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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1923
Page
8
M. B. L. Bradford recently passed government radio examinations and is the sole Concord holder authorized to send radio messages. He has set up a small building on his grounds as a sending station and hosted a gathering with music. The club has a 40 member limit and plans an upcoming game among teams Firemen A H and KC.
At a recent Tuesday Club meeting Mrs Thomay Whitney surmised a musicale program with student performers and vocal numbers, highlighting local talent and club activity.
After a snowstorm two boys asked to shovel paths on Sudbury road but failed to land the job. They continued along the sidewalk, one boy guiding a shovel to push and stack shoveled snow into a street pile. Every little bit helps.
An alarm sounded Friday forenoon from Box 26 at Musketsquid and Nashawtuc roads. The department was called to Em street residence of Mrs George E Walcott for a cim ney fire. no damage reported. Next Thursday evening January 18 at
The year 1922 saw 118 fire alarms in town. The Helsher and Crossley firms may have run up the largest bill, and the notable blaze on Lexington road burned a canvas valued at $100,000 along with its containment building.
D A R members postponed their Saturday meeting originally set for January 13 because stormy weather made travel to the meeting place difficult. A new date was not yet announced.
One of last week’s coldest mornings, Migs Betty Dunraine rode her horse through heavy snowdrifts bareheaded, drawing attention in a striking scene.
In Washington a vast pit near Connecticut avenue reveals stumps and logs of cypress preserved in swamp ooze. The trunks span six to fourteen feet with some estimates of 25 feet thickness, dating back at least 16,000 years before written records. Scientists note remarkable preservation of sapwood, heartwood, and even bark, with waterlogged conditions keeping the wood intact for millennia.
Prince Eric, heir to a fortune emptied by a bank collapse, plans to sell his Jutland estate at Kok kedal. He has lived under an assumed name as a cowboy on a large U S ranch for the past 18 months and says life outdoors is the only life worth living.
In Bolchow Missouri farmer Virgil Weed age thirty five was attempting to move a mule from a mire when another mule kicked him causing fatal injuries. The accident occurred near St Joseph Missouri with Weed dying from the injuries sustained at the scene.
In Tang Beach California a playful mob of youths chase police to a tree to enforce an antispooning ordinance. A blotted record shows the incident with a young couple blamed as tree spooners in the scene.
Owing to extreme cold and stormy weather the Concord Lodge No 212 1 O O F annual concert set for Friday evening is postponed indefinitely.
Miss Catherine Reilly surprised at a neighbor’s home when friends gathered for a miscellaneous shower in her honor. The party honored her upcoming marriage to John H. Wallace on Sunday next, with a gift basket of cut glass silver linen china and kitchenware. Refreshments followed as guests from Concord Concord Junction and Maynard enjoyed the event.
Supt. of streets Driscoll plans to remove shoring under the Main street bridge as soon as the contractor can. Workmen will clear the ridge shoring this week while water at the bridge sits three feet higher on the upriver side, threatening surrounding property if the river beneath remains blocked to Carrs.
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