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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1945
Page
8
Charles Mayo is named chairman of the Concord Polio Fund campaign. The drive urges donations through coin collectors in stores banks and post offices with special gifts sent to treasurer Gordon P. into P O Box 22 Concord. The Concordians, known as Minute Men, are urged to support a successful campaign.
The Bafta club met at Mrs L Goulding’s home on Old Bil Erica road and voted to material to make 25 etal he for service men. The hostesses were Mrs Kirton and Mrs Margaret Lyle. Donald Foster, Mo. M. M. 2-c, is stationed with the Navy at Hingham and lives on Southroad. Richard W. Murray, seaman second class, is in Clinton Oklahoma attending Naval air school.
Major Pone Peres Hunter of South arrived at the Ground and Service Station in Asheville after 31 months in the CBI Theatre. He will have access to all recreational facilities, hotel services, and meals as the mission at the station aims to maximize returned troops use through examinations. He earned battle stars for Burma Assam 1942 and China 1944 while in the US Army Air Forces Corps of Engineers. His wife Marjorie will accompany him in Asheville.
Fakord Concord Burleigh J Pratt states The Salvation Army federation aids without duplicating services. Local Service Fund overseen by a committee. Concord aims to raise 2000 for a New England project to assist veterans. Authorized canvassers are D A Ferguson and W H Gilmore from Boston Public Relations.
With two league wins in three starts Goncord High School travels to Winchester for a league contest. John Dolan is the team's manager.
The Sudbury Garden Club met at Mrs Alfred Gardner's home and elected officers for the new year. President is Mrs Alfred Ger, vice president Mrs Burchell M Johnson, treasurer Mrs Theodore aeen, secretary Mrs Allen Elwell. Reports covered last year's activities and tea was served after the meeting.
Friends of Mr and Mrs Eric Etherington announce their son Lieut G N Etherington has been reported missing in action while serving with the Army Air Force in the Pacific. The Etheringtons lived at Bedford Springs for years before moving to Pennsylvania. Etherington is a Worcester Polytechnic Institute graduate.
Sudbury reports include Mr and Mrs Edward Gibbons visiting Springfield Virginia guests of Mr and Mrs Theodore Mayer on Old Sudbury road. The former Flo Gleason property on May Nord road sold to Mr and Mrs Benjamin Smally who plan to move in after March 1. Sale handled by Wayne of Philip Burbank. Word also comes from Edmund Tulis a corporal writing from the Western Front.
Acton David Engman of Greatroad 4-H Club shows a Rt Red Cockerel at the 96th annual poultry show in Boston Gardens. Boston area births include a son Gary Roberts born January 9 to Walter E Anderson of Waltham and Mona Servais of East Acton. The notices praise the Servais family for grand pedigree honors.
Eileen Stewart marked her sixteenth birthday January 10 with a coast party at her home on South road. Guests included Joan Sullivan Nancy ODonnell Frances Powderly Jean Qua Barbara Clifford Madeline Fitch Doris Dyment Barbara Darling Albert Rivet Billy Hiscoe Alfred Stewart John Stewart David LaMontagne and Francis Sullivan.
A son, Bruce Gordon Stevens, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Stevens of Acton Center at Emerson Hospital in Concord on January 16. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Forrest E. Dean of Acton Center and Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Stevens of the Center. The father serves on active duty with the U S Coast Guard in the Pacific area.
Mrs. Alice Pinoletto of South Acton announces the engagement of her daughter Anna Siam to Hilding E. Seastrom of the U. S. Coast Guard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Seastrom of St George Maine.
On January 9 the St Hubert's Reading Club held its initial meeting in Sudbury with fourteen members present and four officers elected including Donald Marquis as secretary and Margaret Burkes or Richard Hill as treasurer. Members plan to meet the first Tuesday of each month to read children’s classics and share refreshments. The group comprises former pupils of St Hubert's.
The Concord Lions Club schedules a supper next Tuesday at 6 30 at the Old Mill Dam Tea Room with Frederick R. Child Jr in charge of the supper and Richard A. Montague leading the business session. G Sherman Blair will present an entertainment program. The Walden Royal Arch Chapter meets January 22 at the Masonic Temple with Walter F Stephenson presiding.
Miss Susan Lamond of Concord begins a one month course with the Household Nursing Association before transfer to a Massachusetts hospital for bedside nursing training. She will study management and cooking at the Boston headquarters. Local sportsmen and poultry breeders plan entries in the 96th annual Boston poultry show at Boston Garden Exposition Hall January 17 to 21, with Concord entries including Rep.
Lieut. John J. Hussey and wife Hudson announce the birth of their daughter on January 13 at the hospital. Hussey, wounded in action, is reported elsewhere and the Hudson Unit No. 100 is listed with Kearney as chairman.
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