Death of Longtime Maynard Citizen Charles H Cheney
Charles H Cheney died at his Park street home in Maynard on Sunday afternoon from heart trouble. He was 75, born in Phelps, lived 68 years in Maynard, 60 in his Park street homestead. Survived by wife Hannah Davidson Cheney, son Clifford, brothers Levi and Edward. He was a carpenter and builder, Civil War enlistment rejected for health, member of Congregational church and local Masonic and IOOF lodges, once on the Board of Assessors. Funeral held today at 1:30 p.m. at his home. interment Glenwood cemetery. several lodge members attended. floral tributes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles. H. Cheney
Park St
Mr. Cheney
Phelpston
Maynard
Lottie Lamson
Hannah Davidson
Sterling
Clifford Cheney
Levi Cheney
Edward B. Cheney
Nashua
N.H
Cheney
Congregational Church
Charles A. Welch
John Sunderland
Arthur Jordan
Maynard Lodge
John W. Flood
Robert Lester
George Newton
George Meade
William Bishop
Ralph Gase
Glenwood Cemetery
Epworth League Elects Officers at M B E Church Vestry
The annual meeting and election of officers at the Epworth league elected Hannah Marsden president Margaret Gates first vice president Edmund Hooper second vice president Matilda Marsden fourth vice president Bertha Batley Viola Binks secretary Margaret Marsden treasurer Marion Wilson organist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
M. BE
Hannah Marsden
Margaret Gates
Edmund Hooper
Matilda Marsden
Bertha Batley
Viola. Binks
Margaret Marsden
Marion Wilson
Whist Party Held by Unity Circle I C A and I O O F
Unity circle I C A held a whist party at the I O O F hall on Monday evening. Prizes went to Mrs Alexander Espie ladies first and Mrs Margaret McGrath second, while Peter Malone took the gentlemen first and John King second at Spring Lane. Miss Margaret Keegan served as counter and the organizing committee included Miss Eva Tucker Emily Shanahan Alice White and Mrs Louis Cook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unity Circle
I. C. of A
Appointment of Edward Vardazala as Boston stenographer
Edward Vardazala, class of 1918 from Maynard high school's commercial department, was appointed Monday as a stenographer in the Office of the National Dispatch Refrigerator Line with an office at the Pruitt and Produce Exchange building in Boston. The line is a major railroad carrier for perishable goods and Vardazala is regarded as an AI man in his class with community support for a successful career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Vardazala
Maynard High School
National Dispatch
Ladies Night of Men’s Fraternal League at Congregational Church
The annual event occurs next Tuesday evening at the Congregational church vestry. Oscar Huntting baritone and Annabelle Huntting cellist will present an interpretation of Tennyson’s Ennoch Arden with a pianist. A buffet lunch will be served. Maynard soldiers ranked in the top 100 of Camp Devens cross country run with 8000 participants. Mike Rynkivitz placed 49, Patrick Pine 72, Hans Hanson 74.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Tennyson
Enoch Arden
Oscar Huntting
Annabelle ‘Howe Huntting
Boston
Maynard
Camp Devens
Mike ‘Rynkivitz
Patrick Pine
Hans Hanson
Assabet Institution Trustees Meet in Maynard April 3
Notice from Maynard Massachusetts dated April 2 1918 announces the quarterly meeting of the Assabet Institution for Savings trustees at the Banking Rooms Maynard on Wednesday April 3 1918 at eight oclock PM to transact business. Per order President Howard A Wilson Clerk. Table girl wanted apply at Assabet House Maynard advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maynard
Mass
Assabet Institution For
Howard A. Wilson
Assa‘bet House
Remington Awards Contest Recognizes Swift Typists at Maynard
On March 26 the Remington Awards held in Maynard high school’s commercial department honored top typists. Winners include Ruth B. Clark at 62 wpm with four errors, Eshel M. Parmenter at 61 wpm with five errors, and Sophia Siemieniak at 57 wpm with three errors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Remington
Maynard High School
Charles H. Parsons
James J. Hilferty
Ruth B. Clark
Eshel “M. Parmenter
Hugh Hunter Rites Held for Concord Junction Resident
