1948-12-23 - Northern New York Historical Newspapers
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PAGE SIX THE BREWSTER STANDARD—ESTABLISHED 1869 THURSDAY, DECEMBER <strong>23</strong>, <strong>1948</strong><br />
PEACH LAKE NORTH SALEM<br />
THIS SPACE IS DEVOTED TO OUR NORTHERN WESTCHESTER READERS<br />
Christmas Party At"<br />
Purdys High School<br />
Parent-Teacher Ass'n Present Program A Very Merry Christmas.<br />
Of Local Talent. Will Vote on National<br />
Affiliation Jan. 11; High Midnight Mass will be said in St.<br />
School Library Needs Funds. Joseph's Church again this year.<br />
Following a brief business session,<br />
the well-attended December meeting<br />
of the Parent-Teacher Organization<br />
enjoyed a delightful Christmas program<br />
in Central High School, Purdys.<br />
The event was planned and presented<br />
by Alfred Hicks, assisted by Blair<br />
Muller and William VanArnam.<br />
During the business session copies<br />
of a special committee's report on the<br />
question of af&liating with the National<br />
Congress of Parents and Teachers<br />
was distributed for consideration<br />
at the Jan. 11 meeting.<br />
It was announced that 1368 had been<br />
collected for the purchase of basic<br />
and reference books for the Central<br />
High School Library and the hope was<br />
expressed that those who have hot<br />
contributed would do so prior to the<br />
personal solicitation planned for early*<br />
In January.<br />
The Christmas program included<br />
songs by the Croton Falls Men's Club<br />
Chorus with solos by Carl Formes<br />
and Fred Schultz, accompanied by<br />
Mrs. H. Tappen and directed by Harold<br />
Knapp; violin solos by Al Muller,.<br />
accompanied by Marg Muller; selections<br />
iby the brass ensemble of Central<br />
High School Band, directed by<br />
Donald Nuccia; a tap dance by Jane<br />
Luce, accompanied by William Arndt,<br />
and a slight-of-hand performance by<br />
William Arndt. The program was<br />
closed with Christmas Carols sung by<br />
the audience under the leadership of<br />
Mr. Knapp.<br />
The hostesses of the social hour<br />
which followed were Mrs. Charles<br />
Armstrong and Mrs. Ferdinand Ouss.<br />
PURDYS<br />
Miss Mary Burns, of Lake Purdy,<br />
who painted the Thanksgiving decortlons<br />
on Jones Market window, has<br />
displayed her talent again with a<br />
Yuletide painting on the window.<br />
Mr. and Mrs*. William Van Arnam<br />
and son, Billy, will leave Friday for<br />
Troy, N. Y., where they will spend<br />
the Christmas holidays with their<br />
families, the Dorings and the Van-<br />
Arnams.<br />
Miss Doris Bittner, a sophomore In<br />
the College of Liberal Arts (Journalism)<br />
Syracuse University, returned<br />
home Saturday, Dec. 18th to spend<br />
the Christmas holidays with' her parents,<br />
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Bittner.<br />
vacation extends until Jan. 2nd. Mrs.<br />
Arndt's mother, Mrs. Robert Vogt, of<br />
Rockvllle Center, L. I., arrived Thursday<br />
to spend a week with her daughter<br />
and family. Dinner guests Christmas<br />
day at the Arndt home in addition<br />
to Mrs. Vogt will be Mrs. John<br />
A. Fisher, her son, John Fisher and<br />
her daughter. Miss F. Fisher, all of<br />
Forest Hills, L. I.<br />
Students home for the Christmas<br />
holidays are: Doris Bittner, Syracuse<br />
Univ.; Jack Brennan, Cornell Univ.;.<br />
Virginia Butler, Elmlra College: Howard<br />
Gates, Alfred College; Louise<br />
Giles, Howard Univ., Washington, D.<br />
O: Kathleen Goudey. Plattsburg State<br />
Teachers College; BJor Halvorsen. St.<br />
Peter's School, PeeksklU: Howard<br />
Johnson, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Daniel<br />
Juengst, Clarkson College; Angelina<br />
Malronl. Syracuse Univ.; Ruthanne<br />
Maurhoff, Plattsburg State<br />
Teachers College: Tony Messina. Notre<br />
Dame: Marilyn Muller. Cortland State<br />
Teachers College; Jacqueline Ooti<br />
house. Mary A. Burnham School:<br />
