Obituaries (June 11)

Rose Wiles Pellow, 69, of Greene [Chenango Co., NY], died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ray Showalter, on Monday.  Born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, she was the daughter of James and Lyda (Moon) Wiles.  The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at the Showalter home.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 11, 1942]

 

Elizabeth B. Bond, aged 27 years, 4 months and 5 days, died in the Chenango Memorial Hospital, May 28, after weeks of intense suffering.  She was born in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], the daughter of the late Frank H. Bond and Mary Dressle Bond.  Elizabeth was a graduate of the Guilford Central School in the Class of 1935.  She is survived by her mother Mary Dressie Bond; her sister, Ella M. Bond, and by several uncles, aunts and cousins.  [Bainbridge News & Republican,June 11, 1942]

 

Mrs. Lulu Dardis, of Detroit, who was called to Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] by the death of her brother, Don C. Pratt, was stricken with a heart attack at the home of her sister, Mrs. Leo Wheeler, South Main street, Sunday.  The Pratt family had planned a reunion in honor of Mrs. Dardis and about an hour before the picnic she was stricken.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 18, 1042]

 

Frank Butts passed away at his home on Monday, June 8, following a shock.  He had been in poor health for several months.  The deceased was one of a family of six children, the son of Darius and Emily Edson Butts and was born in Davenport [Delaware Co., NY] on Sept. 1, 1871.  He was united in marriage to Amy Barnes on Aug. 16 in 1893.  To them three sons and one daughter have been born.  The sons have also passed on and he is survived by his wife and one daughter, Mrs. Ralph Palmer, of Bainbridge, and three grandchildren, Wesley Butts, of Franklin Depot, and Pearl and Amy Palmer, of Bainbridge; and three step-brothers, Clarence and Harvey Butts, of Bainbridge; and Harold Butts, of Deposit.  Frank Butts died on the farm where he had lived for 33 years.  The deceased was a kindly man and respected by all who knew him.  He was devoted to his home and family, leading an industrious life but always finding time to do a favor for a neighbor or friend; he was honest in all his dealings; and is one who will long be missed by family and friends.  The many beautiful floral tributes bore testimony to the love and esteem in which he was held in the community.  The funeral was held Thursday afternoon, June 11, at 2 o'clock in the Colwell Brothers' Funeral Chapel.  The Rev. R. Lewis Johnson, pastor of the Baptist Church of Bainbridge, officiated.  Burial was in the family plot in Masonville Cemetery. [Delaware Co., NY]  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 18, 1942]

STOCKWELL--In Afton [Chenango Co., NY], on Thursday, Feb. 3d, 1876, Mrs. Sarah Stockwell, aged 63 years.  [Bainbridge Republican, Feb. 12, 1876]

 

Soldier News - June 1942

More Young Men Join the Service

Bainbridge News & Republican, June 25, 1942

 

The young men of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] have responded to the call and this week finds the youthful population of the town slowly and steadily diminishing as another group of enthusiastic Americans complete or have completed their plans for enlistment in the various branches of service of the United States.

 

Included in the group of fellows are four former classmates who graduated together in 1940 from Bainbridge Central High School--Bryce Wilcox, the son of Fayette Wilcox, who left Tuesday for the U.S. Navy; Henry J. Gardner, Jr., son of Henry Gardner, who also left Tuesday for the Navy; John L. Burgin, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Burgin, of Franklin, formerly of Bainbridge, who leaves for the Navy next week; and Ivor Bosket, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merle Bosket, who left Monday, another new Navy man.

 

All four of these boys figured actively in sports and extra-curricular activities during their years in high school.  Bryce and "Hank" Gardner both played football, basketball and baseball with gusto and were valuable additions to the sports department of the school.  Ivor was a member of the band, football manager, played baseball and is as well known for his dramatic ability as well as his music and athletic prowess.  He played important parts in the Senior Play of 1940 as well as in the Contest Play which won first prize for the section in his last year of school.  In addition to this, he was a member of the Echo Staff and was invaluable in editing the yearbook.  John Burgin, known as "Berg" to his friends, was also a popular member of the younger set of town.  He was vice-president of his Freshman Class, played baseball, basketball, football, participated in several track meets, was member of the Echo Staff, sang in the Glee Club, a member of the Art Club, played in the school band, was Football Manager and played in tennis tournaments.  "Berg" was known in school for his easy-going ways and humor. 

 

Prior to their enlistment the four boys had all been employed, Bryce at the Casein Co., John at the Separator, "Hank" at the Casein and Ivor at Noyes' Drug Store. 

 

In addition to these four schoolmates, Stirling Hodge, John Newcott and Reginald Nichols,  all Bainbridge men, have volunteered their services for Uncle Sam.

 

Stirling Hodge, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hodge, left last Monday for the U.S. Navy.  Prior to his enlistment this popular local boy had attended B.C.H.S., where he, too was an active participant in baseball, football, tennis, and basketball.  On leaving school he was employed in the American Separator which he later left to work at the Scintilla. 



 

John Newcott outstanding athlete of this area, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Newcott, of Peckville, Pa., has enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guards and will leave today, Thursday, for the induction center.  He is a graduate of Peckville High School.  "Johnny," as he is known to all his friends, was prominent in baseball and basketball.  He pitched on the Bainbridge baseball team in the Binghamton Sun League for two years.  Two years ago, while pitching with Deposit, he defeated "Red" LaFlamme of the Albany team at Downsville.  Last season he was quarterback of the Sidney Cardinals, semi-pro football team.  He was a speedy backfield man, a good pass receiver and a fine blocker. Under his guidance he lead the team through the season, undefeated.  He was employed at the Scintilla Magneto Co. before enlisting.  Johnny also has a brother in the Coast Guards, and has a sister, Miss Martha Newcott, who also resides in Bainbridge.  Last Thursday night, John was given a farewell party by Mrs. Reno Smith and Mrs. Arthur Wearne at the home of Mrs. Smith.

 

Stirling Hodge Joins Naval Air Corps

Bainbridge News & Republican,  June 18, 1942

 

Stirling Hodge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hodge left Monday of this week for Albany where he underwent his final examination and was accepted into the United States Navy Air Corps as a mechanic.  A large group of friends accompanied Stirling to the local railroad station on Monday morning to wish him luck as he boarded the train for this new job with Uncle Sam.  Prior to his enlistment, Stirling had been employed at the Scintilla and had previously attended B.C.H.S. where he was active in football and other athletics.  Stirling has the good wishes of all his friends who admire his spirit. 

 

Russell Elander Joins Navy

Bainbridge News & Republican, June 25, 1942

 

Russell Elander, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Elander, of this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], left Monday for Albany to be assigned to a post after having enlisted in the United States Navy.  Known to all his friends as "Rusty," he had graduated from the Bainbridge Central High School after having starred on the B.C.H.S. football and basketball teams during his four years of high school.  In 1935, Russell joined the United States Navy and served a term of four years during which time he became adept in Frist Aid.  On completion of his four years of service, "Rusty" moved to Sidney [Delaware Co., NY] where he became a popular resident and for the past three years was employed nights as First Aid man at the Scintilla Magneto Corp.  His fellow workers, who will miss "Rusty's" good natured manners, presented him with a very generous purse before his leaving, Monday.  Russell returns to the Navy with two higher ratings than when he first emerged, now being a second class pharmacist.  Mrs. Elander, the former Miss Helen Bartlett, of Sidney, and their two children, Harvey Bruce and Lee Russell, will remain in their home in Sidney until Russell's post has been designated.  

Marriages (June 11)

Mr. and Mrs. George Fisk were given a surprise party Friday evening on the occasion of their 40th wedding anniversary.  Invited by their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wesson Packer, to dinner at the Dairy Kitchen, they arrived to find a party of friends ready to help them celebrate the event.  Following the dinner, which featured a large wedding cake, the guests returned to the Fisk home on Bixby street for an evening of bridge.  The guests of honor were presented with a gift; the Rev. S.E. Heath making the presentation and extending the best wishes of the guests.  Those present included: Mr. and Mrs. Packer, the Rev. and Mrs. S.E. Heath, Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Roider, Mr. and Mrs. James Ireland, Mrs. and Mrs. G.E. Howland, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Hovey, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Finch, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dix, Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Carris, Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Tuckey and Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Peckham.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 18, 1942]

 

