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T he M onroe gazette - VOL: V. NO 37. MONROE, ORANGE COUNTY, NEW YORK, FBIUAY, NOVEMBER 8,1912. tl.OO PIK 1 The W a tch T h a t oM a d e the Dollar Fam o u s— Ingersoll. The Real Temperature and How to Know It. It’s an advantage to know the real temperature of your room. It’s a aatisfaction to know the Real temperature out of doors. A THERMOMETER is the only guide, the rest is guess work. Reliable House Thermometers, 25c to 65c. CLINICAL THERMOMETER, 1 Minute, 75c. Cigars Don’t Guess—Use a Tliermometer ^ G. R. PALEN, Mgr. ^erything right and right in in Price Quality Let us supply your Drug Store wants '^Expert Shop Repairing.” In Work Shoes particularly—“ Let your basis of economy be the year, not the pair.” . T j ION BRAND” Shoes for every day hard service, which have been proven here, are made by a firm pro ducing work shoes exclusively, and by close application to this one line, is in a position to turn out shoes which have the style to give satisfaction in looks the fit to give comfort in feel and the wear which guarantees your returning for another pair. Their determination to stick to the highest standard of quality (not only- in manufacturing, but in the selection of raw materials) has compelled them Our winter stock of to actually produce a new leather; new tannage, possessing all of tl merits of “Oil Grain,” Chrome Water proof” and “Elk Skin,” without any of their faults and better in many This new leather is called *‘Hardy- Hide,” and we know it to be as near waterproof as leather can be made; it is soft and pliable, and though it will wear, it takes its own time about it. The prices range from §2.00 to §4.00 including both regular and high cuts. Felts” and “ Arctics” have arrived. Doremus Block, - - - - Monroe, N. Y “ IVe Specialize on Children, ’s Shoes.” R^emember’ R E L Y E A ’S CANDY STORE When you want Candy or Soda, A fine line o f box candies, fresh and delicious at the popular prices of 25c and 50c. 30c and 60c. “Hopewell Dainties” Maraschino Cherries at 40c the box, once tasted, never forgotten. Also a full line of 10c Candies equal to many o f the higher priced ones. We make a specialty of Salted Peanuts at 10c per pound. F r a n k W . R e l y e a , Lake Street, T H E CHURCH AND SOCIETY NOTES. TOWN AND VICINITY NEWS. PRESBYTERtAN. held in the lecture room of the Pres, byterian church Friday evening, )ceeds to be ’ember 15th, the pro( used for the benefit of School. The admission will be cents for adults and 25 cents children. Last Sunday morning at ! jrly called Congregational ; Ir. Eisenhart presented his resigni Buick automoh agency of lage livery e church effect December 1st. The Congre gation accepted the resignation and minted Mr. Paddleford and Fred vbury to represent the church at sbytery which met at Circleville, November 7th. the same time was elected, Mr, Paddleford, r, Paddlel appoin Newbury to repre Presbytery which At mitte Seeley Bull and Mrs. Ashmi act with a similar committee the session, to hear n: them to the church for the pulpit. Junior choir meeting, Friday, a f ternoon after school in the lecture room o f the church. The regular monthly meeting of .adies Missionary Society cf meet at iry Mapes, Fri day, November 15th, at 2.30 P. M. and invite candidates ito iryman. Seats are now on sale'at Relyea's for the Saturday evening.performance of the Daniel Alman Stock Co. at the Monroe Opera House, Monroe Bowling Alley \Herbert McCollum won the prizes offered for October on both the regu- tion and box ball alleys. John Krouse has leased the Chas. T. Knight feed store and will now consolidate his feedHousinens, which he has been conducting ih several locations about the village. ' ' The champion “ porker'\? of the season, so far reported, was deliver ed hy S. B. Halloek of Highland Mills, to Buschel’s market on Wed nesday, being one year old and weighing 500 pounds. After several years Of confusion er the price to be officials in the Town of Monroe ! election Missionary the Presbyterian church the home of Mrs. Henry The usual Sunday morninj next Sunday. evening services a church, the pastor. ning and isbyterian Preaching by moyer will sing. price to b paid in the Town of Monroe for their duties, the