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Vintage view from C. Spielmann Rd.: This photo of Youngsville predates the building of the old firehouse and St. Francis R.C. Church. The German Reformed Church (now the United Reformed Church) can be seen by its spire near the center-right of the photo. The now non-existent corner store (where the Youngsville Fire Department’s electronic sign now gives the time), is the long, tall building on the left, situated on the corner of North road (Shandelee Road) and the state route that bisects the hamlet. It appears here that Panther Rock Brook once traveled the way of what is now Tremper Lane. The photographer unfortunately is unknown.
Sept. 20, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 G.H. Treyz & Co. is the name of a new firm which last week purchased of Corbett & Stewart, their acid factory in Livingston Manor. The plant consists of a ten-pair … more
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An Iron Lung was used to help polio patients breathe, in many cases keeping them alive.
Polio peak in Sullivan County
The recent news that the polio virus has been discovered in wastewater in Sullivan County has raised concerns here that the disease, long thought to be eradicated, might make a resurgence.   … more
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Sept. 13, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 The second annual clam bake and Firemen’s Day held under the auspices of the Liberty Hose and Truck Company No. 2 was a huge success with about 550 visiting firemen. … more
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18th century botanist John Bartram
Splendid and miraculously at Fort Delaware
From their earliest visits here, the Lenape, who constructed their sweat lodges among the wil- low trees on the banks of the Delaware, revered this area because of what they recognized as its … more
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Polio’s painful past: The polio virus can destroy motor neurons that control the muscles for swallowing, breathing, and limb movement. Before vaccinations to prevent polio were available, it infected thousands of people in the 1940s and 1950s. Recovery and rehabilitation of polio patients was a long and arduous process. The earliest treatment was to apply braces to weakened limbs and torso. Later it was learned that in water, it was easier to stretch, massage and exercise the muscles, with the water assisting the patient’s buoyancy. In this contributed photo, a patient is being lowered into a pool for a therapy treatment.
Sept. 6, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 Born to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wahl of Callicoon, a daughter, on Wednesday. Gus Neumann has installed new gas lights in the shoe department of B.E. Dycker and Co. store, the … more
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Farming in Jeffersonville: This is a rough photo (the sky is marked by someone’s thumb, caused by developing fluid), but St. George’s R.C. Church in Jeff is one recognizable feature. The present church was constructed in 1914, according to the late historian Charles S. Hick (Sullivan County Record, 1943). St. George’s rises on the hill at upper right, with the cemetery behind it. We don’t know the farmer pictured in the foreground, but his is a vintage two horsepower vehicle. Note the handkerchiefs protecting the animals’ ears from flying pests. The photo was contributed by Brian LaBarr, whose ancestors include the Bollenbachs of Jeffersonville, early settlers and one-time operators of the mill at the island.
August 30, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 Percy Hadsell, 17, of Galilee, Pa., while fishing on Bush’s Pond with his cousin, Walter Hadsell of Jersey City, was thrown into the water when the boat overturned. He … more
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Harry “Pittsburg Phil” Strauss.
The Honeymoon Murder
It was about nine o’clock on a muggy Saturday evening in August of 1936, and two young honeymooners were dressing for a night out when they were interrupted by the ringing of the telephone … more
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Sportsmen identified: Thanks to our sharp-eyed readers for helping to identify all the gentlemen pictured in this photo from 1992. From the left are outdoorsman and guide Bill Fraser, New York State Senator Charles Cook (R-40 Delhi), Klendin Kirby of Yulan, and Jack Danchak, then-president of the Federation of Sportsmen Clubs of Sullivan County. The late Mr. Kirby was once a director of the Beaver Brook Rod and Gun Club, a member of the Ridge Runners Hunting Club, and a Town of Highland councilman, among other community organizations.
August 23, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 Wednesday morning the bowling alley of William Ives at Beach Lake took fire and was not only destroyed but also took the lives of three boys, John Gaw and Elwood and Neil … more
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Promoter Leon Greenberg in the 1970s.