Baskets of pale pink roses and summer greenery decorated First Methodist Church when Miss Marian J. Peckham became the bride of Dale H. Wade at 5 P.M. Sunday.  Miss Peckham is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Peckham, Bainbridge, N.Y. [Chenango Co.], and Mr. Wade is the son of Edgar A. Wade, Oakland, Calif.  The bride was given in marriage by her father before an altar lighted by cathedral candles.  The Rev. Dwight S. Large, pastor, read the service before 200 friends and relatives of the couple.  Mrs. Ethel Moody sang "Ich Liebe Dich" (Grieg), accompanied by Mary Van Valkenburg Bragg.  Mrs. Bragg played the bride's Oberlin College hymn softly as the couple exchanged vows.  The bride wore a white chiffon gown with a heart shaped neckline edged with seed pearls.  The sleeves were pointed over the hands and the gown had a long train.  Her three-quarter length  veil was of illusion and fell from a lace tiara edged with pearls.  White Iris centered the bridal bouquet of white roses.  Mrs. Harry Ingell, Jr., was matron of honor.  She wore a maize chiffon gown with short puffed sleeves and a bouffant skirt.  Pleated frills trimmed the sheer skirt.  She wore yellow roses.  Harold Bauman was best man.  Ushers were Harry Ingell, Jr., and Donald Peckham, brother of the bride.  Mr. Peckham is a student at Oberlin college.  For her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Peckham chose a poudre blue lace gown and white accessories.  Pink roses and stephanotis formed her corsage.  A reception for 100 guests was held in Wesley hall following the rites.  A tiered wedding cake centered the long table.  At either end were silver bowls of pale pink roses and other summer flowers.  Ivory tapers were in silver candle holders.  Members of the Orpheus Society served the guests.  When the couple left on a wedding trip, Mrs. Wade was wearing a brown sheer crepe overskirt with a white sheer frock.  Her hat was brown and other accessories white.  She pinned the white iris form her bridal bouquet to the shoulder of her traveling ensemble.  Mrs. Wade is organist at First Methodist Church.  Mr. Wade is at the United State Naval Training Station, San Diego, Calif.--Port Huron Times Herald.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 2, 1942]

Lucy T. Delello

 

 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Delello, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], announce the engagement of their daughter, Lucy T. to Larry Argiro, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Argiro, of 608 North Townsend street, Syracuse, at a dinner for the immediate family, Saturday, June 27.  Miss Delello attended Bainbridge Central School and is at present engaged as a forelady in Scintilla Magneto.  Mr. Argiro is a graduate of the college of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, where he was affiliated with Sigma Chi Alpha, Fine Arts honorary, and Kappa Phi Kappa, education honorary.  He was a member of the Bainbridge High School faculty where he had charge of the Art Department.  Mr. Argiro has left for Camp Belvior, Virginia, where he will receive his basic training preliminary to his assignment to a camouflage school. [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 9, 1942, July 16, 1942]

 

A beautiful June wedding took place in the Sacred Heart Church at Utica [Oneida Co., NY], June 27 at 11 A.M. when Miss Ruth Cotter, daughter of Mrs. Cecil Doolittle, of 2207 Highland avenue, Utica, became the bride of Charles John Odell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Odell, of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].  the bride, who was given in marriage by a cousin, Harold Porter, wore a white flowered marquisette gown, 3/4 length sleeves and a full length train.  She wore a long veil, with orange blossom tiara and carried white roses.  Miss Marie Suskie, as maid of honor, wore a pink marquisette dress.  Her flowers were mixed garden flowers.  The bridesmaids were Miss Rita Cotter, sister of the bride, and Miss Edna Bialis.  Miss Cotter wore a yellow marquisette dress with a flowered tiara. Miss Bialis had a blue marquisette gown, with a blue flowered tiara and a bouquet of mixed garden flowers.  Carol Grieneder, flower girl, wore a white net dress with flowers fastened to the net. Raymond Zimmer was best man and John Eichlorn and Tom Suskie, schoolmates of the bride, were ushers.  Mrs. Cecil Doolittle, mother of the bride, wore a pink lace dress with yellow corsage, and accessories to match.  The groom's mother wore a baby blue silk Jersey dress with a pink corsage and white accessories.  Wedding marches were rendered on the organ by Joe Enfield.  A reception for 60 was held at the bride's home and a wedding breakfast was served.  The bride and groom visited the bride's grandmother at Ogdensburg Hospital while on their wedding trip.  Mr. and Mrs. Odell will reside near Guilford as soon as the house is completed.  [Bainbridge News & Republica,  July 9, 1942] 

 

Mr. and Mrs. Sidney A. Glenn, of Utica [Oneida Co., NY], announce the engagement of their daughter Mary Margret, to Lieut. Charles Storer Scovil, son of Mrs. J. deLancey Scovil and the late Rev. J. DeLancey Scovil.  Miss Glenn is a graduate of the Utica Free Academy and attended the School of Related Arts and Sciences.  Lieutenant Scovil is a graduate of DeVaux School, Niagara Falls, and received his commission as second lieutenant at Fort Monmouth, N.J., in June.  He is now stationed at Frost Jackson, S.C.  No date has been set for the wedding.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 9, 1942]

 

The marriage of Sherriff Alley and Miss Harriet Alger, both of Masonville [Delaware Co., NY], took place Sunday at 1:15 P.M., at the Methodist parsonage in Bainbridge.  They were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hodges, of Sidney.  Mr. and Mrs. Alley will make their home in East Masonville.  They both work in the Scintilla plant, at Sidney.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 9, 1942]

 

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Petley announce the engagement  of their daughter, Clara Louise, to Carl Toby Hovey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hovey, of Kirby street, Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].  The wedding will take palce in the late Summer.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, July 9, 1942]

Florence Bliss Ends Teaching Career, 1942

Florence P. Bliss Ends Teaching Career

Had Guided Students for Over Decade and a Half

Bainbridge News & Republican, June 25, 1942

 

When the Fall term of Bainbridge Central High School [Chenango Co., NY] begins there will be a vacancy in the faculty that no replacement can cover.  For it is virtually impossible to replace over a decade and a half of devotion to duty and charges such as continuously given by Florence Price Bliss, who, this June, has retired permanently from the teaching profession  Mrs. Bliss, under whose guidance hundreds of pupils prepared to take the eventful step from Junior High to High School, has been forced to render her resignation due to illness, and will receive a disablement pension, her rightful reward for many long years of labor.

 

Florence Price Bliss graduated from Bainbridge High School in 1917 and then spent the next year teaching in the Bristol District, after which she entered Syracuse University for a year and a half of training, followed by the formal completion of her education in the Oneonta Normal School from which she graduated in 1923.  On leaving the Normal, Mrs. Bliss continued to teach in the Bristol District for four years until 1928 when she joined the faculty of the local Bainbridge School, instructing in the Junior High.

 

In 1935, Mrs. Bliss was stricken with "creeping paralysis" and was taken to New York City where her ailment was definitely diagnosed as multiple sclerosis.  Despite her disablement, she continued her teaching and in the years  1936-37 was given the less arduous position of teacher in the Newton Hollow District.  The next year, however, found her joyfully welcomed back to B.C.H.S. where she has constantly taught since then.  Her remarkable courage, her ability to remain the smiling, helping "Mrs. Bliss," loved by all her pupils, have won this true teacher the admiration and respect of all.  The students she taught will never forget her.  The individual attention she gave to her pupils, the special aid to problems, both personal and scholastic and her understanding ways are all traits of Mrs. Bliss.  It is something to win the respect of a disinterested pupil but to win his love is an accomplishment and in her years of teaching, Mrs. Bliss has done this often.  Constantly improving her own knowledge as well as that of her pupils, she took extension courses form Syracuse University and attended numerous summer sessions at Oneonta Normal. 

 

In addition to the students the faculty, too, has loved Mrs. Bliss.  Her fellow workers have also realized their colleague's worth and she always occupied the highest point of their esteem.  the faculty, in a body, have presented Mrs. Bliss with a beautiful coffee table, a material offering of their sentiments.

 

The following verses have been contributed by a local friend of Mrs. Bliss.

 

A Tribute

Florence Price Bliss

 

"All day beside her desk she sits to teach

The youth; to sow the seed of truth and tend

The growing plant; the tender twig to bend,

To train, to trim.  Her aim the mind to reach

And waken, stir to life the soul.  Her end

Not wealth, or fame, or power, but so to spend

Her life that it shall count for common weal

In helping humankind still to ascend.

 

Content is she her pupils forth to send

To find in all the fields their treasures rare,

Knowing that they who seek the best befriend

Themselves and learn to sympathize and share,

Thus character is formed and lives reveal

The goal and glory of her high ideal."