Ronald Tostevin, Trinity College.<br />
Hartford. Conn.<br />
o-<br />
In Old England coal was believed to<br />
fill the air with poisonous gasses. In<br />
1306 the English monarch issued a<br />
proclamation declaring anyone who<br />
burned coal would be put to death.<br />
CROTON FALLS<br />
Robert Shay has returned home<br />
from <strong>Northern</strong> Westchester Hospital<br />
where he had been for a few weeks<br />
for treatment of an infection.<br />
The January meeting of the Auxiliary<br />
of the Fire Department will be<br />
held on the 5th at 8 p.m. Installation<br />
of officers will take place and the<br />
Christmas party will be held. Each<br />
member is asked to bring an inexpensive<br />
wrapped gift for the grab bag.<br />
Midshipman Arthur Goudey, Jr., U.<br />
S. N., arrived home Saturday via air-<br />
| plane on a thirty day leave from the<br />
Naval Air Base, Pensacola, Florida.<br />
His sister, Kathleen, also arrived home<br />
Saturday . from Plattsburg State<br />
Teachers College. She will remain<br />
until Jan. 3rd.<br />
A Jeep skidded on the snow Sunday<br />
afternoon while making the turn from<br />
Route 100 to the Croton Falls road<br />
and went down the embankment to<br />
the river. The driver's foot had<br />
caught In the door and he was pinned<br />
there until released by a local taxi<br />
driver. He was uninjured.<br />
NORTH SALEM<br />
Anthony Ryan, who attends school<br />
at Mlllbrook, N. Y., and Deerlng Melin,<br />
of R. P. I., Troy, are spending the<br />
holidays at their homes.<br />
The singing at the Methodist Church<br />
last Sunday was rendered by the<br />
young people's choir of Purdys Methodist<br />
Church.<br />
The children's Christmas tree party<br />
will be held at St. James Church on<br />
Sunday, Dec 26th. There will be no<br />
Sunday School, but morning prayer<br />
at 11 a.m. Services will be held on<br />
Christmas day with Holy Communion<br />
at 10:30 a.m.<br />
GOLDENS BRIDGE<br />
The card party sponsored by John<br />
E. Winter, Jr. Post 1734, American<br />
Legion, was held at the fire house hall<br />
last Friday evening. There were IS<br />
tables of pinochle, six of bridge (auction<br />
and contract) and one euchre.<br />
Fred Perlini, of Brewster, won first<br />
prize at pinochle; auction bridge, Mrs.<br />
Walter E. Miller, Purdys; contract,<br />
M. Goerl, Llncolndale, and Charles<br />
Williams, Goldens Bridge, euchre. The<br />
door prize, a turkey, was awarded to<br />
Lester Ward, Goldens Bridge; a special<br />
gift went to Bill Hogan, Lake Ka-<br />
PURDYS CROTON FALLS<br />
HAPPENINGS GATHERED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS EVERY WEEK<br />
tonah. $2,400 SCHOLARSHIP AT R. P. I. headmasters and principals in Rockland<br />
and Putnam Counties. He will<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Keating at<br />
Christopher D. Monahan is having George Hoyt, who has been ill, is Miss Peggy Winter Is enjoying a tended the show at Radio City on<br />
Clyde S. Jones, 32 Westwood Ave., interview seniors Interested in the<br />
his house covered with Tilo shingles. much improved.<br />
Christmas vacation from her duties Sunday.<br />
<strong>New</strong> Rochelle, is chairman of the 15- competition which closes April I. An<br />
In the Catharine Oibbs School In <strong>New</strong><br />
man committee of • Rensselaer J Polynouncement of the winner will be<br />
Wishing all readers of this column A Boy Scout Troop has now been <strong>York</strong> City.<br />
Mrs. Ethel Winter, George and Pegtechnic<br />
Institute alumni which will made at graduation. The scholarship<br />
organized in North Salem with 17<br />
gy, visited the grave of John B. Win<br />
award a $2,400 scholarship at the is one of 32 being awarded by RPI<br />
boys applying for membership. The ladles of the Sewing Circle will ter in the National Cemetery, Long<br />
Troy, N. Y. college to an autstanding this year. ,<br />
meet Thursday evening at the home Island, Sunday, and later stopped for<br />
high school graduate next June In<br />
