Sifting Through the Sands of Time from the Courier Archives

Decorate Carmel

There is a wide spread movement all over these United States for the erection of Memorial buildings and they are recommended as an expression of public feeling, vastly superior to any mere monument in stone or bronze—loving memorials that could be vitalized by service to the community.

The idea spread into instant popularity and was taken up in the most unexpected quarters— large towns and small towns— from Boston’s magnificent plans for a building approaching the monumental classic, to Hocknum, Conn., where $10,000 was raised by popular subscription—the population in question numbering just two hundred and fifty.

Certainly if a town of 250 can raise $10,000 by popular subscription, Carmel, which is about to enter a drive for a memorial building, need not fail to raise the needed $15,000 for a social center and meeting place here at the County Seat.

The great need of a hall as suggested for our village is a sufficient guarantee for its maintenance in rentals and it will serve for such county meetings as the Red Cross, American Legion, and other County Conventions, besides being headquarters for local granges, legion posts, and other like orders.

The Courier is glad to support the enterprise and we hope that our people will be liberal in their contributions for the need is great and the success of the enterprise will mean much for the growth and well being of this community.

Queen Receives Pawling Woman

Mrs. Perry W. Chapman of this village was received by the Queen of the Belgians at the Waldorf-Astoria in the metropolis last Saturday afternoon and personally thanked by her majesty for the several boxes of necessary articles Mrs. Chapman made during the war and sent to the Queen to aid the sufferers in Belgium. The latter had previously received several letters from her majesty written in French and dictated by the Queen, expressing gratitude for the great good Mrs. Chapman was doing. So last week there came a telegram from the Queen’s private secretary to this Pawling lady, saying that her majesty would be pleased to meet Mrs. Chapman with other ladies at the Waldorf on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Chapman with her granddaughter, Miss Ann Daniels, journeyed to the city. The found many city ladies congregated at the hotel waiting to meet the Queen, who had a pleasant and gracious word for each person as soon as they were presented. As soon as she heard Mrs. Chapman’s name, she instantly recollected her good work in furnishing aid to her brave and sacrificing people and she thanked Mrs. Chapman for her aid. The latter lady was impressed with the Queen’s gentle and pleasing manner and lack of formality. Mrs. Chapman is the only Pawling lady to be thus honored with a personal interview with this gracious little lady of whom so much has been written during the four years the heroic people of Belgium suffered and died for liberty.