Local Happenings, July 1941

Bainbridge News & Republican, July 10, 1941

 

Local Youth Gains College Scholarship

 

Bill Butler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Butler, and who graduated an honor student from Bainbridge Central School, has been awarded a scholastic scholarship to Hamilton College and will enter this Fall.  Bill, who graduated in the Class of '40 and who was one of the finest, all-around athletes of the local high school, was a four-letter man his senior and post graduate years.  He played in All-Star games for all sports for two years, and All-Star games for football three years.  While pitching for the championship high school baseball team this year, he finished the season with a batting average of .585.  This is his fifth season playing with the town baseball team, and during these years he has made a fine record for himself at second base.  he was president of his Freshman and Senior Classes and a member of the school band for five years, he also sang in the Glee Club for four years and was a member of the vocal octet last year. 

 

Bainbridge Girl Attains National Honors

 

Miss Dorothie Branham, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Branham, of Bennettsville [Chenango Co., NY], has received an honorable-mention art award in a contest sponsored by the Youth Forum of the American Magazine.  Names of the winners may be found in the August issue.  Miss Branham submitted a drawing on the theme:  What my Community Contributes to the Nation, which is on display in the "News" office window.

 

Farm Folks to Aid Drive For Aluminum

 

Farmers, homemakers, and 4-H club members will help in the nation-wide drive to collect old and not needed aluminum useful in the production of defense equipment.  The drive will be held starting the week of July 21.  At the request of the extension service of the New York State Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics, the state and county agricultural defense committees agreed to take charge of the work in rural communities.  The farm folks, along with the city folks, will be called upon to contribute old aluminum utensils and unused aluminum parts of all sorts.  Items desired include pots and pans, radio parts, toys, screening, old washing-machine parts, picture frames, bookends, ice trays, measuring cups, camera equipment, kettles and double boilers, bottle and jar caps, refrigerators plates, shakers, and parts of electric appliances of all sorts.  Anything that's made of aluminum will do.  Families are asked to begin now to look around for things which they will be able to spare.  Gathering will commence during the week of July 21.  The federal office of production management and civilian defense say, however that housewives should be cautioned against giving more than they can readily spare, to avoid a secondary shortage in other metals.  Scrap aluminum, after proper treatment, can be used for defense purposes and will also free new aluminum for airplanes.

 

Bainbridge News & Republican, July 31, 1941

 

Troopers Arrest Local Laborer

 

Harlan W. Reichel, alias Walter Moran, an employee of the National Milk Sugar Co., was arrested July 21 by Troopers J.C. Fleming and E.J. Rock, charging Moran with abandonment on complaint of William Roseboom, Commissioner of Welfare of Otsego County.  Harlan W. Reichel, 32, married and father of three children lived in Rensselaer and worked for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., as a baker's helper until April 13, 1941.  On this day a coat belonging to Reichel was found on the West Shore of the Hudson River beneath the Dunn Memorial Bridge and in this coat were two notes in which Reichel stated that he was going to commit suicide.  One of the notes was addressed to his wife, Florence, and the other to his sister, Mabel Moskal, Broadalbin, N.Y.  Reichel was a policy holder of the Travelers Insurance Company and when Mrs. Reichel received the suicide note, she asked for a settlement form the insurance company.  But the company didn't make a settlement as they had seven years when he would be claimed to be dead in event that he or his body was found.  Previous to his job in Renssalaer, he had worked around Cooperstown so upon his disappearance, the Welfare officer of Albany sent his family to Cooperstown where Otsego Welfare officer took charge of them.  J.E. Derby, of Albany, of the Travelers Insurance Co., received information through the Albany County Welfare, that Harland Reichel was working and living in or near Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY]. State Police were notified and he was picked up at Algonquin Inn., where he lived in one of the cabins, going under the assumed name of Walter Moran.  When questioned he admitted he was Reichel and gave the reason for disappearance as financial troubles.  He stated that he did odd jobs around Algonquin Inn until June 1 when he went to work at the Sugar Factory.  He was turned over to Sergeant J. Cunningham, of Troop C. Substation at Cooperstown, and taken to Otsego County Jail and was granted a preliminary hearing before justice Harold D. Carpenter in Cooperstown. 

 

Harry Myers Finds Snake Nest

 

Harry Myers, R.D.2, Bainbridge, found a nest of black water snakes on top of a cinder pile in back of the old sugar factory on Front street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], recently.  the largest measured 42 inches long.



Marriages (May 24)

Keery-Olander:  Married at the Pillars, Thursday evening, July 10, Guilford Center, by the Rev. J.W. Bump were Francis G. Keery of Walton [Delaware Co., NY], and Alice M. Olander of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY].  the attending couple were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Seymour, of Sidney.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 17, 1941]

 

Smith-Russ:  On Saturday afternoon, July 5, at 2:30 P.M., at Mt. Upton, occurred the marriage of Miss Geraldine Russ, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Russ, to Donald R. Smith, of Grand Island, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Smith.  They were attended by Kathleen M. Kauth, of Buffalo, and J. Milton Kelso.  The Rev. Charles Dempsey, of Guilford, officiated.  The bride is a teacher and the groom is a chemical engineer.  Congratulations are extended to them.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 17, 1941]

 

The garden of the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Mariette Haight, 334 Seneca Turnpike, was the scene of an interesting ceremony Saturday night, July 12, at 6 o'clock, when their daughter, Miss Hildegarde  Hopkins Haight, was united in wedlock to Frank Boyd McLaughlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. McLaughlin, 971 Lancaster avenue.  The Rev. Walter R. Henricks, Jr., minister of Onondaga Valley Presbyterian Church, read the service in a floral setting in the center of the formal garden.  A string orchestra provided music.  The bride wore a white net dress with a large, white Gainsborough hat and carried a white Colonial bouquet.  Her attendants, Mrs. Charles Stouer and the bride's sister, Mrs. Thomas B. Dixson, wore yellow chiffon dresses with yellow Dutch caps and carried sheaves of garden flowers.  Robert McLaughlin was best man, and ushers were Robert Anderson, ,Charles Stouer, Thomas Dixson.  Martha Tallman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Conde Tallman, of Baldwinsville, cousin of the bride, was flower girl.  Her frock was of pink dotted Swiss and she carried a small basket of delphinium, poppies and Lemon lilies.  Mrs. Haight, the brid's mother, was in hyacinth blue lace and had a bouquet of sweet peas.  Mrs. McLaughlin, the bridegroom's mother, chose blue chiffon and had a bouquet of sweet peas. supper was served.  When the couple left on a motor trip through the South, the bride wore a coral colored suit with natural linen shoes and matching hat and bag.  Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin expect to live in Syracuse [Onondaga Co., NY].  Both young people are graduated from Syracuse University.  The bride is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority; the bridegroom is a member of Phi Delta fraternity.  Mrs. Lloyd Everingham and Mrs. George Reagan arranged a bridge and shower in the former's home on Ruhamah avenue for the bride before her marriage. The night before the wedding, Frank B. McLaughlin, the bridegroom, was the host at a dinner in the Green Gate for the bridal party.  Miss Haight was a member of the Bainbridge Central High School Faculty.--Syracuse-Herald American, July 20, 1941  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 31 , 1941]

 

One of the most enjoyable occasions which it has been our lot to participate in of late in our village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], was the reception of Mr. and Mrs. Marston, on the evening of their marriage, at the residence of Edward T. Hayes, Esq., the bride's father.  Notwithstanding the weather was extremely unpropitious, the commodious house was well packed with a joyous and happy company, assembled to congratulate the happy couple.  The aged as well as the youth of our village vied with each other in doing honor to the occasion, while the happy couple themselves seemed not indifferent to the pleasant attention which was bestowed upon them, and joyously received the kind wishes and congratulations of their many friends.  The supper spread upon the occasion did honor to it, and was in perfect good taste and keeping with its surroundings, as all who had the pleasure of partaking of its richness, can abundantly testify.  After supper, music and dancing was the order, and right merrily were they enjoyed by the young people until the small hours of the morning admonished them that pleasure, even, must have an end, and the joyous company separated. We noticed a large number of rich and costly bridal presents which were bestowed upon the bride, but the package of Midland R.R. Town Bonds, from her father seem to us peculiarly appropriate, coming as it did from one of the originators of the great enterprise.  May the lives of the happy couple be long and full of happiness is the wish of their many Norwich friends.  [Chenango Telegraph & Chronicle, Nov. 25, 1868]

Obituaries (May 24)

