Elks Plan Public Installation Ceremony at Mechanicville Lodge
The Mechanicville Lodge of Elks will hold its installation banquet tomorrow at the Peters Purcell Post building on Saratoga Avenue with Walter Beckstein of Hoosick Falls as installation officer. Carmine DeCrescente will be exalted ruler with a full course chicken dinner and a Dom Zappone Trio entertainment program. A Greenwich Lodge degree team, led by Con. A Santagato, installed new officers Wednesday, and Mechanicville’s degree team will run the Hoosick Falls installation Saturday April 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanicville Lodge of Elks
Peters-Purcell Post
Saratoga Avenue
Walter Beckstein
Hoosick Falls
Carmine DeCrescente
Ellis
Tony Saticroff
Dom Zappone
Mechanicville Lodge
Con. A. Santagato
Greenwich Lodge
Mechanicville
Hoosick
Fire damages building doomed to demolition in Mechanicville
Firefighters battled a blaze at the vacant three story Seérbalik Block on North Main Street near 11 24 p.m. Thursday arson is suspected as oil soaked rags were found in the basement. The Urban Renewal Agency owns the structure after paying 55 000 and will need more for demolition. Vehicles and crews from Box 45 contained the fire to the basement, preventing spread to the adjacent Knights of Columbus building. Edward Murray of 230 North 7th Street spotted smoke and alerted police. Earlier a separate incident at 7 50 p.m. saw a leaking kerosene drum spill fuel down a stairway at 24 Ensign Avenue prompting a precautionary shutdown of a single truck alarm.
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Mechanicville
Seérbalik
North Main Street
Hugh Hipwell
Urban Renewal Agency
Knights of Columbis
Edward D. Murray
North 7Th St
Kenneth Goodrow
Ensign Ave
Hipwell
D. E. LaDow Co
Mrs Lyons Dies After Long Illness In Mechanicville
Regina A. Lyons 74 of 111 Round Lake Ave Mechanicville died Thursday at Samaritan Hospital Troy after a long illness. Widow of George H. Lyons born in Troy she lived in Mechanicville 29 years and was a member of St. Pauls Church. Survived by daughter Lena Combs Troy son Charles Nedde sister Jennie Gordon Whitehall 11 grandchildren and several great grandchildren nieces and nephews. Funeral Monday 8:30 a.m. from Finn Funeral Home Waterford to St Marys Church Waterford Interment St Marys Cemetery Waterford arrangements by T L Cassidy Funeral Home Mechanicville.
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Regina A. Lyons
Round Lake Ave
Mechanicville
Samaritain Hospital
Troy
George H. Lyons
Finn Funeral Home
Third St
Waterford
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary's Cemetery
T. L. Cassidy
Mechanieville
T. L. I|cassidy Funeral Home
St. Paul’s Church
St. Peter's Cemetery
Stillwater
Mrs Dugan Tops Women Keglers In Local League
George F Reeves 73 of 135 North Main St Mechanicville retired brick mason died Thursday at Albany VA Hospital after a long illness. Born in Cohoes he had lived most of his life in Mechanicville. He was a member of St Pauls Church D E LaDow Steamer and Hose Company. Mrs Sue Dugan topped women keglers in the Bowlero Lanes league with a 494/ triple and 463 high three game set. Other leaders included Mrs Margaret Marotta 182 459 and Mrs Andrea Quercker 451. In team play Bell Fair swept Penders and Vogue beat Down Sibleys three games.
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George F. Reeves
North Main St
Mechanicville
Albany Veterans Administration Hospital
Cohoes
Reeves
Sue Dugan
Icville
St. Paul’s Church
D. E. LaDow
Helen Crickard
Margaret Marotta
Andrea Querecker
Bell Fair
Penders
Vogue
Down Sibley's
Hitchhiker Burglary Charged in Wisconsin
Jerry Green and Eugene Metz, both of Chicago, were charged with burglary after a car hitchhike from the crime scene. A deputy sheriff drove them to a lodge event. the report notes a Bricklayers union background for the deceased. Funeral details for a local resident follow.
