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ORMSBY CHAPTER, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU- TION Organized January 22, 1896 at Thayer's Hotel as an off- shoot of the defunct Brownson chapter of Arlington and sponsored by Mrs. Burdett, State Regent from Arlington, who transferred Janet P. Blackmer to Manchester to be first regent; chapter named in honor of Major Ormsby's sister and chartered April 2, 1896; charter members were Junia Thayer, Mary Utley Robbins, Jennie Fish Reed, Emilie Bonesteel Perkins, Ellen Hilliard Morris, Mary
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V. Connor, Louise P. Wyman, Junia Thayer Dewey, Jennie R. Giddings, Susan Bucklin, Mary Scott Botsford, Mary Louise Wy- man; chapter has placed markers on graves of all Revolutionary soldiers in Manchester and has reset seventeen milestones on old New York-Montreal post road from Bennington to East Dorset; also responsible for stone marking route 30 as Seth Warner Me- morial Highway dedicated June 18, 1937.
MANCHESTER POST, VETERANS OF THE WORLD WAR OF 1917 Organized May 1919.
AMERICAN LEGION POST, NO. 38 Developed from the pre- ceding group and is still active; has an auxiliary; from 1920 to 1933 held annual field day, which was revived in 1946, 1950.
HARNED-FOWLER POST, NO. 6471, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS Organized February 21, 1946 by some fifty veterans, mostly of World War II; post named in honor of James Harned and Harvey K. Fowler, who died in the service of their country; eighty veterans signed charter for membership; Lynford Bourn, first post com- mander; headquarters located between Center and Depot purchased September 1948; Philip Kelleher of this post, commander of Ver- mont Encampment, 1953; post responsible for annual Loyalty Day parade, annual fishing derby, community Halloween party, im- provement of park at Center; its AUXILIARY was organized mainly through efforts of Marion Healey; first officers, of which Mrs. Ber- nard Miller was president, installed November 25, 1946.
WALTER D. ELCOX POST NO. 4, DEPARTMENT OF VERMONT, LEGION OF GUARDSMEN Organized 1946, Fred P. Heinel, com- mander; membership composed of any former state or national guardsmen or servicemen from either peacetime or war; post named in honor of Walter D. Elcox, who died in the service of his country during World War II; Heinel elected Deputy Chief of State, 1948 and State Department Judge Advocate, 1949; L. E. Galaise and William E. Thompson, state commanders, 1949 and 1953; fourth annual state convention held in Manchester, 1950; group sponsored sportsman's show, 1948, 1949 and sponsors annual lawn party.
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CIVIC CLUB Organized June 1914 "to aid in every effort for the betterment of the town"; first officers : Margaret S. Hard, president; Emilie Perkins, vice-president; Mary Utley Robbins, secretary; Sarah Brown, treasurer.
MANCHESTER BRANCH, LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS Organ- ized October 1923 by Miss Laura Steel, Mrs. Albert C. Orvis, Mrs. Claude M. Campbell, Mrs. William A. Griffith, Mrs. Henry W. Eliot, Mrs. Benjamin Hamlin, and Miss Jeanie Jackson; first presi- dent, Mrs. Madison C. Bates; thirty-five charter members; group active intermittently until 1942; afternoon study groups to educate Manchester women in the intelligent use of voting privilege.
WOMEN'S REPUBLICAN CLUB OF MANCHESTER Organized 1924; for several years very active, having largest per capita mem- bership of any Vermont town; meeting to reactivate, 1936, at home of ex-president Mrs. Claude M. Campbell; first officers after reacti- vation : Mrs. W. A. Griffith, president; Mrs. G. S. Bennett, Mrs. E. L. Bigelow, and Mrs. Ray W. Holt; group again inactive about 1940.
THE FORUM Organized January 1923 as a men's club in the Vil- lage meeting fortnightly for the presentation and discussion of papers, e.g. "Probate Law," paper by Judge Edward Griffith; "Signs of Progress in the Church," by the Rev. John Ten Dyke.
