Military Training For Boys In City Plan
Col Treanor from Albany met with school officials to arrange a city wide military drill program for 16 to 19 year olds. Charles E Greason will lead sessions at the armory with two periods weekly beginning December 6 at 2 50. About 160 youths from the High School area will participate with no city expense, following state curriculum.
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J. P. Treanor
Albany
Charles E. Greason
Greason
Col. Treanor
Newburgh
Port Jervis
Weather forecast for Washington prompts temperature drop
The brief states general fair conditions tonight with a sharp change in temperature expected on Wednesday. It notes a weather shift without specific details on wind or precipitation. The item preserves the period voice and focuses on the upcoming temperature change in the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dec
Son of Local Residents Serving in Naval Reserve Unit
Son of Mr and Mrs L Krumm of 221 Wickham Avenue is now serving his country in the 68th Company Naval Reserve training station at Norfolk Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Krumm
Wickham Avenue
68Th Co
Naval Reserve Training Station
Norfolk, Va
Fire companies report transfers and memberships
City fire houses held monthly meetings approving memberships and transfers to active and honorary rolls. Eagle Hose No 2 welcomed D B Vanlelt and Richard Kearns as new members. Waalkill Engine No 6 added Benjamin Young on active honorary roll. Monhagen Hose No 1 donated to Firemen's Home Ossining and transferred R Conkling between rolls. Several companies noted memberships, donations, and upcoming events including a clam supper December 14 and New Year's Eve gathering plans.
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Ossining
Eagle Hose Co
D. B. Vanlelt
Richard Kearns
David Devere
Waalkill Engine Co
Gaterio Chemical & Hose Co
George Fuller
Phoenix Engine Co
Forest P. Hunter
Sendar
George E. Moore
L. W. Robshaw
Lencrary
Eive
McQuoid Engine Co
John W. Hoer
L. L. Lander
Thomas C. Nelson
Excelsior Hook and Ladder Co
Mark A. Hopkins
Middletown
the Red Cross
Escaped Convicts Caught Near Morris
Seven of thirteen convicts who escaped from the Joliet penitentiary were captured by three posses near Morris in a Rock Island box car. Others are surrounded and their capture is expected shortly. The captured offered no resistance.
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Associated Press
Joliet, I
Dec
Morris
Rock Island
Names of Seventy Committee for license elimination campaign
A long list of citizens forms the Committee of Seventy backing the drive to end the license system in the city. Anxious to go on record, organizers say more names will be added, naming Warren J. Adams through John J. Reigelath among many others.
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Committee of Seventy
Sysstem
Warren J. Adams
M. B. Austin
C. Yp. Allen
George Adgate
Adgate
Amilcare Astoria
James M. Bell
J. C. Barlow
Geo. FE. Beakes
George W Beakes
Adrian H. Crawford
Floyd H. Cook
David L. Conkling
William W. Clark
Willard M. Clark
Galen Coteman
J. Clark Cooper
Edward E. Conhkizeg
Frank H. Cosmer
Charles Congleton
W. J. Coulter
Eugene W. Grawford
M. E. Conkling
Robert H. Crawford
Ira J. Coddingon
Virml Crawford
William B. Cross
Richard D. Clemson
Frank M. Cox
GW. Crosby
D. G. Comings
Elmer Cole
Charles Cole
James Campbell
A. J. Campbell
Francis A. Clark
John V. Demerest
William L. Dickerson
C. J. Duriend
C. S. Des- Verney
Willis H. Davis
Harry W. Durland
H. F. Durland
H. H. Durland
D. Dumbauld
T. B. Dahinden
M. C. Denniston
L. H. Decker
E. W. Everson
James P_ Elis
F. W. Elliott
Charles J. Everson
Olin
Fellows
B. P. Flory
Force
Frank Fancher
F. J. Fulton
Jesse Faddis
G. W
Melvin A. Hulse
Henry W. Hanis
John Hasbrouck
Ernest L. Harl
E. S. Husdori
Alexander 5. Huitstander
Doneaa Hampson
Frank E. Hall
William H. Hortox
Fred J. Heese
W. O. Hunt
Carmine Topohio
Virgil C. Jessup
Dr. B. B. Kinne
John H. King
Rev. R
H. Reynolds
John J. Reigelath
William C. Ramsdell
A. P. L. Rifenbury
J. B
Murder Trial in Monticello Opens
Monticello December 4 Chester Jilton King about 19 stands trial for the June 3 shooting murder of Samuel Stein also called Stein. Family of six lived at Maplewood. King allegedly fled with two chauffeurs to Buffalo for cars. Stein’s body found near Sackett Lake. inquest held. sheriff, coroner, and Dr. Carthers involved. Continued on page six.
