July 1, 1904 Post Office Name Changed

Back in March of 1904 the residents of the Village voted to incorporate. That event could have stood by itself, but like many things, it didn’t happen in a vacuum. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was looking for a new name for the train depot.

May 27, 1904, the Farmer Review, under the heading, “Special Notice” recorded the recent and upcoming name changes. “May 15 the Lehigh Valley railroad company changed the name of the station at Farmer to Interlaken. Postmaster F. H. Johnson, on Monday, received notice from the postmaster general that the post office name will be changed to Interlaken at the beginning of the next quarter, on July 1, ’04.”
That same article stated that the Review would change its name later in July when the anniversary of the paper arrived. Later, Mr. Hause decided to make the change on July 1.

Masthead of the July 1, 1904 Interlaken Review
Copy from online scanned newspaper

As anyone who has changed their address knows, the process takes time. This is especially true when the name of the village changes, and the paper has to “correct” all of the mailing labels.

Dewitt’s Diary Tuesday, July 1, 1924

Hoeing corn today. We finished the field corn and hoed the sorghum today.

Father attended a Klu Klux Klan meeting at Covert tonight. It sure is a good thing.

Wednesday, July 1, 1964

Temperature 73 clear, southwest wind. Ed Hayward baled 250 bales from the stone pile field this morning.

We had some thunder showers between 4 and 5 o’clock. Gave us more than an inch of water and we need it. My corn in field and garden wilted for the past couple days.

All the garden needed it. Much dryer in eastern part of the state.

Picked 8 quarts of cherries from tree at the southwest corner of garden.

Temperature dropped from 93 degrees to 63 degrees in a half hour or a little more.