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Newspaper

Middletown Times Press

Location

Middletown, New York, United States of America

Date

Dec 23, 1919

Page

6

Entertainment at Otisville Presbyterian Church

At the Otisville Presbyterian Vestry on Friday evening an enjoyable program featured old songs and the musical number Reuben and Rachel by Mrs Rockwell and Mr Walker. Proceeds supported the Christmas tree fund with thanks extended to the musical directors and participants.

Otisville Presbyterian Church Reuben and Rachel Rockwell Mr. Walker Saver Bailey E .L. Walker Grace Newkirk

Thompson Ridge Community News Brief

Christmas exercises planned at Hopewell Presbyterian Church on December 20 with a supper preceding at 7 p.m. The Light Betters Mission Board was organized listing Clara Carmen as president Elizabeth Couser as vice president Glive Dickerson as secretary and Nathaniel Carmen as treasurer. Also noted is a Christmas vacation entry for William Dickerson at Cobleskill State College of Agriculture near Albany since October 26 1912 and that Reid Ice Cream Co has begun harvesting ice about eight inches thick.

Reid Ice Cream Co

England Bans Apple and Plum Sales by Street Peddlers

A curious law in England barred street peddlers from selling apples and plums to prevent servants and apprentices from being tempted to steal employers' money for pricey fruits. The rule aimed to curb temptations and preserve workers' honesty in the early market days.

England

Annual Police Report 1919 Details Fines and Losses

The thirteenth annual police report shows fines totaling 5598 dollars and sickness days totaling 199 for the department. Property stolen reported at 2717.37 dollars with 2587.97 recovered, leaving 129.40 unrecovered. Readable notes praise officer conduct and department service amid ordinance violations and various offenses.

Police John D. McCoach Howard Moo Starr Department McCoach Thas Ins

Police Records Show 1919 Arrests Climb Over 1918 Totals

Joined as follows Chief John D Me Coach March 9 1903 Sergeant John Gier January 7 1907 Officers John J Greeves February 9 1907 Bruce Mc Coach October 20 1907 John B Her vert April 19 1909 Percival Bennett June 1814 B S Thompson January 24 1916 Leon L Moore February 36 291T B L Wood June 30 1917 G Swiston Ludlum August 16 1927 George F Finn June 1918 Robert a LeClercq June 19 1918 Roy H Rogers April 14 1919 Department Collects 3961 The total collections of fines and for its including excise fund was 338 Other money collected was 35 gallows Dancing Heenses 115 ped dler s Heenses 110 s Heenses 63 baggage Heeen junk deal ers Heenses 25 auctioneers Heenses 29 Arrests 118 More than 1918 The total of 138 arrests is an crease of JUS over those of 1918 in which there were 430 Seventy five persons were summoned before Procor der Howard M Starrin which moars were made For other cities 1) arrests were made Offeers fou 2 ESS weere open during the year The number of persons applying for being in the city Jail was 226 ised

John D. Me John Gier John J.greeves Bruce McCoach John B. Hervert Percival Bennett B. S. Thompson Leon L Moore B. L. Wood G. Swiston Ludlum George F. Finn Roberta LeClercq Roy H.,rogers Howard M. Starrin Offeers Fou Ised

Fragmented OCR Highlights Police and Legal Notes

An OCR fragment references decrees, penalties, and law topics including assault, disorderly conduct, and penal education. It mentions police personnel, sickness costs, vacations, and service lengths, with names like Oliver William Faulkner and Fred Tt Wood among others, amid garbled details.

Xmas Observance at Wartsboro Church

Fragmentary local notes describe a Christmas observance at Wartsboro Church and various town residents traveling or visiting family. The jumbled text mentions Dr Henry Y Ostrander in New York, Mrs Lee M Pubacy returning home, and several names tied to Newburgh Middletown and Englewood areas amid scattered references to attendances and visits.

Slisses Frances VanDurer Edythi (Smith G. S. Winter Philip Holt New York City Mrr Mrs. Newkirk Wortsboro Percy Newkirk Horace Ketchary

Slate Hill area schedules school closure and events

Slate Hill Pec 25 school will close Wednesday for two weeks vacation. Miss Osterhoudt arranged a pleasing program for Wednesday afternoon. Presbyterian Sunday school plans its Christmas entertainment on Christmas Eve in Grange. Mrs. Dean Bergen has been US, along nicely. Garage on Upper Lane owned by Richard S Beva sold. not Evans, who says he does not intend to dispose of the garage now.

Ketcham Charlotte Wiggins Mise Helen Wandage Misa Helen Jessberger Briddletown Aeron Silkman New York City Thomas XX. Cockrill New York Herschkel Middletown Hummell Caroline Quackenbush Rauch Birs Claude Hyde Walter Summers C. R. Trier Ernest E. Schirge Trosky James J. Beban Martha Isabelle J. G. Tate John WeDoneld Giveans Miss McDermott Municipal Sanatorium Howard Runnalls Milas Pauline Albach Ami Richards Beva Evans

Christmas Masses at Chester Church in three high services

Chester to host three Christmas Day Masses by special permit of Archbishop Hayes and Rev. T L Gilmartin. The schedule: midnight on Christmas Eve at St Columba's, 9 am at Church of the Most Sacred Heart, and 11 am at St Columba's. A children’s procession and a varied musical program led by Helen Meany, with choral and organ pieces. Non-Catholics are invited to attend.

St Columba's Helen Meany Des Nevis Mendelssohn Acs St Columbia’s Jude

Unionville notices on illness and travel amid church work

Mrs. Carrie E. Keepers is seriously ill with stomach trouble and convalescing under care of D. Nugent and Myrtle B. Davis in Unionville. Dr. Holsworth, a Presbyterian pastor, left Monday for Wayne Indiana to spend the holiday week with his mother.

Unionville Carrie E. Keepers Cape D. Nugent Myrtle B. Davis Holsworth Wayne Indiana

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