It was with a genuine feeling of sorrow that the people of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] learned of the death of Mrs. Lucy Keeler Ives which occurred on Sunday, July 6, at her home in this village.  Her small erect figure always so daintily clad was a well loved sight and with her passing is felt the loss of something rare and fine.  She had an exceptionally keen mind and her conversation was so original, so vivacious and everyone enjoyed her and loved her.  Born the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Seneca McNeil Keeler, at East Bloomfield, N.Y., on April 22, 1860, Mrs. Ives received her early education in a home characterized by the sterling qualities which in later years made her a distinct asset to this village.  Following the completion of her high school education Mrs. Ives became a member of the class of 1882 at Mt. Holyoke College.  She chose teaching as a profession and entered the school system at Plainfield, N.J., where she remained until 1888 when she resigned to become the wife of George A. Ives, who survives the deceased.  After taking up her residence here she continued her educational activities coaching pupils for various speaking contests.  As proof of her ability it is said that no pupil whom she coached failed to qualify for a prize.  Frail of physique, she was endowed with tremendous vitality which was used unsparingly in any cause she considered worthy.  Well read and resourceful, she devoted her energies to the solution of many civic and political problems.  Twice she was elected to the presidency of the Bainbridge Woman's Club in which she always took an active and vital interest.  Her brilliant mind and charm contributed much to the success of that organization.  She affiliated with the local Presbyterian Church where for a great many years she was superintendent of the primary department, after which service she assumed the role of teacher of the Philathea Class.  And every branch of the church's work both at home and in the mission field was dear to her heart and had her loyal support.  Great loyalty to friends and ideals was always a strong characteristic and she never failed the trust and confidence her associates had in her.   With all her outside interests her main concern was her family.  September 1938 marked fifty years of happily married life.  Mrs. Ives was proud of her husband, her home and their son, Irving McNeil Ives, who is Majority Leader of the New York State Assembly.  Hers was a gentle, kindly and philosophical soul and she brought those qualities to the fore in her home life.  Not alone the home, but the church and the community will miss her kind ministrations.  Besides her husband and son the deceased is survived by two sisters, Miss Sarah M. Keeler and Mrs. Lydia S. Boright, both of Boston, and a grandson, George E. Ives, a student at Dartmouth College, and two nieces, Mrs. T. Sewall Messenger, of East Providence, R.I., and Mrs. George O. Jenner, of Hollywood, Cal.  The funeral was largely attended by a host of sorrowing friends at the Presbyterian Church Wednesday afternoon.  The Rev Paul L. Carpenter officiated.  Her body was laid at rest in Greenlawn Cemetery, Bainbridge.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 10, 1941]

 

Charles A. Ellis died suddenly at his home at 47 Greenlawn Ave. [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], July 2 at 8 A.M. of heart trouble at the age of 83.  Mr. Ellis was born March 14, 1858, in Newark, the son of John and Martha Ellis.  He moved to Bainbridge at the age of 29 years and has resided here ever since.  On Oct. 21, 1880, he married Emma Payne, who died several years later.  On Nov.24, 1915 he married Mrs. Mary Moody, of Danbury, Conn.  He was a lifelong faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his many friends will mourn his passing.  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Ellis, three children, Lynd and Kittie Ellis of Bainbridge and Mrs. George Smith, of Afton; five grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.  The funeral service was held in the Methodist church, Saturday, July 5, at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Hulslander officiating.  Burial was in Greenlawn cemetery [Bainbridge, NY].  The bearers were Frank Hoyt, Frank Wright, Albert Wilcox, and George Cook.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 10, 1941]

 

Fred Lee Hendrickson, 70, passed away at his home, 22 Prospect avenue, last Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock after being in poor health for several years.  In his early years, he lived in Susquehanna, Pa., working as a lumberman.  He moved from Susquehanna to Oxford where he was engaged in farming until 24 years ago when he moved to Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].  Born May 25, 1871, in New Milford, Pa., he was the son of John and Sarah (Sterling) Hendrickson.  The deceased is survived by his wife, three sons, Champlin, of Preston; Walter H. and Simeon, both of Bainbridge; and one daughter, Mrs. Gladys Thompson, of Binghamton; four brothers, Judd, of Binghamton; Jess, of Deposit; John of Starrucca; and Vern, of Binghamton; one sister, Mrs. Lena Lowell, of Binghamton; 11 grandchildren and four great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.  Services were at Colwell's Chapel Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. R. Lewis Johnson officiating.  Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 10, 1941]

 

Jesse Anderson, former Bainbridge businessman passed away at his home in Chenango street, Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], July 6, after being in poor health for some time.  For many years, Mr. Anderson kept a shoe store in the Danforth Block, Bainbridge, also he was an agent for fire insurance.  He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anderson who lived on the farm now owned by George Myers.  He was united in marriage to Miss Abbey Warren, and they lived in the house now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. S.R. Bennett.  From Bainbridge then moved to Binghamton where they resided at the time of Mr. Anderson's death.  The funeral was held in Binghamton Wednesday with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery, Bainbridge.  The decease is survived by his wife, a son, Attorney Floyd Anderson, of Binghamton, who is a member of the State Assembly, and a grandson, Warren Anderson, of Binghamton, who was recently married to Miss Eleanor Sanford, of Margaretville.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 17, 1941]

 

Friday morning at 12:20 o'clock occurred the death of Adella L. Seward, wife of Aaron Seward, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Merrill.  She was born in Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], April 7, 1859, 82 years ago, the daughter of Adeline (Evans) and John Tracy.  She had been ill only a few days and death was due to streptococcic infection of the face.  Burial was in the Afton Cemetery, Tuesday, July 22, the William Bresee Co. in charge.  She had lived in this vicinity for eight years.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 31, 1941]

BCHS Class of 1936, Part 3

Bainbridge Central High School - Class of 1936

Senior Portraits

"Echo" 1936

 

James Glover

Jimmy needs no introduction.  In the years he has been with us he has made many friends.  His smile and cheerful "hi," no matter what has happened, is a quality we all admire in him.  He is gifted with a pleasing personality. which would be hard to equal, and we hope he will travel the road to happiness, no matter how great the odds against him.

Gretchen Hartmann

And who is this happy young lady?  Why, it's Gretchen, our star dramatist.  Gretchen is always ready to do her part in whatever comes along.  She can act, sing, dance and is active in sports as her games in B.C.H.S. have shown  us.  She is never unhappy, but is cheerful and very popular.  Happiness to you, Gretchen, we know you will succeed!

Georgianna Hovey

Here's dear old "aunt Sarah" herself.  Throughout her four years with us we have found "Georgie" always ready for fun.  Keen humor is one of her characteristic and many a high school "crack" has found its origin with her.  Yet, those of us that know her best, are assured that distance can never sever the ties made by this loyal friend and honored classmate.

Blanche Montgomery

The salutatorian of the Class is our most capable Blanche.  Although always seen and not heard, we like to be around this Senior who hates History, we know, but nevertheless is a very worthy pupil.  As assistant editor of the "Echo," Blanch has helped us out a lot.  The best of luck to you, you have been an asset to our school and class.

June Olmstead

Folks, we want you all to step right up and meet one of our best little artists.  June is her name, and she possesses one of life's choicest virtues--that of being seen and not heard.  The "eyes" have it every time!  When you are looking for loyalty and purity you will find it genuinely exemplified by "June."  Bainbridge High School is proud to send such a sweet girl into the world to accomplish in the finest possible way each task which comes before her.

Edward Peckham

And here we have another high honor student in History.  It seems our Class is full of such able characters.  Although he is not an athlete, Ed has left his mark in other activities.  If one didn't know him, he would believe he was a "quiet chap."  However, many of the wisecracks and bright sayings can be traced to the mind of "he who looks serious."  Well, Eddie, we wish you success in your future endeavors, and the wishes of the Class of 1936 have never been known to go astray.



