Middletown Merchants Report Best Holiday Trade Ever
Merchants and banks in Middletown report a record December with strong holiday sales across the district. Shoppers from Erie, Ontario, and New Jersey areas boosted traffic via rail, trolley, and auto routes amid good road conditions. Business leaders credit steady deposits, advertising, and robust consumer confidence, predicting a prosperous 1919.
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Middletown
Erie
Imes-Press
Vurl
Elmer Halstead
Darwin
Lounsbury
Carson & Towner Co
Middietown
Times-Press
Benjamin F. Vanoickle
Mindietown
VanSickle
Carol Singing at Linden Hall
Christmas carol service at Linden Hall drew a small but responsive crowd. Mary McShane trained the children while Andrew J. Baird conducted and Grace C. Harman sang with T. Baird at the piano. A balopticon and electric star enhanced the program with film images and a screen showing Old Glory and the Statue of Liberty.
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Linden Hall
Bays
Mary McShane
Andrew J. Baird
Grace C. Harman
C. H. Sweezy
William Cornelius
E. C. Vollmer
Paul Flory
Herald Angels
Bethlehem
Christ
United Voices of
Young and Old
Holmes Music Company
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Little Boy Hart By Brother's Axe
Tuesday afternoon while out with his older brother cutting a Christmas tree five year old Russell Stewart grandson of Cyrus Stewart of Parksville was badly injured. The axe slipped and cut his knee. Dr Hardenbergh attends him at Thrall Hospital and the seriousness of the injury is not yet known.
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Russell Stewart
Cyrus Stewart
Parksville
Hardenbergh
Thrall Hospital
Middletown Heroes Return Home From Overseas Service
Private Carey and Sergeant Collins arrive home from overseas service as local soldiers from Middletown Company I return home after months of anxiety for families. Bugler N A Potter and Arthur D Tompkins, patients at St Marys Hospital Hoboken, and Frank A Carey, also a veteran, arrived aboard the Baltic. Potter was wounded by a machine gun bullet that glanced from an officer’s helmet and struck his knee cap. Sergeant Bill Werley, wounded five times, is recovering at sea.
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Frank Harding
Orange County Trust Company
Harding
Weil
Middletown
Natal Bank
Wai
Ir. Benedict
Fei
Aliddletown
Adrian H. Crawford
Craw- Furniture Co
France
N. A. Potter
Arthur D. ‘Tompkins
St. Mary's Hospital
Hoboken
N. J
New
U. S
Potter
Bill H.werley
Company I
Werley
Dreadnoughts Lead Arizona in New York Harbor Review
The superdreadnoughts of Arizona with ten battleships under Admiral Maro steamed up the Hudson and into New York Harbor for a reception before Secretary Daniels. A tumultuous greeting by harbor craft and crowds followed as the ships anchored between 50th and 125th streets. The British ship Inner Saxonia then arrived from Liverpool carrying 1,490 sick and wounded officers and men, mainly surgical cases.
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Associated Press
New York
Arizona
Maro
America
European
New York Harbor
Daniels
Hudson
Inner Saxonia
Liverpool
Ernest Drew Shoots Woman and Kills Self in Christmas Incident
Port Jervis December report says Ernest Drew, 117 Street, went to Mary Haugh’s home at 35 Orchard Street and shot her in the jaw and tongue, then wounded himself in the temple and died. Mrs Haugh, taken to St Francis Hospital, survived the attack. Drew’s estranged wife was said to be living.
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Tingeg
Port Jervis
Walle
Ernest Dre
Mamie Haugh
Orchard Street
Roene
Haugh
Drew - Ives
Victory dance at State Armory raises funds for local charity
The Christma event at the State Armory brought town residents together under the Lenten Club and Company T of the 3 Guard. Music and refreshments filled the evening as attendees contributed toward a worthy cause. Mrs. W. Cro served as general chairperson with committees handling refreshments tickets publicity amnory and more.
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State Armory
Christma
3 Guard
Heppr Pdinis
Come
He Snyder
Pauline Stey
Richard J. Clemson
John Bright
Oo. Snunning
Irs
Buitesheim
D.H. Canfield
G. B H Iseman
Russell “Wigsina
Threat to harm father leads to suspended sentence for Hasbrouck
Charles Hasbrouck aged 29 of Fulton street was arrested Tuesday afternoon on disorderly conduct after threating to cut his father's head off with a razor. He appeared at home non intoxicated and faced Recorder Starr who granted a suspended sentence for one year on parental request, with warning of harsher action if arrested again. Cip. cera Percival Bennett and LeCh made the arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hasbrouck
Fulton Street
William G. Hasbrouck
Starr
Hasbrouck
Cip
Cera Percival Bennett
LeCh
Christmas Benefit Brings Joy to Poor Children
Middletown Lodge No 10 and Dananas and ora donors expressed gratitude as happy children fed in a Christmas appeal. The committee, led by George Marka and others from Goshen and Sussex, observed the smiles of the youngsters who received aid and consolation.
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Middletown Lodge
Deen
Elks
George
Marka
William F “Royce
Howard Bfra McCoach
John H. Morrison
Finen
Goshen
J. McGibbon
Troverty
Death notice of Mildred Benston two-year-old
The obituary notes the death of Mildred Benston aged two years six months and eleven days from pneumonia. Survived by parents and a sister Ruth Henter six years old. Beaty, a Federal hospital officer at Otisville, is noted. Family home is Charlotte North Carolina. Body to lie in receiving vault Hill Side Cemetery pending interment in Charlotte family plot. Heartfelt sympathy from many friends.
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Benston ’ Avenue
Mildred
Charlotte
Royalty Welcomed by King George and Queen Mary
American guests arrive as King George and Queen Mary extend official welcome driving through Buckingham Palace crowds. Mutinous Berlin sailors hoist red flag, join sailors and regiments, troops took palace guard. Berlin riots claim nearly 700 lives as Republican Guards fail to seize royal stables and headquarters.
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Associated. Press
London
Presient
Mrs. Wilson
Buckingham Palace
Calais
Connaught
Davis
Earl Heading
Bover
Wise
Calais Dee
Wilson
Chaumont
England
Mely
Amer
Great Britain
Berlin
Lea Ander
Amsterdam
Alexander
Franzex
Arcison
Kiel
Yeports
Revoling
Lieut James W Sloat Awarded Croix de Guerre
A France letter to Mrs J W Sloat of Brooklyn says her son Lieutenant James Wilfred Sloat of the 1024 Ammunition Train has been awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery under fire. Sloat was formerly a Middletown school student and trained at Plattsburgh Officers Training Camp.
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France
J. W. Sioat
Brooklyn
James Wilfred Sloat
Sloat
Middletown
Plattsberg
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Washington
William C. Herbert
A. E. Ruggles, Inc
Tremper, & Herbert
Carol
Hart
Bugler Potter
Tompkins
Private Carey
Sergeant Collins
Overseas Service
Ernest Drew
Frank A. .Care
King George
Queen Mary
Dover
Beilint
Lieut
J. W.sloat
Hero Medal
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