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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1933
Page
4
Boston Consolidated Gasco invites readers to submit free recipes for a prize contest. One recipe per entrant will be tested in a large kitchen and printed with sender details if accepted. Weekly awards include copper kettle prizes and a cookery feature.
The Concord League of Women Voters announces study groups twice weekly starting Thursday January 5 at 3 pm at Mrs. Wm. Cole's Middle Street and Monday January 9 at 10 am at Miss Sarah Goodwin's Lowell Road. Sessions cover Women as purchasing agents for the home and Living Costs led by Mrs. George Parsons and Mrs. Benjamin Wilson.
The Trinitarian Congregational church in Concord Mass lists Sunday services at 9 30 a m 10 45 a m with sermon on If I Had But a Sermon to Preach. Midweek service Wednesday January 11 at 7 45 p m. Annual church meeting Friday January 25 at 7 45 p m. Womens Union annual meeting Thursday January 19 with morning sewing at 10 and box luncheon at noon. A popular lecture at 3 pm titled On the Trail of Columbus in Porto."
The First Parish in Concord announces a church school at 9 45 a m and a morning service with a sermon at 5 a m on Sunday January 8 The sermon subject is Wo Goals for the New Year Representatives from fifteen Unitarian churches within ten miles will meet with the First Parish Laymen's League in the evening of January 8 to discuss league matters.
Readers are invited to send cookery problems to Miss Darling at this newspaper. She will respond in the column or by personal letter.
A buffet supper is set for six with group singing led by Mr Free W Archibald of Framingham. At eight Hon Herbert Parsons president of the Laymen's League will speak on A Unitarian Views the Future. Malcolm Rees will discuss Chapter problems. The Emerson Society will visit the Young People's Religious Union of Belmont on Sunday evening Jan 8.
Robert Asbjornson catcher for the Cincinnati Reds married Miss Anna Summer of Lexington in a secret ceremony at the First Parish Unitarian Church parsonage. Rev Edward Perry Daniels presided after licenses were obtained from Concord and Lexington town clerks. Clarence Johnson was best man and Miss Frances Hickey maid of honor.
Mrs. William A Rodday and two other matrons attend the scene as Central Station firemen tackled a cellar fire at 12125 pm in the residence of William H Dee on Bedford Street. The blaze caused smoke but did little damage and was quickly extinguished. Donald Wood joins Reed and Barton as plant chemist after holidays with family in Concord.
Sunday at West Concord Union Church the New Year was marked with organ music by Miss Nina Ruble and a choir anthem The Dawn of Hope led by Whitney Coombs. Rev Alfred Wheeler Stone delivered a children talk and a sermon titled A New Year With God Communion was observed in the afternoon and three new members were received. Senior Christian Endeavor Society met at six with John Damon leading a discussion on Facing Life's Vanity.
Middlesex County faced a sharp temperature plunge from Saturday noon to Sunday morning as some areas saw a 60 degree swing. A northerly gale accompanied the cold while Lexington recorded a low of 5 above zero and many cars had radiators frozen after an overnight outdoors stay.
Rev. John Sears, new curate of St. Bernard's Catholic Church Concord Center, celebrated his first Sunday mass in St. Bernard's church New Year's Day morning.
The Concord Female Charitable Society will hold its annual meeting at Trinity Church Parish house at two o'clock Wednesday afternoon January 11. The session will review activities and finances and elect officers for the coming year.
Trinity Church announces Epiphany services led by Rector Emeritus Rev. Smith Owen Dexter and Rector Rev. Charles Russell Peck. Schedule includes Holy Communion January 6 and 8, church school, morning prayers, vestry, annual society meeting, choir rehearsal, and a January 14 parish party with student games and refreshments.
The Concord Rod and Gun Club placed third in the weekly triangular 45 tournament at Monument Hall Friday, scoring 41 games. Concord Council Knights of Columbus led the season with 25 for the evening, while the Hibernians held midtable with 34 for the evening and total. Captain Thomas J. Bryan's Hibernian No. 4 squad posted the evening's high team total, 12 games, as grand totals show Knights 329, Hipern-Sas 289, and Rod and Gun Club trailing.
Chile starts on Wednesday January 4. Six lectures by Mrs Ruth W Fuller run Wednesdays through January and February at 3 45 PM in the High School library. Single tickets or full course passes are available from Mrs George F Root.
