Middlefield town meeting approves cemetery lots sale and more
Middlefield voters at a special meeting approved selling burial lots with prices set for four grave and two grave plots plus additional lots. The selectmen may sell a discarded sander body to the highest bidder, and funds transfers among machinery accounts were approved. A second-hand Ford truck purchase was authorized with a trade-in and note plan. Cemetery lot sales were limited to Pine Grove Cemetery. Also noted were Grange exhibition scoring, summer school attendance, a church talk, a cattle show for 4-H, and dog license fee actions plus marriage intentions for Antonio Seapin Jr. and Sally Waite.
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Middlefield
Pine Grove Cemetery
Becket Planners Review Subdivision Proposals
Lucille G Peterson of New York proposes Idle Nour Estates with minimum lots of .23 acres to 2.3 acres, correcting earlier Eagle errors. Shawnee Shore Estates, also owned by Peterson, sold 36 lots with 12 houses. Engel yesterday misreported sales. Smorgasbord supper at Federated church drew 93 people. next supper set for Saturday Aug 30 from 4:30 to 7 pm.
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Becket
Thaw Pond
Lucille G. Peteron
New York
Eagle
Shawnee Shore Estates
Peterson
Engel
Idle Nour Estates
Planning Board
Smorgashord
Federated Church
Dalton couple Mark 40th wedding anniversary
Mr and Mrs Howard Goodermole of 65 Lake Street were honored Saturday with a surprise family dinner at Williamsburg Country Club for their 40th anniversary. Married July 28, 1929, they are longtime Dalton residents. Their daughter Mrs Lester Shaw of West Chesterfield. Tickets for an Aug 15 gala at Tanglewood to benefit Berkshire Medical Center go on sale Aug 6 at Silvernail's Drug Store.
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Dalton
Howard Goodermole
65 Lake St
Williamsburg Country Club
Goodermore
Crane &O
Lester Shaw
West Chesterfield
Tanglewood
Berkshire Medical Center
Silvernail’s Drug Store
John ‘W
Cormick
David H. Shiverick
Lenox Community Center Notices
Lenox girls' softball party will be held at the Community Center Saturday at 3 all league girls invited. Trophies for the bowling league will be awarded Tuesday at 3 at the Center.
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LENOX
Library Exhibits African Artifacts at Lenox Library
Lenox Library displays African artifacts from the East and West Coasts. Lender is anonymous and the exhibition runs through August. Items include weights for gold, Kente cloth, a northern Mende gourd, Rhodesian containers, Ethiopian cup, Congo bowl, Nigerian glass heads, and Watasi ornaments.
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LENOX
Africa
Lenox Library
Ghana
Mende
Rhodesia
Ethiopia
Congo
Nigeria
Chester Blueberry Festival Draws Record Crowd
The First Congregational Church on Skyline Trail catered to a record crowd of 537 last Saturday for its annual blueberry festival. Also noted are visits from Mrs. David Green and three children to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Oppenheimer, with plans to return to Newfield, NY. David Gauthier of Maple Avenue will vacation with his grandparents in Connecticut beaches for two weeks.
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Chester
First Congregational Church
Skyline Trail
David Green
Robert Oppenheimer
Newfield
David Gauthier
Maple Avenue
Alfred Gauthier
Chicopee
Connecticut
Housatonic forms for Red Cross swimming classes available
Parental permission forms for Red Cross swimming instruction are available from Peek Committee playground supervisors and at Housatonic Grammar School. Classes run today through Aug 32 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Old Maids swimming area on the Williams River. children must be 8 or entering the 3rd grade in September. Murphy Leary American Legion Post 298 will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Legion headquarters to nominate officers and discuss a summer outing.
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Housatonic
Red Cross
Peek Committee
Housatonic Grammar School
Old Maids
Williams River
Car left Route 8, two injured in wreck near Route 20
Westfield man Otis sustained a bruised lip and forehead when his car went off Route 8 one mile south of Route 20. Craig Barrows 20 was driving with Edgar Collis Jr. as passenger. vehicle half-submerged in a brook and demolished. Collis uninjured. Police expect charges against Barrows. Services at St Pauls Episcopal Church next Sunday at 4 pm conducted by W Howard Campbell.
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Otis
Westfield
Craig R. Barrows
Edgar Collis Jr
Barrows
Collis
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
W. Howard Campbell
First Congregational Church
Kruger Proposed as Lanesboro Police Patrolman
Police Chief John C. McCormick will urge the Selectmen to appoint Charles 3 Kruger of 42 New Road Pittsfield as the town's first full time patrolman. Kruger, on a one year leave from Berkshire County House of Correction, has coached at Cranwell Lenox and St Joseph's Pittsfield and once led the Pittsfield Paladins junior football team. He previously worked as a guard since 1965 and is a native of Passaic New Jersey.