Town Board has settled on a rate ^-which is larger than in some towns and lower than in others of the county, to meet the approval cerned. Now a Democratic President has been elected, it -will be a keen fight le local patriots to see who Monroe whei pires. The recent METHODIST EPISCOPAL. The music at the M. E. Church Sunday will include the following;— Morning Anthem—Selected Soprano Solo—“ Come Unto Me” Evening Anthem—Selected Tenor Solo—“ There is a Green H ill.” —Gounod The topics of the sermons, in the M. E. Church next Sunday will be, “ In the House of Rimmon” in the morning and “ The Cross versus the Crescent” in the evening. between this office, which became reasonably exciting, only be a picayune affair lared to the forthcoming The monthly business meeting social of the Epworth Leagt was held on Tuesday largely^ attended and i FIREMEN’S OPERA HOUSE. Saturday, November 9 Vion’s Motion Pictures S igue whi( 'ening wi good time byed by all. Miss Dorothy Brown and Miss Bernice Tannery were elected to membership. Dur ing the social hour refreshments were served and games were indulged in. The M, E. Church expects to give a ballad entertainment in the church I—>~r. A f~TT n ' on Tuesday evening the 13th inst. _ _ 1 F urther particulars later. i V l O n r O C i The zenana Bible and Medical j Mission Auxiliary of Monroe, will meet a t the home of Mrs, George Carr, Tuesd.iy afternoon, Nov. 12 at two o’clock, to sew as the ladies arc pl.anning ti shaks, Ind; ladies •who are interested are invited to be present. The following persons were re- into membership in the M. E, irch last Sunday morning: Mrs. ay morning: ifield Lewis,- Miss Carol ir Sanson, Mrs. Ji The Best that can be procured One Big Laugh after the regular show \‘The Country Store.” Gome out and win a present and enjoy the show. P r i c e s lO c a n d :2 0 c bhn San- Miss Mabel iry Hull, Miss Geo. Earle on ith, and Mrs. Geo. from Ilarriman and ■ing by letter from Sussex, bagh, John son. Miss A j Leybolt, Miss Mai j Blanche Smith, t confession of fail ! Earle by letter F. L. Heri The Ladies’ Aid Society of the M. E. Church will hold one of its p< Wednesday, Nov. 13 Special Music ' lar Travel Socials at the home j Mrs. Geo. Hull, next Tuesday even- I ing. The country visited will ► ' Scotland and a fine Scotch menu will } . he prepared and a Scotch program COMPLETE CHANGE OF PROGRAM Geo. Earle, Mrs. Nathaniel McMa hon, Mrs. P. L. Smith, : , Tuttle,and,Miss Josie Mapes. Scotch 1913 FORDS H E R E Immediate Delivery at Reduced Prices. Equipped with Electric Headlights. T o u r in g Cars, $600.00. Runabouts, $525.00. :: F. 0. B. DETROIT R. W. SMITH DEMOCRATIC AVAUNCHE as purchased a I, through the local i L. Rogers, the vjl- The election held throughout the Nation on Tuesday resulted in an overwhelming victory for the Demo cratic Party. As most if n ot all our readers have acquired a thorot knowledge of (he rei hty papers we print be low merely a summary 7hich is and seems of all con- n land t patriots to see i J plum of Postmaster in m Mr. Knight’s Knight and Y7. S. Lewis compared to the forthcomin strug gle, as there are about a dozen eligi- bles, each one of whom poses as the orginal Wilson man, and believes the victory was due locally largely to efforts. One patriot has already iced laying his wires. In Justice Gregory’s Court of Spo il Sessions on Sunday morning, Phitehead was the third degi irday night. The imposed, a six mifinths but this comment cia! Sessions on Sunday morning, Philbort Whitehead was fined $10 for lult in the third degree committed Saturday night. The Justice also m jail sentence, jspended, providing Whitehead was not found intoxicated in the Town of Monroe the coming six months. It appeared that the lant had acquired a jag in )urt which he brought to Mon- long with an extra quart or so 1 to last a few days. After he arrived here he attempted to clean out the house of his brother-in-law, but instead landed in the lock-up for night, being too drunk to be tried until SunJhy morning- What might have proved a far ore serious accident than it did occurred on the Monroo-Chester State road early Sunday mornini NATION. Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshal carried 40 States, with 442 electoral votes. Roosevelt carried Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Michigan, South D afots and Washington, with i total of 77 electoral votes; Taft mly carried Idaho, Utah and Ver- nont, with a total of 12 electoral votes. In the popular vote, Wilson practically the same vote as was cast for Bryan; he has about one million less votes than the other candidates combined. This demor- strates to a reasonable extent that s bulk of the strength of the Pro- issive ticket came from the Re- blican party, few Democrats, com* ritively, deserting their party, the popular vote, Taft and Roose velt ran neck and neck, he Democratic landslide will re tire 19 Republican Governors in fa ir of Democrats, The Democrats will have approxi mately 150 majority in 'th e next House of Representatives, and will also control the United States' Sen- The Socialists increased their vote in the country to a total in round ires of 700,000.- 'hree Progressive Congressmen istern States. Illinois, Debs, Socialist,receiv- ed 160,000 votes, and Taft, Republi can, only about 250,000; Wilson had 418,000, and Roosevelt 409,000. STATE. The entire Democratic State ticket was elected by tremendous plurali ties, the plurality for Sulzer being about 5,000 in excess of the Wilson plurality. The final showed that Wilson had leived 648,066; Taft, 447,274: Roosevelt, 881,500; giving Wilson plurality over Taft of 21)0,792. vote for Governor was; Sulzer, ^Inl early Sunday mor e Italians employed by imunk Construction Co., ig. Ope of the Schun- ^onstructiiin i-u., me con tractors, started a bonfire of a heap irush which had been piled other laborer dynamite i of brush which had been piled along the roadside, not knov/ing that on- ov/ing laced n safe keeping. Some, if not all, the sticks exploded, and one of laborers standing near by was hit in e eyes by flying particles of dirt d stone. It was found necessan to take him to the General Hospit Paterson, for treatment. One otl laborer was injured, though not serious. Monroe Study Clab. The first meeting of the season of the Monroe Study Club, which studying Sociology, for the season of 1912-’I3, will be held this, Friday afternoon, at the home of Mrs. Ruth Hulse. Topic, “ Air Ships.” Fol lowing is the program: Current News on the Subject; Histopy and Description of Air Ships, Mrs. ;ion, Mrs. . G race C hurch . The Hallow’een Dance given by the Ladies’ Guild of Grace Episco- Ghurch,urch, in Monroe Opera House, evening,vening, was § very pal Ch last Thursday e pleasant affair. The room propriately decorated vri stalks and J; MONROE “PATERSON 748’ Continue to telephone as above or call at tny Paterson office for up-to-date information as to automobile routes and road con ditions in any part o f the country. Also for best lines o f Life, Accident and Automobile Insurance. decorated lack-O’-Lanterns, attractive setting for an < of the kind. A feature of tl ing was the twi being illuminated by the Japanese and Jack-O'-Lanterns only while this ianeb was on. Refreshments sisting of ice cream, cake and coffee were served at 11.30, after which dancing continued. The committee :harge certainly are deserving great credit, as such means a lot oi Sunday School at 10 A. M .; Morn ing Frayer at II A. M. Guild meets-first and third Fridays of each i ard Carpenter; Danj cabilities of Aerial Navigati Ruth Hulse; Various Cat Dangers, Mrs. George Hull. Offi cers and members of the Study Club are; FPresident, Mrs. Charles Hun ter;'Vice-President, Miss Eva Mc Carter; Secretary, Miss Bertha Tay lor; Treasurer, Miss Mary Mapes; Librarian, Mrs. George Hull; Mrs. Elizabeth Ball, Mrs. Willard Bull, Mrs. Ernest Eichenberg, Mrs. Ruth ilse, Mrs. Martin Konnight, Mrs. irk Levy, Mrs, Theodore Mapes, Mrs. Edward Seaman, Mrs, 0. I. VanKeuren, Mrs. Howard Youngs, Misses Ethel Ball, Julia I, Bouck, .Ipha Brooks, Dorothy Browne, Carrie Bull, Clara Bull, Irene Car penter, Lucy Cocks, Caroline Conk lin, Bertha Jenkins, Edna Monroe, Vera M. Ross, Harriet \ and make It a t a cost of er of doings always of time and work. PERSONAL NOTES OF INTEREST result. plurality. Mr. V the town of Monro years resided here. Hedges, 444,682, and Straus, givingiving Sulzerulzer a pluralitylurality 1,663, g S a p er Hedges of 205,124. In New York City