Our Town 100 Years Ago: February 1921, part II

FEBRUARY 1921, PART 2

Whitehall was a very young community in 1895 and journalism had a much different tone than today. This first section and the business ad are taken as written from the February 22, 1895 Jefferson Valley Zephyr.

A New Industry in Whitehall - We understand that the famous beauty and ladies' man, James Monahan, of the bridge and building department, has started a steam laundry in one of the boarding cars, and is doing washing and ironing at the lowest rates for cash. Please give him a call, at the middle car on the railroad track, at Whitehall.

(Mine) Superintendent Tom Starb...