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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1949
Page
6
Philadelphia and Syracuse families mourn the death of MRS CORA M. MYERS. Surviving are two sons, John W. Myers and another, plus sisters Mrs. Harry Dinmore and Mrs. Dunn. Services planned at 2 PM Monday with interment at Laurel Hill. Remembrance notes list further surviving relatives and funeral director.
Marshall W Downing of 733 Beech Street North High School veteran of 33 years died. Services at Plymouth Congregational Church with survivors including wife Mary Tennex Downing and four daughters. Also William J Bonner of 1217 Willis Avenue dies, services at Day Funeral. Burial Oakwood Cemetery. Survived by sisters Mrs William Mosher and Mrs Josephine Kilian, brother Harry Bonner, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services are planned for Mrs Billhardt of 6 Grant Street who died yesterday afternoon in Syracuse. The Rev Robert J Thomas will officiate at Carl Welter Funeral Home with burial at Woodlawn Cemetery. Mrs Billhardt worked forty years in the Post circulation department and is survived by a sister and two nephews. Miss Catherine Senk of 1910 Park Street, a former Spencer Clothing Company teller for forty years, died yesterday at her home. Her funeral will be at George W Baliveg Funeral Home with burial at Woodlawn Cemetery. she is survived by two sisters and a brother.
A small public notice lists services at Frasier Funeral Home and Welter Funeral Home with names and addresses in Quinlan and nearby areas. The notice references Bunerss Seow and Latins Step along with floral arrangements from Quinlan's Flowers and James Bt Florists.
Committal services for Mrs Kathryn Lewis Sabin aging member of Oneida Eastern Star for 54 years will be held tomorrow at Glenwood. She died Thursday at Youngstown Ohio and leaves two daughters Ruth Vinten and Miss Ken E Sabin and one brother Harry P Lewis of Grants Pass Oregon.
Geneva area appoints a Syracusan pastor as director of the Geneva Camp for boys and girls in the Bristol Hills area next month. About 125 Geneva youths will attend the camp during the weeks of Aug 14 and Aug 21.
Weather outlook for Syracuse calls for fair and cooler conditions tonight and tomorrow. Recent high reached 87 degrees in 1933, with a record low of 53 set in 1914. Relative humidity around 85 percent in the afternoon, sunset and sunrise times noted.
Weather summary notes scattered thunderstorms along the western and central Gulf coast, Virginia and Kentucky with cooler, drier air in the Northeast and northern plains. A front boundary shows limited movement, with overall lower humidity and milder temperatures expected in the central and eastern regions.
Mrs Catherine Lyman Ferron a 79 year old widow of Thomas J Farren of 89 Bayard Street Seneca Falls died Thursday at Kidders Hotel Cayuga Lake after months of illness. She lived most of her life in Seneca Falls and is survived by daughter Kathleen O Malley and the hotel owner, a brother John Lyman and two sisters Mrs William Martin and Miss Elizabeth Lyman all of Seneca Falls. Funeral services will be held at 530 AM Monday in Doran Funeral Home and 9 AM in St Patrick's Church with burial in St Columbia Cemetery.
Dr Daniel J Gilbert 87 longtime Fort Huron physician and former health officer of Montemma Throsop and Canques towns died yesterday at Auburn City Hospital. Funeral set for 2 PM tomorrow at Dwinelle Funeral Home with Rev Payson Derby officiating and burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery Fort Wayne IN. He practiced over 50 years and left surviving sons Louis Gilbert Myers Melvin Villager Charles Cate and Leon Moran and daughters Stevenson Hartrandt and others.
In Camden Township area two barns were leveled and a farmhand injured when a fire damaged a barn owned by William Girard. The worker suffered severe leg injuries while aiding animals. The blaze caused extensive losses estimated over five million, with a bolt possibly triggering the flames. No major damage to the farmhouse reported.
Four girls were injured about 11 550 PM Thursday on Richland road at the village edge when the car carrying them went out of control and struck a tree. Betty Cooper 24 of Orwell was most seriously hurt with head and abdominal injuries. treated by Dr. Alex Rosinek and taken to Oswego City Hospital. Kitty Hoppe 15 suffered lacerations to nose, leg, shoulder, elbow, and left hand. Nancy Blodgett 14 and Mildred Hamps 14 suffered multiple bruises. Dee Porter 17 of Oxwell, driving, escaped injury though her car left the road. she lost control trying to catch a girl and struck a tree.
Humor column by HAL BOYLE critiques self improvement fads calling Be Yourself Week a joke. He lampoons diets fitness plans and personality programs as endless, costly schemes that fail to change core identity while urging readers to accept themselves.
Mr. and Mrs. Channing Short of Teast mark their 49th wedding anniversary. They were married at Ogdensburg and have six children including Marion Short of Minoa LeRoy Short of Oneida and Andrew Short of Oneida Castle. One son, Norman Short, was killed in World War II and his body is en route to Oneida for burial soon.
Onondaga County Farm Bureau Dairy Committee sponsors a Monday dairy farm tour. Stanley Murphy of Tully chairs the event with stops at Murphy and Engst farms, a Cortland stop at McDonald Guernsey farms. The group gathers 9:30 AM north of Vesper, then picnics at Highland Park before continuing.
Blood gifts in the region fell far short of a 500 pint target with only 325 pints collected this week, 14 percent below last week’s 373 pints. Dr. Rothard B. Jamueson urged residents to donate to ensure blood is available for hospitals, noting the center’s reserve remains low. The next Bloodmobile visit is Monday afternoon at the Liverpool firehouse, with co chairmen Dennis Wurzburger and C Lamey overseeing donor recruitment and junior Red Cross assistance aiding community delivery efforts.
Priscilla Baldwin a 22 year old from Newark Valley was injured when her jeep left a hill road near Owego and crashed into a barn owned by Ira Steele. She sustained a severe head injury and was treated at Owego by Dr. Windsor Schmidt. The Tioga County Fair harness racing day featured eight heats with several races postponed due to rain.
A large branch fell from a tree on Phillips street during a windstorm striking 6 year old BIaSSENA Kay Sedlock as she walked home with siblings from a movie. She suffered forehead, arm, shoulder and back lacerations and was treated by Dr. Elizabeth Fulton after becoming trapped among the branches. Veronica Allen, 9, and Gladys Waters, 3, narrowly escaped injury while walking nearby.
The Board of Directors declared a 10 cent per share dividend on common stock payable August 15 to stockholders of record August 6.
Mary Miurdock married George J. Murdock and James G. Patterson on July 28 at First Presbyterian Church with Rev. H. De l Costa Finchey officiating. Miss Anna Belle Murdock served as maid of honor. Frank Erwin, best man. Gerald Parker and Alvin Garrett were ushers. A reception followed at the bride’s parents’ home. after September 3 the couple will reside at 516 W North Ave Pittsburgh Pa. The bride attends Carnegie Tech, the groom at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
WATERTOWN A verdict of accidental death with no criminal negligence was returned after an inquest into the July 7 Chaumont Highway crash near Brownville that killed Mc Connellsville resident Aimon C. Phelps, 57, and Brownville resident Justice of the Peace J. Ford Gordon, 61. Phelps died July 11 at the House of the Good Samaritan. Gordon died July 12.
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