New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-12
WESTMINSTER COUNTY.
PEEKSKILL.

MRS MARTHA sorIREs CELEBRATES HER ONE
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BIRTHDAY
ANNIVERSARY.
Mrs. Martha Squires was one hundred anu w"
years old Yesterday Mrs. Squires lives In SINAI.
town called Cold Spring few miles north OF
peekskill and 10 the people of that town she u
better known Aunt Patty" She hveS VIZ
her daughter Mrs. Harriet Terwiihser' '
SQuircs's maiden rame was Holmes she "do "
In Poundridge Westchester County. on Octooe, -
1874. In 1911 she was married TO LEWIS sas .
who served as a corporal in the War OF III. anu
as a result Mrs. Squires draws month";! s"p,"u
Of $50 from the Government as d pehsio"' =,
house in which Mrs. Squires lives Is cose!' o'
fashioned twostory building mile back OF 'o''
Spring She has lived there sixty-hhe !e"'
Twenty-two wears ago the old lady began Keep
ing her birthday" and on that occasion an '''o
townspeople drop In TO offer their congra'u''o
and partake OF a cup of tea and sice Oh hUin.
made cake. which she serves 10 al lie, '
She has not missed celebration since she oes""
tho custom. an,
She had ten children Seven OF them are BUN
living Her Youngest child. Mrs Ierw",se',
sixty-five years old and grandmother
The big boy of the family Is Amos Sauiie' e.
and agile who Is only eighty-fve years o'"' VIZ
Sauires has also seventeen srahoC"'u
Youngest tycnty-three years old; twenty-five s'e"'
grandchildren and five great-great -srahocnl'ole
Mrs Squires says that she remembers "'"'
George Washing toms funeral. ana 'ie my" So
about with emblems of mourning on ne are min
She is deaf but otherwise her senses are ~
paired . ,.,.. oss,s,ance when she
arises every morning at o'clock and she ~ aos
to 90 about the house. although Sio nm " and down
sarv 10 have assistance in gong w h', ,ho Wv az
stairs She is always a PTSm O'clock every night:
On her one-hundredth birthday she was apr -,
cali nv name all her descendants aho .o' az ~,
dates date of Ia hSp hymn verse by without
break which she learned when III, H. ,Sioh, he
tpn
o's POSSIBLE has taken systematic exercise
STRENGTHENING her body. When In peu. S stretches
ErasIHSs ~ inst tn Get the kinks out she SAYS
Mrs Soures likes TO talk politics rne ~ If hers
Governor of Network Is Erea'C iavelnnd and is
She ,%at he did not. secure the nomination ior "a
third term she thinks that there VIII oe '"'''
' ma snring people think highly Of their aged
resdent and hope that she will i've man! ''o'e
years in peace, happmess, ann Country resident
a;d az his home i'm the Cemetery ROAD on lnu u
Gav He was seventy three years OLD he D WI LII
father of Myron G. Rush proprietor Oh ,"e i'e
Tvr,is William Horton. one of PeeksS Mi s inos
,,romincnt LAWYERS and Democrats. mas ieS ru
from the secretaryship of the Deinoclaa,, MAI
t,om,oit,ee lie cannot stand the PopocratiG pa.
form and candidates. H. Aiban A nueIS o Homer An.
XIII lawyer Of Water CommlsslonheI oIectod in
Gorson and A rabid silver man, has beei SIect liz
~ niaoo Nelson G.; Foshay, Editor OF Inc fiisH-
land Democrat" the most influential emoc'a liz
paper i'm this county mas a's9 Mr Foshay is pro-
nounced Palmer and Buckner man ,, .. ,,t,,c
The Depew Opera House will be sold "a. a Pvo,af ~
o rn Proceedings are brought by the Peeks,
XII Savings Bank. which holds a mo. go io,Ss
$4,000 the building cnan n rbe building cost
abont eco 600 Colonel Thomas d. Hustled is at
torney for the plaintiff.