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The Amity Star
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF BETHANY AND WOODBRIDGE
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
GEORGE D. VAILL
Litchfield Turnpike, Bethany, Conn.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Full year - 52 issues - $4.75
6 months - 26 issues - 2.40
3 months - 13 issues - 1.20
Single copy - .10
Vol. 1, No. 3 Friday, December 15, 1950
Progress Report
The Editor's illness (see the front page for his own heartfelt vote of thanks to his friends and neighbors for their journalistic assistance in this emergency) will oblige us to send out this issue and the next two to all Boxholders, rather than limiting ourselves to paid subscribers. Under the circumstances it has been impossible to prepare a complete mailing list to date.
Unfortunately, at this time of year the heavy load on the post-office sometimes means that not every Boxholder receives every piece of mail addressed to him impersonally. Thus last week a few paid subscribers did not receive their copies. We can only hope that they will be so favored this time and that anyone who is passed by will bear with us until the Editor is back in harness.
Beginning with the issue of January 5, "The Amity Star" will be addressed to individual subscribers and subscriptions will start as of that date. Meantime, a copy of this issue will be mailed immediately to any subscriber who may be neglected by the harassed mail carriers. They are doing their best -- and so are we.
BETHANY PTA
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STATE SUPERINTENDENT ABELL SPEAKS
Mr. Charles Abell, who is the State superintendent for Bethany, Woodbridge, and several other towns, spoke on "The Curriculum of the Elementary School in Preparation for High School." Mr. Abell pointed out that smaller rural schools have a special problem in preparing their children to meet life and work in a large high school. Educators and citizens in many towns in this area are working in various ways to meet the many difficulties inherent in this problem
The 4 Leaf Clover Club held a Cake Sale during the evening and report great success.
The Second and Third Grade Rooms Won Prizes for Parent attendance.
Hostesses for the evening were Mrs. Henry Haversat, Mrs. William Ringenberg, and Mrs. David Black Jr.
TOWN MEETING
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approved and recommended by the Board of Finance.)
Signed:
Theodore R. Clark
Albert Greene
John J. Ryan
SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF WOODBRIDGE
CHRISTMAS PARTY
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Frank Mellason, both of which the children enjoyed immensely. One of the high points of the afternoon was the portrayal of Santa Claus by Mr. Robert M. Sayles.
Mrs. John Driscoll, Mrs. John C. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Henry Jacob, and Mrs. Joseph Creamer presided at the tea table and the Board of Directors were hostesses. The Board includes Mrs. Thomas Hughes, chairman, Mrs. James E. O'Neill, Mrs. Ronald Smith, Mrs. Lewis Beach, Mrs. Edward LaBrake, Mrs. Robert Ostrander, Mrs. Earnest Scherb and Mrs. John Ryan. Junior hostesses were the Misses Carol LaBrake, Willa Perkins, Ann Smith, Mary Lou Gordan, Joan Hatch and Katherine Sackett.
The party was enjoyed by over two hundred people and all felt that this first venture was a great success.
THE STAR REPORTER
Communications
To the Editor:
Congratulations! I have just finished reading the first issue of "The Amity Star" -- including the advertisements -- and hasten to extend to you my very best wishes for a long and prosperous life for this very much needed publication.
I am particularly interested in this publication since I am a native of Bethany although I have not been a resident for many years
-- still my roots are deeply planted in its grand old hills.
I do hope your venture will succeed and again congratulate you on this fine first issue. Long may it live!
Cora B. Hotchkiss (Woodbridge)
To the Editor:
You certainly are to be congratulated on your enterprise in providing Amity Road with its own newspaper and on the success of the first two issues.
As a newcomer, I have felt the lack of any regular and rliable means of finding out just what is going on in town. I have also felt the lack of adequate advance information on issues brought up at town meetings. "The Amity Star" can supply these needs.
The best of luck with the venture.
Edith Kerr (Bethany)
WOODBRIDGE NOTES
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Bergerson of Newton Road, returned Dec. 8th from a week in Williamsburg, Virginia. The two couples had also visited Virginia Beach, Gettysburg and Washington, D.C.
