Grange Notes on Policies at Battenkill Grange Meeting
Everett Willard of Derby, former Vermont State Grange master, spoke on Grange policies and the centennial milestone as Battenkill Grange marked 100 years. The program highlighted National Grange goals, centennial candles, stamps, and events including a Washington caravan and Gettysburg dedication.
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Everett Willard
Derby
Vermont
Battenhill
National Grange
Willard
Grange
Clarence Decker Sr
Washington, D.C
Gettysburg
National Soldiers Cemetery
Belle Decker
Auburn
Mass
Viola Wilcox
Junior Grange
Roy Crofut
Viola Cooledge
Edward Curran
Salvation Army
Camp Ondawa Association
Old Cemetery Association
Mary Thompson
Arlington
Battenhill Grange
Ethan Allen
Bennington Catholic High School
Dorothy Willard
Battenkill Grange
Richard King
Hoosick Baptist Church Annual Reports Highlight Year of Purpose
Hoosick N Y Twenty one families attended the 181st annual meeting of the First Baptist Church Society of Hoosick moderated by James Frost. Officers elected include deacons Lester Goodermore Spencer Lockrow trustees Frank Pierce Ernest Tilley clerk Leila Shaw treasurer Marion Smith financial secretary Marion Frost benevolence treasurer and Dr Mary S Jones church school superintendent. Highlights show 113 on record 82 in church school 54 average attendance and 6386 given to individuals and 991 missions beyond Hoosick. Ladies Aid 75 years of service with eight public suppers bags bandages quilts and other items. The 1967 budget funds lighting painting hymn books and audio visual aids. Pastoral proposals include home study groups cinema parish paper Life sessions and World Mission Campaign participation. The church organized in 1785 with current meetinghouse dedicated 1870 and affiliations including Hoosick Area Church Association Capital Area Baptist Association and American Baptist Convention. Rev Taylor B Light served ten years retiring 1966 and Rev R L Tumberston began his pastorate in the fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Goodermore
Spencer Lockrow
Frank Pierce
Ernest Tilley
Leila Shaw
Marion Smith
Marion Frost
Mary S. Jones
Lucy Rifenburg
Ladies Aid Society
Hazel Rudd
Crusaders
Peter Holzhauer
Hoosick
South
India
University of Life
World Mission
American Baptists
Four-Corners
Hoosick Area
R. L. Tumberston
Plete
Norman Roberts
Donald MacRubbin
J. Edward Jaeckle
Douglas P. Shaw
Marshall Peters
Douglas Shaw
Pamela Fisk
Young People
Miss Fisk
Joseph Stannard
Manchester
Finance Committee
Garden Club Hears Talk On Wildflowers, Ferns
Mrs. Robert Brogdale of Springfield Vermont spoke to the Manchester Garden Club on wildflowers and ferns with slides. Amendments raising dues from 5 to 7 dollars and guest fees from 50 cents to one dollar were approved with changes effective April 1.
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Manchester
Robert Brogdale
Springfield
State Federation of Garden Clubs
Garden Club of Manchester
Colburn House
Brogdale
Vermont
G. Alexander Dickson
Garden Club
Howard Marsden
Arthur Pierce
Dickson
Elsa Allard
Paul Todtschinder
Mt. Laurel
Rus
Rotarians to hear ecumenical movement panel
Local Rotarians will host a panel discussion on the ecumenical movement at their regular Tuesday night meeting. Lionel Dulac chairs the event with Eugene V. Kayatta as moderator. Panelists include Rev. Robert L. Clayton Rev. James B. Murray and Rev. Jerome J. Hevey Jr.
