Camp Heads Named At Watervliet
Seven Oaks Camp Association re elected Chester Fiet Orville S Shaver and Mrs Ethel Boal to three year terms Ira Berrian Schenectady named for a first term Rev Clyde Sumner is president of the association Attendance at the 38th camp season reached new highs despite gasoline rationing Denominations from the Troy Albany Schenectady area were represented Clergy from over a score of churches attended The final service was led by Rev Donald A Morris and Rev Peter Wiseman with song leaders Rev Eatj M Smith and Mrs Smith assisting
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seven Oaks
Troy-Albany-Schenectady
Donald A. Morris
St. Clair Shores
Peter Wiseman
Wilmore
Eat
M. Smith
Smithfield
Mrs. Smith
Call for More Scrap Issued In Watervliet
Alfred C Meneely head of publicity for the Watervliet Salvage Committee says residents should keep scrap from attics storerooms and cellars to aid the war effort He notes ten bronze cannons melted at the State Department Building will yield about 20000 pounds of bronze The front is flaming he says and more guns and armor mean fewer men lost In other notes personal news two Senators split a doubleheader with the Red Sox and an obituary reports Mrs Ernest Giles death at French Mountain plus Elks Auxiliary Summer socials begin tonight with a gathering and refreshments to follow
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred C. Meneely
Watervliet Salvage Committee
State Department
Washington, D. C
Meneely
Ernest Giles
Blanche Sedgwick
French Mountain
Charles Giles
Ernestine
Verna Giles
Preventive Religion Tells A Narrative From Pulpit
Rev Joseph Price Robinson preached at Liberty Presbyterian Church using the Paul and Silas jail tale to illustrate a negative approach. He said their refusal to join unlawful actions allowed God to work, leading the jailer and his household to believe and be baptized that night. The sermon framed negative stance as the decisive factor in salvation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Price Robinson
Liberty Presbyterian Church
Paul
Silas
God
Jesus
Dynamic Faith Called Necessity
Rev. Clarence W. Jones urged at Church of the Holy Cross that living, contagious faith saves the world. He warned religion must be active and infectious, urging self‑examination of how many souls were brought to the church and calling Christians to make their community more Christ like. He said Christianity needs a people contagious with its message and practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence W. Jones
Church of the Holy Cross
Predominance Of Hate Cited In Sermon At Third Presbyterian
Rev. John M. Stuart preached at Third Presbyterian Church denouncing hate as the product of selfishness and greed. He urged a Biblical love with blood and sinew, praised love of country shown by young Americans in wartime service, and noted medals awarded for deeds beyond the call of duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bate
John M .Stuart
Third Presbyterian Church
Mr. Stuart
Knights of Columbus Card Party Tonight at Waterville Club
Waterville Knights of Columbus hosts their annual lawn card party and social at 8 30 pm on the club lawn with Fayette Morse as chairman. In case of rain, the event moves to the hall. Mrs Harry Rose and Mrs John Daley are noted attendees.
Household Finance offers small loans with various plans
Aimed at workers seeking quick cash, Household Finance advertises $20 to $300 loans with multiple repayment options. It lists example terms, fees, and weekly or monthly schedules, claiming no endorsers required and that payments cover principal and interest only.
Church Calendar Items At Various City Congregations
Church calendar lists Red Cross sewing and donation drives, prayer meetings, and Red Cross sewing sessions at St Barnabas St Pauls Millis Memorial First Baptist Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian and Third Presbyterian with dates from today through tomorrow including Holy Communion testimonial meetings and reading room hours for First Church of Christ Scientist and women’s sewing for Red Cross and Bundles for America at several church facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Church of Christ
St. Paul’s Church
The
Red Cross
America
Guild House
First Baptist Church
Fellowship Hall
Fellowship Hell
Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian
Ladies of the Church At
Red Cross Rooms
Argyle Church Plans 150th Anniversary Celebration
Plans are made to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Argyle United Presbyterian Church on August 22 and 23. The congregation was founded in winter 1792. Former pastors and members will attend, with Orville Safford serving as general chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argyle United Presbyterian Church
Argyle
Orville Safford
Canal Guards Reduced on State Barge Canal System
About twenty civilian guards protecting locks and dams on the Eastern Division of the State Barge Canal were released under State Department of Public Works orders. Only essential guards remain at bridges not covered by locks or dams. Federal Dam at Glen Avenue will keep its guards as they are government employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department of Public Works
