Week of November 15

November 14, 1874 – 150 YEARS AGO

Rockland County Journal

AROUND HOME

     ☞  Arrangements are being made to have the trains stop at Wayside Station for the accommodation of citizens residing in that vicinity.

     ☞  The best article in the market for sores, wounds, sprains, &c., on horses, is “Hiram’s Healing Cream,” at DeGraff & Blauvelt’s drug store.

     ☞  Mrs. A. Ramsen will soon cause her fence to be removed back, and then the widening of Broadway south of Main Street will be completed.

      ☞  Since the triumph of the Democrats, the deposits in the Rockland Co. National Bank have increased about two dollars. Hooray for good times.

     ☞  Those of our readers who have not done so already should put on flannel, as it is a great protection against colds and a preservative of health generally.

     ☞  The load noise of a dance which took place on Main Street, Thursday night, interfered with the quiet repose of some people living in the vicinity.

     ☞  Thomas Whittaker, a life-long apostle of Temperance, from England, will lecture at Piermont, on Tuesday, 17th inst. Everybody should hear him.

     ☞  On Thursday morning, Hubbell, agent for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, put out of misery a diseased horse owned by John Coates.Since the Thanksgiving proclamations of President Grant and Gov. Dix have been issued, the turkeys wander around in silence and the chickens shake their heads ominously.

November 13, 1924 – 100 YEARS AGO

Pearl River News

POLICE ON LOOKOUT FOR AUTO

       The police are keeping a very keen eye on an automobile driver who seems to think that the new school athletic field ground is a public thoroughfare. An automobile has been driven over the field a number of times during the past week or ten days and if caught will be placed under arrest immediately. This is one form destruction that should be guarded against and should not be tolerated with. If any resident of town should recognize this law breaking person, it is their duty to report same to the police.

TOMCODS IN HUDSON

[Image: Atlantic Tomcod. Image courtesy of HudsonRiverPk.com.]

       For the first time in several years local fisherman are making good catches of tomcods.

November 16, 1974 – 50 YEARS AGO
The Journal News

COUNCILWOMAN ASKS FOR FUNDS FOR BIKEWAYS

       Orangetown Councilwoman Barbara Porta has requested the town board to appropriate $5,000 in federal revenue sharing funds for a safe bike-way program in Orangetown.

       The proposal that she has offered in Orangetown for safe bicycle transportation could, if successful, be included in long range transportation planning for the county, she said.

       Mrs. Porta, who was chairman of the county Bike-in for Bike-Ways held more than a year ago, said before a meeting of the legislature’s transportation committee Tuesday that the several hundred bicyclists who participated had done so in part because they wanted to tell public officials that the bicycle is a recognized mode of transportation and that realistic highway planning has to include safety measures for bicyclists.

       “We listen to requests for bike-lanes on roadways, marked street routes, bike markers on pavements, signs on frequently travelled routes and improved road shoulder maintenance. But local government has taken no action to meet either the need or the requests,” Mrs. Porta said.

       The Rockland County Planning Board staff is working on a study of bike paths which should be completed next year and would provide a guide for individual towns to consider in their own transportation planning, Mrs. Porta said.

       “County and town planning boards and highway planning agencies must work in a cooperative effort with transportation and traffic advisory committees for more realistic planning that includes the bicycle as a mode of transportation,” Mrs. Porta said.

       Kenneth Butler, a Nyack High School student who said that he averages over 3,000 miles a year on his bicycle, said he would like to see roads improved to make bicycling safer. He suggested the establishment of a central county bureau where bicycle thefts could be reported. Bicycles would have serial numbers engraved on them and be registered with the bureau.

       Butler also said that as a member of the Rockland County Bicycle Association he would like to see the County Legislature support bicycle racing events. 

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