Selectmen Bypass Direct Legion Water Aid for Brooklyn School
Selectmen Tuesday night declined to fund a private American Legion Post 13 water line to the Brooklyn School. They proposed indirect aid via lending equipment to the Bennington Village Water Department for a six inch main along Chapel Road, enabling the Legion to finish a 60 foot one inch line on its property.
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Legion Tap Water Board
Brooklyn
Selectmen
Thomas R. Haley
American Legion Post 13
Haley
Post
Brooklyn Road
Legion Corner
Haley and Selectman
Alma Langlois
Bennington Village
The
Water Board
Legion
Selectman
Clayton Daigneault
Bennington Briefs Hideout of Local Meetings and Events
The Directors' Trust Committee of The Vermont Bank and Trust Co. met in Bennington with attendees from Rutland Hinsdale Brattleboro and local members. Thomas F. Rogers named Bennington Town chairman of the Green Mountain Council Boy Scouts 1962 campaign. FC Eagles Auxiliary plans a Thursday 8 p.m. meeting. Alfred Bottum injured after a ladder fall at 208 Union St hospitalized in fair condition. Grange past masters hold annual meeting in North Randolph with a 7 p.m. supper and officer elections. Membership evangelism commission meets Thursday at 8 p.m. First Methodist Church parlor. New England Mobile Home Association Show runs today through Sunday at Northshore Shopping Center Peabody Mass 2 to 10 p.m. Rummage sale by YMCA auxiliary Saturday September 29 10 to 1:30 at the Y. Priscilla's Beauty Shop opens October 1 with day and evening appointments.
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The
Vermont Bank and Trust Co
Bennington
E. W. Lawrence
Rutland
Louis N. Stearns
Hinsdale
N.H
R. Willard Beebe
Henry Z. Parsons
Brattleboro
Charles Fienberg
John D. Clawson
Francis E. Morrissey
Roland T. Sandberg
Malcolm C. McMaster
Burton W. Potter
Paul C. Ballou
Mary E. Copps
New England Mobile Home Association
Northshore
Peabody
Mass
Legion Post seeks to buy Brooklyn School in Bennington
American Legion Post No 13 members plan to purchase the Brooklyn School for 5000 dollars and enter for cleanup and repair with Greater Bennington School officials. Attorneys notified mortgage and deed arrangements are in process. The $500 option holds the property until October 1.
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Brooklyn
Bennington
American Legion Post No. 13
Greater Bennington School, Inc
Legion
Hospital Notes Admissions and Discharges List
Admissions include Master Timothy Bartlett Master Gordon F Rose Mrs Josephine Mort and several others across Bennington Hoosick Falls Hannacroix and White Creek New York Births record a son for Mr and Mrs Harold Gardner of East Road on Sept 25 Discharges note multiple families returning home across the same towns
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Timothy Bartlett
Gordon F. Rose
Josephine Mort
Bennington
Elizabeth Stuka
Hoosick Falls
Shirley Carroll
North Bennington
Mary Dougherty
Marlene Eddy
Judith Flach
Hannacroix
N. Y
Marie West
Gary Jones
Marjorie Masten
White Creek
N.Y
Albert Bowen
Sunderland
Ramona Gerity
Harold Gardner
East Road
Huge helicopter tours New Hampshire to study air service
A 28 passenger helicopter begins a 500 mile mountain hopping tour of New Hampshire to showcase air transport for remote communities. Officials including W Russell Hilliard join Sikorsky executive David Postle in visiting Mt Washington North Conway Wolfeboro Laconia and Concord with a Lake Winnipesaukee landing planned.
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Concord
N.H
New Hampshire
W. Russell Hilliard
Division of Economic Development
Mt. Washington
North Conway
Wolfeboro
Laconia
Lake Winnipesaukee
David E. Postle
Sikorsky Aircraft Co
Hilliard
Postle
New England
Debates begin as Kennedy presses Massachusetts claim
In a crowded Senate race scene, the Democratic standard bearer Kennedy argued he would represent Massachusetts in the U S Senate while addressing doubts about a national mandate. Independent Harvard professor H Stuart Hughes, grandson of Charles Evans Hughes, campaigns as an alternative.
