Camp Fire Girls Prepare for Annual Council Meeting
Camp Fire Girls of the North anxiously await council fire and the birthday honors as five requirements guide the session. Mrs Marguerete Phito leads the incal Ge group on outreach, public projects, and a parent-daughter dinner. Odake and On-Oula groups, under guardianship, visit banks, the Post Office, Russell Sage College, and other public sites to report findings and plan community improvements. The next session is set for February 19 at Columbus Hall, with leaders urged to report anticipated attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Fire Girls
Asters Council
Heilerhacker
Bebtal
Marguerete Phito
Odeso
Eider
Willam Richtch
Gladis Bamia
Patricia Cuckner
Beverly
Dune McCrosky
Rita Anniner
Margaret Farrelh
Lorsaire Pur- Grewa Purcel
Marilyn Ateathy
Marie Philo
Marie Dupree
Joan Joames
Jean Farrell
Catherine Cichelio
Banks
Post Office
Russell Sage
Odake
Joan
Marilyn Hill
Woodgatherers
Norine Connell
Ruth Gori
Joyce Stewart
Agnes Strohecker
Lois Whiting
Mary Jane Pat Jock
John J. Ehecher
Raymond H. Meixsell
Committee of Awards
Koighis Eo
Columbus Hall
Central Office
Rebekah Past Noble Grands Install Officers at Troy Meeting
Rebekah Past Noble Grands Association installed Miss Hazel Christensen as president succeeding Mrs. Barbara Moreland at the Troy meeting. Officers include Mrs. Myrtle Colley vice president and Mrs. Lilian Mower recording secretary with Delia Clark as financial secretary. Other appointees cover prelate watcher marshal and guards. No dine was served beforehand. Comantor Albert Barton named committees for Rock Lodge involving Mortoh Post Wead Strope Hohn Webb and service committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Christensen
Rebekah Past Noble Grands Association
Troy
St. C. A
Barbara Moreland
Myrtle Colley
Lilian Mower
Delia Clark
Harriet Dolan
Mary Vanderweken
Kittie Page
Alice Slocum
Mar
Catherine Lloyd
Abs
Charlotte Petersen
Phoebe Bartlett
Muss Nerma
Glover
Eisie “Stanley
Fonela Prediger
Nellie Clark
Jennie Barnum
Versa Hammereley
Pandy Danzig
Harriet Larkin
Audna Craver
Betty Mohl
Press Cor Fesnondert
Moreland
Hammersley
Gills
Iiring
Groundhog Scouts Hint at Early Spring Weather
Reported by Brown, two robust groundhogs on William Browns farm near Brows scout for the annual Groundhog Day February 2 event. Weather prophets differ, some predicting a long cold spell despite two feet of snow on the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deaison
Willian
Brown
Legislature Opens Probe Requests on Cigarette Shortage
The legislature urged a congressional inquiry into the cigarette shortage and its causes, including potential black market activity and tax impacts. A separate resolution sought creation of a joint legislative committee to study veterans and family welfare issues, backed by Westchester Republicans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alssey
Frank A. Emma
Oneida
Emma
Congres
Senate
Assembly
Westchester
Sen
Witlac
FL Condon
Malesimy Wilson
Herans
Red Army Breaks German Lines Across Silesia and East Prussia
Soviet forces led by Marshal Konev drive toward Breslau and Berlin, capturing 29 Silesian towns and 450 Polish settlements as Stalin heralds the advance. Rosters show Elbing and Elbing’s vicinity under attack, threatening German hold on East Prussia as the front stretches over 600 miles.
