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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1936
Page
2
Maynard neighborhood notices list visits, social events, church activities, dances, fundraisers, scouts, and school updates. Local residents attend, host, or organize gatherings. births, hospital stays, and civic group plans are noted, with frequent references to schools, churches, halls, and streets.
Members of the Junior Legion Auxiliary gathered at Legion headquarters Monday for a Valentine party hosted by Margaret Mary Dineen and Constance Martin. Anna Mannion of Waltham, former vice president of the National Legion Auxiliary, attended as a guest. The group planned another weekly whist party at Legion headquarters tonight.
The Senior Department of the Young Peoples Society organizes a Major Bowes amateur night. Committee on program includes Howard M. Weaving, Murray MacKenzie, Norman Walker and Rev Mathew A Vance. Robert Madson will speak on "A Place in the Sun" next Sunday evening, with Rev M A Vance delivering the morning sermon titled "Increasing Our Opportunities for Service."
Dr T W Lowney, a Watertown High School and Middlesex College of Podiatry graduate, passed state medical exams in podiatry and chiropody and is registered. He is linked with the University Clinic of Boston and Boston practice and will open an office in Maynard to treat all foot disorders.
Maynard Grange meets at Grange hall tomorrow evening for a dramatic program featuring two plays. A Tax on Bachelors directed by Irma Aldrich stars Esther Sims Ina Edwards Grace Whitney Ann Durton Myrtle Smith Phyllis Savi oski and Ellen Sheridan. The Men Give In stars Hazel Bumpus Haze Robinson Edmund Whitney and Howard Whitney plus a Valentine party and box lunch.
Mrs. Robert Hickey of Roseville California reports her doctor recommended Kruschen Salts and says she lost 17 pounds in six weeks. The letter urges readers to try a jar that lasts four weeks and costs a small sum, with a daily half teaspoonful in hot water each morning.
The article notes Bing Crosby as a Kentucky and Texas Colonel, an honorary SMU alumnus, honorary major of the Glengary Hollywood Pipe Band, and a Blackfeet tribe member. It mentions Oan Bennett co starring with Fred MacMurray in 13 Hours by Air and hints at Crosby being teamed with younger leading men.
Kent Taylor born on a Nashua Iowa ranch spent youth on pinto ponies while Robert Cummings debuts on Broadway as Blade Stanhope Conway. ZaSu Pitts and Joan Bennett joke about a mendicant play at Paramount lunch. Adolphe Menjou orders suits during a stomach ailment and drops 20 pounds before resuming wardrobe.
Jack Oakie remains one of Hollywood’s busiest players. He joins Florida Special under director Ralph Murphy this month and then moves on to Burlesque as his next project.
Frances Langford, a radio contralto in Walter Wagner's Palm Springs, earns attention for a remarkably small figure with a reported waist of 21 inches.
The minstrel show At the Cross Roads was rehearsed Sunday afternoon at Odd Fellows hall. It will be presented March 17 under the auspices of St. Bridget's parish. Rev. James heads the Children of Mary program. A Holy Name Society event starts at 6 30 tonight. Men will receive Holy Communion at masses next Sunday.
Rev Eaton Marshall pastor of the Methodist church spoke as the sixth of eighteen speakers at a coins and Union Congregational church gathering.
Incomplete notes show a Young People's Fellowship report with missing details about a trip and residents Mrs Irving and P. Fy class. No clear event date or names are fully legible.
The church school has made several scrapbooks with one destined for Boston's Children's Hospital and another for the Mission of Our Savior in Tanana Alaska. Some students plan to stain church furniture to brighten it as the Church School Council meets with the rector Monday to plan further projects for children.
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