Marriages (May 23)

Mr. and Mrs. Foster G. Neff

 

Mr. and Mrs. Foster G. Neff, following their marriage at the Church of the Crossroads, Honolulu, by the Rev. Galen R. Weaver, May 8.  Mrs. Neff was Miss Dorothy Harman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. martin Harman, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].  Mr. Neff is the son of Mrs. Margaret Baxter, of Harrisburg, Pa., and the late Daniel B. Neff.  He is connected with the Hawaiian Air Depot.  The couple are making their home in Honolulu.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 1.9, 1941]

 

Miss Beatrice E. Wilber was united in marriage to Otto F. Neidlinger, early Saturday morning, in the First Baptist Church by the Rev. R. Lewis Johnson, pastor.  They were attended by Miss Thelma Taylor, friend of the bride, and John Neidlinger, brother of the bridegroom.  The double ring ceremony was used.  Following the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Neidlinger left for a short wedding trip after which they will be at home to their many friends at their home on the Yaleville Road [Chenango Co., NY].  Mrs. Neidlinger is employed at the Casein Co., office and Mr. Neidlinger is engaged in farming.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 26, 1941]

 

On Saturday, June 21, at 8:30 A.M. occurred the marriage of Miss Beatrice Wilber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wilber, of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], to Otto F. Neidlinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Neidlinger, also of Guilford. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. R. Lewis Johnson, of Bainbridge.  They were attended by Thelma E. Taylor and John E. Neidlinger.  Both the bride and groom are popular and well-known.  Mr. Neidlinger operates a very prosperous farm on the Guilford-Bainbridge road.  The bride was a stenographer prior to her marriage.  Best wishes are extended to them.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 3, 1941]

 

Variety Shower for Miss Taylor:  The Misses Harriet Holman and Ruth Bacon entertained at a linen shower at the latter's home, Monday evening in honor of Miss Pearl Taylor.  Those present were Mrs. Frank Delello, Jr., the Misses Barbara Campbell, Mary Mae Hovey, Emilou Howland, Elnore Hitchcock, Joyce Husted, Charlotte Taylor, Ruth Taylor, Marion Hill, Harriet Holman, Ruth Bacon and the guest of honor, Pearl Taylor, whose marriage to Richard Parsons will soon take place.  The bride-to-be received many useful and beautiful gifts of linen which were presented in a hamper which was also a gift to her.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 26, 1941]

 

Miss Pearl Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warner C. Taylor, of Bainbridge, became the bride of Richard L. Parsons, son of Mrs. Emma Parsons and the late LeGrande Parsons, Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the First Presbyterian Church.  the Rev. Paul L. Carpenter, pastor, performed the ceremony.  Miss Harriet Holman, a cousin of the bride, gave a twenty minute organ recital preceding the ceremony and Bruce Holman, also a cousin of the bride, sang "Because" and "Oh Promise Me."  The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore a princess style gown of velvety marquisette with starched lace, high neck, with long tight sleeves and long train.  Her full length veil was attached to a cap with seed pearls.  She carried a bouquet of white roses, sweet peas and baby's breath.  Her only ornament was a single strand of pearls.  Miss Ruth Taylor, a sister of the bride, was maid of honor.  She wore shell pink starched marquisette and lace with full bouffant skirt and carried sweet peas, yellow roses and baby's breath.  Miss Charlotte Taylor, sister of the bride, and Miss Ruth Bacon were bridesmaids.  They wore heaven blue starched marquisette and lace with full bouffant skirts.  They carried bouquets of sweet peas, yellow roses and baby's breath.  Winsor Casey was best man and the ushers were Samuel Taylor, brother of the bride, and Robert Parsons, a nephew of the bridegroom.  Ben Wilcox, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Wilcox, was ring bearer.  The bride's mother wore navy and white printed chiffon redingote with white accessories and a corsage of roses and sweet peas.  The bridegroom's mother was attired in aqua green with white and beige accessories.  A reception followed the ceremony at the home of the bride's parents for members of the immediate families.  For traveling, Mrs. Parsons wore a light blue silk shantung dress with a matching brown three quarter length sleeved jacket with brown and white accessories.  The bride and groom are popular young people in the village where they graduated from the Bainbridge Central.  Mrs. Parsons is employed in the office of the Casein Company of America and Mr. Parsons at the Scintilla Magneto plant in Sidney.  Following a motor trip to Virginia, they will be at home to their many friends at the Bender dwelling in Juliand street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 3, 1941]

 

Miss Louise Lewis and Mrs. Charles J. Barton entertained at a variety shower at the home of Mrs. Barton, Saturday afternoon in honor of Miss Marion Lewis, whose marriage to Llewellyn Hubbard will take place Saturday in Perry.  The table was centered with a beautiful bride's cake and bouquets of peonies formed the decorations, also large baskets of peonies attractively decorated the house.  Miss Lewis was the recipient of many lovely gifts.  Those attending were:  Mesdames, Frances M. Lewis, Charles Morse, of Cortland; Allen Harman, Kenneth Freidenstine, Edward D. Knight, and the Misses Barbara Campbell, Ruth McLeahy, Phyllis Palmer, Emilou Howland, Betty Lord, Louise Lewis and Marion Lewis.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 26, 1941]

 

Miss Marion Etta Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Lewis, of 67 North Main street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], became the bride of Llewellyn Charles Hubbard, nephew of Mr. and Mrs. William Hubbard, of Bainbridge, Saturday at noon, in Perry.  The ceremony was performed by the Rev. John Seely, an uncle of the bridegroom.  The couple was attended by Miss Louise Lewis, a sister of the bride, and Graydon Seely, of Buffalo, a cousin of the bridegroom. The bride wore a street length dress of rose silk pique with white accessories and a corsage of gardenias.  The maid of honor was attired in aqua silk crepe with white accessories and wore a corsage of gardenias.  Miss Lewis is a graduate of Bainbridge High School and Lowell's Business School, of Binghamton, and is now employed in the office of Frank Lewis and Sons.  Mr. Hubbard was graduated from Bainbridge High School, Manlius Military School and attended Colgate University.  He is employed in Bainbridge.  After a week's trip, the couple will be at home to their many friends at Mr. Hubbard's house, 42 Juliand street [Bainbridge, NY].  Prenuptial parties were given by Miss Jeannette Roberts, of Oxford; Miss Louise Lewis and Mrs. Charles Barton and residents, of Union Valley.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 3, 1941]

 

 



Obituaries (May 23)

Nettie (Owens) Moon Conley, age 83, a resident of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] for 40 years, passed away at the hospital in Preston, June 22, after being in poor health for some time.  Born July 8, 1857, in New Albany, Pa., she was the daughter of Myron and Mary Owens.  She was a member of the Baptist Church.  Mrs. Conley is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Bell Patno, of Bainbridge, R.D.3, and a son, Lawrence Moon, of New Erie, Pa.  Services were held at Colwell's Chapel, June 24 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, with the Rev. Paul L. Carpenter officiating.  Interment was in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 3, 1941]

 

Mrs. Laura V. Carkhuff, aged 74, died at the W.R.C. Hospital, June 23, after an illness of several weeks. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Lynn H. Smith, of Bainbridge, two sons, George, of Norwich, and William, of Eagle Bay; two brothers, Walter and George Coy of Dallas, Oregon; and four grandchildren, Evelyn, Carlton and Allen Carkhuff and Ethelyn Smith.  Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at Colwell's Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Howard Deller, of Oxford, officiating.  Interment was in North Guilford Cemetery [Chenango Co., NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 3, 1941]

 

Bennettsville [Chenango Co., NY] was the scene of tragedy Saturday afternoon when William David Moyer, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Moyer, was drowned in the Bennettsville Creek, a short distance from his home.  The Sidney First Aid Squad arrived about three minutes after the troopers but their efforts proved futile.  Seven men of the squad, under the supervision of Chief Archie Spencer and Bob Laraway, worked for two and a quarter hours using the inhalator and other methods.  The body was found floating in three feet of water by the child's older brother, Donald, who with Mrs. Paul Michel, of Bennettsville, had been looking for the little boy.  Mrs. Michel carried the body to shore.  A neighbor called Dr. Ben Dodge and Troop C. Barracks, the barracks receiving the call at 1:20.  Troopers F.E. Van Buskirk and Milton Ratner responded after notifying the emergency squad.   Charles Staats, of Windsor, employed by the United Stated Department of Agriculture, and who was working on a private job in Bennettsville, heard Mrs. Michel's cry for help and rushed to the scene of the accident and immediately started artificial respiration, having taken First Aid in connection with his work.  Upon the arrival of Dr. Dodge, he and Staats alternated in artificial respiration until the emergency squad came.  Mr Staats told the troopers that he saw the child walking toward the brook about a half hour before the body was found.  He tried to send him home.   H. Smith, of Bennettsville, who was with Staats, also tried to send the boy home.  About 20 minutes after Staats talked with the tot, Mrs. Moyer missed him and started a search for him.  A neighbor called Mr. Moyer who was working in Barton.  Coroner Matt Boname, of Oxford, issued a verdict of accidental death by drowning.  Other members of the emergency squad assisting were:  Donald Fitzgerald, Ray Laraway, Ray Hatt, Ralph Marble, Don Cumber, Louis Parent and E. Dann.  The body was removed to Colwell's undertaking establishment on the consent of the coroner and Mrs. Moyer by the Sidney squad ambulance, escorted by the troopers.  Services were conducted at Colwell's Chapel Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Paul L. Carpenter officiating.  Interment was in the Bennettsville Cemetery. William David Moyer was born in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] on March 11, 1938.  Besides his parents and his brother, he leaves six sisters, Dorothy, Virginia, Jean, Dolores, Beverly and Sandra, all of Bennettsville.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 3, 1941]