COMMUNITY CLUB Organized May 3, 1920 by some forty men and women in the Village to bring together socially all adult resi- dents of the Village and to create a mutual interest in each other and in the community; this club was probably a union of the ladies' "Get-Together Club" and the men's "Pede Club," which con- tinued to meet separately, although joint meetings were held about eight times annually; club membership totaled 175 at its peak; for its philanthropies, this club undertook many projects, the most successful of which was an annual block dance in front of the Equi- nox House; diminishing interest and finances led to disbanding July 1938.
MANCHESTER ROTARY CLUB Organized April 1937 after pre- liminary discussion meetings at Burr and Burton Seminary led by
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L. H. Thompson; first regular meetings with twenty-seven mem- bers to elect officers May 1937; club instituted June 24, 1937; Char- ter Night at Union Opera House with charter members-R. C. Brewster, president; J. B. Campbell, secretary; C. O. Brewster, H. L. Adams, J. T. Brown, M. Cohen, J. Colburn, C. A. Comar, H. K. Fowler, P. W. Fowler, S. Greenbaum, E. Griffith, W. R. Hard, T. J. Healey, R. W. Holt, F. L. Howard, R. E. Howes, P. P. LaBounty, L. F. Martin, L. E. Pierce, L. F. Schlieder, C. Swezey, Sr., E. H. Swift, L. H. Thompson, C. Whalen, S. C. Worden, and C. E. Young; group now numbers thirty-four; one of many nation-wide civic groups; most outstanding of the infinite number of services rendered to Manchester probably was construction and operation of Rotary Swimming Pool for public use at Manchester Center; club has furnished one District Governor, G. S. Bennett, who served 1957-1958; he was Rotary Counsellor, 1958-1959.
LIONS CLUB OF MANCHESTER Organized at two meetings spon- sored by Bennington Lions, December 12, 1951 and January 9, 1952; a service organization doing many community services of worth, the Lions Charter Night was March 19, 1952; first officers, Alton M. Hicks, president; Oscar Johnson, Jr., vice-president; El- mer MacDonald, 2nd vice-president; Charles Hawkins, 3rd vice- president; Berry Wall, secretary; Waldemar Anderson, treasurer; Thomas J. Cochrane, tail twister; Alex Knothe, lion tamer; group holds annual minstrel and auction to earn money for such projects as bicycle safety program, eyeglasses for needy children, and the Alton Hicks Scholarship Fund.
MANCHESTER MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION A group of local pastors who held annual meetings for many years and was at its peak in the 1930s; its counterpart, composed of men from the vari- ous churches, was the CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD.
WESTERN VERMONT VALLEY FARMER'S ASSOCIATION Or- ganized 1871 at Adams Hall, Factory Point; F. B. Hollister, secre- tary.
MANCHESTER BUSINESSMEN'S ASSOCIATION Organized about 1905 or 1906 in an endeavor to work together for the benefit of
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Manchester; annual banquets held; Frank Archibald, one of the leaders.
GRANT LODGE, NO. 194, INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS A temperance group existing at Factory Point be- tween 1869 and 1883 and probably longer; met at Adams Hall; suc- cessor to BENNINGTON COUNTY TEMPERANCE UNION which in 1862 had executive committees in each town-Zerah Hard, Calvin P. Smith, Robert Ames from Manchester; a junior temperance group here as early as 1909 was LOYAL TEMPERANCE LEGION, probably part of an adult branch of the BENNINGTON COUNTY WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION which held "No Li- cense" rallies in 1906 and invited speakers from the "Anti-Saloon League" to Manchester.
SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Organized in 1895 largely through efforts of Miss Jessie O. Haw- ley; the Manchester Journal reported that "A glaring case of cruelty to a horse in the streets of this town-though not by a citizen of this town-resulted in the forming of the local branch"; some of earliest officers were D. K. Simonds, Dr. John F. Page, Henry W. Davis, James A. Thayer, and Miss Hawley; group gave prizes at the Manchester Fair for work horses showing best care; became inactive in 1928; an affiliated children's group, CHILDREN OF THE BAND OF MERCY, organized in Manchester elementary schools by efforts of Sarah N. Cleghorn; besides animal protective work, its philan- thropies included Russian famine relief and Fresh Air Children's Fund; huge children's rally, 1900, at Village Court House to foster kindness to animals.
MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY Organized October 1897 at the home of the Misses Julia F. and Wilhelmina Hawley, who, with Miss Hermione Canfield, conceived the idea; first officers, E. J. Hawley, president; Julia Hawley, 1st vice-president; Anna L. Purdy, 2nd vice-president; Hermione Canfield and Wilhelmina Hawley, secretaries; Theodore Swift, treasurer; society incorporat- ed 1898 "to collect and preserve scattered bits of history about Manchester; to locate, and if possible, mark places of historic in- terest in the town; and, recognizing that the doings of the present
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form the history of the past, to record such passing events as portray the life of the town from year to year, and to provide a convenient and reliable source of information concerning it"; also to provide a complete genealogy of the early settlers of Manchester as long as they were connected with the town; most recent reactivation of the group, 1960, when The Harris C. Whipple Collection of Manches- teriana was given to the Society by his brother, John C. Whipple.
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUB Organized in Manchester in 1956 as a branch of the national organization; in its work for civic improvement this group was influential in arranging for floodlighting the Congregational church spire.
BUSINESS GIRLS CLUB Organized April 9, 1935, meeting month- ly at the Mark Skinner Library; first officers were Barbara Shaw, Mil- dred Healey, and Mary Lombardy; club became defunct about 1941.
MANCHESTER BRANCH, CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY This group was the most active during the 1920s and 1930s as part of the larger state organization; Miss Mary Gleason, a prominent member; this organization preceded the Manchester Welfare and Nursing Asso- ciation in local welfare work.
MANCHESTER BRANCH, AMERICAN RED CROSS Organized during World War I and has reactivated several times, in 1932 with Rev. W. J. Brown, chairman, and in 1936; in 1937 chapter raised large sum for relief of flood-stricken in Midwest; also furnished transportation to and swimming lessons at Hapgood Pond until 1940; in October 1940 local chapter dissolved and county reloca- tion made, with Manchester becoming member of Northern Ben- nington County Chapter, which included nine towns with Man- chester as headquarters; in April 1941 local group formally organ- ized as "Battenkill Valley Chapter," I. N. Bartlett, president; first blood drawing in town for blood bank under Red Cross supervision 1949; local group became inactive again in 1952.
KOOS-KOOS-KEES CAMPFIRE GIRLS Organized about 1915 by girls of high school age who had "campfire room" at Burr and Bur- ton Seminary; group later became known as the "Ekwanok Camp- fire"; Margaret Hard and Ethel Bennett were leaders.
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GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA Organized as a Manchester branch in 1943 in addition to a Brownie troop; three troops active in 1944 contributing to war effort by collection of waste paper; Senior Serv- ice troop for older girls, 1945; Girl Scout Jamboree held at Man- chester Center, 1947, to demonstrate Scout work to public; organ- ization and existence of Scout troops have been intermittent since; among leaders have been Mrs. Stephen Baker, Mrs. Lionel Dulac, Miss Helen Hubbell, Mrs. William Hitchcock, Jr., Mrs. Fred Pabst, and Mrs. Joseph E. Fowler.
CUB SCOUTS OF AMERICA Organized June 1945 as an adjunct to Boy Scouting in Manchester and sponsored by the Rotary Club; Francis E. Smalley, first leader; four dens formed at beginning.
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Organized in Manchester about 1913; Village patrol formed 1919 under Walter Hard, G. S. Ben- nett, and Albert Smith; Troop #1, Manchester Center, organized December 17, 1925 at Baptist church with twenty-eight boys led by Robert C. Brewster and Alton Hicks; second troop organized Feb- ruary 1926 led by the Rev. D. Cunningham Graham and Clifford B. Graham; later scoutmasters have included P. P. LaBounty, Paul W. Fowler, Warren Adams, Walter Stewart, Orrin Beattie, and Ferdinand Bongartz; Beattie lauded for his excellent work and Brewster, still in scouting in 1944, then awarded Silver Beaver by the Green Mountain Council for his devotion to Manchester boys; county-wide Scout rallies held here 1939, 1952; in 1953 Robert West and Robert Treat attended third National Jamboree; in 1951 David Harwood attended World Jamboree in Austria; Alexander Zoesch, Jr., Manchester's first Eagle Scout, 1949; sponsorship of Boy Scouting in Manchester has been by Rotary Club and the American Legion Post; three Manchester men on executive board of directors, Green Mountain Council, 1960, are Robert C. Brew- ster, John Laughlin, and Howard Dufresne.
