Voters approve Fox Meadow land purchase and more trustees
At the June 23 village special election voters backed increasing trustees from four to six, approved a $75,000 purchase of Fox Meadow lands for a park and playground, and authorized sidewalk construction. The board will issue bonds totaling $21,000 for sidewalks and road paving while budgeting highway funds unchanged.
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Fox Meadow
George Field
Field
Post Road
Greenacres Avenue
Huntington Avenue
Morris Lane
Tompkins Road
Gay Dance Ends Series For Year In Scarsdale
The final Three Dance Series party at the Scarsdale Woman's Club drew many guests led by hostesses Mrs. Fountain Mrs. Coombs and Mrs. Reynolds. Attendees wore elaborate gowns as daylight saving created a long pleasant evening with plans for next fall’s events and possible dances around Thanksgiving Easter and June.
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Woman's Club
Scarsdale
Josephine Coombs
Janet Bethel
Amy Moore
Emily van Horn
Miss Olivia Fountain
Andrew Wilson
Miss Duff
Dunham
Stowell
Gwendolyn Evans
Alan Mann
Edward Reynolds, Jr
William Kleite
New York
Nathan George
Halford Park
Jessup
Bank of White buys auctioned property after bid
The Bank of White buys the auctioned property after a bid favored by Herman Bow and Robert H. Berges. The winning offer was $40,000, with the Piains Reporter noting the date and official action. No property details are provided in readable text.
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Bank of White
Piains
Itt Jr
Bart Hone
Herman Bow
Robert H. Berges
Denouncing High Cost of Living Sparks County Forum
Dr. Benjamin Andrews urged wartime economy and a budgeting plan at a Westchester Home Bureau Forum in Scarsdale. He advised investing in building loans, tracking expenditures, and sharing household duties to ease housing strain and raise family savings.
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Benjamin Andrews
Ity
Eve
Tatham
Mead
Pethhell
Roberts Walker
Crosby Beakes
Briggs
Purdy
Harra
Bell
Levey
Caleb Hyatt
Howes
Bacon
Chase
Gridley
Shafer
Story
Hammann
Burgess
Callowharp
Vance
Merrimane
Yonkers
Tarrytown
Pleasantville
Katonah
White Plains
Vironxville
Mt. Vernon
New Rochelle
Lerchmont
Scarsdale
Home Bureau
Bethell
Four Scarsdale Men Honored by French Government
The French government awards certificates of appreciation to four Scarsdale families for sons who died in the Great War. Speakers urge continued sacrifice to preserve liberty and defend America's values as citizens witness the presentation.
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Scarsdale
Rough
Russia
Raymond Re
Pirnie
America
Westchester
Republic of France
Awards and Graduations at Hart s dale and Scarsdale Schools
Closing exercises at Scarsdale School Number 2 and Hartdale ceremonies feature valedictory by Victoria Johnson salutatory by Florence Colantino and prize awards to Johnson Colantino Kisby Ellsworth Oberhammer Garizio Gary. Westchester Liberal Party meeting planned. nine Hartsdale graduates listed with diplomas presented by Frank G. Whitney.
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Scarsdale
Victoria Johnson
Florence Colantino
Rose Kisby
Myron Ellsworth
Preston
W. B. Dickerman
B. Rhodes
Victor Johnson
Victor Oberhammer
Louis Garizio
Mary Gary
Scarsdale Fire Company Monthly Meeting Notice
The regular monthly meeting of Scarsdale Fire Company No. 1 will be held on Thursday July 1 1920 at 815 PM. Classified ads for the week's issue are accepted until 3 PM Thursday with remittance at the Inquirer office.
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Scarsdale Fire Company No. 1
Office of the Inquirer
Oakland Sedans and Touring Cars on Offer
Oakland Sedans priced at 1885 dollars and Touring Cars at 1235 dollars spotlight a Six Cylinder Valve-in-Head GM automobile with a few good used cars advertised by Brown's Buick Service in White Plains New York.
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Oakland
General Motors
Brown
Buick
White Plains
N.Y
Prominent Scholar to Speak on Free Speech Forum
Dr. Percy Stickney Grant will discuss Free Speech and the Open Forum at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Clark Runyon on Saturday evening June 26 at 8 15. Admission cards are available by calling the Runyon residence. The Village women organizers plan this as the first in a summer series of Saturday meetings.
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Andrews
Roberts Walker
Miss Gunther
Teachers’ College
New
Percy Stickney Grant
Walter Clark Runyon
Runyon
Westchester County Tennis Championship Opens July Fourth
The Westchester County Tennis championship starts July 4 at the County Tennis Club in Hartsdale with men and women singles and doubles. Entry fees range 2.50 for singles and 4.00 per doubles team. entries close July 1. Prizes include the Pax Morrison trophy. visiting players receive a buffet luncheon on July 4 and 5 and a dance on July 3.