the plurality of Wilson over Roosevelt was 124,688. Martin Glynn, the Democratic can tor Lieutenant Governor, pol- u below the vote CONGRESSIONAl Edmund Platt, Republii of the Poughkeepsie Eagle, of Poughki n, editor defeated Mayor Sague of Poughkeepsie, for Representative in this District by 826 plurality. Orange County gave .lead of 1340; Putnam gave i plurality of 103, but Sague id Dutchess by 427. him. a leat LEGISLATURE. In the State Legislature, the De mocrats will have 33 of the 51 State Senators, and 107 of the 350 Assem blymen; the Progressives elected 4 Assemblymen and the Republicans John D. Stivers of Middletown, Cornwall Mrs. Job Howell is in this week visiting friends, Mrs. Samuel King is spending t week with friends in New York City. Fred Rogers of Brooklyn>,has been a caller in town this week with friends and relatives. Otis Medland is sick with diph theria at the honte of his parents, Mr. and- Mrs. Emil Frey, in the village. Chas. W. Reed who has just un- lergone a second operation tor blood joisoning in Ridgewood Hospital, is now improving. Miss Irene Carpenter delightfully entertained the members of the Five Hundred Club, at cards, at her Maple Avenue home on Wednesday evening. Louis Smith, Charles Otto, M. A. Cantele and William turned from van Com One of the few Republican ANNIVEXlAi « 1 Wednesdliy, Nov< niverascry of Monroe, which folloivlrt the the ti« pa? ] brick walls from whiek ed here and tlwra, ture, dry goods, stattdlAf l lost fashiow,’-giwips o f weft ' ' among the smoking beawt culatini r have re- from a hunting trip to Sulll- jiinty. bringing a pair of deer them, beside other smaller the loss and i and ehiMre# iting the ruins, all I light’s terror and d All along the line of tip the nmv» of the big lire j inspect!! i elected this , from the ( can Assem- year in New W.F. Webb of blymen York State land, from the Cortland County trict, who received a substai Cort- di'- itiai i in Webb was born iroe, and for many irs resided h He Is a brother lamuel Webb, now living here. Miss Lizzie Todt, stenographer tor the Smith & Strebel Company, has isigned to take a post graduate jsiness course in a Newllurgh Miss Emily Rauhen dyedy some t!i -raplo Che« her with the t col- t, who has Monroe Cheese Company, succeeds irdware company. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Smith, Lake announce the of their daughter, Carrie, igbert McElroy. Miss Smith liarlar in a largearge circle :ement very popu in a l < friends and Mr. McElroy is known business man, being the pro prietor of the Round Lake Poultry iter, Car iss Smith is of ultry Farm. dent of Monroe, died at the village on Thursdi _ aged 70 years. Mr. Eagan troubled with heart disease less tor some time and Thursday morning was found dead in bed. Deceased was a native of Ireland, but bad resided in this country most of his life. For several years he - the Erie as flagman reet crossing. De ceased is survived by a widow, three daughter—William, Ed- ferry and Minnie. Pun- 9 will be conducted at the Monrob Catholic Church on Mon- Interment at Chester; >si- In Nov. 7, had been t his home sard, Jr., ral servici nrob Cathi irning. Inti iworth Merritt, funoi directo The Town Board met on Thursdi pursuant to law, to audit bUls provide for the budget to be' n by tax for the doming year, properly maintain the roads of town, the board considered it neces sary to raise considerably more money than usual for the highway fund. The Levy Election Law also entails an expense'on the town about $500 in excess of the old law, the poor fund. V $325 to pay curr lition.|800 will I tax to take care of the town poor next year. 