COLUMBUS CLUB A men's club in the Village existing prior to 1907 as a social means of enlivening the long winter evenings.
ONDAWA CLUB Organized November 1907 as a successor to the Columbus Club; some fifty members from all three villages played
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billiards or pool and had the services of a "first class steward"; head- quarters on top floor of "Hard" block, Union Street, Village; group disbanded in 1918.
UNION CLUB Organized March 1909 in rooms back of the bank at Manchester Center for cards, pool, sociability; group gave annual minstrel show until becoming defunct in 1926.
ONDAWA FISH AND GAME CLUB Existed at Factory Point in rooms on second floor of Howe block (burned December 1893) from about 1883 until 1887; among its officers were Mason S. Col- burn, Loveland Munson, Robert Ames, and Sylvester Deming; membership totaled about twenty-five.
MANCHESTER ROD AND GUN CLUB Organized 1923, though an earlier MANCHESTER GUN CLUB existed about 1907; though somewhat inactive at the present date, Leon Wiley is president and the group belongs to the Southern Vermont Federation of Sports- men, a conservation group of some sixteen rod and gun clubs from Bennington and Windham counties and the southern part of Wind- sor county; in the past the club has placed scores of fingerling trout into tributaries of the Battenkill and has released hundreds of young pheasant; in 1937 the club removed the rapidly multiplying goldfish that were starving out the trout in Equinox Pond; in 1933, an affiliated group, the very active MT. AEOLUS RIFLE TEAM, Was organized; it became part of the National Rifle Association, 1946, and its Manchester and Dorset members meet regularly for con- tests with other towns; Ira Adams, president for over fifteen years; younger members under Fred P. Heinel learn proper use of fire- arms; permanent headquarters of Rod and Gun Club are on the Manchester Fair Grounds, which were purchased, along with the buildings, by Bartlett Arkell and presented to the organization.
GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB A meeting, probably under the spon- sorship of the Bennington County Improvement Society, was held in 1914 to discuss trail-making between Canada and the Massachu- setts border; in April 1914 a meeting in Manchester completed
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organization of a local section to come under the state group; first officers, H. M. Swift, Erna Camradt, Bertha Shaw, Otto R. Bennett; initial clearing of trail, 1923, at request of Rutland Green Mountain Club officials; Herbert W. Congdon of Arlington credited with bringing about this early organization; second Manchester section organized in October 1931 at the Battenkill Inn with Edwin L. Bigelow, David L. Bulkley, and Berniece Graham as officers; the membership, about twelve, agreed to assume responsibility for care and maintenance of fifteen-mile stretch of Long Trail from Bourn Pond to Mad Tom Lodge; trail relocated and brought out to Spruce Peak; in 1933 and 1934 vigorous club undertook construction of large, well-built Bromley Lodge from lumber, marble salvaged from an old Vermont Marble Company mill; among ardent boosters of this organization, which became defunct in the early 1940s, were Florence Kelton, Alice Hewitt, Clifford B. Graham, and the Rev. Walker Hawley; Edwin L. Bigelow, president for many years, was also trustee of the state organization (1932-1938); I. N. Bartlett was trustee (1946-1952).
MANCHESTER RIDING AND TRAIL CLUB Organized August 7, 1930 and existed until 1949; first officers were Sherley W. Morgan, Frank C. Overton, and Robert T. Lee; in addition to large picnics and trail riding, this club also erected a twenty-foot tower for view- ing from the summit of Mount Equinox in 1933; at its peak, this group numbered as many as forty, mostly summer residents.