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County Tennis Club of
Westchester
Hartsdale
Westchester County
Pax-Morrison
Frederick P. Fox
West 40Th Street
New York City
Fox
White Plains
Help Sought To Locate Manning A. Trea Missing Boy
The state newspapers are asked to help locate Manning A. Trea a 17 year old from Ithaca New York missing since June 6. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall 135 pounds dark with good teeth and plays clarinet and cornet. His father A E Trea 607 North Cayuga Street Ithaca will appreciate any information.
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Manning A. Trea
Tthaca
N. Y
A. E. Trea
North
Cayuga Street
Ithaca
Westchester Lighting Plans to Maintain Gas Quality
Westchester Lighting Company will not reduce the British thermal walls in its gas or lower quality to match actions by other state lighting firms. President Stratton stated the company never considered such a plan and will continue to furnish the present standard despite a Public Service Commission hearing on a request by Up-State firms to cut gas units.
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Westchester Lighting Company
Stratton
Public Service Commission
Club secretary hours and address change instructions
The club secretary Miss Adams is available from eleven o'clock to seven, Saturdays nine thirty to one. All club calls should be made within those hours. Telephone Scarsdale 24. Submit change of address promptly to receive the Inquirer at your summer address. News items about summer changes are not requests to change mailing addresses. No address changes without special subscriber request.
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Miss Adams
Scarsdale
Inquirer
Dr Hillis to Speak at Scarsdale Fourth of July
Dr Newell Dwight Hillis will be the orator at Scarsdale Fourth of July celebration at Old Town Hall on Monday July Fifth with the Twenty second Regiment Band of New York City providing music. Community singing will be led by Francis J Tyler of the New York Community Service Bureau.
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Newell Dwight Hillis
Scarsdale
Old Town Hall
Hillis
22Nd Regiment
New York City
Francis J. Tyler
New York Community Service Bureau
Another Scarsdale Landmark Changes Owners
The Elmford Drive stone mansion once owned by Lester Gruggeman has been sold to Harry J. Patterson via Angell & Co. Patterson, a Scarsdale resident and Bank of Nova Scotia New York branch manager, follows a long line of owners dating to 1850 and linked to local figures such as the Olsen family, Lewin Popham, and Henry Bates.
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Elmford Drive
Lester Gruggeman
Angell & Co
Harry J. Patterson
Scarsdale
New York
Bank of Nova Scotia
Edward Olsen
William W. Olsen
Church of St. James the Less
Allan Campbell
Lewin Popham
Henry Bates
Henry J. Autenrieth
William J. Reed
Lester G. ‘Bruggeman
Popham
Wayside Inn
Major Fleming
Colonel Crane
Harry J. Ford
Golf Champions to Tour U S Clubs this Summer
English stars Harry Vardon and Ted Ray will contest the National Open at Inverness Toledo in August. They plan a wide tour visiting Scarsdale July 23 and Siwanoy a few days earlier, with stops at Shawnee July 20 Shenecasset New London July 26 and Hollywood New Jersey for a potential $1000 prize. They may showcase at about fifty clubs through September and October.
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Harry Vardon
Ted Ray
Inverness Club
Toledo
Scarsdale Golf Club
Tom McNamara
Jack Dowling
Siwanoy Country Club
Shawnee
Shenecasset Country Club
New London
Conn
Hollywood Country Club
New Jersey
Scarsdale Woman's Club Receives Antiques Gifted 1705
The Scarsdale Woman's Club adds two historic items to its club house a long handled frying pan and trammer hooks donated by Mrs John MW Adams The utensils date to about 1705 from the Hart homestead in Greenburgh and were used over a large fire with a buried crane for kettles. The frying pan shows wear from later use near a spring.
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Scarsdale
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Village Board
Ae K
Synanien
the Inquirer
Henry C. Stevernagle
Henry Norman Grieb
Hartsdale School
Chicago
Philip Russell
Haresdale School
Dorothy Elizabeth Assenback
Evelyn Benson
Florence Ida Grune
Dorothy Marie Irwin
Lillian Marie Ulrich
Mary Ama Wood
Clyde Eisner
Joseph Fleurrat
Frank Graves Whitney, Jr
M. C. Williams
Mabel M. Guerin
Mary E. Royce
Katherine V. Keppler
Louise H. Conway
America the Beautiful
Land
Ours
C. W. MacPherson
Cecilia
Frances Noble
Old Mountain Phelps
Joseph Fleurat
Dorothy Hiller
Frank G. Whitney
Board of Education
Highlands
Wight
Allen Tobey
Ert T. Bryam
George A. Walker, Jr
White Mains
John Krepps
Edward Raymond
W. Chester Mead
Sylvia Russell
DR. Hillis
Old Town Hal
Scarsdale Club
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