Success is a traffic jam
The weekend of August 24 to 26 in 1979 was supposed to be a significant one in Sullivan County history. Plans had been made for some of the top musical acts in the business to appear at the site of … more
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Ye olde Lower Main: A photo contributed by Philip Kautz of Middletown shows Lower Main Street in Callicoon, before the Delaware Youth Center took its place in the neighboring field at left, with what appears to be sheaves of wheat or corn in its place instead. Dated September 1921, it shows the Sullivan County Democrat office, flanked to the right by John Kautz’s feed store and grist mill, where Peck’s Market stands today. Note the awning that extends out into the street, where carts could be driven up to be weighed on a scale. Nestled between, also a part of the Kautz building, was at one time a paint shop. Behind all these buildings (circa 1918) also stood an ice house and horse shed!
August 16, 2022 Edition
110 years ago - 1912 C.H. Young of Callicoon has purchased a Pope motorcycle for use in his grocery business to make quick deliveries. The post office at Narrowsburg has been raised to the … more
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Richard Jenkins will be displaying and talking about this powder horn from the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign at Fort Delaware at one p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, August 13.
Guiding General Sullivan
On August 11, 1779, at the height of America’s war for independence, General John Sullivan arrived at Tioga Point in upstate New York with a large force of men and began construction of what … more
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August 9, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 Saturday was a record breaker in Cochecton when city boarders arrived with every train loaded. It is said that nearly 400 people arrived, for different locations. Robert S. … more
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Noah Lewis as Revolutionary War hero Ned Hector at Fort Delaware in July.
African Americans in colonial era
Nearly 400 years ago, in 1626, a ship carrying eleven slaves was unloaded in New Amsterdam by the Dutch West Indies Company. Those eleven men are believed to be the first African Americans brought to … more
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August 2, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 Editor Hones of the Roscoe Review has recently been elected president of the New York State Editorial Association. Several detectives attached to the central office of … more
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The body of Walter Sage at McGibbon & Currey Funeral Home in Liberty shortly after it was removed from Swan Lake.
The corpse in the grey suit
It was Saturday, July 31, 1937 and two vacationers in a rowboat on Swan Lake made a grisly discovery on the surface of the lake. It was the body of a man, all trussed up and tied to a rock and a slot … more
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Miss Janet’s graduates of ‘62: Thanks to Jim Schultz for another look at Miss Janet’s Nursery School’s first graduation ceremony. Miss Janet’s school operated for three decades, schooling hundreds of pupils over the years. Janet Sausmikat Doetsch operated the preschool, first located down the River Road and later along Route 97. The first graduating class included, front row, from left: Barbara Mills Fancker, Holly Curtis Perdan, Susanne Ziegler, and Douglas Doetsch. Second row, from the left, are Teresa Tenbus McBeath, Linda Leewe Kitson, and James Schultz. Third row, from the left, are Terri Moran Kuhn, Thomas Meyer, Lori Whitmore and Joan Chesnick. Eric Meyer can just be seen in the background (behind his brother Thomas). But who is the littlest one, barely visible in the greenery at right?
July 26, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 On Wednesday one of the worst storms we have had visited this section, accompanied by severe thunder and lightning. Long Bros. boarding house in Beechwoods was struck and one … more
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The Battle of Minisink Remembered
On July 20, 1779, Joseph Brant, a Mohawk fighting with the British, led a raiding party of Indians and Tories against a settlement near present-day Port Jervis. It was their second raid upon the area … more
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Callicoon Kiwanis celebrated: This photo dates back to September 15, 1986 and shows the Callicoon Kiwanis Club at its Annual Divisional Steak Bake meeting at the Delaware Youth Center, in Callicoon. The Callicoon Kiwanis were also celebrating their 40th Anniversary as a club that year. Callicoon Kiwanians were, front row, from the left, Robert Inteman, Audley Dorrer, Kiwanis President Ed Sykes, unknown and Charles Mills. Standing, from the left, are, Willard “Bud” Slausenberg, Howard Stewart, Matthew “Joe” Freda, unknown, Ed Lohr, Donald Molusky and Ron Gorr. If anyone knows the unnamed members please call Ruth at 845-887-5200. The Callicoon Kiwanis Club will be celebrating its 76th Anniversary this year.
