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August 1950

August 2, 1950

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Blandford Club, Everett Collins, John Laming, Julius Appleton, Philip Sweeney, Mrs. Francis Buresh, Mrs. Daniel Geary, Mrs. Elliott Brown, Mrs. William Haskell, Mrs. Munroe Haight, Arlyn Wyman, Lee Wyman, Birch Hill Road, Marc McConnell, Philip Wyman, Brenda Wyman, Rayma Wyman, Bill Hall, Merrilyn Mason, Diorah Shepard, Sigrid Winquist, Joan Ripley, Sonja Anderson, Bruce Wyman, Walter Bourassa, Percy Rhicard, Gerald Rhicard, James Roark, 4-H Canning Club, Mrs. Horace Coash, Darlene Smith, Beverly Trow, Marilyn Webber, Mary Sweeney, Frank Cram, Harry Cram

August 3, 1950

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Old Home Day, North Blandford, Mrs. Howard Waite, Madeline Waite, Judith Bagg, Mary Ann Geary, Main Street, Roy Sheffer, Dr. Frank Higgins,
​Dr. Conwell Higgins, Daniel Burritt, Lawrence Wyman, Ronald Wyman, 

August 4, 1950

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Rev. A. Joel Scott, Second Congregational Church, First Congregational Church, Grange, Robinson Park, Hill Toppers Fairgrounds, Mrs. Ira Bates
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Gloria Bonci, Bruno Bonci, Raymond Adrian Bailleul
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Sperry Road, Robert W. Bailleul, Carter Knitting Co., Powers Paper

August 7, 1950

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Blandford Country Club, James Seaman, Mrs. Frank S. Vanderbrouk, Mrs. Frank Buresh, Mrs. S. Everett Cook, Mrs. Horace Quimby, Mrs. Constance Southworth, Mrs. Carleton Macy

August 9, 1950

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Old Home Day, Burden Bearer Circle of King's Daughters, North Blandford, Madeline Waite, Adeline Mecum, Blanche Mecum, Ladies Benevolent Society, First Congregational Church, Mrs. John A. Peebles, Mrs. Harold Wyman, Mrs. Ralph Warfield, Mrs. Vernon Merchant, Gloria Bonci, Raymond Bailleul, Sperry Road, Marjorie Bailleul, Gino Bonci, Harold Sherman, Daisy Karr, Rev. Lee Beynon, Jr., Barbara Beynon, Bronwyn Beynon, Mrs. Francis Buresh, Otis Road, Mrs. Arthur Shepard, Craig Shepard, Karen Shepard, Elizabeth Peebles, Sandra Aleen, Edwin Donnelly, Patsy Donnelly, 

August 10, 1950

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First Congregational Church, Louise Lane Memorial Fund, Prof. A. B. Anderson, Blandford Choral Club, Blandford Club, North Street, Seaman's Barn, Mrs. James Seaman, Mrs. S. Everett Cook, Mrs. Horace Quimby, Mrs. Constance Southworth, Mrs. Carleton Macy, Darlene Smith, Main Street, Darwin Stanhope, Mrs. Charles Ackley, Lottie Eagan

August 11, 1950

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Firemen, Fire Station, Rev. A. Joel Scott, Second Congregational Church, North Blandford, First Congregational Church, Mrs. John A. Peebles, Grange

August 12, 1950

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Blandford Fair, Union Agricultural and Horticultural Society, Gymkhana

August 13, 1950

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Blandford Country Club, Seaman's Recreational Barn, Mrs. Kenneth Pierce, Beech Hill, Laurence Ripley, Edmund Nye, Grace N. Bush, Gran-Vu Inn, Main Street, T. P. Judd, North Blandford, Donald Shepard, Erwin Shepard, Sally Bodurtha, Forest Huff, Duane Wyman, 4-H
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Gloria Edith Bonci, Bruno Bonci, Sperry Road, Raymond Adrian Bailleul, Rev. Edward McGuire, Gino Bonci, 

August 14, 1950

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North Blandford, Old Home Day, Rachel Hill, Helen Kupec, Burden Bearers Circle of King's Daughters, Jenny (Babb) Higgins, Ira Higgins, Westfield Beagle Club, School Building Survey Committee, Paul Johnson, Lee Wyman, Birch Hill Road, William Blanchard, 4-H Canning Club, Mrs. Horace Coash, Irwin Anderson
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Mrs. Robert Mason

August 15, 1950

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Blandford Club, Merritt Taylor, Birch Hill, J. P. Mahoney, Arthur Doame, Albert Spencer, Harry Wyman, Russell Road, Jackie Lathrop, Laurel Hill Farm, 4-H, John Morini, Robert Mason, Woronoco Road, Mrs. Irwin Anderson, Mrs. E. A. Bettinger

