(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Thirty houses were destroyed in a fire which broke out last night in Miropol, in the district of Zhitomir. Much damage was caused, machinery and workshops being destroyed.
The thirty-first annual memorial services of the combined New York Posts of the Jewish Veterans of the Wars of the Republic will be held on Sunday, May 23rd. at the Riverside Synagogue. 310 W. 103rd Street. New York. Commander-in-Chief Morris J. Mendelsohn will preside.
Rabbi Edward Lissman. bonorary chaplain and chief will officiate. Congressman Nathan D. Perlman will be the memorial speaker. Maurice Simons and Congressman Sol Bloom will deliver memorial addresses.
To raise funds to erect a new Jewish community building. the Y. M. H. A., and Y. W. H. A. of Chester. Pa., have opened a campaign for ###
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