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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1931
Page
3
Maynard community notices include council health board details, family travels to Quebec for a funeral, school and church events, sports plans by Tremont K of C, and various visits from local residents. The season features basketball hopes, a Lions club style meeting, and a sermon on American enemies.
Grace Salloway and Edwin Jr joined a group singing at ceremonies in Woburn on Saturday. Margaret Lawton visiting relatives on Long Island. Middlesex County Legion council members will meet with Frank J. DeMars Post Auxiliary at Masonic hall as about 200 people from 46 units attend. The event includes a parade led by the Hudson Fife and Drum unit and a post auxiliary installation ceremony.
A local listings item notes a table board event at 54 Summer Street Maynard on a date not specified. The brief entry identifies the venue and activity without further details.
The Ladies' Aid of Maynard Methodist church will host a supper this Saturday starting at 5:30 PM. Proceeds support church activities and community outreach.
Maynard and Clinton bowlers competed in a post office league match led by captain James Farrell. Maynard posted high scores with players White Rockwell Hoffman and others earning top totals while Clinton’s Gibbes also starred. final tallies show Maynard edging Clinton with notable team scores.
Hell's Angels stage show drew packed houses at Sunday evening and matinee shows at eight o clock. The production is touted as the most impressive spectacle this type of cure has offered and praised as a master motion picture the world has waited three years to see.
Jack Oakie stars in The Gang Buster opening Monday at the Yples Theatre. He plays a small town insurance man with big city ideas, navigating a racketeering city and a romance with Jean Arthur. A sequence features Oakie saving lawyer William Morris from a mob threat and prompting an insurance pact, while Morris’ life is put at risk by racketeers.
Local classifieds show domestic help offered at a residence on 44 Main Street ward. The notice provides no further details on services or conditions.
A Maynard cooperative hall filled for a Textile Workers Union meeting led by James Reid. The speaker described a so called union of the Teds called the Communist union and named a mill committee to act for workers, noting only one committee member reportedly affiliated with the National Workers Union.
The Maynard Methodist Church reports high attendance for Mr. Mills sermon on the Modern Church. He will discuss World-Wide Methodism and Why this Sunday. Miss Florence Hastings leads the Epworth League Devotional on How Old Is Your Religion. Mills also plans a talk on Does Netty Law Need Billy Sunday. A Quiet Hour Service grows among the Methodist members.
A talk titled Stories of the Weet featured at the program in Hudson lodge with attendees from Natick. Plans for a return visit and further entertainment at Natick Ridge were announced for a later date.
The sixth and last home whist party of Joyce Kilmer Circle took place at the Winter Arden on Monday night. Attendance set a record with more than forty tables in play. Ladies first prize went to Alma Normand, runner up Mrs George Sharp, Arlene Jones, Mrs Jessie McGarry, Mrs William Mann, and Mrs Ida Brooks. Men’s first prize went to Pred Wilder, John Moore second, Edward Ledgard third, Julius Glickman fourth, A Hilferty fifth, with John Hanson as consolation. The grand prize for the series was awarded to Miss Helen Leary.
Girl Scouts of Cloverleaf troop held a George Washington and Valentine party in the vestry of the Union Congregational church. A new Owl Patrol banner was unveiled and the motto shown. The Stolen Prince a playlet will be given on March 9. After a Monday hike the girls had lunch with their captain, followed by a scout meeting.
Maynard moved picture showings occurred last Sunday at three local theaters. It was the first Sunday program authorized by the Selectmen after the election approving Sunday moving picture performances. The venues drew large attendance.
Mr and Mrs John Bamford celebrated their 22nd anniversary with a family dinner at their Pumping Station Road home. Attendees included Harold Laird Willis Wright Kendell Lyon Lester and family. Miss Harriet Bamford of Boston assisted. The Anchor and Ark Glee Club and Mason Lodge members performed at a Framingham concert. Ruby Hamlin and Manel Coughlin are reported improving in Brookline hospitals. Stow Grange to present minstrel show on March 3 at Town Hall. Catherine Bariteau from Bridgewater Normal visited home. Richard Lawson from Springfield College home for weekend.
The Enterprise seeks fuller coverage of local activities across departments. Press agents and clubs should notify the newsroom of meetings with full details, especially in advance, to improve reporting and story quality.
Marlboro residents report P Fahey and Sons awarded the job to move two occupied houses, a lunch room, six cottages, and other buildings on Lakeside Ave and Northboro Rd. The moves support land acquisition for the Marlboro Northboro state highway widening project now underway. Mayor Amedee A. Martel says work will begin soon and be finished by early summer. B Perrini & Sons of Ashland holds a state contract for the project.
Marlboro Mrs Evelyn Poole led a Legion auxiliary meeting at Grand Army hall in Idith Akroyd’s absence. Final plans to join Waltham unit for a birthday party Thursday night at Bedford Veterans Hospital. Attendees meet at 6 30 in front of the hall whist followed the session favors to Mrs Minnie Callhen and Mrs Abbie St Lawrence.
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