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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1924
Page
5
Maynard residents host visits and guests from Everett and Acton as AOH, Holy Name Society, and local clubs plan gatherings. The season brings weather updates, a coasting accident, and a White Gift Christmas aiding Morgan Memorial and Concord Hospital with gifts, funds, and student sponsorships.
The quarterly meeting of the Assabet Institution s will be held in Maynard on Thursday May 3 1924 at eight o'clock to transact business. President Pward A Wilson officiates as clerk.
Regular May meeting of the Knights of Columbus will include a banquet for ladies. An election of chancellors will be held and tickets for the complimentary banquet are available from the committee. The first annual ball is set for Wednesday the ninth. Members should notify attendance for catering headcount. Committee members include Harold Morgan Morton John Donahue Sheridan and Roy McCor.
Readable fragment notes a property on 4 Lowell Road Concord with two bathrooms and four rooms in a residential listing.
Crowds filled watch services as 1944 began with united Congregational and Methodist participation. Rev Boicourt and Rev Redstone led vigils from 8:30 to midnight with prayer and song, a supper hosted by the Christian Endeavor Society, and greetings exchanged between Union and Finnish congregations.
Alvin Fletcher, longtime proprietor of the Plumbing and Heating store, says business in the district is better than many larger city shops. He sold and delivered over one hundred furnaces in the past year and delivered 42 Glenwood ranges in the last two winter months.
Mrs. Nettie Trees and Mrs. Sophie Watson of Lawrence were guests at the home of Oliver Trees on Randell Road for the holiday season.
The Masonic Social welcomed the New Year with a formal opening of its new quarters in Masonic Block on the second floor overlooking Frank King square. The rooms include a 20 by 25 foot billiard room, a card room, a parlor, and a 25 by 60 lounge hall with new finish and illumination. Families kept open house as members celebrated with songs and greetings.
Police records for the period Sept 30 1922 to Oct 1 1923 show drunkenness arrests at 78 with related crimes including assault and battery 19 and liquor law violations 10. Notes compare yearly drunkenness totals from 1916 to 1923 and mention Maynard as a licensing hub and a shift toward sobriety after 1920.
Citizens voted last February to install a standard accounting system and the Maynard selectmen petitioned the director of accounts. Theodore N Waddell said many towns seek installations and it may be next Fall before Maynard can be serviced. Twenty experts are working statewide and Maynard will switch at the start of 1925 after remaining on the old system for next year.
The town meeting to elect officers will be held on Monday February 11. Candidates are anticipated as filings begin and last year nine candidates vied for Selectman. Former Selectmen Keene Thompson and others were on the slate with Frank Binks Edwin Carlton David Sharpe George Smith and George Jamieson. Maynard parties will caucus for nominating candidates in the near term with Democrats and Republicans to name their slates.
Walter Mullin a Harvard Law School student spent the holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs James Mullin. Miss Alice Mullin a Boston graduate nurse also visited her parents during the festive period.
Community notes that Acton Street and Walnut Street hills drew many youngsters for sledding brought by Santa Claus. The piece urges motorists to slow near coasting hills and officials to post crossroad protections, advocating organized winter sports for healthy, happy children.
A terse report notes additional pedestrian deaths and ongoing upheaval as autocrats tighten grip. Details are sparse but the era of violence and dictatorships continues to unfold.
Arthur Kataari, a noted Tufts wrestler and baseball player, plans to return this month for a pitchers cage workout. Coach Weaver observed his fast throwing and the making of a pitcher during recent snowball practice, with Bill Morrill providing instruction. Kataari traveled 3000 miles with the college baseball and football squads last year and played in varsity games.
The Patrick Gately family expresses heartfelt appreciation to neighbors friends and relatives for kind words deeds and floral arrangements during their recent bereavement.
Middlesex Farm Bureau Home Economics department will hold a clothing class Friday from 10 AM to 4 PM at the Congregational church parlors. Open to the public though membership is limited to ten, with Mrs. Draper in charge and attendees bringing a box lunch. A Turkey Whist to follow on January 11 at Odd Fellows hall offers prizes.
The annual Congregational church meeting is set for Wednesday January 16. Frank E. Sanderson, active in the Sunday school for thirty years since age fifteen, received a $20 gold piece from the Sunday school in honor of his long service.
The ninth annual meeting of the stockholders of the Maynard Trust Co. will be held in the banking rooms on Tuesday evening January 8 at 8 o'clock. President vice president clerk and a board of seventeen directors will be elected and officers reports acted upon. George H Creighton, the president, is recovering in hospital and expected to come home early next week.
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