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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1967
Page
7
The Arlington Garden Club sponsors a Christmas lights contest for Arlington West and East Arlington. Two prizes await the most beautiful decorations judged by a panel. Committee led by Mrs A J Hastings and others invites entrants and promises further details later.
Thanksgiving visitors from Yorktown Heights, N Y. plans for June weddings of Karen Lesch and Jeanne Lesch. Advent service at West Arlington Methodist Church featured a girls choir candlelighting. Rev Max Webster supplied pulpit duties. Choir members named. Next Sunday services set for 11 30 a m. Arlington reunion notes Mrs C L Marsh Jr flew to Seattle to visit Mr and Mrs George Linkletter.
Eight members of American Legion Post 38 and its auxiliary hosted a party at the Vermont Soldiers' Home in Bennington for residents. The Masonic-OES Christmas party is set for Saturday at Masonic Hall at 6 p.m. Members with last names A through H bring a hot dish, I through Z bring a salad, and everyone brings gifts for exchange and for their own children.
Dartmouth classics professor Matthew I. Wiencke will lecture on The Sculptures of the Parthenon Frieze at Williams College Museum of Art Thursday at 8 p.m. Wiencke, a Johns Hopkins Ph.D. and former Yale and Missouri faculty member, has studied Greek vase painting and is preparing a comprehensive study of the frieze with photos from Athens, the British Museum and other European collections.
South Cambridge residents welcome home relatives from hospitals and a wedding trip. George Ziehm had eye surgery in Albany. Peter Matcovich of New York stayed with family. Pleasant Valley Grange to host a public card party on December 12 at 8 p.m. at the hall. Mr and Mrs Douglas Thomas return from their wedding trip and reside in the former E R Stiles house. Methodist Church services at 11 30 a m with Rev Oswald A Muller. Sunday School at 10 30 a m. WSCS to hold Christmas supper and party at Mrs George Cronk's home Thursday at 7 p m. Cambridge Central School honor list includes Walter McNall high honors Joy Hamilton Diane Skiff David Wilmot Kenneth Aiken Peter Saile. Mr and Mrs Wilson H Pratt hear their son Floyd has arrived back in the States from Vietnam. Navy Sea Bees discharge soon after four years, 16 months in Vietnam. Mr and Mrs Norman D Bott announce Santa Claus will be at Parkside Store in Dwightacola this Saturday and again December 15.
Zion Episcopal Church will present Unending Struggle a 29 minute black and white documentary showing overseas country teams supporting US national interests. A second filmstrip The United States and the World will also be shown. All Saints vestry meets Dec 12 and All Saints Guild Christmas party Dec 14 with gift exchanges. Ladies Aid of Baptist Church meets Friday Dec 15 with a Christmas party hosted by Mrs. Frances Prince.
Eleven men drowned and 18 others were reported missing after a motor launch capsized off Burias Island in central Philippines. About 20 of the 50 aboard were rescued, according to government and local officials.
Mary McClellan Hospital in Cambridge N Y releases admissions and discharges for the week ending December 3. Bennington area admissions include Hazel Bennett Edna L Edie Mary B Langlois Gladys M Mullen Bonnie J Peters Theodore G Reynolds and more. Discharges include Norman H Deyoe Buskirk Mary B Langlois Robert F Lanoue Elsie Nason and Gina A Thompson White Creek.
On a chilly Saturday the West Arlington Juniors and Moonspinners canvassed homes for the Bennington County Friends of the Retarded. Front row: Ann Coley and others. second and back rows show Catherine Hirsch Janet Jennings Debbie Cole Lauren Rogers Shelly Salter Leslie Pratt Sandy Jennings Molly Pratt. Mrs. Pratt Cole Hagelberg Howard chauffeured. Miss Tynan served hot chocolate and cookies at the Community House.
Mrs. Arthur Harrington Sr. hosted a Sunday family dinner for her 71st birthday with guests including Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Harrington Jr. and Terri, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cipperly, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Midlette and children of Johnsonville, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Flynn. Miss Margaret Hoag returns to duties as X ray technician at St. Marys Hospital in Troy after a week with her parents. The Walloomsacers met at Mrs. Gordon Hoags home and sewed eight pillow cases, mended five johnnies and made five new ones. Helpers from Breese Hollow, Hoosick Falls and East Hoosick invited to call 686-7282. Mrs. George Wolfrum confined to bed with bronchitis.
A special choir rehearsal for all children from Grade 5 through high school will be held at the First Methodist Church Friday at 7 p.m. The practice prepares for the Sunday School program A Merry Christmas in Song Verse and Story to be presented at the church on December 17.
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