Hugh Hunter longtime Concord Junction resident died after a long illness with heart trouble at his son’s home on Commonwealth Avenue. Born in Edinboro Scotland he worked 45 years as a boss dyer at Gleasondale Mill before living with his son in town. He is survived by a daughter Bertha Richardson and four sons Charles A William Hugh and Frank. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 1 30 p m from the late home with Rev W J Batt officiating and burial in the family lot at Stow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Hunter
Charles A. Hunter
Edinboro
Scotland
Lawrence
Gleasondale
Commonwealth Ave
W. J. Batt
Stow
Bertha Richardson
Charles A
William
Middleboro
Hugh
Rock
Frank
Maynard Bowling League standings near season end
The Maynard Bowling League nears closure as A. O. H. seizes first place after a three month chase, with Middlesex cigar team close behind. Y M S C K of P sits fourth while West Acton and Ward contend, Ward at cellar. Standings show A. O. H. 59 29s, Middlesex 56 32 636, Y M S C 46 88 .548, K of P 89 686, West Acton 28 60 318, Ward 8 26 62 244.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maynard
A.O. H
Middlesex
West Acton
Ward
Y. M
S. C
Ladies of the Parish Stage Art Exhibit and Song Recital
Following a supper, Miss Charlotte Allen supervised an art exhibit from an artist called to war. A. L. Millan explained works including Phantom of Delight and Grandmother and Great Grandmother portraits. Musical features were performed by Mrs. Schneiner, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Phalen, and Mrs. Stearns with patriotic piano pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Allen
A. L. Millan
Mildred Dusseault
Egypt
Dorothy Dusseault
Warwick
Sir John Reynolds
Millan
Alice Webster
Isabella Griffin
Diet Spring
Carolyn Shaw
Duchess of
Devonshire
Harriett D. Phalen
Lillian J. Shaw
J. S. Schneiner
Loys
Acton Grange Meeting Highlights Whites and Reds Program
Acton Grange held a March 25 meeting featuring entertainment by the Whites and Reds. The program included music, essays, poems, recitations, a bugle call, a drill, and a talk on apples. Six applications for membership were received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acton Grange
Miss Pickard
George Smith
The
Reds
W. H. Kingsley
E. R. Teele
Marion Barrett
HE. A. Phalen
Irs. Gates
Cornet
E. Z.stanley
R. W. Piper
L. H. Tuttle
Death of Mrs Lucy Miles in South Acton
Mrs Lucy Miles widow of Eugene Miles died suddenly at her Maynard street home last Wednesday morning after a history of shocks and illness. Born February 25 1858 in Littleton she moved to Stow in childhood and taught there before marrying E E Miles. The couple moved to South Acton 15 years ago and burial was in Stow last Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Miles
Eugene Miles
Maynard St
Charles
Littleton
Stow
E. E B. Miles
South Acton
Dogs Must Be Licensed In Local Jurisdiction
Dog licenses are due and owners of fancy canines must obtain a license to avoid fines. No reminder notices are sent, so each owner must handle the licensing themselves.
Socialist club entertainment nets 374 for grove improvements
Realized 374 from Friday and Saturday events at Parker street hall. Funds will install improvements at the club grove at Vose pond, while young ladies plan to raise money to erect a bathhouse there. Several local items and notices follow including births and corps postings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Socialist Club
Parker St. Hall
Vose Pond
PlaySwell Gave Annual Union Church Play Apr 1
The Men’s Club of Union Church presented the farce A Regiment of Two at Association hall last Monday evening April 1. The cast featured Arthur Sewall and Reginald Dudley among others with an orchestra of Misses Russell Hoitt and Willis. The audience praised the performances, noting the amateur actors’ effort and the stage’s small confines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Church
Association Hall
T. Blood
Russell
Hoitt
Willis
Arthur Sewall
Albert E. Pratley
Tra Wilton
Warren B. Goddard
Harry Brentworth
Arthur
Merton Hosmer
Reginald Dudley
Homer Allen
Jim Buckner
James Caldwell
Conrad Melzer
Irving Felch
Eliza Wilton
Ira
Alice Pringle
Grace Sewall
Violet McWilliams
Laura Wilton
Florence Duren Lena
Bessie Judge
Sewall
New York City
Rosie
Congregational Church announces services and gatherings
Rev Ralph A Barker will preach at 10 30 Sunday morning. Sunday school at 11 45. C E meeting at 6 on Christian Duty and Privilege Bible reading. Praise and preaching at 7. Friday prayer service at 7 30 on Faith in Immortality and the War. L S GC meets with Mrs W A Fletcher Thursday afternoon at 280.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph A. Barker
