Lions Club Auction Nets About Six Hundred Dollars
Carlo Walter and Mrs Samuel P King of Honolulu visited Mrs Kings sister and family in Wilmington. Lions Club auction at C C Haynes Building realized about $612 from sales and about $55 from refreshments donated by Lions and wives. Auctioneer was Edward Bartlett. Philip and John Long left for Camp Plymouth for two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel P. King
Becky
Honolulu
Hawaii
Roland Joyall
Edward Bartlett
West Dover
Philip
John Long
Camp Plymouth
Charles Turner
Colorado Springs
Colo
Reinhart Pettersen
Whitestone
L.I
Anders Hedquist
Flushing N.Y
Turners
Kenneth Berry
Robyn and
Allyson
Coventry
Conn
Berry
Leo Berry
Alfred Rehnberg
Somers
Kenneth Rafuse
Canada
Windsor Forks
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Ford Foundation Grants Boost Williams Center Program
Williams College in Williamstown Mass receives 130000 from the Ford Foundation to continue the Center for Development Economics work begun in 1959. The grant supports training for economists from less developed areas and American economists for service there. Two groups of 20 foreign students completed the one year MA in Development Economics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Mass
Williams College
Ford Foundation
John E. Sawyer
Williams
Center For Development Economics
Gale Road
Cluett Estate
Carle Welter Seeks Update On Contoocook Visit
Mr and Mrs Charles Dearcopp returned from a week in Contoocook New Hampshire where Mrs Dearcopp attended Mildred Reid s School of Creative Writing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Dearcopp
Contoocook, N.H
Young Memphis Woman Claims Nickname of Young Great Grandmother
Mrs. Anna Mae Jackson of Memphis Tennessee believes she may be one of the nation s youngest great grandmothers at 48 She became a mother at 14 and a grandmother at 29 highlighting a family line with early milestones and a public notice of her rare status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis, Tenn
Anna Mae Jackson
Theater Group in Hoosick Falls Seeks Talent
Hoosick Falls New York Ron Badgeley director of Teahouse of the August Moon invites theater minded people from Bennington to join the Little Theater Group of Hoosick Falls for workshops. They seek a young man to play Fisby and meet Tuesdays at 8 pm at 96 Classic Street. Call 686 5354 for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Ron Badgeley
Little Theater Group of
Bennington
Ior
Badgeley
Fisby
Glen Ford
Farm 4 H Field Day at Ondawa Farm Sunderland
A 4-H field day is set for Saturday August 4 at 4-H Camp Ondawa in Sunderland. Activities include a safety demonstration at 11 a m chicken barbecue at 11 45 a m a dairy calves auction at 1 p m 4 H dairy show at 1 30 p m with exhibits by 4 H clubs Farm Bureau and other groups plus farm machinery. Children can enjoy pie eating bag races and pony rides during dairy show breaks. Tickets available at Bennington agriculture offices or from area farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ondawa
Sunderland
Farm Bureau
Arry Herd Improvement Association Official Breeders Association
Dai
African Highlights slide show in Dorset by Miss Baker
Dorset residents can attend a color slide show titled African Highlights with narration and music by Miss Alouise Baker. The event, a benefit for the Manchester Welfare and Nursing Association, takes place July 26 at 8:45 p.m. in Dorset Elementary School. Tickets are $2 and available at Johnny Apple Bookshop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorset
Alouise Baker
Manchester Welfare and Nursing Association
Johnny Apple
Poppies From World War I Seed Flourish In Iowa Garden
In Des Moines area Clyde L Boots tends poppies from Flanders Field grown in his garden. He brought the seed home from France in 1919 after World War I, carrying it in a Signal Corps capsule used to send messages by carrier pigeon. The blooms trace to that seed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Flanders Field
France
Clyde L. Boots
Signal Corps
Nature's spring spectacle unfolds in Searsburg backwoods
A backyard observer describes an unusually active spring in Searsburg with abundant indigo buntings and rare Scarlet Tanagers, a gathering of barn, tree, bank, and cliff swallows, and a lone green frog. The event culminates in a dramatic swallow wedding flight, followed by a quiet reflection on nature's vagaries.
