Burr and Burton Varieties Show Draws 225 Fans
Manchester burr and burton seminary staged the First Annual Varieties with over 225 parents friends and faculty in attendance. Peter Schoffstall supervised the program which ran since October. Prudence Humphreys performed folk melodies on guitar amid beatnik style pantomimes of Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel with a 32 member chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burr and Burton Seminary
Joseph Stannard
Nelle Ryan
Prudence Humphreys
Joanna Dillmann
Drama Club
Manchester
Peter Schoffstall
Dies
Londonderry
Red Riding Hood
Hansel and Gretel
Cathy Smith
Francis Smalley
Sally Barrows
Tom
Pownals Host Educations Week PTA Meeting and Boy Scout News
In observance of National Education Week the North Pownal Parent-Teacher Club will host the November meeting with teachers Harold Pratt Richard Worden Mrs Terri Landau and Mrs Florence Harries guiding rooms for parents and friends. The Boy Scout Troop 47 weekly meeting at Town Hall 8 p m Wednesday invites all scouting age boys as the troop pursues Venture to add five members by December and invites men to join the executive committee.
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North Pownal
Troop 47
Rolland Roy
Pownall
Arlington Community Events Schedule and Local News
A weekly calendar lists Sodality of the Blessed Virgin at Fisher Elementary School and Martha Canfield Library events. Arlington Choral Society and American Legion meeting details include a Boys' and Girls' State representative. Night classes, Well Baby Clinic hours, and a note on Mrs. Harold Bottum closing the Colonial Inn and visiting Amherst, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Sodality of the Blessed Virgin
Fisher Elementary School
Martha Canfield
Arlington Choral Society
West Arlington Grange
American Legion Post No. 69
the Grange
Grange
West Arlington
Local Notes and Society Briefs From Manchester Vermont
Substituting on the county desk in Bennington, Nancy H Otis can be reached after 6 p.m. At Mount Laurel School four new directors were elected October 15: Mrs Sarah Given Larson William C Nawrath Douglas Shaw and William G Barrows Jr of Dorset. J Frank Burke of Dorset, named as director in September, takes on corresponding secretary duties. Blanchard Stone is appointed to teach home economics to girls two hours weekly and Evelyn Beattie adds two hours weekly in crafts for boys and younger children. The Greater Manchester Area Chamber of Commerce adopts Area of Plenty slogan and horn of plenty symbol for the November 15–16 trade show at the Elementary School gym, with a fashion show cafeteria prizes from local merchants. Mrs Clifford B Harwood among 50 Vermonters visiting Concord to meet Sen Barry Goldwater. IOOF Installation: Azzie Eggleston and James Roberts preside over joint install for Excelsior Rebekah Lodge 25 and Hope Lodge 50 at Odd Fellows Hall Oct 19. New officers: IOOF Robert Squires noble grand Frank Haldiman vice grand Edmund Goodell recording secretary Irving Fleming financial secretary James Roberts treasurer Durwood Fisher warden John Benson conductor Rev Edgar W Johnson chaplain. Rebekah officers: Dorothy Squires noble grand Ernestine Gillis vice grand Betty Kamber recording secretary Azzie Eggleston financial secretary Elizabeth Taylor treasurer Effie Burroughs warden Blanche Fleming conductor Nora Griffis chaplain Elizabeth Johnson Grace Abramson Viola Roberts Betty Randall Martha Hilliard Mary Mattison Gertrude Robinson Bessie Cobleigh Edith Thompson Marion Slanetz Pauline Haldiman Irving Fleming Robert Squires Florence Capen James Roberts.
