Eastern Star installs officers in Hoosick Falls
Van Rensselaar Chapter 161 of the Order of the Eastern Star installed new officers at the Masonic Temple in Hoosick Falls. Names include worth y patron Edna Rose and associate matron Eva Calhoun with a full slate of officers and trustees. Guests from nearby chapters attended and refreshments followed. The next meeting will honor retiring matron Hester Plumley and her 1961 officers on January 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Rensselaar
Order of the Eastern Star
Hoosick Falls
Barrington Rose
Edna Rose
Hester Plumley
Lawrence Plumley
Masonic Temple
Main Street
Eva Calhoun
Raymond Calhoun
Elsie Kipp
Agnes Stevens
Helen Cantelo
Hazel Hill
Julia Kipp
Marshall
Mary Kipp
Jennie Copeland
Mary Jones
Mary Olson
Allison Reed
Helen Burton
Sentinel
Alex Sterling
Nina Downing
Margaret Whitter
Anne Kuebler
Ruth Olson
Marian Nesbitt
Lucy Brown
Alice Haswell
Gordon Nesbitt
Freelove Neuschwander
Helen Bullock
Carolyn Miller
Beverly Zora
Providence
R.I
Evelyn Duross
4 H Club Mourns Death of Member
Merrymakers 4H Club Shaftsbury expresses sympathy to the family of Sylvia Cook a 10 year old girl killed last week in a Cambridge New York railroad crossing accident Sylvia was a club member Read about fund raising plans field trips and project meetings scheduled for January and February with visits to Fairdale Farms and knitting plants and sewing sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaftsbury
Merrymakers 4H Club
Sylvia Cook
Cambridge
N.Y
Sylvia
Fairdale Farms
Flint-Robbins
Thomson
Brad Smith to Speak at Shaftsbury Group Meeting
Bradford Smith, author and lecturer, will address the Shaftsbury Health Association at its annual meeting held Thursday evening at the Shaftsbury Methodist Church. He and his wife Marion recently spent two years in India directing the Quaker International Center and will share life in Hindu communities with color slides. A 6 p.m. buffet precedes the talk, with each family asked to bring a hot dish or salad. beverages and dessert provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaftsbury
Bradford Smith
Shaftsbury Health Association
Cambridge Area Residents Share Holidays and Meetings
Community notes list illness recoveries and holiday visits among Cambridge area families. Local U S Navy members Wesley Mook and Lt Peter Spink are noted with their stations and duties. Various home demonstration units schedule meetings January 9 and 10 at town halls and host homes across Center and South Cambridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James D. Austin Jr
South Cambridge
Belle Welling
Troy
Burton Welling
Peter Spink
USN
Key West
Fla
William Spink Sr
Charlton
Malcolm Hamilton
Town Hall
Center Cambridge
John Murphy
Better Homes
William G. Doxsey
Joseph Voerman
Allan B. Chamberlain
Frank J. Pemrick Jr
Wesley L. Mook
Edwin T. Mook
Naval Air Station
Atlantic Fleet
Ernest Cuneo
Shaftsbury Sad Notes and Local Moves
Kimberly Jean Borden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Borden, wears a cast after a fall at home. Dorothy Whitman fell ill en route to Burlington and is in Putnam Memorial Hospital, with friends urged to send cards. Gilbert Hawkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anson Hawkins, takes a teacher principal post at Grafton VT elementary. he and family move January 27 with duties beginning January 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kimberly Jean Borden
Richard Borden
Dorothy Whitman
Burlington
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Gilbert Hawkins
Anson Hawkins
Grafton
Gilbert
Castleton
Mass Right-Of-Way Appraisal Hearing To Probe Massachusetts Expenditures
An aide says 60 or more witnesses will be subpoenaed as the House subcommittee investigates federal highway right-of-way costs in Massachusetts. Hearings to begin in February, chaired by John A. Blatnik, with records subpoenas already issued. The probe follows a 18 month inquiry into allegedly inflated property valuations for interstate takings and a partial earlier release of funds after a 1960s pact with Massachusetts Public Works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Massachusetts
John A. Blatnik
