Watervliet Children Aid USO Fund Raising Confusion
A group of Watervliet children raised about 3 for the USO by soliciting on Broadway between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets. Officials informed them the USO cannot solicit funds outside the War Chest system. The money was turned over to Samuel G. Wise of the American Legion for proper channeling. Weekly Card Party at Camp Anna R N A scheduled for tonight at 7 30 pm.
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Seventeenth
Watervliet
USO
War Chest
Samuel G. Wise
John A. Patten Post
American Legion
Watervliet Tax Payment Warning and Local Activities
Watervliet finance director Thomas A. Mahoney warns this week is the final window to pay the July water tax without penalties. Beginning Monday penalties apply to late payments. Citizens urged to pay this week to avoid congestion at city hall windows. Also notes multiple local religious services and community activities including Miraculous Medal Novena at St. Bridget's, prayers at Beacon Light Mission Chapel, Boy Scouts meeting, litany for country at Trinity Episcopal, prayers for peace at St Patrick's, midweek prayer at Third Avenue Holiness Church, Red Cross sewing, and St Anthony novena devotions at Our Lady of Sit Carmel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Mahoney
St. Bridget’s Church
Charles A. Dayton
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Beacon Light Mission Chapel
Harry W. van Antwerp
Boy Scouts
First Avenue Methodist Church
Trinity Episcopal Church
Theodore Haydn
St. Patrick’s Church
Third Avenue -Ieiaodst
Red Cross
Earl van Antwerp
St Anthony of Padua
Our Lady Or Sit
Carmel Church
Mrs Baxter Surprised at Waterville Diner Birthday Party
Friends of Mrs John Baxter hosted a surprise party Saturday night at the Waterville Diner to celebrate her birthday. Attending were John Baxter Joseph Fisher William Donlon Harry Corkin Florence Lester Mona Thomas Catherine Sans Mary Floss Marian Moreen Walter Lindsey Charles Burhans and Peter Lussier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Baxter
Waterviiet
Joseph Fisher
William Donlon
Harry Corkin
Florence Lester
Mona Thomas
Catherine Sans
Mary Floss
Marian Moreen
Walter Lindsey
Charles Burhans
Peter Lussier
Peace Fighters Reach New War Service Assignments
Herbert J. Peace, who enlisted in the Navy on February 16 and was discharged due to a leg injury, has joined the Army Engineers. His twin brother Hubert serves in the Seabees, and another brother George is in the Marine Corps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ufi
Mr. Peace
Herbert J. Peace
Navy
Army Engineers
Hubert
Seabees
George
Marine Corps
Cal Corps
Miami Beach
Fla
Stephen Gachus
Watervliet High School
Coast Artillery
Camp Bowie
Tex
Michaels Gachus
Air Corps
Lincoln Field
Mechanicville Foresters court earns second in campaign
Mechanicville Foresters of America Court 409 secret ary Floyd L Wilbur reports the court placed second in the Supreme Chief Rangers campaign running March 1 to June 30 1943. Court Warrah of Connecticut led with 75 candidates while Mechanicville counted 62 new members and remains the second largest in New York State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd L. Wilbur
Foresters of America
Supreme Chief Rangers
Supreme Court
Court Warrah
Connecticut
William J. Mitchell
Boston
Mass
New York
Organization Committee
Lst
War Stamps Drive Totals at Green Island Booths
The women’s committee sold 231.55 in War Stamps last week with Central Market booth highest at 124.70 and Heatly School second with 75. Piccarillo store total 331.85. Methodist Church women led by Mrs. Willard Hunt will run the Central Market booth Thursday through Saturday. Fire Chief John B. Berghamer begins a two week vacation. Mr. and Mrs Thomas F. Murray and daughter Ann Rita visit Quebec, Canada for a week. Presbyterian Missionary Society picnic meets Thursday noon at Mrs Bertha Lawlor’s lawn in Latham.