 

Will E. Bogart, of Masonville [Delaware Co., NY, passed away at the Bainbridge Hospital, Tuesday, July 1, after a long illness.  He was born in Masonville, son of the late Gilbert and Hannah Beach Bogart.  He was a member of the Federated Church of Masonville and Masonville Lodge no. 606, F. and A.M.  Funeral services were held in the Baptist Church, Masonville, with the Re.v Hammer officiating.  Interment was in the Masonville Cemetery.  Mr. Bogart was educated in the Walton  High School and Colgate university.  During the years of 1906 through 1917, he was a prominent resident of Endicott [Broome Co., NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 10, 1941]

Frederick George Mertz, son of Joseph and Ellen Jerome Mertz, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], passed away at the age of 19, at the Chenango Memorial Hospital in Norwich in the early hours of Wednesday morning, July 2.  He was taken to the hospital Tuesday, June 24, where he underwent an operation for appendicitis and was getting along nicely and would have been discharged from the hospital within a few days, when his parents were notified at midnight of his sudden change for the worse, and upon arriving at the hospital learned their son had passed away, death being caused by a blood clot on the brain.  Mr. and Mrs. Mertz moved here from New York City to the Edward Loomis farm where Frederick was born, and in the year 1925 they moved to the farm known as the Johnson Warner farm, also in West Bainbridge, where they now reside.  Frederick always lived at home attending school at Bainbridge and was liked by all his friends and he enjoyed helping others.  Colwell brothers, of Bainbridge had charge of the funeral and conveyed the remains to the home Thursday afternoon where a prayer was said Friday evening, funeral being held in St. John's Church at Bainbridge, Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, with the Rev. Francis Zimmer officiating.  Burial was at Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].  Frederick is survived by his parents, four brothers, Joseph, Jr., Jerome, George and Alford; five sisters:  Mrs. Clifford Frank, of East Oxford, Theresa, Ellen, Augusta and Veronica, all living home with the exception of the married sister; also four uncles and three aunts.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 10, 1941]

 

Nina Jump Darlin, age 43 and a resident of the vicinity of Masonville [Delaware Co., NY] during her lifetime, passed away on June 16, after a short illness.  Born March 7, 1898, near Masonville.  She was the daughter of Grant and Della Jump.  Mrs. Darlin is survived by her husband, Forrest Darlin, three daughters, Mrs. Clifford Harris, of Afton; Mrs. Norris Butts, of Bennettsville, and Miss Dorothy Darlin, at home; one son, Lloyd, at home; several nieces and nephews.  Also surviving her are three brothers, Louis Jump, of Walton, Melvin Jump, of Binghamton, and Reuben Jump, of Masonville; and one sister Mrs. Nora Fancher, of Sloansville.  Service were held at Colwell's Chapel June 19, at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Hammer, of Masonville, officiating.  Interment was in Masonville Cemetery.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 10, 1941]

Rolland Peckham Graduates, 1941

Rolland C. Peckham Gets Union Degree

Bainbridge News & Republican, June 19, 1941

 

Rolland Peckham

 

Rolland C. Peckham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Peckham, received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy at the 68th Commencement of Union University held in Schenectady the past week.  Mr. Peckham who attended the College of Pharmacy at Albany was a member of the first "four year class" to be graduated from that institution, as previously the course had been covered in three years.  He was vice president of his class during the senior year.  He will remain in Albany until the last of June, and following the State Pharmacy Examinations, will return to Bainbridge to continue in the employ of N.E. Truman.

 



Obituaries (May 22)

John K. Crawford passed away at his home Monday night, June 2, at the age of 72.  Mr. Crawford was the son of Horace and Jane (Knickerbrocker) Crawford and lived in Ithaca until his marriage to Florence Green when they started life together in Candor, moving to Afton a few years later and from Afton to the Lanson Booth farm at Brackett lake which he purchased at that time, the year 1911.  The year of 1914, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford joined the Baptist Church at West Bainbridge by letter from the Afton Baptist Church.  Mrs. Crawford passed away about 10 years ago and Mr. Crawford continued on living a Christian life.  He was First Trustee of his church for 25 years and a member of the Afton Masonic Lodge 360.  Members of the lodge acted as bearers and had charge of the services at the grave.  Funeral services were held at Colwell brothers Funeral Chapel in Bainbridge Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with his former pastor, the Rev. Lester Huptable, of Union, Pa., and his present pastor, the Rev G. Louis Jones, officiating.  The funeral was largely attended and the many floral tributes played a silent part in the high esteem in which he was held.  Mr. Crawford is survived by a sister, Mrs.    J.L. Murphy, and an aunt, Mrs. Gussie Decker, of Ithaca, and an adopted son and daughter, Robert Crawford, of Bainbridge and Mrs. Jane Wakefield, who with her husband lived with her father, and also several cousins.  Burial was in Glenwood Cemetery, at Afton [Chenango Co., NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 19, 1941]

Mrs. Olga Jensen Munk passed away June 11, 1941, at the Bainbridge Hospital, the wife of James Munk, now deceased.  She was born April 13, 18878, daughter of Oline Andersen [and] Theodore Jensen, at Ronne Bornholm, Denmark.  She came to the United States in 1905, living in New York and working as a seamstress until her marriage in 1910 to James Munk.  The family later moved to Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] in 1919 where she has resided since.  The funeral was held at Colwell Bros. chapel in Bainbridge, June 15, with the Rev. Sidney E. Heath officiating.  Burial was at Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY].  She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Ethel Rosenkranz, and two grandsons, James and Robert Rosenkranz, of Long Island, two sons, Ove and George Munk, of Sidney, also two sisters, Mrs. Andrew Sejersen, of Bainbridge, and Mrs. J.K. Hansen of Oneonta, and several relatives in Denmark.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 26, 1941]

WAIT:  At his residence in this village [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], on Monday afternoon, the 2d inst., Col. John Wait, aged 69 years.  Mrs. Wait was born at Preston, in this County [Chenango] in the year 1809, and was one of a large family.  In early life he gave indications of that energy and perseverance which commands success, with a desire for improvement that soon carried him so far as the common schools of the town could afford an opportunity.  With this he was not satisfied.  Desiring an academic education, but lacking the means to acquire it, he made an arrangement with his father who was carrying on a distillery, to chop wood for him, at two shillings per cord, the same price paid to others, and was in addition to be paid at the same rate for all he cut over an average days work.  This privilege was so well improved that at the end of the winter he had earned $10 extra.  With this he brought two very fine sheep which he hired kept for $1.00 a year, having all the increase which was very large.  With this increase, as we are informed, he supported himself at Hamilton Academy, where he spent some time, acquiring a good education, and also while reading law in this village, the result being that after his admission to the bar, on about that time, he sold the remainder of his flock for about $100.  He commenced reading law in this village about the year 1833, and as we are informed, with C.A. Thorpe, Esq. being admitted to the bar about 1836, and then entering into practice with Abial Cook, Esq., and remaining with him for several years.  After this, he practiced alone for a long while, but later was successively the partner of Harvey Hubbard, Franklin Beebe, and B. Gage Berry, Esqrs., with the last of whom he dissolved partnership in the year 1861, since which he has remained alone, and doing a comparatively small business owing to his failing health.  From the first, Mr. Wait had a fair practice and a deservedly high reputation, as a high-minded, talented lawyer; which his success before a jury was beyond the average, he principally exceled as a sound, wise and sagacious counselor, whose legal opinion was of great value, implicitly trusted and rarely overruled even by our highest Courts.  In this department of the profession he has never had a superior in the popular estimate, in the whole history of our county.  He was never an aspirant for public or political honors.  Nevertheless, he has been President of our Village, in the preparation of the Charter of which he took great interest, and was one of the candidates for Judge of the Supreme Court of this District at the first judiciary election under the present constitution.  He was also frequently sent, by his constituents to State and other conventions, where his opinions and counsel were influential and was also, in other respects trusted by the leading men in the old Whig party, and later of the Republican party, of both of which he was an active and conscientious member.  He has been, for several years, the victim of a wasting disease, which has finally removed  him from us.  He passed away with the unfeigned regrets of his many friends, leaving no enemies behind him, and in the full assurance of the Christian faith.  [Chenango Telegraph & Chronicle, Nov. 11, 1868[

