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Newspaper
Acton Enterprise
Location
Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1934
Page
8
A heavy 15 inch snowstorm accompanied by strong gales swept New England today paralyzing rail and ocean traffic for 24 hours. The storm caused ten deaths and hindered transport before traffic began to return to normal later.
Francis Vigneau alias Colorado Ben confessed to killing Victoria David aged 14 in a South end lot on Saturday night saying he didn’t mean to. The report is filed from Worcester dated February 21.
Maynard High announces 1934 baseball and football schedules with Middlesex league foes Belmont Concord Winchester Stoneham Lexington Reading and Midland league teams Marlboro Hudson Clinton The football slate includes a Waltham game and a series of road and home matchups from April through November.
At a reception for about two hundred Concord society members and out of town friends, Dr. and Mrs. Rossick Whiton announce the engagement of their daughter Frances Whiton to Warren Hindekoper Mumford. Frances is a Smith College graduate and Childrens Aid staffer. Warren is a Lehigh College mechanical engineer.
Members of the U S Society of the Baptist Church plan to attend the Washburn Union Annual Meeting in Berlin on Thursday Feb 27. The session opens at 3 pm with registration. Alexander Hi L Ross will lead the conference the annual business meeting follows at 4 pm with reports and officer elections. Social time at 5 30 pm fellowship supper at 6 pm and evening service at 7 pm with Rev Clyde Robbens of Westborn as speaker on Playing the Game. Cars leave the vocal church at 2 30 pm for 2 30 pm to 3 30 pm arrival.
Holiday whist event planned for Thursday night at the G A R hall under Legion Drum and Bugle Corps. Monthly attendance prize of 25 dollars to high scorer plus 25 value prize to top, 15 to runner up and 10 and 5 awards. Bingo follows whist. committee led by Dr John A Kelleher expects a packed house.
At the weekly Parisian Whist club gathering Monday evening at Mrs Anna Bourgeois home Broad street Mrs Hercules Levitre took first prize Mrs George E Martel won second prize and Mrs Louise Dupre third prize The club will meet next Monday at Mrs William Boilards Mt Pleasant street
Mayor Charles A. Lyons shown a slight improvement after a severe head concussion when his car hit a plow truck on the Turnpike in Framingham. Doctors say his condition is favorable and expect recovery, with continued careful monitoring for 24 hours.
Martha R. Athon of 66 Broadstreet Hudson was granted a divorce from George Athon of Lawrence Massachusetts by Judge Mona han of the Probate Court for Middlesex County. They married in Hudson June 1 1924 and separated in 1933. The divorce was based on cruelty. Mrs Athon may resume the name Martha R Hoff man from a prior marriage. Attorney John E. Rice of Marlboro represented her. the case was uncontested.
West Acton reports a grocery whist fundraiser at the Rebekahs lodge and a mild scarlet fever case in Donald Chaplin. George Wood and Beatrice Edwards visited, Raymond Stuart acts as bookkeeper at A W Davis Co, and Clarence Chickering serves on a Cambridge jury. The Acton schools close for the rest of the week due to a coming holiday. Hurley brothers announce town office bids for school committee and constable. Ruth Scanlon suffers a foot infection keeping her home. Mrs Arthur Bouffard and son visit Arlington street. Intermediate Christian Endeavor plans a February 22 convention at South Acton with baskets for lunch. Sympathy extended to Mrs Monroe of Leominster on her husband’s death. West Acton Girl Scouts’ silver tea boosts troop funds. townspeople generous.
Mrs. Helen Woodworth hosted a February 14 costume party at her South Acton home attended by nearly thirty friends. Guests wore gowns echoing the gay nineties and lavender and old lace imagery. The evening featured contract and whist with era-appropriate refreshments served later.
The American Game Conference in New York endorses the Duck Stamp Bill and supports the President's wildlife restoration plan. It urges restoring U S Bureau of Biological Survey funding, developing a national fisheries policy, and backing the Missouri River Diversion Project with federal funds. The event features sessions for children and adults with leaders including the Ennis family and Rev Dr Merlin W Ennis.
A semi formal dance by the Emerson Society will be held Friday evening February 23 at the First Parish Vestry. Refreshments will be served and a good sized orchestra will furnish the music.
The first in a series of Fly Night Adventures in World worship was held Sunday evening at the Trinitarian Congregational Church. A light supper and social hour followed for all the family attendees.
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