Obituaries (June 10)

Donna Lee Bennett, 17-months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Bennett, of Portsmouth, N.H., died in the Portsmouth Hospital Wednesday night of last week as the result of a truck accident.  Little Donna wandered away from her home at a trailer camp and was struck by a truck delivering ice at the camp about 10 o'clock Wednesday morning.  She suffered a brain injury which caused her death.  Her father is employed by the Land Construction Co.  She is survived by her parents, three brothers, David, 8; Carl, 6; and Dick, 4; and her grandmother, Mrs. Clara Bennett, of Bainbridge.  The body was brought to Bainbridge where services were held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Colwell's Chapel with the Rev. R. Lewis Johnson officiating,  Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY]  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 14, 1942]

 

Mrs. Austin Cuyle was Bainbridge's [Chenango Co., NY] first blackout victim, when she succumbed Monday night, as the aftermath of an attack of cerebral apoplexy, brought on by hysteria and panic caused by the blackout.  It is reported that, when the blackout first began, Mr. Cuyle went out the front door and Mrs. Cuyle out the back door of their home on Kirby street.  The former, returning into the house locked the front door behind him,  Mrs. Cuyle, meanwhile, walked around the house, and up the front steps to enter the front door.  On finding the door locked, she became panicky, and pressed by the darkness, ran back around to the rear door which she entered to collapse on the sofa, crying to her husband that "the darkness is smothering me."  It is believed that her over-wrought nerves, and her previous weakened condition from illness, together with her sudden fright at being locked out in the dark caused her to suffer the attack which ended her life.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 28, 1942]

 

Edna Dewey Cuyle, 60, died Monday evening, May 25, at about 11 o'clock after suffering an attack of apoplexy two hours previous.  She was stricken during the blackout, apparently the result of becoming frightened due to the darkness.  Mrs. Cuyle will be remembered for her fine needlework.  A few years ago, she was awarded two State Fair prizes, a first prize for a hooked wall hanging and a second prize for a hooked rug.  Her fondness for flowers was apparent by her well-kept garden.  Born in Wayne County, on Aug. 29, 1881, she was the daughter of W. Romeyn and Julia (Pratt) Dewey.  At an early age, Mrs. Cuyle went to live with her grandmother in Cobleskill, after the death of her mother.  On Oct. 4, 1905. she was united in marriage to Austin Cuyle in Oneonta.  She was a member of Bridgehanna Rebekah Lodge No. 427.  Before coming to Bainbridge in 1914, she had spent most of her life in Oneonta and Binghamton.  The deceased is survived by her husband, a daughter, Helen Cuyle Sheffield, and grandson, Peter Sheffield, of New York City; her father, W. Romeyn Dewey; stepmother, Mrs. Ella Dewey, of Oneonta; two half sisters, Mrs. Joseph McCarthy and Mrs.  Harry Root, both of Oneonta; and two brothers, Raymond Dewey, of Binghamton; and Harold Dewey, of Oneonta.  Services were held at Colwell's Chapel on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. Paul Carpenter officiating. The many flowers denoted the high esteem in which she was held. The body was placed in the vault with burial to take place later in the Summer.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 11, 1942]

 

Guilford Centre [Chenango Co., NY]:  Passed away, Jan. 31st, with a humble but firm reliance on his Saviour, Mr. Russell Clark of this village aged 78 years.  Such is the brief record of the departure form tthis mortal scene of one of our oldest and most respected citizens and an honored and useful member of the church.  For the reward of his self abundant and loving labor he had gone to receive from Him who will render to every man according to his deeds.  His funeral sermon will be preached in the Congregational church in this village on Sunday morning, 6th inst.  [Bainbridge Republican, Feb. 5, 1876]

 

Henry M. Flint, General Superintendent of the New York and Oswego Midland Railway, who was injured in the accident on that road last week Wednesday when an engine and snow plow went through the Willoemock River bridge, died Monday evening at Westfield, Delaware county.  Out of nine persons injured he was the only one seriously hurt.  He was an experienced and successful railroad manager, and was the first to make the bankrupt Midland road pay expenses.  He resided at Newburgh, where he leaves a family.  His age was about 45 years. The engines on the road are draped in mourning in memory of the deceased.  [Bainbridge Republican, Feb. 12, 1876]

 

Death of George L. Rider --  This venerable and widely known citizen of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] departed this life at his residence in this village on Sunday morning last, aged 71 years.  he was one of the early settlers of the place and by his intelligence and enterprise, greatly contributed to its prosperity and growth. As the just reward of his integrity and exertion, he accumulated something more than a competence of this world's goods and dies with the respect and attachment of his fellow townsmen, and of all who knew him.  Mr. R. was a prominent and active member of the fraternity of Masons, by whom his remains were consigned with appropriate ceremonies to the dust.  [Chenango Union, Dec. 16, 1863]

 

Death of Dr. Andrew Baker -- It is our melancholy duty this week to record the decease of Dr. Andrew Baker, one of our most highly respected citizens, and a physician and surgeon of deserved eminence in his profession.  He expired at his residence in this place on Monday last the 14th inst., aged 58 years.  Dr. Baker came to this village from Steuben county not far from 25 years ago, and through his talents and skill, aided somewhat by the friendship and patronage of the late Dr. Henry Mitchell, soon acquired a wide and successful practice.  He devoted himself exclusively and zealously to his profession and throughout his life maintained a high rank among its members.  He was an amiable, generous, accomplished Christian gentleman, and dies universally esteemed and lamented.  He leaves a large family of children to deplore his loss.  [Chenango Union, Dec. 16, 1863]

 

 

Marriages (June 10)

Miss Mary Jane Blowers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Blowers, of 25 Ayres street, Binghamton [Broome Co., NY], was married to Sgt. Kermit H. Lewis, of Presque Isle, Me., son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis, of Afton [Chenango Co., NY], Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.  The ceremony was performed by the Rev. D. Francis Curtin at St. Patrick's rectory.  Miss Elizabeth Kane of New York City, a classmate of the bride at the College of New Rochelle, was maid of honor.  Best man for Sergeant Lewis was his cousin, Randolph Lewis, of Afton.  Following the ceremony, a reception was held at the home of the bride, after which the couple left for Presque Isle, Me., where Sergeant Lewis is stationed with the United States Army Air Corps.  Mrs. Lewis is a graduate of the College of New Rochelle, and Sergeant Lewis graduated from Mechanics Institute in Rochester.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 14, 1942]

 

Miss Agnes Russell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Russell, of the East Side [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], was united in marriage to John Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hill, of Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada, on Sunday evening, May 17, at 5:45 o'clock.  The Rev. Paul Carpenter presided at the ceremony which was held in the Presbyterian Manse.  The bride was attended by Miss Jessamine Davis, of Binghamton, and the best man was Robert Doud, of Sidney.  The bride was attired in a light blue street-length dress with white accessories.  She wore a tiara of white stock in her hair.  Her corsage was of American Beauty roses and bridal wreath.  Miss Davis wore a rose colored dress with navy accessories and a corsage of white carnations with pink rose-buds.  After the ceremony, the young couple were guests of honor at a reception given in Sidney by Miss Peggy Eaton, a co-worker of the bride.  Mrs. Hill is employed by the Scintilla Magneto Co. in Sidney and Mr.  Hill is employed by the American Plastic Corporation of Bainbridge.  The young couple are making their home at 62-1/2 River street, Sidney [Delaware Co., NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 21, 1942]

 

Seymour-Gott:  Friday evening, May 15, at Ouaquaga, occurred the marriage of Alma P Gott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Gott, of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], to Douglas Seymour, of Harpursville [Broome Co., NY], son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Seymour.  The Rev. Charles J. Sabin was the officiating clergyman. They were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Roland Pratt, of Bainbridge.  Mr. Seymour is a machinist in the American Separator plant, Bainbridge, while Mrs. Seymour holds the position of chemist assistant with the Casein Co.  Congratulations are extended to them.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 21, 1942]

 

Smith - Gage:  A pretty home wedding occurred Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank, of Rockdale [Chenango Co., NY], when their daughter, Bessie Ruth Gage, was united in marriage to Raymond Carey Smith, of Oneonta [Otsego Co., NY].  The Rev. Ralph B. Gamewell, pastor of the Guilford Center Presbyterian Church, officiated.  The bride's sister, Miss Mildred Gage, of Guilford, acted as maid of honor and Gerald Baker, of Port Allegany, Pa., was best man.  The ceremony was witnessed by the immediate members of both families and close friends.  A delicious wedding supper was prepared and served by the bride's sister, who acted as maid of honor.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith will be at home at 2 Depew street, Oneonta.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 28, 1942]

 

Alpi - Marble:  The marriage of Miss Doris Marble, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Marble, Sr., of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], to Walter Alpi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Alpi, of Endicott [Broome Co., NY], took place in the Congregational Church, Sidney, on Saturday, May 23.  They are former Guilford residents for many years. Many friends in our community will extend congratulations to them.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, June 4, 1942]

 

A curiously complicated case is in the courts at Oneida.  Some eleven years ago Miss Henrietta Hines was a charming young woman at Constantia, of whom half the young swains of the town were enamored, and even middle aged men were smitten.  Among her many admirers was William G. Murdock, a farmer, who, besides being old enough to be her father, was the father of a young man who was old enough to be her husband.  both father and son fell deeply in love with her.  The young woman hesitated some time before deciding which to accept, but youth finally triumphed and she married the son.  That did not, however prevent the father form continuing his attentions.  They soon became more marked.  This state of affairs finally exasperated the young bridegroom and when a business trip took him South he decided to stay away until sent for to come back.  His wife evidently did not care whether he returned or not and accepted her father-in-law's attentions until hearing a report of the death of her husband in the South, she married him.  A few days ago the first husband appeared at his wife's home, and upon hearing the state of affairs, immediately caused the arrest of his wife on a charge of bigamy and his father for being an accessory.  The prisoners were arraigned before Justice Durham and gave bail in $300 for examination - New York Press.  [Afton Enterprise, Jan. 29, 1891]

 

DAVY-YOUNGS:  In Bainbridge, Jan. 1st, 1876, by Rev. John Davy, Wm. H. Davy, son of the officiating clergyman, to Miss Sarah M. Young, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY]. [Bainbridge Republican, Jan. 8, 1876]

 

Mary Payne & Barbara Campbell Syracuse Graduates, 1942

Two from Here to graduate from Syracuse

Bainbridge News & Republican, May 28, 1942

 

Two students at Syracuse University from Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] are candidates for baccalaureate degrees at th esyracuse University's 71st annual commencement on June 8.