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Greater Manchester
Concord
N.H
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Azzie Eggleston
East Dorset
James Roberts
Excelsior Rebekah Lodge
Hope Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
Elizabeth Johnson
Irving Fleming
Jacksonville
Grand Lodge of Vermont
Cressy Williams
Londonderry
Grand Herald
Nathan
Rebekah
Dorothy Squires
Noble Grand
Ernestine Gillis
Betty Kamber
Elizabeth Taylor
Effie Burroughs
Blanche Fleming
Nora Griffis
Grace Abramson
Viola Roberts
Betty Randall
Martha Hilliard
Mary Mattison
Gertrude Robinson
Bessie Cobleigh
Edith Thompson
Marion Slanetz
Pauline Haldiman
Robert Squires
Florence Capen
Halloween Party Draws Elks Auxiliary and Guests
Hoosick Falls Ladies of the Elks auxiliary hosted a Halloween party and dance with prizewinners for costumes including funniest, most original, pretties, and way-out. Music by Cottrell's Orchestra accompanied the event with a late lunch served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
Cottrell
William Bohmer
Edward Meaney
Albert DeLuca
Gerry DeLuca
Michael Brewster
Military recruits from Shaftsbury and Shaftsbury Fran Stacy
Pvt. Charles A. Perkins, 20, of North Bennington, is in basic training at Fort Dix New Jersey assigned to D Co 4th Trig Regt under the 1955 Reserve Forces Act. He will serve six months on active duty then return to Btry B 5th Hono to complete service. Gerald E. Thomson 17, son of Kenneth W Thomson Sycamore Lane, trains at Great Lakes Naval Training Center in nine week program covering orientation history seamanship ordnance gunnery drill first aid and survival.
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Fort DIX
Charles A. Perkins
North Bennington
N.J
D Co
North Bennington High School
Gerald E. Thomson
Kenneth W. Thomson
Sycamore Lane
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes, Ill
Cubs Rank Big Admission At North Bennington Pack Meet
NORTH BENNINGTON Cub Scout Pack 28 welcomed 15 boys and three new den mothers at their first meeting of the year at the fire house. Packmaster Charles Perkins and assistant Clifton Loomis were introduced by Sanford Buxbaum who also paid tribute to retiring master Edgar Matteson. Bobcat pins were awarded as den leaders and den mothers organized new dens under Mrs. Carleton Couch and Mrs. Francis Carriere.
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North Bennington
Sanford Buxbaum
Charles Perkins
Clifton Loomis
Buxbaum
Edgar Matteson
Den 3
Fred Ester
Timothy Sweeney
Alan Pratt
Clifton Loomis Jr
James Holden Jr
Malcolm Hewitt
Leslie Ester
Craig Cherbonneau
Carleton Couch
Francis Carriere
Terry Dailey
Christopher Mayer
Curtis Mayer
Thomas Calabro
Dennis Hill
John Carriere
Carleton Couch Jr
Den 2
Harold Shepard
Blackbeard
Dr. Kildare
BuxLaum
West Arlington Hunters Pursue Maine Deer Bucks
West Arlington party of men from three states hunted in Rangely Lake Maine for a week. Arnold Wilcox and James Edgerton each bagged 8 point bucks while Lyle Salter took an 140 pound 8 point and Edgerton joined the Biggest Buck in Maine Club. Drought closed parts of the woods as Maine and Vermont endured warm weather.
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New
Maine
James
Bud’’ Edgerton
West Arlington
Rangeley Lake
Edgerton
Arnold Wilcox
Lyle Salter
Warwick
R.1
Rangely Lake
James Edgerton
Robert Stroffoleno
Richard Evans
Arlington
Edward Forrest
Dorset
Ira Whitney
Farm Bureau
Stamford
John Page
Bennington
Frank Hollister
Robert Smith
Joseph Andreas
New Jersey
John de San Francisco
Rhode Island
Vermont
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Pownals
Vera Langlais
Helene Thompson
Arlington High School
Harold Bottum
Colonial Inn
Amherst, N.Y
Nancy Otis
Nancy H. Otis
Manchester News
IOOF
Main Street
Frank Haldiman
Harold Benson
William Hulett
Charles Thompson
Charles Taylor
Edward Eggleston
Sammy Greenberg
Nathan Kamber
John West
Edith Beaumont
O’brien
James Frazier
Ann Pappas
Edward Baker
Irma Bradley
Beaumont
Texas
Elizabeth Connick
John Street
William Tisdale Sr
Janet
Niagara Falls
N.Y
William Tisdale
Willow Street
Tisdale
Hoosick Falls Central School
Minneapolis
Gertrude Darby
Saratoga
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Ellis Hospital
Schenectady
E. Main ST
Richfield
Florida
Francis J. Kelly
Bennington, VT
Army
Shaftsbury
Fran Stacy
Cubs
Eddie Riley
Den 1
Thomas Dailey
Ronald Shepard
James Gratton
North Bennington Parent Teacher Association
North
Vermont Bank and Trust CO
Mimosa Federal Deposit
Corporation
Brattleboro
Rutland
Bennington Bellows Falls
Chester
Hamburg
Liggett- Bosworth
Bennington Road
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