Past Times Week of November 28

1975

Claremont

Members of the Claremont Junction Riders traveled to several open horse shows and came away with over a dozen awards. Cindy Belisle on her appaloosa, Joker’s Hot Shot, won seven top prizes in shows in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Teammate Ann Crowley on The Grey won championships in Lebanon and Keene. Other awards went to Club President Gerald Bellavance on Juno, Kim Wentzell on Dusty, Lori Pinette on her appaloosa Monka Tonga and Ricky and Kelly Wentzell.

Local pharmacists Jon C. Krueger and Carl J. Bannon attended a postgraduate seminar entitled “Problems in Opthamology” though the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston.

Area young men in the service include Marine Lance Corporal Leon A. Collins, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Collins, Twistback Road. Collins participated in “Deep Express,” an annual NATO exercise in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. He was a 1974 graduate of Stevens High School.

Private David M. Lerous, son of Mrs. Patricia McElreavy, Claremont and Donal Lerous, Laconia, is in the United States Army training as a mobile electric power generator repairman-operator.

James G. Roberts, executive director of the Greater Claremont Chamber of Commerce, has been designated CCE (certified chamber executive), an award which signifies the highest quality of professional and personal performance. The honor was conferred at a conference in San Francisco.

Sunapee

In the service, Private William B. Boyce, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Boyce, Beech Street, enlisted in the United States Army’s delayed entry program for training as a radio operator. Boyce is a senior at Sunapee High School and will report for active duty after graduation.

Charlestown

Gordon E. Adams has been named vice chairman of the Sullivan County Democratic Committee, announced chairman Arthur P. Palmer. Adams, a milling machine operator at Joy Manufacturing, is a Charlestown High School graduate and has served on the Charlestown Recreation Committee, the town planning board and the fire department. He coaches a Babe Ruth team in the Junior Baseball League and is on the town library addition building committee.

The Charlestown Women’s Club’s Reciprocity Night will be held in the Pine Room of the Congregational Church. Vernon B. Field, Claremont, will present his slide program “Historical Sites and Weather Vanes from Maine to New York State.”

Newport

Irene Cain, Unity Road, has been named chairman of the Newport Bicentennial Quilt Committee by the Newport Historical Society. Mrs. Dorothy Bartholomew, publicity chairman, explains that the committee will coordinate area organizations making Documentary Quilts for display in the newly restored second floor of the Old Grange Hall Court House.

1960

Claremont

Stevens High School student council officers elected last week are President Viki Zenoff, senior; Vice President Karol Blish, junior; Secretary Patricia Thomas, sophomore; and Treasurer Wilfred St. Cyr, senior. Advisor Wayne Gray says the council has a busy year planned, including arranging the visit here of the Berlin basketball team in January.

American Legion has offered to trade its post home on Broad Street for the National Guard Armory on Pearl, School and Walnut streets. The armory will be vacated by the National Guard when the new Claremont armory opens, for which federal funds have been appropriated. The city would then use the Broad Street space for off-street parking. All this is still very “iffy.”

Cornish

Dorine, Rachel and Karen Bullock of Claremont spent Saturday afternoon with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs Forest Bullock Jr. In the afternoon they attended the Juvenile Grange at Meriden and enjoyed the Halloween party.

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Reynolds and family attended a family Halloween party at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Woodwward in Plainfield.

Mrs. Chester Magoon entertained eight of her neighbors at a coffee party Tuesday morning.

Meriden

Classes at the White School in Meriden were interrupted briefly on Thursday afternoon while Murray Stevens announced the award winners in the Book Fair Poster Constest. Stevens pointed out to the boys and girls that some made excellent posters but because of carelessness in misspelling words they were rated lower by the judging committee. Winner in Grade 1-2 were David Dessert, Billy Beliveau and Richard Torrey; Grade 3-4, Christine Benware, Libby Beliveau and Cappy Putnam; Grades 5-6 Butch King, Mike McNamara and Nora Loura; Grades 7-8, Kathy Jones, Sally Benson and Dorothy Pringle.

1945

Claremont

Sixty-four children between the ages of seven and ine who are not regular members of the Goodwin Community Center were regular members of the Goodwin Community Center were registered Saturday for the first annual Halloween party for little people. A program of games was conducted in the hobby loft. A team of St. Mary’s girls, Shirley Sirois, helen Lesnick and Beatrice Lague, competed with a team from Way School, Judy Nahil, Joanna Brock and Marcia Jacobson in the “Cracker Game.” Nahil won for the Way school team. Doughnut bobbing had Lawrence Evans, Bluff; Joanna Brock, Way; Charles Rouillard, St. Mary’s and Jane Guilmette, North as winners. Other games included a “bear race” for boys, costume parades and a “bull fight” for boys.