 

Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, will deliver the commencement address to the graduates.  Following his talk, Chancellor William Pratt Graham will confer several honorary degrees.  Undergraduate degrees will be award by the deans of the respective colleges.

 

Bainbridge students are Miss Mary Payne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Payne, of 2 Juliand street, and Miss Barbara Campbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dow Campbell, of 61 N. Main street.

 

Miss Mary Payne

 

An English major in the College of Liberal Arts, Miss Payne is a member of the Women's Athletic association board, women's student senate, Seabury Club, senior class executive committee and Sigma Kappa sorority.

 

Miss Barbara Campbell

 

Also completing her English sequence in the College of Liberal Arts, Miss Campbell is affiliated with the staff of the Syracusan, campus magazine, university concert band, Geography Club, and Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.

 

 

 

 



Janet Juliand Honored, 1942

St. Peter's Church Honors Miss Juliand

Bainbridge News & Republican, April 30, 1942

 

On Saturday evening, April 25, the wardens and vestrymen of St. Peter's Church with their wives, entertained at the Guild Hall, in honor of Miss Janet Juliand.  Miss Juliand has recently retired as church organist and about 60 of her friends came to express their appreciation for her many years of faithful service, and also to offer birthday congratulations.

 

G.L. Fisk, master of ceremonies, announced the numbers of a very delightful musical program given by the Crescendo Club:  Haunting Memories, orchestra; piano duet, Romance by Rubenstein, Mrs. Hovey and Mrs. Heath; vocal solos, My Task and Passing By, Jean Houck; piano solos, Etude No. 13, Chopin, Liebes-Tod from "Tristan," James Taft; Calm is the Night, the orchestra.

 

The Rev. Sidney E. Heath after a few words of greeting, read a letter from the vestrymen and one from Bishop Coley, which they had addressed to Miss Juliand.  He then presented to the honor guest a red leather folio containing a photograph of the church interior, letters from the two bishops of the Central New York Diocese, from several former rectors of St. Peter's and many from old friends and fellow workers.  This folio also contained the autograph signatures of all who were present at the party.  Miss Juliand's response of acceptance was very gracious, recalling some interesting incidents which happened during the years.  At one time she said there were nine members of the choir bearing the name of Collins and three of Corbin, one of these, Julian Corbin, still a member.  She felt that Thomas Collins, Hugh Collins and Mr. Corbin should be honored too for they were most helpful choir members for many years.  Her first experience as organist was as a substitute in 1893 and from the early 1900s has presided continuously as St. Peter's organist.

 

The hall was decorated with spring flowers arranged by Mrs. G.L. Fisk, Mrs. Leigh Evans and Mrs. F.J. Casey.  The refreshments were supervised by Mrs. Helene Landon and served by the young people of the parish, with Mrs. Duncan Copley and Mrs. H.C. Newell to pour.  A beautifully decorated, four tier birthday cake was the center of one table and was cut by Miss Juliand.

 

Miss Juliand received many gifts, among them being a corsage of orchids which she wore during the evening.  Her many friends extend best wishes for much future happiness and the opportunity to again meet for such a pleasant occasion.

 

A very great deal of the success of this party is due to thought and time put into the planning by Maurice Colwell, before he left town for Army Camp.



Soldier News - April 1942

44 From Bainbridge Get Draft Induction Call

Bainbridge News & Republican, April 9, 1942

 

Forty-four of Bainbridge's [Chenango Co., NY]young men will be called into the service of their country shortly, according to the latest bulletin on Induction Call No. 24, received from the Local Draft Board No. 445 at Oxford.  Although this may seem like a large number of men selected from this one community, it is to be remembered that these selectees are chosen in accordance to their order numbers.

 

Bainbridge can already claim to its credit at least 65 young local youths who are serving their flag.  Many of this number did not wait to be drafted but enlisted and several of them were in service even before the war began. 

 

In looking over the records of our boys in the service, Bainbridge can well be proud of them, and we can expect the same from all those who will soon be in uniform.  With this latest call revealed, our town is growing steadily aware to the fact that there is a war going on in which we are fighting.

 

Sgt. Fenner on Furlough

Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 9, 1942

 

Sgt. Charles Fenner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fenner, is now spending a 15-day furlough at his home here.  Sgt. Fenner, a graduate of Bainbridge Central High School, Class of '40. enlisted in the United States Air Corps in August of 1940 and was sent to Denver, Cal., where he was attached to the  37th Bombardment Squad at Lowry Field, Hugh Bombardier School, for six months.  He then was transferred to Scott Field, Ill., where he attended radio school and on graduating from the school, immediately became an instructor.  Sgt. Fenner is still stationed at Scott Field and, in addition to his regular duties, is enrolled in the Liberal Arts course at McKendree College. 

 

Local Enlistments

Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 16, 1942

 

William Burton, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Burton, of this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], has enlisted in the U.S. Army and will leave for camp the latter part of the months. 

 

Marshall Moore, son of Hiram Moore, of this village, has enlisted in the U.S. Navy and will leave for his station in about 10 days. 

 

Pvt. Jeffers in Air Corps

Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 23, 1942

 

The News has received a card from Pvt. Kenneth Jeffers, formerly movie operator at the old Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] Theatre, notifying us that he graduated Apr. 14 from Scott Field, Ill. and is now stationed with the 93rd Bombardment Group, as a first operator on a B-24.  Pvt. Jeffers is located at Barsdale Field, Ill.  Barsdale Field is the world's largest airport, consisting of 22,500 acres and is located outside the city of Shreveport, La.  Kenneth is highly enthused over his new work and comments on the beautiful scenery at the Field.

 

Pvt. Sam Schou on Furlough

Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 23, 1942

 

Pvt. Sam Schou, who was on furlough until Sunday, was in Norwich Monday night on his way to Utica to visit his wife and children.  Mr. Schou, former Dairy Farmers' Union leader, had arranged a few speaking dates to oppose the plan of the Dairy Farmers' Union becoming affiliated with the United Mine Workers' Union, but he received a telegram from Camp Lee, Va., ordering him to return immediately as his company was moving. 

 

James Patrick Weir Receives Army Commission

Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 23, 1942

 

On Wednesday morning, April 15, 1942, Second Lieut. James Patrick Weir was graduated from the Officers Candidate School for Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Va.  He was temporarily assigned to duty at the engineers Replacement Training Center at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.  Lieut. Weir spent two days at the home of his mother, Mrs. Ruth Weir, in Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], before reporting for duty in Missouri on Monday. 

 

Letter Received from Ronald Miller

Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 23, 1942

 

Mr. and Mrs. William Miller on the Guilford-Oxford road [Chenango Co., NY] have received a letter from their son, Ronald Miller, who sailed from March Field, Calif., around Jan. 12.  About Feb. 28 they received a cablegram stating he had arrived, but it did not state what destination he had arrived at.  This letter just received gave his address as care of the U.S. Consulate, Karachi, India.  The letter was brief, but stated he was well.  It was a great relief to Mr. and Mrs. Miller to hear this much from their son. 

 

Coach Wheeler in the Army

Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 30, 1942

 

Larry Wheeler who has been the coach of the Sherburne High School [Chenango Co., NY] for the past 13 years, has been ordered to Ft. Wright, Washington, where he will have a first lieutenant's rank in the physical education program of the Army. 

 

Howard Phelps Promoted

Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 30, 1942

 

Private First Class Howard Phelps has been promoted to the rank of corporal.  Corp. Phelps is stationed at Ft. Dix, N.J.

 

Draftees Accepted

Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 30, 1942

 

Of the boys in our village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] who left Thursday and Friday morning for Selective Service, all were accepted but three. Those that went from Binghamton after their final physical to Fort Niagara, induction center, were Francis Yale, Paul Shelton, Morris Winchell, Frances and Harold Eastwood, J. Alfred Cooper.