Local Happenings and Church Events in Hoosick Area
Hoosick residents plus visitors and family guests are noted across Ada Breer Williams Cipperly Rifenburg Sabin and Prebble. Events include Baptist Crusaders class meeting August 1 at Mrs Lyman Rudd and a Baptist Church Picnic July 28 at Hedges Lake. August Sunday School suspended. preaching scheduled first two weeks. Mr and Mrs Hall and sons vacation at Groveton New Hampshire camp. Leon Niles visits from Arlington Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Rifenburg
Eugene Hammond
Raymertown
Albert G. Sabin
Boyntonville
Harrison J. Philpott
Kathy Prebble
Schenectady
Florence Smith
John Jones
Salisbury Beach
Mass
Crusaders
The
Baptist Church
Lyman Rudd
Hedges Lake
Roger Hall
Roger Jr
Rodney
Groveton
N.H
Leon Niles
Arlington
Hall
Battenkill Grange Notes Highlights and Events
The Battenkill Grange notes report June bake contest results with Class A empty and winners in Classes B and C. Members are urged to contribute for upcoming contests and a key holder entry. Juvenile meeting and July 26 degrees are announced, plus state and regional events, safety talks, and an August 1 meeting with refreshment duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Economics
Helen Condon
George Coolidge
Clarence Decker III
Clark Condon
George Cooledge
Edward Curran
Condon
Raymond McEckron
Donald Waite
Clarence Decker
State Grange
Warren
Middletown Springs
Linda McEckron
Camp Downer
Taconic Grange
Battenkill
Jesse Harrington
Noel Alden
Irene Vaughn
Jane Vaughn
Ben Hall
Harvard Geiger Counter Study Maps Radiation on Public Health
Harvard School of Public Health conducts a wide study on natural radiation in cooperation with state governments. The project begins in Vermont and New Hampshire and may involve readings in homes to measure radiation levels and correlate them with health. Funded by the National Health Institute, it started July 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Harvard School of Public Health
Vermont
New Hampshire
Harvard
The
National Health Institute
Local residents and visitors stop by in East Arlington
East Arlington and Sunderland greet a stream of visitors including Mr and Mrs Phillips Shuffleton and son Robert from Pembroke Massachusetts returning to see Mr and Mrs Robert Shuffleton. Miss Sadye and Ruth Daniels from New York City enjoy vacation at their home. Henry Benjamin hosts relatives from Stamford Connecticut and others from Bennington Yorktown Larchmont North Arlington and White River Junction while George Albee family move into a renovated Arlington Road residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillips Shuffleton
Robert
Pembroke
Mass
Robert Shuffleton
Sadye
Ruth Daniels
New York City
George Jepson
Bennington
East Arlington
Dan Dodson
Yorktown
N.Y
North Arlington
N.J
Maple Hill
Nova Scotia
Lawrence Benjamin
Stamford
North Conway
N.H
Louis Donro
Debora Grout
Holyoke
John Neven
George Albee
William Mann-Hayes
Arlington Road
Hal Co
Man charged after liquor found under dog house
In Brunswick Georgia a 62 year old man faces charges for violating state liquor laws after police discovered 49 gallons of illicit whisky concealed beneath a dog house at his property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick, Ga
Annual Meeting Notice for Bennington Co operative S&L
The Bennington Co operative Savings and Loan Association Inc announces its annual meeting at 8 p.m. EDT on Thursday August 9 1952 at the Wm H Wills Insurance Agency Office 116 South St Bennington Vermont. Election of officers and directors plus other lawful business will be transacted. Clement C Walker Secretary July 25 31 Aug 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington Co-operative Savings and Loan Association, Inc
Bennington
Vermont
Wm. H. Wills Insurance Agency
South St
Clement C. Walker
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Wilmington-Dover
Carlo Walter
Cluett Center
Ford
Mountain Towns
Carle Welter
Searsburg
Elm Street
Dial
Walker
M. E. Rudd Co
South Street
Bennington, Vt
William Peckham
Classic St
Ben Sorkin
Serengeti
Ambosili
Central and East Africa
Belgian Congo
By Carlo Wolter
Hoosick
Ada M. Breer
Charles E. Breer
Audna B . Cipperly
Troy
Stuart Williams
Hackensack
Charles Williams
Andrew Williams
Pittsfield
Prudence Vaughn
James Woodard
Vaughn
Anna Vaughn
Barbara Albright
Charles Bentley
East
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
Fido
Norelco Remington
Schick
Main Street
Bennington, Vermont
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