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Newspaper
Acton Enterprise
Location
Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1931
Page
1
On Monday February local voters will elect town officials amid a tight race with limited details available. Voters are advised to check the polling place and hours for the upcoming municipal election.
The West Concord community honors Helen Roberta Pringle a former Concord school helper. Alfred W. Stone led services with Gertrude Rideout and Mrs. Wallace Conant assisting. Bearers included Robert Lang and George Hume. Burial followed at Sleepy Hollow.
A New Year dance drawn a large crowd on a Friday evening, delivering high spirits and strong turnout. Organizers reported continued interest in future events as the crowd enjoyed festivities and music into the night.
Mrs Jessie Richardson grand president led a Maynard lodge visit Saturday night at Odd Fellows hall with attendees from Marlboro Hudson Framingham Concord Stow Acton Sudbury and others. Degree work by the lodge team conferred on Mildred Croft and Hen Brown amid praise for officers and members. An upcoming auto social on January 36 is planned with Mrs Martin Mrs Howard and Mrs Parmenter.
Concord readers are invited to a January 12 meeting in the high school auditorium where Mrs. Thomas J Walker, former district director and current second vice president of the Massachusetts federation of Women's clubs, will discuss The New Non-Fiction Strang er Than fiction. Tea will be served.
R T Bushnell and G Sherman Bleir will preside at a Masonic Temple gathering of Concord Corinthian Lodge A F and A M On Monday. A copper supper will be served at 7 o clock with Robert T Bushnell Middlesex County district attorney as speaker under Mrs Dun can Chepman direction.
Mrs. Strahan, longtime Chelsea resident and former mayor’s widow, died at Meadow View. Survived by two daughters and a granddaughter, services held with two clergymen and Weber Male Quartet. burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, preceded by a life in Chelsea and later Concord. Born in Frederickton New Brunswick, she lived in Brookline before moving to Concord in 1928.
At the Trinitarian Congregational church next Tuesday January 12 the Men’s Club will host two speakers. An engineer from Massachusetts Department of Public Works will discuss highway plans and unemployment. A Babson Institute official will address causes of business depressions and cures. Two entertainments are planned with the Young People’s Club: a Mocktail on January 30 and the comedy Corporal Egan on February 12 and 13.
The Norwegian Evangelical Free Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church held a union Watch Night service on Lang Street led by Rev. Olaf M. Johnson. Principal speakers were Rev. George U. Hughes and Mrs. John Webster of Swampscott, a Lynn mission worker. A preceding program in the Evangelical Church featured a Christmas tree festival with music by John Swen and John Cahill.
The annual meeting of St George's church will be held Saturday at the Parish hall. A turkey supper will be served at 6 d for which a charge will be made. Officers including vestrymen wardens clerk and treasurer will be elected. Attendance is hoped from every member.
Fragmentary OCR shows a Concord female charitable society entry with garbled text and unreadable names. No clear event date or concrete activity is identifiable from the readable fragments.
The program features Miss Ethel Tewksbury’s descriptive poem read by Miry Male Vener Bacon with dance and music by Killeen Griffin Vernice Coolidge and others. A pantomime and songs by Mrs J L Pratt Mrs Clarence Manter and others depict domestic scenes and a Statue of Liberty finale with America the Beautiful.
A packed Monday Rainbow Auction in Maynard Waltham features entertainment from Keith's circuit and a merchandise sale by local merchants. Rainbow money bids run high as societies contest for the gold certificates with the next prize scheduled for the March meeting. Participating stores include Johnson Pharmacy J A McPherson Hardware Gruber Bros Jersey Creamery and W B Case & Son.
Miss Alfreda Dittrich daughter of Mr and Mrs Guatave Dittrich of Nagon Street was injured in a coasting collision on FA Pete and Tor with damage noted. The report identifies Dittrich as the injured party awaiting further details.
A new nitrate building at the American Powder Company plant in Maynard replaced the December fire devastation. Steel construction and new equipment, erected in seventeen working days, with Allan Hall noting rapid operation and strong employee support totaling about 3450 to the Maynard Citizens committee.
Maynard Woman's Club will host a lecture on Criminal Identification by Maynard native Inspector Maynard James R. Claflin of the Boston Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Danvers baritone Raymond Eaton will perform songs. tea will follow.
The annual Concord Town election is set for Tuesday February 24 and the town meeting for appropriations and other business occurs on Monday March 2. The notices outline the dates and purpose of the gatherings.
Circulated among Greater Acton business men, a letter from Post No 284 American Legion invites Sir Edwarde Quimby to a Business Men's Night on Friday January 9 1931 at 8 30 PM in the West Acton Women's clubhouse. Two prominent speakers will present a brief program with music and collation to foster local social and business contacts.
Mrs Emme Andrews died on Saturday afternoon while en route to a doctor's visit in Lowell. Born in Stow, she was the daughter of Harold and Barbara Bent. Survived by two sisters Miss Sarah Ment and Mrs Helen Bent Curtis, she lived with them since last spring. Funeral was held Monday at the Union Congregational church conduct ed by Rev Mathew Vance. Burial in Lowell cemetery. She was a longtime member of the Lowell Baptist church.
Former Christmas break students resume study at numerous colleges and universities. Names listed include Ernest Holt Ruth Wilson Phylia Naylor Harold Lever Bates Howard King Colby Richard Lawson Springfield College Ruth Bradley Regis Alice Fearns Boston University Edward Fearns Harold Wilcox Louis Simonett University of Maine Norman Sims John White Michael Vodoklys Armas Fingard Dartmouth Leo Mullin Fordham James King and others.
Junior High School presents The Windmills of Holland January 8 and 9 under Miss Ethel Lovely and Miss Mary Doyle. Cast includes Elmer Selenius Elvi Nyholm Helen Weckstrom Vera Rudziak Joseph Minko Robert Sedar Robert Duggan Sylvia Katvala. Chorus of 35 Dutch boys girls. Proceeds fund stereopticon slides instrument athletic gear.
West Concord officials report 950 inmates at the Massachusetts Reformatory enjoyed a holiday program on New Year’s Day with regular work suspended. Supt. Charles T. Judge arranged Mass for Catholic prisoners, yard liberty after breakfast, and chapel entertainment before noon.
A Maynard citizens group organized at the high school on Monday night to promote welfare, receive funds, and aid the unemployed. James Coughlan was elected chairman with Key Mathew Vance secretary and Harold Morgan treasurer. an advisory board and executive committee were appointed to oversee funds and plan activities for Maynard.
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