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Newspaper
Middletown Evening Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1871
Page
1
Middletown Orange County newspaper ads announce publication times and delivery. The Middletown Evening Press charges ten cents weekly for village subscribers and four cents for single copies, with mail rates listed. The Orange County Press is weekly on Friday mornings with an annual subscription of two dollars, with damning note truncated.
Mr A B Deming Newsdealer Bookseller andc acts as general agent for the Middletown Evening Press in Middletown with full charge of village delivery and biweekly collections. Single copies sell for four cents at Deming's and Vail's Bookstore.
The Port Jervis Gazette reports a cowardly shot fired at the Orange County Express as it neared Ridgewood on Wednesday night. A ball pierced a window beside a man and narrowly missed a mother and child, with no trace of the shooter found after a stop and search.
Wm F Havemeyer for New York taxpayers sues James H Ingersoll to recover 6 million fraudulently obtained through the Ring in 1869 1870. A summons was served and Judge Barnard ordered examinations with Ingersoll to appear next Friday.
The article notes a grand costume concert at Bull's Opera House on Friday and Saturday. It mentions Midland work progress between Liberty Falls and the Nev ersink, plus Ellenville’s water works and cemetery preparations.
The text advertises the largest handsomest and cheapest line of Lace Collars and Under Sleeves offered in the market by B. O. Woopwarp & Co at 1209w1036tf.
A Branchville man Henry Wyker about seventy five hacked his wife to pieces with an axe and then shot himself between eight and nine am on Saturday. Mrs Wyker lived some time after the attack. A coroner's jury was summoned as excitement spread through Sussex County. Wyker was a respected local resident.
Personal notes report rheumatism for Louis Napoleon and Queen Victoria while Marion Alabama’s mayor serves in prison for alleged theft shortfalls. A woman seeks Harvard Law admission puzzling magnates. Rev. Milburn leaves Episcopal for Methodism. Ex Confederate Gen Johnston runs for Savannah mayor as Gen Anderson faces poverty in Switzerland.
The Rutger's Creek bridge between Minisink and Wawayanda near Smith Gardner's home was rebuilt by Mr. Wm. F. Mould for 475. It was completed in a workmanlike manner, with public passage through the creek resumed except in high water when a two mile diversion was required. The Bodine's Bridge over Wallkill between here and Montgomery is under repair and should finish in a week or ten days.
Edward Carswell told a temperance audience last Friday evening that after months in New Hampshire and Vermont he saw less liquor consumption than in one day in Orange county. He called Vermont nearer Paradise than any other state anew.
During a Paterson station passage, an infant was hurled from a car by a rider unknown. Conductor Harding alerted Turners and searched the train but found no suspect or conclusive clues.
Rev. Theo. A. Leggett recently of Harlem has accepted a call to the Chester Presbyterian Church and began duties last Sabbath. His father Rev. J. B. Leggett and family moved with him to Chester, leaving their former residence in this village.
The paper states it will not consider anonymous submissions even for musical organizations or horse trots, and requires the writer's name for internal satisfaction, not for publication.
On the evening of the 19th the ladies of the A. M. E. Zion Church will host a supper at their church building with a great variety of first class refreshments. Admission to the room is twenty five cents and supper is fifty cents.
The Middletown Musical Association meets at 7 sharp in the Lecture Room of the First Presbyterian Church for practice. All interested are invited to attend. Henry Cromwell President, Geo Wickham Secretary.
In the Eventne Press report for Saturday the Second District delegates at the Syracuse Convention cast a solid vote in favor of the Hamilton Ward substitute. The correction notes the delegates supported the measure rather than opposing it.
Harmony urged attendees to attend a singing gathering at Orchard Street Hall in the Lecture Room of the First Presbyterian Church this evening with the refrain Music hath charms.
Kane Family presents a grand transformation scene vision of Fairy Land and a May Queen coronation at the Opera House Friday and Saturday evenings. Forty masters and misses sing in fine costumes accompanied by one hundred fifty children on stage in coordinated performances.
Mrs Letts of Jeffersonville Sullivan county was jailed on suspicion of poisoning her husband William who died after a mysterious illness. A coroner inquest heard she bought arsenic twice before his illness with excuses about rats. Neighbors say she spurned a neighbor’s involvement and concerns about an improper relationship surfaced.
The Port Jervis Gazette predicts completion of Milford to Matamoras rail with 140000 dollars in secured bonds. State funds cover interest and surplus invested to redeem bonds after forty eight years. The three foot gauge line may be the third of its kind in the U S and possibly the first complete. A Matamoras extension will cross the Delaware bridge to Port Jervis depot where horses will pull cars to and from Matamoras via a new Erie Railway connection.
Advertiser calls him a bold fearless speaker who makes dry anatomy entertaining and engaging. Boston papers hail his information clear and masterly eloquent noting his popularity and inspiration as a lecturer and scholar.
The Ustayantha Lodge of Odd Fellows in Port Jervis will publicly install G. L. Norris N. G M. Westfall V. G M. T. Starkey Sec J. M. Conner Treas tomorrow evening. Thursday evening Atilla Lodge in Port Jervis will install Louis F. Hamann N. G Conrad Happ V. G Wm Steubinger Sec Christian Wiegand Treas.
Evening Press reports daily temperature readings from North Street drug store showing 6 AM 9 AM 12 M 6 PM 9 PM highs and lows. Data for Sept 30 and Oct 1 include values around 60, 49, 52, 68 and 38 degrees with notes of cooling trends.
Chicago papers praise Olive Logan as a gifted woman and say she will lecture in the city on October 16. Descriptions include beautiful missionary, sumptuous-looking woman, and one of the three graces from Chicago journals.
The Middletown Musical Association invites music lovers to a 7 o clock meeting at the lecture room of the 1st Presbyterian Church. All are welcome and urged to bring friends.
Those attending Professor Franklin's talk at Empire Hall this evening will hear an instructive description of external signs of character including human temperaments and physiognomy.
The final day of the fair drew a large audience as double teams and running horses competed. Moore’s team won the first heat and Gracie the running horse race dominated, with Sallie placing second in a multi-heat sequence. The event concluded with wide praise for management and President E. M. Madden’s leadership.
A meeting of the O. C. M. club is scheduled for this evening at their rooms starting at 7:30. Members are expected to attend on time.
Ruth Varden uses a new prohibitory program to reform jailed alcoholic Jerry Keller. She marries reform to home renewal, assigns him to stable work, and compels Keller’s wife Ann to restore domestic order and respectability, aiming to revive Jerry’s former self-control.
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