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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1948
Page
9
Reverend Ernest E. Bert led a morning service at Concord Union Church as members gathered for a Protestant union service at Congregational Union. Savings bonds were mentioned in the context of church offerings.
Miss Helen Lovejoy of Upland spends August at Camp Avalon Chatham after July with Arthur Rice family at Cataumet. Her twin Louise Lovejoy, a high school student, also spent July at Camp Avalon and is now with Duncan Farnsworth at Craigville.
Mrs Petronela Gapske 67 of Lexington Road entered the hand mowing contest at the Young Farmers Field Day at Hospital Farm. She finished 13th out of 13, mowing a 10 by 20 foot plot in 1 minute 24 seconds won by Garfield Rodenhizer who scored 96. About 2500 farmers attended despite rain.
Mrs. Mirra M. Clyne begins a seven week vacation from Mill Dam duties and sails from New York on August 14 aboard the S S Queen Mary for a pilgrimage. She will visit Ireland Italy France Switzerland and England, accompanied by Misses Alice Margaret Algeo Agnes Neville Fay Neville and Mrs. Geneva Louden who went to New York last Thursday.
The 23rd Infantry Band of Concord performs the final summer concert at Rideout Playground in Westcore this Friday at 8 PM. Director Co. Harry Neilsen leads the program closing Concord summer playground classes.
Cambridge Anne Valente of Shawsheen Road Bedford is listed among 300 students enrolled at the Harvard Summer School of Arts and Sciences and Education. The program, reopened after a suspension in 1941, includes students from 46 states and 37 foreign countries.
Mrs. A. Olsen of Concord and Mrs. Ralph Howe won blue ribbons in the sponge cake contest. Arthur Schofield of Cochituate, formerly of Concord, served on the committee in charge.
G Sherman Blair Jr among early Dewey backers as Concord hosts pink necktie cheer. town concerts, playgrounds close, and local sports heat up with Acton and Maynard matchups. Weekly notes cover police rounds, city halls, dog sightings, retirements, and civic slogans amid elections and regional praise for leaders and educators.
Thomas Rando of Lincoln flew from Logan Airport to Rome Italy to see his mother Mrs Josephine Rando who is seriously ill. He expects to reach Rome Thursday then travel by train and boat to Filicudi Island off Hawaii to join his mother and brothers. It is his first trip to Italy in 29 years. At the airport were five of six Rando children and Mrs James Parks visiting grandson James Larry Parks.
Dr and Mrs Johns J Fallon of Ridge road have spent the past two weeks vacationing at Rye Beach New Hampshire.
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