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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1946
Page
19
Syracuse Herald Journal reporters cover home town news across Auburn Genesee street Geneva Seneca Falls Waterloo Clyde Port Byron WEFDSPORT Moravia and Moravia area. Contacts list correspondents and circulation offices in each town with phone numbers and addresses.
Seneca Falls and Waterloo post offices continue to distribute first class and air mail up to 16 ounces. A morning truck delivers mail to Geneva from west points by Rochester star route. an eastbound truck departs around 3 30 P.M. No parcel post is accepted.
DeSales High School seniors announce their annual play Life of the Party to be staged next Tuesday and Wednesday in the Geneva High School auditorium. The cast includes Mary Margaret Deegan Mary Jane Gingling Helen Walsh Ann Holleran Mary Ellen Lynch Lois Hennessy Jean Knight Doris Updike Betty Jennings Ann Cook James Kane John Buckley Humphrey Donahue Robert Hendrickson Richard Handson John Lathrop and John Lawler.
Seneca Falls The 25th annual mothers and daughters banquet by Memorial Congregational Church’s Question Mark Class will be held tonight at The Armitage. The Rev Joseph M Spang will give the invocation and Mrs Everett McIntire will preside as toastmistress.
Veterans of all wars meet at 7 PM Sunday in Rovwe Churchill Post rooms for the annual memorial church service at 7 30 PM at the Methodist Church. Pastor Ralph Smith conducts. All patriotic organizations invited.
The Patent Cereal Company in Geneva, a major local employer, closed after a railroad strike halted grain deliveries. About 200 workers were laid off as 150,000 bushels of corn bound for Europe could not be ground or shipped. Geneva Forge Company and American Can Co. hinted they could endure a short-term impact.
Seneca Falls Margaret Mary McDermott two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond McDermott died yesterday at 90 Ovid Street funeral at 2 PM tomorrow at her maternal grandmother Mrs James McDermott 91 Bridges Street officiated by Rev John P O Beirne burial in St Columbkill Cemetery she leaves four brothers James Raymond John and David and paternal grandfather Nicholas Felice of Seneca Falls.
Mary Cath erine Moreland daughter of Mrs Elizabeth Moreland and Soren Peterson of the Lake road were married May 18 in St Patrick Church rectory. Rev John P O Beirne performed the ceremony with Elizabeth Moreland and Clifford Peterson as attendants. The couple will live at 98 Mynderseast after their wedding trip.
The will of Isabella B. Nye of Auburn is admitted to probate in the Surrogate's Court with Robert G. Brockway named sole legatee. Gladys H. Fosberg is issued letters of administration for the $500 estate of Charlotte M. Fosberg of Sterling.
Multiple Auburn area churches list sermons and services for Sunday. Wall Street Methodist presents Rev. W. W. Kehler at 10 38 AM with Sunday School at 11 30 AM. First Capital features Rev. Joseph H. Sutcliffe at 11 AM in Story of the Stones and a 2 30 PM sermon And They Remembered. Westminster Presbyterian lists Rev. Georges T. Arnold at 10 36 AM with subject The Overeinity of God and evening Young People at 7 30 PM. St Peter's Episcopal schedules Holy Communion 8 30 AM and services through 11 AM. Second Presbyterian covers How May We Shape Our Hopes at 4 30 and 11 AM with senior choir. Immanuel Baptist features Rev. Frank L. S Smith at 10 30 AM with 11 48 AM Bible School and 7 30 PM evangelistic service. Calvary Presbyterian has Keeping Memorial Day with junior sermon Love Your Enemy. First Presbyterian presents The Grace of Springtime at 11 AM with music by Laurie Titcomb. First Methodist WMBO broadcast at 11 AM sermon Peace Through His Cross. Thompson Memorial Community hosts Mack Family ministry at 11 AM and 3 30 PM sermon with Mack singers.
Listing of Saturday and Sunday radio programs at WMBO Auburn with times and show names across music, news, religious programming, drama, and variety. Includes theaters of the air, Harmony ensembles, races, calls, serenades, and sermons through Sunday evening.
Moving up Day activities at William Smith College begin at 2 P.M. in the college gym. Marjorie Anderson of Worcester, elected president of the student government, will announce the retiring president Dorothy Gross of Teaneck N J. New club officers will also be named. Hoop rolling on Blackwell Hall will feature seniors in cap and gown rolling hoops to their chosen seniors.
Mrs Corvie M Lanphere 77 of Weedsport died Friday in Auburn City Hospital after three months illness. She was born in Little Falls and survived by two daughters, a sister, two brothers and is to be buried in Weedsport Rural Cemetery with a private service conducted by the Rev Dwight Santmier.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary E. Murphy 71 were held at Wade funeral home for a sudden death at her home on East Cayuga Street. She was a Baptist Church member survived by husband Cornelius four daughters Gladys Nightingale Cooperstown brother Merton Ellsworth. Burial was in Sand Hill Cemetery Dresserville.