More than 60 freshmen from both high schools attended the first social and dance of the GCC Forty-Niners Club at the Hobby Loft of the Goodwin Community Center. A committee headed by Rosemary Leahy prepared a candlelight canteen of doughnuts, cake and cookies. A jitterbug contest was won by Jacqueline Dowaliby and escort. The loft was decorated by Claire Poirier, Dolores Plantier, Alicia Theroux, Lucille L’Heureux, Pauline St. Martin and Donald LaPoint. Chaperones were Mr. and Mrs. Roland Pratt, Mrs. Marion Sammon and Mrs. Dorothy Beck.

Cornish Center

Mrs. Orville Fitch was in charge of the Halloween party held at the new parsonage barn Wednesday evening. Later all went to the vestry, where refreshments were served.

Newport

A number of persons miraculously escaped injury about 4 p.m. yesterday in what was probably the freakiest traffic accident on record in Newport, when a truck loaded with gravel reportedly went out of control and drove a parked car across the sidewalk on Main Street and into the Priscilla Sweet Shop. The entire front of the sweet shop was demolished and the interior of the store left in a shambles. An unoccupied baby carriage which was left outside the store by Mrs. Trevor Price, who was inside with her infant son, was crushed between the front of the Gross car and a showcase. Adding to the peril was gasoline which gushed from the smashed tank of the car. Also in the shop at the time, which occurred just before the usual after-school rush, were Miss Martha Cutting and Miss Elizabeth Lantas, waitresses, and several customers, none of whom was injured. Arthur Saggiotes, proprietor, was in the rear of the shop making ice cream.

Goshen

A family reunion was held at Mrs. Peter Wright’s home in honor of her brother, Edward Jordan of Canada, whom they had not seen in 20 years. There are 10 children in the family, all of whom are living. Eight at the reunion called a sister in California that evening. Local family members who attenedd were Mrs. Felix Smith and family, Mrs. Rose Upham, Miss Doris Upham, Miss Elizabeth Upham, Staff Sgt. John Upham, all of Newport, Fred Jordan of Goshen, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Jordan and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wright of North Newport and Sherman Jordan of Claremont. Other family members came from Bridgeport, Conn., Hartford and New York.

1930

Claremont

The Claremont selectmen, John Branch, Labin Ainsworth and Edward Hoisington and the Cornish selectmen, John Baylis and John Tewksbury, commenced Thursday to check over the Cornish-Claremont boundary line. Every seven years the selectmen of both towns go over this same routine of marking dates on stones which stand as the boundary line of these two towns.

The Cheskchamays and the Soangetaha camp fire girls gave a masquerade party at Monadnock Park. Prizes for the best costumes were given to Barbara Mitchener, who wore a devil costume., Frances Costello, clown costume, Dorothy Howe, old fashioner, Evelyn Gilchrist, boys costume, Aagdt Haugsrud, Norwegian costume, Virginia Howe, Japanese girl, Muriel Marshall, witch costume and Florence Nelson, grandmother costume.

Members of the Past Noble Grands association enjoyed a Halloween party at Odd Fellows Hall. The committee in charge comprised Mrs. Hazel Little, Mrs. Florence Woodward and Mrs. Gretha Jenks.

The Church Service League of Trinity Church met at the parish house Thursday afternoon, 17 being present. Much sewing was accomplished for the Christmas sale. Hostesses were Miss Harriet Cowles, Miss Susan Dow and Mrs. Leland Chase.

Lempster

William Hall had the misfortune to fall from an apple tree last week 17 feet, whereupon he left this work and started for his jury duty in Newport.

The running water at William Wilson’s house had not failed for over 30 years, until this dry time. He was blasting rocks in his pasture a few days since to secure a new supply of water.

Plainfield

Plainfield was the location of a conference of 120 members of 10 area Women’s Clubs, including groups from Claremont, Newport, Hanover, Lebanon, West Lebanon, Lyme, Plainfield, and Sunapee. Miss Blanche Daniels of Plainfield presided as district chairman. Others on the program were Mrs. Sara Simpson, Mrs. Guy Parkhurst, Plainfield club president and Rev. Thomas J. Ingram, pastor of the Plainfield Baptist Church. An interesting address was given by Paul St. Gaudens of Cornish, who exhibited selected pieces of his pottery.