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Newspaper
Acton Enterprise
Location
Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1932
Page
6
Judge Gordon cites colonel Goodbody’s housekeeper advice on selecting vegetables. The guide lists green corn green beans green lima beans green peas tomatoes green peppers eggplant and summer squash with criteria for freshness color firmness and shape to ensure quality.
An upswing in orders boosts the Chelsea shoe industry with over 2300 workers back full time. Plants expand as Florence Rite C increases shifts to 750. New England factories stay busy per Bradstreet data as Wall Street staff are recalled and the building trade stabilizes nationwide.
Officials advocate using funds from Reconstruction Finance Corp to begin postponed public works. Northeastern Section engineer Barrows notes low rates make projects cheaper now and provide work for unemployed. Readiness hinges on municipalities borrowing. claimed total project value exceeds 23 million with sewerage and other items among the listed works.
Therone F Newton turns 85 with an anniversary note for Thursday August 4. He was seen downtown making his regular rounds in the business district, appearing younger in spirit than his age. George Wood the Universalist pastor attends a weeklong minister conference at Ferry Beach Maine. church services resume September 11.
Funeral services for George Allen Smith held at Congregational church on Friday August 5 in South Acton. He born April 24 1866 Westford Mass son of Allen Griffin and Georgiana Robbins Smith survived by wife Alma Wilson Forbush and daughter Eva Smith Sweet. Burial at Woodlawn Cemetery with Acton Lodge 100 F officers in attendance.
John Labaree, English and French teacher at Sudbury Center School, resigns from the Sudbury staff to join North Attleboro schools. A Sudbury High School graduate of 1925, he completed Wesleyan College in 1929 and has taught at the Center School since 1981. His year’s work was highly regarded.
Haverhill P Y M A defeated Maynard 4 to 2 at Crowe Park as a seventh inning rainstorm ended the game after Wysoki homered for the visitors. Key plays saw Akstin, Wysoki, Rurack and Gorski contributing for Haverhill while Pozarycki and Kulevich produced for St Casmir's. Time 1 hour 15 minutes with King and Penniman umpires.
Edwin Carlton Jr qualified for the finals of the Maynard Country Club golf championship tourney. Edward Coughlin and Noble Morton are set for a match to decide who will face Carlton next Sunday in the final for the championship. Carlton shot 73 this week and the annual 18 hole medal handicap runs August 26 27 under the Massachusetts Golf Association at Maynard Country Club.
Employment in Chelsea’s shoe industry nears normal levels with about 2300 workers of the 46,000 population employed in shoe factories. In the past month 300 workers returned to full time work, and several factories have expanded their facilities as fall orders drive activity. Industry manufacturers include local firms absorbing increased demand.
Walter Crotty of North Medford Club captured the ten mile event at the Boston Caledonian club games in Roxbury with a 57 41 25 time. The 19 year old farmer’s son led from the gun, beating a field including Kelley Zamperilli Rawson and Ray under a broiling sun.
Ely Malmi 44 of Maynard died Wednesday morning at the State sanatorium in Walthem. Born in Finland he had lived here about 30 years and worked in the carding department of the Assabet Mill. Survived by wife Helma and two sons Albert and Edwin, plus brothers John and Henry. Funeral Friday at WA Twombly parlors conducted by Rev. Jacob Rinta with burial in Glenwood cemetery.
Dialog shows Sambo and Rastus speaking in dialect about worms in apples. The fragment hints at a larger rustic joke or warning. No clear event, person, place, or date is identifiable.
Lauri Lehtinen winner of the 100 meter race at the Olympics will appear with the Finnish Olympic team in Maynard for an exhibition and reception on August 21. Other team members include Larva, Ville, Porhola, Sjostedt, Reinikka, Pentilla, and a teammate. they will participate in a Worcester Field Day on August 20 before a gymnastics exhibition at Colonial Hall. Local sponsors include Karl Hill, Jacob Laurilla, John Nokelainen, and George Luosalo.
Maynard Council and Marlboro Council K of C golf teams meet for the second annual tourney round at Marlboro Country Club this afternoon. Maynard won the opener at Maynard Country Club two weeks ago. James B Farrell P H Murphy and Frank Sheridan organized the Maynard squad of thirty players with several new members joining Marlboro. A supper will follow.
Maynard notes James Sexton of Orange visiting relatives during the week. Edward White resumes duty as mail carrier after a vacation. The blueberry crop fails in the area as swamp picking yields disappointments. Joe King and Ed Die White doubt a pie worthy harvest and predict no blueberries this year.
The Maynard Grange held the first of four whist and bridge parties Thursday night with a committee of Charles Shattuck Mrs Annie Floyde and Mrs Margaret Hird. The second event is scheduled for tonight at the Grange hall. In bridge Charles F McCarthy of Marlboro won most honors and Mrs Fay of Marlboro won grand slams. Other prize recipients included Mrs Lillian White Janet Carlton Clara Belle Warren Mrs Alice B Howe Mrs George Laubenstein Marion Cleary Ruth White Mrs Mary Powers Mrs Eva Smith and Miss Genevieve Cleary. In whist prizes went to Mrs Morence Randall Martha Walsh Mrs Mc Mann and others including Mrs Marion Whitney Mary McCarthy George Ernest E Johnson and Leo Whitney.
Boston August hearing in Suffolk County Superior Court reveals Mrs Frances McKnight borrowed 106000 from Medford Trust to play the stock market. She testifies that she determined stock trades, offered gilt edged securities as collateral, and acknowledges lack of current assets to repay.
Professor Ralph Cheney of New York City visited his parents Mr and Mrs Levi Cheney on Brooks Street. Hartwell Flood shot 73 in a foursome at Maynard Country Club, a course record. Miss Leona Howard returned home from a Providence vacation with sister Mrs Ly nna Aldrich. Sidney Scott of Overbrook Pa visited friends here during the week.
Funeral services for John Paananen 28 of Marlboro Toad were held Friday at his home. Rev Jacob Rinta led the Finnish Congregational church service with many attendees. Interment followed at Glenwood cemetery amidst floral tributes from neighbors and friends.
Berlin Town defeated the Hudson All-Stars 6 to 1 on Monday night at Sawyer's Field. Dunfield pitched for Berlin, limiting Hudson to six scattered hits and delivering a strong performance.
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