Marriages (May 22)

St. Peter's Episcopal Church [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] was the scene of a lovely spring wedding, Friday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, when Darwin Taft, gave his daughter, Miss Viola Gladys, in marriage to Robert Craver, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Craver, of Brackett Lake.  James Taft, brother of the bride, presented an organ recital composed of the following selections:  Andante Cantabile, Ave Maria, Wedding March, Evening Prayer, Berucese Aire G String, and Chanson Triste.  The ceremony was performed by the Rev Sidney E. Heath before a candle lighted, flower bedecked altar. As the vows were taken, the organ pealed forth soft strains from Ave Maria which was very impressive.  The maid of honor was the bride's sister, Miss Margaret Taft, and best man was the bridegroom's brother, Kenneth Craver.  The bride was attired in a light blue street length crepe dress, a large light blue felt hat and she carried a bouquet of white flowers.  The maid of honor wore an old rose crepe dress, with a black picture hat and carried white flowers.  The ushers were Reginald Nichols, brother-in-law of the bride, and Carl Ousterhout, both of Bainbridge.  After the ceremony a reception was held in the Guild Hall where 100 guests were served.  The tables were decorated in white with vases of beautiful spring flowers forming a centerpiece for the long tables.  The bride's table was centered with a beautiful three tier wedding cake with a miniature bride and groom on top.  Mrs. Craver is a graduate of the Bainbridge High School and is employed at the Scintilla Magneto plant in Sidney.  Mr. Craver is also a graduate from the local high school and is employed in the Casein Laboratory in this village.  After a short wedding trip the couple will reside between Afton and Bainbridge.  There were out-of-town guests from Athol, Mass., Greenfield, Mass., New Jersey, Harpursville, Church Hollow, West Bainbridge and Binghamton.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 5, 1941]

 

The marriage of Miss Laura Eloise Foulds, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Foulds, of Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], to Gordon Percy Bucklin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bucklin, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], took place in the Methodist Church, Coventry, at 8:30 Saturday evening, June 7.  The Rev. Z. James Hall officiated.  Mrs. William Hancock played the bridal music.  Mrs. Clifford Porter sang "O Promise Me," and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Dalton sang "I Love You Truly,"  Miss Elizabeth Loomis, of Afton, was maid of honor and a former classmate of the Afton High School.  Iris and ferns were used to bank the altar.  The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, was attired in a gown of white satin and wore a veil trimmed with lace, and carried a bouquet of Easter lilies tied with white satin.  The flower girl was Diane Foulds, niece of the bride.  She wore white and carried a basket of pink larkspur and pink roses.  A gown of aqua lace was worn by the maid of honor, with a halo of talisman roses, and carried a bouquet of talisman roses.  Wendell Fiske was best man, Harry Foulds, brother of the bride, and Carl Bucklin, brother of the groom were the ushers.  The bride's mother wore a black and white redingote with matching accessories and wore a corsage of red roses.  The groom's mother wore navy blue and navy blue accessories and her corsage was pink roses.  A reception followed in the chapel, where the bridal table was laid with places for 16 guests, and centered with the bride's cake.  At either end were bouquets of spirea and yellow iris, and white tapers in white holders.  The rest of the guests were served from a buffet table centered with a bouquet of syringe.  The bride's traveling suit was taupe beige with tinted lemon accessories. [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 19, 1941]

 

A very pretty wedding took place at the M.E. Parsonage Wednesday evening, June 11, when Miss Mina E. Seeley, daughter of Mrs. Sara Seeley, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], became the bride of Mark G. Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Wilson, of Masonville [Delaware Co., NY].  They were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Victor Millus.  The bride was dressed in an aqua redingote gown with white accessories.  She wore a corsage of talisman's roses and flame sweet peas.  The matron of honor was attired in a medium blue print and wore a corsage of pink roses and sweet peas.  Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are both employed at the American Plastics Corp., Bainbridge.  After a brief wedding trip through Massachusetts, the couple will reside with the bride's mother at 62 Pearl Street [Bainbridge, NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 19, 1941]

 

A pretty wedding took place at the Hamlin home, 22 Greenlawn avenue [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], when Miss Katherine Hamlin was united in marriage to Glen Bowers, of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Saturday, at 1 o'clock by the Rev. Wilfred Lyon, of Hartwick, and formerly of Bainbridge.  Mrs. Fred Hamlin, the bride's sister-in-law, was matron of honor and Fred Hamlin the bride's brother, best man.  The marriage was performed under a bower of white peonies, blue iris, and syringa.  The bride wore a pale pink floor length marquisette gown with a finger-tip veil.  She carried a bouquet of pink and white roses and babies' breath.  A luncheon was served after the ceremony to the immediate members of the families, after which Mr. and Mrs. Bowers left for a short wedding trip.  They will make their home in Norwich.  The bride's traveling costume was a light tan georgette dress with white accessories.  She also wore a corsage of pink sweet peas and roses.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 19, 1941]

 

Miss Edith Adeline Collington, of Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Collington, of Center Village, was united in marriage to Harold Spohn Thornton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rexford Thornton, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], Saturday evening at 7 o'clock, in Trinity Memorial Church, Binghamton.  The ceremony as performed by the rector, the Rev Wilson E. Tanner. The chancel was lighted with candelabra and decorated with gladioli and palms.  The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore a gown of white lace and net, fashioned with a train.  Her finger-tip veil was held in place by a coronet of orange blossoms.  She carried a bouquet of white roses and sweet peas.  Mrs. Caryl Whitmarsh, of Harpursville, matron of honor, was attired in yellow mousseline de soie.  The bridesmaid, Mrs. Marie Burke, was dressed in ice blue mousseline de soie and Miss Mae Collington, in orchid mousseline de soie.  The flower girl Rosalyn Whitmarsh, wore a pink mousseline de soie frock.  All carried bouquets of roses.  Sterling Hodge of Bainbridge was best man and the ushers were George Austin, Jr., and Fred Collington.  Following the ceremony a reception was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Caryl Whitmarsh, in Harpursville.  After a motor trip to the Thousand Islands and Canada, Mr. and Mrs. Thornton will reside in Binghamton.  Mrs. Thornton was a graduate of Bainbridge  High School and is now employed by the Ansco Company, in Binghamton.  Mr. Thornton graduated from Bainbridge High School and is a graduate of Binghamton Business Institute and is now employed at the Scintilla Magneto plant in Sidney.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 19, 1941]

 

 

James Ryan St. Bonaventure Graduate, 1941

James Ryan Now St. Bonaventure Graduate

Bainbridge News & Republican, June 19, 1941

 

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F Ryan attended the graduation exercises of their son, James Ryan, from St. Bonaventure College, June 10.  Mr. Ryan finished a major course in pre-medical field.  He received a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery and will go on an extended active duty at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, sometime in August. 

 

Mr. Ryan was very active in the different organizations at St. Bonaventure College during his four years there.  He was class secretary during his sophomore and junior year; vice-president of the Alpha Kappa Mu honorary pre-medical fraternity during his junior year and was president of the same fraternity during his senior year.  He was vice-president of the Student Senate, the student government body, during his senior year.  "Jim" was very popular during his college career and was elected by the college student body to be included in the 1940-41 publication of "Who's Who Among Students in American College and Universities."

Georgianna Hovey Graduates, 1941

Miss Hovey Will Graduate June 9

Bainbridge News & Republican, June 5, 1941

 

Georgianna Hovey

 

Miss M. Georgianna Hovey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hovey, of Kirby street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], will graduate from Schauffler College, Cleveland, O., June 9. 

 

Miss Hovey has specialized in religious and social work.  She has been soprano soloist in the college choir for four years.  She is a member of Theta Kappa Phi sorority and has been active in many college events. 

 

The commencement address will be given by the Rev. Earl Vinie, Ph.D, president-elect of Schauffler College.



Clara Wilcox, Syracuse graduate, 1941

Miss Wilcox to Gain College Degree

Bainbridge Girl is Student at Syracuse University

Bainbridge News & Republican, May 29, 1941

 

 

Miss Clara Wilcox

 

Miss Clara R. Wilcox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Wilcox of 15 Bixby street, Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], will be candidate for a baccalaureate degree from Syracuse University during its 70th annual commencement exercises at Archbold stadium on the Syracuse campus Monday, June 2.

