Concord week news and community notices April 1924
Corecord schools close Friday for a week long vacation. Local meetings include a missionary session of rough men, a Grange and Odd Fellows gathering, and a Trinitarian Church Young People's Club address on Christianity and the social problem. The Walkien Pond Boys Club organizes baseball with Henry Sturtevant as manager. Harvard men from the Concord contingent enjoy a college break. engagement announced for Helen Gaetavie McNutt to Herbert Hudson Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aston
Grange
Odd Fellows
Hal
Dean Chamberlin
Phillips Exeter Academy
Cavening
Concord
Harvard
Joseph Lord
Adam F. Bby
Hugh F. Leith
Harding CG. Newman
Rusasel T. Smith
C. Hayden Whitney, Jr
Frederick (. Cheney
Frederick Hi. Chase
Mosaleon Blake
Jansdon W. Goddard
Robert Gaetavie McNutt
Maryville
Tenn
Helen
Herbert Hudson Hall
MIT
Hall
The
United States Aluminum
Fdgewater
N. J
Funeral services held for Concord resident Miss Helen Hubbard
The funeral for Miss Helen Oakes Hubbard, lifelong Concord resident, was held Wednesday at the Trinitarian Church. Rev. Gail Cleland led with assistance from Rev. A Edward Martin. A quartet sang and Arthur Lamb played the organ. Prayers were offered in Stoughton at the Congregational Church parsonage. Burial followed at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Oakes Hubbard
Concord
Trinitarian Church
Gail Cleland
Edward Martin
Congregational Church of
Stoughton
Miss Hubbard
Ralph Hewitt
Henry P. Thorpe
Charles H. Towle
Arthur Lamb
Mr. Martin
Congregational Church
Buriak
Sleepy Hollow
Senior Hop At Concord High Impresses With Faculty And Band
The Class of 1924 held a senior hop at Eaton Hall Friday afternoon. Mac's Mill Dam Melody Makers with John Baker Carr on piano Gordon B Macdonald on violin Richard Appleby on saxophone and Richard Baladurms provided music. Mrs Elsie R Stubbard was mistress of ceremonies and R Norman Hudspeth was patron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord High School
Eaton Hal
Concord Teachers Hold Meeting in Eaton Hall
A Tuesday evening gathering of Concord Teachers at Eaton Hall High School was led by President R Norman Hudspeth. Prof William Lincoln Smith of Northeastern College spoke on Relativity and the Finstein Theory. A social half hour followed with refreshments served by Miss Mary Papineau and Miss Emma F Clahane. At the May meeting the club will present Dibdens opera The Water Man directed by R Norman Hudspeth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Eaton Hall
R. Norman Hudspeth
William Lincoln Smith
Northeastern College
Mary Papineau
Emma F. Clahane
The
Dibden
Christian Science Church Services and Reading Room Schedule
Weekly and midweek services held Sundays at 10 45 AM and Wednesdays at 7 PM. Free reading room in the church edifice open daily from 2 to 5 PM except Sundays and holidays with reading material available. All are invited to attend services and use the reading room.
Trinitarian Church Events Include Bible Study and Easter Services
The Trinitarian Church announces a busy week led by Rev Gailriel with Women’s Union Bible study on Isaiah in the Vestry on Thursday April 17 at 3 pm and tea at 7 46 pm. Good Friday service Friday April 18 at 7 46 pm features a sermon on Jeans in the Home of Every Man and Easter Sunday April 20 includes a 10 46 am special service with ten youths received into the church and a sermon The One Christ. A church supper on Wednesday April 22 at 6 30 pm chaired by Mrs Charles Towle followed by midweek service and a post service entertainment led by Mrs Franklin Prescott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinitarian Church
Gailriel
Land
Women's Union
Leslie R. Moore
Isaiah
Wallace B. Conant
F. JH. Mahan
Spec! Baater
Charles H. ‘Towle
Franklin Prescott
Girls' Friendly Society conference at Trinity Church parish house
The Rapiscopal Girls' Friendly Society held a neighborhood conference at Trinity Church parish house. Supper followed by Rev. Smith O Dexter leading evening prayer. Mrs. George A Strong spoke on the national center for working girls and the fund for its Washington, D C. home. Branches from Auburndale Newton Centre Newton and Waltham attended about thirty five people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girls’ Friendly Society
The
Rapiscopal Church
Trinity
George A Strong
Needham
Girls’ Friendly Society Diocessan
Cirlef Friendly Society
Washington, I. C
Auburndale
Newton Centre
Newton
Waltham
Easter Week at Trinity Church Concord Mass
Rev Smith O Dexter presides over Maundy Thursday Holy Communion at 7 45 pm Good Friday litany ante communion and address at 9 am and 7 45 pm Evening service with Story of the Cross by the Choir Easter services include 8 am Holy Communion and address 11 am Holy Communion and sermon 5 pm Easter care service Baptism on Baster Eve at 4 pm and Boy Scouts meeting Friday April 25 at 7 45 pm.
