Tax Reports On Three Estates Filed In Rensselaer County
Inheritance tax reports filed in Rensselaer County Surrogate's Court name estates of Clara Brown Serzarer A. McKinney and Mary C Lay. Details show gross and net estates with specified taxes and distributions to heirs including Samuel McKinney Mil retirements and church bequests. Textile official dead Charles H Heath, 74, longtime Mohawk Valley knit goods figure, dies at Ellis Hospital Schenectady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rensselaer County
Edward
Poland
Clara Brown
Marth
Serzarer A. McKinney
Troy
Mary C. Lay
Sand Lake
Browe
HII
Charlene
Morey
Hassthorne Avenue
Epparel
Andy Hes
Herrick Browns
New Rochhelle
Chartotte F. Morey
McRin
Spencer
Memney
Joan M. McKinaney
Margaret J. McNeill
Mildri’ McKinney
Samuel & McKinney
Thomas P. Huxtable
Charles H. Heath
Mohawk Valley
Ellis Hospital Schenectady
Farewell Party For U S Naval Recruit
Mrs. Cora Sprague of Hoosick hosted a farewell party for son Malcolm Sprague who leaves for the Navy. four other Sprague sons serve in the armed forces in Massachusetts California Mississippi and the Pacific. Guests came from Boston Troy Greenwich Jackson Berlin Hoosick Falls and nearby. Grandson Francis Fleming, a Petty Officer First Class, returned from his fourth overseas mission with the Navy.
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Cora Sprague
North] Hoosick
Malcolm Sprague
Navy
Sprague
Kenneth Sprague
M. P
Massachusetts
Douglas Sprague
Infantry
California
Joseph Sprague
Marines
Sour
Pacific
Corp
Carleton
Peanuts Cause Fall Man Wins $1,130 Verdict
Troy City Court Judge John J. Sweeney awards Edward F. Quinlan $1,130 after a fall on the sidewalk in front of the National Peanut Co. store on River Street. It was testified an employee handed out roasted peanuts as samples, creating an oily sidewalk condition that caused the injury. Lawyers Mackell Bankey and Dugan Barkhwr & Dugas represented Quinlan and the defendants respectively.
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Troy City
John J. Sweeney
Edward F. Quinlan
I Ithe National Peanut Co
Pha More
River Street
Beetween Grand
Fulton Streets
Quinlan
Ty Mackell & Bankey
Peanut Company
Time & Tame
Peanut
Hore
Offer & Faw
Fith Dugan
Barkhwr & Dugas
Liberty Church To Dedicate Service Flag
Liberty Presbyterian Church plans a patriotic service next Sunday at 3 p.m. to dedicate a service flag honoring 24 young men in the armed forces. Mayor John J. Ahern will give the principal address with Rev. Beth X. Genung assisting. Special music by Miss Mary Weaver and others.
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Liberty Presbyterian Church
State Street
D. Talmadge Murray
John J. Ahern
Beth X. Genung
First Presbyterian Church
Miary Weaver
Edna Marshall
Marion Collins
Navy Carrier Ace Vraciu Returns After 37 Downed Japs
Washington reports 25 year old Lieutenant Alexander Vraciu the Navy's leading carrier ace who tallied 37 confirmed enemy planes. He added a 7,000 ton transport to his total. his peak day was June 19 over the Marianas with six dive bombers. His Air Group 16 claimed 150 enemy planes in the Pacific.
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Washington
Navy
Alexander Vraciu
Marianas
Vraciu
Chicago
Ind
Air Group 16
Pacific
Fire company chartered by state in Brunswick district
The Secretary of State issued a certificate of incorporation to the Mountain View Volunteer Fire Company, filed in Rensselaer County Clerk. The group is formed to protect property and extinguish fires in Mountain View district of Brunswick and to maintain a social organization. Incorporators listed are Arthur T. Newland Thomas E. Burnap Russell M. Lawless Hugh E. Jaques and Daniel L. Riley. George S. McKeon, a well known contractor and painter, died at 237 School Street Bennington aged 67 from a heart condition.
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Secretary of State
Mountain View
George S. McKeon
School Street
Bennington
Mr. McKeon
Killed on Saipan Baker of Troy Dies in Saipan Fight
Private Thomas A. Baker 28 a member of Company A 105th Infantry was killed July 12 in the Saipan fighting. Born in Troy he lived at 145 Ferry Street with wife Constance Coyne. Survived by mother Mrs Emma Baker a brother and a sister. Requiem mass at St Francis de Sales Church.
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Earl Swearburg
Johnsonvile
War Department
Sergi
Kenseth Speenburg
105Th Infantry
Ssipan
National Guard
Valley Falls
Thompson Mills
William Oliver
Richard
Donald
Johnsonville
Duane
Earl, Jr
Army
Mississippi
Saipan
Thomas A. Baker
Baker
Constance C. Coyne
Ferry Street
Troy
Troy High School
2Ith
Alabama
Hawaii
Makin
Bliss Coyne
Emma Baker
River Street
Pvt
Joseph Baker
Harold Harrington
West Sand Lake
St. Francis de Sales’ Church
South Cambridge Man Cited for Valor in Wadke Landing
Rudolph Krause of South Cambridge, a member of the Ranger Company, received a special commendation and a General MacArthur citation for heroic action during the Lae landing last year. He was among 15 Rangers honored. the awards were sent to Mrs Krause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph Krause
South Cambridge
All Ranger Company
Invaston
Wadke
Krause
Douglas MacArthur
Amn
Lae
Card Mailed from Jap Prison Reaches Home
Pvt James Bastien of the G. S. Marine Corps, a North Adams native held in a Japanese prison camp for three years since Wake Island capture, sent a Christmas card to his parents last December 15. The card, postmarked from the Shanghai War Prisoners Camp, arrived to the Bastien family recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Bastien
G. S. Marine Corps
North Adams
Wake Island
Harold Bastien
Shanghai War
Trojan's Nephew Wins Two Decorations
Captain Gene A. Chatfield son of Minneapolis residents Earnest A Chatfield has earned the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross for missions over Austria Germany and Romania. He has been promoted to captain and is recovering from an operation in an Italian hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene A. Chatfield
Ernest A. Chatfield
Minneapolis
Minn
Eugene Chateld
Troy
Austria
Germany
Romania
Italy
Chatheld
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Mann’s
Fulton Street
U. S. Naval
Troy Savings Bank OF
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Aliie Demmigg
Avell Park
John T. Mett
1Sth
North Troy
Stephen Coring
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco
Calfornia
Jobe Carroll
County House
George K. Mahony
Averittark
Francis Feinstein
Riter St
Thomas Furlee
James Forsyth
Mary F. Iwrer
Katherine Solltvag
Third Ave
Watervtiet
Arthur A. Fehan
Fifth Ave
Damee Kennedy
Ninth St
Anthony Hereth
Firat
Fiera Danks
Brunswick Road
Charlen Hartang
Second
State Streets
Troy Savings Bank
State and Second Sea
Ak Troy, New. York
Staze
Tour Daucet
Man
Liberty Church
Frederick A.M. Brown iIn
Gallan
H. Fr
Lara
Marra Ae
Freland
Moor Mills
Panne
Trojan
Theodore G. Bilbo
Frears
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