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Lanesboro
John C. McCormick
Charles 3
Kruger
New Road
Pittsfield
McCormick
Berkshire County House of Correction
Passaic
N.J
New Jersey
Cranwell School
Lenox
S J. Joeph
Pittsfield Paladins
Hancock Bible Club Camp Schedules Five Days at Fales Motel
Hancock Child Evangelism Fellowship sponsors a five day Bible club this week at the Fales Motel. Sessions run 3 30 to 4 30 daily. Christiansen family held its 14th annual reunion at the family home in Hancock on Sunday. Sixty five relatives and friends attended. Larry and S Set Pierce are the parents of a son Eric Roy born July 23 at Lan sthul Germany. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Mark Gould of Hancock and Mr and Mrs Merrill Pierce of West Town send.
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Child Evangelism Fellowship
Fales
Christiansen
Hancock
Geer Memorial in Canaan Announces Four New Appointments
Geer Memorial in Canaan announces four new staff appointments led by nursing service director finalist Doris C. Thompson RN. She brings a Terre Haute nursing degree and a Madison College BA and will join about Aug 15 to help plan staffing and furnishing. Charles Townsend Jr becomes maintenance chief, previously at Danbury FCI. Dwight Foster partners in remodeling to add employee apartments and doctor offices. Also joining are Mr. and Mrs. Willis Armstrong with Mrs. Armstrong directing food services and assisting as cook and stockroom overseer.
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Middlefield
Guernsey
Ayrshire
Jersey
J. Edgar Bardin
Dalton
Willard A. Pease
Chester
Charles E. Cook
George W. Olds
Wesley Olds
Hinsdale
William Elovitta
Becket
Highland Agricultural Society
Lena Sales
Worthington
Hei
Charles Townsend Jr
Townsend
Federal Correctional Institution
Danbury
Dwight Foster
Goshen
Geer
Berkley House
High Street
Willis Armstrong
Taxpayers Association Hears Chief Thuster in Sandisfield
The Sandisfield Taxpayers Association met at Town Hall on a Saturday evening. Fire Chief Ludwik S. Thuszer Jr. showed the town's two fire trucks and ambulance and explained how volunteer firefighters protect property and health. Other items noted: Martin L. Butler admitted to New Boston Convalescent Home. Susan Koloski returned from a visit with her sister in New York. Raymond Stansen and family visited from Edison, New Jersey. Donald N. Henry Jr. visits his grandmother in the Bronx.
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Sandisfield
Taxpayers Association
Town Hall
Ludwik S. Thuszer Jr
Martin L. Butler
New Boston
Susan Koloski
Olga G. Koloski
Route 57
Ann Koloski
New York
Raymond Stansen
Edison
N.J
Stansen
Nils Stansen
Route 8
Washington Mrs Zigmond Valeski Retired Homebound
Washington Mrs Zigmond Valeski of Valley Road has returned home from St Luke s unit BMC in Pittsfield after treatment and recovery efforts at the medical facility.
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Zigmond Valeski
Valley Road
St. Luke's Unit
BMC
Pittsfield
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Jeffrey Doane
Stephen
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James
Jennifer Hobart
Thomas Meiklejohn
Williamstown
United Church of Christ
Boston
Middlefield Congregational Church
Antonio John Seapin Jr
Sally Waite
Goodermores
Ralph Conroy
Loeb
Sir Anthony
Church Street
Tony Bartoni
On the Hill
Lenox High
Dhornick Colonial Furniture
AL Wank
Herrick
Gregory’s Main
Opeh-Ey
Cox
Morrell’s
Cheice
Cecelia Bailey
Bruno Magdalenski
North Plain Road
Michigan
Canada
Richard Coleman
Cleveland
Ohio
Raymond Ritter
Boyertown
Robert A. Coleman
Mountainview Street
Lisa Simona
Torrington
Conn
Reginald Williams
Mary Mahoney
Edmund B. Bourquard Jr
Nova Scotia
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Brooklyn
N.Y
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Margaret Magdalenski
Robert Walker
Oak Street
Cape Coed
Mary Mada
Westfield Man
Charles Kruger
Canaan, Conn
Cecil & Mayme
Mahood
Donald N. Henry Jr
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New Hartford Road
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Bronx, N.Y
Washington
John F.kennedy
Tare Ute
New Freedom
Susan Spotless
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