About 40 members attended the Middlesex County 4 H Alumni Association winter meeting at the county Extension Service headquarters on Everett Street. James Edney of South Acton presided as president. George Erickson addressed the group. Rose Hartley directed the banquet. Irving Wooldridge arranged entertainment and a mystery auto ride ending at a Fort Pond camp in Littleton.
Miss Mary O Abbott president of the Musketaquid Sportsman's Club led the .410 gauge division with 16 hits in a 25 bird skeet event at the club grounds in West Concord. Archie P Simpson of West Concord and Salvadore A Macone tied for top honors in larger bore guns with 20 of 25.
Three West Concord young men Robert Rodday Warren Fish and Kendall Adams hosted a New Year’s Eve dance in Warner Hall for the younger community. Christ trees colored lights and Irma Durkee’s orchestra set a merry mood as the young crowd danced in tune and time to lively strains.
The January meeting of Old Concord Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will be held Saturday January 14 at the Chapter House. Rev. George L Thurlow of the Trinitarian Congregational church will speak on Some Easily Forgotten Phases of National Defence. Hostesses include Mrs Augustus L Morse Miss Sarah Bent Mrs Alfred T Haynes Mrs Alfred E. McCleary and Mrs John B Miller.
Rev and Mrs Edward P Daniels hosted an at home reception from four to seven PM on New Year’s afternoon. They welcomed a large number of First Parish parishioners and other friends.
Rev George L Thurlow and Mrs Thurlow hosted their annual New Year Open House at the Manse from two to seven on Sunday afternoon greeting many church members and friends.
Russell Smith attended as usher at the Cambridge wedding of Katharine Hughes and John Whittemore Teele on December 26. The couple, soon to reside in Concord, will live after their wedding trip in a small white cottage on the Sydney Coolidge estate.
The Ladies Missionary Society of West Concord Union Church meets this evening. Fred W Gale is reported as doing well after a severe operation last Thursday at Emerson Hospital. The altar flowers on Sunday honored Mrs Cora R Hatch, late deaconess, with the gift from her family.
Under the Missionary Society of the Evangelical Free Church a Christmas party was held in Lang Street church building Thursday evening. Pastor Olaf M. Johnsen gave an address, an instrumental trio performed, and the church band provided music. A Christmas tree stood as gifts were distributed to attendees.
A joint gathering of Laymen from Unitarian churches in nearby towns will convene at the Vestry of the First Parish in Concord. The event on Sunday January 8 includes a 6 30 supper a secret hour and an 8 p m address by Hon Herbert Parsons President of the Unitarian Laymen's League. The meeting aims to foster acquaintance and feature the league president.
Mr and Mrs Thomas J Bryon of 5 Bryan Street Concord announce the engagement of their daughter Eleanor to Arthur L Mahoney of 452 Centre Street Jamaica Plain The bride to be is a Concord High School class of 1928 graduate and a Boston Commercial School alumna formerly with New England Tel and Tel Company The groom to be is a Randolph High School and Burdett College graduate now employed by Johnson Service Company in New York.
Sunday service at 10 45 with Sunday school. Testimonial meeting Wednesdays at 7 45. Reading room hours 2 to 5 pm weekdays. Sacrament lesson sermon for Sunday January 3 features Hebrews 13 16 and John 6 35 plus excerpts from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
A local ad urges readers to cultivate cheerful, imperative and saving moods. It suggests adopting a habit of positive thinking, accepting realities, and investing in concord cooperative bank at 5 percent interest, as a shield in tough times.
The Concord Rotary Club met at the Colonial Inn with President Burleigh L. Pratt presiding. Vice President Thomas Curtin of the Waltham Trust Company spoke on an optimistic trend and at the next meeting on January 5 Lexington Rotary Club will be guests of the Concord club.
Concord Sportsmen reelected Horne of 55 Tuureau street as president for a second term at the annual meeting held Wednesday evening at the club house off Virginia road. Elmer D. Rankin was named vice president and Police Chief William G. Ryan reelected secretary and treasurer.
Concord hosts the first gathering of the Minute Men Federation linking sixteen Unitarian parishes. Parson's president and Massachusetts Child Council executive secretary will speak. Dinner at 6, program at 8 on Unitarian views of the future. Groups span Lexington to Sudbury with invitations to nearby towns.
Rankin Frederick Nolan Darel Hayes and Josep Agee form Rabbit Distribution with William G. Ryan as chair, joined by William Bulger Elmer Rankin Alfred Baptiste II Theolore Agnew. Fish Distribution lists Frederick Nolan as chair with Elmer Rankin John K. Kelley Albert J. Hicks and Joseph Alged.
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