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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1948
Page
7
A regular meeting at the town hall Tuesday evening will install officers including Dex Wheeler of Berth and discuss the high school party. A Sunday school event with supper and gifts was held, and marriage ceremonies were noted for December 29 at Stow Town with Rev Melvin Cle.
Boston theater scene features a tonal production of The Teethh at the Copley Theatre Prize. The show runs from Monde 20 with Saturday evening performances and matinees, starring Lulah Bankhead and a cast including Murphy el’Livy Fo lin Ruth Me Ten Burme and Joseph Le mines.
A bustling Christmas week message urges shoppers to send cards early and insure letters. Use full addresses and clear handwriting, prefer first class mail, and add a three cent stamp to each card. Air mail offers quicker delivery, but domestic letters remain basic.
A fragmentary note traces the development from early Papal bells to the carillon. It mentions Pope Sabinianus and the first church bell around 098, describing the carillon as a refined, sensitive instrument used to herald Christmas.
Fragmented text ponders Christmas as a state of mind and guiding star. It recalls Christ’s birthday and urges reflection on faith, service, and peace amid holiday contemplation.
Hilja M Soininen of 8 Deane Street Maynard died Tuesday morning after a long illness. Born in Finland she had lived here 35 years and was 62. A mill worker she belonged to the Lutheran Church. Funeral services Friday at 2 pm at the church with Rev Eino Vekwonen officiating. Burial in Glenwood Cemetery under Fowler Funeral Service. Survived by a sister Ida.
Maynard Mrs Helmi Lehto of 8 East Street has been a patient at Emerson hospital following a heart attack and expects to be home for Christmas.
The Jolly Five 4-H Club held a Christmas party Tuesday at leader Mrs. Ralph L. Sheridan’s home 7 Lindberg avenue. Members exchanged gifts played games and sang carols. Refreshments were served. Officers listed include President Alice Spurrell Vice President Nancy Bain Secretary Kathleen Sheridan Treasurer Georgia Hatch and Reporter Janet Gentsch.
The last winter classes sponsored by the PTA were held last Thursday in the town hall. Each group enjoyed a Christmas party with hostesses including Mrs Arthur Hall Mrs William Barss Mrs Woodbury Stevens Mrs Allen G Moody Mrs Raymond L Hatch Mrs Hal Newport Mrs John M Whittier and Mrs Russell C Berry.
SUDBUR} Mrs Hilda Whitworth formerly of Sudbury now in pelealen visits Mr and Mrs Calvin Eaton of Concord Road for two weeks. Mr and Mrs Charles Whitworth and baby recently moved from the Eaton home to Mull Lane rented house. Ralph E Gray will move soon to the garage apartment at Mrs George Raymonds on Raymond road. Donald Tucker Maple avenue home for Christmas from the College of Chiropractics in Tenois with his wife and family.
Motorcycle registrations in Minnesota jumped from 3 45 in 1945 to 9 359 last year indicating a strong postwar surge for two wheel travel. The growth shows growing mobility and demand for motorized personal transport across the state.
A reader describes the Christmas putz as a Bethlehem themed display found in homes during Yuletide. The scene represents the birth of the Christ Child with figures placed in a Judea inspired Bethlehem setting, reflecting a long standing holiday tradition.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey N. Fair bank traveled to Island Trees New York to visit their daughter Mrs. Robert Hanifin Jr. They were joined by Mrs. Daniel Lee Waters who rode to Huntington Long Island to see her aunt Mrs. Marguerite Bradshaw then visited her husband at the Brooklyn Navy Yard where he is stationed temporarily. Charles C Way Candy Hill was taken to Osteopathic Hospital Boston for an appendectomy while Mrs. Earl W Huckel Congard Road was operated on at Parkway Hospital Boston Saturday morning.
Mrs Gwendolyn Noyes MacDonald of 10 Peakham Road has been granted permission to open a thread and needle shop at her home. The shop will offer knitting bags and supplies, knitted baby items, cotton thread, darning cotton, and needles, with plans to add a full line of sewing accessories.
Christmas Day observances in all Bedford homes. Sunday Masses at St Michael's Church and church services at Church of Christ and First Parish Unitarian. A Christmas party at Town Hall and a Tuesday American Legion Auxiliary event are listed.
The Union Church in Acton held a big Sunday afternoon Christmas service at four with white gifts and candle lighting. Special choir music and carols drew praise. A 7:30 p m Christ service at the parsonage is planned. A New Year’s Eve Watch Night service will run from 9 p m to midnight. All are welcome.
The report states 1,600 ships have been at the depths of the Rhine since the end of the war, evidencing heavy postwar river traffic and lingering disruption on European waterways.
Centre School Acton presents today a multi grade program featuring Grade 2 poems and songs including The Baby's Stocking Santa Claus and the Mouse and Jingle Bells. Grade 4 performs The Christmas Fairy and Scrooge with a full cast and grade 6 reads Making Christmas Presents and presents a play Elsie's Christmas Eve with chorus and announcer Robert Whittier.
Concord readers attended a lesson sermon at First Church of Christ Scientist Lowell discussing whether the universe and man are products of evolution. The topic touched on atomic force and broader scientific perspectives.
Report notes two weeks of holiday music played over a loud speaker system in Framingham. Appreciation is expressed and there is hope a similar event may occur in Sudbury next year.
Mr and Mrs Edward Cutler of Landham Road hosted a gay Christmas gathering on December 18. Guests from Sudbury and Framingham enjoyed a covered dish supper, games, gift exchange, and presents. Attendees included Richard Cutler, James Barnes, Stanley Foster, Clarence Klock, Harry Lel and Howard Blades, among others.
The Sudbury Woman's Club hosts a January 5 guest night with special programs by Thomas H. Mahoney and a post meeting supper chaired by Mrs B M Johnson. The report also notes DDT spraying to control gypsy moths in Pennsylvania and a C 47 aircraft that treated forest land far faster than men over five years.
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