HISTORIAL SOCIETY MEETS
The annual meeting of the Amity and Woodbridge Historical Society was held on Wenesday, December 6, in the Woodbridge Clark Memorial Library. Mr. Carroll Means read from the business records of Lyman Manvel of Woodbridge, from 1823 to 1885. Mr. Manvel was an ancestor of the late Mrs. Newton Peck and a great grandfather of Mrs. George H. Eaton. Miss Joyce Lockyer delivered a paper on present-day farming in Woodbridge.
The following officers were elected:
President, Mrs George H. Eaton
Vice-President, Mrs. Clarence F. Baldwin
Secretary, Mrs. Harold Ingholt
Treasurer, M. John M. Morse
Miss Grace P. Fuller, Miss Cora B. Hotchkiss, and Mr. Carroll Alton Means were elected Directors for a term of three years, and Mr. Harold Ingholt wsa elected a Director for two years.
WOODBRIDGE P.T.A. HEARS SPEAKERS
A very successful meeeting of the Woodbridge P.T.A. was held in the school auditorium of the Center School on Thursday, Dec. 7. Miss Mary Fanning, Principal, discussed the 1949-50 reading program in Center School, and Dr. Laverne Strong, a consultant of the staff of the Connecticut Board of Education, spoke on individual differences in reading. There was a large attendance, and much interest was shown in the subject of the talks.
RESIDENTS PLAN VARIED CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES
Chruch and social organizations in the Woodbridge area have completed plans for Christmas Holiday activities, renaging from carol singing to repairing toys for hospitalized children.
On Sunday, December 17, starting at 8:00 PM, a group of carolers from the Young Peoples Group of the First Church of Christ, Congregational, will sing to shut-ins at various Woodbridge homes. The singers are under the direction of the Reverend Mr. Francis Randall and
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BROOKSIDE FARM
Vito Luciani Amity Road, Woodbridge
Broadbreast Turkeys and Chickens
Turkeys under 20lb. 69¢ lb.
20-25 lb. 65¢ lb.
over 25 lb. 59¢ lb.
Capons 65¢ lb.
Broilers 49¢ lb.
(New York dressed weight)
Place Your Christmas Order Now
Telephone 3-2181
2 FREE PARKING LOTS -- LUXURIOUS COMFORT
TO-DAY AT THE WESTVILLE
YEAR ROUND AIR CONDITIONING -- DIAL 3-0101
TODAY AND SAT....
Joan CRAWFORD
Wendell COREY
HARRIET CRAIG
- 2nd Big Hit -
Mark STEVENS
Edmond O'BRIEN
"BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN"
SUN. * "BREAKTHROUGH" & "ADMIRAL WAS A LADY"
Telephone 3-0842
Harriet Mulhern Davies
Marian Mulhern Albrecht
Style Beauty Salon
SPECIALIZING
PERMANENT WAVES -- COLD WAVES
HAIR STYLING
22 FOUNTAIN ST. NEW HAVEN, CONN.
Everything
in Wines and Liquors
COZZOLINO'S PACKAGE STORE, Inc.
Phone 3-0440 845 WHALLEY ST.
Daily Delivery to Woodbridge & Bethany
BUY A CASE & SAVE
886 Whalley Ave. Tel. 3-4857
RUDY'S SHOE SERVICE
Hats Cleaned & Blocked
Zipper and Luggage Service
SACHS DEPT. STORE
906 WHALLEY AVENUE
Complete line of toys, gifts, and decorations for Christmas
Telephone 3-2625
WHY use or buy a VACUUM CLEANER?
when you can have a Rexair
Rexair traps all dust in water, does every cleaning job in your home, even washes floors
Buy NOW and avoid price increases
For free demonstration, call Miss Marion Davidson
Bethany, 3-1809
924 Whalley Ave. VILLAGE PACKAGE STORE Phone 3-4883
We have a complete line of choice Wines & Liquors
Call us for suggestions.
DAVE & BILL'S, Inc. DELICATESSEN
Let us plan your Christmas and New Year's Parties
-- we will make all kinds of sandwiches --
Roast Beef -- Turkkey -- Corned Beef -- Pastrami -- Salami
Tuna fish -- etc.
We make a specialty of HOME-MADE SALADS
Potato -- Cole Slaw -- Macaroni
Deliveries will also be made on Christmas & New Year's day
Baldwin Greening
by bushels and half-bushels
APPLES
weekdays at Woodbridge Orchards
Newton Road
Woodbridge Conn.
McIntosh Delicious