1925

Pastor Horace M. Oberholtzer, D.D., conducting services.

The congregation decided to have the church wired for electricity, especially for a few lights. This ended the onerous task of raising and lowering the chandelier and lighting the kerosene lanterns. (It also greatly reduced the danger of fire!)

(The parsonage would wait another six years for electricity.)

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A total solar eclipse passed over the region in January, from Albany down to Manhattan, the only one to pass over the Woodstock region this century (154 years would elapse before the next one). Skies were clear, the stars were visible in the daytime, and solar nuclear explosions could be seen around the moon's shadow inside the ring of the solar corona.

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Calvin Coolidge (Republican) was President. The newly elected 69th Congress was in session. A dollar in that year would be worth $11.03 in 2006 for most consumable products.

There were 17 reported lynchings in the United States during this year; all of the victims were black. (Apparently what terrible things that happened to Native Americans or to Asians did not get counted.)

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