Telegraph Track Side Talk At The Races
A lively scene at the track shows spectators betting and chatting about horses. A pair discusses a horse’s looks, tips, and the odds while jockeys wave to the crowd and talk about warmth and programs.
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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1963
Page
3
A lively scene at the track shows spectators betting and chatting about horses. A pair discusses a horse’s looks, tips, and the odds while jockeys wave to the crowd and talk about warmth and programs.
Miss Susan E McEvoy daughter of Mr and Mrs George A McEvoy and William J Murphy son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence A Murphy wed at the Church of the Immaculate Conception Hoosick Falls. The Rev Kenneth Kennedy officiated with organist Mrs Raleigh Tatro and soloist Walter Beckstein. The couple will reside at 55 Hoosick Street after a trip to New York and Washington.
Hoosick Falls report notes BCHS Saber Bennington Catholic High starts a new year with a record enrollment of 420. Four new faculty join, including Rev Henry Bourgeois CSC and Sisters John David and William Marie from Mt St Joseph Academy, while Kathleen Toomey adds lay staffing. Freshmen endure initiation during first week and prepare for Frosh Follies at the seniors’ expense.
Weekly lunch plan lists meals for Monday to Friday with items such as Spanish rice with meat peas bread butter pears and milk Monday. potato salad ham bread and butter cherry cake milk Tuesday. pizza bun cracker and peanut butter potato chips applesauce milk Wednesday. meat tea mashed potatoes sliced tomatoes corn bread butter Thursday. tuna on bun buttered carrots mixed fruit cheese stick milk Friday. and a separate section notes Monday American chop suey jam sandwiches pear Tuesday chicken noodle soup crackers meat sandwiches cheese wedges gingerbread topping and milk Wednesday baked luncheon meat mashed potatoes bread corn pineapple Thursday barbecued beef on roll peaches and milk Friday no lunch.
Bridal event honored Carolyn Hart who will wed Steven Spencer on September 21. Hostess was Gail Sawyer, sister of the groom. Menu included salads sandwiches pickles olives cake and coffee with a weekly school lunch plan listed Monday through Friday ending with no school Friday.
Frederick L. Kennedy and William E. McWayne run West Brook Poultry Farm a six acre operation near West Mountain in Dorset. They raise 6000 birds including Ring neck pheasants Embden geese Pekin ducks Chukar partridges and White Rock Cornish game chickens at a stable price of 1.05 per pound despite market changes. The farm emphasizes meat birds with rapid 6 week growth and a daily rhythm of shipping 800 day old chicks from Rhode Island from late March through December.
West Brook Farm showcases a recipe for Rock-Cornish Game Chicken in Sour Cream with butter and blue cheese. The piece recounts the Dorset farm's founders Fred Kennedy and William McWayne, their entry into poultry in 1953, and where to buy the birds locally. It notes the farm’s home operation, sales outlets Healey's in Manchester Depot and West Side Grocery in Dorset, and mentions restaurants in Vermont and New York. It also hints hunting prospects after October 1.
Miss Margaret Jane Mulvihill daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Mulvihill of 15 Fourth St Hoosick Falls married Francis Ralph Morandi son of Mr and Mrs Eugene Morandi of 9 Latham St on August 24 at Immaculate Conception Church Hoosick Falls. The ceremony was by Rev William Hayden with Gloria Morandi maid of honor and Frank Mulvihill Jr best man. The couple plans a Canada honeymoon and reside at 41 Hoosick St. Transplanted details include wedding party members and reception at Old Byers House North Hoosick. The bride works for Grand Union store and Morandi for Anken Film and Chemical Co.
The Plain Dirt Gardeners met at Four Chimneys on Tuesday for the first meeting of the year. President Mrs Philip Giddings announced co hosting with the Bennington Garden Club for the Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont annual meeting in Bennington next summer. Guest speaker Mrs Hollis Newton of Reading outlined shady woodsy garden methods featuring wildflowers and cultivated varieties and urged conservation by returning plant material to the woods. October chairwoman Mrs C Thomas Beach asked for 75 pine cones for the workshop at Old Bennington. arrangements were made by Mrs Frederic Burnham Jr and Mrs Raymond Aja.
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