Arlington community notices and events update
The East Arlington Red Mountain Chapter CES hosts a public card party Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Masonic Temple. Batten Hill Grange meets Wednesday at 8 p.m. in West Arlington with Past Master Everett Willara of Newport explaining grange policies. John Benedict is discharged and convalescing at home. Dennis Pratt recovering after surgery, aiming to be home by week’s end at Bishop DeGoesbriand Hospital in Burlington. Arlington High Austine basketball game rescheduled to Wednesday at Brattleboro due to mid year exams. Bennington Putnam Memorial Hospital hosts a graduate nurses program Thursday at 7:30 p.m. A snowstorm caused last month’s workshop postponement.
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Red Mountain
CES
Masonic Temple
Everett Willara
Newport
Grange
Battenhill Grange
West Arlington
John Benedict
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Dennis Pratt
Lawrence Pratt
Bishop DeGoesbriand Hospital
Burlington
Bennington County
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Baptism and Local Family News Roundup
Walloomsae Rebecca Jane daughter of Mr and Mrs Eugene Hughes was baptized at the Church of the Immaculate Conception on January 8 with Kenneth Buck as godfather and Mrs Charles Prebble as godmother. Alice B Fitzgerald returns from two weeks in Keansburg NJ with her daughter and infant grandson Michael Sean. James Baldwin returns from Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington. Jeffrey Bartholomew and wife of Lansingburgh visited her parents Joseph and Mrs Carelli for the weekend. J Henry Wheeler reportedly improving. Margaret Hoag X ray technician at St Marys Hospital Troy enjoyed weekend with James Hoag and family. Joseph Hoag, 14, taken to Mary McClellan Hospital Cambridge January 8. Sylvester James, seriously ill in Manchester, spent Tuesday with sister Mrs John Madill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebecca Jane
Eugene Hughes
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Kenneth Buck
Charles Prebble
Alice B. Fitzgerald
Henry Cerwinsky
Michael Sean
Keansburg
James Baldwin
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Jeffrey Bartholomew
Lansingburg
Joseph Carelli
Henry Wheeler
Margaret Hoag
St. Mary’s Hospital
Troy
James Hoag
Joseph
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
Sylvester James
Manchester
John Madill
Wild Flowers Subject For Garden Club Talk
Mrs. Rob ert Brogdale of Springfield will speak on wild flowers and their preservation at the Garden Club of Manchester meeting at Colburn House Thursday at 12 30 p.m. She is vice president of the state Federation of Garden Clubs and an official of the New England Wild Flower Preservation Society. Hostess chairman is Mrs. Leland K. Palmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Robert Brogdale
Springfield
Garden Club of
Colburn House
Brogdale
State Federation of Garden Clubs
New England Wild Flower Preservation Society
Leland K. Palmer
Pownals Briefs and Local Meetings Tonight
John Jay Welch returns from a 30 day furlough and reports to his post in Germany. Boy Scout Troop 347 meets at 7 in the Scout Hut. Mr and Mrs Robert Buck and Grover Bostwick visit Oneonta, N Y. Youth Fellowship and church choir at North Pownal Congregational Church meet tonight at 7 led by Rev John C Hatch and Mrs Earle V Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Jay Welch
U.S. Army
Ernest Welch
North Pownal
Germany
Robert Buck
Oneonta
N.Y
Grover Bostwick
North Pownal Congregational Church
John C. Hatch
Earle V. Church
Hoosick Falls Auxiliary Sews Cancer Dressings Week
Hoosick Falls Health Center Auxiliary met January 12 to cut and sew cancer dressings. Mrs. Raymond Hogan led the session. Appreciation was given to Rev. Edith Craig Reynolds for a $2,200 gift to cover a health center deficit. Alfred Kristiansen, 147 Main St., is a patient at Mary McClellan Hospital Cambridge. He has been there since shortly after Christmas and will stay about another week. Mrs. Marcus Kipp left for Riverside California for six weeks with her son Marcus Jr. and daughter Elsie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls Health Center
Raymond Hogan
Edith Craig Reynolds
Alfred Kristiansen
Main St
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Marcus Kipp
Baill Street
Riverside
Calif
Marcus Jr
Elsie Kipp
Arlington Author Turns Out New Book on Early America
West Arlington author Mary Wolfe Thompson has sold a history of Arlington to David McKay & Co New York expected within 18 months. She wrote Wilderness Girl Before Vermont Had a Name inspired by local 1760s settlement tales with adviser Gerald Raftery of Martha Canfield Library Arlington.
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Arlington
America
West Arlington
Mary Wolfe Thompson
David McKay & Co
New York City
Vermont
Crockett
New Hampshire Grants
Ed. Aiken
Londonderry
N.H
Windham Tract
Gerald Raftery
Martha Canfield Library
Music in the Round Series Opens at Williams College
Music in the Round presents a three part series directed by Julius Heggi set in Chapin Hall Williams College audience surrounds players. First program features Piston Beethoven Sydeman Shostakovich works with a roster including Eileen Carrier Susan St Amour Rudolf Doblin Margaret Hanford and others. Series tickets 2.50 at door 1.25 single half price for students. Dates March 3 and April 28.
