The ‘‘Our towns’’ column is compiled each month by Carol Johnson of the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection. The entries have been copied from the November 1925 issues of the New Paltz Independent. To get a closer look at these newspapers of the past, visit the staff of the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection at the Elting Memorial Library at 93 Main Street in New Paltz, or call 255-5030.

The annual fair of the Ladies Aid Society of the Reformed Church, held in the Odd Fellows Hall, Gardiner, the evenings of October 21 and 22, was a great success. About $640 was realized. A chicken supper was served to 259 people on Wednesday evening. The entertainment on Thursday evening was a play “ Dr. Dobb’s Assistant ” in which Messrs. Floyd Wells, Wilbert Alsdorf, Myron Rinehart and Alfred

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