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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1918
Page
8
The Men s Store Of Middletown announces a new shipment of holiday neckwear and clothing. Shirts in Madras Percales and Silks priced from 1.50 to 10.00. Interwoven hose featured. Located just around the corner from Broadway at No 5 King St.
Goshen community plans a 7 30 p m Christmas Eve lighted park event with carols. Montgomery C Smith of Red Cross reports roll call memberships near one thousand, expected to double by finals. Mrs Elizabeth T Whitaker, lifelong Campbell Hall resident, dies at Middletown Sanitarium from pneumonia after ten days illness. Funeral arrangements set for Tuesday afternoon. Interment in Warwick cemetery noted due to a published error.
The third in a series of organ recitals for the Red Cross benefit, Sunday’s program by Andrew J. Baird featured Mrs. Cornelia Marvin-Dilabaugh. A large audience braved the weather, enjoying Dubois Hosannah, Rheinberger Sonata movements, Ring Out Wild Bells set by Gounod, Dudley Buck Holy Night, Sousa In Flanders Fields, The March of the Magi, Vesper Bells, The Prayer Perfect, and Widor Toccata. The next recital is Feb 4 with Mrs. Grace Carruth Harman. the cantata The Star of Bethlehem was also sung with a large chorus and is scheduled for repeat next Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
Ridgebury December 22 at the Methodist Episcopal parish house the two reel moving picture The Kiddies Christmas will be shown free with a silver offering taken to cover unusually heavy year end expenses for the children's holiday. Everyone is welcome.
John H. Artmann president of the Orange County Farm Bureau and D Farley urge dairy farmers to attend a Dairy Feeding School in Middletown from December 30 to January 1. Professors J B Barron and A A Hopper will teach feeds and feeding with emphasis on meadow and pasture management. The notice stresses practical knowledge to reduce production costs and improve efficiency.
The Red Cross will keep Grace Church Parish House and the Chamber of Commerce office open this evening to receive donations and enroll participants for 1919. The local effort shows strong progress with City Hall, Charles Wolff Inc, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co store, East Main Street, Rockafellow Burial Co and others already in the 100 percent class. More responses are expected from various industries, aiming for Middletown to reach full participation. Watch Times Press classifieds for buying and selling.
Delights include GETT'S APOLLO and WHITMAN'S candy in fresh stock for Christmas. KETCHAM'S SALTED NUTS highlighted as festive fare. Wilson continues Lone Trip Shopping. thirds from affected communities noted. Spain's Premier Romanones visits Champagne and Rheims after wartime devastation, pledging shared outrage at German conduct and sympathy for France.
Under the Lenten Sewing Club and Co I N G, a Victory Dance was held at the Middletown State Armory on December 25, 1918. Proceeds totaled $309. Music by Farmers' Orchestra. Admission $1.00. Tickets sold at StartUp, W. J., W. W. Young and Army & Navy Canteen Club.
Cedric arrived from Liverpool today carrying American troops, signaling a transfer of personnel during December sunlit early dusk. The Associated Press reports the troop movement reached New York amid wartime mobilization efforts.
Edward H. Furman of Unionville and Albertina Hanford were wed at 1st Presbyterian Church with Rev. Dr. Robert O. Kirkwood officiating on Saturday December 21. Attendants were Sara Kathryn Woods and Curton Harvey Hanford, the groom’s brother-in-law. They will reside in Unionville.
William S. Hart stars in The Square Deal Man at the Show Shop Theatre tonight. Hart hopes to continue making Western pictures to the end of his days, believing Westerns endure as other themes fade.
Wallace Reid stars in a Paxmount picture The Man From Feneral Range at Stratton Theatre tonight Ann Little leads the drama in a powerful conception as advertised.
The passage urges immediate action and full effort rather than waiting for inspiration or mood. It warns that delaying work wastes life and power and advocates tackling tasks with whole seated energy as a reliable substitute for enthusiasm.
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