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Newspaper
Free Press
Location
Trumansburg, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1966
Page
16
TRUMANSBURG The Trumansburg Home Telephone Co. announced a new service enabling dialed station-to-station calls to pass through Automatic Number Identification. Beginning December 16, long distance calls will complete like local calls without the caller giving a number, as the system records the number automatically.
A long local schedule lists library hours church services and rotor y events through December 31 plus a Jacksonville Methodist Church dedication. Notable items include Christmas Eve services at Federated White Church Perry City Friends and First Methodist worships with ministers Royal E Filkins Irvin Towner and Rev. Earl Gross. A December 4 dedication at Jacksonville Methodist Church honored Ida Higgins Lanning with robes paraments and pulpit lights funded by church groups.
Trumansburg Petrillose Dry Cleaners donated 1967 calendars to the Tompkins County 4 H Division. Paul Petrillose funds the calendars featuring a boy and girl symbolizing 4 H. Active clubs include Enfield Saddles and Stirrups and clubs from Trumansburg.
A church organ demonstration took place December 12 at 4 45 p.m. in Jacksonville Methodist Church led by ten Ithaca College Guild members of the American Guild of Organists under A Richard Strauss. The Garrett House Organ, built in 1872, is the area’s third oldest of its make. Several congregants and the pastor Rev Thomas F Schafer attended along with church organist Mrs Joan Fike. The event featured two Guild students performing selections.
Obituaries for Laura Benson Lucas Grace Hawley Barlow Nellie E Reasor note deaths in Burgin Trumansburg and South Cortland with dates December 1966. Lists surviving children grandchildren and funeral arrangements including churches cemeteries and local funeral homes.
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