 

Leonard W. Brockington, prominent Canadian lawyer who is special war-time assistant to the prime minister of Canada, will deliver the commencement address.  Following his talk, Chancellor William P. Graham, will confer honorary degrees.  Undergraduatee degrees will be awarded by the deans of the respective colleges.

 

Miss Wilcox studied in the College of Home Economics.  A member of Beta Phi Alpha sorority, she has been a member of the Chapel Choir and the Home Economics Club.

 





Obituaries (May 21)

Miss Mary C. Warren, eldest alumna of Mount Holyoke College, died at Jamestown [Chautauqua Co., NY], May 17, at the age of 103.  She never wore glasses and attributed her longevity to "strict observance of the Puritan ideals of my forefathers."  When Miss Warren celebrated her 100th birthday on December 21, 1937, a feature of the occasion was the flood of telegrams she received from Mount Holyoke graduates throughout the United States.  For as a graduate of the Massachusetts woman's college in the class of 1860, she was hailed not only as its oldest alumna, but the oldest living women's college graduate in the country.  She was born in Coventry, Chenango County, and was one of the few women of that day from that section to attend college.  After her graduation, she taught at Walton, and later conducted a private school in Coventry.  In her later years, Miss Warren devoted most of her time to embroidery and to reading.  She felt that education had made "tremendous strides" since her own school days, and was particularly impressed by the new methods of preparing students for careers.  Surviving is a niece, Mrs. William H. Fletcher, with whom she made her home in Jamestown---New York Times  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 22, 1941]

Miss Maude Mosher passed away at her home Sunday about noon after suffering a heart attack Saturday night.  the funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Presbyterian Church. [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 5, 1941]

Miss Maude Amy Mosher, a resident of Bainbridge [Chenango Co. NY] for 52 years, passed on at her home in Bainbridge, on Sunday, June 1, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon.  Death was due to coronary thrombosis.  She was 66 years of age.  She was awakened in pain in the early morning hours, and after efforts for relief proved unsuccessful had, at about 5 o'clock called her physician.  She was a granddaughter of Alfred and Amy (Wilber) Mosher who came from Dutchess County, by way of Cobleskill when the road over the hill from Bainbridge to North Sanford was little more than a mere trail.  The first Winter, cattle fodder was so scarce that all but one of Mrs. Mosher's silk dresses were sold or exchanged for hay to prevent starvation of the herd.  Born in North Sanford [Broome Co., NY], May 25, 1875, a daughter of William H. and Matilda (Scofield) Mosher, Maude moved to Bainbridge when she was 14 years of age.  Of her early life, here, we cannot speak.  We can only imagine that in her, then, was the beginning of the woman we knew, respected and loved.  After graduating from the Bainbridge Academy, class of 1894, she became one of its most efficient teachers, possessing to a marked degree, the ability to impart knowledge, and one who unerringly pointed the way at the time in a young student's life when pointing was needed.  Today, these same pupils speak in praise of her guidance, understanding, and helpfulness, and say that they were (blessed) in their teachers whom they did not then appreciate.  Before many years had passed she was obliged to abandon her profession, and her hope for a college education, to care for her invalid mother, to whom she lovingly ministered, for years until her mother's demise in 1912.  She supervised the home until the death of her father which occurred a few weeks later.  She then continued to keep a home here, but spent many winters in Brooklyn with her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. D. Ward Lewis.  Her education she supplemented by travel, not only in her own country, but by cruises to the West indies, to Europe, and to China and Japan. There she listened to understanding and uplifting voices and caught lessons from the ages which she, later in her daily contacts, transmitted freely to others.  She found deep pleasure and mental stimulation in the fraternity of friends.  She had a true genius for friendship.  Hers was a life of notable unselfishness.  For 52 years, she moved in and out among us, working, playing, encouraging, counseling.  If lips could break the silence, they would speak in deepest gratitude for the many acts of kindness bestowed by this thoughtful, kindly lady.  She had friends, over whom she kept loving watch, through the winds of Winter, and the heat of Summer's sun.  She was ever the friend in need; and her friends were numbered by her acquaintances.  Hers was a heart which sang of affection.  There was a nobility, a dependableness a sympathy in her nature that bound friends to her.  Always, she understood, and always she spoke the words of wisdom!  Seeing her duty and pleasure she did it in the spirit of the pioneers who blazed the trails, and left behind the "eternal light in the clearing."  Hers was a life of courage and cheerfulness; though she had known sorrow, the strength of her spirit never faltered.  Her nature had depth, and also, as a constant note--the joy of living.  She was kept young by the parts she played in worthwhile things.  Miss Mosher was a charter member of the Bainbridge Woman's Club, organized in  1899, in which she was active and intensely interested whenever she was in residence in town.  She contributed to its programs, and served as secretary and director.  In 1908 she was one of the organizers of the Bainbridge Free library.  being one of a very small group of women who by patient, self-sacrificing efforts serviced this library, making it the only one in new York State under state supervision, maintained successfully for about  25 years entirely by volunteer, untrained librarians. Here, she served as both volunteer, and acting librarian, until about 1932, when she became first vice-president and trustee.  She worked always without remuneration.  In June, 1917, she became the first secretary of the recently organized local chapter of the American Red Cross, and with others helped supervise the World War Relief work.  Though the evening of life was upon her, yet she lived in the rich activities of early afternoon up to the day of her passing.  It was her desire to remain at the wheel of earthly duties until the last which, with sweet grace, she unstintingly accomplished.  She will be remembered for the esteem, and respect, and love of this rare and human personality that will continue to dwell in the friendly hearts of those whose way she helped to make less dark.  Her relatives and friends will always remember her, even in death, as in life, for her smile and the twinkle that seemed to be behind even the closed eyelids.  If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?  those whom she leaves behind will still feel her helpful presence as they proceed with life's tasks.  Securely enshrined in the heart of her home, and her village, she leaves a rich legacy of the spirit. This life that has come to its earthly close was an inspiration to all within the radius of its influence.  It will be a blessing as it is affectionately remembered, and it is a blessing now, as grief gives to its characteristics an outstanding vividness.  Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 4, at 2:30, at the First Presbyterian Church, where she had been a communicant for 48 years.  Her pastor, the Rev. Paul Carpenter, spoke feelingly of her devotion, and generous contributions to every phase of church life.  She is survived by her brother, Att. Harry J. Mosher, of New Berlin, and by an aunt, Mrs. Ella Olmsted, of Bainbridge.  She was laid gently away in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY], and not far from where she sleeps; 

The old historic river, 

In liquid notes of silver

Will chant her requiem. 

[Bainbridge News & Republican, June 12, 1941]                            

Lavern Tiffany, son of the late Clark and Cynthia Tiffany, Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], died in his Cassville [Oneida Co., NY] home, May 29, after an illness of 15 months.  He was born February 1, 1876, at Arctic, attending the Cassville schools, after which he took up farming. In 1906 he married Mabel Terry, who died in 1910.  On July 6, 1912, he married Cora L. Way.  He was a road builder from 1920 to 1924 and in February, 1929, he moved to Cassville where he conducted a general store.  Besides his widow, he leaves to mourn his loss, two daughters, Mrs. John Drachler, Bainbridge and Mrs. Harold Jones, Cassville, one brother, Grant Tiffany, Bainbridge; four grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.  The funeral was held at 2 P.M., Sunday from his home.  Masonic services were conducted at the grave.  Burial in Sauquoit Valley Cemetery [Oneida Co., NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 5, 1941]

Marriages (May 21)

Guilford [Chenango Co., NY]:  Friday evening at 7:30, at the home of the bride in Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], occurred the marriage of Miss Jessie Ruth Chichester, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Chichester, to Vernon Ray Munson, also of Mt. Upton.  The officiating clergyman was the Rev. J. Henry Simons.  They were attended by Mrs. Renwick Walling, of Bainbridge, and Lester Van Namee, of Mt. Upton.  The groom holds an excellent position as machinist with the American Separator Works.  Congratulations are extended.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 22, 1941]

 

Mr. and Mrs. C. Burton Brown, were honored Sunday with a surprise party in honor of their 35th wedding anniversary.  Guests included their children, Mr. and Mrs. Ward Loucks, of Oneonta; Mr. and Mrs. Russell Brown and family, Mr. and Mrs. Maxson Crumb, Mrs. Theodore Knapp and son, Mrs. Harriette Scott and Miss Georgianna Brown, also Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Montgomery of Binghamton, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Branning, of Madison, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carnell and daughter of Harpursville and Roger Tracy, of Afton.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 22, 1941]