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Berlin
Poznan
Morehhan
Stalin
Gert Mary
Ivan Su Konev
Ukraine
Oder
Breslau
Silesia
Bluffa
Onlau
Oppeln
I ‘Tay
Ellrath
Ger Maty
Moscow
Reich
Vistula
Ostrzeszow
Tarnowiskie
East Prussia
Tsa
Constantin K. Rokos
Sovaky
Staveld
Baltic
Elbing
Elving
Prus Sia
Germany
Invasion Moves Toward East Prussia Reported
An Allied dispatch notes Soviet forces under Gen. Ivan Cherniakhovsky advancing from the east and northeast into East Prussia. The Third White Russian Army reportedly reaches towns near Lablay and Wehtin, about 27 miles from Königsberg in the province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stalin
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
East Prussia
Lablay
Wehtin
Konigsbere
Religious education and church activities amid exam week
The East Side religious education program at Trinity Methodist Church is omitted due to exams. Junior choir at 3:45 pm and senior choir at 7:30 pm. Men’s and youth groups meet tomorrow for supper at 6:15 pm as Paul Granem from R. OP. TL lectures on sports. Friday youth meet at 7:15 pm then visit the Pridde home. Recreation planning meeting set for tomorrow at School 15 at 7:30 pm. Home Bureau unit schedules a postponed food lesson today at 2 Packer Avenue. Mrs. Miles A. McGrane Jr. returns from the Troy Hospital. Rev. Arthur L. Rice and the Ascension parish note activities with a 5:30 pm dinner before a Men’s Club program. Holy Communion observed at 9:30 am for the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edutl
Trinity Methodist Church
Paul Granem
R. OP. TL
Ray Pridde
P. L
Arthur H. Landmesser Partor
Pawling Avenue
Home Bureau
Mountain View Home Bureau Lnit
Bomns
Michael Carer
Packer Avenue
Jaston
John. O. Miller
Brunswick
Miles A. McGrane, Jr
Troy Hospital
Arthur L. Rice
Church of the Ascension
Pinewoods Avenue
Albany
All Saints” Cathedral
Fred F. Green
Mabel FR. Frazier
Merens L. Fitzroy Sttorney
St Paul
Flist Avenue Methodist
Max C. McCamisy
First Avenue Methodist Church
Third Avenue Methodist
Louie E. Sarker
Red Cross
Wesleyan
Methodist
Charles A Dayton
Col
Lucien Clicker
Troy
Beacon Light
Harry X. van Antwerp
Trinity Episcopal
Ivan H. Bail
Hela
Local Notes on Residents and Church Activities
Syemueny Kenneth Horsten of Broadview Terrace has recovered from illness. Seaman 1st Class William Johnson, 75 State Street, left for his base at Little Creek after a week. Maude Keller of Albany was a weekend guest of her son and daughter in law. Lance Eversit, stationed with the Navy in California, returned for a week’s leave on Hoosick Road. Betty Cippetix, supervisor at the Methodis Hospital in Brooklyn, visited her parents on Caellen Avenue. Red Cross sewing resumes. choir rehearsals set for today at 6:30 for junior and 7:30 for senior. Memorial Methodist hosts Week of Prayer with Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian tonight and Ninth Presbyterian Church Sunday. Lieut. and Mrs. Sanford Calhoun visited their parents on Warren Avenue while en route to Wisconsin for duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Horsten
Broadview Terrace
Seaman
William Johnson
State Street
Little Creek
Hoosick Road
Memorial Methodist Chore
Oakwood “Avenue ‘Presbyterian Church
Ninth Presbyterian
Sanford Calhoun
Calhoun
David EL. Calhoun
Warren Avenue
Wisconsin
Allied push on Rhine advances as Germans retreat in Ardennes
American air forces and First and Third Armies report heavy bombardment of retreating German units across the Ardennes bulge toward the Rhine. Air and ground operations destroy hundreds of motor transports and vehicles, plus dozens of railroad cars, while weather slows further advances. The British Second Army seizes Heinsberg as prisoner totals rise to about 1,400 since January 16.
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Dier
Wile
Exelborn
Thas
Ardennes
Rhineland
Rhine
Air Ce
Ninth Air Anack
First Army
Nineteenth Tactics Air
Third Army
Pois
Bulge
First
Third
Luxembourg
Seventh Army
Virawa
Hazenau
Sar
Second Army
Heinsberg
Ihe Amet
Reer-Maastriaasie
Overseas Duty Reported For First Lieut Fonda
First Lieut James H. Fonda son of Mrs Dad Fonda of Houston Texas has been reported missing in action in Germany since December 21 according to a telegram to his wife Jane Quinte now living in Houston. He previously worked as a salesman for Burroughs Addiaz Machine Co and resided in Houston. A Lansingburgh High School and Rider College graduate he served as battery commander for the 166th Infantry in the 590th Division involved near St Vith during the German counterattack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James
Fonda
Dad .Fonda
Germany
Mary
Jane Quinte
New Lving
Houston
Tex
Jane
Burroughs Addiaz Machine Co
Lansinghurs High School
Rider College
New Jersey
166Th Infantry
St. Vith
Watervliet Odd Fellows Install Laurels Lodge Officers
Watervliet Odd Fellows held a meeting where Laurel Lodge officers were installed. Names listed include Col Lane Gy Van Vore as noble grand and Ed Wardah as vice grand, with Irvin Rees recording secretary and George Soaroe as treasurer, among others. A dinner followed the installation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurel Lodge
Fin Watervliet Odd Fellows
Hal
Col Lae Gy van Vore
Noble Grand
Wardah
Irvin Ot
Rees
George Oaroe
R. Sewer
Harold D Shaver
Werden
Amer Rosenberzer Corésttor
Ames A Retatuire
Enmer Hirdorn
Robert Shaw
Harold
Garret
Francis
A. O
Grasa
Wesson Abed
Porter
C. Corber
Georse x
Geers
Abe Anoiins
Everins
Ras
Miteins
Walter Rosender
Z Shaver
Edward We A
Young and
Collings
G. Vag
Knights of Columbus Councils Gather in Watervliet
A fellowship of four Knights of Columbus Councils met in Watervliet with Joseph P. Hal Knight hosting. Delegates from Albany Rensselaer and Cohoes attended. plans were made for a Lenten study club with clergy speakers and open forums after each meeting. A solemn mass at St Joseph’s Church in Troy honors Troy’s servicemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Columbus
Watervliet Cou
Joseph PP. Hal Knight
Cohoes
Albany
Rensselaer
Joseph R. Deran
Rensselzer
Fonda
James 3
Sage
St. Joseph's Chuten
Troy
Sun‘dey
Church and School Notes From Various City Congregations
Church notes list schedules for First Presbyterian First Avenue Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist services and meetings. Girl Scouts, Ladies’ Aid, Whatsoever Society, junior and senior choirs, Victory Class, adult fellowship, and Red Cross sewing sessions appear with times and hosts. An obituary for Edward J. Whalen notes residence, survivors, and funeral details. Also mentions Passex School Test graduate Thoralf Madsen Jr and Columbian Squires meeting agenda with officers and speakers.
