Lantz brothers teach skiing at August Acres; Thanksgiving dinner at Jameson’s for $1

1975

CLAREMONT

Winners of the Don Miller Punt, Pass and Kick Contest were Shawn O’Hearne, Arthur Bates, C. Hank Aldrich, Scott Sweet, Michael Ranney, Laurie St. Pierre, Davis Swinger, Scott Haines, John Lancaster, Gordon Dansereau, Chuck Lancaster, Steve Jordon, Thomas Ward, Robert Wright, Roger Keane, Todd Scranton, Wayne Greenwood and Scott Labbe.

“The only drawback was catching up on my homework,” said Judy Haynes of her recent five-day trip to Biloxi, Miss., a reward for excellence in judging vegetables, fruits, flowers and shrubbery at Cornish and State fairs. The occasion was the National Junior Horticultural Associations Judging Convention, to which Miss Haynes was one of a 4-H member team representing New Hampshire. Miss Haynes is the fourth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Haynes, Tengren Avenue, to attend such a convention Ruth went to Indianapolis in 1970, Diana and Susanna traveled to Oklahoma City in 1973.

Questioned by a reporter, “are you anxious to be an adult, and why or why not,” Karen Cardozo, 10, responded, “no, I think childhood is funner than adulthood. And besides, I like school.” Mark Tatro, 15, said, “I’d like to grow older until I’m 20 and then start slowing down.” Michael Rousseau, 13, said, “yes so I’ll be able to drive a car. I’d like to be a carpenter. I’m pretty good at it just from watching people.” Kevin Routhier, 13, said, “yes. I look forward to getting a job…getting married.”

CHARLESTOWN

Bonnie Dalzell was elected president of the Riverside 4-H Club and Celeste St. Pierre is vice president. Susan Reed will serve as secretary and the two reporters are Laurie Marshall and Serena Sweet.

CORNISH

The November meeting of the Cornish PTA will be held at the school Wednesday evening with guest speaker Thomas Maynard from the Sullivan County Counseling Service.

NEWPORT

Oliver M. Drown, President of the Sugar River Savings Bank, has announced the completion of a two-year course in Banking Management by Floyd P. Bailey, assistant vice president. Bailey has been associated with the bank since 1973. He and his wife live in New London.

UNITY

The skiing Lantz brothers, Doug and Steve and Tom, who is a member of the U.S. Olympic Team, will highlight a free one-day ski camp at August Acres on Saturday. The session will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and include instruction in both Alpine and cross-country skiing fundamentals as well as first aid. In addition to the Lantz’s, Marshall K. Doughty, director at Mt. Ascutney, Brian Whipple, Stan and Lee Allaban, Karol Richardson, Richard Bissonette, Cathy Savoie, Robert Zimmerman, Steve Kelton, Sue White and R. Trombly will be on staff. Reservations may be made by contacting Ted Niboli, coach, Newport High School or Dody Belski. Coach. Stevens High School.

1960

Movies

North to Alaska at Latchis Theater, featuring John Wayne, Ernie Kovacs, Stewart Granger and Fabian

NEW YORK

Ma Perkins, Dr. Jerry Malone, Carolyn Nelson and the second Mrs. Burton drifted away on happy endings Friday, leaving many housewives without companions. CBS radio network closed out its last four soap operas in order to concentrate on more news and information. Just what the effect will be on the women who faithfully listened for decades is anybody’s guess. Soap operas arrived with big time commercial radio and one of the first in Chicago starred Jim and Marian Jordan, better known as Fibber McGee and Molly.

SULLIVAN COUNTY

According to the Dairy Herd Improvement Association, William McNamara, Plainfield, owns a registered Holstein that topped the production of all cows in New Hampshire in 1959 with more than 26,000 pounds of milk and 868 pounds of butterfat. Other Sullivan County dairymen with outstanding production are Horace Bascom, Charlestown, David Bechock, Claremont, and H.P. McClary of Cornish.

