Stivers again became part owner of the Press, and the firm became Stivers, Slauson & Boyd, continuing for about seven and one-half years.
Stivers is at present attending physician at the Thrall Hospital, vice-president of the Orange County Medical Society, and secretary and treasurer of the Stivers Printing Co.
Stivers entered actively into journalistic duties, though he had been connected therewith more or less all his life.
Stivers is a practicing physician in Middletown, is connected with Thrall Hospital, and is now secretary and treasurer of the Stivers Printing Company, of which his brother, John D.
Resigning from the Press, Mr. Stivers became private secretary to his father, the Hon.
Stivers has been connected with the house staff of the New York Hospital and the New York Cancer Hospital.
He has been a trustee of the Middletown Savings Bank and of the Orange County Trust and Safe Deposit Company, and was for six years president of the Orange County Telephone Company and is a director of the Stivers Printing Company.
Mr. Stivers held several political offices besides that of county clerk, being postmaster at Ridgebury under President Pierce, was appointed collector of internal revenue in 1868 for this district, and was elected to Congress.
In December, 1880, Mr. Stivers sold his interest in the concern to John W.
I should have come to tell you of it before, as was my duty, as I would wish any mother to do for me were it my daughter; but I have been busy helping the Misses Bryne-Stivers and Professor Trask with this concert for to-night.
The sympathetic fussing of the Misses Bryne-Stivers she endured as in a dream.
The opening duet between Maude and Henrietta Bryne-Stivers they had heard before.
Miss Bryne-Stivers at the proper moment, lifting the chubby mourner off her feet and out of her pose at the same time.
Murchison was tuning up his sweet old violin, while Maude Bryne-Stivers offered to accompany him on the piano.
Instead of the flour Lieutenant Ball purchased two hundred thousand pounds of rice, at one rix dollar and forty-four stivers per hundred weight over and above the seventy thousand pounds he was directed to procure.
She was just opening her lips to send Stivers for Mr. Thrall when a door slammed opposite, and she glanced across.
Mrs. Stivers was married during the mahogany reign of terror, you see.
Peal after peal of laughter from Sybil brought Stivers to the door, pale and with distinctly frightened eyes.
And Stivers called up to her: "In a moment, Miss Sybil!
Well, I was starting for a doctor when that cat Stivers played her last card.
Stivers even got the chance to brush her hair a bit, but not one word did she speak of any trouble or worry, other than that she 'was suffering from an attack of the nerves.
Stivers had eagerly seized upon the cue given by rumor, and declared that Sybil had been shopping, and was going toward the theatre, when, etc.
Stivers took them into the bedroom with the breakfast tray, and as Sybil put out her hand to take the letter Jane gave a cry of dismay.
Upon ducatoons, for example, which in the currency pass for three guilders three stivers each, the bank gives a credit of three guilders only, or five per cent.
The difference is said to be commonly from about six to sixteen stivers upon the mark, or eight ounces of silver, of eleven parts of fine and one part alloy.
The rupees are throughout calculated at thirty stivers each.
He succeeded in earning a few stivers by assisting a man who was driving a train of loaded mules into the city, but he could not secure steady employment anywhere.
After leaving the old fire-woman, who nodded a pleasant good-bye to us, and willingly put ourstivers in her great outside pocket, we drove through the streets enjoying the singular sights of a public washing day.
Mayken has failed of late in her lessons, and too many sweets and trifles have gone to her lips, and too few stivers to her charity-box.
The grain by this means fell still lower in price, and while we were there the people could not obtain more than four or five guilders in zeewan for a schepel of fine wheat, that is, sixteen stivers or one guilder of Holland money.
Mr. Jacobs said he had a remnant of tin which he would sell us for ten stivers a foot, and we had paid twelve for ours.
Footnote 84: Twenty stivers made one florin or guilder, and three guilders one ducat.
We came then to the end of the island, which was alluvial ground, and crossed over the Spyt den Duyvel in a canoe, and paid nine stivers fare for us three, which was very dear.
The retirement under the law as it then existed was not legal and valid, as the highest judicial tribunal under the Constitution has declared, for the reason that Captain Stivers was not then an officer on the active list.
It undertakes to declare that the retirement of Captain Stivers was legal and valid and that he always has been and is entitled to his pay as such officer.
After leaving the old fire woman, who nodded a pleasant good-bye to us, and willingly put our stivers in her great outside pocket, we drove through the streets enjoying the singular sights of a public washing day.
Mayken has failed of late in her lessons, and too many sweets and trifles have gone to her lips, and too few stivers to her charity box.
Capons, bares, partridges, and butcher's meat were plentiful as blackberries, and good French claret was but two stivers the quart.
And there was always an ample supply of volunteers for the service so long as the five stivers were paid.
Until funds should be collected sufficient for this purpose, they were to receive twelve stivers a day each foot-soldier, and twenty- four stivers each cavalryman, and were to have the city of Roermond in pledge.
The soldiers liked the business; for every man so employed received his ten stivers a day additional wages, punctually paid, and felt moreover that every stioke was bringing the work nearer to its conclusion.
V-52] He gave one florin and eight stiversfor wood, but whether for drawing on, or for fuel, is uncertain.
In his Journal, in 1521, he enters a sum of ten stivers given to his confessor, and, subsequently, eight stivers given to a monk who visited his wife when she was sick.
The mother's thoughts ran: "Twelve stivers for a ticket, and waffles and chocolate extra!
No maid, or person for rough work, but a seamstress on seven stivers and a piece of bread and butter.
For twenty-four stivers one could buy a big sack full.
She received for this seven stivers a week, and every evening a slice of bread and butter.
I am willing to admit the truth of all this; but what more could one expect for seven stivers and a slice of bread and butter?
I gave 8 stivers for a bag and 7 stivers for half a dozen Netherlandish cards, and 3 stivers for a small yellow post-horn.
I had Master Conrad, the sculptor of Mechlin, as a guest on Whitsunday; paid 18 stivers for Italian prints: again 6 stivers to the doctor.
Hans in the stable, and 1 stiver to the child in the house; lost 2% stivers at play; spent 2 stivers, gave 2 stivers to the barber.
Then early on Thursday I set out from Ghent and came through various villages to the inn called "The Swan," where we breakfasted; thence we passed through a beautiful village and came to Antwerp, and I paid 8 stivers for the fare.
Rodrigo gave me another parrot, and I gave his boy 2 stivers for a tip.
The Factor Brandon of Portugal has given me two large beautiful white sugar loaves, a dishful of sweetmeats, two green pots of preserves, and four ells of black satin, so I gave the servant 10 stivers for a tip.
Again dined twice with Tomasin; have given 2 stivers for a little cage, 3 stivers for one pair of socks, and 4 stivers for eight little boards.
And I gave the boy for a tip 5 stivers and 2 stivers for a brush.
I paid Jobst 10 stivers for three dinners; I gave 2 stivers for two tracts; and 2 stiversto the messenger.
Yet to preserve a fictitious identity with the original rix-dollar, the local mint turned out stivers of lower value, of which 60 were made to correspond to 48 of the Dutch stivers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stivers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
