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Newspaper
Middletown Times Press
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1917
Page
8
An old advertisement hawks Pajamas and related travel wear for hotel room escapes. Maslin Pajamas priced at 1.25, Soisette 1.50, and 2.00. robes 75e and 1.00. offers a range for men from hats to sacks, overcoats to underwear and hand baggage.
June 28 report from Washington states the Red Cross fund of 5114,000,000 raised in eight days will likely extend into January, with another drive for humanity dollars planned. A home cleaning tip instructs dissolving borax and ammonia for a soapless wash.
Personal notices report George S. Jamison of Pine Bush named to Fort McPherson officers training camp after Pratt Institute and Army service. Other items note visits and travels of Miss Gladys J. Itie, Mrs. J. Live, Mrs. Charles St John, Miss Alfred Simpson, and the Gibbons sisters, with locals at Yankee Lake and camps in Cornwall and Port Jervis, Hawley and Matamoras social rounds.
Col Oliver Harold Payne longtime Standard Oil magnate died in New York City on Wednesday night. He was nearly 78, had bought a 170 acre West Park Hudson estate about ten years ago, designing it with landscape architects to harmonize with nature and preserve its natural beauty.
Governor Charles Whitman requisitioned county home defense committees to secure recruits for federal and state military and naval forces. Census returns name men in every county eager to enlist, and the adjutant general’s office will mail those names to local defense committees with urging letters to contact enlistment officers. The note follows a Harpers Magazine quotation about a scattered audience and a disrupted lecture.
In Goshen on June 2 workmen from E M Bulings Co Pine Bush are carving two missed names onto the Minisink Monument for Joseph Rider and Timothy A Purver of Col Allison and Hathorn regiments. Mrs Barrell sparked the inquiry after a dream led her to prove the omissions and a suitable space remains for two more names.
Goshen on June 25 reports chief Frank C. Hock seeks auto owners to pledge vehicles for potential government use. Blank cards request make and owner phone numbers. Pledges not binding until necessity. ownership retained. Several autos already pledged.
The Olive Branch Sunshine Society will meet with Mrs. W. A Hartin at 5 South Street on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Lost. A man discovers his loose change fell through a hole in his pocket and deems it nearly impossible to accept that nothing is ever lost.
Pershing again named to supreme command in a wartime dispatch. The piece notes his Lafayette Escadrille service and a lung wound from aerial combat as his plane crashed behind German lines. Canada and Italy wartime actions are summarized with Lens advances.
Washington reports Complications for the food administration unit from the Senate Agriculture Committee. By 9 to 7 vote, the committee amends prohibition, removing makt hquors from permissible manufactures and granting the President authority to restore wine production during public emergency. The President could commandeer existing distilled spirits. The note recalls the seacoast fortifications program begun around 1794 under a constitutional act authorizing fortifications along the seaboard.
Ina V Conklin of Galilee Wayne county Pa married Geo Coe Sr son of Mr and Mrs Geo J Coe of Triv. 3 BH Boyce of Damascus attended by Wesley Brannizy and Mildred Irene Conklin. The ceremony featured a canopy of evergreens and a Lohengrin wedding march. The bride wore pale olive crepe de chine and georgette crepe with blue maid of honor. Guests included Mr and Mrs Harrison Quick Alton Harris George Alton and Miss Mabel Harris from New Windsor and New Windsor couple Al a wedding on June 20 at Webb Horton Memorial Church. The newlyweds plan a short wedding trip and will reside in New Windsor.
The funeral of Albert W. Roe of Walton Lake was held at 10 this morning at the Presbyterian Church in Monroe with Rev. E B Shaw officiating. Pallbearers included Fred Bull S B Heaton Seeler St ens and James Henry. Interment followed in Warwick Cemetery. A separate burial service for Mrs J W The tunenu is announced for Sunday afternoon with interment at Walker Valley.
Miss Ilate Grace Conkling daughter of Clarence Conkling and Beatrice Brown died Tuesday at Thrall Hospital aged seven months and 29 days. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 o'clock at the parents home near Slate Hill. The article briefly notes origins of the Salvation Army in Whitby England with General Booth and William Booth during a time of Russo Turkish tensions.
Former clients of Smith the divorce lawyer who died last week plan a public monument in his memory. They have not chosen a design yet with options including a Statue of Liberty style statue and a colossal granite cleaver as discussed in the Lamb quote.
Major Chandler head of the state constabulary explains motorcycles were frequently asked about and they were tried and condemned by the Pennsylvania state constabulary. They also failed with the Northwest Mounted Police in Canada and could not be used successfully in this state.
A fragment indicates two new ape raisers were appointed for the federal Find Bank of Sp, which covers the New York district including Orange county. Mr Varey is named president and general manager of the Patrons Fire Relief Association of Jefferson county, a cooperative Orange insurance organization.
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