Marriages (June 9)

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Delello, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Moritz Roehlk gave a dinner, April 7, in the honor of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hamlin's 25th wedding anniversary.  In the evening the group was joined by a party of friends and an enjoyable time was had playing cards and eating a large wedding cake.  Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin were presented with a purse of money.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 16, 1942]

 

Wanek-Quirk:  Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Edick received announcement of the marriage of Miss Frances Denton Quirk to Alex A.E. Wanek, of Chevy Chase, Md.  The wedding took place at all Saints Episcopal Church, Baldwin, L.I., on April 4.  Miss Jean North Quirk was her sister's maid of honor.  She is a daughter of Mrs. Bessie North Quirk.  Mr. and Mrs. Wanek will reside at St. Louis, Mo., after a honeymoon spent at Sea Island, Ga.  Mrs. Wanek is the granddaughter of the late Charles North and Mrs. North, of Guilford.  Mrs. Wanek has spent many summers in Guilford at the North cottage on the lake.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 23, 1942]

 

Mr. and Mrs. Wendolyn Mertz announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Gertrude Mertz, to P.F.C. John Seiler, of Camp Croft, S.C.  The wedding, which will be a military one, will take place at Camp Croft on the 21st day of June.  The young couple plan to make their home at Spartansburg, S.C.  [Bainbridge News & Republic, Apr. 23, 1942]

 

Schlafer-Gamewell:  A very pretty wedding took place on Saturday, April 25, at 3 P.M. in the Presbyterian Church, in Woodcrest, N.J., when Miss Mildred Gamewell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Gamewell, of Woodcrest, became the bride of Donald H. Schlafer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schlafer, of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY].  The Rev. Ralph Gamewell, pastor of the groom and uncle of the bride, was the officiating minister.  The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Veda Gamewell, and Mrs. Marion Phillipot, cousin of the bride, acted as matron of honor.  Pershing Schlafer, brother of the groom was best man, and Kenneth Kenyon, of Binghamton, also brother of the groom, acted a usher.  The bride was very lovely in a white satin gown and finger tip veil.  Her flowers were white rosebuds. She was given in marriage by her father, Elwood Gamewell.  Preceding the ceremony, Miss Wilma Schlafer, sister of the groom, rendered the ever beautiful selections, "I Live You Truly" and "Because."  After congratulations and showers of rice, a reception was given them at the Hadenfield Inn, N.J.,  The bride, although not well known in Guilford, has made friends. The groom is a graduate of Guilford Central School and is engaged in farming.  They will reside on the "Old Hyatt Place" at East Guilford, on their return from their honeymoon.  Congratulations and best wishes for happiness through the years to come are extended to them from a large circle of friends.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 30, 1942]

 

Pack-Ostrander:  Howard Lewis Peck, of Masonville [Delaware Co., NY], and Thelma May Ostrander, of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], were united in marriage at the manse, Guilford Center, Sunday morning, April 26, by the Rev. Ralph B. Gamewell.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 30, 1942]

 

Palmer-Matteson:  Friday evening, April 24, at 9 P.M. in Unadilla, occurred the marriage of Miss Irene Matteson, daughter, of Mrs. Clara Matteson, of Rockdale [Chenango Co., NY], to Addison Palmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cary Palmer, of Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY].  The ceremony occurred in Unadilla, the Rev. Archie W. Benedict officiating.  Witnesses were Mr. and Mrs. William Hendricks of Unadilla.  Best wishes are extended to them.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 30, 1942]

Obituaries (June 9)

Geraldine A. Phillips, 18, a domestic employed on a farm about a mile and a half above Unadilla [Otsego Co., NY], was killed Monday night as she was walking along the D.&H. railroad tracks toward Unadilla.  The body was discovered at 6:15 Tuesday morning.  The lifeless body was found by Raymond Tuckey who resides on the Martin Farm.  Mrs. Tuckey, employer of Miss Phillips, became alarmed when the girl failed to return home, suggested her husband look along the tracks.  Miss Phillips had a date with her boy friend, Harold Makley, of Unadilla.  He had telephoned her about 7:15 that he was coming up and would meet her at the farm.  Makley walked from Unadilla up the tracks arriving at the farm about 8 o'clock and found the girl had left for the village.  He returned to the village and looked for her but couldn't find her.  It was customary for these people to walk along the D.&H. tracks to the village in order to keep off the highway.  It was indicated by the angle the body was found that she was struck by a south-bound train.  It is reported that a south-bound train had been switched to the north-bound track from Otego to Sidney to bi-pass a passenger train.  Dr. J.M. Constantine, acting coroner, issued a verdict of accidental death, due to a fractured skull.  The deceased is survived by her mother, Mrs. Claude Baldwin, of Winnie Hill Road, Oneonta; and a half-sister, Mrs. Theodore Becker, of Unadilla.  The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at the Lewis Funeral Home in Oneonta.  Miss Phillips was born in Afton [Chenango Co., NY], and it is reported that she and Makley were to have been married in June.  He is employed at the Scintilla.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 16, 1942]

 

Morris Christian, 27, of 16 South Main street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], died of a fractured skull in the Cortland Hospital Friday after a semi-tractor tank he was driving was struck by a Lehigh Valley train at North Hartford.  The engine struck the truck right behind the cab and the force of the impact tore the side from the cab on the driver's side and jarred the door and glass from the other side of the truck.  Milk was spilled on the highway for more than a hundred feet.  The truck was owned by Alfred Hohreiter, of Bainbridge.  Mr. Christian had been driving more than a month on this route, but Friday a special train, about which he apparently had no knowledge, struck his truck.  He was carrying 200 gallons of milk aboard from North Harford to Cincinnatus.  It was first believed that he was dead and Coroner Chapin was summoned, but upon his arrival he found Mr. Christian alive and ordered him taken to the hospital where he died about five minutes later.  Mr. Christian was born in Morris [Otsego Co., NY].  He is survived by his wife, a son, Troy, four months old, a twin, whose sister died a few weeks ago; his mother, Mrs. Ethel Christian of Albany; and two sisters, Mrs. Harry Mills, of Afton; and Mrs. Clayton Bennett, of Franklin.  Funeral services were held at Colwell's Chapel Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. R. Lewis Johnson officiating.  Bearers were William Clock, of Schenectady; Robert Hall, Clifford Ballantyne, Thomas Davidson, all of Bainbridge; Clayton Bennett, of Franklin; and Harry Mills, of Afton.  Burial was in North Afton Cemetery [Chenango Co., NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 23, 1942]

 

Mrs. Lilly Goodwin received word of the death of Mrs. Annie Dixson, sister of the late Herman Goodwin, at her home in Potsdam.  She was born May 9, 1871, in Mooers, a daughter of Charles and Aner Holden Goodwin.  Fifty-one years ago she married S.H. Dixson, cheesemaker in Potsdam for 30 years, who died three years ago.  Final rites were held for Mrs. Dixson, who was 70 years of age, from Clarkson and Foote Funeral Home in Potsdam, also at the Baptist church at 2 P.M.  Burial in Bayside Cemetery.  Two sisters in Norwich survive.  Mrs. Frank Fosgate and Mrs. Elizabeth McNitt.  Death was due to pneumonia.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 30, 1942]

 

The many friends of Andrew Falcon, 54, were stunned to learn of his sudden death on Sunday morning, May 3, in the Bainbridge Hospital where he was rushed after suffering a heart attack.  He was stricken while preparing to indulge in his favorite sport, fishing.  Andrew Falcon was born in New York City on Nov. 13, 1888, the son of Ambrose and Julia Fontaine Falcon, and spent most of his life in that city.  After completing his education in N.Y.U., he pursued the occupation of advertising salesman and on Oct. 31, 1908, was united in marriage to Lillian Chabau, the daughter of Joseph and Ellen Rose Chabau, also of New York City.  Mr. and Mrs. Falcon resided in Brooklyn until about three years ago when he was forced to give up his business and work only at intervals due to attacks of coronary thrombosis.  Since that time, the Falcons had make their home in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] at the home of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kinney.  During his stay here, Mr. Falcon entered whole-heartedly into the town's activities. He took a keen interest in everything that went on in town, and although born and bred in a large city spent some of his happiest hours in our village.  His greatest pleasures were found in visiting the main section of town where he soon made many friends and was a familiar sight as he and his little granddaughter, who was his favorite companion, did their shopping.  An avid sportsman, he was an active member of the local Rod and Gun Club and was an enthusiastic angler. The possessor of a very great sense of humor, a city-bred man who found his greatest pleasure in a country town, a jolly sportsman and a good friend, these traits are what Mr. Falcon will be remembered for in Bainbridge.  On Sunday morning, he left the home of his daughter at 5:30 to go fishing.  Apparently, he had reached his destination, a spot on the river across from F.A. Demeree's, when he was stricken. A passing motorist, identified only as Mr. Bloom, rushed him to the hospital where he succumbed a few minutes later.  His death came as a complete surprise to his family, as he had obviously been in fairly good health since March of this year at which time he had suffered another heart attack.  His constant attendant during his stay in Bainbridge was Dr. Ben Dodge whose care he relied on implicitly.  The body was removed to the Colwell Bros. parlors and was on view Monday night.  The next day he was removed to Brooklyn where the funeral service were held. Burial was made Wednesday in the Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn.  Mrs. Falcon accompanied the body to Brooklyn where she will stay for a short time. Surviving are his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Walter Kinney two grandchildren, Eleanor Lou Kinney and Stephen Andrew Kinney, all of Bainbridge, and a sister, Mrs. Michael Donohue, of Brooklyn.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 7, 1942]

Elton Fletcher in Flying School, 1942

In Flying School

Bainbridge News & Republican, April 23, 1942

 

         P.F.C. Elton Fletcher

 

The young soldier on the front page of this week's News is First Class Private Elton J. Fletcher, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Fletcher of Bainbridge, R.D.1.  [Chenango Co., NY]

 

A popular and bright student in Bainbridge Central High School, Elton enlisted in the United States Army about a year ago and is now stationed in Mississippi.  Below appears a letter Pvt. Fletch wrote to his parents and also to his friends in Bainbridge.  We feel that this typifies, even more than any other letter we have received, the real spirit of the young American youth who so quickly adapts himself to new surroundings.  It shows an intelligent willingness and desire to learn and it also shows that this young soldier is learning about things he has already been interested in, for instance farming, and when he returns to his civilian life he will bring knowledge with him that will help him.  If every young service man took as great an interest in his new surroundings as this young soldier does, their years in the service would be more than worth their time.  And we feel that the majority of our boys do take advantage of their opportunities.

