Northside Notes

MRS. BARBARA L. WILLIAMS Cofttif wdenl BIRTHDAY 7ELEBRATED The home of Mary Mandell in Barnstable was gay with laughter Sunday as granddaughter Sarah Lennon cele -ated her eighth birthday surrounded by her sisters and brothers and her friends, Susan Stacey and, Oretchen Ehret. Birthday fare and games were enjoyed by the group. Sarah is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lennon. The Lennons re making their home with Mrs. Mandell at the present time, ai she is having an addition nudi to her home overlooking Cogg.n^ Pond with a gorgeous view, ind when the weather is clear, a glimpse of the canal bridge.

WEST PARISH GUILD TO MEET FEB. 6 The Women's Guild of West Parish Guild wi. meet at 7:30 p.m. in the parish house Feb. 6 to hear Mrs. Fn Jerick Boschner review "Open Marriage" with a discussion period following. There will be a display f books relating to women with a nments by Mrs. Fred J. Church. Further disc ission of the subject is planned for the guild's March meeti g, a panel discussion titlei Behold The Women. February hostesses Mrs. Arthur Bryant and to s. Henry A. Gilman will serve light refreshments du"ng the social hour preceding dcvotionals led by Mrs. J. Frederick Carlson and the business mcitirg presided over by President Mrs. Walter C Schafer.

SOCIAL SEMINARS CONTINUE TUTIXSDAY The series of seminars on Social Problems of Cape Cod which began Feb. 1 at the Unitarian Church continues Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. with Jeffrey Lowery, director of the Cape Cod Alcoholism Clinic, discussing Alcoholism on the Cape. Moderator for the series sponsored by 'he adult education and social concerns committee is John F. Muknhy Jr., who also serves as chairman. Other members of the committees are Robert DeCelle, Mr. and Mrs. Emerson F. McSeley, Mrs. Harriet Hall, Mrs. Judith Barnet, Miss Nancy L. Reider, Louis J. Jacobucci, Mrs. Susan Brinckerhoff, Mrs. Louise Lavigniac and Mrs. Jo Ann Kelley.

GRUBS MEE " FEB. 8 Georgia F-rguson will be hostess for the Garden Grubs of Barnstable on Feb. 8 when members will hear Donald Schall of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History speak on Wildflowers and their Conservation.

REMINDER: CANDIDATE! NIGHT Try to make it Feb. 2 for a Northside Candidates' Night at the elemental school starting at 8 p.m. Questions will be answered from the floor by those seeking office.

LECTURE SPONSORED BY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Friends of Barnstable Historical Society are invited to a lecture starting at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2 at Sturgis Library when Cynthia Hagar Krusell will talk on Indian and Pilgrim Trails of the Old Colony. The speaker is an 11th generation descendant of the Pilgrims.

WEST PARISH CHURCH Holy Comi/iunion will be celebrated at the 10 a.m. worship service of VWst Parish Church Feb. 4. That evening at 6, a supper and workshop for officers and committer members of the church and parish are planned. There will be a reception of new members at the morning service on Sunday. On Saturday and Sunday, West Parish will host a conference of United Church of Christ. On the 9th at 7 p.m., the West Parish Youth Fellowship will sponsor a public square dance in the parish hall.

FOR SALE According to a sign recently erected 12.1 acres of the Warren Ryder property on the south side of Route 6A in Cummaquid are for sale.

STUDENTS WELCOME AT LIBRARIES Both Whelden Memorial Library in West Barnstable and Sturgis Library in Barnstable have extended a welcome to serious students to do either studying, research or reading at the libraries evenings. Whelden is open from 7 to 9 Mondays and Wednesdays and Sturgis has hours from 7 to 9 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

STURGIS ADDS SATURDAY HOURS Sturgis Library now has additional hours on Saturdays with the library open from 9 to 12 as well as 2 to 5 in the afternoon. This is for the further convenience of children, parents, teachers, genealogists, weekenders and others who can pick up their morning mail and drop by the library in one trip. Mrs. Alice Douglas, librarian, will be hostess to the Pooh's Corner Nursery Feb. 5 at a story hour at Sturgis. Barnstable Woman's Club enjoyed the program of films there last Thursday when its gift, a projector, was used. Displays and a program on the Ashanti, an African tribe, will be the subject of a February presentation by Janice Crocker of Orleans. Mrs. Douglas noted that during 1972, Sturgis had the benefit of 1600 hours of volunteer workers' time at the library, and this did not count the many more hours spent at home by these helpers.

OPEN HOUSE FOR GEORGIANNA JONES Friends, neighbors, relatives and villagers are invited to say Happy Birthday to Miss Georgianna J. Jones Feb. 4 on the occasion of her 90th birthday. Host and hostess at the open house to be held that day from 2 to 4 in ' the afternoon in her honor will be Mary and Otis Ellis, whose home is on Main Street in Barnstable.