Emily Musillo of 36 Haigh Street Seneca Falls will wed Army veteran Joseph Musillo of Syracuse. The ceremony is set for Saturday June 29 at St. Patrick's Church. The bride elect recently was discharged from the Army after overseas service.
The town holds a pre Memorial Day service at 7 30 P M in the Baptist Church with Rev Lew Swancott the speaker. Local church pastors will take part and members of Warner Van Riper Post American Legion its auxiliary and Waterloo Memorial Post Veterans of Foreign Wars will attend in a body.
Geneva Kiwanis Cub members will hear an eye witness account of the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders at their meeting next Tuesday afternoon. Speaker Dr. Gerhardt Seger, recently returned from Germany where he testified at the trials.
Harold Wayne Osmin, 27, of Wellsville, pleaded not guilty to grand larceny in Mora via, waived examination, and is held for the grand jury after failing to post $1,000 bail. The charge relates to a Moravia car theft May 16. Hornell police later recovered the vehicle, found Osmin asleep in it, and returned him and the car to the county.
Auburn faced the possibility of a meatless Sunday as rail tieups disrupted shipments. Markets were swamped with orders they could not fill while bread ran short in some stores due to late arrivals. Rumors circulated about stations closing, though most proved unfounded. First class mail from Syracuse reached Auburn and Geneva, with the truck delivering to Auburn before continuing to its terminus in Geneva.
Dr John Milton Potter president Hobart College was keynote at a Geneva luncheon in Hotel Seneca for the New York State Association of Veterans' Affairs first Central New York Regional conference. Bernard Carmody presided and outlined aims while Col Charles F Stanton Adrian Grodsmith and Marvin W Goodrich spoke on laws and services. James J Rafter attended as association president and NY Bureau of Veterans' Assistance director.
Seneca Falls reports the marriage of Ella Rhinehart daughter of Mr and Mrs Leonard Rhinehart of 14 John Street to Raymond F Rose son of Mr and Mrs John A Rose of R D 1 Seneca Falls. The ceremony was led by Rev. Dr James G Plankey with twin sister of the bride as matron of honor and several relatives as attendants. A reception followed at the Aikens home on Chapel Street. After a wedding trip the couple will reside in Seneca Falls R D 1 where the groom runs a farm.
Moravia hosts the annual spring meeting of the WP Dairymen's League Cooperatives. Supper at 7:30 precedes a program featuring H H Rathbun New Hartford on the milk strike planned for July 1, plus Washington updates by John Taber.Election of delegates will conclude the business session led by John Abbot Moravia.
Miss Shirley Alexander daughter of Mr and Mrs Ray H Alexander of Union Springs is a Keuka College junior. She has been elected a member of the judiciary of cooperative government for the academic year 1946 47.
Cayuga County Motor Vehicle Bureau director James D. Shayler announced a May 31 deadline for renewing chauffeurs licenses. The notice from the county clerk stresses timely compliance for involved drivers.
Geneva reports the Seneca Yacht Club will start a Sunday race series on Seneca Lake June 9, with races every Sunday through August 4 and a parallel Saturday series. Veterans and other members will race in Comet and Star class boats. seven of nine Sunday races are required to qualify for the club championship.
Recorder W. Fred erick R. Davis adjourned the case of Joe Richardson, 59, of 34 Chapman nv, charged with possession of a receiver, until Monday to allow time to consult an attorney. Richardson posted 25 cash bail amid investigation of a shooting near Chapmanay involving four youths.
The Oswego Zephyrs will oppose the Seneca Falls Baseball Club tomorrow on State Street field. In the Central New York League western division clash scheduled for 2:30 PM Oswego has beaten Pulaski East Syracuse and Parish while Seneca Falls beat Geneva and Port Byron. Nicandri and Brand will pitch for Seneca Falls with a possible debut by Jerome OConnell of Union Springs and Pete Sufferding to catch.
Wolcott hosts Rochester Ebers in a sun Sunday 3 P.M. clash at Leavenworth school diamond. Norm Stafford and Bob Kimp lead Wolcott against Rochester ace Hiker Moran in a key district semi pro league matchup watched by 600 fans last week. Moran has shut down Mandell's Rush Firemen and East Rochester in three straight starts.
After five years of inactivity due to the war the Cayuga Tompkins County Baseball League begins Sunday afternoon at Aspen Field Moravia. At 2 30 P M Moravia faces King Ferry followed by Groton versus Auburn. Mayor Glenn H Eaton will throw the first ball to Coach Lew Carr as Moravia High School Band performs and a flag raising ceremony is held.
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