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130 Years Ago - 1895
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Mall of Beechwoods on September 30.
The case of Sipple against the Roscoe-Rockland Water Company has been carried to a higher …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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10/14/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Philip Hembdt of near Kenoza Lake will have another story added to his Halfway House, which has been found insufficient to accommodate the demand for summer boarders. …
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10/7/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
The furniture and undertaking firm of Brand and Co. contemplates opening a branch house in Liberty.
The water question is getting pretty serious when downtown people …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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9/30/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
The Sullivan County Telephone Company, operating through the county, has been absorbed and superseded by the Delaware River Telephone Company of Liberty, N.Y., which was …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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9/26/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
A new law in this state went into effect Sunday, which requires secrecy to be maintained by all who handle telephone messages. Under its provisions any telephone or …
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Compiled by Lee Herman, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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9/16/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
The German Presbyterian Church of Jeffersonville celebrated the 15th anniversary of its existence this week. The beautiful little church was not large enough to accommodate …
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9/9/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
On account of the numerous showers of late, the Delaware River is up to a rafting freshet.
The large barn belonging to Dr. Johnson of Barryville, was destroyed by fire …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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9/2/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
Livingston Manor — There was a slight frost around here Monday morning but not enough to do any damage.
In traveling from Jeffersonville to this place …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/26/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
The Town of Fremont probably furnishes as many lawsuits as all the other towns in the county together.
The Seventh Day Adventists have moved from Monticello to …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/19/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
A purse of $100 will be offered for a free-for-all horse trot at the Rockland Town Fair at Livingston Manor August 29.
Erie train No. 9, one day last week, struck a …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/12/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Levi Layman of the Beechwoods district, who gained notoriety some time ago by announcing that his death would occur upon a certain day – long since passed – …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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8/5/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
The annual Beechwoods Picnic and Harvest Festival for the season of 1885 will be held at Weber’s Grove, Beechwoods. As the preceding festivals were a complete success …
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7/29/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Lafayette Gilbert, proprietor of the iron foundry at Livingston Manor, was killed almost instantly at Roscoe on June 26. He was loading some goods in his wagon at the store …
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7/15/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
A trout, said to weigh between eight and ten pounds, was taken from Palen’s Pond last week. It was transferred to the state hatchery.
John Knead of Roscoe stopped …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/8/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
Gasper Abbeal has quit the saloon business in the old James Bogardas house, and has rented the bar in the Jeffersonville House. Nathan Lord went out of the hotel business …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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7/1/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
The olive branch has been exchanged between the Jeff Creamery and the Jeff Water Co. within the past week, and the latter now has clear sailing in its effort to furnish this …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/24/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
A colt whose front feet were divided into toes, the left one having four and working much like the foot of a dog, and the right having two like the claws of a lobster, was …
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6/17/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Diphtheria is again raging at Roscoe. Five families have had it and four deaths have occurred from it within a few months.
Grocery Bargains: 7 lbs. sugar, 35¢; 7 …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/10/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
The Erie depot at Narrowsburg was burglarized Thursday night. The thieves ransacked the ticket office, express office and freight depot, and even broke the weighing machine …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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6/3/25
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140 Years Ago - 1885
The Callicoon correspondent of the Press says, “A new local paper has been started in this village. It is edited by the school teacher and called the Callicoon Valley …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/27/25
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110 Years Ago - 1915
While it is known that Narrowsburg is the center of the Sullivan County egg belt, the fact is not appreciated. To have shipped nearly 400,000 eggs in a day less than two …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/20/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
While John Wortzell, an Erie track walker and a resident of Shohola, was screwing up a loose joint in the track at a point called “Red Rocks,” between Shohola …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/13/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Clarence, the four-year-old son of Edward Porter of Liberty, found a small bottle of arsenic pills one evening last week and supposing that they were for little boys to eat, …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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5/6/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
Mrs. Sarah Harris died at her home in Monticello March 26, at the age of 104 years.
The New York O&W Railway announces that on April 9 they will run an excursion to …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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4/29/25
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130 Years Ago - 1895
The Sander farm at Youngsville which was sold at partition sale at Eagle Hotel on Saturday, was struck off to Mrs. Brittom of Jersey City, one of the heirs, for $625. She …
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Compiled by Lee Hermann, Muse, & Ruth Huggler
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4/22/25
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