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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1943
Page
2
A garbled poem fragment presents festive and solemn contrasts as bells ring in the new year. It echoes themes of shedding old woes and welcoming peace, with scattered references to chromatic errors and historical strife. Lord Tennyson is credited.
Firemen rescued Lester Carr, 48, from a third floor bedroom as Mrs Parslow, 87, and her three children Eliza Beth 17 Muriel 15 and Donald 14 with their dog escaped down a smoke filled stairs from a two family house at 22 Main Street in Concord yesterday afternoon.
Old Concord Chapter D A R schedules a Saturday January 1 1944 meeting at Trinity Parish House with a musical by the Howlton family. Edward P Danis listed at Walden Street and Joseph Zakatyncki, formerly of Mill Street, noted on furlough from Camp City Virginia. wife Phyllis Ware also in service.
Mrs. Martha Simpson of 304 Main Street West Concord received a War Department telegram stating her son Private George I Simpson 24 was killed in action in Italy. He served about 11 months overseas since leaving Concord High School where he played baseball and football. He was the first Concord soldier reported killed in the European area and the sixth from Concord overall. He leaves his widow Mrs Josephine Mazzeo Simpson of West Concord.
Reports confirm Albert E. Robinson, former Concord High School teacher now at Melrose High, suffered a broken arm in a train mishap near Melrose. A girls basketball team is planned at Concord High with Miriam C. Clark coaching. Eileen Farrell concert postponed to January 9 at a Boston hotel. Pvt. William LaHift, formerly of Concord, reassigned to a new base after Marine service. Fire department notes 201 fires this year. New officers named for West Concord Ladies Union and Hawthorne chapter OE. Middlesex Co League hockey opener set Wakefield at Hunt Gym, January 7. Tin can drive aids war effort under Lennox H. Lindsay. Parker Colby, social worker at West Concord Reformatory, takes military leave to join Navy.
Paul Davis of Windsor offers 10 years of experience in cleaning and servicing stoves and furnaces. Reliable repairs and maintenance are highlighted for home heating systems.
Concord news notes Lieutenant Norman L. Scherer received a commendation from Major General John R. Hodge for meritorious conduct and bravery on Guadalcanal. As reconnaissance troop commander he twice led combat missions, including an ambush flank that knocked out a machine gun nest and killed five enemies. He aided wounded officers in a treacherous retreat.
A group of Concord men reported for U S Army active duty after a three week furlough at Fort Devens. Those reporting include Fredson A. Kelly John W Culkins Leo M Culkins Joseph M Steinmann Donald J Flannery Walter E Loomer Robert E Sheehan TM Cochran Richard Swany and James V Palumbo. The Concord board issued January induction notices expected to be smaller than December. The next call will report at the Boston induction center as Fort Devens closes December 31.
Concord funeral services were held for Andrew Poland age 84 a long time resident who died last Thursday at his daughter's home Lena Blake in Melrose Rev Edward Perry Daniels of the First Parish Unitarian Church officiated at Joseph Dee & Sons Funeral Home 43 Bedford Street Burial was in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery Poland a native of Peru Maine had long lived in Melrose
A press item mentions a well known plumber and notes his wife died two years ago. It records Mrs Blake once of Bedford and a daughter from the family. It also reports a meeting of a forum on Sunday January 9 inviting the public. A Rosemary Street firm has received a letter for Brandson Corp and Robert B Field in the Marine Corps stationed in the Southwest Pacific. Field entered service January 1941 and has been overseas nearly 20 months and received Christmas packages at his station.
Miss Joyce Stafford, daughter of Concord residents Mr and Mrs Angler Stafford, married Lt John A Dean USAAF at the Coffeyville Kansas Air Base chapel on Sunday December 19. The ceremony was by chaplain M Parland with a reception at the Officers Club. The bride wore white slipper satin with seed pearl veil and carried white roses bouvardia and gardenias. Best man was Capt Warren A Terry USAAF. The couple will live at the Coffeyville base. Also noted was the annual Christmas Carol program held Friday evening at 9 o clock at the First Parish Church.
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