 

January 7, 1941

Greenville, Miss.

Dear Parents and all:

We arrived here this P.M. from Camp Lee, Virginia.  After having "chow" we were assigned to Barracks.  Everything is new and the camp just being settled.  It was a cotton field last summer.

 

Our beds are more like beds than cots and very comfortable.  Heat from fuel oil furnaces.  Cheap here.  The land looks pretty good near the Miss. River but most of the land from Virginia was awful.  All I saw was poor huts on the way.  I don't see how the people live.  New York looks as good as any I've seen.

 

I talked with a farmer who has a 3,000 acre plantation, mostly cotton.  He invited two of us to dinner some day.  A lady nearby has invited 20 of us to a taffy pull tonight.  The people here are nice but not quite as willing to accept us in their homes as at Camp Lee.

 

The River at Greenville is Spoken of as "The Lake."  Several yachts and freight boats like those shown in "Steamboat on the Mississippi," were anchored in port.  This is about 250 miles from the Gulf. 

 

February 26, 1941....This is a beautiful day and "First Cadets" graduation here. Visitors allowed on the grounds today.  Bands and parades.  I just saw a formation of three groups of nine planes each go over us; looked very nice. I am on K.P. today.

 

You asked me what my work was. I  am Company Clerk.  I do all the filing of papers that come to Quartermasters Detachment, from headquarters, other posts, etc.  I type passes for the Company Commander to sign, answer the telephone, and go on errands to other detachments or squadrons on the Post.  Lately I have been figuring out a furlough schedule; of course it's impossible to satisfy each person, so we do the best we can.  I have my name down for May 1st. 

 

I just played six games of ping pong.  The boys have been making all kinds of tables for our recreation room.  The new curtains improve it a lot.  For outside games we have badminton, paddle tennis, volley ball and quoits.  Have met several fellows from Cornell. I am finding lots of interest in my work of learning the procedure of organizing and providing for a company of men.

 

They have strictly forbidden the use of a camera at the Post.

 

I am glad you keep well. I am and enjoy my work very much.

 

Love and best wishes to all, Elton J. Fletcher.

 

 

 



 

 



Post Listings, 2014 June 2-8, 2014

Listing of blog postings for week of June 2-8, 2014

Marriages

Posted June 2, 2014

Bernice Mabel Cook - Paul Robek (Engagement, 1941)

Jessie R. Severson - Howard H. Goodchild (1941)
Judge Edward A. Bundy - Eliza Burlison (1891)
Charles D. Snedeker - Nellie B. Gould (1891)
J.A Simonson - Jennie D. Horton (1891)
Edith McDonald  - Guy Ingersoll (1891)

Posted June 3, 2014
Genevieve Curtis - Cifford Otto Clink (1942)
Edna Shampany - Herbert Squires (1941)
Dorothy Fisher Hance - John Emmett Hutchinson (1942)
Edna Schofield de Osma - Earl Smith (1942)
Betty Jane Worth - G. Russel Stead (engagement 1942)
Grace Elizabeth Payne - Russell J. Holbrook (1941)
Ruth Barnard - Francis Gunther (engagement 1942)
Drusilla Ione Bidwell - Paul F. Stewart (engagement 1942)

Posted June 4, 2014
Helen L. Payne - Lloyd A. Wintermute (1942)
Milton Litz - Florence Gilbert (1942)
Leona Mae Pike - Hugh H. Williams (1942)
Marjorie M. Pike - Bert M. Wiswell (1942)
Elza C. LaSuer - Roy D. Dewey, Jr. (1942)
Mary E. Sanders - Carl W. Keach (1942)
Mary Jane Blowers - Corp. Kermit Howard Lewis (engagement, 1942)

Posted June 5, 2014
Irene Crane - Clarnece Laux (1942)
Helen Sedlacek - Howard C. Gott (1942)
Hazel Joyce Maycock - Robert J. Davis (1942)
Myrtle Verna Kentfield - Philip William Allen (1942)
Caroline Casson - Gordon Burton (1942)
Jessie M. Blackman - Clifford R. Stevens (1942)
Mr. & Mrs. Ward Burchard (57th anniversary, 1942)
Albert H. Kentfield - Ellen A. VanValkenburg (1876)

Posted June 6, 2014
Eileen Ford - Dr. A.J. Wood (1942)
Alice Barre - Arthur Wearne (1942)
Mildred Veronica McGowan - David Richard Hodge (1942)
Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Gregory (50th anniversary, 1942)
Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Taft (25th anniversary, 1942)
E. Marie Lawrence - Ralph Russell (engagement, 1942)
Earl B. Grover - Carrie Wright (1891)
Mr. and Mrs. F.P. Cole, (10th anniversary, 1876)

Posted June 7, 2014
Catherine Joyce Husted - Frederick Charles Neidlinger (1942)
Alvin Hayes - Frances Norton (1942)  (photo)
Virginia Ruth Fischer - Harrison Corbin VanCott (engagement, 1942)
Wanda Fleming - Stuart Friedel (1942)
Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Russell (30th anniversary, 1942)

Posted June 8, 2014
Carl Richard Hendrickson - Marjorie Elizabeth Bush (1942)
Mary Banks Kirby - Joseph Lord (1942)
Richard Hodges - Madine Alley  (1942)
Marion Bennett - Amasa B. Burlison (1942)
William H. Button - Plurea H. Slater (1863)
Theron G. Wilcox - Emeline McPherson (1863)
Isaac G. Hopkins - Lucinda F. Bedell (1863)


 

Obituaries

Posted June 2, 2014

Myrtle Conn Searles (Bainbridge, 1941)

Robert Charles Zickwolf (Coventry, 1941)

George Frederick W. Schleeke (Sidney, Guilford, 1941)

Will W. Hovey (Scarsdale, 1941)
Pearl Belding (Plymouth, 1891)
Ralph Chamberlin (Afton, 1891)
Freddie Roberts (South Otselic, 1891)

Posted June 3, 2014
Robert Newman (Bainbridge, 1941)
H. Alvord Evans (Norwich, Plymouth, 1941)
Homer Anderson (Bainbridge, Florida, 1942)
Rt. Rev. Charles Fiske (Baltimore, 1942)
Fred Green (Walton, Sidney, 1942)

Posted June 4, 1942
Patsy Altiery (Bainbridge, Italy, 1942)
William A. Teachout (Bainbridge, 1942)
Jane Betty Clarke Lord (England, Bainbridge, 1942)
William Fielden (Morris, 1891)
Guilford Center deaths in 1875

Posted June 5, 2014
Mary Bailey Beers (Bainbridge, 1942)
George H. Brown (Bainbridge, Vestal, 1942)
Rev. N.S. Boardman (Binghamton, 1942)
William Chase (Carbondale, PA, 1891) -Train wreck
Zira Church (North Norwich, 1863)

Posted June 6, 2014
Ellen Samuels Pine Bentley (Bainbridge, 1942)
Louis I. Hatfield (Sidney, 1942)
Hester Wolcott Fitch (Livingston Manor, 1942)
Martin Zoerb (Guilford, 1942)
Mrs. S.S. Randall (Afton, 1891)
Erastus Agard (Death notice, Smithville Flats, 1863)
William H. Keech (Death notice, Oxford, 1863)
Emily D. Steere (Death notice, McDonough, 1863)
Bonaparte Tucker (Death notice, 1863) - Civil War soldier
Ephraim Breed, Jr. (Death notice, Philadelphia, Norwich, 1863)

Posted June 7, 2014
Cyrus Herbert Matteson (Rockdale, Bennettsville, 1942)
William Danforth (Norwich, 1942)
Willis Hyer (Mt. Upton, 1942)
Karl J. Weber (Jamestown, 1942)
Don C. Pratt (Bainbridge, 1942)  (photo)

Posted June 8, 2014
Mary C. (Dolbey) Wilson (Guilford, 1942)
Nelson Wilcox (Bainbridge, 1942)
George A. Rhodes (Quincy, MA, 1942)
William E. Hartmann (Bainbridge, 1942)
Eva Hoag Chamberlain (Mt. Upton, 1942)
Ora Foote (Johnson City, Sidney, 1942)
Laura Libbie Ackley (death notice, McDonough, 1863)
Harriet Browning (death notice, Pharsalia, 1863)
Desire Pickett (death notice, Coventry, 1863)
  

Miscellaneous

Posted June 2, 2014

Queer Doings in family of Dwight Ives (1863)

Posted June 3, 2014
Soldier News:
     Two Naval Men at Pearl Harbor Safe (1942)
     Clark Kinch safe in Hawaii (1942)
     P.F.C. James H. Mulwane on Furlough (1942)

Posted June 4, 2014
Commendation for Pvt. Delbert McNeil (1942)
BCHS Class of 1937, Part 1.

