Bainbridge, NY in Review 1917

Bainbridge in Review

 

Items from Bainbridge Republican of September 13, 1917

Chenango County, New York

 

Sergeant Edwin L. Collins who has been stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., is home for a short time awaiting orders.

 

The Misses Erma Corbin and Carrie Chesebro recently entertained a number of their friends, it being their 12th birthday and coming on the same day.  Among those present were Louise Barton Arminta Andrews, Mildred Chesebro, Mildred Petley, Aline Elliot, Elizabeth Finch, Adah Loomis, Lydia Collins, Florence Greene, Verna Colvin, Carrie Chesebro and Erma Colvin.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Anderson and F. Anderson, of Port Dickinson [Broome Co., NY], stopped in Bainbridge last Friday.  They were returning from Haines Falls in the Catskills where they recovered their automobile stolen from in front of the Moore-Overton Hospital in Binghamton some five weeks ago. The two men who were guilty of the theft have been captured and are in the Binghamton jail.

 

Fred MacFarland who has been a valued employee of the Casein Company for the past 15 years has severed his connection with that concern and purchased the Campbell meat market in the Clark Block on South Main street and has taken possession.  Mr. MacFarland will keep u the fine services of the firm and with popular and courteous young men working together, will run a fine up-to-date market.  Call and inspect the market under the new management.

 

Ray Lowry, of Bainbridge, stationed with the Co. L. 37th Infantry at Laredo, Texas, has been made sergeant and sent with his company to Camp Custard, Battle Creek, Michigan.  Mrs. Lowry left Monday to join him at Battle Creek and will remain with him for some time.

 

Over 90 churches throughout Chenango and Otsego Counties will participate on the next two Sundays of September in the most extensive temperance observance ever held in these counties if not in the entire state.  The occasion will be the annual field day conducted by the State Anti-Saloon League which this year will be extended to cover every section of the two adjoining counties on two consecutive Sundays, instead of reaching single localities on various dates, throughout the year.

 

Rev. W.A. Miller, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY] resigned his pastorate and will become a missionary in Africa.  Rev. and Mrs. Miller and child will sail for Africa, Sept. 15.  After the completion of the sea voyage and a long railway journey into the interior of the Dark Continent there is still a journey of some hundred miles which must be done on foot.  Porters will carry all household goods and supplies.  Rev. and Mrs. Miller have many friends who wish them abundant success in their new field of labor. The pulpit of the Methodist church will be supplied by the Rev. Charles H. Sackett, of Bainbridge.