Rochester, Monroe, NY Times Union July 18, 1925 Thousand Islands Are Becoming Mecca For Rochesterians Many From Flower City Registered At Hotels - Golf Country Club Tournament Will Start July 27- Mr. and Mrs. David M. Hough Lease House and Will Spend Summer at the Islands Alexandria Bay, N. Y., July 18 - The Thousand Islands are becoming vacation mecca for Rochesterians. The easy access of this resort by persons residing in Rochester and vicinity, via Canada Steamship Lines, train, or motor car along the Roosevelt highway, makes it an easy transition from Rochester to Alexandria Bay. The Thousand Islands Country Club golf tournament will start July 27, and it is expected that a number of Rochesterians will enter it. The winner of the Country Club championship in the men's events last summer was Arthur YATES of Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester. There will be this season, as last, a number of champions from other cities, including William C. FOWNES, jr., and Robert A. LYNE of Oakmont Country Club of Pittsburgh, who will contest the cup this summer with Mr. YATES. Houghs Lease House Mr. and Mrs. David M. HOUGH of Rochester, who were at the Thousand Islands Country Club for some time, have leased Wellesley House from the Thousand Islands Estates, and will pass the summer there, Mr. and Mrs. HOUGH entertained 28 guests at the Thousand Islands Yacht Club dinner dance Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. THING of Rochester are among the prominent hosts and hostesses of the Thousand Islands, and had guests at the Country Club Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Orrin HOLLAND of Rochester, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur DeWOLFE of Rochester, are stopping at the Thousand Island House. Other persons from Rochester at this hotel include: Mr. and Mrs. Jessie A. TENGER, E. A. JENKINS, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. WALBRIDGE, P. BAKER, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. SENTERS, Miss Mary P. WARD, Miss R. W. BRYANT, W. H. MOORE, R. S. RUSSELL of Buffalo. Other persons are: George MENTHERN, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. RHODES of Liverpool, England, Mirza Ali-Kuli KHAN, Nabil Ed DOWLER, minister plenipotentiary, from Persia to this country. Mr. and Mrs. Simeen FLETCHER of Rochester are guests at the New Menticello. Others from Rochester at the Menticello comprise Mr. and Mrs. H. F. KULITZ, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. PHEGHAM, Miss Lillian PARMENTER, Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. BESTOR, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. PULSIFER. Mr. and Mrs. J. Sidney HAMMOND of Pittsburgh are the guests of Mr. HAMMOND'S parents, Mr. and Mrs. James HAMMOND at the Ledges for the summer, Mrs. J. Sidney HAMMOND is the former Jean CHAPMAN of Rochester and is one of the most popular young matrons in the smart set of the Thousand Islands. Mrs. John Stuart BROWN of Rochester, with Mrs. Andrew McNALLY of Chicago, will act as the hostesses for the Ladies' Welcome Club at the Thousand Islands Yacht Club next Wednesday evening. Mrs. Richard Wain MEIRS of Philadelphia is the guest of her aunt, Frederic Courtland PENFIELD, at Hopewell Hall. Former governor Frank O. LOWDEN of Illinois and his family, comprising Mrs. LOWDEN, the Misses Harriet and Florence LOWDEN, George M. Pullman LOWDEN and Mr. and Mrs. John A. DRAKE, Jr., of Chicago are expected at Castle Rest next Saturday. **** Confesses To Murder Of Hornell Girl Buffalo, July 18 - The police this afternoon obtained a confession from John KOSMOSKI of this city, in which he admitted killing Mildred DURKEE, 18, of Hornell, whose body was found last night beside a lonely, winding lane leading off Workley road, in the town of Clarence. KOSMOSKI drove about the streets of the city and the roads of the easterly suburbs for more than two hours, seeking a secluded place in which the body might be safely hidden, according to the story he haltingly related to police and sheriff's officers, following his arrest as a suspect in the investigation of the slaying of the girl. KOSMOSKI'S confession exonerates John F. URBANSKI, held as a material witness. KOSMOSKI shot the girl to death, he says, because she accepted the attentions of another man. **** Former Foster Parents Battle For Children Obtained From Home Four foster parents appeared before Supreme Court Justice John M. M. STEPHENS yesterday to oppose writs of habeas corpus obtained by a charity institution to compel them to surrender the custody of their adopted children. When the baby that had been left on the doorstep of Mr. and Mrs. Angelo VENNRO'S home and that had been raised by the couple, died, friends of the VENNIROS, who have long been childless felt sorry for the mean trick that fate had played on them and determined to help them. So they had a baby from Father BAKER'S Home in Lackawanna placed in their care. Fate Steps In Again Now fate is determined to cheat the Rochester foster parents again, for the placement department of the Buffalo Catholic Charities, acting under the State Department of Charities has secured a writ of habeas corpus from the courts to have the child returned to the Home. Before Judge STEPHENS yesterday, the investigators for the Buffalo Catholic Charities attempted to show that the VENUIRO home was not the proper place to raise the child, claiming that the VENNIRO'S could not speak English, that their home is not as clean and progressive as it should be in the opinion of the investigators and that Mr. VENNIRO raises canaries. In opposition to these charges, Anthony MICILI, attorney for the VENNIROS, stated that the couple have a good home for the child and they have raised the child from a sickly baby to a healthy youngster of three years. The Rochesterians also claim that the institution has no claim over the child, as the papers by which the baby was placed in Father BAKER'S Home were defective and so the mother has never relinquished her claim to the child. Second Baby Sought Mr. and Mrs. Liborio GENNAVOLA of Frank street, represented by Attorney Charles LAMBIASE, also fought a similar writ of habeas corpus obtained by the Buffalo Catholic Charities. They also obtained a child from Father BAKER'S Home and now the Home wants the child returned. The Buffalo Charities were represented in both cases by Michael HOGAN of Rochester and Stephen O'GORMAN of Buffalo. Judge Stephens reserved decision in both cases. **** -- Glenda Whitaker Subyak Monroe Co. & NY State News Coordinator Assistant Coordinator Pike Co., IL Please Visit my Web page & sign my Guestbook http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~glendasubyak