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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1945
Page
9
Watervliet Draft Board No. 346 will send two registrant groups by special bus to Albany today. One group for preinduction processing and the other for possible induction into the armed forces. The USO will provide reading materials and officials will supervise.
Watervliet Lodge of Elks outlines activities for the next two meetings at the Lodge with Wir Schanz as exalted ruler. At the Jan 22 gathering, Peterson will act as ex exalted ruler and past exalted rulers' list will be discussed. A letter from the grand lodge requests book collection from members. Also notes Marine Corps private first class Geo W Pickett has returned to El Toro base after holiday visit to parents in Watervliet. Maurice Meare and Harry A Moore are mentioned returning to camps after holidays.
Edward McCarthy was chosen president of the Arsenal City Hose Company at last evening’s meeting. Other officers were elected in the volunteer group, with Richart Snancis serving as secretary and Vartac as treasurer. Captain George Ranceart and Joseph Rally also named in leadership roles.
The Watervliet school system lists a large bond sale and stamp collection effort. Totals show several school stamps and war bonds with amounts totaling about 3 928.80 dollars. Read by the paper, the figures enumerate stamps and bonds for School 1 through School 3 and note weight quantities of paper shipped and sold.
Mrs. Allen Benson of Watervliet received the Purple Heart awarded to her son Corporal Andrew Allen Benson for wounds suffered July 27 in action in France. He was wounded in the forearm and both legs, spent months in hospital and is back in service with the Engineers Battalion. The report mentions other local society items and a fire at Christie’s Garage causing minor damage.
The Watervliet Elks post announces bowling lineups for the night with teams and player names, lanes, and start times. Additional items include a WC T U L meeting at 2 pm at 17 Seventh Avenue, plus postponement of a Ladies' Aid Society event and a Mothers Club card party, with church and community activities listed.
Fragmentary notes describe pithouse dwellers in a New York region using an air cooling concept tied to their subterranean homes. The text mentions a damp environment and possible ventilation or tunneled entrances, with references to governance and ancient structures.
The column lists numerous deaths and funeral arrangements including Mrs Kennedy at St Joseph's Church with a requiem mass by Rev James A Nolan. Other services cover Mrs Griffith at St Marks Church Green Island and George Smith Greene at Oakwood Cemetery. Interments and bearers named. residents of Troy Cohoes Petersburg and Schenectady noted.
Britannica recounts demise of notable tyrants: Tsar Nicholas II executed at Ekaterinburg with family, Napoleon Bonaparte dies isolated on St Helena, Kaiser Wilhelm II dies in exile after WWI, and Hitler allegedly arranged funeral for the emperor in 1941. The piece notes brutal ends and exile contexts.
Washington County residents received follow-up notices from the Tuberculosis Association asking for replies to the Christmas Seals mailed in November. The drive aims to reach a $7400 county total with per capita returns across towns and ongoing education programs at risk if the quota is not met.
Green Island Methodist parish recent candlelight ceremony installed new officers for the Women’s Society for Christian Service. Officers include Mrs. Arthur Bennett president and Mrs Neil Laird vice president. other posts filled by Mrs. George Williams and Mrs. Oliver Hust with several secretaries and committee heads. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Mattin Wilcox and Mrs. Arthur Bennett. Tax collector Mrs. Catherine Sullivan sits at Corporation Hall Annex to collect taxes Mondays through Fridays and Saturdays.
Arthur H. Lofgren of Troy will preside at a 6:44 p.m. dinner at Emmanuel Baptist Church Albany where fund raising for Green Lake Wisconsin assembly grounds will be discussed. Local committee includes Lofgren Edward Court and Dwight Lowther. Rev Earl Adams and H Theodore Sorg are speakers. Adams is executive director of the World Emergency Forward Fund. Sorg is a Newark lawyer and former New Jersey Law School professor.
Robert C Stanley, chair and president of International Nickel Company of Canada Limited, says the nickel outlook after World War II is bright. He notes production rose in 1944 despite labor shortages, steel demand, and absenteeism, and cites stainless steel gains and research driving industry benefits into peacetime uses.
The text describes Father John O'Brien of Lowell Massachusetts originally compounding Father John’s Medicine in 1355. He recommended it to parishioners and friends, giving the remedy its popular name Parser John’s Medicine. It touts long-standing reputation and benefits like boosting resistance to colds and soothing coughs with vitamin A.
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