Posted June 5, 2014
More Soldier News - 1942
     Carlton Kinch serving in Hawaii
     Milton VanValkenburg gives eyewitness report of Pearl Harbor attack
     Pvt. Leon Swart transferred
     Harlan Clark, vice-counsel to Siam, prisoner of Japanese
     On Furlough:  Sgt. Walter Roider, Jr., Pvt. Earl Clark, Jr., Robert Rosenstein.
     Pvt. Thadeus Tutack in Hawaii
     Pvt. Carl Pfeil visits parents in Guilford.

Posted June 6, 2014
Donald K. Wheat in Air Corps, 1942. (photo)

Posted June 7, 2014
Soldier Letter, Murray Wilcox to Bainbridge News (1942)
Soldier News - March 1942
     Everette R. Herrick with Pacific Fleet (photo)
     Bruce M. Weeks in Naval Service (photo)
     Private Kenneth A. Jeffers at Scott Field
     Pvt. Donald Wheat an Air Corp Graduate
     Bainbridge's Avon Theatre Cuts Theatre Rates for Service Men

Posted June 8, 2014
Carlton Hayes Named Ambassador to Spain, 1942  (photo)





Marriages (June 8)

A very pretty wedding took place Friday afternoon, April 3, at Nineveh, when Miss Marjorie Elizabeth Bush, daughter of Mrs. Lucy Bush, of  Nineveh [Broome Co., NY], and Carl Richard Hendrickson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hendrickson, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] were united in marriage by the Rev. Clifford E. Webb of Afton.  As the couple entered the room where the ceremony took place, the Bridal March was played by Mrs. Webb.  The bridal pair stood under an arch of evergreen trimmed with red, yellow and pink roses with a cluster of silver bells at the center.  They were attended by Edward Shields, of Bainbridge, and Miss Iva Lockwood, of Nineveh, a cousin of the bride.  The bride was attired in a street-length royal blue dress with beige accessories and a corsage of roses and gardenias. The maid-of-honor wore a street-length, navy blue dress and a corsage of sweet peas and carnations.  The bride's mother wore a blue print dress with a shoulder bouquet of pink and white sweet peas.  The bride groom's mother wore a powder blue lace dress, with a shoulder bouquet of pink and white sweet peas.  Mrs. Hendrickson attended Afton Central High School and her husband attended Bainbridge Central High School.  Following a wedding luncheon, the bridal party left for Binghamton.  The young couple will reside in their newly purchased home in Nineveh.  Mr. Hendrickson is employed by the American Separator Co., and Mrs. Hendrickson is employed by the American Plastics Corp.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 9, 1942]

 

Mrs. Arthur T. Kirby announces the marriage of her daughter, Mary Banks, to Joseph Lord, of Philadelphia, Pa., on the 10th of January, 1942, in the Port au Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 9, 1942]

 

Richard Hodges and Miss Madine Alley, of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], were united in marriage at the Bainbridge Methodist parsonage on Sunday, April 5, at 5:30 P.M.  They were attended by Roland Warner, of Unadilla, and Eleanor Moss, of Sidney Center.  Mr. Hodges is an employee at the Scintilla manufacturing Co.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 9, 1942]

 

The marriage of Miss Marion Bennett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Bennett, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY], to Amasa B. Burlison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton A. Burlison, of Guilford [Chenango Co., NY], took place Easter Sunday at 2:30 o'clock in the Methodist Church at Guilford.  The ceremony was performed by the pastor of the church, the Rev. Charles Dempsey.  The bride's gown was white net over light blue silk and shoulder length veil.  She carried white carnations.  Miss Evelyn Burlison, sister of the groom, was bridesmaid and wore pink voile.  Her flowers were pink carnations.  The best man was Francis Bennett, brother of the bride.  The church organist Mrs. Bloom played the wedding music.  A reception was held at the home of the bride for the immediate families.  Mr. and Mrs. Burlison left for a short trip.  On their return they will reside at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Salisbury on the Norwich-Oxford road.  Guests from Rutherford N.J., Middletown, Sidney, Afton, Norwich, Oneonta and Oxford were present.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 14,  1942]

In this town [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY], Sept. 30th, by Rev. Charles Johnson, Mr. William H. Button to Miss Plurra H. Slater, of Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY].  [Chenango Union, Oct. 21, 1863]

In Greene, on the 6th inst., by Rev. Wm. M. Robinson, Mr. Theron G. Wilcox, to Miss Emeline McPherson, both of Smithville [Chenango Co., NY].  [Chenango Union, Oct. 21, 1863]

In West Eaton, Madison Co., on the 6th inst., by Rev. George Smith, Mr. Isaac G. Hopkins, to Miss Lucinda F. Bedell, both of West Eaton. [Chenango Union, Oct. 21, 1863]

Obituaries (June 8)

Thursday evening, March 26, at 10:45 o'clock, occurred the passing of Mrs. Mary C. Wilson, at her home on Merchant street [Guilford, Chenango Co., NY].  Her death followed months of ill health, the end coming very peacefully.  Mary C. Wilson was born Dec. 27, 1867, in the Town of Constantia [Oswego Co., NY], daughter of the late William H. and Ellen A. Dolbey.  The early part of her life was spent in the vicinity where she was born.  On Oct. 11, 1884, she was united in marriage to Charles H. Wilson, of North Bay.  To them was born one son, LeRoy C. Wilson.  Many years were spent in the town where she was married.  Around 1909 they moved to Guilford and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson operated the Summit O.&W. office, making their home there, taking care of the day and night shifts.  When they had served their specified time, they retired and made their home, where they both died.  Mrs. Wilson was an active member of Christ's Episcopal Church and the Woman's Auxiliary, also of the Lafayette Chapter, 340, O.E.S., of Oxford, and the Woman's Auxiliary for the O.&W. Veterans, and the Woman's Club of Guilford.  Mrs. Wilson was a kindly neighbor.  Her home and her church were her very existence.  As long as her health permitted, she gave of her time and herself to all things of interest in our community.  She will be greatly missed in every walk of life.  Surviving are the son, Prof. LeRoy Wilson, of Madison, Wisc.; one granddaughter, Mrs. John Reese, of Washington, D.C.; and one great granddaughter, Joan Olive Reese; a brother, William H. Dolbey, of Auburn; two nieces, Mrs. John Corcoran, of Cleveland, and Mrs. William Drisko, of Syracuse; five nephews, Dr. D.C. Broga, of Rome, Henry D. Morse, of Cleveland, Howard and Stephen Clark, of Hopewell, Va.  Final rites were held from the late home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Frederick Ransier, rector of Christ Church officiating.  Burial beside her husband in the family plot, Sunset Hill Cemetery, Guilford. Bearers were Lynn Murray, Harold Winsor, Charles Nicholson, Henry Morse, Frank C. Drachler and Fred Tripp.  There was a profusion of beautiful flowers, a final tribute to the memory fo Mary C. Wilson, who had spent 51 years of her life in our community.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 2, 1942]

Nelson E. Wilcox passed away at his home in South Main street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] March 30, with death caused by coronary thrombosis.  His age was 67.  Mr. Wilcox was engaged in the creamery and milk business most of his life until the latter years when he became interested in poultry.  He had creameries in Broome, Otsego, and Delaware Counties and other parts of the state.  He was treasurer of the Dairy Producers Cooperative Corp. in Bainbridge from 1922 until 1930 when Sheffields purchased the business.  Before coming to this village in 1917, he lived at Sanitaria Springs for 11 years, where he conducted a creamery business.  While there, he served for a number of years on the Board of Education.  Upon his arrival in Bainbridge, he purchased the property now owned by Willis VanDenburgh and went into the poultry business.  In 1920, he bought the present family home, after a year's stay in California.  Since that time he has continued in the poultry business.  Mr. Wilcox, who was always very much interested in education, was a member of the Bainbridge Board of Education for 17 years and acted as vice-president for several terms.  He was instrumental in centralizing the school and devoted much of his time and effort towards the building of the present school.  He was a member of the Franklin Lodge 562 F.&A.M. for 41 years, and he attended the Methodist Church.  Born Feb. 17, 1875 in Hancock [Delaware Co.,  NY], he was the son of Hiram and Emma (Neer) Wilcox.  On Dec. 31, 1903, he was united in marriage to Ida M. Smith, of New Lisbon.  The survivors are:  his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Clinton Wilcox, of Bainbridge; and Mrs. Carl Kiefer, of Rome; a brother, Atty. Earl J. Bennett, a niece, Mrs. Eunice von Reisach, a nephew, John D. Bennett, assemblyman from District 1, all of Rockville Centre, L.I.  Funeral services were held at the house Wednesday afternoon, April 1, with the Rev. Paul Hulslander officiating.  Mrs. Harvey Wood sang "Beautiful Isle."  Bearers were Jay Hager, Leland Yale, Fred Gerow, Willis VanDenburgh, Harvey Wood and L.A. Orvis, Interment was in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 9, 1942]

