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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1946
Page
20
Syracuse Herald Journal and Syracuse Sunday Herald American reporters cover home town news in communities across this wide circulation territory. Contact details and telegram offices are listed for Canastota Chittenango Sherrill Cazenovia Hamilton Rome Camden and surrounding towns with correspondent names and phone numbers.
Canastota Volunteer Fire Department plans a two day field day on June 14 and 15 with a funds drive led by Chief Clifford Carpenter to raise 2300 dollars for uniforms for 80 active members. Committee head William H. Hinkel and members Elmer Fobare Francis Schafer Ellsworth Smith and Joseph Paneblanco will solicit support from local businessmen. Events include water fights fire and motor races a Canastota versus Chittenango American Legion baseball game and performances by Canastota High School Band and American Legion bugle and drum corps. Village officials will conduct annual fire department inspections and officials from nearby communities will be invited.
The American Legion Auxiliary Cazenovia Unit led by Mrs. Calvin Wyss announces Poppy Day on Saturday May 25. Aides include Mrs. D F Flanagan Mrs Richard Tedesco Mrs Cora Stanley and Mrs William Jones along with the Girl Scouts. Proceeds go to relief and rehabilitation for disabled veterans and families of the dead.
The Vernon Child Study Club holds its closing dinner for the club year on Wednesday May 22 at Cole's in Oneida Valley with Mrs J Ertman Crouse as reservations and transportation chair. The club will resume meetings in the fall. Hall Bible Class to party at 360 Seneca Street Monday at 7 30 P M with Mrs Emerson E Brewster hosting and Mrs Orin Wilgus leading devotions.
Assemblyman Wheeler Milmoe of Canastota will speak at the Community Club meeting on May 27. Milmoe, chairman of the education committee, will discuss current school policy and education issues for local residents.
The Northern New York Methodist Conference approved a seven point program to curb hatred and unrest, urges peacetime conscription to be opposed, and calls for fatless and wheatless days. It also backs faster food relief, UN cooperation, and international harmony while urging pastors to engage communities. The session, in Malone, featured ordinations and various committee reports as it nears its final day.
A list of church services across Oneida Castle Oneida and nearby areas with multiple denominations. Details include service times worship sermon church school and youth or fellowship programs for churches such as Oneida Presbyterian First Methodist St Joseph St Pauls Episcopal St Johns Episcopal First Church of Christ Scientist Redeemer Lutheran Baptist Christian Missionary Alliance Free Methodist Church of God Kingdom Hall Jehovah Witnesses and more led by pastors Morley Otte Lauer Conklin Springfeld Quinn etc.
Sherrill Grange will observe Rural Life Sunday with morning worship at Plymouth Congregational Church led by Rev. Arthur H. Burnet. Members meet at the Masonic Temple at 10:30 AM and walk to the service, then return for a motor caravan to Fred Smith’s farm east of Sherrill for picnic dinner.
Tarawa, once beaten, led by Mike Tomaino and Vinnie Ciccone, faces Hamilton Blue Raiders in a Sunday 2:30 PM doubleheader on the high school field. Tarawa avenged an early Falvo loss and is now regarded among the league’s best.
Sherrill Grange will observe Rural Life Sunday with a 10:30 A.M meeting at the Grange Hall, depart 10:45 for Plymouth Church services, then a picnic at Fred Smith farm with lunch at 1. Members may bring families and a covered dish. May 20 County meeting hosts Boonville and Steuben Granges in Boonville.
In Rome the Most Rev Walter A Foery bishop of Syracuse Catholic Diocese will administer the sacrament of confirmation to a class of children and adults at St Marys Church at 1 30 P M Sunday. After the ceremonies he will confirm a class at 4 P M in Holland Patent.
Mr and Mrs Ira Skelton and MacArthur place visitors travel to Olean. Mizpah Class meets May 21 at 3 PM at Mrs Croman home for sewing. Mrs Ruth Coon returns from winter in NYC and Detroit with sister Mrs Frank Hoffman. Christian Study Club meets May 21 at 8 PM at Roberts home. bring covered dish. Canastota Youths temperance council to meet May 21 at Nazarene Church. film and an actress featured. T C Quintet to provide music. Marjorie Deibler guests at party hosted by aunt Mrs Chesebro at 204 Kinsley Street.
Oneida items report residents and events including burgh expenses for Thomas Burke, a hospital patient John Boylan, and postponement of the May Festival by the First Methodist Senior Choir to May 31. Local sports note a Central New York League game at Harmon Field with pitching by either Don Miller or Whitey Witt versus Fabius.
Jane FitzSimmons turned six at a birthday party hosted by Mrs and Mr Carlton FitzSimmons on Main street Morrisville. Julia FitzSimmon will be seven on June 6. Seven friends attended the afternoon event at the family home.
