Of Interest for a Holiday Weekend

Gossips has been combing the newspapers at Fulton History for more information about our current interests: The Home for the Aged and Captain Warren Robinson. In the process, this curious feature, which appeared on the front page of the Chatham Courier for Tuesday, May 13, 1890, was discovered--containing some interesting facts about Hudson.

WITH THE NEWS GLEANERS

WHO TOIL IN COLUMBIA AND ADJOINING COUNTIES

Things Seen and Done in Villages and

Hamlets Around about Us

• Horses in Hudson are suffering from distemper.
• Hudson will have 11 polling places under the new ballot law. . . .
• The present population of the Hudson House of Refuge is 202 women and 12 infants. . . .
• Horseback riding is becoming quite popular among Hudson lawyers. It is a healthful exercise.
• Hon. Benj. Ray, of Hudson, has been appointed an assistant inspector of steamboats for the New York district. . . .
• It has been definitely arranged that the fair for the Hudson Home for the Aged will be held during the second week of next November.
• Two sharks were seen in the Hudson river near Cornwall a few days ago. They generally arrive about the same time small boys open the swimming season. . . .
• The Hudson Iron company last week elected the following trustees: Jacob W. Hoysradt, John E. Gillette, Frank B. Stott, Milton Martin, Augustus McKinstry, Samuel R. Rainey, Albert Hoysradt. At a subsequent meeting of the trustees, J. W. Hoysradt was re-elected president and Sydney Seymour secretary and treasurer.