 

Miss Jeanne Hamlin was guest of honor at a shower given her by the maid of honor to be, Miss Katherine Hamlin, and the two bridesmaids to be, Miss Lucy Delello and Miss Joyce Husted, at the home of Miss Delello on Freiot avenue, Monday evening, May 26.  Miss Hamlin will be united in marriage to Frank Delello, Jr., June 6.  Miss Hamlin was presented with a beautiful corsage of roses and lilies of the valley from the hostesses.  She also received lovely gifts from the guests.  An evening of fun was enjoyed after which a buffet lunch was served.  The guests were presented with dainty favors and place cards in remembrance of the occasion.  Guests present included Mrs. Fred Hamlin, mother of the bride-to-be, Mrs. Frank Delello, mother of the bridegroom-to-be, Miss Harriet Holman, Miss Pearl Taylor, Miss Marie Lese, Miss Arlene Youngs, Miss Maggie Caracciolo, Miss Ruth Birdsall, Miss Philomena Caracciolo, Mrs. Bastine Delello, Mrs. Herman Strasnicsak, Mrs. DeMatteo, Miss Lena Burkle, Miss lena Delello, Miss Mary Villecco and Miss Raphael Delello.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 29, 1941]

 

Miss Helen M. Covey, daughter of Mrs. Clara Butler, and Leo Van Schaick, son of Mrs. Daisy Van Schaick, all of Afton [Chenango Co., NY], were united in marriage, Wednesday, May 28, at Afton, by the Rev. C.E. Webb, pastor of the Presbyterian Church.  The couple were attended by their mothers.  After a trip to Albany, the couple will reside at North Afton.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 5, 1941]

 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nicholson observed their 50th wedding anniversary on Monday, May 26.  It was a momentous occasion for them.  The Sunday before their anniversary they spent at Ilion with their son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Nicholson.  They were at home all day to friends and relatives.  A beautiful six tier wedding cake, made by Mrs. Frank Seeley, was served, also ice-cream.  Thirty-one signed their names in the guest book as having called and offered congratulations among them being Mrs. Minnie Deidrick and Mrs. McNitt, of Oxford.  They received 54 beautiful cards and gifts.  Mrs. McNitt took a picture of the wedding cake, the decorations on it being so beautiful.  To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nicholson, among our oldest residents, best wishes are extended for many more happy anniversaries.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 5 , 1941]

 

Miss Elizabeth Vail Dunham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vail Dunham, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], was married Saturday afternoon to John Frederick Corwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Corwin, of 787 Voss avenue, Orange, N.J.  The ceremony was performed in St. Peter's Church, Bainbridge, by the rector, the Rev. Sidney E. Heath.  The server was Master David Lewis.  White peonies and bridal wreath were used in the baptistery and on the end of every other pew.  Poplar, silver birch and thorn apple trees with white honeysuckle formed the decorations in the sanctuary.   The altar flowers were white roses and larkspur.  A reception was held in the home of the bride's parents where the decorations were white, yellow and blue flowers.  Mr. Dunham gave his daughter in marriage.  Miss Dorothea Fiske, of Milwaukee, Wis., was maid of honor.  The bride's gown of white silk marquisette was made with a long fitted basque and full skirt and train.  Her veil of white tulle was caught with a coronet of orange blossoms.  She carried white gardenias and stephanotis.  The maid of honor wore peach blossom chiffon and a leghorn hat trimmed wit green tulle and flowers matching her bouquet, and carried blue larkspur, talisman roses, and peach gladioli.  Theodore S. Corwin, of West Orange, brother of the bridegroom, was best man.  Ushers were William Crabb, Jr., of South Orange, N.J.; and La Rue G. Morris, of Pittsfield, Mass.  The pages were Master Philip Gilbert Demeree and Master Robert Mark Hartong, both of Bainbridge.  The bride is a descendant of John Alden and of Deacon John Dunham of the Plymouth Colony.  She was graduated form Brantwood Hall, Bronxville, in 1927 and from Wells College in 1932.  Mr. Corwin was graduated form Hamilton College in 1931 and the Yale Graduate School where he received the doctor of philosophy degree.  He is Director of Research with the Casein Company of America at Bainbridge.  Following a two weeks' wedding trip they will reside in Bainbridge.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 5, 1941]

James W. Stewart on boat sunk by Germans, 1941

Former Resident, on Ill-Fated Zam-Zam, Reported Safe

Bainbridge News & Republican, May 22, 1941

 

The many friends of James W. Stewart, 36, of Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY] and formerly of Bainbridge [Chenango Co.,  NY], are greatly relieved to know that he is reported safe in German occupied territory in Western France after the sinking of the boat Zam-Zam in the South Atlantic, last Sunday night.  Mr. Stewart was listed among the 120 Americans believed lost in the sinking of the boat.  The Germans have stated that all occupants of the Zam-Zam are safe in German territory and they can return to the United States as soon as they can secure passage.

 

"Jimmy," as he was known to all his friends, was one of 24 young Americans who have volunteered for service with the British and Free French Forces as ambulance drivers under Gen. Charles DeGualle.

 

While in Bainbridge he lived at "Harmonie Hall."  His mother was the wife of the late Harrison L. Beatty.  Mrs. Beatty died in 1926.



 



Martyred Hero Spent 1841 Summer in Bainbridge

Martyred Hero Spent Summer

of 1841 Studying in Bainbridge

Bainbridge News & Republican, May 15, 1941

 

Union College at Schenectady was host to more than 600 Chi Psi members when the latter celebrated the centennial of its founding in private and public ceremonies, May 1-4.

 

Delegates from nearly every state paid special tribute to the memory of Philip Spencer, martyred hero of Chi Psi who led in the founding of the fraternity in May, 1941.  He was executed at sea for alleged mutiny in the Navy in December, 1842, while his father was Secretary of War under President Tyler.  He was accused of mutiny because he would not explain messages in Greek found in his possession which Commodore Alexander MacKenzie declared were evidence of a plot to overthrow the ship when in reality they had to do with Chi Psi.  Mr. Spencer was a fluent Greek and Latin scholar and was 19 years of age at the time of his execution.

 

It is interesting to know that Philip Spencer spent the Summer of 1841 in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] studying with the Rev. Dr. Eigenbrodt, of St. Peter's Church.  While in town he was the guest of Col. R.N. Juliand, at Terrace Hill.

 

Several letters and documents relating to the execution of Philip were found among Col. Juliand's papers including two poems written by Philip with his signature.  At the request of Philip Thomson, president of Chi Psi Lodge, these papers were sent to Union College by Miss Janet Juliand, and were on display during the Centennial week.

 

This information was graciously donated by Miss Janet Juliand, of Terrace Hill [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY].

 



Obituaries (May 20)

Melissa Curtis Hughston passed away April 25, 1941, in Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], following an illness of several months.  Mrs. Hughston was born in Russell [St. Lawrence Co., NY], March 14, 1867, the oldest daughter in a family of eight children.  For many years she lived in Sidney and vicinity, working as a school teacher and as a dressmaker.  After her marriage, she lived in Otsego and Wellsbridge.  In recent years, she has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Filer, of Brisben.  Mrs. Hughston was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Otego.  She was active in church work throughout her entire life.  The deceased is survived by:  two daughters, Mrs. Ernest Filer, of Brisben, and Mrs. Ruth Davis, of Utica; one son, Robert Hughston, of Bainbridge; two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Eaton, of Sidney, and Mrs. Winfield Wallace, of Bullville; and three grandchildren, Nancy Lee and Robert Hughston, of Bainbridge; and Maxine Filer, of Brisben.  Services were held at the Sidney Methodist church, April 27, with the Rev. Ralph Gould, of Greene, officiating.  Interment was in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Sidney [Delaware Co., NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 8, 1941]

Final rites for Walter Billings, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Billings, were held in Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], Friday afternoon, at 2 o'clock.  A short time ago he suffered a broken leg which affected his spine.  A cripple since birth, his brief life has been one of illness and suffering. Everything medical science could do, the parents have done to make his body well, but to slight avail.  He was well known in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], where the Billings have their summer home. Sincere sympathy is extend to the family.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 15, 1941]

The body of Glenn Richards, son of George Richards, was brought to Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], Saturday afternoon, and placed in its final resting place, beside his wife in Sunset Hill Cemetery.  His death occurred last Winter in Mt. Dora, Fla.  Bearers were Fred Plumb, Carl Havens, Fred Tripp and Seth Coombs.  Beautiful spring flowers paid honor to his memory.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 15, 1941]