Waterford
Schenectady
Thomas Gunning Estate Shares In Property
Brooklyn-Nellie Gunning a cousin of Thomas Gunning dies May 22 1940 leaving an estate of 14832 75 with no will. One sixth goes to executor John J Powers of Troy and five sixths to other cousins. Joseph J Gunnoing Roxbury Fort Tilden is administrator. estate includes realty cash and personal effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Record
Brooklyn
Nellie Gunning
Thomas Gunning
Third Street
Troy
State Tax Commissioner
Francis D. McGarey
John J. Powers
Tairé Street
Joseph J. Gunnoing
Sea Breeze Avenue
Roxbury
Fort Tilden
Engineer Foils Robbers With Bar Tools in Tavern
Chicago Louis Flentye, an engineer, wrestled with two gunmen during a tavern stick up. He grabbed a baseball bat from behind the bar, broke it over one intruder, and used a bar stool to strike the second as they fled injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Louis Flentye
Flentye
Divorced Man Kills Judge in Ogden Shootings
Austin Cox Jr killed five people including District Judge Lewis V. Trueman after a domestic dispute tied to a divorce granted in Trueman’s court. Victims listed include Mrs. Jane Stauffer and neighbors at two Ogden homes, with a final blast at the police station where Cox was captured. a police officer was wounded in the ear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogden
Utah
Lewis V. Trueman
Jane Stauffer
Burton
Rigby
Idaho
Stauffer
Betty A. Brooks
Cox
Smith
Watson
Brooks
Nelson
Judge Trueman
Poultney Banker Freed On Bail
Cashier John E. Holmes and Poultney manufacturer Henry A. Matot were freed on a total bail of 15000 after pleading innocent to a federal indictment. Holmes faces embezzlement charges while Matot is charged with aiding and abetting the alleged misappropriation from the Poultney National Bank closed by federal order last March. Arraignment occurred yesterday before a U S commissioner and cases expected to be considered when court convenes in October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matot
Soldier’s wife puzzled by failed garden seeds in Montana
Selena, Mont, wife of a Fort Harrison soldier, wondered why her victory garden seeds failed. The soldier husband wasn’t surprised, having sent rattles from a rattlesnake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selena
Mont
Fort Harrison
Obituaries and funerals in Troy notices and services
James G Beale lifelong Troy resident and World War II veteran dies at Bronx Veterans Hospital after a short illness. Anna F Magovern a native Trojan dies at home two brothers survive. Mrs Raymond H Mattoon formerly Bessie Link noted in Pasadena health alert with daughter and granddaughter in Troy. Ellen B Allen Troy resident dies after long illness at 598 Fourth Avenue. Arthur Martineau Cohoes native dies in Ogdensburg after long illness leaving wife and three sons. Funeral notices for Martin Fox Agnes OConnor Emma Healey Frank Joyce Emil Chopie Snyder Stephen Nalty Mary De Freest Mary Burns Jennie Calkins Leon Saperstein and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James G. Beale
Troy
United States Veterans Hospital
Bronx
John Beale
Beale
Third Presbyterian Church
Trojan Post
Greater Troy
Vera
Mary Beale
Frank Brust
Frank D. Brust
Joseph Cox
Joseph Canfield
Howard Willis
Harry
John
Athol
Earl
William Beale
Bank Street
A. R. Fox & Son Funeral
Thirteenth Street
John M. Stuart
Elmwood Hall Cemetery
Anna F. Magovern
Fifth Avenue
Magovern
John J
Margaret Buckley Magovern
St. Patrick's Church
Court Margaret
Catholic Daughters of America
Edward P. Magovern
William V. Magovern
Rochester
St. Mary's Cemetery
Raymond H. Mattoon
Pasadena
Cal
Mars
Bessie May Link
Brainard H. Link
Cornelia May Allen
Eagte Mills
Mattoon
New York
Robert C. Stott
Sally Stott
J. Howard Broadbent
California
Elen B. Allen
Ellen B. Bodles
Fourth Avenue
Frederic F. Allen
St. Mark's Methodist Church
Marjorie G
Edith F. Allen
Mason Chapel
Seth WN. Genung
Emil Chopie
Snyder
Troy Hospital
Austria
South Troy
William Chopie
Rome
Pvt
Stephen Chopie
Camp Phillips
Kan
Anna Chaple
Military Honors For World War I Veteran William Hayes
Funeral honors were given Saturday for William Hayes, World War I veteran, at James J. Clinteau Bros. Funeral Home and St. Peter's Church. A solemn requiem mass was led by Rev. Michael English with deacon Rev. Harold L McKeon and subdeacon Rev. Edward A McManus. Bearers were six nephews. Interment followed at St Agnes' Cemetery, Cohoes, with a firing squad from Yan Post, VFW, and bugler Taps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Joyce
Doran Funeral Home
Fifth Avenue
St. Peter's Chuch
Edward A. McManus
John A. Goebel
Thomas A. Burns
Harold J. Fitzpatrick
Thomas J. Lodge
St. Peter's Cemetery
File
Ellen File
Warren Avenue
Our Lady of Victory Church
William Turner
Mary Devery
Joseph A. Heenan
Joseph L. McGivern
Michael J. McGivern
John J. Cronin
Edward F. Cronin
James J. Dorr
John Co. Burke
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