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Portage, Wis
UPI
Jerry Green
Eugene Metz
Chicago
Wer
Church notices list service times across Mechanicville churches
A readable schedule shows Salvation Army captains Harris and Wood at 10 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m. Holiness meeting at 6 p.m. Gospel Hall services at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., with Sunday School and evening service. Other churches include the Assumption, First Presbyterian, St. Paul the Apostle, Memorial Baptist, St. Luke's, and First Methodist with their respective Masses, services, confessions, and youth activities.
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Salvation Army
Harris Wood
Salvation Meeting
Church of the Assumption
Dante L. Girolami
OSA
First Presbyterian
David P. Seipt
St. Paul the Apostle
Ernest J. Autch
Memorial Baptist
Taylor Light
St. Luke's Episcopal
Curtis
Denney
St. Basil’s
Peter Costarakis
St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Myron P. Pacholok
Sacred Heart
John F. Bourke
St. Ann's
Paul Korkemaz
St. Anthony’s
St. Jean Baptiste
George A. Phillips
St. Joseph’s
Che
Gregory M. Connolly
St. Jude the Apostle
Charles V. Dammann
NYS Training School
St. Lawrence’s
Harold Sartoris
St. Mary's
Daniel. H. Markham
St. Peter’s
Matthew M. Brennan
St. William’s
First Assembly of God
Daniel A. Mucei
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Richard G. Henry
Pilgrim Holiness
Meredith Foster
Cropseyville
Pleasantisie Covenant
Joseph A. Herner
Seventh-Day Adventist
Ralph E. Wallace
E. Richard Shaffstall
Vanderheyden Hall
Holiness Meeting
United Church OF Christ St. Paul's United Church of Christ
Esther Vodola
United Armenian Calvary Congregational
Jirai Apisogomian
Rotary Ladies Night May 24 in Mechanicville
The Mechanicville Rotary Club will host its annual Ladies Night at Joyce's Log Cabin Restaurant on Wednesday May 24 with Dr W B Mac Omber of Albany as speaker on his latest safari. The club also set a picnic at Plum Brook Fish and Game Club Stillwater Center July 23 and a golf tournament on May 10 at Mechanicville Golf Club Hemstreet Park.
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Mechanicville
P. J. Keniry Receives Lions Charter Award
Patrick J. Keniry was presented a Lions International charter award for 35 years of membership at the Mechanicville Lions Club meeting at Hillside Inn. Several other local members earned 20 to 15 year awards, with sentences noting eligible recipients. The citation praising awardees was read by President Alfred Collins, and the next meeting is set for Hillside Inn Tuesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick J. Keniry
Lions International
Mechanicville Lions Club
Hillside Inn
Louis Kurs
Harry Clements
Frank €. Bruno
Earle D. Rooney
Don A. Santagato
Angelo DeCrescente
Joseph Zurlo
Frank Kearney
William Henchey
Kenneth Timmerman
Alfred Collins
Joseph V. Gemmill
Stephen Hatalsky
Justin Marks
Sam Palmieri
Collins
WSCS Hosts Women From Various Faiths at Mech/Stillwater
More than 100 women attended a guest night of the Women’s Society of Christian Service at Mechanicville First Methodist Church. Speaker Mrs. Leon Adkins Jr. described life as an exchange pastor’s wife in Newtonville and experiences at the World Methodist Conference abroad.
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Women's Society of Christian Service
Mechanicville First Methodist Church
Stillwater
Mechanicville
Leon Adkins Jr
Newtonville Methodist Church
Newton-Aycliffe
England
Adkins
Rhine River
Switzerland
Kenneth Sherman
Eleanor Smith
David Leggett
Frank Jay Reid
David Johnson
Fines Assessed for Area Drivers in City Court
A complaint accusing a Mechanicville youth of failing to yield to an emergency vehicle was trimmed to a minor muf fler charge in City Court Thursday night.