More than 200 awards will be presented at the 25th Rome Girl Scout Council rally at 7 PM in the Rome Free Academy auditorium. Miss Mariam Gladding announced the ceremony with leaders and officers presenting awards earned by the girls. A separate event will honor 20 scouts who volunteered with the Oneida County tuberculosis and health association.
Dr. Alexander Zeis sig veterinary consultant of the Division of Communicable Diseases will speak on Madison County's Defense Against Rabies at the spring dinner of the Madison County Health Council at 6 30 next Tuesday evening at St Thomas Church Parish House Hamilton Reservations must be sent to Rev Samuel F Burhans of Hamilton by today.
The Rev. F. N. Darling pastor of Cazenovia Village Baptist Church will attend the Northern Baptist Convention in Grand Rapids Michigan as a delegate from the church and as chairman of the stewardship commission of the New York Baptist State Convention.
Cleveland health officer Dr. Marvin Brown says three clinics will run at Constantia, Bernhards Bay and Cleveland schoolhouses on May 27 28 and 29 starting at 9 A.M. Parents urged to bring children over six months for vaccination and to consent. Adults not vaccinated against smallpox urged to receive vaccination.
Tawanka Chapter of the O E S will meet Tuesday at 8 P M. Members are asked to bring items for a sale after the meeting. The Bread Street Hospital Alumnae Association holds its annual dinner Tuesday at 7 30 P M at the Oneida Country Club.
Mil ton Van Buskirk, 48, of Rome, an employee at Rome Army Air Field, drowned when a boat capsized while fishing at Hinckley Reservoir. Walter Johnson, 16, swam to shore after the craft sank. The body was retrieved about four hours later and released to a local funeral director. Van Buskirk, born August 22, 1897, had moved to Rome from Houghton, Maine, March 22, 1944.
Dorothea Murphy of 39 Maple Ave announces her engagement to Raymond L. Otis of Bound Brook New Jersey. Murphy, a Syracuse University nursing graduate, served as a first lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps with three years in service including two in Europe, and earned the African European campaign ribbon with three battle stars and the Purple Heart. Otis, a Bound Brook High School graduate, served four years in the Marine Corps and was discharged as a corporal on May 1 after attending Colgate University as an officers candidate.
John R. Fry of Superior Wisconsin, now a Colgate University student, will preach at Park Methodist Church Sunday at 11 A.M. His sermon, A Tolerance of Tolera tion, notes his Marine Corps service and V-12 unit training. Fry, recently discharged, is married to Elizabeth Peckham of Llamiston. The Rev. Malcolm L. Rowe attends the Northern New York annual conference at Malone.
Albert P. Cummings 74 dies at home in Munnsville East Hill Friday morning. Services at Love funeral home at 2 P.M. Sunday with Rev. John Sweet officiating. Burial in Stockbridge Cemetery. Born June 30, 1871 in Munnsville to Simon and Lucetta Morgan Cummings. Married in 1913. Surviving wife Irene.
Vernon High School Alumni Association holds a business meeting Friday at 8 P.M. at Miss Mabel L. Martins home to plan a reunion not held since 1943. Mrs Evelyn Dapson Ingersoll is president.
The New York State Coaching School plans its second annual event from August 26 to 31 at Colgate. Proctor High athletic director Philip Hammes chairs the NYSPHSAA sponsored program with football faculty members Howie Odel of Yale and Clarence Munn of Syracuse. The advisory group includes Kurt Beyer William Eldern Ray Townsend and Howard Van derhoef.
Miss Elizabeth Vaughan of 311 North Madison Street remained in Rome Hospital with bruises to her left cheek and right hand and pain in her right ankle after a two car collision on the Rome Vienna road late last night. Frederick Vaughan of Durhamville and Christopher Repka of Brosvale were the two drivers. Barbara Vaughan of Durhamville was treated and discharged for scalp lacerations. The collision occurred about three miles from New London as Repka's car moved toward Vienna while Vaughan's car headed in the opposite direction.
Hamilton church announces guest preacher Rev Lewis Johnson director of Christian education for the Baptist state convention will speak Sunday morning. Johnson is a graduate of the University of Missouri and Colgate Rochester Divinity School and has previously served as a Lenten preacher in Hamilton on two occasions.
Hamilton Bowling Center wins the Suburban Traveling League pennant for a second time at the league dinner at the Cherry Valley Inn Morrisville. Six teams shared prize money for a 31 week schedule. Captained by Lou Stein, the team edged Sherrill and Bob Stevens to repeat. Teammates include Zing Rausa Mert Duell Paul Young S Dart Hudson and Horace Milks.
The Presbyterian Church High School Young People plan a meeting at the Manse on Sunday May 19 at 6 30 PM Then they will drive to the Ridge Road home of Nellie and Hubert Cook for the gathering
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