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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1954
Page
14
Bedford notices report a regular selectmen meeting at 8 pm in Town Hall with Chairman Charles S. S. Hume presiding. Community notes cover church sermons, social gatherings, club parties, family announcements, and upcoming events across Bedford including Lenten services and local charitable efforts.
The Concord unit forms weekly training with a new guard inspection method. Sgt Lawrence Dutton and noncoms train recruits fast, focusing on dismounted drill, marksmanship, and machine gun work. A 150th anniversary ball, April 19, features Ray Dorcey and Carmen with a 104 piece orchestra. Join Company H at the State Armory.
A total of 102 Rotary Club members and guests attended Ladies Night at the Shaker Glen House in Woburn. Thomas J. Byron and the committee organized the program after dinner with songs led by Burleigh L. Pratt and Ralph A. Macone. The Michaels sisters of Bedford and Concord High School students performed on marimba, and Mrs. Oliver Hanna of Lexington gave an engaging handwriting graphology talk.
Fiorentino J. DiGrappa of Maynard and other senior engineering aides attended a sewage treatment works operators course from March 22 to 26, 1954, at the New England Field Training Center in Amherst. The session was sponsored by the University of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and the Communicable Disease Center of the U S Public Health Service.
E T Wolfe 44 of 31 Laws Brook Road Lowell native born November 2 1909 died suddenly at home early Friday. He was a Hathaway bakeshop supervisor in Brighton for 12 years and a Mason with Isaac Parker Lodge. Survived by parents William F Wolfe and Jennie B Wolfe and brother Russell F Wolfe. Funeral Monday at MacRae Funeral Home Concord with Rev Edwin B Nylen. interment Woodlawn Cemetery Acton Center.
Local youths anxious to join the new Concord A C contact Manager Karl Swooner Concord 1291 M or write Box 385 Concord. "In His Name" will be the subject of the movie at the 7 o clock service at Carlisle Congregational Church Sunday April 11. Rev Dempsey of Stow was guest speaker last Sunday. A zoning by law change voted at the March town meeting publicized by Mrs Margar et Heald town clerk through the Attorney General Fingold office. Edward C Stephen Russell street observed a birthday anniversary last Thursday night April 1. Mrs Russell Decatur Harriet Stephen Russell street left for Texas over the weekend to stay with her Army husband.
The Ed wards-Quimby Post A. L. No. 284 holds its monthly meeting at 8 p m at the South Acton Fire Station. Commander Stanley A. Nedza presides and a collation follows. Plans include the next county council meeting and advancing work on a new clubhouse off Prospect Street.
Holy Week at Our Lady’s Church begins with palm blessing before the 7 o’clock mass and distribution at four masses. Stations of the Cross with confessions follow next Wednesday. Holy Thursday sees continuous adoration after the 7 o’clock mass. Good Friday and Holy Saturday observances noted. Easter Sunday masses at regular hours.
Bans of marriage published for Déra Morrill of South Acton and Edward Goodreau of Framingham, and for Diane Cutler of West Acton and Angus Johnson of Gleasondale. Both marriages will be solemnized soon.
Town officials set a public hearing in the selectmen's rooms at Town Hall on Friday April 16 at 8 o clock to act on a petition by Boston Edison Company and New England Telephone and Telegraph Company to erect five poles on Pine Hill Road.
Acton Members of the Ed wards Quimby Post Ladies Auxiliary to meet next Wednesday evening April 14 at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs Harriet Taylor in South Chelmsford. The president Mrs Doris Linscott will preside.
West Acton Palm Sunday observance at St Elizabeth of Hungary on April 11 includes blessing palms before the 7 30 mass by Rev Daniel F Riordan and distribution at 7 30 9 and 11 30. Stations of the Cross at 7 45 next Tuesday. Confessions Wednesday. Maundy Thursday high mass and all night exposure of the Blessed Sacrament with Holy Name men on duty. Good Friday vigil 7 45 features a Seven Last Words sermon by the pastor and veneration of the cross.
The 4-H Clover Garden Club will hold its next meeting on Saturday April 10 at 528 Main Street West Concord. Boys over 10 with gardens are welcome to join and participate.
Arthur D. Lapham and wife on Concord Road celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary last Friday. lifelong town residents active in church and town affairs. He served as tax collector and cemetery superintendent. They have four sons one daughter and several grandchildren.
The junior chair of the First Religious Society meets tonight at 7 for a rehearsal. Sunday youth group gathers for a film and discussion at 7. On Monday April 12 the Sunday School union meets after supper at 6 30 with speaker Dr Louise Ames on Parents as Partners.
