Index of Available Issues of the
Center Moriches Record
including
Volume 1 #1 from October 31, 1900
and issues from September, 1926 — December, 1934
Index prepared by
Maurine R. Donnelly
with assistance from Nan Peel, Director Center Moriches Free Public Library
Published by the
Center Moriches Free Public Library
235 Main Street
Center Moriches, N.Y. 11934
Copyright 1997
The Moriches Bay Historical Society made the bound volumes of the Center Moriches Record from their library available to the Center Moriches Free Public Library in order to have them microfilmed and indexed by the library. This index would then become part of a statewide project headed by Stony Brook University in which local history is made available to researchers through the study of newspaper articles of the past.
Irma Davin, formerly a reporter for The Moriches Bay Tide, supplied the library with the first issue of The Record, dated October 31, 1900, which had been given to her by John Cummings, the editor and publisher of The Moriches Bay Tide. Because the fragile condition of this first issue prevented successful microfilming, it was transcribed onto the computer and has been printed out for the public’s use.
To find information on a specific event, consult the index heading. For example: under the heading, “Suffolk County 11/30/33 Votes cast….70,585 34.3.2″ — the first number after the heading of Suffolk County indicates the month of the issue, the second number indicates the date of the issue, & the third number indicates the year of issue. The title of the article in the example is, “Votes cast…70,585” which is followed by the volume number, 34, the issue number, 2, and the page number, 2. Because of the method the paper used, volume numbers sometimes differ from the actual year of the issue, because the first issue was dated 10/31/1900 which means that each volume year ends in October. Entries are listed in chronological order which allows the reader to follow the progress of the news.
Subject headings for all the churches, synagogues, and religious meetings begin with the word “Religion”. Unless a specific town is named in the heading, the church is located in Center Moriches.
Lodges are listed by the title of the lodge, such as Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, Catholic Daughters of America, International Order of Odd Fellows, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, Knights of Columbus, Modern Woodmen of America, Order of the Araranth, Order of the Eastern Star, Rebekah Lodge & Order of Free Masons.
Clubs and societies are listed by their titles, such as, Daughters of the American Revolution, and Woman’s Club.
An alphabetical listing of death notices appearing in The Record is found under the heading, Obiturary Notices.
If an asterisk follows the date, it indicates that there was a typographical error in the dating of the paper and so the searcher may need to consult several issues of the paper to find the specific article in question.
The newspaper served to bring all sorts of information and entertainment to the readers. Books & articles were serialized in the weekly paper a method often used by famous authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. Serializations are indicated in The Record with Book Series as a general heading. The date listed before the title of the book means that the book serialization begins in that issue, and the volume number that follows is from that first serialization.
Continuation articles have the date and volume number of the first article in the series listed, and are found under the heading Center Moriches Record. Some titles of continuations are, “Economic Highlights”, “Round About Long Island”, “In The Good Old Days”, “Can It Be Done”, with a drawing showing the new invention, and the column of school news, “Sunrise Student”, which written by the students of the Center Moriches School District.
Although no specific mention of Black Friday, the date of the stock market crash in 1932, was made in the The Record, articles in the years following indicated that our Long Island area was in the midst of the Great Depression, and showed how groups banded together to help. The Record gave free advertising for anyone looking for a job, benefit card parties were held, and a druggist gave free labor on all RX’s. The Record included Editorials of encouragment, and the American Legion was mobilized for the War against Depression.