MANCHESTER ALPINE ASSOCIATION Existed in 1909, one of the many short-lived clubs for hiking to be organized through the years; SNOWSHOE CLUBS were organized in 1906, 1931; a later development in this type was the Manchester branch of the AMERI- CAN YOUTH HOSTEL, which functioned here prior to World War II; Manchester houseparents for this national organization were Mr. and Mrs. Percy Bourne, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Haskins, and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Grinnell, the latter couple being in charge during a postwar reactivation.
GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS ASSOCIATION Organized in 1928 "to promote and conserve the friendly and social relations of those men
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accustomed to come to Manchester or its vicinity during the sum- mer months"; originally composed of some 350 members, this group published an annual yearbook and held annual banquets in the spring in New York City and in the fall at the Equinox House; somewhat philanthropic in nature, in 1946 the club gave prizes to caddies from Arlington High School and Burr and Burton Semi- nary who held highest scholastic standings and showed greatest general improvement; the group has been inactive since 1954, when Robert C. Palmer was re-elected president.
GREEN MOUNTAIN GIRLS ASSOCIATION Preliminary plans for a club to match the Green Mountain Boys at the suggestion of the Hon. John F. Montgomery were made at a meeting at the home of Mrs. Robert T. Lee; formal organization of the GREEN MOUNTAIN GIRLS GOLF ASSOCIATION was accomplished in 1927 at the old Ekwanok Country Club with fifteen members having a mutual in- terest in golf; group may have been instrumental in giving women, who were then not especially favored on Manchester courses, "equal" golfing rights; aims of this club, now limited to 150 mem- bers, are mostly social and philanthropic; especially benefiting from their generosity have been Burr and Burton Seminary, Manchester Welfare and Nursing Association, and the New England Kurn Hattin Homes; during World War II the Green Mountain Boys and Girls sent the Manchester Journal to all local servicemen and women.
ONDAWA BASEBALL CLUB Manchester's earliest baseball team; in 1868 or 1870 it won state championship in Rutland against the "Unknowns"; held championship four and a half years and upon disbanding gave it to the Pawlet "Stars," who had come closest to defeating them; success of this club due mainly to the pitching of Loveland Munson, who gained his great control by spending many winter hours pitching through a fifteen-inch iron ring made for him by blacksmith Henry Lugene; other team members were John Beach, Henry Bundy, Mason S. Colburn, Dr. Lewis Hemenway, Ernest Lathrop, Herbert Walker, John H. Whipple, and Lugene.
RIP VAN WINKLE BASEBALL CLUB Organized September 1871 with L. C. Orvis, president; in October 1871 the EQUINOX BASE-
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BALL CLUB was formed and since then a men's athletic association of some kind has functioned in Manchester nearly every year; in the summer of 1927 the MANCHESTER BASEBALL TEAM was organ- ized for games with other communities at the Fair Grounds; in the 1930s W. A. Griffith was manager for a town team that rented part of the airport for a diamond; Bartlett Arkell, president of Beech- Nut Packing Company and Manchester summer resident, arranged games between the Manchester and Canajoharie, New York, players in 1935 and 1936; a MANCHESTER ATHLETIC CLUB was organ- ized in November 1937; another reorganization took place in 1947 under Joseph G. Anthony and later in 1957 under William Manley.
POLO CLUB Organized at Factory Point in March 1885.
BICYCLE CLUB Organized in 1940 by some twenty-eight young people; Roy Dunn, Jr., president, and Phyllis Hurley (Beattie), secretary.
MANCHESTER WINTER SPORTS CLUB Organized October 1935 at the Village Court House for the purpose of promoting winter sports in this area and was briefly known as the MANCHESTER OUTING CLUB; Christopher Swezey, Sr., first president; by 1941 the Chamber of Commerce had taken over most of the promotional functions of this club and it ceased to exist as such until formation of the BROMLEY SKI CLUB; latter organization numbered as many as forty in late 1951 and adopted a shoulder patch designed by Fritz Dillmann; first officers of this group elected about February 1952 were George Finlay, Joseph E. Fowler, Bob Allcott, and Bob Kitt- ner; in December 1949 a second MANCHESTER OUTING CLUB Or- ganized to develop tennis, hiking, and other outdoor social activi- ties; first officers of the group still very active in late 1951 were C. B. Vaughn, Margaret Knothe, and Wilbur Bull.
