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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1931
Page
2
Voters in Acton are urged to attend the annual town meeting at multiple precincts on Monday March 2 1931 to decide on articles including officers salaries town affairs Memorial observances and funding for roads bridges libraries and public services with a second session March 9 1931 at 9. The list covers budget items utilities infrastructure and governance.
Concord Grange No 150 patrons of husbandry held a meeting in Ellis Hall presided by Master Frederick Moreau and staged the Sweethearts Revue with 42 Concord and Maynard Grange members. Leading roles featured Arthur Adams William Edmonds Mrs Adelaide Sims and a large cast with Grange children among participants. Acton lodge degree team to confer the third degree on candidates at Maynard lodge I O F at Odd Fellows hall tonight.
The Forty third Semi Annual Middlesex Local Christian Endeavor Union met at West Concord Union church with societies from West Concord Groton Littleton Maynard and West Acton. Miss Elizabeth Pickard presided and Rev Edwin R Gordon led devotions at the afternoon session.
Quiet at the Wood Ayer and Washington mills as strikers and mill officials meet at City Hall for a peace conference. About 9,600 workers affected with light picket activity and police presence. One picket, Joseph Lemierx, 20, arrested for loitering. Mills may close if talks fail. Threats to expand to Assabet Mills in May as National Textile Union seeks recruits. Recognition of the I. W. U. looms as a sticking point.
A mass meeting of local textile workers is set for tonight at Parker Street Hall under the United Textile Workers of America. Horace Riviere will address the gathering as leaders discuss identical industrial conditions and efficiency expert methods. Weavers on night shifts complained to the overseer before starting work, and a committee was appointed to meet with the mill agent about conditions and pay.
The Fourth Quarterly Conference of Maynard M E Church met on February 24 led by District Superintendent Rev John L Ivey. Officers and committees were appointed across standing governance, social services, auditing, records, and church groups with Emmanuel Taylor, William Naylor, Howard A Wilson and others named in leadership roles.
A large turnout at the Harvey Wheeler School Assembly Hall marked Founders Day for the West Concord Parent-Teacher Association. President Robert McAuley welcomed guests Mrs George Hoague and Mrs Will A Charles as Mrs Hoague spoke on P T A aims and the Hoover White House conference on child health.
Sudbury High School will present two one act plays at the Methodist church in Sudbury at 3 PM on March 12 and 8 PM on March 13. The Junior High Glee Club will sing and the High School Orchestra will perform.
Miss Mary Buttrick, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Stedman Buttrick, wed John Singleton Amory of Boston at Trinity Church Concord. Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill officiated as guests and family attended, with a reception at Buttrick Farm and plans to reside in Manchester after April 15.
Maynard officials listed many appointments including John Connors as chief of police and John J. Driscoll as superintendent of streets. A long roster shows numerous patrolmen, special police, supports, and public safety roles. Marlboro reports Mrs Carlton Allen hosted a Valentine party for Auveens of Avalon at Greenwood Street with games and luncheon and favors awarded.
In Concord the two women members of the school committee Mrs. Minnie C. Moore and Mrs. Angie M. Rodday and the caucus nominee Leon F. Foss were elected to the school committee in the town's only contest. Moore 281 votes Rodday 272 Foss 259. Thomas J. Hayes 177. Berkeley Wheeler elected Trustee for Town Donations for nine years. Officers elected include Moderator B Farnham Smith Town Clerk William D. Cross Selectman Raymond Wheeler Assessor Harold Jedkins for two years George E. B. Jones Board of Public Welfare David G. Sheehan Treasurer Herbert S. Townsend Auditor Chilton Cabot Tax Collector Herbert S. Townsend Constables Has A Beau John J Dee James B. Finan William G. Ryan Road Commissioner Hugh F. Leth Water and Sewer Commissioner
Concord reports the sudden death of World War veteran Thomas Reilly at age 42 after serving as an election officer all day. He collapsed en route to his sister’s home and died shortly after arrival. He served with Company D, 104th Infantry, and is survived by numerous siblings and relatives across Concord and California.
For three years Berleigh J Pratt serves on the Board of Health followed by Dr Philip T Flavin as Municipal Light official for three years. Ralph C Pepper named Tree Warden for one year. ThomasMo Phillips reelected.
The Concord Town meeting set for next Monday March 2 at 7 30 P M at the State Armory will discuss transferring dumps oversight from the Board of Health to Roads and Bridge, establishing a school parade, routing a road from Lowell Road to Estelle T Davis land, West Concord street relocation, borrowing for Sudbury Road Church Street West Concord and a new Rudbury River bridge, by laws on fireworks golf on playgrounds and highways, and sale of Great Meadows land by the salad men.
Elizabeth Ann Hagerty a war nurse with the rank of Second Lieutenant was buried from St. Bernard's Church with Military honors. The Solemn High Mass was followed by a firing squad escort from local veterans groups and bugler taps. Hagerty born 1879 in Concord served in World War I at Walter Reed and Fort McPherson and Fort Oglethorpe. She died suddenly in 1926 and is survived by a daughter and three brothers in Concord and Sherburn.
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