RESCUE NOTES On Jan. 20, Barnstable Rescue Squad took Mrs. Wilton Marshall to Cape Cod Hospital as well as Mrs. Roger Hodgson of Bayberry Lane. Northside rescue teams went to the scene of an accident at Route 149 and Route 6 overpass in West Barnstable when on Jan. 26 Ita O'Neil of New Bedford suffered facial cuts and needed transportation to the hospital. The Barnstable .'ire Department gave standby mutual aid on the 20th for Hyannis during a fire at a house behind Klun's Bootery on Main Street, Hyannis.

Louise Patrick had a narrow escape Tuesday midday when as she was turning into her Cummaquid driveway, she was hit broadside by another vehicle. Barnstable Rescue Squad tool her to Cape Cod Hospital where she was treated for bruises. Barnstable Fire Department was on the scene for any necessary washdown etc.

GET YOdR TICKETS FOR HAM AND BEAN SUPPER BY FIREMEN The third annual ham and bean supper sponsored by Barnstable Fire Department is slated for Feb. 10 with continuous servings from 5 to 7. Tickets at $2 for adults and $1 for children under 12 are available c rom firemen.

UNITARIAN CHURCH The Rev. Kenneth R. Warren has selected Alien, There Is None as the title of his sermon for the 10:30 a.m. service of the Unitarian Church Feb. 4. Ushers will be Richard P. Sawyer and Richard M. Negus, with Mr. and Mrs. R. Eldred Boschert as host and hostess for the fellowship hour following the service.

LUTHERAN CHURCH Services at First Lutheran Church Feb. 4 will be at 8, 9 and 11 with Holy Communion at 8, and the Rev. Gordon Nelson will baptize Christopher Robert Piste), son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pistel of South Harwich, during the 11 o'clock service. Church council meets Feb. 8 at 7:30. Th-t morning at 10, the service-sewing project group meets, and the ninth grade confirmands meet on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. The LCW will have a meeting Feb. 6 at 7:30 p.m. when Nettie Johnson, Elsie DeLane and Nancy Titcomb will make t> presentation based on the theme Ecology.

FINDS CANADIAN RESEARCH BOTTLE The Great Marshes gave up a treasure Monday for 14Vi yearold Philip Bunting, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Bunting of 6A, West Barnstable Walking along the marshes below Watergate West, the Barnstable Middle School student discovered a research bottle from the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. Inside vas a card asking for the return of the bottle to the biological station at St. Andrews, New Brunswick. This Philip has done, and perhaps someday he'll find out exactly what the station was researching when it sent the bottles to sea.

PROPERTY TRANSFERS Albert and Judy Minucci of Cummaquid report that two young people have recently moved in the area. Kenneth Singmaster bought the former Bossi property on Keveney Lane in Cummaquid. He is a member of Cape Cod Art Association and an artist of note who has a oneman show of his work in Philadelphia. He has relocated ftom Sandwich. In addition, Steve Adams, nephew of novelist Kurt Vonnegut, bought the former Wiinikainen property on Maple Street, West Barnstable. He had lived in Barnstable Village.

FRANK NORTON SEEKS STATE GOP POST Francis C. Norton of Cummaquid has announced that he is a candidate for GOP state committeeman from the Cape-Plymouth-Islands District. Norton, chairman of Barnstable Town Republican Committer.rom 1966 to 1970, servei.' as administrative assistant to former State CommiUeewoman Esther Tsiknas of Falmouth. He has been active in GOP ffairs for several years and is a member of the Massachusetts JOP Club and Middlesex Club >f Boston. He also serves on the advisory bo.-.rd of Cape Cod Community Collene and is a member-at-large of Hobart College Alumni Association.

SIRENS TO MEET The Sirens, women's auxiliary for Barnstable Fire Department, will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 5 at the Ban,stable Fire Station. On the agenda is further discussion of the dance, uniforms and the Feb. 10 ham and bean supper.

COMMENTS We have no way of knowing whether those trucks carrying boulders to the shore at Bone Hill in the area of Cape Cod Village are over-loaded or not, but they certainlv ate some of the biggest chunks of rock we've seen in some. time.

ST. MARY'S CHURCH Holy Communion will be celebrated it 7:30 a.m. in St. Mary's Church, Barnstable, ' on Feb. 4. At 9 a.m. the service will be morning prayer, with a sermon by the Rev. George T. Cobbett, rector. Following the 9 o'clock service, church school classes and an adult class meet. The speaker at the adult class will be Mm David M. Lillvis, a second-year student at the Episcopal Theological School. At the 11 a.m. service of Holy Communion, the sermop will be delivered by the Rev. T. Dewey Schwartzenburg, curate. Holy Communion will also be celebrated on Wednesday at 10 a.m.