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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1947
Page
9
Carlisle officials rewarded nine men including instructors and a police officer for aiding the capture of inmates from the Reformatory. Thomas P. and others received recognition and cash awards after helping locate two escapees who hid in a barn near Carlisle following a 24 hour absence.
West Concord state police barracks hosted interviews with detectives witnesses and officers about five men accused of robbing the Abbott Worsted plant in Forge Village last month. Two custody girls who handled a $31000 payroll stolen funds were also brought in. defendants are detained nationwide and will face trial later.
The Concord Oil company at the junction of Route 2 and Route 62 marks 13 years serving Concord and nearby towns since its 1933 founding by F Norman Peterson and Leonard J Smith. Staff include Norman Johanson Martha Benson Knowles Carr Curre and others with burners service by Whitney and Davis and deliveries run by Cullinane Coffey and Sablone. The firm, with 12 local employees, also sells and services deep freezers space heaters and oil burners and operates another office on Lowell Road.
Concord Woman's Club holds a February 24 meeting at 3 PM in Trinitarian Congregational Church parish house. Richard C. Potter of Worcester Natural History Museum is the guest speaker, with Mrs. Harvey E. Greenwood and Mrs. Albert A. Schaal also invited.
Scouts set Scoutorama for Saturday March 8 at 7 PM at the Girl Scout House in Concord. Thomas Hutchins of Middlesex School will MC as Concord Lincoln and West Concord units display their works and a public Court of Honor announces selected scouts. Illinois produced about 60,009,000 pounds of cheddar cheese in 1944, ranking second in cheese output.
Concord Rotary Club heard E Payson rue explain the proposed 48 cent tax rate for 1947 as part of a Finance Committee briefing. President Fred T Boyd chaired the meeting at Colonial Inn with lunch overseen by Thomas L Sanborn. January attendance reached near 100 percent with members named in attendance.
The list includes Gordon H. Nichols, Robert Parks, Robert Smith, Alden R. Wheeler, Dr Randolph Piper and Bernard E. Megin among named individuals in the public notice.
The Concord Lions Club will hold its regular meeting after supper at 6:30 PM in the Colonial Room of Howard Johnson's, with President Leeman E. Haines presiding. A program by Past President Rothwell’s N. MacRae follows. planning for the high school auditorium musical next Thursday night February 27 is announced.
The Fourth Degree assembly met at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston and announced the exemplification of the Fourth Degree to be held there on Sunday March 9 at 2 o clock. The assembly also voted to hold its annual Communion Breakfast on Sunday March 1 with details to be announced later.
The funeral for Fred A. Healy a prominent Everett businessman and Mason who died last week was held Wednesday afternoon at Woodlawn Chapel Everett He was survived by a daughter Mrs Eliot Howard of 25 Monument Street Buy Victory Bonds and Stamps.
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