Becket History Set for Public Tea on 200th Anniversary
Becket prepares to publish History Book of Becket a Bicentennial History presented at a tea at the old Becket Center Town Hall on Sunday June 20 at 4. Authors contributors and the bicentennial queen will be honored. The project by the Becket Historical Society with 1500 in town funds funds from 1962. 18th Century Part 1 traced by Catherine Brewster Alford Archer of Hamden Conn native of Becket’s Windham Portage County Ohio.
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Becket
Old Becket Center
Catharine Brewster Alford Archer
Hamden
Conn
Archer
William Brewster
Plymouth Colony
Windham
Portage County
Ohio
Highley
Becker
Ruth I. Derby
The
Becket Historical Society
Leonard Holmes Spencer
Williams College
Hubert
Salvini
Gerrude Ballou Noble
East Hartford
Jessie 8. Holmes
Alma D. Harris
Chester
Eleanor Galanek
Westfield
Frank A. Schlesinger
Longmeadow
Wayne K. Price
West Springfield
Rush Towner Johnson
Alice McSweeney Raymond
Conn Assembly Stymied on Tax Impasse in Hartford
Hartford talks continue as lawmakers clash over a 1983-67 highway program delaying adjournment at midnight. GOP backs a one cent gas tax hike while Gov Dempsey sticks to a $220 million budget with no tax increases and Republicans push a $510 million road bill partly funded by the tax hike.
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Martford
API
General Assembly
GOP
John N. Dempsey
Worthington Arthur Capen Tel 2711 New Dialing Implemented
New telephone numbers for local subscribers went into effect last week as the old dialing system in the Old Post Road building was replaced by all-number dialing in the Elderberry Lane building. Boy Scouts under C Kenneth Osgood cleaned the Converse Cemetery on Huntington Road and plan more work. Mrs Raymond K Dunlevy and her daughter drive to Laramee Wyoming for their son Daniel Capen’s University of Wyoming graduation. Daniel has a teaching fellowship for the summer and will return for a ratation in August.
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Old Post Road
Elderberry Lane
C. Kenneth Osgood
Converse Cemetery
Huntington Road
Raymond K. Dunlevy
Donald Whitman
Hancock
Laramee
Wyo
Daniel
University of Wyoming
Chester Teachers Honor Retiring Members at Banquet
Chester teachers and guests gathered for the Becket Chester Middlefield Teachers Association annual banquet at Tekoa Country Club Westfield honoring retiring teachers Leslie Haley Addie Marsh Naomi Pelletier and others. Grade 2 Chester Grammar School students will visit Springfield Museum and Forest Park Friday with Miss Havel VanWert. Chester High School dances welcomed freshmen and bid farewell to seniors as orientation continued. Health Service will meet Wednesday at 8 at Town Hall. Ralph A Philbrook Jr and family welcomed a son born May 23 at Noble Hospital Westfield with grandparents and a great grandmother noted.
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Chester
Lester W. Simmons
Chester High
Becket
Chester - Middlefield Teachers’ Association
Tekoa Country Club
Westfield
Leslie Haley
Chester Grammar School
Addie Marshand
Naomi. Pelletier
Becket Consolidated School
Springfield Museum
Forest Park
Havel VanWert
Chester High School
Ralph A. Philbrook Jr
Main Street
Ralph 4
Noble Hospital
Philbrook
Francis Whitman
Lee
Roscoe Leasor
Huntington Street
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Richard Johnson
Gale Ave
Pittsfield
Mass
Mr. Johnson
Kelly
the Eagle Daily
Assembly
Narce
North Adams
National Association of Retired Civil Employes
Central Market
Hugh C. Brennan
Appleton Ave
Harold Cooper
North St
Red Cross
Roy Carpenter
John Doyle
Joseph Lynden
Adams
Linda Spencer
Esther Turner Moulthrop
Eagle Printing and Binding Co
Barbara D. Davis
Historial Society
Worthington
Arthur Capentel
Pam
Pered
Shades
Lyman Cooney
Town Hall
Mink
Nantucket Island
North Street
American Association of Newspaper Representatives
Finast
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