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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1943
Page
4
Community church listings show multiple congregations with morning worship sermons at 11 am and church school sessions at 10 or 11 am. Programs include men’s forums, youth fellowships, Bible study, evening services, and Thanksgiving music noted at several houses of worship.
The schedule lists Holy Cross, Church of the Ascension, St. John's, St. Luke's, St. Barnabas, Trinity with times for Holy Communion Morning Prayer Sermon and Church School. Rev. Clarence W. Jones Rev. H. Boardman Jones Rev. John R. Palmer Rev. Sidney Buck Rev Gray M. Blandy Rev. James L. Whitcomb Rev. C. V. Kling DD ordained clergy and nursery and Young People fellowships.
Lutheran churches present schedules for Sunday school and worship. Names include Rev. George H Kling Rev. Walter W Enler Rev. Walter K Hauser and Rev. James N Lund. Sermons feature Forgiven Only as We Forgive and Gods Arithmetic of Forgiveness. Central Lutheran and Immanuel Danish Lutheran offer morning services and holy communion.
Morning worship and church school schedules for multiple Methodist congregations on Pawling Avenue. Rev. A H Landmesser and Rev. Robert Leslie lead services with baptism, sermon themes like Resources for Gratitude and Sharing Thanksgiving. Youth fellowships and official board meeting noted.
Morning worships and Sunday schools span many Presbyterian parishes led by Rev. speakers such as M. W. Paine Rev. Arthur Johnston and Rev. William Hawthorne with topics including What is Man That Thou Act Mindful of Him Through the Eyes of Faith and The Voice of Faith. Catholic Masses are also listed for St Patrick's Sacred Heart Holy Trinity and St Peter's with multiple mass times and benediction.
A community publication lists worship times and events for several churches. Denominations include Church of Christ Disciples, St. Lawrence's, Our Lady of Victory, St Anthony's, St Anne's, First Church of Christ Scientist, and Salvation Army. Services feature sermons, masses, Sunday school, youth events, and benedictions with various pastors and leaders named.
Harold M. Grout has been appointed to the advisory council of the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Speaking at a dinner for the two weeks’ fund drive, he praised the Troy Albany Schenectady musicians for morale building and noted the December 7 concert honoring America in the war. He also expressed hope that Troy and Albany will soon share the orchestra’s music equally.
Russell Sage Vespers will be held at Sage College with a Negro choir from A M E Zion Church performing spirituals and old hymns. Patricia Girdwood of Middleburg is named student leader for the event.
Trojan Lodge I O O F commemorated its 104th anniversary at a Thursday meeting in rooms on First Street. Jacob Levine noble grand presided Abe Woollins district deputy grand master spoke on Odd Fellowship and its history Samuel E Cohen lodge representative to the LO O F home addressed the gathering.
Parishes listed with pastors and daily Mass times: St. Anne’s under Rev. Harvey J. Bessette offers low masses at 8, 9 30 and 11 with St. Anne’s devotions and Wednesday schedule at 4, 5 30, 7 and p.m. St. Francis de Sales under Rev. Patrick A. Crowe with Masses at 7, 8 30, 9 45 and 11 a m followed by Benediction. St. Joseph’s under Rev. Edmund J. Burns with low masses at 5 15, 6 15, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 31 a m. St. Mary’s under Rev. James J. Casey with low masses at 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and q1 a m and beads and benediction at 7 30 p m. St. Michael’s under Rev. William B. Connell with Masses at 7, 9 and 10 30 a m. St. Paul the Apostle under Rev. Walter J. Torpey with Masses at 7 45, 9, 10 and 11 a m.
Multiple congregations from Johnsonville to Taborton and Poestenkill schedule sermons prayers and union services tomorrow. Rev. Hayner discusses suffering for God at Johnsonville Presbyterian 10 30 am with Wartime Service Fund offering. Zions Evangelical holds memorial service at 10 30 am with floral tributes. East Poestenkill Baptist features sermons on The Mount of Lost Opportunity and Waiting in Hope plus a 7 30 pm union service. Poestenkill Evangelical Lutheran and Gilead Lutheran plan sermons and Thanksgiving union services, with secondary activities and committees noted. Brunswick and Crescent churches host weddings and children sermons while Center Brunswick and Eagle Mills churches coordinate joint Thanksgiving worship.
The second in a series of student services scheduled for tomorrow at the First Presbyterian Church has been cancelled. Rev Halford E Luccock of Yale University, famed for homiletics, underwent an operation and cannot come to Troy until later.
REL announces two priests assigned as pastors with Nov 27 effective date. Francis A. Neumann becomes pastor of St. Francis de Sales in Gloversville after serving St. Peter's in Troy and nearby parishes. Arthur J. Reilly, from Mt. Carmel Amsterdam, named pastor of St. Rita's Cohoes succeeding the late Metello Galanti. Both are Albany natives with long clerical records.
