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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1948
Page
5
Concord reports the Grange District meeting to install officers next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Fyter Valley school. Jeannette S. Stensbury is reelected master to succeed Mrs Lina Conant. Dorothy Warden, state lecturer from Auburn, leads the ceremony with her suite assisting.
The article notes 155,000 registered nurses in the American Nurses Association. It states only 26 states have censure laws for practical nurses and just two require licensure for all who nurse for hire. It adds 1,250 state accredited nursing schools.
Penny Lindsay, feeling lonely in the city, narrowly avoids a bus accident after slipping on ice. A former school friend, Alan, helps her to her feet and rekindles a plan to catch up on old times despite the bad weather. Penny reflects on her guarded city life and decides to seize a hopeful moment.
At the Sudbury Woman's Club meeting on January 7 the Sudbury Girl Scouts will stage a program themed International Friendship. Scouts in costume will represent various countries and perform two folk dances, with singing in Italian Swedish and a Negro spiritual. A doll display by intermediate scouts, drum majorettes, and tea hostesses from the scout mothers will accompany the event.
The Old Concord Chapter of the D.A.R. will hold its next meeting Saturday afternoon January 3 at 2 45 at the Chapter House. Regent Mrs Hoyt L Canary will preside and East Acton’s Mrs Stuart W Allen will speak on Hobbies. Hostesses will be Concord members with Mrs Herbert B Smith as chairman.
In his town of Boorneid, Huron, General Store grocery locker plant beer parlor lunch counter service station and living quarters were wiped out by a disaster. Carvings at ruins in Iraq hint Sulaki dogs as an ancient Near Eastern breed over 5,000 years old.
Concord and West Concord held Christmas masses and carol services. Our Lady's parish under Rev. Alexander J. McCarthy and Rev. Joseph W. Sullivan offered multiple masses with senior and junior choirs. St Bernard's celebrated midnight and morning masses led by Rev. Frederic H. Chase Jr with Manuel Perreault on organ. Other churches hosted carols, services, and Christmas stories throughout the holiday.
Apple halves baked with honey and water then topped with a butter cinnamon nut crumble. Nuts and bran or corn flakes add a crunchy finish, with a final bake until tender for six servings.
Edward P. Ross 49, a former Concord Company H member and World War II veteran, was honored at a funeral at St Bernard's Church and buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery's new veterans lot. Mourners included VFW and American Legion members with a flag-guard, volley at graveside, and Taps by the Concord Legion Band. Ross, born in Sussex New Brunswick, lived in Concord and Waltham with family ties to Alice Goddard of Waltham and Frank of Vineyard Haven, previously worked as a Boston and Maine telegrapher.
Ruth Thompson of Bedford is featured as a page of the royal court during Simmons College Olde English Dinner. The event transforms the Refectory into a medieval hall with lords and ladies in period costumes as seniors enjoy a Christmas season pageant.
Florence Prendergast of 36 Central street is engaged to James H. Dee Jr of 7 Bedford street in this town. Prendergast studies at Mount Id College Newton Centre while Dee, a Cord High School graduate and former U S Army Air Corps member, is finishing studies at Feeneriting Kid School of Drafting. No wedding date set.
Local members of the Boston Market Gardeners Association plan a noon meeting and luncheon on Saturday January 3 at Hristo County Agricultural School. Guest speaker Robert F. Stevens agriculture agent from New Haven County Connecticut will discuss How We Grew Vegetables in Connecticut.
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