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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1951
Page
3
April 9 meeting of the club at Stow Hall will feature songs and solo numbers. Members will begin with a supper and business at 7 p.m. The program includes Lamb, Hum the Middle of the es, Chopin solo, Holy City, Jane, Your Land and a Boston Com ment.
Fragmentary items mention relatives visiting Pompsey and Great Road, with Mrs George and Mrs Dwin, a sixth grandchild born to Mr and Mrs Robert Smith, and David Clempton’s Vermont trip. Also noted are an Advisory Council meeting on March 29 and a Middlebury ring event amid a Fitchburg family.
Stow School Committee will meet in Littleton on Friday evening April 6 with the School Committees of Bolton Carlisle Harvard Littleton and Stow in a joint session to discuss regional matters.
Stow will hold its regular monthly meeting at the hall on Wednesday. All members are urged to attend as elections for the 1951 52 officers will be held.
A private installation for the newly elected officers of Witho Allen Pekkala Post 8074 Veterans of Foreign Wars was arranged for Tuesday evening, April 10, at the Town Hall.
Winter residents Mr and Mrs John E Kelley of Great Road return from Florida by bus. Allan Stew of Great Road breaks his left wrist and will wear a cast for about a month. Mr and Mrs John E Derby of Great Road visit their son Private John E Derby Jr in New York. Mr and Mrs Irving Price of Moncton Canada attend the funeral of nephew Charles Punty Jr. The Prices return home with Irwin Price’s wife and son. Mr and Mrs Irving Perkins and daughter Dalson of Rahway New Jersey visit Mrs Elen Perkins in Crescent Street. Mrs Martha Price, with daughter Mrs Les Punty, Whee Road, returns to Moncton Canada. Private Richard H Stow is stationed in Maryland at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Betty Stokes, student nurse at Burbank Hospital Fitchburg, spends days at home before returning to duties. Sgt Charles E Strong of Great Road, with the 1st Engineering Battalion, 1st ME Division, stationed in Centora, reports receipt of the Christmas box from Stow Citizens and thanks them.
James Garside aged 79 died at his daughter Mrs Harold K Hanson’s White Pond road home. Funeral serviced held Friday at 2 pm from Fowler Funeral Home Maynard with Rev Robert Jones of the Methodist Church officiating. Burial in Glenwood Cemetery. Pallbearers were Robert and Harold Hanson Clifford Laursen and Richard McEvady. Survived by daughter Mrs Harold K Hanson mother daughter Mrs Charles Uker of Roosevelt Street Maynard four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Stow town clerk Francis W. Warren announces dog licenses expired March 31 and urges owners to obtain new licenses due April 1 now being issued.
Firefighters responded to a grass fire on Old Hudson Road near Sandy on land owned by Alvin. Fire Chief Harold J reports about ten acres burned due to high winds but no property loss occurred.
Stowe schools including Gleasondale Pilot Grove and Hale high will close Friday April 13 for spring vacation and reopen Monday April 23.
The Warren Wheeler Wetherbee Post 272 American Legion Auxiliary will hold their monthly meeting on Tuesday evening April 10 at the home of Mrs. Anthony Laursen on Crescent street.
Stow Mr. and Mrs. Russell C Dobbins announce the birth of a daughter Frances Claire at Emerson Hospital Concord. She joins brothers David and Joel, with grandparents Walter Pugh Darewood NJ Myron Dobbin Medina NY and great grandmother Mrs. Margaret Brounlee California.
Seven pound three ounce daughter Maryllyn Jean born March 24 to Rev and Mrs James V Miller. Mrs Miller taught at Concord High School before Bates College. Rev Miller now Bible professor at Bates College Lewiston Maine and formerly pastor at Union Evangelical Church in Stow.
Stow residents Henry A Patterson and his wife welcome their second child a nine pound son born March 27 at Emerson Hospital Concord He is named Steven Henry Norma their four year old daughter is the first child Grandparents are Joseph and Mrs Smith of Gleasondale road and Arthur Patterson of Stow Great grandparents are Mrs C J Davidson of Boxboro and Joseph DeLorey of Lincoln
In Massena New York a housewife used an insect bomb under the porch to remove skunks from under the veranda. Her husband reports the result: no more dainty footprints, only fro.
Poem by Pvt. Jackie Ruby and Buddy from Camp Rucker Alabama portrays a soldier’s endurance. It reflects longing for loved ones and pride in duty amid hardship and isolation.
About one hundred students and guests attended the sophomore Record Hop in Stow Town Hall on Friday evening. It was the first such event for the class and yielded a healthy profit for the class treasury. The elimination waltz was won by Frank Merrill and Sandra Herrick. door prize winner was Vivian Wanhatalo. Edward Jensen directed the event with Ralph Crowell assisting as master of ceremonies. Disc jockeys were Sylvia Wanhatalo, Lauretta Goucher, Carrole Wyman and Myrtle Pugsley.
The Hale high school band of Stow will travel to Littleton for an annival joint meeting with school committees from Stow Harvard Bolton and Carlisle. Buses pick up at 6 30 with a 9 pm return to Stow 9 30. Over fifty pieces will perform publicly in May at the Stow town hall and for Memorial Day in Stow.
Stow Civil Defense unit met on March 29 with reports from the Lowell district meeting presented by Director Harry H. Cooke and Winthrop W. Addy. The next meeting is scheduled for Hale High School on Thursday evening April 12.
Carol Delia Dick daughter of Mr and Mrs J Earl Dick of Great Road Bedford observed her eighth birthday on April 1 with family members.
John P. Forte of Bedford, a World War I pilot now in Navy intelligence, passed the Massachusetts bar exam. He is 26, son of Judge Felix Forte, and recently moved back from Somerville with his wife Priscilla Perry and daughter Priscilla Rawn. Forte studied at Amherst and Harvard Law before reporting for active Naval Reserve duty January 15.
Concord hosts Arthur Davis, the Acton artist, with more than 30 paintings sold in the past year. The display at Wright Tavern invites Concordians and out of town visitors to add a regional charm to their homes.
Miss Grethe Christensen daughter of Mr and Mrs Hermann E Christensen of Sunset Road has been chosen to represent the Bedford unit at Girls State this coming June. A junior at Concord High School she will attend Bridgewater State Teachers College with other girls from the state Mrs Henry C Isner chairs the Girls State program.
Hale High School seniors finalize a four day trip to New York leaving Friday from South Station. They will stay at Hotel Times Square, sail around Manhattan, visit the Statue of Liberty and Chinatown, attend Radio City Music Hall and a radio program, dine at Town and Country, and return Monday morning. Music directors Mr. Robert Lacey and Miss Anne Kane will accompany. Irrigation projects on the Rio Grande by Spaniards in the sixteenth century have been in use nearly since then.
Miss Simina L. Snow, administrator of Emerson Hospital, spoke at the United Workers meeting at the Church of Christ Congregational. She described the hospital’s new wing serving Bedford and nearby communities. Tea was served after the session.
West Acton venue St Elizabeths Kall hosted a whist party under Mrs Dorothy Curtin with special prizes going to Tom Carney Ligeod Mrs Ice E Murphy and Mrs John Clayton of Maynard High scorers included Ed Paullius Elizabeth Playart Gladys DeGrappo and many others Next Saturday nights event to be directed by Miss Mary Flaherty.
Mrs H E Peterson reported a thief took her $150 store teeth from her coat pocket while she and her husband were in a cafe. Police pursued the unusual theft after the call, noting the missing dental apparatus.
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