Father Turner
Rosary Society of Our Lady of Victory
Elmgrove Avenue
Troy
Davis Memorial Chapel
New Rochelle
Clarence W. Jones
Church of the Holy Cross
William Hayes
James J. Clinteau
Thomas J. McClane
Henry KE. Fleming
John Dougherty
William J. McCracken
Taps
Grace
Bugler
Father McKeon
Holy Name Society
Bennington College to Host Leigh as Commencement Speaker
Robert D. Leigh, first president of Bennington College and current director of the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service of the FCC, will speak at the college Friday. His topic is War and Peace in the Ether.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert D. Leigh
Bennington College
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
F.C. C
Three Die In Railroad Collision in Fayetteville Yard
Three men were killed and six injured when two sections of the Atlantic Coast Line Tamiami Special collided during a switching operation in Fayetteville Minnesota yards. The body of Staff Sgt James Ledford from Eaton Colorado, stationed at Charleston Army Air Base, was recovered. Another victim was identified as C C Foley Jr a sailor from Pittsfield Massachusetts. A woman also died and remained unidentified. Six others were injured as the Pullman section struck the observation car as it passed in the yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
MN. C
Sergt
James Ledford
Eaton
Col
Charleston
S.C. Army Air Base
C. C. Foley, Jr
Pitts Field
Mass
Detroit DPW workers return to work amid citywide strikes
Escorted by police, 1,300 CIO turned DPW drivers resumed operations Saturday, restoring rubbish collection to about half normal. Mayor Edward Jeffries and the Common Council pressured the 1,260 AFL employees on strike, threatening to fire workers who do not return by Monday. AFL strikers say they will continue the walkout until wage demands are reasonably settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
INS
C. L O
Department of Public Works
Edward Jeffries
Common Council
A. F. of L
Ration Points Questioned Over Canned Salmon Import
Two Waterbury sportsmen protest a ruling requiring surrender of 3 456 ration points to bring 288 pounds of salt canned in Canada across the border. They petition National Food Rationing Director Harold B Rowe after Montpelier board findings and Boston regional OPA upholding the ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haytford
Conn
Harold B. Rowe
Waterbury
Canada
OPA
Waterbury Ration Board
Montpelier
Boston
Woman Marine to Visit Troy Courthouse Each Monday
Sergeant Ann Gustafson of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve will be stationed in the lobby of Rensselaer County Courthouse in Troy from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. each Monday. She will answer questions about training and duties and outline opportunities for women aged 20 to 36 with two years of high school or business school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sergt
Ann Gustafson
Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
Troy
Rensselaer County Court House
Marie Corps Women's Reserve
Gustafson
Marine Corps
Postwar Auto Deaths Estimated At 50000 In Year After War
Carl J. Rutland of Dallas predicts 50,000 deaths and at least 150,000 permanent injuries in the first year of postwar driving as tires and gasoline reopen. He warns recklessness will rise when cars return to roads, speaking to the International Municipal Signal Association regional meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
Carl J. Rutland
Rutland
Dallas Traffic Commission
International Municipal Signal Association
Also Mentioned on This Page
Watervliet
Kenneth McIntyre
Stapleton
Staten Island
Mr. McIntyre
John F. Connors
Senators
Red Sox
Anthony Dominick
Red” Kakulien
Manon Dominick
Louis Cioffi
Sox
Bill Jenski
Cioffi
Denio
Caldwell
Avengers
Joseph Bagnardi
Elks’ Auxiliary
Lawrence
Seer L
A.te
Burdett Building
River Street
Albany
6Th Fl
Nat's Savings Bank
State St
Stockholm
San Lorenzo Basilica
Pressenbild
Berlin
St, Barnabas
Millis Memorial Baptist Church
St. John’s
Third Presbyterian
Argyle Church
Celebration Highway Land
Poultney
Sicily
Mt. Etna
Ellen B. Allen
Arthur Martineau
Elizabeth Martineau
Cohoes
Ogdensburg
Mary Martineau
Donald
Gerald
Robert
Plattsburg
Evangeline Green
San Francisca
Kathleen
Theresa Martineau
Henry
Edward
James
Edna Walter
Constance Demers
James Capp
Keesville
Mary Germain
Fox
Martin Fox
Thomas F. Healy & Son
van Buren
St. Michael's Church
William Brown
James J. McGrath
Agnes T. O'Connor
Michael Kennedy
Lawrence Finn
Leo Manning
Thomas Spillane
Joseph Dunn
Roger Fox
Edward J. Burns
St Joseph's Church
Emma J. Healey
John J. Healey
Charlotte Fox Healy
Baptist Church
Seventh Avenue
Cluett-Peabody Co., Inc
Larkin
Frederick Allen
Bural
Oakwood
Stephen Nalty
Saratoga Springs
Anna Nalty
Algonquin Blvd
Saratoga Spring
Rock City Falls
William Nalty
Walter Nalty
Woodside
L. I
Jennie Calkins
Fort Ann
Giens Falls Hospital
William Calkins
Norman
Morgan Goldsmith
Leon Saperstein
Los Angeles
Esther
Fannie
Simon
Philip
Irving
C.1i. O
A. F. of
S. Out
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