Great Barrington Grange Meeting With Dues and Covered Dish
Great Barrington Grange will meet Thursday night at Walker Hall with a 6:38 covered-dish supper before the meeting. Members must have dues paid or be prepared to pay them and bring a dish. Alford Grange officers will be guests and chair the event with the Graces in charge of the program after the meeting. Kenneth F. Preston reported the town will receive 197.65 in insurance for vandalism damages at Searles High School last fall.
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Grange
Great Barrington Grange
Walker Hall
Alford Grange
Graces
Kenneth F. Preston
Selectmen
Searles High School
Sullivan Honored by Rising Paper Co. retiree
Sullivan, a 45 year Rising Paper Co. employee from Stockbridge, was feted at a retirement luncheon at the Barrington House by 32 staff. Walter E. Daverin delivered a testimonial. Sullivan received a gift. Born December 13, 1894, he joined Rising in 1918 and rose to plant engineer in 1932. He is active in country music and has four daughters and two sons.
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Great Barrington
Joseph Sullivan
Stockwidge
Rising Paper Co
Housatonic
Barrington House
Walter E. Daverin
Sullivan
Rising
Sullivan Long
Southern Berkshire Symphonette
Southern Berkshire Post
American Legion
Williamstown
Mary Liston
Lenox Dale
Selectmen Order Night Parking Change in Bridge Street Lot
The Selectmen require residents parking in the Bridge Street lot after dark to move vehicles to the rear of buildings facing Main Street to aid snow removal operations.
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Bridge Street
Main Street
Wheeler Dealers and Dr No At County Theaters Schedule
The Wheeler Dealers plays at Makale Great Barrington at 2 00 8 00 and 10 00 Adams shows Dr No at 7 00 Call Mt Bwama at 9 00 Paramount North Adams screens Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed at 5 35 8 00 10 15 and Where the Trade Winds Play at 5 00 7 20 9 40 Mohawk North Adams is closed today.
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Makale
Great Barrington
Adams
Dr. No
Mt Bwama
Paramount
North Adams
Sweets Observe 62nd Anniversary
GREAT BARRINGTON Dr and Mrs Ernest A Sweet of Berkshire Heights tonight observe their 62nd wedding anniversary with a small family gathering. They were married Dec 31 1901 in Shelburne Falls. Their son Ernest A Jr, a retired Air Force Reserve colonel, works with Amoskeag National Bank in Manchester NH. Dr Sweet is a West Stockbridge native who served 37 years in the United States Public Health Service and retired in 1940 as medical examiner. Mrs Sweet is the former Minna Mann.
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Great Barrington
Ernest A. Sweet
Berkshire Heights
Shelburne Falls
Ernest A. Jr
Air Force Reserve
Amoskeag W National Bank
Manchester
N.H
Sweet
West Stockbridge
United States Public Health Service
Minna 1
Mann
Scotties Plan Holiday Dance in Great Barrington
GREAT BARRINGTON The Scotties girls drill team led by Mrs. David W. Evans Jr. will host a holiday record dance in Searles auditorium Saturday from 8 to 11. Music by Pittsfield jockey John La Plante. Boys must wear ties and coats. Proceeds support uniform accessories and travel for the team.
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Great Barrington
Scotties
David W. Evans Jr
Lake Avenue
Searles Auditorium
John la Plante
Pittsfield
Chester Family Christmas Dinner Attendances
Lt. (jg) Jacquelyn Lafond and Airman Riley Besaw spent Christmas vacation with Chester residents. They joined Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lafond Sr and Dorothy Be saw for a Christmas Day dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lafond Jr in Littleville. Other Chester families including Morrisseys and Cooneys joined a second dinner at the home of H Buell Robb in Westfield.
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Jacquelyn Lafond
Staten Island Public Health Service
Grace Memorial Hospital
New Haven
Conn
Riley Besaw
Otis Afb
Charles Lafond Sr
Dorothy Besaw
Old Huntington Road
Charles LaFond Jr
Littleville
William R. Morrissey
Patrick
Michael
Lyman R. Cooney
Chester
William W. Cooney
Hazardville
H. Buell Robb
Westfield
Rutledge Appointed To Interim Post At North Canaan
Kenneth J B Rutledge age 45 of Tone Drive sworn in Monday as acting postmaster of the North Canaan Post Office by Postal Inspector Thomas Peckenham. Rutledge, a clerk here 11 years, was recommended by Rep. John Monagan and fills the vacancy after Leroy Beaujon retirement. He is a Canaan High School graduate, served five years in World War II, and has a wife and four children.