A Masonville man is dead and a Mt. Upton man is in the Bainbridge Hospital as the result of a crash between an automobile and a milk tank truck on Route 7 , about one mile south of Afton, at 3:25 D.S.T., Saturday morning.  Driving the two-door sedan was Woodrow Sinclair Wilson, 28, of Masonville [Delaware Co., NY], who was instantly killed.  His companion, Wesley Pierce, 32, of Mt. Upton, suffered a fractured left shoulder and a scalp wound.  According to reports, the Wilson car failed to complete the sharp turn near the Guy farm, now occupied by Arthur Sutliff, and struck head-on the milk truck, carrying 18,000 pounds of milk, owned by Mrs. A.T. Kirby, of Sidney, and operated by John Smith, 31, of Union Valley.  Smith was uninjured.  Wilson was thrown out of the car and Pierce was removed from the wreckage.  The car was smashed beyond repair and the truck was badly damaged.  Dr. Carl Meacham of Greene, Chenango County coroner, issued a verdict of accidental death.  Pierce was given first aid by Dr. H.G. Cohen, Afton, and later removed to the Bainbridge Hospital where Dr. Cohen took six stitches to close the scalp wound and he was X-rayed  by Dr. Edward Danforth.  Both men had been employed at the Scintilla Magneto Division in Sidney, since last August.  Previously Wilson had worked at the American Plastic Corporation, Bainbridge, for two years.  Mr. Wilson was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Wilson, of Masonville, born February 19, 1913, in Masonville.  He is survived by his parents, two sisters, Mrs. Keith Latham, of Masonville, and Mrs. Ivan Hicks, of Rockroyal; and three brothers, John Wilson, of Masonville, Mark Wilson, of Bainbridge and George Wilson, of Masonville.  The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock D.S.T., at Colwell's Chapel with the Rev. R. Lewis Johnson, pastor of the Baptist Church of Bainbridge, officiating.  Pall-bearers were Homer Hotaling, Carl Gifford, Melvin Longwell, William Scofield, J. Kenneth Hard and Vern Scofield.  Interment was in the Masonville Cemetery.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 15, 1941]

Cora Church, widow of the late Calvin Church, passed away Saturday afternoon, May 17, at the Chenango Memorial Hospital.  She had been a patient there for only a few hours.  Mrs. Church has not enjoyed good health for some time, but had been able to spend the past Winter in Florida, having only recently returned to her home in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].  Mrs. Church was born in Guilford, the daughter of Mary (Birdsall) and Thomas Richards.  Had she lived until June she would have been 74 years of age.  Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Minnie Rose, of Sidney, and a brother, G.A. Richards, of Guilford.  final rites were held from the late home at 2 P.M. Tuesday, the Rev. Frederick Ransier, rector of Christ Church, officiating.  Burial in Sunset hill Cemetery, Guilford.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 22, 1941]

Marriages (May 20)

Mrs. Myrtle I. Wilson, of Guilford, and Reinhold D. Anthony, of Norwich, announce the engagement of their daughter, Thelma Gertrude Anthony of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], to Junior Alfred Cooper, son of Mrs. Melda Cooper, of Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY].  The exact date of the wedding has not been set.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 1, 1941]

 

Wednesday evening, April 23, at the manse, Guilford Center, occurred the marriage of Miss Dorotha Thurston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Thurston, of Rockdale [Chenango Co., NY], to Edward Hatton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Hatton, of Granville Summit, Pa.  The Rev. Ralph Gamewell was the officiating minister.  Mr. and Mrs. Hatton will make their home in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], where the former works with his brother-in-law, Francis Fleming.  Congratulations are extended to them.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 1, 1941]

 

Dr. and Mrs. William H. Nitschke, of 30 Hix Park, Rye, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Isabel Stokes Nitschke, to E. William Baker, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil W. Baker, of 211-16th street, Watervliet.  The marriage took place at Stamford, Conn., on December 29, 1940.  The couple was attended by Dr. Richard E. Nitschke, of Rye, brother of the bride, and Miss Elizabeth N. Baker, of Watervliet, sister of the bridegroom.  The marriage was formally announced to the members of the faculty of Bainbridge Central School by Francis J. Casey, principal, at a tea given by Mrs. Emil H. Best and Miss Mildred Evans, of 50 West Main street, Monday afternoon.  Mrs. Baker is a graduate of Rye High School, Rye, and Syracuse College of Fine Arts.  Mr. Baker is a graduate of LaSalle Institute, Troy, and of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Baker are members of the faculty of the Bainbridge Central School.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 1, 1941]

 

Announcement has been received of the marriage of Miss Dorothy Miller, of Taylorville, Ill., to Leroy Hollenbeck, of this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY].  The wedding took place Saturday, May 3, in the Moody Memorial Church, Chicago, with Dr. Ironside officiating.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 8, 1941]

 

Miss Margaret Claudine Wilcox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson E. Wilcox, and Clinton Stead Wilcox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Wilcox, were married at the Methodist church on Saturday in the presence of the immediate families.  The Rev. George Underwood officiated and a breakfast was served at Aldrich's "Garden Lodge."  Miss Mildred Wilcox was her sister's attendant and L. Newton Hovey was best man.  The bride was attired in a beige suit with navy accessories and a corsage of talisman roses and grape hyacinths.  Miss Mildred Wilcox wore a red suit with navy accessories and a corsage similar to that of the bride's.  Announcement of the engagement was made April 17 last.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 8, 1941]

 

The marriage of Miss Mildred Marie Wilcox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson E. Wilcox, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], to Carl John Kiefer, of Rome [Oneida Co., NY], took place Saturday, May 10, in the St. Aloysiue Rectory at Ralston, Pa.  The Rev. William L. Cawley officiated.  Mr. Kiefer is the son of Mrs. Otto Kiefer, of Rochester, and the late Mr. Kiefer.  Mrs. Clinton Wilcox, sister of the bride and Clinton Wilcox, brother-in-law of the bride were the attendants.  Mrs. Kiefer received her education at Fredonia Normal School and Columbia University and for the past two years she has been teaching in the New Hartford public schools.  Mr. Kiefer was graduated form St. Agnes School and Avon High School at Avon.  He attended St. Andrews Seminary at Rochester and he is now associated with the Snider Packing Corporation at Rome.  Mr. and Mrs. Kiefer will live in Rome.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 15, 1941]

Miss Lola Muriel Wackford, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wackford, of Oxford, became the bride of Richard Orman DeLong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin DeLong of Bainbridge.  Saturday evening, May 10, 1941, at 9 o'clock, at the home of the bride's parents.  The Rev. Frederick Anderson pastor of the Baptist Church of Oxford, performed the ceremony.  Miss Dorothy A. Roach, of Oxford, a close friend of the bride, was maid of honor and Edwin DeLong, Jr., of the U.S. Navy and a brother of the bridegroom, was best man.  The bride wore a street length dress of light blue sheer with a white corsage.  Her attendant was attired in dusty rose and wore a corsage of white.  Immediately following the ceremony, a buffet supper was served.  Mrs. Delong is a graduate of Oxford High School and the Delhi State School of Home Economics and is employed as a bookkeeper at Bob's Diner.  Mr. DeLong is a graduate of Bainbridge High School and is a bookkeeper for Charles Eldred & Company.  [Bainbridge news & Republican, May 15, 1941]

1941 BCHS Top Students

Miss Marion Beatty School Valedictorian

Miss Esther Hollenbeck is Salutatorian of Bainbridge Central Senior Class

Bainbridge News & Republican, May 1, 1941

 

Heading this year's list of the honor students of the senior class of Bainbridge Central School are Miss Marion L. Beatty, valedictorian, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Beatty and Miss Esther Rose Hollenbeck, salutatorian, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.B. Hollenbeck, according to F.J. Casey, principal. 

 

With  four year high school average of 93.35 percent, Miss Beatty won the valedictory, and Miss Hollenbeck has an average of 88.905 percent.

 

Both of the girls have found time for other school activities.  Miss Beatty has one year of Press Club, three years of Latin Club and the alumni editor of the "Echo" and the vice-presidency of her freshman class.

 

Miss Hollenbeck has had four years of Press club and Latin Club, was a member of the Girls' Athletic Association for four years, sang in the Glee Club two years and was literary editor of the "Echo."

 

Robert Smith, Miss Amy Palmer, Miss Dorothy Moyer, and Miss Juanita Baker are the other honor students.