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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1940
Page
8
Sudbury activities include firemen’s association meeting and Bridge Party for British Relief. Residents anticipate home visits by local soldiers from Camp Hulen Texas for Christmas. students from William and Mary College return for holidays. Local churches, clubs, and committees organize parties and drives as residents prepare for the season.
Sunday services at 10 45 with Sunday School. Testimonial Meeting Wednesdays at 7 4 0 p m Reading Room hours 2 to 5 pm weekdays excepted In Boston Mass the lesson sermon on December 22 titled In the Universe Including Man Evolved by Atomic Force Bible selections from Colossians and a passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures outline the spiritual theory of the universe
Six Girl Scout troops usher in Yuletide with holiday events at the town house. Troop 3 staged a Christmas play led by Ann Hamlin Ann White Miriam Pinelehto Doris Seder Eleanor Dimery and Nany belle Sealey with Miss Dorothy Marsden as leader aided by Miss Welanda Flaherty and Miss Pearl MacAuslin. Troop 4's party Wednesday December 18 directed by Eleanor Colburn with Mrs Leo Downey help. Troop 2 enjoyed a party yesterday led by Marion Hull. Troop 6 held a Monday afternoon gathering directed by Jean Davis and Jean Tucker. Troop 1 led by Edith Jokikko and Troop 5 led by Mrs Ellen Sheridan and Mrs Alan Palmer slated Thursday parties.
The Acton board of selectmen meeting is moved to December 24 and January 2 due to holidays. Improvement of the town donated property at the Actor Center common has begun with brush removal and land work underway.
Maynard sports writer discusses early plans for inter town basketball leagues linking Acton Concord Maynard Hudson and Marlboro modeled after the old Assabet Valley league. He notes a hockey expansion with Maynard club readiness and urges school support for a basketball team to provide youth recreation and athletic development.
The Maynard Teachers Club annual Christmas party is set for tonight in the senior auditorium. Santa Claus impersonator Leo Mullin will distribute gifts from an illuminated tree, each with a donor attached verse. A program of music games and refreshments will follow.
In a recent pin league night the Merrymakers defeated the Maybes by three points 1463 to 1442 while the Topsies beat the Tagalongs 1440 to 1402. High scorers were Agnes Neville 108 Mary Moynihan 99 and Dorothy Dee Vera Leithead tied. Standings show Merrymakers 22 won 22 lost 15 634 pinfaiI esse. The matches run until January 7.
A compact collection of quotation snippets on joy restraint and moral living. The lines attribute wisdom to Montaigne Bovee Fielding Eddy and Seneca, urging faithful home relations and trust in personal possessions as sources of deeper happiness. The closing misquote Phileas Fletcher hints at a literary echo about worldly pursuits and fear.
Acton public schools list students on honor roll and perfect attendance at South West and Center Schools. Grade by grade, pupils from Grades 1 through 8 appear across South School West School and Center School with names including Richard Burgaw Betty Ann Gates Marguerite Goldthwaite Alfa Goldthwaite and Robert Learmonth. Perfect attendance is noted for several pupils at each location.
Maynard announces Christmas Eve Mass at St Bridget's church with midnight services. Christmas Day masses are 7:30, 9, 10:15 and 11:30. A Novena of Prayer for Peace began yesterday and continues through Christmas Day with daily prayers after the 7 o'clock mass and at 6:30 each evening.
Rev Bernard Hillila will be tendered a testimonial by parish members this Saturday evening while Rev Tillila attends Suomi College Hancock Michigan. He will serve as pastor starting in June and oversee the church through Christmas holidays. A sunrise service is planned for six oclock Christmas morning. The choir is preparing carols for its annual town pilgrimage and will join the Father League for a Christmas party Sunday. A food sale by the League was held last Saturday in a vacant Naylor block store on Nason Street.
The Maynard High School class of 19 present a Christmas social and dance in the school auditorium this Friday evening. Class officers William LeSage president Leona Arcisewzki vice president Jane Carbary secretary Edward Higgins treasurer head a large committee handling arrangements with seasonally themed features planned for attendees.
Miss Dorothy Whitmore Allen died at her home on Great Road Wednesday December 11. Born in Arlington she had lived in Acton for 22 years. She is survived by her parents Mr and Mrs W Stuart Allen of Acton and a brother Charles of Concord. Private funeral services were held at McRae Funeral Home in Concord on December 14 with burial at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Arlington.
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