Shriners Fall Ceremonial Week Highlights in Troy and Lansingburg
The Oriental Temple fall ceremonial at Music Hall followed by a vaudeville show and party at The Hendrick Hudson. Ivan Grotto No. 14 card party Friday at Masonic Temple with high scores and farm produce prizes. Arch ie W. Ostrander heads arrangements. Several lodges to confer second degrees and conduct meetings across Troy and Lansingburg with social time and refreshments after events.
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Oriental Temple
Ivan Grotto
Maponic Bodies of
Troy
Lansingburg
Music Hall
Crystal Ballroom
Hendrick Hudson
Masonic
Robert J. Swackhamer
Rensselaer - Schenectady
Mt. Zion
Troy Te
Jerusalem Lodge
Lansingburg Temple
Apollo Lodge
Troy Temple
Phoenix Lodge
Lansingourg Temple
Apollo Chapter
King Solomon's Primitive Lodge
Phoenix Chapter
Russell Sage to Open Extension Courses
Russell Sage College will offer four extension courses for the community starting Wednesday evening. Courses include Elementary Accounting Basic Spanish Spanish Conversation and Clothing Renovation and Restyling. All meet 7 to 9 pm for 15 weeks with instructors Gustave Schwamm Blanche Brackett Lucinda Moses and Mrs. Jean Corry at Administration Building Darby House and Cowee Hall.
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Russell Sage College
Gustave Schwamm
Blanche Brackett
Darby House
First Street
Lucinda Moses
Cowee Hall
Jean Corry
Elks Officer to Speak at Schenectady Lodge Memorial
Dr. J Edward Galico a Troy Lan officer in the State Lodge of Elks will address the Schenectady pode of Elks Sunday Dec 5 at the clubrooms on State Street Schenectady The annual memorial services of the Schenectady lodge will occur at that time.
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J. Edward Galico
Troy
State Lodge of Elks
Schenectady
Pode of Elks
State Street
Salary Loan Plan Promises Quick Cash and Flexible Terms
A payday style notice offers $20 to $300 loans for those with jobs with private repayment plans. It details monthly rates like 214 percent, example payments of $50 over one to six months, and states you pay principal and interest only. It invites customers to phone, write, or visit Household for a money problem solution.
Troy Soldier Survives Four Days Behind German Lines
Pvt. Joseph Pszeniczny of Troy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pszeniczny, and Sgt. Warren Fingleton of Hatleyville Oklo led three other soldiers in a perilous escape from German lines in Italy. After four days of hiding, they bluffed sentries, crossed fields and a canal, and finally reached American lines. One man in the group was not accounted for.
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Italy
Troy
Joseph Pszeniczny
Frank Pszenicany
Second Street
Sergt
Warren Fingleton
Hatleyville
Oklo
Pszeniczny
Joan
Knoxville
Tenn
U. & Army
Pingleton
Case
Pizenheary
Rebekah Official Will Visit Area
Rebekah District No. 2 of Mrs. Anna Leeffler will host the annual visit to Rensselaer in December. Versa S. Hammersley is named general chairman with Betty Mohi as secretary and Delia Clark as treasurer. Marion Clark handles reservations. Barbara Moreland and Catherine Lloyd arrange decor. Mae Degen and Dorothy Rasmussen manage entertainment and Rasmussen handles gifts.
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Rensselaer Rebekah District No. 2
Anna Leeffler
Assembly
Versa S. Hammersley
Betty Mohi
Delia Clark
Marion Clark
Barbara Moreland
Catherine Lloyd
Mae Degen
Dorothy Rasmussen
Rasmussen
Whitehall Notes on Local Society and War Bond Drive
Ada Wood hosted racers from the Skenesborough Past Matrons Society Friday night. Students bought 216.90 in War Stamps Tuesday morning. Bernard Murphy, high school principal, reported Thursday. About 100 Republican workers were hosted by the Whitehall Republican Club Wednesday night. Plans to raise a 5590 quota are near completion. Rev. L H Kerns, campaign chairman for Uso and other war organizations, spoke Thursday. The Red Cross sponsors the drive with Mr Kerns as chairman. Canvassers begin Monday with one week to meet the quota. The amount was carried over from last year’s Red Cross drive.
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Ada Wood
Skenesborough Past Matrons’ Society
Bernard P. Murphy
Whitehall Republican Club
L. H. Kerns
Campaign For the Benefit of
Uso
Red Cross
Mr. Kerns
Garry suffers broken arm. cottage to be occupied soon
Tomhannock Bernard Garry has a broken arm. Merrit Brundige and family will soon occupy the cottage owned by Samuel Hamilton. The W. C. S. of the Methodist Church will hold an all-day meeting tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Earl Brenenstuhl. Sewing for the Hea d Cross is on the schedule. A covered dish lunch will be served.