August 16, 1950

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Jo Capilli, North Street, John Iurato, Diana Davidson, David Ripley, Russell Road, Mrs. James Petri, Mrs. Fred Hart, Dana Webber, Philip Arcouette, Robert Arcouette, Jacqueline Arcouette, Peggy Girard, Sonja Anderson, Carol Anderson, Birch Hill Road, Peter McConnell, John McConnell, Rev. Irving Childs, Kaolin Road, First Congregational Church, Second Congregational Church, Hank Lane, North Street, Holbrook Campbell, Jasper Campbell, Allen Campbell, William Haskell, Mrs. Harry Bush, Mrs. Eugene Lefferts, 
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Blandford Country Club, Mrs. Donald Snow, Sunset Rock, Mrs. Daniel Geary, Mrs. Elliott Brown, Mrs. William E. Haskell, Mrs. Munroe Haight

August 17, 1950

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Nick and Nack, Vernon Bodurtha
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Westfield Beagle Club, Ernest Wyman, Lee Wyman, Harold Webb, Elwin Wyman

August 18, 1950

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Rev. Frank Higgins, North Blandford, Jenny Babb Higgins, Ira Higgins, Rev. A. Joel Scott, Second Congregational Church, First Congregational Church, Hilltoppers

August 20, 1950

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Winfield Healy, Old Home Day, North Blandford, Mrs. Howard Waite, Mrs. Frank Gibbs, Dennison Morey, T. P. Judd
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George Millard, Arthur Burleigh, Rev. A. Joel Scott, Blanche Mecum, Harold Gibbs, Lula Brackett, Eleanor Higgins, Jenny Higgins, Laura Broga Allen, Nina Tuttle, Willis Johnson, Joyce Mallette, June Mallette, Norman Lloyd, Rachel Hill, Helen Kupec, Marion Aschenbach, Danny Green, Amos Lewis, Burden Bearers Circle of Kings Daughters

August 21, 1950

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Rev. A. J. Scott, Mrs. Howard Waite, Arthur Burleigh
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August 22, 1950

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Boy Scout Camp, Lloyd Gilmore, Francis de St. Guay, Archie Mallette, June Mallette, Joyce Mallette, Howard Waite, North Blandford, Old Home Day, Henry Lloyd, Norman Lloyd, Hulda Thompson, Ethel Hammersly, Burton Lloyd, William Heiden, Mary Ellen Hammersly, Donald K. Billings, Kenneth Billings, Russell Road

August 23, 1950

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Nancy Richmond, Woronoco Road, Leah Palmer, Alvin Thompson, Noble Hospital, Eleanor Anderson, Robert Binder, Glasgow Road, Robert Speare, Fred C. Knittel, Falls Road

August 25, 1950

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Blandford Fair, Union Agricultural and Horticultural Society, Westfield Riding Club, 4-H, Blanche Marceau, Westfield Legion Band
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First Congregational Church, Louise Lane Memorial Fund, Prof. A. B. Anderson, Blandford Choral Club, Rev. A. Joel Scott, Second Congregational Church, First Congregational Church, Mary Douglas McBratney, Albert Shaw, North Street, Mott Garlock, Sven Anderson, Sr., Russell Road, Mrs. Byron Richards, Woronoco Road, Noble Hospital, Marc McConnell, Timothy Davidson, Amie Tatro, Kenneth Palmer, Herbert Palmer, Mrs. William Spindler, Philip Robinson, Main Street

August 26, 1950

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Blandford Fair
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August 27, 1950

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Schools, Dana O. Webber, Blandford Consolidated School, Marguerite Hall, Ethel Anderson, Thelma Warfield, Helen Wallis, Edna Hart, Parent Teachers Union, Joseph Dubian, Main Street, Grange, Doris Peebles, Blandford Fox Club, Deane Building
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Blandford Club, Mrs. Francis Buresh, Otis Road, Mrs. Carleton Macy, Mrs. James Seaman, Mrs. Constant Southworth

August 28, 1950

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4-H Poultry Club, Hampden County Improvement League, Sven Anderson, Jr., First Congregational Church, Rev. A. Joel Scott, Irwin Anderson, Raymond Blair, Virginia Moore, Millard Moore, North Street, Rachel Blair, Philip Robbins, Sumner Robbins, Mrs. A. N. Kelly, Beagle Club, John Fellows, William Smith, Ernest Wyman, Luna Cooley, Elmer Hart, Glenn Hart, William Hall, Billy Hall, Sven Anderson, Jr., Lynn Anderson, Sonja Anderson, Carol Anderson, Elwin Wyman, Brenda Wyman, Rayma Wyman, Donna Wyman