EQUINOX FLYING CLUB Organized July 17, 1959 for the pur- pose of furthering local aviation and providing aircraft, instruction, and facilities for the purpose; charter members and officers were Joseph Charbonneau, president; Bernice Wilcox, vice-president;
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George B. Breen, secretary; Alfred MacConnach, treasurer; Byrne Warren, operations manager; John Kent, Ray Powers, Ethan Allen, John Miller, and Jay Meyers; this club meets in the ready room of Equinox Airport, where it has improved runways and painted the hangar roof; two members are commercial rated pilots, two are pri- vate pilots, and six are students.
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES, BATTENKILL VALLEY AERIE Organized October 1946 with its first installation at Burr and Bur- ton Seminary; first officers were Harry Mercier, Roy Jackson, Mer- rill Hale, Milton Brophy, and Albert Lorenzo; Lorenzo was presi- dent, Vermont Aerie, 1953; the Eagles' AUXILIARY was formed in 1951.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS The present lodge in Manchester is the fourth to be organized, all others being defunct; February 14, 1849 Thomas Manley, Cyrus A. Roberts, Robinson Andrus, H. K. Fowler, and J. C. Hill petitioned for a lodge at Fac- tory Point, which charter (Battenkill Lodge #15) was granted; in 1855, on action of Grand Master of Vermont, charter was suspend- ed "because of alarming and serious internal difficulty"; August 13, 1856 charter granted to Phoenix Lodge # 28 of Factory Point, and on February 15, 1864, Excelsior Encampment #4 of Phoenix Lodge opened with Dr. Ezra Edson in charge; charter surrendered in 1884 "a victim of its own disregard of constitutional require- ments"; for a time whole I.O.O.F. foundation wavered, as during the twenty-first annual session of Grand Lodge of Vermont held in Manchester August 28, 1867 "a majority of those present were in favor of a surrender of the charter and the dissolution of the Grand Lodge"; state order having asserted itself, a new group, Factory Point Lodge # 35 organized; successor to this lodge was Hope Lodge # 50, which in November 1905 bought a house and two lots at the Depot in order to erect its own hall; other branches of Hope Lodge are Bear Mountain Encampment # 29 and Excelsior Rebe- kah Lodge, which celebrated its fifty-sixth anniversary March 1950; Ladies' Encampment Auxiliary # 2 to the Bear Mountain Encamp- ment was formed in Manchester December 5, 1953, the second such auxiliary in Vermont; outstanding in Odd Fellows work both in
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Manchester and in Vermont was Lester H. Thompson (1888- 1948), who served as Grand Patriarch, Grand Representative, and Lt. Col. in the Department of Vermont, Patriarchs Militant, and who was also owner-publisher of a state-wide monthly newspaper, The Vermont Odd Fellow (1937-1948), which was sponsored by all three branches of the Grand Lodge.
BATTENKILL VALLEY GRANGE, PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY Existed in the early 1900s and met about 1905 in the Odd Fellows Hall; Worthy Master in its earliest years was Dr. John F. Page, Manchester veterinarian.
MT. EQUINOX GRANGE NO. 494 Organized June 14, 1930 at Odd Fellows Hall, Manchester Depot, with forty-three charter members, nineteen of whom are still in the organization; this is a fraternal group desirous of promoting better agriculture, better ed- ucation and community life, and higher ideals of manhood and citi- zenship; first officers were Benjamin Hill, Earl Taylor, Viola Wil- cox, Stannard Wilcox, Julius J. Hill, Mrs. Ernest Goyette, Mildred Taylor, Mrs. Jerome Hill, Mrs. S. J. Randall, Delia Wilcox, Ethel Gilmore, Clyde Bryant, and Jesse Hard; first meeting in Grange Hall, December 1, 1936; group has juvenile Grange program also.
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