Miss Bmella Miller and Amos Fin of Mrs. Henry Palmer for a Christmas dinner with relatives in Yonkers. They<br />
the counties of Putnam, Rockland and Last year's tri-county winner was<br />
ney will be dinner guests of Mr. and party.<br />
found traveling very difficult because<br />
Westchester. *<br />
Richard G. oehl, of <strong>New</strong> Rochelle,<br />
Mrs. Vincent Sproul and Infant Mrs. Herbert Travis on Christmas day.<br />
of the snowstorm.<br />
Chairman Jones personally Is plac who now is enrolled at the Institute<br />
daughter have returned from North<br />
The Christmas program of the local<br />
ing application forms in the hands of majoring in electrical engineering.<br />
ern Westchester Hospital. •<br />
Mrs. Charles Keeler is spending two school presented last Thursday morn The Sunday School of the Method<br />
weeks with Mrs. Charles Russell in ing, was well done by so young a group ist Church will present their Christ<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Larkin left Rahway, N. J.<br />
of children and was very Interesting. mas program on Sunday, Dec. 26, at<br />
Wednesday for Florida to spend the<br />
Much credit is due to the teachers. • 7:30 p.m. Recitations, songs and a<br />
YOUR LOCAL FLORIST<br />
Christmas holidays.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Travis spent<br />
short pageant. "The Christmas Car<br />
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mr. and Mrs. Rocco Manclnl, of ols Come to Life" will be rendered. At<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Stewart B. Knapp's Boyce In White Plains.<br />
Somers Road, Mrs. Ralph DeLina, of<br />
Brewster Greenhouse & Nursery<br />
the close of the exercises, Santa Claus<br />
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Kenneth Knapp<br />
Katonah, sailed on the Saturina on will distribute presents, candy and<br />
of Stockton, Calif., is visiting them. Miss Loraine Van Scoy, of Platts Dec. 3rd for a two and one-half<br />
Old Brewster-Danbury Road<br />
Phone 657<br />
oranges to the scholars.<br />
burg State College, is spending the months vacation with relatives In<br />
Miss Betty Shay has been spending Christmas vacation with her parents Italy.<br />
Has a Good Supply of Christmas Wreaths, Trees, Grave Covers,<br />
part of the holiday vacation with her in Salem Center.<br />
Cemetery Wreaths, Mistletoe, Roping and Centerpieces.<br />
sister and brother-in-law In Laurel,<br />
FLOWERS — POINSETTIA8 — CYCLAMEN — BEGONIAS<br />
Maryland.<br />
AFRICAN VIOLETS — PRIMROSES — CUT FLOWERS<br />
Delivery Service .<br />
Mrs. James Burchenal died on Tuesday<br />
In Stamford, Conn., after a short<br />
Illness. She will be remembered here<br />
as the sister of the late Mrs. Irving<br />
E. Purdy and she made many friends<br />
here on her frequent visits. Funeral<br />
was held on Thursday morning at 11<br />
a.m. from Outing and Reynolds funeral<br />
home, with burial in Delaware<br />
beside her husband. She Is survived<br />
by three nieces, several grand" nieces<br />
and grand nephews.<br />
The Christmas party of the children<br />
of St. Joseph's parish was very well<br />
attended on Sunday afternoon despite<br />
the heavy snowstorm. Each child received<br />
a gift and candy, refreshments<br />
were also served.<br />
Miss Jacqueline Oothouse, a student<br />
at the Mary A. Burnham School,<br />
Northampton, Mass., arrived home<br />
last Wednesday to spend the Christmas<br />
holidays with her parents, Mr.<br />
and Mrs. Donald Oothouse.<br />
Mrs. Philip J. Doyle spent the week<br />
end at the home of her aunt, Mrs.<br />
Howard Johnson, a dental student<br />
Joseph Murphy and daughters, Ellen<br />
at the University of Pennsylvania, ar<br />
and Anne, Jamaica, L. I. Saturday,<br />
rived Friday to spend the Christmas<br />
Mrs. Doyle, her sister, Mrs. James<br />
holidays with his parents, Mr. and<br />
O'Neill, and the Misses Ellen and An<br />
Mrs. D. Clinton Height. Miss Judy<br />
ne Murphy attended the musical "My<br />
