 injured after a powerful quake and ensuing fires wrecked Mineyama and nearby towns. Relief centers opened in Kyoto with Red Cross units aiding Mineyama Iwazaki Yamadamura and Wakasa bay villages. destruction included thousands of homes and silk mills.
March 10 Mount Hope scene includes Dr Certrude Welton summoned to Waterbury for aunt's illness. Lawrence Shoemaker weekend guest of parents Mr and Mrs Harry Shoemaker. Gilbert Chetcham of Port Jer vis at mother Mrs Sarah F Letcham's. Falter Seybolt family of Johnson visit George Clark. Arthur Wahlstedt of Somerville N J visiting Culver family in White Bridge. Louis Wengenroth of Wiehland Lake calls in town. Mrs Anderson Beebe spends Monday in Middletown with Mrs George F Heissen huttel Edith Hart and Bazal Kanof of Middletown visit on Washingtons Birthday. Mrs D R Anll Mt Hope road improving after illness. Church services Sunday March 6 as usual with Sunday school at 1 pm and preaching at 2 pm led by Trev A J Kerr pastor.
Scotchtown notes March missionary meeting postponed to April. SS$. Smith buys a new track. Miss Anna Hasbrouck, 19, visiting relatives in New York City.
The Camp Fire Girls will hold a ceremonial Friday evening in March as part of their tree dear activity. Officers of the Missionary Society of Scotchtown met at Mrs. C. A. Richards’s Middletown home to report last year’s work. Howard Mills Jr. has been ill at his grandparents’ home.
Craigville dispatch reports Supervisor Hamlet S. Roe departed for Orlando Florida on Saturday to visit his sister. Local residents Mrs William McLaughlin and Mrs Harriet Woodhull among others were noted in town activities with several staying in Newburgh and Amity during the week.
Chicago March 4 Three student nurses suspended and one physician asked to realign after a fatal error in a local hospital maternity ward killed five infants and caused illness in two others. Boric acid poisoning appeared accidental with ten babies treated. One ill infant not expected to survive.
Burglars entered the late Mrs Minnie Be Morgan's Bloomingburg residence early this week and rifled silverware and jewelry. The theft, not reported to police, coincides with Mrs Morgan's death in Middletown Sunday, raising suspicions the thief knew she was away.
The Y W C A held its twenty seventh annual membership supper last Friday evening in the Methodist Church with about 280 attending. A program featured orchestra music, a candle service, greetings, pantomime, moving pictures of Silver Bay camp, and chorus singing.
Citizens prepare for a special election next Tuesday to decide funding for a seventh grade facility and modernizing school buildings. The state Department of Education warns lean times could deprive the district of funds if actions are not taken promptly. Local figures name opposition to the new wing and Nestor as Caesar and other residents participate in the debate.
The Franklin Teachers Club was entertained at Miss Julia Lina’s Hamburg home with guessing and card games and a prize for Florence Steele. About fifty attended including hospital staff and Neighborhood House nurses. Other school events included a Rose McEntee engagement shower, a Skit at Franklin School, and upcoming meetings for Camp Fire Guards, Franklin AA, and the Fire Department.
Winterton report notes spring signs with Robins and Bluebirds sighted by residents. Mr George VanOrder and wife were callers in Bloomingburg, Hazel Hubbard spoke of a robin, Carolyn York saw a blue bird, and Mrs Mary Butcher improves from neuralgia. Prosperous Valley thermometer hit 4 below zero Wednesday morning.
Walker Valley readers report Mrs Henry Evans visited Pine Bush last Thursday. Mr and Mrs B R Zieler and daughter Dorothy from Jersey spent the weekend with their parents. George Rowe and others from Pine Bush visited Stratton Theatre Middletown for the Big Parade. William Little and son from Pearl River spent the weekend with his parents. Mrs Henry Polhamus returned home Friday after visiting her daughter. Milton Scott.
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