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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1917
Page
8
You cannot escape the distinct durability and comfort of Palm Beach suits. They are offered at right prices and provide one hundred cents worth for every dollar spent.
Copenhagen reports German shortages push tobacco substitutes into daily life. Officials approve uses of cabbage or hay with strawberry leaves lavender blossoms and sandalwood to flavor cigars as genuine tobacco remains scarce and costly.
Jewel Gas Ranges claim low gas usage and long service with nine models. Marketing copy touts materials and workmanship as meeting high standards to satisfy customers.
Two long obituaries note the deaths of William W Bowes in Ellenville aged 64 and John S Shand in Ovisville aged 46. Bowes, born November 18 1855 in Ellenville, was a tanner and lived in the city for 126 years with a widow and four children surviving. Shand, born February 2 1871 in Monse Scotland, was a shoemaker in Castile for 11 years, leaving his wife and three sons in Jersey City and nearby locales.
A physician told a Times-Press representative that more volunteers have come forward in this city than in the entire Orange county, while a morning rainbow is seen as a sign of rain and a promise of fair weather.
Miss Helen F. Anderson of York visits her sister at 155 West Main. F W Anderson and wife, New York reps of Morgan & Wiecox Manufacturing, moved to 124th Street and Broadway with their children Hardy and Helen. Robert E. Ryerson, son of Mr and Mrs Richard V Ryerson, has been at Fort Oglethorpe and was sent to Fortress Monroe on spring leave with six others. Several locals noted at the New Kenmore Hotel Albany. Mary Adelman, once ill at James Street, is improving. Phoebe Collard of Gusken turns 89 today with family observances. Westfield New Jersey reports Viola May Wann engaged to Ernest F. Dunham of Middletown. Junior Home Guards drill and strawberry festival at St Pauls Church to raise funds for uniforms. James Franklin Caverly of Brooklyn visits sister Mrs Sudth at 36 South Street. Mrs R Buckler of New York city visits Mrs William Schupp at 35 Smith Street. Buckler’s sister Fred Shelden serves in the 71st Regiment. Anna L Hare recovering from appendectomy at Thrall Hospital.
Charles E Greason, formerly of the Y M C A, heads a push to establish an Army Y M C A at the Middletown camp. He gathered Orange County and state Y M C A officials to discuss a staffed tent and camp secretary funded by pledges, with Orange County committees backing the project and ready money already pledged.
M Cc. Denniston returned to support Uncle Sam after 1644 years in the Philippines army and enrolled as major in the officers reserve corps. County and Orange County committees plan vigorous drives to assist soldiers in camp at Middletown and nationwide, with Red Cross contact points in Goshen and Blooming Grove. A Blooming Grove Y M C A meeting will discuss plans for the annual July 4 get-together day.
Leon Walker Alford and Florence May Ostrander were married Sunday afternoon at Shawanga Lodge Bish View by Rev. F. P. Hunter. They were unattended. Only immediate families and a few friends attended. They will reside in the city.
Obsequies held for Perry S Tice of Ellenville with services at his brother John J Tice’s home on Center Street and burial in Fentine cemetery. Also funeral for Mrs John E Iseman at 1 Highland Avenue with interment in Hillside Cemetery. Panama Canal capacity study notes main lock capacity around sixty ships daily, with temporary reductions during hull work reducing to about forty ships daily.
Goshen committees work to raise five thousand dollars toward a one hundred six hundred thousand goal during Red Cross Week. Secretary Adele Schoonmaker reports contributions. a twenty member finance panel is formed. Headquarters open for hospital supplies. Anna Coleman in charge with a volunteer committee for materials. An eight lesson surgical dressings course costs three dollars with applications due by June 25.
Goshen June 20 the program for the commencement week at Goshen High School includes Bacalaureate at St James Church, Ahammnoni reception, exhibit of elementary work, graduation exercises, and senior class picnic. Examinations close the school year as the events unfold across the week. Mary Coleman returns from Albany where her brother Charles C Coleman earned LL B at Madison Barracks.
Detrait Free Preaye comments on a man who served a brief prison sentence and redeemed himself, while noting critics who keep revisiting the past for conversation. The exchange reflects ongoing public memory and pressures affecting personal reputation.
Goshen on Saturday hosts a matinee on the Historic Track to raise funds for the American Red Cross. Suprem e Court Justice Arthur S. Tompkins will speak, with proceeds from the racing card and souvenir programs going to the Red Cross. Boxes are reserved by W K Dickerson as secretary. first tier tickets are $10, second tier $5.
Goshen June 20 Mrs Phoebe Collard celebrates her 99th birthday with family noting她 health strengths and gifts. Grandchildren include Leon Gardner of Goshen National Bank and Ivan A Gardner of Middletown. Also Masons at St James Church plan service for St John the Baptist Day and donations to equip army navy chaplains. A Goshen High School baccalaureate sermon June 24 at St James Church with Red Cross offering. The Birches on Main welcomed Henry Allaway family back from New York and Leonard Treman to sail for France with the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps. Col George B Stone and wife visit from Oklahoma City. Miss McDowell of New York visits Sheriff McDowell. Tonight at the General Leah Baird feature and The Lights of New York showing.
Members of the New York Press Association gathered at Bear Mountain for a midsummer meeting and a West Point visit. Attendees included H. H. Knickerbocker, Times-Press business manager. Gardiner Kline of Amsterdam Recorder. and many editors from Jamestown Journal, Kingston Freeman, Hudson Republican, Middletown Times-Press, Newburgh News, Oneonta Star, Poughkeepsie Eagle News, Saratogian, and more.
Church program at 7 30 features stereopticon views of Alaska highlighting Klondike scenes. Womans Foreign Missionary Society meets Thursday at 3 50 PM at St Pauls Church. Camp 41 P O of A holds its monthly meeting tonight on Washington Street with officer elections. A World Outlook note discusses Chinese monk meal tickets based on sacred spots.
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