County Potato Growers to Meet for Production Review
County potato growers convene at 4 pm to discuss last year’s high production, with a 2:30 pm arrival at West Sand Lake Grange. Experts will cover fertilization, rotations, and potential state competition, emphasizing potato spray ring advantages and cultivation methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reneselzer County
West
Sand Lake Grange
Edain
Chsinnen
Local Agricultural Committee Names Speakers for Season Talks
The committee will introduce BR. P. Wessels of Long Island Research Farm and Dr. Mr. Barrys of Cornell University as speakers. Wessels will substitute for Smith and discuss disciias fertilization rotations and crop disease control for the coming season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Wessels
Long Island Research Farm
Mr. Barrys
Cornell University
Wessels
Smith
Owen Fate
Tonia
Club plans dance at Troy YWCA in March
The Twentieth Cellarr Club program committee met at the Troy YWCA to discuss an early March dance. Mrs tarry Mursane, secretary of the Girls Department, will join the group as an adult program adviser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twentieth Cellarr
Troy YW. C. A
Tarry Mursane
Gratkial
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Rebekah
Lee
Lee Wulff
Famous Hunting & Fishing Pictures
Knickerbacker Junior High School
Taconic Valley Rod and Gun Club
Red Army
Speigletown District
Jim
Foley
Manon
Doa
Virginia
Bud
Eileen Kilgallon
Daniel Gilmore
Plowed
Miami Beach
Auditoril
Acmary, M. C
William Cannon
Songbird
The
Willard McNary
Piane
Ralph M. Bacon
Sevice
Italy
Harold Fivel
Paul Rentz
John Montgomery
East Side
Syemueny
Western Front
Watervliet Odd Fellows
Watervliet Knights
First Presbyterian
William J. Clark
First Presbyterian Church
Ladies’ Aid
James Jackson
Anna Waits
Edward J. Whales
Fourteenth Street
Sacred Heart of Mary Church
New York Central Railroad
West Albany
Gertrude Marsh
Edward J. Whalen
Athreen
Ann Whalen
John J. Brer
Catherine Heals
Cummings Third Avenue Funeral Home
Sacred Heart of Marry Gaurchh
I. Thoralf Madsen, Jr
Thoralf Madgen
Fourth Avenue
Conterx
Harlitzen
California
Columbian Squires
K. of
Hall
William Lamb
William Lamb, Chiefi Squire, Presiding. ‘Thomas Halpin
Robert Geuvrear
Parsteal Committee
Pergesta
Bebe Roy Bugers
Brazil
Pat Obriex
Marine Raiders
Rome
Po Ua
Bracken
Fe Raikes
Pets Froachot Taeewes
Oberon - Tome - Metchell
Song
Bernadette
Imennifer Jones
T A
Adsite
Svealae Adal
Waterrord
Tytn
Jenne Gadehl
Claude Hains
Disner
Destenmytty
Eee
Aulette Connard
Edward Arnold
James Lxdan
Barbara Belden
Vivian Leigh
Waterloo Bridge
Eve
All-Star
Musizel Reciper
Dorothy Lamgurretty Hutton
Eddie Bracken
Jimmy Dorsey and Its
Orchestra Gass Daley Gillamb
Tontney
Robert ‘Taylor
Vivien Belch
Danger
Women At Work
Fairy Kelly
Mary Brix Canservie
Caver
On the
Walker
Dover
Lone Donne
Marshall
Walter Brennan
Dolores Moran
Hoagy Carmichael
Howard Hawks
Joan Fontaine
Arturo de Cordova
Frenchman’s Creek
Catas
Ee Adalat
Betz
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