M. Kuhn, of Jenkinstown, Penn., who.<br />
Romance" at the Adelphl Theatre.<br />
is a student at* the Connecticut Col <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City and had dinner at<br />
lege for Women, <strong>New</strong> London, Conn.,<br />
Jane Davis. Mr. Doyle, Charles, James<br />
is spending a few days with the and Betty Doyle, and Miss Reglha<br />
Haights.<br />
Fox, of Purdys, were dinner guests on<br />
Sunday at the Murphy home.<br />
Federated Church Notes<br />
Rev. Laban H. ChamberlinT minister;<br />
Mrs. Harold Tappey, organist and<br />
Christmas exercises were held in<br />
choir director.<br />
the Methodist Church, Purdys, Wed<br />
Services are being held in the Presnesday,<br />
Dec. 22nd, at 8" pjn. There<br />
byterian Church during the winter<br />
was an entertainment by the Sunday<br />
months.<br />
School children and a visit from San<br />
Sunday, Dec. 19th at 8 p.m., service<br />
ta Claus.<br />
of carols and candle lighting was held.<br />
The program:<br />
Mrs. Seldel held a Christmas party The dance held on Saturday even<br />
Prelude—"Adoration" by Borowskl<br />
for her seventh grade class Friday afing under the auspices of the mem<br />
Violin solo—Herbert Lawrence<br />
ternoon. Many games were played bers of the Fire Department'was very<br />
Lighting of the Candles—Torch bear<br />
with the following winning prizes:— well attended and all had a very eners<br />
Ruth Baker, Joyce Flandreau<br />
Janet Outhouse, Mltzie Melndel, Fredjoyable time. The hall was attract<br />
Processional—"O Come All Ye Faithdie<br />
Woodcock, Geoffrey Armstrong, ively decorated with green boughs',<br />
ful"<br />
Pat Richie and Louis Oonnella. Af and a lighted, decorated Christmas<br />
The Invocation<br />
ter the games refreshments consisting Even the bunch of mistletoe was noT<br />
The Lord's Prayer<br />
of Ice cream, cake, cookies and candy omitted. Dancing was enjoyed until<br />
Responsive Reading<br />
were served.<br />
midnight when a buffet supper was<br />
Anthem—"O Holy Night"—by Men's<br />
served, consisting of cold cuts, pickles, Choir<br />
Mr. R. D. Knapp, who celebrated potato and macaroni salads, cole slaw, Carol — "While Shepherds Watched<br />
his birthday anniversary Wednesday, bread and coffee. The special prize Their Flocks"<br />
Dec. <strong>23</strong>rd, was guest of honor Sunday of the evening was won by Douglas , Scripture Reading<br />
at the pre-blrthday dinner party at Campbell.<br />
.Selections by the Trumpeters—Shirley<br />
his home. Besides his wife and Mrs.<br />
Archer, Ruth Baker, Ada Baker,<br />
Minnie Clark, there were present 20 The Auxiliary of the Fire Depart Llla Woodcock<br />
auests from Pearl River, N. Y., Yonment held a Christmas party for "O Night of Holy Memory"—by the"<br />
kers, White Plains and East Orange, children of members of both the Fire Senior Choir<br />
<strong>New</strong> Jersey.<br />
Department and the Auxiliary Sat Carol — "Hark, The Herald Angels<br />
urday afternoon. About 60 children Sing"<br />
Mr. and Mrs. William Arndt motor were present. The Christmas carols On Wednesday, Dec. 22nd at 7:30<br />
ed to Baltimore, Md., Wednesday and sung by the children was led by Mrs. p.m.. the Church Bible School enter<br />
returned Thursday with their daugh Cappucci, with Mrs. Dorothy Guss at tainment was held. Exercises by the<br />
ter, Carol Ann, and a friend, Miss the piano. Santa Clause, found strand primary department and classes of<br />
Janet White, who attend Goucher ed on Hillside, was brought to the the school with a visit of Santa Claus<br />
College there. Miss White, who lives fire house by Chief Hughes in the fire tc all children present.<br />
In <strong>New</strong> Canaan, Conn., spent the week truck in time to distribute gifts to all On Friday. Dec. 24th, the Christmas<br />
end at the Arndt home. Miss Arndt's the children. Besides a gift each one Carolers will shv in various parts of<br />
received a candy cane and an orange the community at 7:30 p.m.<br />
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