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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1944
Page
2
Rev Nelson Van Raalte recalls 1730 church founding after breaking from Albany mother church. He frames 1642 sermon text Jesus Christ as foundation and notes past dangers from Saratoga to nation’s infancy. Anniversary supper set with Rev Vietur J. Biekink as speaker.
At the Gilead Lutheran Church annual congregational meeting Irvin Derrick Allen Hayner and John Bristol were reelected counselors and Don Bremer Wasten elected Sunday School superintendent. Rev. J umVensen led devotion as reports were given by parish officers and committees. The congregation voted to contribute 50 to the Hoor fund and planned Lent services and the 200th anniversary observance with Mrs. Franklin Flowe updating the church history. The Sunday School elected Kreger as superintendent and named Derrick first assistant along with other officers and staff. The group also approved a 100 contribution to the floor fund and read reports by Lloyd Hayner and others.
Rev ALO Vieth spoke on the self revelation of God as the eternal mystery of the ages. He said humans cannot reach knowledge of God by their own devices or deduction, yet God provides a sign on the edge of experience to grasp His being. If one sees the sign, the mystery becomes clear and understandable.
Rev William Ettenger resigns as pastor of the Coila Church to accept a call to First United Presbyterian Church Altoona Pa The resignation takes effect at month end Ettenger previously served Cora United Presbyterian Church and acted as treasurer of Argyle Presbytery He married Irene Halenda of Pittsburg last June
New York report from the American Newspaper Publishers Association states that daily newspapers reduced newsprint consumption. December 1943 usage fell 13.5 percent from December 1942, with 218,390 tons used versus 252,399 tons in 1942 and 274,471 tons in 1941.
The Hattiesburg American What-to-do-With-H Hitler contest received a Boston citizen’s entry proposing that Hitler be taken to Washington to read every OPA rule and amendment issued during the OPA’s life and then explain it in plain language daily for the rest of his life. Submissions have come from thirty states plus Canada and Nova Scotia.
A dense church calendar outlines tomorrow and next few days for St John’s Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Fifth Avenue State Street Methodist St Trinity Episcopal St Paul’s St Barnabas Second Presbyterian and many others. Activities include Red Cross sewing Boy Scouts Girl Scouts choir rehearsals youth programs charitable meetings and midweek services with dates and locations across multiple congregations.
The German high command says U S air forces publish exaggerated figures of German fighter losses. Readouts claim only 98 German fighters were downed in raids on Schweinfurt Emden and Central Germany, despite U S tallies of 394. The report accuses Allied propaganda of minimizing German casualties.
Burial services for Mrs Walter H Main wife of the Schenectady Union Star editor and former Trojan will be at 12 30 p m today at Oakwood Cemetery family plot. Born Ruth Dexter Reed she was daughter of Rev William Reed D D a Lansingburg native and for 19 years from 1882 a pastor of Mt Ida Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Inheritance tax reports filed in Rensselaer County Surrogate's Court by Edward J. Poland cover the estates of Arthur Sharp of West Sand Lake who died February 27 1943 and Archie E. Wainman of East Greenbush who died June 25 1943. Sharp left a gross estate of 9046.11 with net 3181.36 and no state tax. Grace C. Houghton and Olive M. Brookner share residuary estate. Wainman left a gross 6173.62 net 4185.57 with no state tax. the entire estate goes to widow Alice May Wainman. Attorneys are Chester G. Wager and Ernest I. Boothby.
The subject resided in Troy until about 1912 and died on the 35th anniversary of her father’s death, marking a notable personal milestone tied to a family legacy.
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