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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1916
Page
2
Corine Gaddreeal shares relief from indigestion constipation and dizziness after using Fruit-a-tives. She notes her doctor advised Provit-tires then recommends Fruit-a-tives as a life changer. Box 5 for $2.50 sent postpaid to Fruit-a-tives Limited Osdexcburs NE.
Mrs Mora Corwir Syzate Laren ie Barred is mentioned amid a note on a minstrel show. The M S S Class plans a meeting with their secretary Terry for a Thursday evening. Ernest Bull of Waterbury visits as Daniel Ven Sickle’s on First Avenue. Jr C A boys heard a sermon by Rev J MacInnes on Nehemiah in a well decorated church service.
The Ladies' Ald Society will meet Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Charles Graham's home. Children's Day exercises are set for next Sunday night at the church with promises of good attendance. Various local residents and visitors are noted, including Miss Nellie Tuthill and Mrs. Latta of Suffern visiting relatives. A directors meeting of the Howells Improvement Corporation is scheduled for this evening in the town hall.
An elderly woman crossing in Monroe was struck by a car driven by Harriman resident. Witnesses and family report she appeared confused before impact and sustained injuries. Parade participants from Greenwood Council and local groups helped at the scene and attended services at Highland Mills.
Local performers for Slate Hill stage a production of The Ideal Husband by J. Evans Hall. Cast includes Susan Jane Jones Florence E. McBride Kate and others with admission 15 cents for children. Children from Slate Hill Presbyterian Sunday school urged to rehearse Saturday at Evans Hall. Dance at Grans Hall Friday night well attended. Also Orange County Bible Society to meet June 13 at Circleville Presbyterian Church starting 10 a.m. with afternoon program.
For Feminine Readers a description of a handsome street frock by Jenny notes novel handkerchief draperies at the wrists and pin tucks along the sleeves. The piece mentions wide velor and tiobon trimming for afternoon and evening wraps and references Anna May.
Monticello Driving Park will host postponed Memorial Day races on Wednesday. Horses from Newburgh Middletown Goshen and Ellenville are entered. Owners include Mariam Ponce Flora HL Leender Durland and D B Ramsey with others preparing for a high competition day. News notes also report a local skimmington party at Lincoln Place and farmer labor shortages due to European war migration.
Salisbury Mills dated June 6 reports plans for a Sunday school Children’s Car program on June 25, notes James M. M. Kirby’s return from Ellenville after three weeks away, George Tampy’s work in the fields on Saturday, and a disappearance in the woods. A meeting at Mrs. W. C. Meritt’s home is recorded, and a train timetable update shifts the Salisbury Mills to Greycock service to 3 24, improving connections to New York by boat or train.
Berry Lorraine, popular actress, endorses Mrs. Osgood's Wonder a hair removal cream. She claims it safely reduces unsightly growths unlike electric devices or harsh depilatories. The ad promises affordability and a money back guarantee, with drug stores stocking the product.
Bloomingburg residents express gratitude to Chief Higham Bremen and the local fire department for their prompt response Friday morning to a threatening blaze. A Memorial Day gathering drew about 200 at the cemetery with M W A Fife and Drum, Rev Wm Colden, and a notable sermon at Mt EF Church. The week also included a stereopticon talk on Mexico at the high school and upcoming Children's Day exercises at the Reformed Sunday School with more Methodist details to follow.
Westbrookville June 6 The Ladies Aid Society will hold a strawberry and ice cream social in the church basement Saturday evening June 19 with an entertainment that same evening admission five cents In other notes residents Lewis H Decker of Middletown visited relatives while Miss Lizzie Gillett of Howells spent the weekend at home and several locals enjoyed Memorial Day with kin Other items mention Mr Startk buying a horse and Bert Moore visiting from Weehawken Heights N J with brief notes on Richard Surke returning from New York and Percy Skinner visiting from Matamoras Pa
Wurtsboro reports favorable wartime crop prospects with recent rains improving growth. Local roads from Westbrookville to Yankee Lake identified as fair after earlier roughness. Visitors include Bliss Mlossie Failer of Ozisville with Mrs C B Newhirk. Mr. and Mrs. George Craver of Jersey City return from visits. Mrs. Fairbanks and Dr and Mrs Winiklow of Ellenville call on friends.
Pine Bush June 6 The morning service at Graham s Church drew an unusually large crowd and the evening sermon on The Plumbline filled the church. About 70 Masons from Walden Marboro Campbell Hall Montgomery Middletown and nearby areas attended. The choir from New Prospect and M E churches sang. Rev Robert Greenwell of Bullville will exchange pulpits with Graham s pastor Sunday morning and in the evening the Children s Day exercises begin at 7 30 with a program In Flowerland. A property move on Main Street sees George W Jamison buying Mrs Deminmon Decker s home. Other items include Mrs Frank Miller visiting Massachusetts and Mr Fred D Decker driving to Washington D C. A school picnic to Wolf Hole was led by Prof Nathaniel F Green with stereopticon views on the Adirondacks Catskills and school consolidation topics.
ASK FOR and GET HORLICK'S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Cheap substitutes cost YOU same price. Friday evening and a further novice and are very interesting. Mrs. Robert W. Marks returned on Sunday from a week's visit in Brooklyn at her daughter Mrs. Truman Evans. Mrs. D. S. Decker has returned to her home after visiting friends in Liberty. SARS FOR LABORERS. The Erie Ratheid Company is making about 15 freight cars into dwellings for laborers along the system. Cars fitted with windows and sleeping quarters for eight men each. Station at Greenville next Sunday the 18th Rev K J Colfer will hold a station at the house of Mrs K Greenville. Catholics urged to attend.
An old advertisement touts a corn treatment named Gets-It as a fast, painless solution. It claims application in two seconds, no sticking to stockings, and immediate relief with the promise of a clean result. Distributed by E. Lawrence & Co. Chicago and sold in Middletown.
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