News Herald – September 19, 1924 – F.E. Bleezarde, Publisher
Coeymans:
- Giles Gallup has started work on his garage on South Main Street which he intends to transfer into a two-family house.
- Mrs. Francis Friday will lead the Epworth League service on Sunday evening. The topic is, “What has the Epworth League done for me?”
- Mr. and Mrs. S.L. Robbins have returned from Rochester, where they passed a week with Mr. and Mrs. William Swartout. Mrs. Swartout returned with them and is visiting relatives in this section.
- Masonic friends and acquaintances in this village were pleased to learn that Arthur C. Parker of Albany, state archeologist, received the 33rd degree of Masonry at the annual meeting of the supreme council in Boston on Tuesday evening. Mr. Parker, a full-blooded Seneca Indian, is probably the first Indian even elevated to the highest degree in Masonry.
- The Coeymans Reformed Church will have its annual harvest home festival and roast beef dinner followed by entertainment at the church on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 25.
Ravena:
- A number of Ravena people attended the Coolidge-Dawes caravan meeting at Albany last Thursday.
- A young son of Tony Nunziato fell against a stove on Tuesday of last week, fracturing one elbow, and Dr. T. Dockstader put it in a cast the following day.
- “Bill” VanAlstyne had to come home in another car last Friday night as the gay young sport could not find his trusty runabout after enjoying a dance in Coxsackie. Bill thought he had placed his handsome boat in a secure and secluded place, but it was not to be found. He was fortunate, however, in regaining the boat the following night in Athens.
- Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Whitbeck and Mrs. J.K. Hotaling visited friends and attended the New York State Fair at Syracuse last week.
- The Rev. W.H. Rathbun, pastor of the M.E. church, met Dr. G. W. Grinton, district superintendent, at New Baltimore yesterday to plan the dedication service for the new church parlors. The service will probably be held the first Sunday in October.
Coeymans Herald – September 18, 1889 – S.H. & E.J. Sherman, Proprietors
- The Italian families have sought quarters out of town.
- Any person who defaces or mutilates a national bank note is liable to a fine of $50.
- Foundation stone and material for the new Wolfe building on Main Street is being delivered.
- A Spanish sixpence bearing date 1773 was found in the walls of the old Wolfe house razed last week.
- Collector G.H. Johnson of school district No. 1 has posted the necessary notices and will receive taxes at the store of H.N. Johnson until Sept. 23rd at one percent, after that date at five percent.
- Few band organs have been heard during the past summer. This has been a great relief to citizens who are not partial to this kind of music.
- As the days shorten, the householder examines his coal bin and thinks how much better it would look full than empty and the coal dealer thinks so, too.
