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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1947
Page
15
Lavery and Sanders advertise Lavery's Liquid Hand Soap for hands face and scalp with a clean lotion finish. Priced at 1.90 per quart or 65 cents on smaller sizes. Located at 2035 N Marshall St Philadelphia PA, phone 1234.
Avon Hotel offers 50 rooms for 2 3 4 or 5 occupants with innerspring beds and hot showers. Rates $15.60 weekly per person or $35.00 weekly with board. Patsy’s Dining Room, ocean view veranda, mile long board walk, near Casino and Bandstand. Reduced rates Sept 1. Tel 2250. John W Dignon proprietor.
The Acton Massachusetts collector warns the owner of the Riberot Dutton land off Carlisle road in Acton to pay overdue taxes for 1945 and 1946 or face seizure on August 28, 1947 at 10 A.M. The parcel, three acres, is bounded by Marshall and Davis properties.
Warren P. Sweetser owns four acres on the westerly side of North Main Street in Acton. Further description is in book 3729 page 220 of the South Middlesex Registry of Deeds, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The document references prices 2.49 and 2.70.
Concord gardeners donate surplus vegetables to Emerson Hospital to ease high prices this fall. Hospital Harvest Committee coordinates pickup for those leaving town. A growing volunteer library, started by Mrs. Davenport Wallace and Mrs. Doffin nell Bordman, now offers 250 books via a war surplus book wagon. more fiction and children's books are welcome, with pickup arranged by calling Concord 340.
Probate Court cites interested parties in the estate of Sarah Coulter also known as Sadie Coulter and Sadie W Coulter of Maynard. Charles Weaving of Boston petitions for probate and appointment as executor. Objections must be filed in Cambridge before 10 am on September 8 1947. signatures of Judge John C Leggat and Register Loring P. Jordan. Aug 7 14 21
Lost deposit book number 46978 reported missing from Middlesex Institution for Savings Concord Massachusetts. Payment stood. Notices dated July 29 1947 with subsequent notices on July 31 August 7 and 14.)
We have received application for a duplicate book to replace book No. 14658 which is lost. Assabet Institution for Savings, Maynard Massachusetts. Sidney E. McCleary Treasurer. July 31 August 7 14 1947.
Legal notice lists an application for four duplicate deposit books to replace Deposit Book No 5829 lost from Assabet Institution for Savings. Filed by Sian E Ammet Kear7 ens at Maynard Massachusetts.
Local Lions Club cookout at Ray Harris North Acton home and traffic upticks in Concord. Tourists flock to area and White Pond throned all weekend. Concord foursome adds swimming to golf, with notable participants. School starts September 3, Labor Day listed September 1. Sheriff R. Kew to finish term to 1948 amid Middlesex county politics. Sheraton buys Chicago Hotel Continental and plans rebranding. March of Dimes 1947 raises 17.99 million nationally with Massachusetts at 481,952. Marlborough VFW to host paralytic veterans. Field Day at Waltham draws many exhibits. Chicken in the Rough featured at Concord’s Chickenland owned by Angelo Sasi. Otis Whitney to Marlborough VFW outing. Concord Appliance ships Garod radios. K of C golden anniversary planned for December. Veterans invited to Marlborough VFW outing August 17. Russian harvest cited as boost to propaganda. Braves near first. wish for Hub intercity series after season.
Funeral services were held Monday at the Union Evangelical Church for Mrs Ella Frances Dexter wife of Willet G Dexter of Bradley Lane. She died Saturday at Deaconness Hospital Brookline after an accident involving a small truck. She was 62 and a longtime Stow resident active in Stow Grange and local church groups. Burial followed at Brookside Cemetery. Funeral arrangements were by Guyer Fowlge Funeral Service Maynard.
Notice to interested parties in the estate of Francis J. Murphy late of Maynard requests the court appoint Edith M. Murphy of Maynard as administratrix without bond. Objections must be filed by the specified forenoon on August 7, witnessed by John C. Leggat, Esquire, with dates Aug 14 21 28.
The Sabet Institution for Savings announces an application for a duplicate deposit book to replace Deposit Book No. 15111 which has been reported lost. Sidney E. McCleary, Treasurer.
Indianapolis resident William Carr told police thieves entered his car and left a note ordering him to check the right front tire before driving away. He discovered the wheel was missing.
Frederick Kattler of Springfield outlines a housing idea using four bungalows built from six old buses bought from the Springfield Street Railway Co. The plan aims to create compact living units in an urban setting.
Frank Kam merer a lifelong bachelor applied for a marriage license in Rochester Indiana to wed his house keeper Elsie Omdler 62. A bride has been married three times.
The Stow Grange plans a meeting at Stow Town Hall on Tuesday August 19 with a 5 30 pm business session followed by a mystery ride. The Borough Pomona Grange convenes Sunday August 17 at State Masters Farm Sudbury for an afternoon and evening session. Mrs Harvey Croft hosts a visit from her nephew Herett Martzinek and friend Herman Knapp from New York on a two week trip.
Mrs Witkey and Billy of Crescent Street spent a week at Oak Bluffs Martha’s Vineyard in a shared seaside escape. They enjoyed beaches and local sights during their vacation.
Mr and Mrs Toivo Erkkinen of Stow with Mr and Mrs Bernard Kankanpa and family of Maynard spent Sunday at a Gloucester beach. The outing brought together two northeast families for a day by the sea.
Mrs L Holly ang er and her daughter Miss Betty from Madison New Jersey vacationing on the Cape were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs C Warren Smith of Great Road.
The condition of Mrs. Robert Koch of Stow Center being treated at the Women's Hospital in Brookline has greatly improved and she expects to be discharged or return home by midweek.
Mr and Mrs Delancey W Hunter of Gleasdhdale Road celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary last Sunday with family and friends gathering to mark the milestone.
Miss Eleanor Tinkham of Mattapoisett Massachusetts and her guest Miss Moreen Mahoney have been visiting her grandparents Mr and Mrs Clifton Fletcher on Crescent Street the past week.
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