Scouting Drives, Church Meetings, and Scout Night Reorganization
The Friends of Scouting membership drive for Ethan Allen Council BSA continues this week in Pownal with Charles W. Rounds aided by Mrs. Rounds and the Strobridge and Langlais families. In-town events include WSCS at 8 tonight hosted by Mrs. Henry J. Bassen, plus Congregational Women's Fellowship at 7:30 with Mrs. Byron Towslee and Mrs. Leon Rudd hosting. Troop 347 plans a 7 pm reorganizational meeting at the Scout Hut, with Rolland Roy directing a program on all Scout activities. New boys 11 and older may join. leaders include Nicholas Kokoras and Mike Lewis. Jeff Rounds and Steve LaBonte named patrol leaders.
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Friends of Scouting
Ethan Allen Council
BSA
Pownal
Charles W. Rounds
Vermont Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
Boston
Byron Towslee
Leon Rudd
Congregational Women’s Fellowship
Rolland Roy
Nicholas Kokoras
Mike Lewis
Jeff Rounds
Steve LaBonte
Volunteers to Finish Sandgate Town Hall Build
At a Sandgate town meeting 38 voted against borrowing 5090 to complete the hall. Volunteering will fund and finish the shell and ceiling with the next regular voters’ meeting in March. Contractor John M. Moore recently completed shell work, design by John Lundquist and Fred Lemberg Jr. plus Mark Christianson and William Skidmore.
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Sandgate
Charles D. Bentley Jr
John M. Moore
Arlington
John Lundquist
Fred Lemberg Jr
Mark Christianson
William Skidmore
Seek Swindler faces high security in Cannes villas swindle case
Police searched multiple villas including a 68 room estate tied to Belgian Baron Olivier Allard accused of swindling Belgian Prince Charles, uncle of King Baudouin, for eight million dollars. Also note a Vermont bank report filed in 1967 and town boundary line adjustment discussed by selectmen with Clifford Ferris’s adjoining property.
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Cannes
France
UPI
Olivier Allard
Prince Charles
Baudouin
Clifford Ferris
Community Dinner Plans Under Way
West Arlington church women plan a Thursday dinner in the Grange Hall featuring home roasted turkey dressing mashed potatoes squash and pie. Diners may arrive 5 p.m. for early seating or later with ample food. Ladies Aid cooks, neighbors provide salads and relishes, and young girls serve as waitresses. Home Dem group members meet midweek to set and decorate tables as a service project.
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West Arlington
Grange Hall
Ladies Aid
Berkshire Symphony opens 23rd season in Chapin Hall
Williamstown Massachusetts The Berkshire Symphony will launch its 23rd season with a concert at 8 30 p m Friday in Chapin Hall conducted by Julius Heggs Rita Shane soloist orchestra details are listed for the event
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Berkshire Symphony
Williamstown
Mass
Julius Heggs
Chapin Hall
Rita Shane
Two in the Wilderness: Arlingtonian's New Book
Mary Wolfe Thompson, longtime West Arlington resident, unveils Two in the Wilderness, a tale set after the French and Indian War. The true incident from Crockett's Vermont history becomes a vivid story of 12-year-old Tabitha and 10-year-old Ezekiel surviving six weeks alone in Windham Vermont with wolves, storms, and duties to endure.
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West Arlington
David McKay Company, Inc
New York
Vermont
Mary Wolfe Thompson
Tabitha
Ezekiel
Windham
New Hampshire
Thompson
Crockett
Prospect
North Bennington
Fire Company Auxiliary Meeting and Hall Prep
The Fire Company Auxiliary will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the firehouse and will prepare the upstairs hall with window washing and trimming for a Halloween dance. Dr. and Mrs. Harry Clark Bates of Roanoke, Va. visited Miss Agnes Adams on Church Street, with Mrs. Fred C. Adams of Ellenburg Depot, N.Y. arriving to spend a few days. The Berkshire Symphony, in its third year of a Rockefeller Foundation grant, seeks donations as it plans concerts featuring works by Barber, Mozart, Tschaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov with soloist Miss Shane and an orchestra of about 70.
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Fire Company
Harry Clark Bates
Roanoke
Agnes Adams
Church Street
Fred C. Adams
Ellenburg Depot
N.Y
New York City Opera
Samuel Barber
Knoxville
Mozart
Miss Shane
Tschaikovsky
Rimsky - Korsakov
Harts’ Drug Store
Williamstown
Jack Hall
Northwest Hill Road
Rockefeller Foundation
Berkshire Symphony
Richard Donati
Colonial Village
East Arlington Federated Church to host a post service coffee hour
A coffee hour will be held next Sunday after the 10 a.m. service at the Federated Church in East Arlington to honor Mrs. Robert Jordan the choir director who left for a closer position in Manchester. Interim minister Rev Max Webster will lead after Rev Granville Greenwold departs Oct 30 for Texas. Pfc John Martin son of Mr and Mrs James Martin returns to Fort Eustis VA after a 10 day leave. his brother James and family visited from Quincy MA. Miss Jean Henry spoke at Bailey Hall on the Humane Society and 4-H work in Bennington County. Trophies were given to Gail Bishop Debby Mattison and Wanda Lawrence. Alan Knapp received a Village Blacksmith painting for his blacksmith course completion. Next meeting Nov 5 at 2 p.m. at Harry Gores Chapel Road home in Bennington with a horseshoeing demonstration by Debby Mattison.
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Federated Church
East Arlington
Robert Jordan
Manchester
Max Webster
Vermont
United Church of Christ
Bennington
Granville Greenwold
Greenwold
Texas
John Martin
James Martin
Fort Eustis
James
Quincy
Mass
Yvonne Cummings
Albany
William Ague
Bailey Hall
Jean Henry
Bald Mountain Horse
Bennington County Humane Society
Alan Knapp
Gail Bishop
Debby Mattison
Wanda Lawrence
Arry Gore
Chapel Road
Five Congregations Dine Together at Manchester
About 200 members from Manchester’s five houses of worship attended the first interfaith dinner at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church. The Feast of the Tabernacles featured group singing, readings, and a narration on the festival’s meaning, with participants from First Baptist, Zion Episcopal, Israel Congregation, and Congregational churches.
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Manchester
St. Paul’s
Robert Jordan
Roy W. Barstow
James Murray
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
First Congregational Church
Jerusalem
Earle E. Storrs
First Baptist Church
Mr. Hevey
Zion Episcopal Church
Israel Congregation
PTA Leaders Meet Tonight At Manchester
Regional PTA leaders gather at Burr and Burton Seminary in Manchester for a 7pm work session led by a national PTA field worker. Officers from Bennington North Bennington Dorset and Manchester will attend. dessert and coffee will be served.
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Manchester
PTA
Burr and Burton Seminary
Bennington
North Bennington
Dorset
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Sandgate Town Hall
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Arthur E. Wickenden
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Arlingtonian’s New Book
Shaftsbury
O’brien
Theodore F. Wolfe
Helene Thompson
Michael Miller
P.O. Box
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Beers
Oswego
State College
Charles Hosley
Harned - Fowler Post
VFW
Michigan
McWayne Jewelers
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Peggy Maclay
Beauty Shop
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