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Women's Committee
Central Market
Heatly School
Piccarillo
The
Methodist Church
Willard Hunt
Thomas F. Murray
Ann Rita Murray
Swan Street
Quebec
Canada
Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
Bertha Lawlor
Latham
Drunken Driver Sentenced After Adams Crash
Casimer Mastalisz, 23, of 321 Columbia Street Adams Mass, driver of a car that struck a Bourdon vehicle, killing Bourdon his wife and young son, was sentenced in District Court at Adams to two years in the House of Correction on drunken and dangerous driving charges. The sentences run concurrently. The wreck occurred six days before sentencing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casimer Mastalisz
Columbia Street
Adams
Mass
House of Correction
Mastalisz
AZ ‘Bourdon
Bourdon
Wallet found twice on bus man returns it again
Buffalo UP operator Edward Russell found a wallet on his bus and realized it was the same wallet he had recovered five weeks earlier from a gutter. He returned the wallet again to its owner, reflecting honesty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo UP
Edward Russell
Local notices and social events in Eagle Mills
Eagle Mills community round up notes a canceled church prayer service and upcoming sewing and youth fellowship gatherings at local churches. It also records military transfers, furloughs, visits, birthday anniversaries, and family celebrations with names and places across Boise Sioux City Centre Brunswick Rochester Hast Norwalk Clum's Corners and Troy.
East Greenbush Soldier Dies At Army Camp
Pfc. Robert H. Meissner, 30, of East Greenbush, died Saturday at Camp Blanding Florida after a heart attack. Inducted April 14, he worked at Huyck felt mills in Rensselaer. Survived by wife Rose Edmonds Albany mother Julia Meissner two brothers Richard and Charles three sisters Margaret Violetta Edith Meissner all of East Greenbush.
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Robert H. Meissner
Hest Greenbush
Camp Blanding
Fla
Eost Greenbush
Huyck Felt Mills
Rensselaer
Pvt
Frank Meissner
Camp Gordon
Rose Edmonds
Albany
Julia Meissner
Ichard
Charles
Margaret
Violetta
Edith Meissner
East Greenbush
Fascists Withdraw From Swiss Italian Border Patrol
Bern Switzerland report says fascist Blackshirts have been withdrawn from border patrols with Italy and replaced by the Carabinieri after Mussolini’s resignation. Telephone lines to Italy remain cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bern
Switzerland
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Century-old Coach in Use Returns for Family Trips
The 100 year old coach that carried E. Parmalee Prentice ancestors on European roads in the era of square riggers has been restored to service for shopping trips by the Prentice family at Mount Hope farm five miles from Williamstown. A pair of black Morgan horses pull it as yet again, after years in the family private museum. Grandparents of the present owner once took the coach on three voyages, even being aboard a sailing ship before steam power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Parmalee Prentice
Williamstown
Europe
Mount Hope Farm
Prentice
Couth
Morgan
Sullivans Expect Fifth Son to Join U S Navy
Minneapolis Sullivan family, with four sons already in service, anticipates the fifth son Irvin joining the Navy soon. The clan tracks the Waterloo Ta Sullivans, famed for five brothers lost aboard the Juneau, as a fund to honor their sacrifices funds from Sullivan families nationwide are being raised for a monument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
UFI
Thomas Sullivan
Waterloo
Sullivans
Navy
Thomas
Eugene
Army
Louis
Hobert
Irvin
Sullivan
Country
Juneau
Solomons
Kiska Hit By Ten Air Raids
Washington UP reports ten aerial assaults on Kiska as the Navy continues the campaign to soften the Japanese base for occupation. Army Warhawk fighters led a rapid series of raids Saturday, bombing and strafing the island’s air field and gun emplacements. One U S plane did not return. total bombings on Kiska this month reach thirty, with surface ships firing on the island seven times since month’s start.
