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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1963
Page
7
A reminiscence on washing through generations from Coblenz Germany to modern life. The narrator compares mother’s sun and soap wash days with a contemporary electric washer, noting leisure gains yet fuller domestic labor and pondering what happened to traditional washday picnics as progress reshapes chores and time. The yellow stain finally bleaches lighter.
Sun day dinner guests include Mr and Mrs Edward Goodermote and others at Williamstown home. White Creek visitors dine with Mrs Breer. All Saints Guild holds regular meeting and hosts turkey supper and bazaar tonight. Weekend guests from Lynnfield Malden arrive. John Johnsonville resident visits. Hoosick Falls and Pittsfield visitors join Mr and Mrs Sigmund for Sunday dinner.
The item lists residents and visitors including Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ennis and Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Tifft in Plymouth Conn, Lawrence Benjamin and James Bell with H. E. Benjamin family, Arlington Fire Co auction October 26 with donation calls to Lee Marsh, and other calls on relatives visiting from Stamford Winooski Springfield and Casleton. Phillip Mattison Jr expanding shop at home. Effie Blyther returns from Cambridge after a visit.
Carlo Walter Mountain Towns with Mr and Mrs Gordon Rice and daughter Norma tour the St Lawrence Seaway and nearby sights during a vacation trip. Mrs Marjorie Rice of Searsburg is summoned for jury duty for the fall term at the County Court House in Bennington. The home of Mr and Mrs...
Lawrence Buck Leonard of Somerset led twelve members in six sport cars to Hartford Connecticut for a Sunday visit. Sandra Leonard guided a scavenger hunt for the group in the afternoon before a short visit with Sandra’s parents and a return trip to Hartford.
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