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Mechanicville
Three Sessions On Vietnam Scheduled
Local court records show multiple items from last night, including 3 sessions on Vietnam scheduled and various traffic cases. Anthony H. Ryan presided over reduced violations with a ten day suspended sentence for Charles H. Robinson, and several speeding pleas with $20 fines.
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Charles H. Robinson
Hemstreet Ave
Hemstreet Park
Thomas
E. Ryan
Robinson
Harvey Kabar
Saratoga Avenue
James W. Pasquarrel
Waterford
Fred W. Drumm, Jr
Schuylerville
Frank Pozniakas
River Road
Mechanicville
Alex Baranowski
Eacn
United States
Vietnam
Church to host three Vietnam policy discussions
First Presbyterian Church of Troy will host three Sunday night talks on Vietnam framed by Christian views of American foreign policy. Sessions run 7:30 to 9 p.m. tomorrow and on April 16 and 23 with contrasting speakers Prof. Robert M. Kennedy and Rev. Lloyd A. Duren. Participants include Christ Methodist and several local churches.
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Vietnam
First Presbyterian Church of
Troy
Robert M. Kennedy
Siena College
Lloyd A. Duren
First Methodist Church
Schenectady
Lee
Master Point Winners Announced at Mechanicville Club
The Mechanicville Duplicate Bridge Club held a Master Point game at the golf club. In A section North-South winners were Mary Hunt and William McGraw with several runners up from Mechanicville Schenectady Stillwater Waterford Albany Troy. In East-West George Held and John Martin led, with Hewitt and Gifford second. In B section North-South top pair were Beatrice Hiltz and Celeste Sullivan, with Collins Werner and Storfer Schneible in other places. At Tuesday’s afternoon event a tie for first occurred between Pinsley Polacsek Saratoga Springs and Selkis Mechanicville, with Bloom Moskowitz of Troy taking third.
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Mechanicville
Hilda Hewitt
Stillwater
A. J. Gifford
Troy
J. A. Cavanaugh
Joseph Silverman
Beatrice Hiltz
Celeste Sullivan
Albany
Allan Collins
William Werner
Miles Storfer
Stephen Schneible
Saratoga Springs
Church Directory of Diverse Faiths and Services
Directory lists Baptist, Christian Science, Apostolic, Orthodox, Episcopal, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Methodist, and other denominations with service times. It names Rev. Allen Stanley, Rev. Sherwood, Rev. Watson, Rev. Weeks, Rev. Morris, Rev. Thalmann, Rev. Seekins Jr., Rev. Rudisill, Rev. Evans, Rev. Marsano, and others along with church school times, worship hours, and youth programs across multiple congregations.
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Baptist Bethel
Allen A. Stanley
Mantles Boost Gas Light Illumination in 19th Century
Gas mantles for gas lights were developed by Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach in the mid 1800s and first widely used in street lighting, producing six to ten times more illumination than earlier open flame burners.
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Baron Carl Auer. von Welsbach
Nun tops Head Start consultant role in faith outreach
Sister Mary Anselm O’Brien, 52 years a nun, is the sole Roman Catholic among Head Start’s 200 federal consultants. She travels across 11 states from Alabama to the Dakotas, serving as a troubleshooter and liaison in central and midwestern regions. Her ecumenical approach and habit keep her visible in poverty relief work while she continues as associate professor at 7 Fonthorne College in St. Louis on leave to aid Head Start.
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ST. Louis, Mo
Mary Anselm O'Brien
Alabama
Dakotas
Anselm
Indianapolis
Ind
Fonthorne College
St. Louis
Head Start
Office of Economic Opportunity
United States
Sargent Shriver
OHO
South
Joseph
Carondelet
Lifesaving Classes Planned at Troy YMCA
Junior and senior lifesaving courses for men and women begin at 6 30 p m Monday at the Troy YMCA. The sessions lead to Red Cross and YMCA certification.