D - Minn
Bureau of Public Roads
Massasetts
Roads Bureau
Massachusetts Department of Public Works
Swanton Woman Regains Citizenship
In St Albans Vermont a Swanton woman had her American citizenship restored in a Franklin County Court ceremony. Leona Pearl, who renounced citizenship in 1916 when she married Joseph Pearl of New York, regained her status yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Albans, Vt
Swanton
Franklin County
Leona Pearl
Joseph Pearl
New York
Molotov’s Return to Vienna Delayed
Soviet foreign office in Moscow announced Molotov would resume his post as permanent representative to the atoms for peace agency in Vienna. The Moscow statement said he left for Vienna probably Saturday, but Vienna reports showed he had not arrived and possible layovers in Warsaw or Prague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Austria
V. M. Molotov
Moscow
Warsaw
Prague
International Atomic Energy Agency
Molotov
Atoms For Peace Agency
Sentenced for Crime Committed in 1946
Burlington Vermont AP Ro bert Lesage of Winooski the assault defendant from 1946 was granted a suspended two to four year sentence in Chittenden Municipal Court yesterday He has spent most of the past 15 years in Waterbury State Hospital for psychiatric treatment and was deemed competent to stand trial
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington, Vt
Robert Lesage
Winooski
Lesage
Chittenden
Waterbury State Hospital
Mount Snow Announces Coming Events And Leadership
Mount Snow Development Corp unveils a busy slate led by a new 5 600 foot double chair lift crossing another chairlift and serving Exhibition Hill Snowgance Canyon and Overbrook. The Mount Snow Cup January 21 features giantslalom with top classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Dover
Mount Snow
Mount Snow Development Corp
Sundance Slope
Exhibition Hill
Snowgance
Canyon
Overbrook
Peter Laing
Germany
Bob Gratton
Mount Snow Ski School
WHDH
Boston
Blue Angels
Vermont
Carol Crosby
Washington, D.C
Minor
Mitch) McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Stratton
Roland Bowles
Bob Grattoni
Harvey Clifford
West Hoosick Fire Auxiliary Plans Old School Use
The West Hoosick Ladies Auxiliary met at the firehouse with Mrs. Robert Duket presiding to discuss converting the old schoolhouse for member use and to approve purchasing more tableware. The next meeting will be at Mrs. Lester Pine's home. The Gleaners Society met at the parsonage last Tuesday with refreshments served and devotions led.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Hoosick
Gleaners Society
Harold Pine
Taylor Light
Wilfred Knapp
Charles Filkins
Warren Filkins
Myron Filkins
John Filkins
Raymond Brownell
Charles Piritz
Robert Abbott
Otto Piritz
Reinhold Piritz
Paul Moseley
Maurice Keilgaard
Perry Pine
St. Petersburg
Fla
Pine
Italian Ensemble To Present Concert At Williams College
I Musici, the Italian virtuoso concert and recording ensemble, will perform Friday at 8:30 p.m. in Chapin Hall Williams College. The free program features works by Vivaldi Pegolesi Rosini Mozart and Roussel. The 12 players tour from Rome's Accademia di Santa Cecilia. they perform without a conductor, each taking turns as soloist and ensemble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
I Musici
Chapin Hall
Williams College
Thompson Concert Committee
Vivaldi
Pegolesi
Rossini
Mozart
Roussel
Accademia di
Venice
Aix-en-Provence
Holland
Menton
Graz
Bordeaux
Edinburgh
Europe
Epic
Angel
North Bennington appoints new zoning commission
North Bennington Village Trustees named a five member zoning commission to draft a proposed ordinance. Members are Mrs. Henry Gratton Carl Jolivette Lionel Nowak Lawrence Powers and Arthur Wickenden. The group begins with a public meeting Thursday Jan 11 at 8 p m in Fred Welling's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Henry Gratton
Carl Jolivette
Lionel Nowak
Lawrence F. Powers
Arthur E. Wickenden
Vermont
Bennington
Old Bennington
Fred Welling
Main Street
Wilmington girls beat Whitingham 33 15 in WHS gym