Funeral services were held March 22 in the Masonic Temple at Quincy, Mass., for George A. Rhodes, who died suddenly at his desk on March 19,  Burial was in Mt. Wollaston Cemetery beside his wife and son.  Mr. Rhode's entire life ahs been connected with newspaper and book publishing work, having been with the Quincy Patriot-Ledger since 1923.  He was an active member or held honorary membership in more than 50 lodges.  More than 800 friends and lodge representatives were in attendance at his funeral.  George Rhodes was born January 20, 1873 near Binghamton [Broome Co., NY].  In 1896 he was united in marriage to Nellie M. Smith of Bainbridge and to them was born one son, Ralph Lorane.  He was bereft of his immediate family a few years ago when his wife and son both died within a short space of time.  Other survivors are two cousins, Fred A. Smith, of Beacon, cad Mrs. Fred Wage, of Vestal, and several nephews and nieces.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 9, 1942]

William E. Hartmann died of a heart attack in his home at "The Pines" Mar. 31, at the age of 66.  Mr. Hartmann, who was a son of Ernest L. Hartmann, one of the founders of the American Separator Co. I Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], was a machinist in that company for 40 years.  Before coming to this village, he was associated in business with his father in Philadelphia.  As a young man he was a member of Bainbridge's finest baseball team, the semi-pro team of 1897-1898.  His position was right field.  Mr. Hartmann and Frank J. Fletcher were the only two local players on the team.  This champion team played such teams as Waverly, Sayre, Hornell, The Cuban Giants, Buffalo and other teams of this class.  Seven of the nine players entered professional ball, Odwell went with Cincinnati and Mills with the Boston Nationals.  "Will" as he was known to all of his friends, had a contract with Montreal but just before leaving for training camp, he injured his arm.  Mr. Fletcher had an opportunity to sign up with Ithaca, state champions, but was unable to accept because of his wife's health.  Mr. Hartmann was an enthusiastic sportsman.  In addition to his baseball, he was an ardent huntsman and lover of nature.  He was the owner of the first beagle hound in this area.  He was a member of St. Peter's Church, an exempt fireman of the Robert's hose Co., and a former member of the Bainbridge Band.  Born in Greenfield, Mass., on Oct. 10, 1875.  He was the son of Ernest L. and Margaret (Renth) Hartmann.  On Jan. 13, 1904, he was married to Martha Pratt, of Bainbridge, by the Rev. Reed. In 1905, they purchased the home in Greenlawn avenue [Bainbridge, NY], now owned by Dr. Lawrence Bradshaw, and lived there until 1932, when they went to "The Pillars" to care for Charles Kirby.  While at "The Pillars", Mr. Hartmann developed ill health and from that time until his death he was only able to do light work.  In 1940 they remodeled their cottage at "The Pines" where they had conducted an eating place for 12 Summers.  Left to mourn the deceased are his wife two sons, Ernest L. Hartman,, of Binghamton; and James A. Hartman, of New York City; a granddaughter, Patricia Hartman, of Binghamton; two brothers, W.P. Hartman, of New Brunswick, N.J.; and L.H. Hartmann, of Bainbridge; one sister, Mrs. Henry Hill, of Bainbridge; and four nieces, Mrs. Helene Landon, of Bainbridge; Mrs. Charles Morse, of Cortland, Marion and Joanne Hill, of Bainbridge' and a nephew, Bruce Hill.  A service was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wheeler Thursday evening for members of the immediate family.  On Friday at 3:30, the funeral services were held at Colwell's Chapel with the Rev. S.E. Heath officiating.  Bearers were James Purvis, Homer D. Owens, Graydon Tallmadge, Asa Landers, R.W. Kirby and Raymond Tatro, Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, NY].  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 9, 1942]

Mrs. Eva Hoag Chamberlain passed away on Friday, March 27, 1942, at her home in Mt. Upton [Chenango Co., NY], where she had lived 42 years of her life.  She was born in the Town of Norwich [Chenango Co., NY] on Nov. 23, 1861, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hoag.  She was united in marriage to Calvin Chamberlain on Nov. 23, 1881.  Surviving are two daughters, Ruby C. Herrick, of Mt. Upton and Mildred Stevens, of Rockwells Mills; two brothers, Cassius Hoag and Burr Hoag, of Norwich.  Final rites were held from the Methodist church in Mt. Upton Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Graves, of Oxford, officiating.  Burial in Maplewood Cemetery, Mt. Upton, Carr & Landers in charge.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr 9, 1942]

Miss Ora Foote, of 253 Burbank avenue, Johnson City [Broome Co., NY], died Sunday morning, at the Wilson Memorial Hospital.  She was a daughter of the late Albert Foote and Frances Myers Foote and was born Apr. 29, 1880 in Tristte.  Miss Foote was well known in this vicinity having been a dressmaker for years in Sidney [Delaware Co., NY].  She was a member of the Alliance Church in Johnson City and was always present until last November, when she was taken ill.  Surviving her are a sister, Mrs. P.W. Teachout, of Bainbridge; a brother, R. Wilbur Foote, of San Diego, Cal.; and an adopted sister, Mrs. Wilbur Meade, of Cortland.  The funeral was held Wednesday, Apr. 8 at 1:30 o'clock in the Rice Funeral Home in Johnson City.  The Rev. John Macintosh, pastor of the Alliance Church, officiated.  Burial will be in Tristte.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 16, 1942]

Tuesday morning early, March 31, occurred the death of little Mary Jane Murray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darius Murray, of Oxford [Chenango Co., NY].  She had been a patient at the Chenango Memorial Hospital but a few hours when her death occurred.   The cause was bronchial pneumonia.  She was born in Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], 11 months and four days ago.  Final rites were held from Carr & Landers Funeral Home, Sidney Thursday afternoon.  Burial in the Maplewood Cemetery, Mt. Upton.  [Bainbridge News & Republican,  Apr. 16, 1942]

In McDonough, Chenango Co., N.Y., on the 15th inst., of diphtheria, Laura Libbie, youngest daughter of Charles T. and Laura E. Ackley, aged 3 years, 3 months and 9 days.  [Chenango Union, Oct. 21, 1863]

In Pharsalia [Chenango Co., NY], on the 15th inst., of consumption, Mrs. Harriet Browning, wife of Halsey Browning, aged 34 years.  [Chenango Union, Oct. 21, 1863]

In Coventry [Chenango Co., NY], on the 7th inst., Mrs. Desire Pickett, aged 71 years.  [Chenango Union, Oct. 21, 1863]

Carlton Hayes Named Ambassador, 1942

Carlton Hayes Named Ambassador

Bainbridge News & Republican, Apr. 9, 1942

 

Carlton J.H. Hayes

 

Carlton J.H. Hayes, Seth Low professor of Modern European History at Columbia University, New York City, was appointed ambassador to Spain the latter part of last week to succeed Alexander W. Weddell.  As an author of several college and school textbooks on Modern European History and an outstanding exponent on Internationalism, Prof. Hayes is one of the best qualified teachers of history in America.

 

He is the son of the late Dr. and Mrs. P. Hayes, of Afton [Chenango Co., NY].  Prof. and Mrs. Hayes spend considerable time at their attractive summer home in Afton.  That attend St. John's Church in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].  Prof. Hayes has the best wishes of his many friends in the Southern Tier.

 

An editorial taken from Saturday's New York Times follows:  The President has shown wisdom and tact in appointing Carleton J. Hayes to succeed Alexander W. Weddell as Ambassador to Madrid.  From the American point of view Spain is a post of capital importance.  Aside from our interest in keeping the westernmost peninsula to Europe out of the war on the Axis side, the cultural and traditional influence of Spain in South America makes its policy of vital concern to the United States.  through a difficult and dubious period we have managed to keep on good terms with the Spanish Government, and whether our diplomacy or Nazi arrogance deserves the chief credit, the fact is that the France Government is today farther form casting its lot with Berlin and Rome than at any time since the war began. 

 

Professor Hayes is admirably fitted to carry on the good work.  As a distinguished historian he has the perspective to relate the present to the past in a country with deep roots in history.  As an uncompromising enemy of the totalitarian system he will be able to make the mind of democracy and of America felt on the wavering margins of an Axis-dominated continent.  As a Catholic who has done yeoman's work to break down intolerance in the inter-faith committee of Protestants, Catholics and Jews, he will bring a special comprehension to the religious problems that are fundamental to the understanding not only of Spain but of all Latin America.  For these reasons and many others the President has made an excellent appointment, and we wish Professor Hayes well in the delicate and

difficult task he assumes in turning form the interpretation and teaching to the making of history.