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Monticello
Chester Jilton King
Samuel Staroselsky
Stein
Stemn
Maplewood
Buffalr
Seth Pelton
Pelton
Sackett Lake
Ira Smith Mill Pond
W. H. DeKar
James A. Carthers
Bedy
William Lynch
Idn Breheny
Thornton Norris
Sac
Lake
Henry
Bakers urged to cut bread prices nationwide under license
By Associated Press Washington December 4 Immediate reduction in bread prices wherever possible is recommended to bakers nationwide by the War Emergency Council of the Baking Industry. Bakers will go under government license December 10 using the formula for producing standardized leaf required by food administration.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Emergency Council of the
Baking Industry
Food Administration
Orange County Society Chooses President MacGrane Core
The Orange County Society in New York held its annual meeting at the Biltmore Hotel on Madison Avenue. Officers and directors were elected and plans for the February 2, 1918 dinner were outlined. Gates W. McGarrah was unable to attend due to a death in his family, with Hon. Macgrane Core presiding. The secretary’s report covered the previous year’s dinner at the Hotel Astor with 315 members and guests.
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Orange County Society
New York
Biltmore Hotel
Madison__avenue
Istreet
New York City
Biltmore Fotel
Gates W. MecGarrah
S. S. Campbell
Nelson Goodsell
G. Eliott Brown
McGarrah
Son of Murtha Enlists, Serves With 107th Infantry
The son of Mr and Mrs A A Murtha of 20 Benjamin Avenue enlisted in Company 1 on June 14 1916 and is now stationed with the 107th Infantry Machine Gun Company at Camp Wadsworth in Spartanburg South Carolina.
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S. J. Halcott
Monhagen Avenue
106Th U. S. Field Artillery
Camp Wadsworth
Spartanburg
S. C
A. A. Murtha
Benjamin Avenue
107Th Infantry Machine Gun Co
Aftermath of Sunday Fire at 29 James Street
Leo Barnett owner of the brick block at 29 James Street reports no repairs planned yet after a Sunday morning fire. Workmen patched roof holes, belongings moved from affected areas, and questions linger about inventory and damages as investigation prospects remain uncertain.
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Leo Barnett
James Street
Times-Press
Barnett
King Street
Jacob Young
Remer
Robert Lusdale
Gatcher Up
Dugdale
A5 Pei
Eor
Kinney Tien
Charles C. Haines
Charles Higham
Arcent
Lakestree
Baildine
Dirion
Longworth
President urges immediate war against Austria Hungary and wider fight
President Wilson calls for immediate war against Austria Hungary to finish Germany’s defeat, says peace can only come from the German people, and that Turkey and Bulgaria are not yet in the path of U.S. war. The address is released for global publication and reaches London Reuters and news services, with word of intensified action near Cambrai after Verdun.
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Associated Press
Washington
Turkey
Bulgaria
Congress
Wilson
United States
Germany
Austria
Concaress
London
Reuters
Berlin
China
Japan
Poetrograd
Cambrat
New York
Cambrai
Verdun
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Charles Krumm
Gree
Harvey S&s. Halcott
Bay of 19
Chester M. King
Macgrane Coxe
Horace Mlr
Tartar Republic
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