Fire destroys two story home leaving family homeless
Fire swept through the two story frame home of Mr. and Mrs. David Jones on the Ovid Lodi Town Line Rd, believed to have begun in the kitchen. Mrs. Jones, a Willard State Hospital night attendant, woke to flames and smoke and had to seek help from a neighbor as the phone was out of order. The family of seven is staying with a relative on Interlaken Lodi Rd. Fire units from Lodi, Ovid, Romulus, Interlaken, Hector Logan, and the Seneca Army Depot responded under Chief Eugene Huff and investigators reviewed the scene with local law enforcement assisting.
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Lodi
David Jones
Ovid- Lodi Town Line
John Jones
Interlaken Lodi Rd
Eugene Huff
Ovid Volunteer Fire Co
Romulus Volunteer Fire Co
Seneca Army Depot
Interlaken Volunteer Fire Co
Ovid Police Briefs Report Motor Crash and Fires
A summary of five incidents: John Fabray, 23, of Livonia, injured when his car left County Road 183 near Sheldrake after a collision with an unseen vehicle. a barn fire on Route 96A near Ovid Airport destroyed with 3 0000 in losses. Honda motorcycle rear-ended a car injuring several occupants. a deer struck a vehicle on Route 964 near Route 414. a motorcycle crash on June 4 involving a Buredorf, 42, of Ovid. Investigations listed with Under Sheriff Gerald Brewer.
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Ovid
John A. Fabray
Livonia
Interlaken Central School
Sheldrake
Fabray
Gerald Brewer
Ralph Smith
Honda
John Lincoln
Interlaken
David Lincoln
Alice Burgdorf
Willis Allen
Anneli R. Varvas
Toronto
Canada
Joseph E. Haddad
Ithaca
Local Church Women Plan June Meeting and Weddings Noted
The Methodist Church W S C S will meet June 16 at 8 p.m. with several organizers listed, following the Home Coming of Helen Mowers who is district deputy grand matron of the Eastern Star. A wedding is set for Esther Orman and Robert Lee Smith at Lodi Presbyterian Church on June 14.
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W.S.C.S
Methodist Church
James Wagner
Alouise Lincoln
Mildred Covert
Blanche Owen
Sarah Dorothy Boyer
Jean and
Joyce van Vleet
Edna Crisfield
Helen Mowers
Lodi Presbyterian Churett
Regional High School reunion highlights from Freehold
Mrs. Doyle Bingell and kin attended the 15 year reunion at the American Hotel with prizes awarded for traveling far and for the door prize. Nearby families and locals, including Ferguson, Green, Wagner, Marsh and Voorhees, were noted among social visits and regional travel. Fishermen reported strong catches at Dixon's Marina before a slow weekend on the water.
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Doyle Bingell
Kenneth Peterson
Allen Marsh
Corning
Bingell
Freehold
New Jersey
American Hotel
Jack Ferguson
Syracuse
James Ferguson
George Green
Rural Life
Moreland
Seigfred Peterson
Norburt Dennis
New York City
Boilers to be re installed at Willard Hospital
Governor Rockefeller announced bids will open June 29 for modernization of heating plants at Rome State School and Willard State Hospital in Seneca County. Projects, funded by the Mental Hygiene Facilities Improvement Fund, replace coal with oil fired boilers to improve efficiency for growing campus needs. Willard will gain five boilers and two temporary oil boilers used at Rome School, plus 120000 gallons of underground fuel storage. Separate bids cover construction heating sanitary and electrical work.
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Willard
Rockefeller
State Department of Public Works
Rome State School
Rome
Willard State Hopital
Seneca County
Mental Hygiene Facilities Improvement Fund
State Department of Mental Hygiene
Willard State Hospital
Rome School
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Robert Northrup
Tpr
van Epps
Waterloo
Route 96A
Paul Warne
Ovid Fire Department
Leon Wickham
Romulus
James Steele
Louis Losani
Buredorf
North St. Ovid
Lod
Mra Z R Brown
C.M., Reed
Laceyville
Lodi Point
John Dudak
Sidney
Percy Voorhees
New England States
Leon Dixon
Dixon's
Lamoreaux Point
Dewey Chase
Loci Point
Hedge Row
Thomas Cashady
Willard Hospital
Joan
June Deal
John Russell
Brownie
Amy Harford
Russia
Terry’s
Ering
Oldsmobile
Olds
Ecket
Emmat
Bond Motors
Ovid, N.Y
Aree
Yeu
Ves
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