Dorset residents share summer travels and back-to-school moves
Mr and Mrs John Hawkes return from a month long trip including three weeks on Lago Maggiore in Italy visiting Hawkes niece. Ogden Pleissner reports a month of duck shooting in Pitlochry Scotland and sightseeing. G G Coughlin and Humphreys families winter plans include Rome Fulbright and a Philadelphia move for an architect. Labor Day departures include Ketchem family to Bronxville after a Dorset Hollow stay.
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John Hawkes
Lago Maggiore
Italy
Dorset Hollow
David Humphreys
New York
Arthur Woodruff Jones
Monica
Sabrina
Rome
S.S. Mass Dam
Philadelphia
Mountain Towns Election Ballot Clerks Named
Polls at River Valley Schoolhouse open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today. Searsburg Board of Civil Authority held its final meeting before the primary election. Revised voter checklist lists 53 names. Ward Beck er and Marjory Rice named as ballot clerks for Democrats and Republicans respectively. Peggie Morgan serves as assistant ballot clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
River Valley
Board of Civil Authority of
Searsburg
Ward
Bessie Becker
Marjory Rice
Bessie Hagar
Peggie Morgan
Board of Civil Authority
Charles Palmer
Harvey Burdick Sr
Norman Strobridge
Jay Buck
Louella Willis
Ernest Welch
Pownal
George M. Renner
Harry W. Beals Jr
Frank Haley
Edgar Senecal
Richard Walsh
Donald Rogers
Henrietta Langlais
Lloyd Rathbun
Richard Dorman
Norshaft Lions Open Season With Cook-Out
SHAFTSBURY The Norshaft Lions opened the season with a cook-out at the Bennington Rod and Gun Club attended by 45 members and seven guests. New King Lion Nelson Payne led a brief business meeting after a steak supper prepared by Jim Bow and Charles Thompson. The group discussed the August fair results and the Lake Paran shelter nearing completion, while Lion Barney McCarthy announced the annual light bulb sale for Monday night Sept 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaftsbury
Norshaft Lions
Bennington
Jim Bow
Charles Thompson
Fred Ester
Fred Wohnus
King Lion
Nelson Payne
Norshaft
Lake Paran
Lion Dan Fager
Lion Barney McCarthy
Local notes include hospital returnee and Marine enlistment
James Nelson returns home after a week at Putnam Memorial Hospital with a back injury. Bruce R. Mears, son of Philip Mears, has joined the USMC and departed for Parris Island after two farewell parties. A citizens committee led by James Edgerton forms to study Arlington area schools while upcoming events include primary elections at AMHS and Legion and veterans meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Nelson
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bruce R. Mears
Philip Mears
USMC
Parris Island
Bruce
AMHS
August Brownell
White Creek
N.Y
Arlington
Cambridge
North Bennington meeting notices list events
St John Sodality will meet Wednesday at 8 p m at the library. Members who may have hospital coats on which they have been working are asked to bring either finished or unfinished garments. Girl Scout Troop 17 will meet at the firehouse at 7 p m on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John Sodality
Girl Scout
Hoosick Falls Schools Prepare for Open Day
Hoosick Falls Central School and St Marys Academy set for opening day with grades 7-12 assembly and handbook distribution. Central school to operate half day first, with full days and lunches beginning Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
St. Mary’s Academy
Hoosick Falls Central School
Manchester Rally Day at First Congregational Church Oct 18
Community events list several local activities including Rally Day at the First Congregational Church on Oct 18 with a named teaching staff and substitutes. Other notes mention veterans hospital return, a fellowship supper Sept 15, Dartmouth Outing Club hike plans, college classes, a Sick sister care, a Labor Day tea hosted by Mrs. Roy W Barstow, and visits by Gov Hoff and family during the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Congregational Church
Joseph Harrington
Theodore Day
Diana Wilcox
Susan Saunders
David Fielding
Howard Dailey
Robert Edson
Joann Johnson
Catherine Harwood
Stanley Hinkley
Donald Riker
Frederick Lawrence
Kenneth Hill
Milton Rockwell
Joseph Fowler
George Jarvis
D. Robert MacDougall
Manchester Center
Veterans Hospital
White River Junction
United Women’s Group
Jamie Campbell
James B. Campbell
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth Outing Club
Barbara Jean Goodell
Edmund Goodell
Local family visits from Irvington N Y
Mr and Mrs John Knox and their son of Irvington N Y spent a week at their place here Recently Mrs E S Wheeler president of the Ladies Aid Society of the Congregational Church announced the Old Home Day supper and sale raised 585 50 The affair was held on Aug 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Knox
Irvington, N.Y
Ladies Aid Society of the Congregational Church
E.S. Wheeler
Dorset GOP Nominates Seven Justices of the Peace
The Dorset Republican caucus nominated seven justices of the peace LeRoy McWayne Russell Parks Henry Stone Guy Stone Edward Tarbell Byron Bowen and Rex Sheldon. The meeting discussed canvassing to identify eligible voters and aid turnout with babysitting or transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorset
Ann Brink Harris
West Road
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Sydney Meachem
Williamstown
Labor Day
Richard Ketcham
Lisa
Tom
Bronxville
Carlo Walter HO
Nichols
Carryall
Sikins
Jewelers
Moin
Bernington
Beneficial
Beneficial Finance Co
Main Street
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Helene Thompson
James
Bud) Edgerton
Joseph Kreel
Marjorie Doyle
Louise Coulman
Helen Wood
American Legion Aux
Legion Rooms
Explorers’ Hut
VFW
Manchester
Red Mountain
CES
Masonic Temple
North Bennington
Elizabeth Dwyer
Pownall Vera Langlais
Teresa Agnes
Helen Frederick
Mary Jude
Sisters of St. Joseph
Kathleen William
St. Mary’s Elementary School
Albany
Margaret Lucille
Miriam Claire
Jenuskevice
Mary Lou
Joan
Lyn
John Jenuskevice
Wall Street
Beaumont
Roy W., Barstow
Franklin Avenue
Russell Souville
Dorothy Haynes
Tilghman, Md
Charles ©. Hard
Katharine Perkins
Frank Pearson
Barstow
Gov
Philip H. Hoff
Mrs
Berry Wall
Hoffs
Dorset Field Club
William C. Nawrath
Barre
Peru
Mabel E. Whitney
First National Stores
Finast
Dorset Gop
United Church of
Dorset and
East Rupert
Robert Dana
Charleston
S.C
U.S
Cecelia Greene’s
School OF Dance
The
Dance Educators of America
Main St
Bennington, WI
WED
Cecelia Greene
United States
June Taylor
Jackie Gleason
Ted Mack
Arlington School
Volkswagen
Liggett-Bosworth, Ince
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North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
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