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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1931
Page
3
The West Concord Improvement Society will hold its annual meeting and elect officers at Marvey Taeeen Assembly Hall on April 7 at o'clock.
An unnamed member of the board of selectmen is slated to give a speech as part of an upcoming program. Details and exact date were not clear in the extract.
Lieut. Col Roger D. Swaim presided at the Concord Independent Battery annual dinner and reelected Mayor Cape Burleigh Pratt as lieutenant. Members recalled the battery’s 125 year history and Civil War era days with reminiscences from J P Park Perce and local storekeepers recalling 1865 to Civil War events.
Harvey Wheeler West Concord school pupils work on an operetta When Betsy Ross Made Old Glory to be presented April 16. The event features period music costumes and dances and will be shown to students in the afternoon and the public in the evening to help cover production costs. Miss Happie E Raynelis supervises music with pupil and teacher committees directing.
A variety of baked beans brown bread doughnuts and other tasty items drew a generous crowd to the first in a series of food sales held Saturday in the Parish House of the Trinitarian Congregational church.
The substantial financial return was realized as the Woman's Union of the church conducts these sales.
West Concord hosts a whist and dance event at Warner Hall on Friday April 10 at eight o clock under Camp 55 sponsor Ralph P. Hosmer and the Ladies Auxiliary. The West Concord Union Church conducts a food sale and Antarsnac Grange plans an April 10 whist party at Mrs Si Barkers. District Attorney Warren L. Bishop will speak at Warmer Hall for Antarsnac Grange meeting.
Easter Sunday at 10 30 a m the West Concord Union Church hosts a service with special music sermon and reception of new members The pastor will preach The Message of Life Eternal continuing the series Messages from a Master Epistles from Romans includes organ preludes anthems and the Easter music program led by Miss Mildred Stone and Miss Gertrude H Rideout Organist Evening service at 7 o'clock follows.
Elizabeth Blount Shippen reports Holy Week observances at West Concord Union Church in Boston area. Services include the Lord's Supper on Thursday April 2 7 30 p m with Rev J Barford Parry preaching on Good Friday, April 13 7 30 p m. Activities run April 6 to 10 with Scouts, Union Women, Helping Hand Society supper and entertainment, Junior Society of Christian Endeavor and choir rehearsals.
Concord Grange No. 150 held a whist party at Mrs Hattie L Clark’s Lowell Road home with eight tables from Billerica Maynard Concord and West Concord. Mr Dillon of Binerice won first prize, Mrs Mary Kelley second, and Miss Clara L Emerton the consolation trophy. The next Concord Grange meeting is April 7. A Spring dance at Concord Country Club followed a dinner hosted by Mrs Sherman Hoar Jr with ushers James Cook Alwin Brooks Robert Bygrave Henry Locke Andrew Locke William Rudd Richard Howe Stephen Gardner Cook and others. patrons included Mrs Hear and others.
Demand for tickets to You and I at Vetspall April 9 10 and 11 has grown with 200 reserved seats sold for Saturday. Richard Drug Co still has tickets. Friday and Thursday shows are open to all. Philip Barry noted as major playwright ranking with Eugene ONeill and others.
Miss Sarah Goodwin will give the concluding talk on painting at a Concord Woman's Club event. The program invites Concord men to join a tour through the Isabella Gardner Museum on April 7, with interested parties to contact Louis A. Gohier, the club vice president.
Mary Ward public health nurse reports for the month ending March 31. Visits numbered 27 with 4 new cases, 25 admitted, 20 discharged, 7 on hand. Association calls 42, Metropolitan Poreros calls 65, John Hancock Insurance calls 30, free nursing visits 16, tuberculosis calls 2 totaling 154. Seventeen babies weighed and measured at a free baby clinic.
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