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Washington
Kiska
Navy
Army Warhawk
Aleutian
Sland
U. S
British Women Campaign Against Queues
Millions of British women weary of queuing for goods seek to end the loss of hours yearly. A London meeting backed by the Trade Union Council will form a nine point plan to ease shopping delays and boost factory efficiency. Cambridge housewife Dorothy Kirby urged shop stewards to cut queues by staggered hours and extended shop hours for war workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Ministry of Food
United States
London
Trade Union Council
Delcates
Cambridge
Dorothy Kirby
Deaths and funerals in area communities Saturday notes
Obituaries report the deaths of Mrs. Lillian K Hodges Mrs Ford C Warren Frank R Dunn Charles F Audette Herbert Stelle Brokaw Miss Liney Rita C Liney Emma J Healey Magnus A Jensen Mrs Joseph Tyan Flora Parkis Martin H Berrigan James Pollock and others with funeral details and interment plans across Saratoga Springs Schenectady Troy and surrounding towns including dates locations and survivor names.
Germans Wreck Orel In Despair
Soviet reports said German forces were wrecking Orel in apparent withdrawal preparations as the Red Army closed in from three directions. The city’s sole retreat route along a southwest dirt road was being demolished, signaling an orderly abandonment to avoid another Stalingrad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Orel
Red Army
Stalingrad
On the rebound in porch painting accident
Dunkirk Herbert F. Christy was hospitalized after a porch painting fall. He dropped twelve feet landing on his feet and bruised but conscious until a plank fell striking his head, knocking him unconscious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunkirk
Herbert F. Christy
Local Notes On Visits And Meetings From Area Citizens
Poesten kill Mise Fern Milner of Buffalo to visiting Mr and Mrs Alfred P Davis and family. Walter Hughes stationed in Davisville R L in the Navy visited his wife and son Edward over the weekend. Mrs Gotthard Janson and son Gotthard 3rd have returned home after spending a month with Mr and Mrs Joseph Proctor at Kilgore Tex. Robert Ryan serving with the Army in New Jersey spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs Michael Ryan and his sister Lois. The Missionary Society will meet Sunday at the Church of Christ at 4 pm. Under the program The Church and Americas Peoples the topic is Lets Scrap the Melting Pot Corp George Ernest Hinkle who had been serving with the Army in Trinidad for 18 months and is now at Fort Monmouth NJ is spending on furlough with his mother Mrs Anna Hinkle his sister Frances and brother Allie. Mrs Louise S Jones has returned from San Francisco where she visited her son Chief Warrant Officer Russell H Jones. The latter had been stationed at Honolulu Hawaii for the last two and a half years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mise Fern Milner
Buffalo
Alfred P. Davis
Walter Hughes
Davisville
R. L
Edward
Gotthard Janson
Gotthard
Joseph Proctor
Kilgore
Tex
Robert Ryan
Army
New Jersey
Michael Ryan
Lois
Missionary Society
Church of Christ
Church
Corp
George Ernest Hinkle
Trinidad
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Anna Hinkle
Frances
Allie
Louise S. Jones
San Francisco
Russell H. Jones
Honolulu
Hawaii
Wynantskill Townsend Club Social At Firemen Hall
Wynantskill Townsend Club No.1 held a social at Firemen's Hall with entertainment by the Shriner Trio from Eagle Mills and local residents. Dancing and refreshments followed. Mrs. Nellie Windover was social committee chair. Three new members were welcomed into the club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Townsend Club No.1
Firemen’s Hall
