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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1950
Page
5
Reads like a list of newborns announced in a town paper. Mentions births on January dates to families including Phillips, Igberin, Smith, Murphy, Dow, and Lawryard in Acton and West Acton areas. Notes total count of 2,796 known in the world.
The Annursnac Grange P of H will hold its next meeting in West Concord Monday night January 23. Past Master's Night will be observed with a hobby night led by the literary committee and refreshments served. Edward Rundgren serves as master of the Grange.
West Concord 212 club books the popular stage and radio western Tex and the Night Riders for a Harvey Wheeler school appearance. Matinee at 3 15 pm and 8 pm show Friday February 17. Dancing after the show with Tex and his musicians providing the music. Buy U S Savings Bonds.
Concords Red Cross blood program was outlined at a recent meeting led by Winthrop W Sargent with John W Putnam Ernest I Toombs and Mrs John L Washburn discussing community support. The bloodmobile will visit Concord three times this year on Feb 24 May and November collecting up to 450 pints.
A Boston group develops a beta gauge using Oak Ridge isotopes to measure tobacco with five millionths of an inch precision. The device promises uniform cigarette quality and noncontact measurement, paired with a Brown recording instrument for broader industrial use.
A recent survey of Midwestern households shows over 65 percent prefer colors other than white for kitchens. Gray tops at 15 percent, cream 14 percent, blue green nine percent, and yellow nine percent, with color shaping efficiency and atmosphere per designer Ketcham.
DETROIT. The Oak Park Christian chapel freed kittens from the heating pipes after a week of shivering nightly services. Mother cat Snowball and two kittens emerged, with others spotted by meows. An electrician used a wire and mirrors to coax the remaining kitten out.
Oshkosh inmate Harold Harnitz, serving a drunken driving term, spends nights in Winnebago county jail knitting. Taught by jail matron Grace Cooper, the 31-year-old has already produced a sweater and a shawl.
Concord reports Carlisle caucus with 71 voters. In Board of Public Welfare race James H Wilkins declined renomination. nominees are Nancy H Hosmer Ruth Robbins and Elea nor S Phillips. Phillips 33 Hosmer 80 Robbins 1. In school committee Harriet B Patch reelected with 35 votes after a contest Isabelle Campbell 33 Dorothy Clark 1. Planning board renominations R Wright McAllister 54 Paul R Coombs 55 defeating Richard Warren 33 Stanley D Wright 33. Moses references Mary Baker Eddy.
The Middlesex Turkey and Poultry Directors' Association hosted a January 11 banquet at Monument Hall Concord to launch the Middlesex Turkey and Poultry Guidebook. About 200 attended. cuisine was by William Monson with Wit Phalen’s Orchestra. Leaders included Henry C. Kleuber chair F Wendell Putnam treasurer and George Caldwell at the door. Also present were Arthur E. Wardwell Stanley Szopa George Wakeman and other regional poultry officials and university staff.
Mr and Mrs Leslie C Petersen announce the birth of a son January 11 at Emerson Hospital. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Wallace B Locke of West Concord and Ludvig Petersen of Sudbury.
The excerpt sketches Concord and surrounding towns as caucuses begin with Carlisle and Concord, mentions candidates for Middlesex sheriff, local officials' rounds, church activities, a Maynard funeral, historical notes, and upcoming events including Groundhog Day and town meetings. It notes civic groups, bus routes, a Boston Poultry Show, and charitable drives like March of Dimes and Cancer campaign planning.
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