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Trinity Church Concord
Smith O Dexter
High School Opera to Present Said Pashe Encore Dance
Last week note of dance direction by Miss Clahane and Miss Gladys Graham. May 16 and 17 show will feature Miss Graham's solo dancing. She is the Eastern United States and Canada champion Scottish Dancer and recently engaged to Keith's Circuit as Drum Major for the Walter Scott Javelin Bagpipe Band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pashe
Clahane
Gladys Graham
Miss Graham
Graham
United States
Canada
Keith
Women’s Parish Association Holds Annual Meeting
The Women’s Parish Association of the First Parish met in the Meetinghouse vestry with President Mrs Henry F Smith Jr. The group approved donations to Calhoun Negro School, the Service Pension fund, Transylvania Church and church music. New officers were elected led by President Eliza B B Macquarrie and Vice Presidents Mra Loren R Macdonald and Miss Helen A Legate. A reception for new officers followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flist
Henry F. Smith
Calhoun
Service Pension Fund
Transylvania
New England Associate Alliance
Unitarian Church
Henry PF. Smith, Jr
Eliza BB. Macquarrie
Loren R. Macdonald
Misa Helen A. Legate
Cyrun iHioamer
Mra
George M. Johnson
Misa Lacy F. Waite
Misa
Mary F. Carkin
Benjamin R. Bulkeley
Walter S. Wood
William PD. Cross
Raymond Wheeler
Nathan A. Roberts
Herbert F. Whipple
Samuel H. Tuttle
William R. Smith
Henry F. Smith, Jr
Social Service Council
Anson Wheeler
Men's Brotherhood Meeting Highlights Northland Talk
The Men s Brotherhood of the Trinitarian Church met in the vestry last Tuesday evening with president Benjamin Moody presiding. Professor Howard A M Briggs of Northland College Ashland Wisconsin spoke on general conditions in the Northland. A social hour followed with refreshments by Willard A Hemeway s committee. A nominating committee of Wallace B Conant Charles H Towle and Ole O Thorpe was appointed to present candidates for the May 13 annual election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Men's Brotherhood of the Trinitarian Church
Benjamin Moody
Howard A. M. Briggs
Northland College
Ashland
Wisconsin
Northland
Willard A. Hemeway
Wallace B. Conant
Charles H. Towle
Ole 0. Thorpe
Ancient Order of Hibernians Plan May Show
A O H Division 55 met at Hibernian Hall with President James J. Byrne presiding. Plans were made for a May production titled Down East and a summer event with committees led by Daniel F. Hennessey and William Hopkins. Next meeting set for Tuesday April 22.