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Canaan, Conn
Kenneth JB. Rutledge
Tone Drive
North Canaan
Thomas Peckenham
Hartford
Rutledge
U. S
John Monagan
Suh
Leroy Beaujon
Canaan High School
Rosary and Altar Society card party set for Jan 16
The Rosary and Altar Society of Corpus Christi Church will host its annual card party January 16 at the Housatonic Community Center. A special prize funds a trip to the 1964 World's Fair in New York. Table prizes will also be awarded. Featured attendee Miss Carol Coleman, a nurse at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, visits her parents in North Plain Road. Other locals, Mr and Mrs Stephen Lackey of Malverne and Mr and Mrs Robert Elliott of Williamsville, are noted visitors. Eagle paper route of 61 in Risingdale area. Call Great Barrington 21015 or Eagle Office.
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the Rosary and Altar Society
Corpus Christi Church
Housatonic Community Center
New York
Carol Coleman
University of Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia
Frederick Coleman
North Plain Road
Eagle Paper
Risingdale
Great Barrington
Eagle Office
Beaujon Honored At Retirement Dinner In Canaan
In Canaan Connecticut a buffet dinner at White Hart Inn Salisbury honored Leroy Beaujon retirement as North Canaan postmaster on December 30. Local post office staff Connecticut Postmasters Association and wives attended. August Benvenuti Torrington postmaster and association president led toasts while Kent Miller presented a gift. Beaujon began as a temporary clerk in 1921 rose to assistant postmaster in 1941 and postmaster in 1956 after 42 years with the office.
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Herhalf
Beaujon
Canaan
Sle
Morton Dean and Sister Visit in East Orange NJ
Morton Dean and his sister, Mrs. Percy Cowing, are spending a few days with Mr. Dean’s daughter, Mrs. Alice Murphy, in East Orange, New Jersey.
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Morton Dean
Percy Cowing
Mr. Dean
Alice Murphy
East Orange
N. J
Lakeville artist Allen Blagden to have first NYC show
Allen Blagden, 25, an artist from Lakeville, will stage his first one man exhibit in New York City at the Janet Nessler Gallery on Madison Avenue from January 6 to 23. He is a Hotchkiss and Cornell graduate and illustrator for the Smithsonian Institution. His paintings have been shown at Berkshire Museum, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Sharon Arts Foundation, University of Connecticut, and the Fuentes Gallery in Cooperstown.
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Lakeville
Conn
Allen Blagden
New York City
Janet Nessler
Madison Avenue
63Rd
64Th
Blagden
Thomas Blagden
Hotchkiss School
Hotchkiss
Cornell University
Yale Summer School of Art
Department of Ornithology
Smithsonian Institute
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield
Wadsworth Athenaeum
Sharon Arts Foundation
University of Connecticut
Fpentes Gallery
Cooperstown
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Cooper Hardware
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Mohawk
State Department of Natural Resources
Nat Great Barrington
Barbara L. Kop
Rhoda K. Parrish
Dorothy Deming Society
Car
State Society
College Club
Boston
Barbara H. Kop
Edward G. Fulton
Hartsville
Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society
Ahavath Sholem
Robert Hammond
Phoebe
Fishkill, N.Y
Robert R. Parrish
Egremont Road
Helena Rubinstein
Yee
Melvin’s Pharmacy
Fleetwood
Cecelia Bailey
Crestview
Stephen Lackey
Malverne, N.Y
Stanley Adams
Robert Elliott
Diane
Williamsville
White Plains
N.Y
Margaret Svehla
Tel, Taylor
Patricia Brown
Wallingford
Connecticut College For Women
Cynthia Miller
Kent Miller
Old Turnpike Road
Miss Miller
Miss Brown
Litchfield County Connecticut College Club
Dorothy Cramer
Torrington
Ried Cleaners & Dyers
Ring IN the New
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
CVU
Lil
Aily
C. H. Morton
Eveler
Main Street, Gt. Barrington
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