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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1957
Page
5
Soil Conservation Service crews install irrigation and drainage works across Acton Carlisle and Weston to help farms and fire protection during drought. Goldsmith H Conant adds a pond at Carlisle. Weston Nurseries installs three irrigation ponds and begins tile drainage amid dry weather.
On opening day at Horticultural Hall Boston last week the gold medal was awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Stedman Buttrick of Liberty Street for their Daylily hybrid State Fair. The bloom received merit recognition as gardeners from across New England attended the show run with Region 4 American Homerocallis Society.
Sudbury Fire Chief notes several rubbish fires at the Town Dump with large water pours including 90 000 and 60 000 gallons. A July 24 brush fire on Mrs Wohlbach’s property was linked to wood chuck bombs. Another July 26 smoke event was traced to a washing machine motor and cleared with a smoke ejector.
The Acton Rose Hawthorne School Guild selects its bus committee for next year with Gerald P. O'Neill of Sioux Street West Acton as chairman. Assisting are Mrs Thomas Breen Stow and Mrs George H Allen West Acton. Breen reappointed. Retirements include Mrs William Ray Stow and Mrs John W Forrest West Acton.
Funeral for Mrs Mary Elizabeth Giblin 88 of Bedford Road was held from her home with a high mass at St Bernard’s Concord. Rev James H Connolly conducted and read committal prayers at St Bernard’s cemetery where she was buried in the family lot. Born in Boston she had lived in Concord 15 years.
Mrs Martha Smith Holden 88 formerly of Concord with long residence here. Survived by daughters Ruth Giblin Henry Nichols Pauline Lovejoy and son Edward Giblin plus siblings and grandchildren. Funeral at First Parish Unitarian Church with interment Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. The road runner named for its habit of running before slow vehicles.
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