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TEN THE MANCHESTER JOURNAL, Manchester, VI. THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1962 Items Of Yesteryear compiled by Edwin L. Bigelow from Manchester Journal of July 15, 1987 The Manchester Chapter American Red Cross is planning to conduct a campaign for better swimming at Hapgood Pond beginning Monday, July 19. The period of instruction and tests for children will be 10 days. The instruction is to be without cost.

The board of trustees of Burr and Burton Seminary held its annual meeting Tuesday with ten members present. The same board of officers was re-elected: President, George W. Burton; vice president, E. H. Hemenway; secretary, M.

Reed; treasurer, W. H. Roberts. It was voted to authorize the vice president to invite the superintendent of schools and the chairmen of the school boards of Manchester and Dorset to attend general meetings of the board and to enter into discussion of matters pertaining to the school and its relation to the the town schools. Safe crackers last week blew open the post office safe at South Londonderry and escaped with about $200 worth of loot.

They did not attempt to enter the premises of the bank in the same building where there was Kurn Hattin Home News The usual Kurn Hattin farm activities are proceeding successfully. A large crop of hay has already been harvested and the corn crop 1 looks well. It is interesting to note that corn is not cultivated at Kurn Hattin anymore but rather treated with a chemical which kills all the weeds. A successful crop has been raised in this way for the past two years. The considerable money.

A son, Robert Frank Squires, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Squires at their home in Richville on Wednesday, July 7. The young lad weighed 71 pounds. James T.

Brown, manager of the Worthy Inn, was the speaker at the Rotary meeting Tuesday evening when he told of interesting experiences in the hotel business. The Ethan Allen Pomona Grange held its regular meeting with the East Dorset Grange on Tuesday evening. The program consisted of a series of 20-minute plays given by each of the six granges present. Mt. Equinox Grange received first prize for its play "Happy Days on the new silo has been delivered and is in the course of being erected.

It will be ten feet higher than the one it replaces and will hold proportionately more corn. It is hoped to replace the other Kurn Hattin silo in another year. Many of the boys, especially those at Ainsworth Cottage, have received cards from Mr. and Mrs. Frode cher who are spending a few weeks in Denmark this summer.

It is quite a novelty to get a European card and the children are delighted with them. Inventories of all consumable goods are being taken at Kurn Hattin at this time. This is in preparation for the annual audit which will take place the first part of August. Considerable outside painting will be done on the Kurn Hattin buildings this summer. The main building will be given a complete coat of paint, as will one side of the barn.

A new type of plastic paint is being used which it is hoped will eliminate peeling and perhaps last a bit longer than the material that has been used here before. A special hall is to be built in Telaviv to house the famous scrolls discovered near the Red Sea. James Hedges, 41, of Arcadia, and a former resident of Landgrove, died suddenly in Peru on Saturday where he was visiting relatives. While living in Landgrove he had served as selectman and road commissioner. Born May 26, 1921 in New York City, he was the son of James S.

and Helen (Kellogg) Hedges. He was graduate of Bowdoin College and a member of Psi Epsilon fraternity. He was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church of Monrovia, and a veteran of World War II, serving in the Navy. He was employed by the Mutual Benefit Insurance Co.

of New Jersey, with an office in Los Angeles, Cal. He is survived by his parents of Rye, N. his wife, Mrs. Barbara Hedges; three sons, Scott, James and Michael; and two daughters, Nancy and Sally, all of Arcadia. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon in the Methodist Church in Landgrove.

The Rev. Robert L. Clayton, Rector of Zion Episcopal Church in Manchester Center, officiated. Burial was in the Landgrove Cemetery. SAVE EASY MARKET SUPER JAVE.

EASY MANCHESTER, VERMONT ON ROUTE 11 30 AMERICA DRY, CANS SODA CASE 24's $179 KABUKI SOLID LIGHT MEAT TUNA 4 $7 BESSYS All Flavor, Gals. DRINKS CAMPBELL'S TOMATO SOUP 4. 8 SPECIAL FEATURE FOR THE INSTITUTION SIZE PEACHES GALLON TINS $1.35 FRESH CORN FRESH HOT HOUSE LB. TOMATOES FIRM, JUICY PEACH'S 2 lbs. 25c TOWER HOUSE INSTANT JUMBO 10 OZ.

WITH FREE STEAK KNIFE (Knife value $1) BOTH COFFEE FOR ONLY $129 MELLOW GOLD READY TO EAT WHOLE HAM OR HALF lb. James Hedges Dies FOWL lb. 29c WEBSTER BACON lb. 49 LARGE FAMILY INNS GUEST HOUSES PEARS FR. COCKTAIL SPINACH $1.59 $1.45 SPECIAL REPEAT SALE ELMDALE NO.

303 TINS Mix Em Or Match Them GREEN BEANS TOMATOES WAX BEANS CORN 7 TIN 303 NEWSPAPERS DAILY SUNDAY OUR STORE HOURS 8:30 A.M. --10 P.M. --7 DAYS, 7 NIGHTS VISIT OUR HOUSE OF SCHOPF DELICATESSEN AND CHECK OUR DAILY CHEF'S SPECIALS SWEDISH MEAT BALLS BAR-B-Q SPARE RIBS AND MANY OTHERS. FRESH PASTRY AND PIES DAILY Fouls And Base Hits by Walter Hard Would that some scientific soul A chemical creator Would soon concoct for litter bugs A sure exterminator. The SIGN OF THE WEEK was sent in by keen eyed scout Harriet Childs from Old Deerfield some time ago.

It got lost in the shuffle, for which we apoligize. It appears on the trucks of the Hood Milk most fittingly. It reads: "CHILDREN SHOULD BE SEEN BUT NOT HURT." Excellent. Still more dope on the sign which we presented last week. Lest some unfortunates missed it, we venture to repeat it.