CLAREMONT

Norman St. Aubin of Old Newport Road is carrying on a progressive soil and water conservation plan to “lick” his drainage problem, according to Guy Wheelock, Soil Conservation Service Technician. Under the supervision of Wheelock and Ted Bonneau, St. Aubin moved 500 yards of earth to form a new diversion nearly 500 feet long and 60 feet wide, doing most of the work himself with his own bulldozer.

Claremont Lodge 1201, Loyal Order of Moose, will observe its 48th anniversary Saturday and Sunday. The lodge was instituted on Nov. 24, 1912. At 1:30 p.m., Sunday there will be a class enrollment in honor of Chester P. Ordway, who will be 90 years old on Dec. 16, and who joined the lodge with the second class on Dec. 8, 1912. There will be a dance and floor show on Saturday from 8 p.m. to midnight, featuring “Bob and Jack” (Robert Little, co-owner of the Ideal Laundry, and Jack Forsburg, a Claremonter now living in Rhode Island). Sunday’s activities include a breakfast, the class enrollment, a candlelight memorial service for seven members who died in the past year, Louis Desmarais, Ernest Dolezal, Vincent Hill, Raymond Beard, Gerard Roberts, Raymond Sage and Arthur Brodeur. A covered dish supper will conclude the observance on Sunday evening.

CHARLESTOWN

Some of the young people expected home or Thanksgiving from colleges are Miss Donna Lee Wood, Miss Patricia Reese, Philip Newcomb, William Doolan and Gerard Allen from UNH; Joseph Lyman from Yale University; Miss Heather Hunt from Russell Sage, and Richard Willoughby, Robert Bruno, Lois Baldwin, Sylvia Sylvester, and Carol Gray from Keene Teacher’s College.

The annual Thanksgiving Service will be held at the Congregational Church. All the Protestant churches will share. Rev. Louis Reed, rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, and Gordon Welch, minister at North Charlestown Methodist Church will take part in the service with Rev. Theodore Ball.

NEWPORT

Sliding without snow is a popular pastime for youngsters on a small hill between Cheney and North Main streets. Using sleds of corrugated cardboard; they slide on grassy slopes for up to 100-foot rides. Pictured are Bobby Gosselin, Robert Welch, Richard Davis and Kathleen and Denise Doucette.

Edward Welch entered his poodle, Follette, in the New England Training Club’s Annual Obedience Trials in Boston over the weekend. He placed 187th in the large field of competition.

1945

ENTERTAINMENT

Weekend at the Waldorf with Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Edward Arnold, and Xavier Cugat and his orchestra.

Dance Roseland Tonite with Frankie Kahn and His Orchestra direct from Cleveland.

Thanksgiving Dance 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. with the Yacht Club Orchestra.

NATIONAL

All meat rationing ends tomorrow. At the same time, all food fats, including butter, become point free. Sugar is now the only food left on the ration list. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson made these announcements at a news conference today.

CLAREMONT

Special Thanksgiving Dinner at the Junction Restaurant, $1.25. Also, dinners at the Hotel Moody, Colonial Hotel, Pleasant Restaurant, Sheehan’s Restaurant, and Tremont Café.

A substantial sum for the expansion and development of the E. Charles Goodwin Community Center on Broad Street was bequeathed to the Town of Claremont in the will of the late Mary A. Goodwin, it was learned today as the will was filed for probate. In fact, the town was named residuary legatee of the Goodwin estate, and will received the entire amount remaining after setting up trust funds for various relatives and settling other bequests.

Wrestling fans will be privileged to see one of the most picturesque men in the country today when they watch Don Eagle, full-blooded Iroquois Indian pitted against Jacques Trudeau in their match at Claremont Town Hall. Both have appeared in feature bouts at the Boston Garden as well as being featured by promoter Jack Carter on his card at Burlington.

