[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The paper for a time advocated Greenbackisin, but is now strongly Republican in its politics. Its office is on Main Street. SOCIETIES OF THE TOWN OF CORTLANDT. The principal societies of the town of Cortlandi are located in Peekskill. Their histories are as fol-lows : Masons. — The first secret order known to have been established in the town of Cortlandt was Cort-landt Lodge No. 34, F. and A. M.. which was organ-ized under the dispensation of the Grand Lodge ol the State of New York, in 1793. It met at one time in the old City Hall, at the corner of Spring and Main Streets, which was burnt down about 1867 or 1868, but previous to the fire was meeting in the wooden building on Main Street, a short distance east of Union Street, now known as the Continental Hotel. This lodge went out of existence at the time of the anti-Masonic excitement in politics. There was no.Masonic organization in the town of Cortlandt after the demise of this lodge until 1 S.">1>. when, upon the petition of Janus \V. Dusted, Benja-min I'. Depew, George W. Depew, George F. liar-wood, Wolff Cohen,.lames M. Frear, John G. Mar-tin, Charles Southwort h and Solomon Clason, a dis-pensation was received from the Grand Lodge of the State of New York. The lodge was chartered June 27, 1859, as Cortlandt Lodge, No. 189, F. and A. M.