July 19, 2022 Edition
140 Years Ago - 1882 One of the lady boarders at the summer hotel at Guymard’s took a dram and a  half of Fowler’s solution by mistake last Sunday. Dr. Cuddeback of Port Jervis … more
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When it comes to tourism, change is the only constant. (Illustration by Ernest Fiene for the novel, “Work of Art.”)
Work of Art
Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and several of his novels — “Main Street,” “Babbit,” “Elmer Gantry,” etc. … more
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Who was the bridal couple? The reverse of this Hillig photo was inscribed “Mrs. Matilda Wells,” nothing more. The archive of the Liberty Register, accessed through the Liberty Library website, reveals that Mrs. Wells was married in 1897 to Dr. Stephen W. Wells, then on the medical staff of Loomis Sanatorium. Shortly afterward they moved to the village of Liberty where Dr. Wells set up his private practice, and the Wellses raised three sons, one of whom was later elected to serve as town clerk. Matilda Wells was active in the American Legion Auxiliary and the S.P.C.A. and likely knew many people. Whose wedding this was is uncertain, but it is certainly one of the biggest wedding gatherings we have ever seen photographed on a porch.
July 12, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 Saturday afternoon, during the heavy thunderstorm, lightning struck the chimney of Jacob Dreher’s house in the Beechwoods, and nearly killed two little girls, Louisa … more
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The Declaration of Independence will be publicly read aloud at Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History tomorrow (Saturday, July 9), as will a Tory response. The program starts at 12 noon and is included in the price of admission to the Fort.
A Passionate Tory
The first permanent European settlement in the Upper Delaware Valley was established around 1755 by a group of Connecticut farmers calling themselves the Delaware Company, and within a few years … more
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Union Park was a local hot-spot Many church picnics and clam bakes were scheduled at a new park by the Masonic Hall in Jeffersonville, according to the Sullivan County Record, July 1891. Andrew Bietz’s Union Park was well-located for a community eager to have a good time outdoors. Music was provided by the Jeffersonville Band, and the crowd was sure to increase in the evenings once the farmers had finished the haying and other chores. In the park, the Record says, “electricity is not employed as the lighting power, but on such an occasion as this there are generally enough ‘sparks’ and auburn-haired girls around to fill the vacancy left by kerosene torches.” Willow Grove in Callicoon, Kohler’s Grove in Beechwoods, and Inderlied’s Grove in Youngsville (among others) offered alternate choices for entertainment in the warmer months.
July 5, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 The safe in the post office of South Fallsburg was blown some time during last Tuesday night by yeggmen and over $2,000 in money and stamps was secured. There is no trace of … more
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Patriots and Loyalists
The notion of the American War of Independence as a civil war is by no means a new one, but it has gained new traction of late because of the 2021 book “America’s First Civil War: … more
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School is out! Local area high school grads should look for our special 2022 graduation issue of the Democrat, Friday, July 1. Philip Kautz of Milford, Pa. shared this postcard of the “lower school house” in Jeffersonville, now a family residence, according to a description on the reverse of the card dated 1941.
June 28, 2022 Edition
110 Years Ago - 1912 At the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Bauernfeind of the Beechwoods Wednesday evening, their eldest daughter, Ruth, was united in marriage with Ralph Harold Myers, son of Mr. and … more
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Judge Lawrence H. Cooke
Shilbury v. Board of Supervisors
It was June of 1965, and Judge Lawrence H. Cooke was about to render a decision that would have a profound impact on Sullivan County government, and ultimately its politics, as well. From the … more
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