Robert Emmett Sheehan 60 native of Concord and former farm superintendent at Walter E Fernald School in Waverley died Saturday night at Emerson Hospital after months of illness He lived in Scituate and later Waltham He was survived by three brothers and two sisters and his wife Mary Powers had died ten years earlier The funeral was at Dee Funeral Home with a high mass at Our Lady Help of Christians Church and burial at St Bernard's cemetery
Concord announces the engagement of Frances Goodwin Woods of Pope Road to Gwynne Thorsen son of Mrs. Marie Louise Thorsen of Marlboro Street Boston and Wallace Thorsen of New York City. Frances is the daughter of the late Mrs. Montgomery H. W. Ritchie and a former Oldfields School debutante. The couple plans to marry on Saturday June 12.
Local iGrange members attend Past Masters Night at Dunstable Grange. Carlisle is to represent Middlesex North Pomona at Dunstable on Saturday. Supper at 6 and an Easter program follow under Mrs Marion L Johnson, State Grange lecturer. Delegations visited Lincoln and Lowell Granges earlier. Edward R Stephen, state deputy, has been visiting local units.
At the Bedford Grange meeting in the Town Hall Monday at 8 o clock Ralph W Thompson master presides. An open meeting with public welcome will feature Mrs Gurney and Lilijren sixth grade pupils performing a square dance. Gerry Mansfield the state master from Peabody will be guest speaker.
Concord Firemen from Central Station responded to a small house fire at 6 30 Friday morning believed caused by hot ashes at the Frank Maurer residence Fairhaven road. West Concord apparatus also answered making it the 80th alarm of the year.
The East Acton community observes full military rites for Roy MacKinnon at Acton Center Congregational Church. The committal service follows at Woodlawn Cemetery with a firing squad from Fort Devens. MacKinnon born January 3 1892 in East Boston served as adjutant of Edwards Quimby Post 284 and died at Jamaica Plain Veterans Hospital after long illness.
Walter Paul Nichols 63 of Independence Road died suddenly at home. Funeral service at MacRae Funeral Home conducted by Rev Crawford O Smith. Burial at Laurel Hill Cemetery Saco Maine. Survived by wife Elise Biron Nichols daughter Hope Erisman three grandchildren three brothers and one sister. Nichols was Eastern sales rep for Weis Company and member of multiple Masonic bodies and clubs.
Concord Arthur Brooks and Simon Willard Road are named to the Greater Boston committee of the Unitarian Service Committee's 1954 appeal for 318000 dollars to fund its worldwide humanitarian program. Chairman of the Boston committee is Richard Holland, executive vice president of Harold Cabot and Company, a local Boston advertising agency.
The Concord Old Concord Chapter of D A R held its regular meeting Saturday afternoon at 16 Middlesex Street. Grand Regent Mrs. Wendell P Raymond presided. Guest speaker Alice Howard spoke on An Amateur Genealogist Talks. Tea followed with Concord members as hostesses led by past Regent Mrs. Albert B Black.
Applications close today with the U S Civil Service Commission for a rural carrier position at West Acton Post Office. A film on The How of Television screens at Acton schools Monday with a second show May 0th A Growing Garden from a Seed. Local waste paper collection set for Sunday May 2 at St Elizabeth of Hungary Church West Acton. Linda Ann Dee is born to Mr and Mrs Joseph M Dee Jr of 50 Main Street South Acton formerly of Concord. Palm Sunday confirmation service at Mont Calvary Lutheran Church Maynard on Sunday April 11. Acton 4 H club plans an annual exhibit at the high school Monday May 3 with PTA. Mrs Ida Hope is the local 4 H town chairman.
Local leaders from Sy and Musk districts met to discuss a new plan. The meeting aimed to outline governance roles and future collaboration between the two areas.
Readable text shows fragmented reference to C D A R 7 and a spring term with lymbus, but lacks clear event date place or full names to form a definite news item. The fragmentary nature limits a precise headline and summary.
The firm lists shares under John J Bent and Nine Acre clerk E Lowell Road.
The report notes the newborn son of Mr Starr of 170 Nard recently entered service with Port Squadron Hickam Air Base. The Pacific assignment is highlighted, with mentions of actions in Spain, Italy, and Greece. Starr’s news service notes VR-7 as the official example of the station. Prior to duty, he attended a mechanic program in Tennessee.
The fragmentary text mentions music by Donald A and L. Robert W ector with Mrs Swalt and Mrs Ralph. It references a school church event on an unnamed afternoon and a street outing, but details are unclear and names are garbled.
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