New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-25
PEEKSKILL.
HOTEL, GUESTS GAVE AN EXCELLENT
ENTERTAINMENT AT LAKE MOHE-
GAN LAST NIGHT
THE MOVEMENTS OF SOCIETY PEOPLE. LODGES
AND MANY CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS FOR
THE WEEK ARE FAITHFULLY
RECORDED HERE.


rh.ro was an excellent entertainment at the st..
Nicholas Hotel Casino, at Lake Mohegan, last
evening The 800 guests Of the hotel we're nearly
all present rs well as many people from the neigh-
borhood The entertainment was oeneht per.
formance all those taking part being guests at
the hotel.
John g. Steele Grand Outer Guard OF the Grano
Lodge. Knights Of Pythias. OF this state VII, az
tend the Grand Lodge meeting at Canandaisua
rext week He will be accompanied by Theodore
p Birdsall, who is the representative OF Harmony
Lodge No 1885, Knights Of Pythias, OF TINS place.
10 which lodge Mr.. Steele also belongs
Louis K Bell. of Bedford is spending the sum-
mer on the shores OF Cayuga Lake
J. Harvey Earl and his family, OF Newours aro
visiting Mr.. Earls father. the Rev Mr.. Earl 'he
pastor OF the Shrub Oak Methodist Episcopal
Church
Frederick II Southland has returned home after
q few DAYS spent in black bass fishing near Hud-
son. ~ Y where he was the guest OF his prother'
Stanley Y. Southland
Tony Gavin. the Buffalo policeman VINO wac
wheeling from Buffalo to New-York to break 'ho
record and to take part in the contests az "oney
Island. arrived in Peeksk las. Monday morning
Mt $40 o'clock He rubbed down. had ms
wheel repaired. and resumed his journey AZ VIZ
o'clock Hugh Mcfarland. Of Verplanck, paced
him south from Peekskill
The tenth annual yacnc OF European Couhci
No So OF the Order Of United Friends Is an
nounced for Iona Island on Tuesday, August a.
In the afternoon there will be a barrel race Tor
priz, OF ST. and a bicycle race for ladies' The frst
prize will be s. parasol ana the seconu pri~o q
pair Of ladies' cycle shoes.
The attendance at the moonlight excursion OF
Delaney Cole Camp No IS last Tuesday was
small and about so was lost by the camp. Ram
fell all the evening and there was no moonlight.
The steamer had aboard about 40 people, ana
sailed to New-York and return There was 10
have been a trip down the harbor, but. with the
clouds and rain. nothing would have been gained
so the idea given up. The excursion party
reached home at about o'clock in the morning.
Miss Adclia Hart the stenographer and clerk In
Len. e. Herricks law office is taking her vacation
at Poughkeepsie.
Casper A. Tallman formerly OF this place. now
Of Nyack. called on Peekskill friends the present
week.
There was an enthusiastic meeting OF Christian
Endeayorers at the First Baptist Church last Sun
day evening It was a union meeting Of the Chris
item Endeavor Local Union, and the societies OF
the First Presbyterian. Second Presbyterian, fe-
formed and First Baptist churches Of Peekskill and
the Reformed Church of Montrose were all pres
ent. There first service OF song, Followed
by prayer by the Rev. Thomas c. Straus and
reading OF the 1oSd Psalm by the Rev. Hugh c.
Townley D. d. Walter c. Moses. the delegate OF
the Peekskill Local Union to Washington, to the
fifteenth international convention made his re-
port at length. Frederick l. Pugsloy. the president
Of the local union, who presided at this meeting,
also made some remarks concerning the conven-
ton. He had attended 1t with Mr.. Moses. The
Rev J. Richie Smith OF the First Presbyterian
Church. also made an address The exercises were
there was the Christian Endeavor benediction and
the usual benediction by the Rev. IL. DeVries.
chant in Peekski to have a bicycle rack. and has
placed It In front of his store for the accommoda-
ton OF wheelmen.
Pcekskil merchants and people generally are
complaining because the new directory Is not out
rectory firm promised to deliver tho book on July
/, and there is as yet no sign OF t. .,, ,-or,
Grabs are beginning to up the Hudson and are
Cornelius A Pugsiey. cashier of the Westminster
County National Bank. has returned from Niagara
ton OF the State Bankers Association. He was
elected delegate to the National convention to be
the after-dnner speakers at the banquet held on
Friday evening He was offered the nomination Of
president or treasurer or the state Associaoh
but declined the honor.
Miss Blanche Sherwood and Miss Florence Char-
ton are enjoying their annual vacation at Lake
Supervisor Couch has received Cortand tS y,
larger sum than has ever before been received by
this town In year for excise money;
sion work In Peekskill on Tuesday evening by con-
Quoting the services at the Rescue Mission. IN
The walks curbs and cutters about Postoftce
Square have been repaired the present week. max
~" 6ar,,Is Tompkins has had erected in Hillside
Cemetery fine monument OF dark Quncy sra d,,ni
II has two bases and die and Gothic peaked
There meeting q the Board Of ya ass
nrc.ent week The Board Of Education Of Drum
Hill School held meeting last evening -. A..
semby in the lid District Of Westchester Coun ~
TOD ba j.
The annual convention o, the westchester County
school Association will be he'd in the Pres
byean Church Of this place On 4c0oe Ry.r Rail-
road Company IS laying third track between this
Another crank pedestrian stopped at peeksk ST.
left New-York. he sad. on. Sunday morning. and
anl ahi hd nsh here He started for chicago
on Monday He Is waking on wager
the pastor OF the First Presbyterian Church OF this
village but for several years has been located at
has ia sSesnd one OF the largest Pressy
terrain churches In the West
sells rode from Peeksk to Denbury and back
this week on their wheels. visiting their brother
Colnmbian Hose Company No. 1 has received an
Invitation to Join in parade OF the GTrenw'c n
Washington Engine Company No VII attend t.
the annual convention OF tho NewYork State Fire
mems Association at Lockport next month. They
Will leave here the evening Of the 18th. and re-
the 22d.
James II Haight chief engineer Of the Peekski
Fire Departmcnt will attend the convention Of the
International Association OF Fire Engineers to be
held at Salt Lake CITY on August no.
Committee in the parlors Of Cortlandt Hook and
Ladder Company No. on TUESDAY evening There
a good attendance progress was reported, and
the committee adjourned to meet on August l. IT
is proposed to devote one day 70 the parade and
another to a tournament. for which prizes Will be
offered
Mrs. P. T. 1euitwieler. OF Rochester =; Y. is
visiting the family OF s Irving Pugsley. OF Main-st
Miss Agnes II. Fair. the trained nurse who died
al St Iukes Hospital, New York, on Sunday last
after an operation for appendicitis. was well known
In Peekskll. where she had many friends: She had
been in the employ OF some OF Peekskllrs best
families In the last year.
There will be a meeting OF the Dorcas Society at
Mrs Joseph Beales home at Englesde this after
noon at o'clock