Shriner
Eagle Mills
Harry Strunk
Bertha Mackey
Hans Lund
Troy
Kenneth Bonjukian
Reymond Rosiola
Evelyn Wortz
Gally Film
Donald Crowley
Nellie Windover
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A. O. EL Hall
Fifteenth Street
Sonal
Robert Edinger
Fourteenth Street
Maryland
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Edinger
Baltimore
Lola Edinger
Schenectady
Andrew McNally, Jr
Paul Edinger
Rose Myers
Scotia
Walter C. Bentley, Jr
Fort Eustis
Walter C. Bentley
Third Avenue
Bentley
Fort
Mrs. Baxter
John Gachus
Lansing Avenue
Maplewood
George Gachus
Marines
Parris Island
S. C
Sergi
Andrew Gachus
Medi
Mechanicville
Florence H. Thayer
Rensselaer County
Hemstreet Park
At & P.m
Herbert Brown
Stillwater
Myron E. Webster
Yellow Meeting House Road
Wellstown
Adirondacks
Mr. Brown
Clifton Park Road
Halfmoon
Ais
Herbert Massey
New York City
James Rowan
Mooseheag Lake
Beatrice Bulls
New York State Electric and Gas Corp
Elizabeth Collins
Albany Hospital
Lila Farrell
John A. Farrel
Matthew Kiley
Camp Adair
Oregon
Elizabeth Kiley
Richard Brown
Naval Training Station
Sampson
Peter Brown
William L. Howland
Elmer E Woodin
Mayard
Lake George
Daniel Marcella
New River
N. C
George Marcella
Riverside
Joseph Carpenter, Jr
Joseph Carpenter
Dexter P. Bowen
Chicago
John N. Hayes
VA. 5
Army Air Corps
Washington, D. C
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Lester Roberts
Hlemstreet Park
Utiga
Lewis Griffith
Joseph Brandt
Jack
Arlington
Garfield Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Butler
Spa
Green Island
John B. Berghamer
Frank A. Carner
Boise
Ida
Army Air Bases
Sioux City
Doris Bonesteel
Center Brunswick
Mildred Gutcrodt
Elwood E. Morrison
Camp Pickett
Edward Morrison
John A. Robb
Rochester
W. Richmond Robb
D. C. Gutbrodt
W. R. Haase
Hast
Norwalk
Conn
Paul R. Knippel
Dorothy Knippel
Peggy Johnston
Dale Sanders
Mrs. Sanders
Miss Johnston
Clum’s Corners
Eagle Malls
Michael Lyons
Arlea Rogers
Rogers
Hatte Bonesteel
Emil Ruegert
Dorothy
Jon
Ronald
John Goard
U.S. Navy
Lillian K. Hodges
van Dam Street
Saratoga Springs
Saratoga Springs Hospital
George Hodges
Groversville
Harold Towne
Tribes Hill
Leonard H. Schermerhorn
James F. Miner
Burke
Greenridge
Ford
Warren
Ford CG
Washington County
Wellington
Glens Falls
Hampton
Department of Internal Revenue
Katherine Warren
Frank R. Dunn
Corinth Hospital
Lake Luzerne
Wendell Avenue
Catherine Young Dunn
Loretta Knowles
Cleveland
Eugenes Dunn
Charles F. Audette
Mary Rourke
Els Hospital
Thompson Street
Charles Jr
United Association of Journeymen Plumbers
Ocai
Edward J. Hogan
St Mary’s Church
Frankfurt
Besters
Joseph D. McCullough
James A. Crosby
Nell P. Hogan
John J. Hyland
Alfred J. Milhouse
Cornelius J. Callahan
W. Leo McCarthy
Joseph Hervieux
Pie Jesu
Larkin Funeral Home
Fifth Avenue
Frederick Allen
First Baptist Church
iBurial
Oakwood Cemetery
Magnus
Jensen
Magnus A. Jensen
Olivet Presbyterian Church
Agatha L. Jensen
Raymond A. Jensen
Pfc
Arthur A. Jensen
Raymond Jensen
Henry Windeknecht
Tieq Pmo
Mason Chapel
Second Avenue
Seth. M. Gehrig
Albany Rural Cemetery
Joseph Tyan
Joseph T. Ryan
Ryan
Allenhurst
Lawrence A. English
English
Mary Jo
Russell Sage College
St. Peter's Church
Flora Parkis
Flora Louise Heermance Parkis
Fifteenth Ward
Old Ladies’ Home
City
Baxter’s Funeral Home
Mount Hope Cemetery
San Diego
Cal
Warren B. Parkis
United Traction Co
Bridge Avenue
River Street
Parkis
Sixth Avenue
John B. Buehler
Edward J. Zapf
Frank M. Higgins
Fred C. Dugan
St. Peter's Cemetery
T. Gerald Mulqueen
James Pollock
Brunswick Avenue
Jane Blackwood
Cora FE
Marquette Murphy
J. W. Burns’ Sons, Inc
Mt Ida
Poesten
Wynantskill
Chas. H. Gardner Agency
First St
N. TY
Firestone
Congress ST
Corner
Ave
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