The famous old store of Thomas Earl has been torn down and the village now has five stores. The old "Bombeetel" house still stands at the cross-roads in the center of the village and now contains the village market run by J. R. Brooks. Time has indeed dealt kindly with Turner. The latest item to be accredited her is electricity. Nightly the village streets are brilliantly lighted and business goes on as busily as by daylight. The magic current is introduced to the houses and brings light and cheerfulness to the homes. The old village of Centerville would scarcely recognize the village of Turner, which is but the village of Centerville under a new name. [Illustration: David A. Morrison.] CHAPTER XXII. TOWN OF MONTGOMERY. By David A. Morrison. This important town is in the northern part of Orange County, bordering upon Ulster. It lies between the towns of Newburgh on the east, and Crawford on the west. Each of these towns has a large tongue of land that extends much further toward the north than the territory of Montgomery, the northern bounds of which form nearly a straight line. On the south are the towns of New Windsor, Hamptonburgh and Wallkill, from which it is separated by rather irregular rectangular lines. The area of the town as shown by the last Supervisors' report, is 30,578 acres. The assessed valuation of property taxable in the town and found by the Assessors in 1906 aggregated $2,094,640. The total taxes for that year amounted to $23,953.01. TITLES. The territory of Montgomery is a part of the original John Evans Patent, which seems to have been set aside subsequently for various reasons. In 1714 it was in the precinct of Shawangunk, in Ulster County, where it remained until 1743. when it became part of the Wallkill precinct. At that time it embraced the following patents: Cadwallader Colden, April 9, 1719 2,000 acres John Johnson, Jr., February 3, 1720 1,000 " Thomas Brazier, March 17, 1720 2,000 " Henry Wileman, June 30, 1712 3,000 " David Gallatian, June 4, 1719 1,000 " Edward Gatehouse, January, 1719 1,000 " James Alexander, April 9, 1719 2,000 " Archibald Kennedy, April 9, 1719 2,000 " James Smith, December 15, 1722 2,000 " Patrick McKnight, April 9, 1719 2,000 " Thomas Noxon, May 28, 1720 2,000 " Francis Harrison & Co., July 7, 1720 5,000 " Jeremiah Schuyler & Co., January 22, 1719 10,000 " Phillip Schuyler and others, July 20, 1720 8,000 " Jacobus Bruyn and Henry Wileman, April 25, 1722 2,500 " Frederick Morris and Samuel Heath, January 24, 1736. Thomas Ellison and Lawrence Roome, Nov. 12, 1750 Cadwallader Colden, Jr. and David Colden, June 20, 1761--720 A.