Just Pokin Around A Project To Help Putnam Hospital
Community drive in Bennington seeks tea bag tags to fill a bushel basket and fund a free wheelchair for Putnam Memorial Hospital. Led by Mrs. Dorothy Johnson R N and Unit 13 American Legion Auxiliary with Lisa Lampron MAUHS student involved. Send tags to Johnson at 212 School St or leave at the hospital or with Carolyn Clark R N.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Dorothy Johnson
R.N
Unit 13
American Legion Auxiliary
Lisa Lampron
Mauhs
The Metric System Arrives or Not in Everyday Life
Homemakers notes discuss the global shift to the metric system, noting Britain’s move and possible U S adoption. It explains units like meters grams and liters, early schooling changes, and the challenges of converting recipes and patterns. It contrasts decimal metrics with traditional measures and predicts gradual adjustment for Americans.
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Canada
Great Britain
United States
Green Tomato Chutney From Brattleboro Garden
Brattleboro’s backyard farmers celebrate unripened tomatoes with a successful batch of green tomato chutney. The author recalls failed crops, tomato festivals, and a final preserves effort yielding four pints, using green tomatoes, sugar, vinegar, mustard seed, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice.
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Brattleboro
Putney
12th annual Antiques Show opens with 22 dealers
The 12th annual Antiques Show and Sale, run by the Women’s Fellowship of the Second Congregational Church, opens Thursday Oct 8 at 10 am and runs 10 am to 9 pm Thursday and Friday and 10 am to 6 pm Saturday. A snack bar operates 11 am to 3 pm daily. Twenty two dealers from the northeast showcase Early American Victorian and Centennial furniture rare china silver and more with exhibitors from Vergennes Bennington Saco Troy and nearby towns.
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Women’s Fellowship
Second Congregational Church
LeRoy J. Marsden
Joel Whittemore
Cochairmen
Northeast
Yesteryear
Vergennes
High Meadow Farm
Bennington
Ruggles Farm
Brookfield
Mass
Little Horse
Saco
Maine
Jeanne Eisenberg
Troy
N.Y
Jeanne Adams van Hoesen
Delmar
School Lunch Menus Across Town Offers Weekly Meals
Mt Anthony Bennington Manchester Arlington Dorset and The ceriephray outline Monday to Friday menus with juice milk and desserts including lasagna spaghetti beef stew tuna salad and fruit options. They request volunteers to serve lunches Thursdays and Fridays after Thanksgiving and to acknowledge produce donors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Arlington
Dorset
Mrs. Deane Davis keynotes Indianapolis Project at AAUW meet
The American Association of University Women welcomed speaker Mrs. Deane Davis at its first Burlington area meeting. Davis described the Indianapolis Project started eight years ago to combat juvenile crime among school dropouts, noting a 90 percent dropout-led crime rate in Indianapolis. The group has grown to 50,000 volunteers and inspired local efforts. The chapter planned school outreach and a spring book sale to benefit the AAUW scholarship fund.
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Bennington
Berkshire County
Vermont
Wmnb-Fm
American Association of University Women
AAUW
C.H. Buckley
Dudley Baker
Deane Davis
Burlington
Indianapolis
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Fred Cook
Whitingham
West Springfield
Cook
Parc de la Verendrye
Quebec
John
Julia Maxmillian
Pownal
Moose Country
Seventeen
Enid A. Haupt
Seventeen Magazine
Nestor Nicholas
Michael Nicholas
Colonial Village
Peabody, Brown, Rowley and Storey
Boston
Taconic Park
Cold Spring Road
Williamstown
Stark
Main Street
Adams Clothes
Young Nicholas
Williston Academy
Brown University
Cornell School of Law
New York University
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C
Hancock Shaker Village
Pittsfield
Massachusetts
Wmnb FM
North Adams
Andre L. Speyer
New England
Speyer
PARTY
Lilly's Music House
Bennington Banner
Main St
The
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times News Service
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
U.S
Atkins
Atkins and
Gould
Atkins and Gould
Jewelers
Homemakers
Marion S. Harris County Extension
Thane
Cawdor
Halifax Center
Olive M. Hotaling
Saratoga Springs
Clarence Mathers
Hoosick Falls
Deerfield Valley Antiques
Wilmington
Hen’n Chicken
Top of the World Antiques
Halifax
Hearthside Antiques
Cuttingsville
Virjeania
Edward Gaynor
Goshen
Don Nesbitts
Springfield
Walter S. Clemons
Manchester Center
Puppenhaus
Rindge
N.H
Colonial Antiques
Beecher & Eldred
Bennington Museum
Mt. Anthony and Bennington
North Bennington
Fred Knapp
Zenith
E.T. Williams
Benn
Uves Bey
Shaftsbury
Voters and Taxpayers
Cole Hall
Alden
Marion Francis
Perey Smm
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