New London Booster Club Plans Election At Nov 6 Meeting
Officers and candidates named for president vice president treasurer secretary and directors. Car wash Saturday by football players, pancake supper in December, and combined fund drive with Music Parents for the new football field. UNICEF drive in West Hartland Saturday afternoon with costumes and prizes. Berlinville hosts rummage and bake sale at Berlin Grange 345 Saturday.
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NEW London
New London High School
Herb Anderson
Gordon Whetstone
Bob Harner
Roger Ulm
Gordon Marett
Duane Smith
Carl Frate
Tim Saunders
Bill Buzzard
Nancy Gilbert
Leona Merrill
Betty McClaflin
Charles Robbins
Norman Merrill
Dale Jackson
Babe Barker
George Ray
Dale Luxon
Railroad Street
Berlinville
Berlin Grange 345
Halloween Origins and the Druid Roots of All Hallows Eve
The piece traces Halloween from Druid customs in Gaul and Britain to its Christian rebranding as Allhallows Eve in year 700. It notes beliefs about spirits and cats, the clash with early church leaders, and the transformation of fear into festive lore. It ends with a playful caution about recognizing a cat as a family ghost on October 31.
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France
Ireland
England
Gaul
Britain
Elmer
Chapter Hosts FHA Installation
NEW LONDON The local Future Homemakers of America chapter hosted 150 new members from Huron County Schools for an evening installation at the New London School. Janet Meek presided as mistress of ceremonies as students heard remarks from Stephen Schumm and enjoyed choir performances and candle ceremonies.
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NEW London
Future Homemakers of America
Huron County Schools
Janet Meek
Stephen Schumm
Wakeman Library Expands Training For Elementary Students
Wakeman Community Library offers expanded service to elementary pupils with in school library training on use and classification. Cooperation with the school principal teachers and librarian guides the program. Friends of the Library plans to increase community resource use with study groups and a speakers bureau for winter and beyond.
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Wakeman
Friends of the Library Resource
Return Of Coat At Fitchville Church
A woman's coat left at Fitchville Methodist Church after the Oct 22 Turkey supper is believed misplaced. Mrs Dessie Marett asks the rightful owner to claim the coat and retrieve the one taken by mistake.
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New London
Fitchville
Dessie Marett
Calendar items: Saturday community events listed
Welcome Wagon rummage sale at St Paul Episcopal Parish House from 9 a m to 2 p m. Cub Scout Webelos 232 at First United Presbyterian Church at 11 a m. Firelands Area Dance Squares at Pleasant Street School at 8 p m.
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St. Paul Episcopal Parish
First United Presbyterian Church
Firelands
Pleasant Street
Air Force Lt Colonel Billy Ray Oney Receives Promotion
Billy Ray Oney, son of Mr and Mrs Reece Oney of 20 Harris St, promoted to Lt Colonel after 22 years with the U S Air Force. He has flown 80 combat missions over North Vietnam, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and the Commendation Medal, and now serves as an RB-66 instructor at Shaw Air Force Base South Carolina. In Vietnam near Tay Ninh Private First Class Milton M McDougal 20, son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth McDougal Plymouth received the Combat Infantryman Badge for sustained ground action with Company A 22nd Infantry 2nd Battalion.
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Billy Ray Oney
Reece Oney
Harris St
U.S. Air Force
Col. Oney
Korea
North Vietnam
Shaw Air Force Base
S.C
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NL Booster Club
West Hartland
Kitten
Uncle Elmer
South Central
Willard
Norwalk
London High School Choir
Howard Whitmore
Nancy Snyder
Joshua
Jericho
Edith Divers
Western Reserve
FHA
Monroeville
Wakeman Library Notes
Tay Ninh
Vietnam
Milton M. McDougal
Pfc
McDougal
Kenneth McDougal
Plymouth
22Nd Infantry
ST. Mary's ST
Clyde Taylor
The
N.A.E
Charles Pearce
Norwalk Alliance Church
E. Main ST
C.H. Pearce
Ohio
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the Home Savings and Loan No
East Main ST
Norwalk, Ohio
Whittlesey Ave
Huron County Auto Club
Huron County
Benedict
Dial
Fisher Music
Sylvania
Garrard
W. Main
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