Emmanuel Taylor
Maynard
C. E
L. S. GC
W. A Fletcher
Easter Services Inspire Congregation With Forty Days Theme
Easter attracted a good crowd to area churches. The Congregational preacher spoke on Lessons from the Risen Christ's Forty Days and Frank Merriam sang The Lord Is Risen with bass Mr Hathaway aiding the choir. Easter lilies carnations and potted plants decorated the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Merriam
Mr. Hathaway
Concord Church Notices and Local Births
Rev Mr Tewksbury of Concord will exchange with Rev Mr Robert son next Sunday. Easter services featured special music by the choir and the children at the evening concert. A Junior Endeavorers social and entertainment is set for Saturday at 3 in the church vestry. Mr and Mrs Leonard D White of Worcester visit family homes. Sidney Porter Durkee named the Concord hospital birth on Tuesday March 26 to Mr and Mrs Albert P Durkee. J B Tuttle produced several gallons of maple syrup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude Cameron
Waltham St
Glendale St
Massachusetts Senate
St. Bridget’s Church
Colonial Hall
Mr. Tewksbury
Concord
Robertson
Leonard D. White
Worcester
Sidney Porter Durkee
Concord Hospital
Albert P. Durkee
J. B. Tuttle
Burke Family Receives Cablegram From Son Before War Front
Mr and Mrs Fred Burke received a cablegram from their son Henry the 26th calling them to New York. He arrived from Camp Johnston Fla and could not come home, making this his last opportunity to see them before heading to the war front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Burke
Henry
New York
Camp Johnston
Fla
West Acton Notes and Local Social Updates
Mrs. Rachael Haynes on behalf of the Red Cross thanks locals for clothing donations for Belgian relief. Special thanks to Mrs. Herbert Meac Mrs. L C Hastings and Freq Davis who hauled items to Concord. Miss Pauline Mead home from Smith College for Easter vacation. Local residents ill or under quarantine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rachael Haynes
Red Cross
Herbert Meac
L. C. Hastings
Freq Davis
Concord
Martha
Windsor
J.S
Jeremiah Bradley
Maynard
George V. Mead
Pauline Mead
Smith College
L M. Mead
Louis Guy Mead
Watertown
Philip Litchfield
Boxboro
James Fitzgerald
Scanlon
Local business changes and social notes in village
W. C. Crosby and Albert J. Hicks bought out Hunter's garage in the town. Mrs. Wm. Frankel and her young son went to New York to spend Easter with relatives. Mrs. Ella Chandler, wintering with Mrs. Page, is now with Mrs. Emma Quimby. A brush fire behind Sidney Laffin's near Mr. Lunt's home was put out by the fire brigade after a Saturday alarm. Mrs. HE. Rives of Ayer visited Tuesday to see old friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Crosby
Albert J. Hicks
Concord Junction
Hunter’s
Wm. Frankel
Little Son
New York
Ella Chandler
E. C. Page
Emma Quimby
Sidney Laffin
Mr. Lunt
Card of Thanks for Mrs. Susan A. Miles
The family thanks friends and neighbors for assistance in challenging times and for the generous floral tributes honoring Susan A. Miles. Charles H. Miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan A. Miles
Charles H. Miles
Garvey Promoted to First Lieutenant at Camp Devens
At Camp Devens Ayer on Saturday John A. Garvey earned promotion from second to first lieutenant. Congratulatory notices follow as local residents report John Harold Wetherbee’s return from Putney Georgia where he spent several weeks with his father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Devens
Ayer
John A. Garvey
John
Harold Wetherbee
Putney
Muskrat Meat Offered As Chicken Substitute in Winona Market
Trappers report 1,000,000 pounds of muskrat flesh wasted yearly in the upper Mississippi valley and urge the national food administration to consider muskrat as a meat substitute. In Winona markets the meat sells for 5 to 7 cents a pound and is described as clean and chickenlike when properly prepared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winona
Minn
National Food Administration
Winona, Minn
Chamber of Commerce
Mississippi Valley
Eggs for hatching Plymouth Rocks at two dollars
Eggs for hatching standard bred barred Plymouth Rocks two dollars per setting three settings for five dollars F L Garland Concord Junction Tel 241Y maid wanted at once apply 392 Main St
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth Rocks
F. L. Garland
Concord Junction
Main St
Workers Strike at Assabet Mills Construction Site
