Week of June 6

June 6, 1875 – 150 YEARS AGO

Rockland County Journal

AROUND HOME

  ☞  The only thing that will raise an excitement in Nyack now is a Baby Show. Let us have it as soon as possible.

  ☞  When the leaks in the old reservoir are stopped and the bursted pipes removed, we shall have water once more.

  ☞  At the sale last Saturday, Mrs. Lewis purchased the three lots north and adjoining the Tappan Zee House property.

  ☞  Nearly every house in Nyack is a small armory, and burglars are notified that it is a very unhealthy place to operate in.

  ☞  We regret to learn that on Thursday Mrs. John B. Pomeroy accidentally fell and fractured one of her knee pans.

  ☞  On Monday night last the store of Dwight B. Baker, at Suffern, was entered by burglars, but we did not learn the extent of Mr. B’s losses.

  ☞  The boys are getting their hair cut short for the swimming season, so that it will dry quickly and prevent their mammas from finding them out.

  ☞  It is considered a mean thing to rob a henroost, but when a fellow steals catchup it is uncertain whether he will need very thick clothes after he dies.

June 4, 1925 – 100 YEARS AGO

Pearl River News

WOMEN REFUSE TO DESIST IN ANTI-WAR PLEA — Special Services Held at Nyack Reformed Church Featured by Demonstration — DISTRIBUTE SLIPS — Peace Union Members Barred From Handing Out Pamphlets in Church But Wait Outside for Congregation — Col. Traub Delivers Eloquent Address

     Nyack, June 1 — Refused permission to distribute their pacifistic literature within the church, a group of members of the Women’s Peace Union yesterday morning stood guard in front of the Reformed Church and handed out their pamphlets as the more than 500 persons attending the service left.

        Colonel Peter E. Traub, Chief of Staff of the Seventy-seventh Division, was delivering the address at the service, held in honor of the young men in Rockland County who are to attend the Citizens’ Military Training Camps this summer. The women, headed by Miss Esther Van Slyke, had requested permission from the Rev. Willian Neely Ross, Pastor, to distribute literature, but he had declined to give his consent.

        As the first group began emerging from the Church the women got busy. Captain Gilbert W. Crawford, Past Commander of the local Post of the American Legion, was one of the first to receive one. Captain Crawford threw the slip of paper to the ground and called an Elder of the church, William Page.

        Mr. Page ordered the women to disperse, but they refused, and stood their ground until they had handed out more than 500 of the slips. A group of men, including some of those who are to attend the summer camps stood across the street and jeered the women.

        Among those who represented the Women’s Peace Union were Mrs. Carolyn Lexow Babcock, daughter of the late Senator Clarence Lexow; Edwina Stanton Babcock, poet and writer; Mrs. Alice Parsons, editor of “World Tomorrow”; Clara Sanafelt, Esther VanSlyke, a Vassar graduate, and Mrs. Walter Tompkins, of Stony Point, also a representation from Pearl River was present.

        The above article appeared in the Nyack Evening Journal.

June 4, 1975 – 50 YEARS AGO

Our Town

CLEVEPAK REPLACES TROOP’S PAPER LOSS

[Image: Troop 34 Scouts work on paper collection.]

     Members of Troop 34 were discouraged recently when a mysterious fire destroyed five tons of waste paper the troop had painstakingly accumulated to raise money for the orphans and other Asian children the troop supports. But this week, scouts are happier. Clevepak, the recycling firm that buys the troop’s wastepaper, paid the troop $50 for the destroyed paper anyway, after reading about the fire in Our Town. Waste paper fetches about $10 per ton on the market. On June 7, the troop will hold another recycling drive at the MRC parking lot, Jefferson Avenue at Route 304, starting at 9 a.m.

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