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Antgient Order of
Hibernians
Hibernian
James J. Byrne
Down East
Joseph McKenna
Baward P. Kelley
James V. Hennessey
William Hopkins
Concord Female Charitable Society Meeting
The Concord Female Charitable Society meets this afternoon at the home of Mrs Loren B Macdonald. The event centers on charitable work and community aid with members in attendance at the Macdonald residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord Female Charitable Society
Loren B. Macdonald
Concord Board Chooses Weed as Chairman in First Post-Return Meeting
The Concord Board of Selectmen held its first meeting since James Nagle returned from California at Town Hall Thursday evening. Gooane Weed was named chairman and Miss Leith clerk as the board organized permanently. Appointments to town offices will be filled at a later meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George M. Weed
Concord
Funeral services for Prof Frank Hagan Bigelow and wife
Funeral held at Trinity Church for Prof Frank Hagan Bigelow noted meteorologist and his wife Mrs Mary Spalding Bigelow who died within five days of each other in Vienna. Born Concord 72, Harvard 1873, Cambridge Theological School 1880, career in mathematics meteorology and solar physics culminated in Austrian pneumonia death March 2. Burial Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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Vienna
Frank Hagan Bigelow
Mary Spalding Bigelow
Trinity Church
Smith O. Dexter
Sleepy Hotton
Concord
Bigelow
Harvard
Cambridge Episcopal Theological School
Racine College
Nautical Almanac Office
Washington
United State Weather Bureau
George Washington University
Argentinaa
High School Forum Debates Philippine Independence
A Friday meeting in Eaton Hall of the High School Forum chaired by Everett Webster reviewed arguments for and against immediate Philippine independence. Students presented summaries of the Wood Forbes Commission and responses from the Philippines, with insights from Gabakion and editor Grover Clark. The program highlighted Rafee Palma and other student voices while Faton Hall overflowed with attentive listeners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eaton Hall
Everett Webster
Laura MacWown
Philippines
Joseph Bartolomeu
Wood-Forbes Commission
Elizabeth Hagar
Wood- Forbes
Gabakion
United States
Smith O. Dexter, Jr
Grover Clark
Pekin Herald
Islands
Frank Pickard
Ty Rafee Palma
Eix
Fourth
Faton Hall
Concord Lodge of Bike Officials Highlight Hall Reunion
Monument Hall hosts a gathering led by Petee Strachan, with George Mulcahey named Exalted Ruler and a slate including Benjamin Derby and Edward Sheehan. The event marks duties for W. Byars and M. M. Appleby as trustees for three years. Dick Loftue returns from a sprained ankle after a two week layoff. A pinch hit in the Brooklyn New York Yankee game yielded a notable 1000 day record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord Lodge
Monument Hall
Petee Strachan
H. Clarke
Winthrop Lodge
George F. A. Mulcahey
Benjamin Derby
Edward W. Sheehan
W. Byars
Laymen's League Concord Chapter Holds Annual Meeting
Concord Chapter of the Unitarian Laymen's League met at the First Parish Meeting Home with T. Dana Bartlett presiding. The secretary noted membership rising from 80 to 113 as officers were elected for the next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laymen'’S League
Concord
The
Unitarian Laymen's League
First Parish
T. Dana Bartlett
Annual Firemen's Relief Concert and Ball Held at Armory
The Firemen's Relief Association hosts its annual Concert and Ball at the State Armory on Easter Monday night. Sheridan's ten piece orchestra provides the music with James J. Mara as committee chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Firemen's Relief Association
State Armory
Sheridan
James J. Mara
Charze
Concord Country club hosts supper and game party
The event at Concord Country club featured a supper followed by a game party. Winners included Marvin C Taylor Mia Thema Whitey Surette and Charlie Foote with Charles Richardson taking a consolation prize. Committee members listed include Magon Garfield and Mr and Mrs Herbert, along with Pratt and F Woolsey Pratt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord Country cLabs
Marvin C Taylor
Mia
Thema Whitey Surette
Charlie Foote
Charles Richardson
Magon Garfield
Garfield
Herbert Onan Oes Ee Mire
Pratt
F Woolsey Pratt
Concord Woman's Club Holds Monday Executive Meeting
The executive board met Monday afternoon led by President Mrs. Herbert B. Smith. The next regular club meeting is planned for Monday afternoon at the First Parish Meeting House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord Woman's Club
Herbert B. Smith
Rev James A Miller Preaches at Trinity Church
The Rev James A Miller of the theological school in Cambridge preached at Trinity Church on Sunday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A Miller
The
Theological School
Cambridge
Trinity Church
Swill Transport Permits Cancelled in Concand Town
The Board of Health announces that all permits to transport swill in Concand are cancelled except for Road Commissioners who may collect and dispose of it. Citizens must notify the Road Commissioners in writing if swill removal is desired. Signed by Chairman Frederick K. Shaw on April 14, 1924.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concand
Board of Health
Frederick K. Shaw
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