Wilmington West Dover Wilmington defeated Whitingham 33 to 15 in a girls basketball game at the WHS gymnasium on Thursday. Ann Davis made seven baskets. Next game is January 25 against St Michaels of Brattleboro in Wilmington. The Baptist Church meeting in the vestry Thursday evening included a family supper with 35 attendees. Rev Myra Borden will serve as interim pastor from January 14 to April. Church officers elected include Harold Wheeler moderator Doris Rice clerk Norma Rice treasurer and others. The Lord's Acre project will continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Whitingham
WHS Gymnasium
Ann Davis
St. Michaels of Brattleboro
Myra Borden
Westminster West
Harold Wheeler
Doris Rice
Norma Rice
Claire Woods
Henry Wheeler
Harold
Doris Adams
Rena Wheeler
Marjorie Rice
Carolyn Wheeler
Prude
Ary
Bertha Boyd
Richard
John
William Boyd
Douglas Brooks
Steven Rice
Russell Fitch
Warren Batchelder
Thelma Boyd
Ruth Streeter
Blanch Mills
Church
Hazel Nelson
Earlene Fitch
Lord’s Acre
Richard Boyd
Harold Howe
Ham radio event yields 60 contracts across New England area
The Mountain Towns report details a VHF amateur radio gathering from Searsburg to Rome New York where sixty contracts were logged by operators including George Class Vernon VT and John Shaw Williamstown MA. 600 watt transmitters and 37 contacts by Roland Borkman highlight the 6 meter activity from Castle Hill Wilmington DE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Searsburg
George Class
Vernon
John Shaw
Williamstown
Mass
Don Gregory
Albany
N.Y
Joseph Noisseau
Schenectady
Jerome Bodner
Boston
Wallace and
Terry Provost
Rome
Roland Borkman
Castle Hill
Wilmington
Methuen
WIMHL
Hogback Mountain
Dorset residents return from holiday visits and local meetings
Dorset families travel for holidays with relatives in Oslo Norway Bryn Mawr Pa and Peekskill NY. The Maple Hill Cemetery Association and Dorset Fire District held annual meetings in the church vestry. Dorset auditors schedule Jan 17 at 1 p.m. to inspect town and school district accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Bovey
Franklin Jr
Pittsford
John Brown
North Bennington Community Notices Jan 1962
PTA meeting January 9 at 8 p.m. at the school with Robert Wilson on a possible union secondary school. Miriam Derwacher Missionary Society meets January 10 at 2 p.m. at Edith Burns’ home. Lake Paran and Molly Stark Home Demonstration groups hold a joint wool meeting January 12 at Baptist Church. Mizpah Circle elects new officers at January meeting. Annual North Bennington Baptist Church meeting January 11 with 6:30 p.m. covered dish supper. William Nolan of Houghton Street recovering from surgery at the local hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PTA
Robert Wilson
Miriam Derwacher
Mizpah Circle of the Baptist Church
May Bromley
Ber
Nard Whitman
Ray Crosier
Arthur Pierce
Alfred Scott
North Bennington Baptist Church
Clara Cherbonneau
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Eastern Star
Brad Smith
Shaftsbury Group
Margaret Aiken
I. Ashgrove
Edward Cantwell
Cortland
Kenneth Wilbur
Lauderdale Road
John Sheridan
Paul Sheridan
Harold Campbell
Shushan
Raymond J. Favaret
Catholic University
Pascal Parente
Women’s Missionary Society of the
Center
White Creek Baptist Church
Edith Moscrip
Allen Brownell
West Cambridge
Pauline Brownell
Valeria Moeller
West Main
Samuel Reid
Greenwich
Richard Lyons
Melrose
Forrest Lyons
North Cambridge
Warren Collamer
Joel
Dean
Stephen
Myron Collamer
Ashgrove Road
Malcolm Lyons
Fran Stacy
Jean Pine
Dover
Carlo Walter
Tel
Clinton Hall
Brattleboro
Ricky Leonard
Lawrence
Buck) Leonard
Somerset
Albany, N.Y. Veterans’ Hospital
Ricky
China Town
The
Mountain Towns
Gregory Robert Boyd
Robert Boyd
Jacksonville
Margaret Rufus
Alta Davis
Arthur Greene
Gertrude Hulett
Davis
Greene
New England
New York State
Dorset
Miriam Tifft
Richard Pocock
Bryn Mawr
Horace Streeter
Patricia
Peekskill, N.Y
J. Ronald Shanley
Yorktown Heights
Grand Union -Empan
Grand Union
Fienberg
Main St. Benn., Vt
Elizabeth Dwyer
Sar
Mizpah Circle Report
William Nolan
Houghton Street
Aana
State St. Albany
N. Y
Uptown
New Scotland Ave
Ontario Street
Albany 8
Bethlehem
Delaware Ave
Delaware Plaza
Delmar
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
City & County Savings Bank
State St
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