Here’s some old news from the Andover, East Andover, West Andover, Potter Place, and Cilleyville “gossip” columns of the Franklin Journal Transcript, selected by Heather Makechnie.
December 5, 1963
The new Ragged Mountain Corporation has started trail and slope construction and expects to be in operation for 1964 Fall foliage season. Richard S. Guild, Corporation President, reports that plans call for a 4,200-foot double chair lift and a 2,000-foot T-Bar. An attractive base lodge will be started in the Spring.
Gift suggestion: Flameless Clothes Drying! Give her an automatic clothes dryer. An electric clothes dryer saves her work … there’s no heavy lifting or carrying, forget about the weather. And clothes dry cleaner, softer, fluffier. (Public Service Company of New Hampshire)
December 12, 1963
King Lion John Jurta and Secretary/Treasurer Amos Johnson attended a Zone Meeting in Claremont recently. In the past, the Andover Lions have donated holiday packages to shut-ins in the Tucker Home and White Maple Rest Home (formerly known as the Penna Home). Their project this year is to get citizens to donate their eyes to the Eye Bank. All members of the Club agree that this is a worthwhile project.
The guest speaker at the Andover Lions Club this week, Lyle Farrell, headmaster of Proctor Academy, spoke on the relationship between Proctor and the town of Andover. The total income for this year’s budget is $461,425. The total expenses will be $459,372. The salaries of the teachers in 1963 will be over $120,000, and the staff and administration salary will be over $120,000. This means there is a payroll in Andover of about a quarter of a million dollars a year, much of which is spent in Andover. The school employs 74 people, and of these about 33 pay taxes in Andover. The school has recently accepted the offer of the 300-acre John P. Carr estate (which will double the campus size).
Congratulations go to Mr. and Mrs. James Lockwood of Flaghole Road on the birth of a daughter.
December 19, 1963
Miss Barbara Jewett enrolled at Wilfred Academy School in Boston, where she will learn hair styling.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Beaupre on the birth of a son.
Funeral services held for Mrs. Maria A. Chase, 84, daughter of Frederick and Emma Warren Smith, who died in Boscawen Sunday after a short illness. She was the widow of Frederick P. Chase and assumed his duties as Town Clerk, serving in this capacity for 23 years! She leaves, among others, a daughter, Mrs. Florence C. Shute.
Mrs. Myrtie A. George died Monday, after a short illness. She was born April 25, 1879 in Franklin, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, and had resided in Andover for 17 years. She was a member of the Unitarian Church and Blackwater Grange. She had been a cook for a number of years at Camp Wayawee in Maine, and at the TKE fraternity at UNH. Members of the family include, among others, William D. George and Mrs. Ernest Whedon, both of Andover.
December 26, 1963
Randy Downs and Penny Miller have the measles.
Leo Guptill is training his racehorses for ice racing.
Lauren, Twila, and Steele Henderson were seen on the WMUR Uncle Gus Show on Friday evening.