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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1950
Page
13
Concord and nearby towns plan elections and celebrations amid school events and civic drives. Patriot’s Day proposals, a tercentenary memories, sports contests, blood drives, and a town meeting warrant highlight a busy period with public meetings, charity drives, and upcoming community programs across Acton, Chelmsford, West Concord, and Lincoln.
Dr A Warren is scheduled to speak at the Concord Talk Featured an's Club meeting next Monday at 2 45 at the Girl Scout House Edwards president notes he is a Tufts professor and MD. Erick R Child invites attendees to luncheon following the meeting.
The Concord Lions club announces a Valentine party for women at its next meeting on Tuesday at 7 pm. The event at How ard Johnson Restaurant includes a brief business session led by President Maxwell E. Lawrence followed by an entertainment program and dancing with an orchestra.
Concord Lodge 212 I.C.C.F. plans a sport film program at Odd Fellows Hall West Concord. Mr and Mrs Club holds Friday 8 pm at West Concord Union Church. Ed ward Thoresen and spouse hosted last night’s midweek meditation and prayer at Evangelical Free Church on Strawberry Will road.
Concord announces the annual joint dinner of James J. Mansfield Post No. 158 American Legion and Auxiliary on Monday February 20 in the Veterans Building. The event is open to the public with committees led by Cmdr David B. Williams and Frank J. McLaughlin. Tickets obtainable from committee members. menu features a complete turkey dinner.
James W. Powers hosts a planning meeting for the third annual Con cord Rod and Gun Club sports men show set for March 10 11 12 at the State Armory. March of Dimes donations are requested to meet the town quota.
Concord dairymen gather at the Extension Schoolhouse to hear Ralph Donaldson discuss better pastures and winter feeds. Stanley Gaunt will share feeding tips for good roughage. Herbert E. Shepard urges attendance and notes certificates for the 1949 Green Pasture Program will be awarded.
Concord hosts the Sachem Council annual banquet at Cary Memorial Hall Lexington at 7 o'clock during Scout Week marking the 40th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. Dr Nily Wessell Tufts College dean speaks on Looking Ahead With Our Youth. Silver Beaver awarded to the top local Scouter. Sachem Council includes Concord Lincoln Carlisle Bedford Lexington Watertown Waltham Arlington and Belmont troops and packs.
Concord Rainbow Girls Assembly No 53 holds its fifth anniversary at the Masonic Temple Saturday at 7 30 PM. Miss Lorraine Simms leads a short business session with motion pictures and refreshments, listing past worthy advisors since 1945.
In Cumberland Maryland Jay Lee Jobes 45 obtained a license to marry Rebe May Gwynn 22 at the courthouse. He also filed for his daughter Wilda Lee 16 to wed Joseph Ray Barclay 21 of Carmichaels Pennsylvania.
Concord couple Mr. and Mrs. George E. Jones recently marked their 56th wedding anniversary with quiet observance. Wed in Exeter, New Hampshire, they have lived in town nearly all their married life. Mr. Jones served 28 years on the Concord Board of Assessors after 12 years on the Board of Public Welfare. They reside at 23 Hubbard Street and have three daughters, five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
The Concord DeMolay Chapter meets at the Masonic Temple Friday night at 7 30 with Master Counselor Clyde Bowen presiding. Plans will be made for the February 21 dance and February 24 whist party.
Concord guests joined Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Frazier at their Lincoln home for a golden anniversary party. The couple married at St Bernard's Church in Concord and have resided in Lincoln since. Generous gifts honored them as relatives and friends from Lincoln and nearby towns attended.
Ruth LeSage three years old daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul B LeSage lives at 126 Main Street Concord. She is one of four children in the family and her birthday was celebrated this Tuesday. The note mentions a Buy U S Savings Bonds promotion.
An aged reference connects a famed ship to England's anti Armada fleet of 1588 and the Mayflower voyage of 1620 and notes its later return to England and eventual loss. The Massachusetts Development and Industrial Commission seeks state awareness of this history.
Gerald J. Cavanagh age 19 of Boston was arraigned in Concord District Court on being an accessory after the fact in connection with an inmate escape from the Waltham Hospital. He pleaded not guilty and the case was continued to February 13, with bail set at five thousand dollars and he was jailed in East Cambridge. Arizona's champion mountain lion exterminator Giles Goswick reports lion No 557.
More than 200 members and friends attended the Boston Market Gardeners Association trade show at the State Armory in Concord last Saturday. Ray M. Koon of the Waltham Field Station led the affair as secretary, with a hot luncheon followed by a business session led by President B. Franklin Trail of Lowell. Nominations for new officers will be decided at the March 4 meeting at the Waltham Field Station's new auditorium.
David Sarten of Wabash Indiana received a traffic co award despite violating a law by placing a truck beside a car in a town district. He moved the truck to a vacant lot to ease snarled traffic and delivered his ice from there before being told to call the chamber of commerce for his medal.
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