PLAINFIELD

We surely have enjoyed the Indian Summer Weather we have had the past two weeks, and hope that it will stay with us a while longer. Ralph Jordan and Robert Gibson believe in the Good Neighbor policy by raking and drawing away the leaves on the ground at the library, Mrs. True’s and Mrs. Hadley’s. Now we feel all slicked up for winter. Even the snow fence has been set this week, which we dislike to see or think about.

1930

MOVIES

At the Magnet Theater, Maybe It’s Love, a Warner Brothers and Vitaphone Talking Picture with Joy, E. Brown, Joan Bennett and James Hall and the All-American Football Tram.

At the Latchis Theater, gala stage and screen show, Our Gang, talking comedy, Moan and Groan Inc. and the fast and furious film farce, Are You There? With Beatrice Lillie, Olga Baclanova, John Garrick and other.

CLAREMONT

A very pleasant party was held Wednesday evening when the Women’s Relief Corps entertained some 140 members of the different patriotic orders, comprising the Grand Army Men, Sons of Veterans, Daughters of Veterans Spanish War Veterans and Auxiliary Legionnaires, Legion Auxiliary and National Guard. The guests were received by Mrs. Eliza Newell and Mrs. William Stockwell. The program was headed by Mrs. Grace Converse, with welcome by Mrs. Ina Crossman and a talk on Mexico by Sidney Converse. Mrs. Margaret Brown was in charge of refreshments.

Bright prospects for early construction of Claremont’s new post office, site for which was recently acquired and is shortly to be surveyed, were intimated in a letter just received by Secretary W. Henry May of the Claremont Chamber of Commerce from Fern K. Heath, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The local Chamber had urged that construction be done at once as an unemployment relief measure.

Little Marjorie Gokey of 22 High St. was given a birthday party Friday afternoon by 12 of her little friends on the occasion of her fourth birthday, receiving many little gifts.

Management of the Town Hall and Opera House, for many years headed by Harry T. Eaton, has been taken over by Clayton W. Stevens of the Stevens drug stores.

PLAINFIELD

Stephen Parrish and Miss Ann have closed their home here and will spend the winter with Maxfield Parrish in Georgia.

Mrs. Ella Peterson has come to spend the winter with her daughter at the village, Mrs. Georgia Chadbourne.

Mr. and Mrs. Hall from Brookline visited their two daughters, Bertha and Winfred, teachers here and at Meriden last Sunday.

WEST UNITY

Ernest Whitmore is having a new sugarhouse built. Orrin Bailey is doing the work. Orrin and Charles Bailey have been shingling the schoolhouse in the Church Division. There was no school in the County Division Tuesday, Nov. 11, because of the holiday.

NEWPORT

Boston and Maine Railroad timetable: weekdays, to Concord, 7:33 a.m. and 4:06 p.m.; to Claremont Junction, 11:55 a.m. and 4:58 p.m.; Sundays, 11:41 a.m. to Concord and 4:58 p.m. to Claremont Junction.

Condos Bus Lines leave Newport to Claremont on weekdays at 8:15 a.m., 9:50 a.m., 2:10 p.m., 3:35 p.m. and 6:10 p.m. and Sundays, 9:40 a.m., 2 p.m., 6:15 p.m. and 10:05 p.m.

Advertisement—Enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner with us at Jameson’s Restaurant and have a real old-fashioned, home-cooked dinner for $1. Menu includes fruit cocktail and cream of celery soup, sweet, mixed pickle, roast stuffed Vermont turkey and giblet gravy, Hubbard squash or creamed onions, candied sweet potatoes, baked or mashed white potato, choice of pie, apple, mince or squash with cheese or plum pudding, tea or coffee.

A meeting of interested partners in starting a cheese factory in Newport was held with the following officers elected: President, Herman A. Sanborn; vice president, Fred G. Kimball; Secretary, Walter Delong; Treasurer, Fred A. Barton and Board of Directors, Maurice F. Hall, Daniel Paul, James O. Paul, Dominic Cutts and Albert I. Barton. The officers plan to start operations the first of the year in the building formerly occupied by the toyshop on Oak Street.