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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1955
Page
5
A Senate resolution to strengthen the Senate Small Business Committee gains major bipartisan support led by 54 senators. Key sponsors include Edward Thye and others amid debates over its impact on small business interests and democratic process in the U S Senate.
Fragmented report notes a meeting of the Society of St. Marys at a prison warden’s event with Father James G. chaplain, and a fundraising push for hospital funds. An Archbishop’s procession is mentioned for May 8 with a plaque ceremony, next meeting May 13.
Dates listed for upcoming local elections and meetings in surrounding communities. Concord Carlisle Bedford Lexington Lincoln Sudbury Maynard and others show town election and meeting dates in late winter and spring.
Lincoln Pvt. Robert J. Silva, U S Army, visited his mother in North Great Iowa. He completed basic training at Fort Dix New Jersey and is assigned to a guided missile battalion at the Army Chemical Center in Baltimore Maryland. A former Concord high school football player. Buy U S Savings Bonds.
At the Bedford Grange gathering in the Town Hall Ralph W. Thompson presided as master. Visiting masters included Faank McCabe Wal tham Mrs Bessie Federson Carlisle Mrs Eleanor Tierno Burlington plus Ernest Hunt Lexington with guests from Lexington Winchester Stow Concord Weirs New Hampshire and Groton. Competitive Night went to the men led by Salvatore Albani past master and refreshments followed.
Sudbury Fire Chief Albert St Germaine was called to the home of Reginald Clair on February 16th for an oil tank leak. Early Sunday the department reported a brush fire on Garrison House lane near the Boston Post road and contained the flames.
SudburyMethodist church members held a week long drive to collect warm clothing and books for Goodwill Industries and the Morgan Memorial. The drive included home pickups on the final day and boosted community support for the agency’s employment and relief programs.
The Middlesex School presents the 38th Gilbert and Sullivan opera Iolanthe or the Peer and the Peri. The performances run Friday March 4 and Saturday March 5 at 8 o clock with a large student cast under Arthur Motter Lamb. Tickets are available by phone or mail to Thomas R Huckins at the Middlesex School.
Sunday sermons at Acton churches cover Cash and Character and How Do You Think of Death. Girl Scouts host a March 5 food sale at Town Hall. West Acton Woman's Club plans American Home Day in March. Lent begins February 27 with Communion at Community Universalist Church. Emerson Hospital sees two South Acton residents, one for a minor operation and another awaiting surgery. Woman's Church Aid Society met at Acton Center Church with hostesses named.
Sudbury and area Women’s Clubs plan to attend the Massachusetts State Federation Music Festival on March 24 in New England Mutual Hall Boston open to the public men and women invited to enjoy music Mrs Arthur Thayer chair 16 Everett Rockland morning session 10 30 to 12 30 afternoon 2 to 3 30 artists and guests include Mrs Clayton H Hage pianist Mrs Edith Snell Gardner invocation Mrs Benjamin P Bill introductions of past chairmen of state committee Mrs Fred Shaw MacAlaster counselor of fine arts Mrs David M Small president of State Federation choral society Mrs Robert Hoffman president accompanist Edith Tozier Harrison Keller president of New England Conservatory of Music Boston Mary Winsor violinist scholarship winner F Otis Drayton president Handel and Hayden Choral Society Jane Matthews pianist scholarship winner Gilbert Merrill assistant director Education Dept Museum of Science Boston Joan Beals coloratura soprano scholarship winner concerts in Panama zone European trio Thomas Perry Jr manager Boston Symphony Orchestra Richard Jackson tenor soloist Boston University Joseph Kitchen concert pianist Harvard University Anne Talbot mezzo soprano John Woodworth accompanist organist Arlington Street Church Boston Judge Vincent Mottola music influences Belmont high school A Cappella Choir sang for President Eisenhower tickets from Mrs Thayer or Mrs street Whitman
Earl Rudolph, 19, a Medford hunter missing since December 10, was found in the Concord River near Maryknoll Seminary in Billerica. The body was recovered by his father Everett and brother Kenneth, with police later confirming accidental drowning as the cause.
Acton Winona Rebekah Lodge schedules two meetings this week. On Wednesday March 2 at 304 Central Street West Acton Dorothy Smith hosts with Norma Smith and Ethel God ing leading a bun dle whist. Last Wednesday's session was at Orpha Deans Central Street with Myrna MacLeod aiding. Tonight Doris Porter staff visits Grafton for a district deputy president meeting.
Carlisle Grange members attended a visit in Carlisle with Middlesex North Penn officers. A delegation then attended the Masters Association meeting in Tyningborough. Next Monday the lecturers Circle of the Middlesex North Pomona meets at Mr and Mrs Redden home in Pinehurst.
At the Cant Isaac Davis Chapters DAR meeting in the Town hall Miss Enid M. Sadler regent presided. Hostess Mrs Robert Starbuck. The next meeting is announced for March 10 with colored slides to be shown.
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