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Williamstown
Mass
Julius Heggi
Chapin Hall
Williams College
Heggs
Texas
Berkshire
Piston
Beethoven
Sydeman
Shostakovich
Eileen Carrier
Susan St. Amour
Rudolf Doblin
Margaret Hanford
Francis Cardillo
Irwin Shainman
Andre Speyer
Edward Bahr
Kenneth Roberts
Charlotte Heggs
Grange Centenary Candle Lighting at Taconic Hall
Shaftsbury prepares for a centennial candle lighting at Taconic Grange Hall on January 24 with Pomona and state officers attending. The lunch committee includes Merton and Snow, Ernest Coonradt, Howard Snow, and Hattie Dutelle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Grange
Taconic Grange Hall
Pomona
Merton R. Snow
Ernest Coonradt
Howard Snow
Hattie Dutelle
Bennington County workers invited to join credit union
Rutland County U S Government Employees Credit Union votes to invite Bennington County government workers to join. If approved by state banking commissioner James Hunt, the union will be renamed Southwestern Vermont Federal Employer's Credit Union. Current membership about 273. 1966 profit $8,029.54 with 4.8 percent dividend about $4,930.40 and 12 percent interest refund about $1,691.30. Credit Committee approved 99 loans in 1966 totaling $111,890.
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Rutland
U.S
Bennington County
Rutland County
James Hunt
Vermont
Southwestern
Credit Union
Credit Committee
Educational TV Talk By State Education Official
SHAFTSBURY Odell Skinner of the state Education Department Division of Educational TV Burlington will address Shaftsbury School Association Monday at 8 p.m. in the elementary school. He will outline state plans for educational TV for the coming year and its implications for Shaftsbury and surrounding area. All interested residents are urged to attend this timely talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaftsbury
Odell Skinner
State Education Department
Division of
Educational TV
Burlington
Shaftsbury School Association
Skinner
Episcopalians Set Annual Vestry Elections in Manchester
Zion Episcopal Church in Manchester will elect new vestry members at its annual meeting Thursday night at the Zion Parish House. A pot-luck supper begins at 6 30 p.m. with vestrymen Dr. Robert Fisk and Dan Noble presiding. Nominees include Mrs Norman Roberts and Mrs David Robertson for three-year terms and Mrs Cecil Brown Guy Campbell Dr Robert Fisk and Dan Noble for three-year terms to fill expiring seats. The one-year post will also be filled from the slate. Nominating committee members include Mrs Ruth Taylor and Douglas Shaw whose terms end with this meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Zion Episcopal Church
Zion
Robert Fisk
Dan Noble
Marshall Peters
John Eckhardt
Norman Roberts
David Robertson
Cecil Brown
Guy Campbell
Ruth Taylor
Douglas Shaw
NASA Demonstrations Planned at Manchester School
NASA schedules the Spacemobile at Manchester Elementary School on January 31 with two 50 minute lecture demonstrations by Minot H. Parker for students at 2 p.m. and parents at 7 p.m. The exhibits show launch vehicles satellites space probes and related equipment and answer questions about satellites orbits and NASA plans for space research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Minot H. Parker
Writers Confer at Skidmore to Feature Noted Authors
Saratoga Springs New York three prominent writers John Cheever Richard Kim and George P Elliott will speak and participate in Skidmore College first Writers Conference February 9 11 Events open to public and expected to attract professional writers teachers students and unpublished authors from a wide area Editors from major publishing houses have shown interest advisers say the conference begins February 9 at noon and ends after luncheon February 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Skidmore College
John Cheever
Richard Kim
George P. Elliott
Harry Barba
Skidmore
Barba
Wilmington clubs meet share notes and plan
Mountain towns 4-H Club led by Mrs Doris Stengel met in the school cafeteria as girls received hard cover notebooks for filing pamphlets and notes. Eleven members of Wilmington Homemaker Extension Club met at Mrs Guido Cimonetti's home with dessert. Mrs Worden led the business session and donations were collected for Chin Duck Hee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Mountain Lassies 4-H Club
Wilmington
Doris Stengel
Twin Silos
Wilmington Homemaker Extension Club
Guido Cimonetti
Robert Worden
Chin Duck Hee
Worden
Harry Covey
Leo Berry
St. Mary’s-in the-Mountain Mission
Roland Mahaffey
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Arlington East
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Arlington High - Austine
Brattleboro
Walloomsae
Bertha Hoag
Garden Club
The
Pownals
Vera Langlais
Hoosick Falls
Edith Beaumont
Whitingham Central School
Silvio Eccher
Readsboro
Donald Finch
Judy Dix
Burrington Hill
Eccher
Collins
Raftery
Europe
Williams
Credit
Episcopalians
Carlo Walter
Women’s Association of the Wilmington Congregational Church
Wayne Timmerman
Harry Fisler
Kurn Hattin
Bertha Johnson
Charles Smith
Carl Howe
Lewis Stone
Congregational Church
Helen Allen
Goldie Bickford
John Willard Sr
Leonard Johnson
Birkenhead, England
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