'this fund heretofore ring artiel# ; Middletown Th« village of JloffOil g deeolatioo < the general gloom of and ttiud, were the -bJte ing ruins of one of il businsM 1 ick wall may have been IS, hut there it I I incendissry, ae wee* ^ other Urea — - ----- - enrred in 1 there wae a keg of powd« ; lilding at i r s t held baek ib«e* have promptly m m - ' ork of putting the ftp* ' r thto e rpfot o d e d \ luietowii, came from the excise fund, but the Republican Candidate, defeated!Monroe is \ d r y ” this money is Thomas tVatts for State Senator by available. Montoe taxpayers may 1500 majority; for Assemblymen,' -with confidence look forward to an Baumc-s, Rep., won easily in the increased tax rate the coming year, first district, having a plurality of I ^he marriage of Dennis A. Shear- 3711; in the second or local district, I Mombasha Lake, and Henry Hallock, Jr., of the Town of Katherine MacConnell of Brook- Woodbury was defeated by William ,y„ solemnized by Rev. Father T. Doty of Port Jervis, Dem., b y ; Columta’s Church, 233 plurality. j Chester on Wednesday. The bridal - ------ I couple were attended by James P. COUNTY. I Shearin and Mias Annie Cunningham, candidates for county I A fter the ceremony the Newlyweds offices on the Republican ticket w ere! left for a wedding trip to Washing elected, though in some instances ton D. C., and other points of in- Repuhlican majority v/as terest. cut to a very large extent, the Bull' Moose vote coming largely from that The city and town of New- •pread, A nonob*r,o# a* the neighboring towmr tNsdf morning trains to sutiefy # rioaity about the Are, : stepped from the ears 1 ^ i scene of the devastation was | oat before thorn. Luke cp# j the principal streets, warn damaged. Th# burnt reglcm g along the weet side of Lsdte f whioh is the first street west track and runs parallel with H, rear of Knight & Ct^klina' a W I on Lake Straet. The fire may hat carelessness, hut there ii that i t was Inesndiswy, s s which have : Mmiroe. f h t m u m ^ «l» ' iding s would hai the work of pattia but a fte r this sx faithfully bringiag «•> NeiNtls a t ' Tha total loss of real three largs business plaeet, barns, a store boBM and I leds and smaller beildisgii, '4 together a t a moderate • $26,000. Personal prspa in stock and furniture mm ed to the value of about | The fire odglnatei fa tiw r an unoccupied baUiing seed I f € les Webb tor storage. It ably been burning for twe bwnn fore i t was diieovered at alNwvt 13^ dock. Nominally the bnildk'f s unoccupied but i t waa»aedaa«»«* times for card playing and ipsertlag by a number of young mea. Very soon it was asen that the fire had made such headway in the first building that It could x»et be controlled efforta were pat the adjacent bulldingi. The Gestwv Fire Department was telsgrapket to, snd Cstaract Ei^ine snd !^ mw Company responded ss promptly a s p special train could be made np fbr them. They arrrlved at** a h ^ t a quarter a fter one and did goad ass* vice. The Monroe busiseea wum speak in high terms of their faithful work. But for their timely arrival the whole village might have heeti swept away. Several of the hmy* were injured in the fight with the flames. Harry Shay’s hand and James Scott’s knee were badly eat. The first bam on fire belonged te Mrs. Mary E- Reed, and was qaidtly destroyed. It was valued at lother belonged to the estate of passed to a m mged to husband, Nicholas Re* rorth probably $2,0i30, - umed. The fire then acqmcin, eslroyed, burgh kept the closest to the of former years, and for candidates gave an increased ity. For County Judge, A. H. 1 Seeger will have a plurality ofi^o”/ r 2,900; Jonathan D. Wilson for Fnim District Attorney, was elected by 34.SG; James D. McGiffert for County !erk, by 2,293; William Durland, for Superintendent of Poor, by 729; Sayre tor Sheriff, has 749. Taft carried the county hy Hedges by 1023. How to Make Pdnt. Take 10 gallons of L, & M. Paint it $2.10 per ions of Linseed Oil at -ad, Zinc and Linseed gallon. Add 7 gal- §1.00 per gal- r gallon.^ of pure only ,$1.C5 per gal- unoccupied, and it was destroyed. A stone barn belonging to J. S. Gregory was also in the path of tbs fire. It was probably worth $i,aSfi. The three-story huilding of L. D. tobacconist, was together with th« furni ture and stock. Estimated vats*, 1,000; injured tor $3,000. The aec- id and third floors were occupied hy Mr. Jacqmein and his son and their families. Eight feet from Jacqmein’t hoild- ng was a tour story double building- )n the first floor were the hardwiato store of Jno. D. Bouton, and the meat market of B. H. Welling. Up stairs were thrse families, ArebM Jnhnson’a, Thomas Halligan’e and John H. Conklin’s, These loet their furniture, wh ch is believed to have bom insured. The building hclong- the estate of C. B. Knight, was valued at $4,600; partially insured. The next building in the course o