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Lionel Dulac
Eugene V. Kayatta
Robert L. Clayton
James B. Murray
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
Mrs Powers Celebrates 97th Birthday in Hoosick Falls
Mrs Hannah Powers age 97 celebrated at the Morin home at 50 Parsons Ave in Hoosick Falls with a family gathering. Neighbors and friends visited over the weekend bringing gifts flowers and cards. Powers has lived in the area all her life and has two sons Richard Powers Sr of East Hoosick and John who died this past year. her husband John Sr died 43 years ago.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Hannah Powers
Gerard Morin
Parsons Ave
Morin
Powers
Manchester rector goes to Washington for Clergyman's Dilemma workshop
Rev. Robert L. Clayton will attend a two day workshop in Washington DC starting January 31 titled Vietnam The Clergyman's Dilemma. The vestry asked him to represent Zion parish in the national education action mobilization. Elected to the vestry for three year terms were Mrs. Cecil Brown Dr. Robert J Fisk and Dan Noble.
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Manchester
Zion Episcopal Church
Robert L. Clayton
Washington, D.C
Vietnam
Zion
Noble
Fisk
Clayton
I.N. Bartlett
Cecil Brown
Guy Campbell
C.H. Simmons Jr
Douglas Shaw
Henry Steele
UMass seeks Channel 57 education TV license for Vermont reach
The University of Massachusetts filed with the FCC to operate Channel 57 an educational TV station with studios on the Amherst campus and an antenna on Mount Tom Holyoke. The plan envisions broadcast of NAET programs and WGBH content plus future satellite programming. If approved western Massachusetts schools would gain access to regional programs and originating content from UMass. The effort includes funding requests in the state budget and a telecenter bill in Holyoke.
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Amherst
Mass
University of Massachusetts
Federal Communications Commission
John W. Lederle
Massachusetts
Wgbh-Tv
Boston
National Educational Television Network
Eastern Educational Network
FCC
Ford Foundation
Umass
Educational Television Network
Executive Branch
Mount Tom
Holyoke
Whyn-Tv
Vermont- New Hampshire Line
East Brookfield
Hartford, Conn
East Lee
Baptist Fellowship Installs New Officers
The East Poultney group attended the January Baptist Church fellowship meeting in North Bennington at Mrs. Merritt Hewitt Jr. s home. Officers installed include Mrs. Hewitt president and Mrs. Bernard Whitman vice president with other posts filled by local members. A March father and son banquet was announced along with a Nicaragua missionary visit in April. The fellowship voted a $100 contribution to the Sunday School building fund in memory of Agnes Thomson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Women’s Fellowship of the Baptist Church
East Poultney Baptist Church
Merritt Hewitt Jr
Arthur Blair
Missionary Society of the Shaftsbury Association
Blair
Hewitt
Bernard Whitman
Edith Burns
John Cook
Ralph Lindsey
George Delaney
Leo Maxon
David Kenyon
Frank Kenyon
White Cross
Robert Peckham
Grace Reed
Carl Jolivette
Alfred Scott
Charles Perkins
Olive Williamson
Ing
Nicaragua
Sunday School
Agnes Thomson
North Bennington Homemakers Meet and Library News
The Villagers Homemakers Extension club meets Tuesday at 6 30 p m at Mrs C E Bluto's Pleasant Street home for a covered dish supper with international dishes. Jennie Clark visited family near Washington and Asheville, and the Vermont Regional Library bookwagon left new titles at McCullough Library. Story hours are weekly Wednesdays at 10 30 a m. Rev Walter Miller will lead a Unity Votive Mass Tuesday at 7 p m at St John's Church marking the Unity Octave with daily prayers at Masses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homemakers Extension Club
C. E. Bluto
Pleasant Street
Jennie Clark
Maj
Gordon C. Clark
Washington
Frank Poulton
Asheville
N.C
Vermont Regional Library Bookwagon
McCullough Library
Walter Miller
St. John’s Church
Junior Miss Party To Open Vermont State Pageant
Miss Christine Tardy will attend a get-acquainted party with 16 other Vermont high school seniors from various towns before the state Junior Miss pageant at Bellows Falls Hotel Windham. The event, sponsored by the Bellows Falls Jaycees, starts at 6 30 p m. Miss Tardy won the local Jaycees pageant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Christine Tardy
Vermont
Bellows Falls
Bellows Falls Jaycees
Windham
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