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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1916
Page
8
Union suits and two piece garments advertised with prices from one to two dollars promise comfort and correct fit. The copy urges selecting a straw hat described as a Regular Straw to complement the outfit at Middletown's Men's Store.
This ad touts wire flower bed guards to keep dogs out, a wire trellis to support climbing vines, and metal plant boxes as a superior alternative to wood boxes for better garden results.
Sterling tires and hardware shop T. C. Northrop operates at 30 West Main Street Sterling offering a range of tires and hardware supplies. The location advertises services and goods for local customers, indicating a general-purpose store in the downtown area.
Chief Higham presents annual department finances and activity including lighting costs, coal usage, maintenance, driver counts, membership by company, alarms since 1888, hourly and monthly alarm totals, company responses, and fires by type. Thanks expressed to officials. Chiefs Higham and Schoonmaker attended a chimney fire at Mrs Hasbrouck’s home on 21 50 South Street. Damage slight. 38 gallons of chemicals used by Eagles and Excelsiors.
Mrs 3M L Conkling returns to Middletown and will reopen her shorthand and typewriting school in the Times-Press Building. Information available at 18 Hillside Avenue. After August 1 the term will begin with patrons welcomed to discuss a business course. Advertisement mentions a June 32, 1916 dance at McWilliams orchestra with refreshments.
City council session runs over time as petitions from Jackson avenue Commonwealth avenue Forest avenue Beacon street and others seek curbs gutters and sidewalks. Reports from City Clerk Police and Fire departments filed. mayoral and board of estimate material noted.
Corner stone day set for Hampton Farms to mark a $250000 classification bidding and the new dig structure foundation. Major John Purroy Mitchell and New York Board of Aldermen will attend with a score of officials. program to be provided at the farm.
Funeral services were held this afternoon for Charles Adams at his home on 162 Academy Avenue, conducted by Rev. George W. Grinton. Interment followed in the family plot at Willside Cemetery with Tinsmizks Toonomclanag members serving as pallbearers.
A band led by chief Jonn Floris arrived in Goshen from Slate Hill by motor truck, womenband members solicited fortunes from locals, and were ordered to leave by Officer Van Gelder after authorities questioned Floris who claimed lodge ties in Washington DC. Floris said the band came from Oklahoma and owed him $70. The group then rejoined the caravan toward Tuxedo. In other news, ann. events and local visits filled Goshen as the Minisink Hook and Ladder Co marked 30 years, and suffrage activists met at the court house before a public mass.
Airs W force of Westtown just returned from visiting her relatives in Port Jervis Mass Harriet L Merehouse attended the commencement exercises at West Point Monday. There was a review of the troops before General Scart and General Bliss of the United States Army with 125 graduates in the class of 1916 Mrs Lield Fairbanks has gone to Asbury Park for the summer and Baron J York of Sloan Clappers garage Newburgh spent a few days in the city.
Leon Simpson a 25 year member of Middletown Fire Department urges votes tonight between 7 and 9 for First Assistant Chief. He has served the department faithfully for about thirteen years and is backed by Eagle Chemical Hose Company.
William H. Berry, a Wallkill farmer, died suddenly at 9 a.m. in the yard of the Holding House after a heart disease attack as he and his son returned from a wagon ride. Doctors could not aid him. Health Officer J. L. Hanmer approved removal of the body. Berry, born in New Jersey, is survived by his wife and eight children. Funeral notice to follow elsewhere.
Two famous horses entered to race at Goshen in August won three heats at Cleveland yesterday Chilcoote by San Francisco captured the 2.27 class trotting and Car Spring by Moko won the 2:22 class pacing The page also notes campaign strategy debates and a Bryan progressive platform angle with a new birth announced for Mr and Mrs Thomas J Shane at 10 Lincoln Street
In St Louis on June 12 the Wilson faction presses for renominating Marshall as Vice President with President Wilson's backing. Democratic leaders race to finalize convention procedures amid last minute maneuvers, with delegates arriving and plans set for the nomination process through Friday and into Saturday.
A local retailer advertises ready made suits and custom tailoring with over 200 samples. Customers may select styles and have suits made to fit, with home delivery of two sample selections if preferred. Other suits start at $15. TropiGrash summer suit ordered at $12 to $15. Loder & Herbison, West Main St. No. 4.
The convention nominated Charles Higham for Chief Engineer after a ballot. Frank Schoonmaker and Leon Simpson vied for first assistant chief with Schoonmaker winning informal support and becoming nominee. Mahon and Schindler contested second assistant chief, Mahon securing the nomination. An embargo by N Y O W Ry raises freight handling to New York city piers.
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