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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1939
Page
5
Advertisements encourage careful spending and shopping efficiency to stretch family budgets. It suggests watching specials, seasonal sales, and new products to learn prices, styles, and brands for smarter purchases.
Readers are shown a display of light weight frocks in pastel shades with youthful styling. Pockets and slide fasteners add decorative function, while quilting and sheer fabrics enhance daytime wear for immediate and later use.
Utility inspired dresses dominate displays with lightweight wool in bright colors. The featured two piece sheer wool dress uses a cardigan styled jacket with shirring at the waist for a tailored fit and fresh look. Pockets sit high on the jacket with decorative stitching and a tortoise bracelet detail links to gold accents.
The Maynard Bowling League will hold its fifth semiannual banquet on Thursday night January 19 at Bike Hall with a turkey dinner, speeches, and entertainment. The Keystone team leads the league at midseason. notable players and guests are listed along with high scores and standings.
A group of former Acton high school girls, strong in basketball, have formed a team led by Miss Eleanor Nee. Coached in school by Mr. and Mrs. Lewie H. Jones, the squad includes captain Miss Marion McGuire with teammates Edna and Anna Downey and aims to arrange games at local halls under Cranston I schools supervisor Miss Nee’s guidance.
A group of friends gathered at Mrs T Charles Gallagher's Stow Road home in South Acton last Friday evening for a surprise party. Mr Gallagher was taken to Concord on a local business errand, and upon return the group sang Happy Birthday. The evening featured games music and refreshments. Mrs Gallagher received a set of dishes as a token of friendship.
Acton Grange held its first year meeting at Town Hall on Tuesday evening with a large turnout. Reports from Master Mrs. Inga Frost and lecturer Misa Hather Taylor were presented as delegates to the State Grange. Mrs. Alice Perkins elected Ceres replacing Dorothy Murphy, and Maynard Grange provided musical entertainment for the upcoming public installation on June 24.
A fashion note declares a muff completes any fur ensemble. Gray costumes and gray fur variants are popular this season with varied muff shapes and lengths to suit personal preference.
The text notes gray and purple as a winning color duo for the season. It describes gray accessories and garments including a reefer coat woven in diagonal wool with a flat gray Persian lamb collar, highlighting versatile uses with purple tones.
Fur trimmed galoshes, pleated girl dresses, and bright silks headline the season. Tyrolean mittens, dressy hats with long scarves, and red prints appear under fur coats as mid winter calls for light weight, colorfully tailored frocks with bows and wide ribbons.
Mise Vera Cross returns to her home on Church Street after spending the past week away in Brovittou.
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