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Kennedy
50 States
Massachusetts
Senate
Harvard
H. Stuart Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes
Woodrow Wilson
Cabot
Lodges
George Cabot
George Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge
White House
Watkin Receives DHIA Top Award At Vermont Dinner
More than 135 members of the Vermont Dairy Herd Improvement Association met at Mt. Anthony Country Club for the annual dinner. Keith Watkin and Sons of Bennington received the top award for milk quality in a 55-dairy association. Leamy of the University of Vermont spoke, and Van Santvoord praised Vermont farming. Other award recipients included Raymond Lathrop, Fairdale Farms, Bennington, and Hale Farm.
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Vermont Dairy Herd Improvement Association Inc
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Keith Watkin and Sons of Bennington
New York
John C. Page
Page
William Leamy
University of Vermont
George van Santvoord
Vermont
Raymond Lathrop
Shushan
N.Y
Fairdale Farms Inc
Bennington
M E. Vaughn
West Arlington
W.E. Marshalsea
Salem
John T. Kelly
Eagle Bridge
Leon McEachron
Henry Schurink
Shaftsbury
Hall Farm
North Bennington
Edo Daun
Merritt S. Hewitt Jr
Polymeadows Farm
Howard G. Young
Pawlet
Watkin
Mary Wellington
Robert
Courts to Rule the Deed Regarding Indigent Payments
Barber proposed and the board agreed to focus on a single question of payments for the indigent. Attorneys for the town and hospital would confer on the best approach to bring the matter before the court. The Town of Bennington would act primarily on its own, with other counties possibly joining if they wished to pursue a joint action.
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Barber
Town of Bennington
Funeral Services for Clyde W Spencer
Clyde W Spencer of 209 Park St died at Warner Nursing Home Sunday morning. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Mahar & Son Funeral Home with Rev. Melvin A McGaughey officiating. Bearers were Gardner, Stephen and Mark Spencer and Richard Sawyer. Burial followed at White Chapel Cemetery. Relatives attended from Lisbon New Hampshire and St. Albans Vermont.
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Clyde W Spencer
Park St
Warner Nursing Home
Mahar & Son Funeral Home
Melvin A. McGaughey
First Methodist Church
Gardner
Stephen
Mark Spencer
Richard Sawyer
White Chapel
McMcGaughey
Lisbon
N.H
St. Albans
Funeral for Atty William G Themelis Held in St Peter Church
Themelis died Friday after a long period of frail health. The funeral was held Tuesday at St. Peter's Episcopal Church with the Rev. Timothy Pantalekos officiating and prayers offered earlier at Gibney Haynes & Kane Funeral Home. Attended by a large Bennington County Bar Association delegation and Bennington Lodge of Elks, bearers included George Benedict Richard Murray Theodore DeMarco Thomas DeMarco David Carver and Charles Winegard of Skowhegan Maine. Out of town mourners came from Manchester Hoosick Falls Albany and Skowhegan. Themelis, native of Greece, had studied pre med at Tufts College before pursuing law.
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William G. Themelis
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Timothy Pantalekos
St. Vasilos Greek Orthodox Church
Troy
N.Y
Gibney, Haynes & Kane
Bennington County Bar Association
Bennington Lodge of Elks
George Benedict
Richard Murray
Theodore
Thomas DeMarco
David Carver
Charles Winegard
Skowhegan
Maine
Manchester
Hoosick Falls
Albany
Themelis
Greece
Tufts College
Military Baptisms Reported by Army Chaplains
Reports from about half of the 526 Methodist chaplains on duty show they baptized more than 3 000 members of the armed forces last year.
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Washington
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Hagerman
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Daigneault
Paul Kelley
Kelley
Lyons District
Bennington Briefs
Thomas F. Rogers
Morgan
Green Mountain Council
Boy Scouts of America
Rogers
FC Eagles
Eagles Hall
North Street
Alfred Bottum
South St
Viola Conley
Union St
Grange
North Randolph
Ymca Auxiliary
Priscilla’s Beauty Shop
South Branch Street
CS Drug Store
Bennington, VT
Dial Bennington
Legion Post
Legionnaires
Mt. Washington Landing
U.S. Senate
Hughes
Magic Mountain
Londonderry
Keith Watkin
DHIA
van Santvoord
Farmers
Leamy
Furnace Grove
Floyd Rice
Clyde W. Spencer
Atty
Vermont Bank and Trust Company
Vermont Bank
Killington
1.C
Shaffe
Main ST
Harte Theatre
Savts Presley
Bennington, Vermont
Galahad
Jerry Gig Young
Lola Albright
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