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Bernard Garry
Merrit Brundige
Samuel Hamilton
Methodist Church
Earl Brenenstuhl
Area Manufacturers to Attend 25th Annual Meeting
Area manufacturers will attend the 25th annual Associated Industries meeting in Rochester. Paul G. Hoffman of Studebaker will address the luncheon at the Rochester Chamber of Commerce hall on postwar economic strength. District CED leaders Chauntey W. Cook and Francis E. Gallagher, plus Samuel W. McCochrane, will be present or attend.
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Associated Industries
Rochester
Paul G. Hoffman
Studebaker Corp
Committee For Economic Development
Chauntey W W. Cook
C.E.D
Rensselaer County
Upstate
Francis EB. Gallagher
Troy
Hoffman
Rochester Chamber of Commerce
Cook
Gallagher
Samuel W. McCochrane
Cle.d
Troys Chamber of Commerce
McCaochrane
Marine Corps Opens Eligibility to 17 Year Olds
The Marine Corps will accept qualified 17-year-olds for immediate placement on active or inactive duty. Capt Richard M. Holsten at Albany Marine headquarters said sworn enlistees may await active duty within thirty days. Quotas, previously limited, now present opportunity for youths to join the Leathernecks.
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Marine Corps
Richard M. Holsten
Marine Headquarters
Albany
Corps
Port Jervis Man Named War Council Field Agent
Donald Haring of Port Jervis is named field agent of the war transportation committee of the State War Council with Albany as headquarters. He oversees local Albany region administrators covering several counties. Haring spent twenty years in the automotive industry and served in France during World War I and as field agent for Stars and Stripes. He is a past Port Jervis American Legion commander and active in Orange County Forty and Eight.
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Donald Haring
Port Jervis
War Transportation Committee
State War Council
Albany
Fensselaer
Saratoga
Clinton
Essex
Fulton
Greene
Hamilton
Montgomery
Schenectady
Schoharie
Warren
Washington
Haring
France
Stars and Stripes
Judge Jones outlines World War II food policy plan
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones plans to set advance price floors and ceilings for farm products, outline quantities needed, and ensure fertilizer, machinery, and labor to boost war crops. Congress debates subsidies, with farm groups opposing ceilings and labor factions pushing rollbacks, while Jones seeks broad acceptance of the President's program.
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Congress
Marvin Jones
Judge Jones
Department of Agriculture
Wfaa
Washington
J. B. Hutson
Commodity Credit Corporation
Food Production Administration
CCC
War Food Administration
WHA
Harry F. Byrd
Carl Hatch
Farm Organization
WEA
Hoosick Falls Students Take Army and Navy Tests
Three Hoosick Falls High School graduates Glenn Russell and Robert Sherman and Eric Lindberg took the Army and Navy tests at a Friday assembly. Seniors were ineligible, as they graduate in June 1944, and sessions included Army officers and WAC presentations.
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Hoosick Falls High School
Glenn Russell
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Robert Sherman
Eric Lindberg
Army and Navy
Army
WAC
U. S. Army Air Corps
Hittory
Schaghticoke Home Service Club to Mail Boxes Abroad
The Schaghticoke Home Service Club will mail remaining boxes to U S armed forces during the last week of this month per postal directives. Report any address changes to Miss Marjory Hayes at the local Post Office. A full address list is posted in the Municipal Building. The First Presbyterian Church women announce Monday afternoon teas with November hostess Mrs Rennie Barth and committees led by Mrs James Edwards and others. December hostess Mrs George Kilgus and committee members listed, with January to follow.
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Home Service Club of
Schaghticoke
United States
Marjory Hayes
First Presbyterian Church
Rennie Barth
James Edwards
L. D. Clark
Edward Herrick
William Burdick
George Kilgus
Charles Lawrence
Albert Viall
Florence Gifford l
Irving Jones
Deer hunter returns to find wife with buck
Samuel Carolla took his wife on a deer hunting trip and left her in the car to rest. An hour later he found her still in the car examining a four point buck she had bagged as it ran by. The incident echoes with odd hunting luck and abrupt returns.
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Rome
Samuel Carolla
Local society notes from Grafton area furloughs and moves
Grafton Robert O'Neil is home on his first furlough. Mrs. Orville Corey has returned from Leonard Hospital. Mrs. Charlie Barnhart visits her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Corey. Mrs. A Boupton and family move to George Gundrum's farm on Stuffle Street. Mrs. Mary Carner moves to Brook Trout Inn with her mother, Mrs. Nellie Myers.
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Grafton
Robert O'Neil
Orville Corey
Leonard Hospital
Charlie Barnhart
A. Boupton
George Gundrum
Lon Stuffle Street
Mary Carner
Brook Trout Inn
Nellie Myers
Lady Esther 4-Purpose Face Cream Promises Six Skin Benefits
The ad extols Lady Esther 4-Purpose Face Cream as a single solution for six skin troubles. It claims cleansing, softening flaky dryness, refining pores, smoothing tiny eye and mouth lines, and creating a perfect makeup base. It touts national usage and urges trying the small jar or set today.
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Esther
Lady Esther
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