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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1949
Page
10
Renovations at the Watervliet Civic Center are nearly finished with refinishing of the main hallway door this week. The flat floor will be ready by Monday but not open until next week. Summer work included auditorium redecorating, refinishing, stairway painting, and new color schemes. Open house will occur within two weeks.
Plans completed by St Patrick's Post Catholic War Veterans for a memorial mass Sunday at 11 am at St Patrick's Church Watervliet to honor American war dead align with V J Day. Rev Edmund J Burns will bless the colors. there will be a solemn Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. John J Coyle and Nicholas F Duss will represent CWV. various veterans groups invited. Bernard A Trembly named local chair for the statewide CWV pilgrimage to Auriesville on Sept 11 with aides Joseph A Sullano and Raymond N Shaughnessy. William A Farrell presided. next meeting set for Aug 22.
Mrs Ella J Cats Cary widow of Ed win C Cary and lifelong Watershet resident died Thursday after a brief illness. She resided at 123 Ength Avenue and was a member of First Avenue Methodist Church and the Women’s Society of Christian Service. Survived by daughter Mrs Hatiw T Hidson and one grandson Edan W Headson of Watershet. Funeral Monday at 2 PM from the residence with Rev Luther A Patson officiating. Interment Albany Rural Cemetery.
A listing of church services in Watervliet and nearby parishes. Trinity Monicopal led by Rev. Ivan H. Ball with Holy Communion at 9 30 am. St Gabriel s Chapel hosts Holy Liturgy at 8 30 am. First Presbyterian features Rev. Baal G Horsky and a 9 30 am service. North Reformed offers 10 30 am sermon on Who To the oor to Heaven. Third Avenue Methodist s schedule includes Sunday school at 10 am led by Jay McClurg and worship at 11 am with Rev Elmer Benn preaching.cheduled sermons include Praying Our Sin Away In Peace and Victory Leave That Sign Alone and We Would See Jesus.
Fourteen students from Waterville Board of Education summer program presented The Golden Goose at School 3. Directed by Dorothy C. Hess with Lena Wald assisting, the home made costumes featured a welcome for Lithuanian newcomer Eugene Vatlutis. The event closed with square dancing games and refreshments. hopes for next summer’s speech-reading program were voiced.
Grievance days begin in Waterville after the 1950 assessment rolls are opened for public inspection. The Board of Grievance, chaired by Mayor Hugh F. Donnelly with Councilmen Edward J. Koonmen and Thomas C Sullivan, sits daily from Tuesday through Saturday at City Hall offering 2 to 4 pm and 7 to 9 pm sessions with a 2 am to 12 noon window. Edward S. Phelan serves as clerk.
A meeting in Watervliet Wednesday at 8 pm will discuss forming a local Lions Club. Albany Lions Club sponsorship and a two dinner monthly schedule are planned, with civic betterment as the goal. attendance is voluntary. Brian Blalock of New York will explain steps toward organization.
The Waterview Rotary Club will show a military film at its weekly luncheon at 12:15 pm Monday in Fellowship Hall First Presbyterian Church. The feature, Ploesti On Field Operation, covers IIth Air Force wartime actions destroying a key Romanian fuel oil target used by Nazis. James F Gonnell, Rotary president, will preside.
Green Island pastors from St. Mark's Albany St. Patrick's and St. Joseph's preside over union and multi church services at 9 am and varying times. Various parishes list Holy Communion and mass times including 6 45 8 15 9 15 10 15 am at St. Patrick's and 7 45 9 10 11 am at Immaculate Conception. Funeral for Mrs. Joseph H. Murdock set for Monday at 2 pm from 47 James Street Green Island with Rev. Henry D. Smith officiating. interment Oakwood Cemetery. Also noted is travel and family visits of local residents and clergy across the region.
The Peters-Purcell Post Drum and Bugle Corps will entertain children at Mechanicville in a field day for St Colman's and Fair View Homes youngsters this Sunday Aug 21. Julius Pirole will lead the corps in marching and military band music before about 375 children, in an annual event sponsored by the Watervliet Council Knights of Columbus at grounds beside St Colman's.
Hampstead L I visitors Mr and Mrs Lincoln Brown and family. Grace and Stelle Pinkerton of Glens Falls visiting Mr and Mrs Delbert Adams. Prof and Mrs Louis Johns of Skidmore College guests of Frank Dobbin. New York couple J E Thompson occupying Yushak Building apartment. Chester Hayes White Plains visiting mother Mae Hayen. Shushan Grange annual picnic Aug 2 at Hedges Lake with supper at 7 p.m. Edward Kruse Schenectady visiting parents. Mrs Kittie Mindemann and son Philip Burlington Wis visiting daughter Mrs Sumner Lind. May Sheret and daughters Jessie May returning to Flushing L I after Lilac Cottage trip. Rolland De Lorme and Joseph Lyons provisional guards at Great Meadow Prison. Sunday School United Presbyterian picnic at Lake Lauderdale. Mr and Mrs Harold Fish and son Robert head to West Hartford for family visit. Mr and Mrs Charles Yemans host. Thryza Kinner to Mid dle Atlantic Grange Lecturer’s Conference. Mr and Mrs Clifford Des Autels, Sr visiting in Watervliet. Strike by 300 Imperial Paper & Color Corp. workers in Glens Falls enters sixth week. negotiations halted since July 7 with wage and benefit demands.
The second All Church planning conference will be at the Methodist Church Mamday at 1 30 pm with officers urged to attend September through June programs. Meanwhile St Marys Church calendar shows Masses and confessions for the Assumption holy day and other services. Also notes include a summer outing for St Marys Sodality, a dean’s list honor for George M Bennett, and a Royal Air Force plane crash in London with 12 deaths.
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