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Newspaper
Acton Enterprise
Location
Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1937
Page
2
Property on Putter avenue transferred from Edward Gates to Jacob Laurila and Douglie avenue. Florida trips by local officials and social groups. church services and parish census noted. School staff changes, sports officials and club gatherings mentioned along with engagements, births, and upcoming cribs tourney plans among Maynard residents.
Palmer attends Tufts course as parish activities mark Triduum on March 5 7 at St Cass with St Iron anniversary. Mizpah meeting features Class of Methodist Band and Edwin Jr vocal solos. Raft Aid Society hosts at Mrs Wood home. St Hilda Women invite. Holy Communion at noon led by Rev Concord. Lenten services midweek by Rev Phil Thes East Boston. Whist party Saturday night. Rev Dickinson Miller to officiate Sunday at 10 46.
Sidra of Maynard Massachusetts seeks appointment as administratrix of Hjalmar Hytonen estate deceased in county. objectors must file appearance before ten o clock on the return day in 1987. Witness John Legg, First Judge, attests to this filing.
Rev. Mathew A. Vance announced a donor funded parsonage painting in memory of Georgiana Brown. Maynard Stow and Boxboro churches plan an Easter drama at Maynard on Easter Sunday and Monday. A Washington Birthday banquet is set for February 22 with Rev. Ralph Rouse presenting a moving picture lecture titled Camp Life on February 21.
The Glazier Priest lecture Climbing to the Spirit's Home will be March 7 at 8 pm in the Veterans' Building under Catholic Daughters and Knights of Columbus. Nicholas Cavalier will show motion pictures from last summer's trip. Hubbard, Santa Clara University geologist and Alaska explorer, logged 610 feet sounding in Twin Glazier Park during a 1936 expedition. He plans another Alaska expedition this summer. tickets from society members.
Maynard High School girls field hockey team surprised coach Ruth Bradley with a party in the show auditorium on Friday. Jeanette Thompson presented a thank you token to the coach for two years of tireless work as undefeated records and last fall’s untied season are noted. Football squad members attended as guests and dancing games and refreshments followed.
In Hungary villagers hold harvest season festivals with processions. Peasants carry rakes scythes and sickles adorned with ribbons and flowers. Men bear a harvest crown of grain decorated with pink and blue paper flowers. Grace Humphrey notes singing dancing and a goulash supper to close the day.
The concept explains how places and peoples bear names honoring key figures. Examples include Romulus behind Rome and Tros behind Troy, highlighting legendary origins and the tradition of eponymous naming.
The use of half-timber in houses grew popular in the late sixteenth century as a distinctive building style.
Johnson Pharmacy and The Rexall Drug Store offer a February free drawing for a 76 piece Martha Washington Luncheon Set. The prize includes 32 china pieces 18 glass items and 26 silverware pieces. Tickets are free to anyone over fifteen and the first winning number is posted in the drug store.
Charles Riesner, who directed Paramount's Murder Goes to College, was once a prize fighter with 37 straight wins. He lost the 38th bout to Jack Doyle in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and then left boxing to pursue a career in musical comedy.
Sun Valley Lodge at Ketchum Idaho serves as the backdrop for Claudette Colbert’s It Met Him in Paris. The Paramount location crew seeks sunbaths while lying on cakes of ice as part of the production at Sun Valley.
Mack Gray says acting won’t interfere with his duties for George Raft even after ten films including Interne's Can't Take Money. Henry Wilcoxon bought a third ranch near Hollywood totaling 666 acres and gave it to his wife Sheila Barrett. Fred MacMurray stars opposite Claudette Colbert in Maid of Salem and stands six feet three inches tall. Gary Cooper and Slim Talbot rode and roped in Montana before arriving in Hollywood for The Plainsman. Roscoe Karns in Paramount’s Clarence never keeps a director waiting as his makeup is off. Irene Dunne to sing Jerome Kern music in Paramount's High Wide and Handsome following Roberta.
Rev John Cummings spoke at the Odd Fellows hall event before more than 250 men and boys. He honored the Boy Movement founded in 1910 by Baden-Powell and Daniel Beard and praised the Scouts oath and laws as tools for character, noting indoor and outdoor activities and daily good turns. Mayors, clergy, and local officials attended, with remarks from Mayor Charles A Lyons and others as committees organized the program.
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