Fabian Kramer of Tennessee on furlough arrives early Tuesday. Mrs. Ralph Galloway visits mother in Bennington. Mrs. Richard Bentzen returns from Sampson where husband trains. Installation of officers at Pleasant Valley Grange today. Juvenile party and dance scheduled for November 26.
Buskirk Sergt. Russell Eddy of South Carolina is home on a furlough to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Eddy. Mrs. Belva Derby and son Russell sell of Williamstown recently visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Guile. Mrs. Fred Sherman and son Owen of Troy, guests of Mrs. Belle M. Welling, have returned.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of Church of Our Lady of Victory to host a card party at the Toulie Club House on Northy Avenue Tuesday evening November 20. All kinds of cards will be saved. Mrs. James J. McKarman is chairman and Mrs. Paul W. Hook. Dewey becomes vestryman at St. Peter's Albany as announced by Rev. Erville B. Maynard rector.
Rensselaer County Home Bureau members joined the Jairymen's League Cooperative Association food forum in Albany on Thursday. Clinton Heights unit members included Mrs. Ray Butts Mrs. Henry Britton Mrs. Burton N Canfield and Mrs. Harry Whitehead while Rennselaer unit representatives were Mrs. Harry Rhodes Mrs. Clarence Greenalch and Mrs Leroy G. Greenalch and Lansingburg unit member Mrs. Dora Rist attended.
Unions of St. Mark's Methodist Millis Memorial Baptist Olivet Presbyterian and First Presbyterian Lansingburg hold the annual Thanksgiving service at St. Mark's at 10 a.m. Rev Alfred A Dence Millis Memorial Baptist will preach the sermon with Rev Ernest F Tripp presiding and assisted by Revs Seth N Genung and Eugene Cunningham. Organist Mrs Evelyn Johnson and St Mark's choir will present music. Free will offerings benefit the Citizens Benevolent Association.
The Southern Coal Producers Association representing over 20 percent of the nation's bituminous tonnage agreed conditionally to join wage negotiations between private mine owners and the United Mine Workers. An association spokesman said participation depends on the War Labor Board decision on unsettled points. Captive mines owned by steel firms have not joined yet. Harry M. Moses, a captive operator, favored resolving the issue to end the controversy as government agencies align on the Ickes-Lewis wartime operation agreement.
Stephentown Home Bureau hosts a Tuesday 10 am lesson at Stephentown Center Church titled Food in Wartime under Mrs Clifford Herrington. A funeral service for Mrs J Harvey Diamond formerly Jennie Gibson was held at Avery G Hall with Rev Homer Silvernail officiating. Interment in Garfield Cemetery. A Taconic Valley Grange supper preceded by thirteen candidates initiated in third and fourth degrees. fund drives include a $100 War Bond purchase and a $5 National War Fund contribution.
Johnsonville reports a G F L meeting at Charlie Weilling's on Tuesday evening. Miss Abbie Sherman wintering with the Herringtons. Mrs Walter Schofield returned from Pennsylvania. Ballston Spa visitors Mr and Mrs B D Esmond and Marian with John Esmond. Mrs John McNeal honored on her 76th birthday with cards. Grace Methodist Church Woman's Society cleared over $200 from chicken supper and sale. War Chest drive chair A J Losaw names Mrs Charles Welling Johnsonville drive. house to house canvass under way.
Speigletown Mrs. C B Sprague sold her property at 690 Fifth Avenue Troy to Mr and Mrs G Saxton Thompson of Leversee Road and rents the Stanley H Fane house on Old Plank Road Mrs Walter J Sanderson entertained for her daughter Virginia s seventh birthday with red white and blue decorations and games awarding prizes to Miss Jean Lan
The column lists numerous funeral services and memorials for residents of Troy, Watervliet, Rensselaer, Burnt Hills, Stillwater, and nearby towns. Individuals named include James J. King Anna Savin Crandall Hannah Doyle William Henchey Margaret Hemstreet and others. Services are set at churches and cemeteries in St Joseph's Oakwood Parkview Stillwater and more, with interments in Mellenville St Agnes Our Lady of Victory and related sites.
Attending included Mrs. Laureta Fogarty and Gan along with Myra Murray Jean Sick Helen Perkins Susan and Warren Peetz Donna and John DeLee Margaret and Lynn Reed Joan and Bobby Kelle her Patricia Langan Janet and Tommy Abbott Mrs Frank Sheehan of Albany and Mrs Warren Peetz and Mrs Don DeLee of Troy who helped with arrangements.
Edith Jacobs of York, Pa., learns of her son Kenneth Jacobs’s safe return as Margaret H. Maloney of the North African theater becomes the first woman awarded the Soldier's Medal for heroism. Maloney dragged Jacobs from a gasoline fire, covered his burning clothing, beat out flames with her bare hands, and later recovered from burns in six weeks of hospital care.
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