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Troy Ymca
Red Cross
YMCA
Miss Bailey to Sing in Music Hall
Eleanor Bailey a lyric soprano guest soloist with the Troy Vocal Society for the 374th concert on Thursday April 20 at Music Hall at 8 30 pm. The concert ends the society’s 92nd season. Bailey, a Troy native now in Loudonville, recently completed an extended US tour including the West Coast and performed with light opera companies.
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Eleanor Bailey
Troy
Troy Vocal Society
Music Hall
Miss Bailey
Loudonville
United States
Jon
West Coast
Father Son Communion Breakfast Planned by Holy Name Society
Brother Conrad Leo Breakfast Speater to speak tomorrow at the annual Father Son Communion Breakfast of the Holy Name Society of St. Joseph's Church per John M. Curran general chairman. Richard J. Cardinal president of Local 930 UAW at Ford Green Island plant will be toastmaster. Henry R. O. Bryan serves as society president.
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Conrad Leo
Holy Name Society
St. Joseph's Church
John M. Curran
Richard J. Cardinal
United Auto Workers
Green Island
Ford Motor Co
Henry R
Bryan
Paper route idea sparks a fatherly nod to enterprise
A father notes his son’s initiative in suggesting a paper route as a bite of private enterprise. He sees the potential learning opportunity and encourages practical skills, responsibility, and work ethic through the idea.
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Elks
Mrs. Dugan
George Reeves
Hitchhikers
Ins
Mechaniccville
First Methodist
Pan, Jr
Rotary
P. J. Keniry
Lions
WSCS
Wilbur Curtis
Atwell Wilson
William Whitehurst
Robert Marsh
John Graves
Society
Cicniceinn
Usunsoive
Christ Methodist
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
First Baptist
St. John’s Lutheran
Kennedy
Siena
Normandy
France
Belgium
Rhineland
Mr. Duren
Union Theological Seminary
Brooklyn
Bridgeport
Church Directory
Everett A. Sherwood
Millis Memorial
Marshal P. Watson
Mt. Ida
I Garnet C. Wright
Sixth Avenue
C. Emory
Christian Science First Church of Christ
Apostolic
Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic
Movaes Shrikian
St Peter's
Armenian Apostolic
Hmayak D. V. Intoyan
Episcopal Ascension
Jack R. Lewis
Caria
St. Barnabas
Edward Kronwall
Holy Cross
Anthony G. Morris
Church School
St. John’s
Bradford H. Burnham
St. Luke’s
James E. Imler
St. Paul’s
Frederick E. Thalmann
YPF
Trinity
Robert L. Seekins, Jr
Lutheran Immanuel
John Huenniger
Nursager
Luther League
Joan P. Thompson
Our Savior
Worsoprano
Westminster Presby- Raymertown
Benton F. Terian
Rudisill
Spon
Redeemer
Harry B. Sored
Idacatigia Nes Igger
Westminster
Will
Belmuhion
Luther
League
Glenn D. Ap
Largo
Jette
Hilda Scott
Hilda Golding
Luxemburg Gardens
Anne Hensinger
Joan P. Thompso
Mother Machree
Still Waters
Mother O' Mine
John Besson
Joan Spain
Church OF Christ Disciples Church of Christ, Disciples
Fifth Avenue
George Borthwick
First of Troy
S. Edward Young
Westminster Club
Lansingburgh
Thomas S. Evans
Oakwood Avenue
Robert M. Marsano
Sand Lake
Kaureh School
William Collen
Samuel C. K. Rhie
Woodside
Richard L. Brubaker
Thomas D. Peterson
Thomas Orr
First Presbyterian Church
Fifth Avenue Ame Zion
Mack Brandon Jr
Ellow
Grace
Henry Scherer Jr
Pawling Avenue
Carlos J. Warner
John G. Rhinesmith
Levings
James A. Green
St. Mark's
Robert A. Klein
Christian and Missionary Allance
Nun
By Ben Brown
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