August 29, 1950

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Walter Goss, Main Street, Raymond Chouffet, Eleanor Anderson, First Congregational Church, Gordon Cady, Falls Road, Fred Bloniaz, Cottage, Lester Lloyd, Shepard Road

August 30, 1950

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Pomona Grange, Mrs. Horace Coash
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Mrs. Francis Buresh, Blandford Club, Mrs. Donald Snow, Otis Road, Mrs. S. Everett Cook, Mrs. Kenneth Pierce, Mrs. Sven Anderson, Jr., Mrs. Carleton Macy, Mrs. Daniel Geary, Mrs. William Haskell, Mrs. Munroe Haight, Mrs. Elliott Brown

August 31, 1950

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Blandford Country Club, John Burbank, Ralph Fowler, Jasper Campbell, Amie Tatro, Kenneth Palmer, Richard Barden, Russell Road, Noble Hospital, Cecil Duval, Jesse Barden, Otis Road, Fred Goeway
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Fox Club, C. W. Bates, Birch Hill Road, Deane Hall, Henry R. Haley, W. W. Clark, C. R. Ripley, James Root, John W. Peebles, Ira Bates, Elwin Wyman, David Ripley, F. H. Robinson, E. R. Nye, J. E. Viets, Fred Lee, Charles Ferris, Francis Leahey, L. F. Ripley, Herbert Hart, David Ripley, 
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        • Names and Grave Locations Old Burying Ground
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      • Edna (Wyman) Hart Stories >
        • My Memoirs
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      • Doris W. Hayden >
        • I Remember
        • The Ashmuns of Blandford
        • Believe It Or Not
        • Blandford Postmasters
        • The Reverend Cushing Eells
        • Harvesting Ice
        • Hayden Pond
        • Kaolin Road in Blandford
        • Local Picture Writings
        • Mrs. Josephine Porter
        • Sunset Rock
        • How It Was Done
        • Weaving
        • Mari C. Gibbs
        • Obituary For A Law Office
        • Outlying Blandford Burial Places
        • Don't Wake Up Elizabeth
        • Hastings Family Reminiscences
        • Lucelia Cook's Diary
        • Union Agricultural Society Beginnings
        • Woman Ahead Of Her Time?
        • Blandford Baptist Church
      • Wallace R. Heady
      • Charles Taggart
      • Louise Mason >
        • The Huckleberry Trolley
      • Joe Mullens
      • Esther (Hart) Ripley
      • Harold Ripley >
        • Blandford Fair Memories
        • Moving Day
        • Two Of Us Are Left
      • Percy Wyman Stories >
        • A Day In The Life Of A Boy
        • The Kaolin Mine
        • Mrs. Josephine Sheffield Porter
        • Percy Wyman's Younger Life
        • Shoeing Cattle
        • Breezy Hill Farm
        • North Blandford
        • Building A Stone Wall
        • Going To The Grist Mill
        • Chestnut Trees
        • Evening Star Of Life
        • Bygone Fourths
        • Troubles With Overland 83B
      • Blandford Monthly >
        • Harriet Maria Hinsdale
        • Old Meeting House Marker
      • Madeline Waite >
        • North Blandford's Older Industries
      • Harry Waite >
        • Good Old Days In North Blandford
      • Irene Merrill Mason >
        • 1829 Turnpike and Gatehouse
      • Robert F. Wood >
        • Reverend Sumner Gilbert Wood
      • Sumner G. Wood >
        • Fifty Years Ago
        • How Blandford Viewed The Railroad
      • Elsie Gibbs Hill >
        • Frank Nelson Gibbs
      • Springfield Republican >
        • The Mountain House
        • Blandford Hunt and Banquet
        • Dr. Wallace H. Deane
      • Barbara McCorkindale >
        • Irreverent Look At Our Forebears
        • Blandford's Lost Gold Mine
        • Springfield Ski Club
      • The Blandford Girls
      • Rev. Frank A. Higgins >
        • Basketry In Blandford
      • Susan B. Tiffany >
        • Quilting
      • Clarence Bates >
        • Tanning
      • Barbara Brainerd >
        • A Town's Special Treasure
      • Duane Wyman >
        • Blandford Cemeteries - A History of Time
      • Betsy (Cross) Brooks >
        • J. J. Cross
        • Cobble Mountain, The End Of An Era
      • Dr. Howard Gibbs >
        • A Visit To Aunt Hannah
        • Deacon's Son and Parson's Daughter
      • Henry B. Russell >
        • More Blandford Notes
      • Plumb Brown >
        • Cheese Making
      • Natalie Birrell >
        • Gerald Wise
      • Lorinda Loomis Gibbs >
        • White Church at North Blandford
      • Gordon C. Rowley >
        • Musical Instruments 1st Cong Church
      • Hannah Gibbs Diary
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    • 1865 Civil War Diary of Daniel Ware
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