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Newspaper
Acton Enterprise
Location
Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1934
Page
13
Twenty five new members joined the Ladies Auxiliary AO 1 at a last night meeting in Odd Fellows hall. Mrs Delia Moore led as president and announced Guest Night after the business session. A banquet followed the entertainment featuring Elma Salenius piano solo Eleanor Sli vocal solos John Johnson Irish dance Lillian Sullivan Irish dance Edward Hannon Cossack dance Bernard Greene with Bertha Saari accompaniment.
A consumer notice promotes Allenru as a remedy for pain and inflammation from excess uric acid. It guarantees results within 48 hours and offers a money back pledge if expectations are not met. The product is available for 85 cents at drugstores nationwide.
An advertisement touts Emerald Oil as a home treatment to heal leg sores reduce swelling and end pain allowing you to resume daily life quickly. It claims no operations or enforced rest and urges following simple directions for relief and money savings.
A Spanish dance by Miss Eléanor and Bernard James McCarthy accompanied by Middlesex County treasurer Lake McCarthy and Dr. Douglas M. Fuchs accompanied a Monday LA OH home whist party hosted by Mrs. Thomas Tierney on Great Road. Whist favors were awarded to attendees including Margaret Moore Fannie Cleary Amy Brayden Elia Brayden Annie Scully Ida Brooks Annie Seeley Mary Louka Ann Flaherty Susie Sheehan Nellie Coughlin and Katherine White.
A Cape district degree team will perform an exhibition drill at Mizpah Rebekah lodge Thursday night. Marion Butterworth chairs the program with Gertrude Prescott in charge of collation. An Odd Fellows Rebekahs minstrel show is slated for April 4 at Odd Fellows hall, with tickets via the committee led by Robert Lester and Howard Prescott.
Registrars of Voters meet tonight in the Selectmen's rooms to register citizens for the Pre-Convention primary on April 24. The only local contest is for a delegate to the Democratic State convention with Mathew King and Stanley Siemkewicz contesting. Both are local high school graduates. King works in real estate and serves on the Democratic town committee.
Mr. Sienkewicz is a graduate of the Bentley School of Accounting and works in the office of Internal Revenue Collector Carney of Boston. The town committee members will be elected without contests.
Maynard reports the Assessor starts its annual tour on April 1 to list residents over twenty for tax and service purposes. The canvass also checks dog owners as the town clerk issues notices requiring dog licenses and unlicensed dogs are recorded.
Cambridge official Charles G Wood a long time state and federal conciliator resigns his federal commission. In a sharp letter to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins he accuses her of failure to act and cites Labor policy and anti government elements while praising President Roosevelt. He cites prior labor disputes he helped settle including Gastonia 1929 New Bedford 1928 and Vermont New Hampshire granite strike. He warns against Soviet influence and criticizes Massachusetts public works policy on wages and hours while urging road aid denial.
Four persons were injured in a two car collision at Barrett road and Massachusetts avenue Lexington. Oliver W. Chute of Essex Street Hamilton sustained a brain concussion and head cuts. William E. Mead and three women passengers from Concord and Saugus were treated at Emerson hospital for cuts and bruises.
The Maynard Post VFW Auxiliary held a weekly whist event at the VFW headquarters on Saturday night with many tables in play. The door prize winner was Mrs. T. E. Costello. Prizes went to Alice O'Brien Winifred Higgins Mary McCarthy Agnes Haygoran Harriet Tillman and several other players.
Kyriaki Nicolaou, a 17 year old Greek student at the Perkins Institute for the Blind, spent a week in Marlboro hosted by the Queens of Avalon. She expresses gratitude for the care and describes her progress in English, love of music, reading, and appreciation for the Greek church and quiet Marlboro atmosphere.
Members of the Social Reading Club met yesterday afternoon with Miss Martha EB French hosting at her Park Street residence. The topic was Friendship with quotations shared, and Raymond Flannagan presented an illustrated lecture on Colonial Shrines of New England. Tea was served by Mrs. Clark H. Wilcox Mrs. George A. Coolidge and Mrs Gustave A. Zinther.
At a Town Hall meeting last night in Hudson the Board of Survey and Law Committee were organized. Commissioner George A. Brothers was named clerk of the Board of Survey and selectman Bebly Co. Eddy was chosen chairman with Harry V. Madden as a member.
At home for Easter recess are many students and staff from colleges and universities. The listing includes George Gutteridge American University Washington D C Catherine Coughlan Alice Barns Dorothy Marsden Helen Zaniewski Anne Bellows Isabelle Annis Barbara Stockbridge Bridgewater State Teachers College Phillip Wilson Tauno Frigard Willie Frigard Walter Brayden Edith Priest For rest Hartin Violet Koskela Norvin Laubenstein Dorothy Burnham Massachusetts State College Howard King B A Harold Wilcox Robert Hartin Tufts Samuel Bachrach Tufts Medical Dennis Farnell Trinity John Bellows University of Vermont Sidney McCleary Bowdoin Julia Lynch Regis James Mullin Fordham Bradford Case Tufts.
A grass fire burned through a vacant lot between J. Francis Granger the city engineer at 144 Highland Street and a nearby bungalow. Firefighters used chemical lines to shield homes as the blaze burned brush near the street and lot ownership lies with an out of town resident.
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