Bedford News Briefs From Bedford Community
Bedford updates include Mrs. Paul B. Webber’s illness easing and a regional Air Show committee with Earl S. Atwood chairing Bedford participation. Anniversaries for several couples are listed for August dates. A lightning strike on a Hillside Avenue transformer caused minor damage and local crops suffered storm damage. Condolences to the Gottschalk family. Priscilla Murray returns from Jamaica Plain hospital after a tonsil operation. Local residents travel to Canada and visit Ware New Hampshire. Victory Bonds and Stamps urged.
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Lincoln
Lexington
Concord
Earl S. Atwood
Bedford
Concord Personal Notes Reflect Wartime Veterans Returnees
Edward McKenna 88 chairman of the Concord Board of Registrars has been homebound five weeks with illness but is reported improved. Arrigo Soffriti, World War II veteran, visits his mother at 92 Thoreau Street while family stays at their Virginia home. Multiple locals including Donat LaCasse and Pfc Charles H Lord are back from service or discharged with plans for fall activities and studies.
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Edward McKenna
Concord Board of Registrars
Lexington Road
Arrigo Soffriti
George Soffriti
Thoreau Street
Virginia
Davdl Spooner
Lincoln
U. S. Navy
Maine
Concord High
Japan
Robert Finn
Sudbury Road
Charles H. Lord
Virginia Road
U. S
Army
Lions Club to Meet Next Tuesday August 13 at 6 30
Concord Lions Club schedules its semi monthly meeting for next Tuesday evening August 13 at 6 30. The program will be announced, with continued summer meetings planned. The club will also meet again on August 27 and supports two boys at the Boy Scout Camp in Antrim New Hampshire.
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Concord
Concord Lions ‘Club
The
Lions Club
Lions
Antrim
New Hampshire
DDT Dip Trial Aims at Sheep Ticks in North Dakota
A DDT dip is being tested in North Dakota to control sheep ticks. The effort investigates the method's effectiveness and potential impacts on livestock health and farm productivity.
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North Dakota
Local Children Note Birthdays in Concord Week
Several area children celebrated birthdays last week. Anne Diskin, daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin Diskin of 91 Sudbury Road, marked her second birthday on Thursday August 1. Juanita Gibson, daughter of Mr and Mrs George Gibson, turned one on Saturday August 3. Helen Johnston, daughter of Dr and Mrs R Fulton Johnston of 63 Main Street, turned two on August 3. Twins Francis Lowell Jr and Ellen Randolph Coolidge, of 58 Main Street, observed their first birthday on Sunday August 4, with older sisters Alice Byrne and William Faversham Jr. also noted for recent ages.
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Concord
Anne Diskin
Martin Joseph Diskin
Sudbury Road
Diskin
Michael
Sally
Juanita Anne Gibson
George. Gibson
Frances Marion Wigliott
Street
Helen Louis Johnston
R. Fulton Johnston
Main Street
Francis Lowell, Jr
Ellen Randolph
Francis Coolidge
Main Altee
Gust
Alice Mary Byrne
Patrick Byrne
Cottage Lane
William Faversham
William Fave
Garfield Road
Middlesex Grade Is Betrothed
Local interest announces the engagement of Miss Helen C. Mitchell of Boston to Robert Hale Bancroft Winsor of Weston. Mitchell, a Country Day School alumna, belongs to the Junior League and Vincent Club and debuted in 1941-42. Winsor, a Middlesex School graduate, recently completed three years of active U S Navy service.
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Concord
Helen C. Mitchell
Emlyn Vinald Mitchell
Boston
Robert Hale Bancroft Winsor
Alexander Winsor
Weston
Mitchell
Country Day School of the Sacred Heart
Newton
Vincent Club
Winsor
Middlesex School
U. S. Navy
East Quarter Suffers Sixth Straight Defeat
Concord notes a 3-2 sliver edged win by Mill Dam Clippers over East Quarter at Emerson's grounds. It marked the third win in four starts for Mill Dam and the sixth loss in the second half for Burkeman. Farm land prices in ten states run higher than in the 1920s.
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Concord
David Robinson
Tehing
Dave Robinson
Camcord High School
Mill Dam Clippers
Lemomity
Emerson’ S
Burkeman
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Paul B. Webber
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Willis E. Pike
Mildred .C. Eisenhauer
Waldo D Alger
Pearl Thaxter
Robert N. Grant
Elinor Roby
Richard M. Gilman
Katherine F. Hodgedon
Great Road
Everett ‘Gottschalk
Mr .Gottschalk
Maxwell Gottschalk
Priscilla Murray
Massachusetts Osteopathic Hospital
Jamaica Plain
Ivan H. Smith
Canada
Lois Comely
Spring Road
Ware, N. H
Mrs. Alston Straw
Donat LaCasse
West Concord
Martha Ann Whittemore
Concord High School
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