One hundred twenty five laborers left the new Assabet Mills addition project gathering at Cannons Hall to organize with the A F L from Boston. They rejected I W W affiliation and demand 40c an hour for eight hours daily with overtime and double time on Sundays and holidays. They will present their wage demands to Pittman Construction Co. officials today. The Fish Food Controller plans to allocate 10 000 tons of sugar for private fruit growers to convert fruit into jam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cannon’s Hall
A. F. of L
Boston
Pittman Construction Co
Agnes Nestor: Illinois Capitol Lobbyist and Trailblazer
The sole woman on the advisory council, Agnes Nestor of Chicago, led lobbying efforts in Illinois for women workers. She helped pass a ten hour day bill in 1913 known as The Girls Bill and earned praise for her skilled advocacy at the state capitol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missy
Chicago
Springfield
Guly
Capitol
Opn
Agnes Nestor
Illinois
World's Biggest Buyer Edward Stettinius Named War Supplies Chief
Edward R. Stettinius, born February 15 1865 in St Louis, rises from obscurity to be appointed surveyor general of supplies in the war department by Secretary Baker. He built a career from Chicago grain to Stirling and Babcock Wilcox, Diamond Match, and J P Morgan, and now directs US war procurement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward R. Stettinius
War Department
Baker
Stettinius
St. Louis
University of St. Louis
Chicago
Wortune
Stirling Company
Babcock & Wilcox Company
Diamond Match Company
J. P. Morgan & Co
Navy’s Recruiting Drive Under Rear Admiral Palmer
Rear Admiral Leigh Carlyle Palmer, head of a navy navigation bureau, helped grow wartime strength from 64 000 men and 100 naval reserves to 18 000 regulars and 75 000 in the Naval Reserve. A 1896 Annapolis graduate, Palmer was a standout athlete and served in Cuba and the Philippines with continuous sea duty for 13 years before shore assignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leigh Carlyle Palmer
Bureau of
Germany
United States Navy
Palmer
Naval Reserve
Naval Resere
Admiral Palmer
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Santl
Philippines
Women elected to Mt Sinai board largest Jewish hospital
Mt Sinai Hospital in New York City, the largest Jewish medical institution of its kind, elected two women to its board of trustees. In Denmark women may serve as members of parliament though lacking suffrage. A Women’s University Club Farm unit with about a dozen women and a woman director will work a farm in Redding Connecticut this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ae A
Mt. Sinai Hospital
New York City
Denmark
Women’s University Club
Redding
All Comforts of Home Living Rooms on Wheels Tour Coast
John Gordon of Lake Forest plans to tour the coast in a self contained automobile dwelling. The unit includes a parlor bedroom and bath with a spring bed shower bath and three burner stove. Gordon will travel with his Airedale and a motorcycle for emergencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gordon
Lake Forest
James Gordon
Chicago
Mrs. Gordon
Gordon
Lincoln Kin Plows Family Farm in Vermont
Mary Lincoln Beckwith plans to work the fields on the family farm in Vermont this spring as part of a local effort. In Rome reports say Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy intends to visit the United States once the war ends. Mrs. Alice Cockerline’s strong management at Albany Oregon Commercial Club earns her reelection and a salary raise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lincoln Beckwith
Abraham Lincoln
Vermont
Rome
Margherita
Italy
United States
Alice Cockerline
Albany
Ore
Duke Albrecht Leads German Forces Opposing AEF Near St Mihiel
Duke Albrecht of Württemberg commands German troops facing American forces on the French front near St Mihiel. A royal-born general, he previously led the Thirteenth Army Corps at Stuttgart and headed the drive through Belgium. His army subdued Maubeuge, shaping siege warfare and trench fighting in the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke Albrecht of
Wurtemburg
St. Mihiel
Albrecht
Theater
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Stuttgart
Belgium
Maubeuge
Lorraine
Mets
Germany
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War Trade Union League
Corn National Defense
International Gloving Union
NAVY
A. O. H Whalen
Murray
Crotty
W. Lynch
G. Lynch
Duke
Pershing
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