This Day in History: 1927-12-04

The first snow fall of the season blanketed the area. Although coal and oil dealers were issuing dire warnings about how bad the winter was going to be, John Y. Dater, the editor of the Ramsey Journal insisted as he did almost every year that the day which snow fall begin will indicates the number of storms there will be that winter. A light winter would allow owners of the new Ford Model “A”‘s to try out their new cars when delivery began January. One person who is need of a new car  was Robert Walker of Mahwah. He had a slight collision with Bruce Tiedeman’s car on Franklin Turnpike, swerved and ran into a telegraph pole, completely demolishing it. (When did “Telegraph” poles become “Telephone” poles and eventually “Utility poles”?)