It was one which stood north of Pawlet in the group of houses known as SPANKTOWN and gave not only directional information but offered help for the thirsty. i.e.: Granville Wet Wells Damp Pawlet Dry We added that we had no information on the origin of the name SPANKTOWN. Well, would you believe it, Mrs. Elinor V. K.

Morgan of Poultney sat right down and wrote what was offered her when she, an outlander, asked about three settlements along the same road; SPANKTOWN and also TUNKET and BRIMSTONE. A former Spanktown school teacher, Mrs. Jessie GreenTrombley of Wells, offered the following explanation for all three names. We give it verbatim. "A hard working housewife, during springtime cleaning, labored steadfastly with little help from her husband.

Tired and harassed she came downstairs late one afternoon carrying a load of bed slats, to find her mate, half way out of the window "lollygaggin' with a neighbor. Quickly she jerked out the window prop which left him fast between sash and sill. Taking a firm grasp on one of the bed slats she gave him a severe trouncing." Mrs. Llewellyn Morgan, our kind informant, goes on. "And BRIMSTONE?" I persisted.

"Brimstone is just another name for sulphur. They say there was once a severe epidemic of itch in that settlement and the folks took so much sulphur for their blood the neighbors called them "BRIMSTONERS." "And TUNKET?" She laughed. "I don't know where in tunket they did get that name." Many thanks Mrs. Morgan. It might be fun to collect such local names WITH THE REASON.

CARELESS WITH THE TRUTH (Thanks to Edwin Bigelow) For the first time the village Was having something like a mild building boom. The group of houses near the mill Which had been built by the mill owners Had been variously occupied after the mill shut down. They had been the only places Which were occupied by renters. In time that section went from bad to worse. The family which had once prospered with the mill Had moved out when they sold to a corporation.

When water power went out of style The new owners shut down as they said "Temporarily." They never reopened. The once whirring machinery was moved out And soon the birds were flying in and out Of the windows which had surrendered To the guerilla warfare of stonethrowing boys. Some of the houses suffered the same, fate And finally settled down covered with brush and weeds In summer only waiting for the snows of winter To flatten the sagging roofs. Then some of the invading summer colony On the hills above the village Disliked the view and decided to do something about it. The next year the mill had disappeared And the pond had become a small lake With a beach and a place to swim open to all.

On the slope above where the old tenements had been They were building several neat cottages. The townspeople shook their collective heads When Stephen Downer got the building job. As Old Man Mugget summed him up: "Y' gotta keep yer eye skunned When Steve's a workin' fer ye." He was warning one of the group of newcomers Who was interested in the ing. The information was evidently received with doubt. I know," the old man continued, he's a smooth talker.

And when he runs a' the treuth He keeps right on atalkin' by mighty." The Vermont Department of Highways, states that the desire to save time has sparked many of mankind's improvements in transportation. It is time rather than distance that counts, now as in the past. WILCOX FUELS MANCHESTER, VT. Office Hours 8 5 Phone 500 (If no answer call 499) Esso Heating Oil Exclusive Distributors In This Vicinitv Esso Fuel Oil Kerosene F. H.

Briggs Insurance Agency Telephone 196-W INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS Including Life Insurance and REAL ESTATE Established 1915 Owned by Reginald H. Reed MANCHESTER CENTER, VT. HAVING AN AUCTION? GET MY RATE FIRST! RALPH BRISTOL Auctioneer EAST CLARENDON, VT. PR-55126 "My Service Doesn't Cost, It Trust Estate Under The Will Of CHARLES ISHAM Order of Notice of Allowance of Account FRESH State of Vermont, District of Manchester, ss. The Honorable Probate Court for the District aforesaid: To all persons interested in the Trust Estate under the Will of Charles Isham, late of Manchester in said District, deceased, GREETING: Whereas, said Court has assigned the 3rd day of August next, for examining and allowing the account of the United States Trust Company of New York, Trustee of the Estate of said deceased from December 31, 1959 to and including December 31, 1961, of be given to all persons interested in said Estate by publishing this order and ordered that public notice therethree weeks succesively, previous to the day assigned, in The Manchester Journal, a newspaper published at Manchester in said District.

Therefore, you are hereby notified to appear at the Probate Office in Manchester in said District, o'clock on in the the day assigned, at 10:30 forenoon, then and there to contest the allowance of said account if you see cause, and to establish your right as heirs, legatees and lawful claimants to said residue. Given under my hand, this 16th day of July, 1962. GERALDINE LYNCH, 22-3 Register Trust Estate Under The Will of MARY LINCOLN ISHAM Order of Notice of Allowance of Account State of Vermont, District of Manchester, ss. The Honorable Probate Court for the District aforesaid: To all persons interested in the Trust Estate under the Will of Mary Lincoln Isham, late of Manchester in said District, deceased, GREETING: Whereas, said Court has assigned the 3rd day of August next, for examining and allowing the account of the United States Trust Company of New York, Trustee of the Estate of said deceased from December 1959 including December 31, 1961, and ordered that public notice thereof be given to all persons interested in said Estate by publishing this order three weeks succesively, previous to the day assigned, in The Manchester Journal, a newspaper published at Manchester in said District. Therefore, you are hereby notified to appear at the Probate Office in Manchester in said District, on the day assigned, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to contest the allowance of said account if you see cause, and to establish your right as heirs, legatees and lawful claimants to said residue.

Given under my hand, this 16th day of July, 1962. GERALDINE LYNCH, 22-3 Register JOHNSON'S FUEL SERVICE Phone 343 KEROSENE FUEL OIL.