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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1925
Page
1
Firefighters battled a four hour blaze started by an overheated stove in Danforth W. Comins’s workshop over the garage on Lowell Road. The barn, hay in the barn, and tools were burned. a cow and two pigs were rescued. Loss about $1300. Neighbors helped move furniture from the house.
The Women’s Parish Association of the First Parish held its regular meeting in the vestry of the Meeting House Monday afternoon with president Mrs Eliza MacGuarrie presiding. Rev H A Pease of Fitchburg spoke as principal guest and a social hour with coffee followed.
More than 125 sportsmen from Maynard and nearby gathered at Mason Jc Hall for a banquet by the Maynard Rod and Gun Club. Joseph Schnab, club president, praised 1920 founding, 135 members, and efforts stocking pheasants and trout, stocking brooks, and aiding Massachusetts Fish and Game.
The Middlesex County Extension Service to hold its third Food Selection Project meeting at Stow School on Friday January 25 at 2 30 p m. The session will cover overcoming food prejudices and include a brief salad demonstration. Plans for a luncheon at the fourth meeting will be decided.
Report says local Finnish clubs invite Pavio Nurmi to Maynard while he travels to Boston. If he comes, a royal welcome is promised by over 2000 Finns, with Mikkola guiding athletes and Finns boasting strong performers like Savikoski and Stenroos.
Concord resident John A Brown of Monument Street is recovering at Emerson Hospital after undergoing surgery on his leg.
The Concord Female Charitable Society met at First Parish vestry for its annual session. Vice President Mrs. Henry P. Smith Jr. presided. officers were elected including clerk Mrs. Joseph H. Orendorff and treasurer Miss Helen W. Kelley. Directors named, memorial list read, and tributes paid to Miss Roma Newmen and Mrs. Elizabeth Stow. Refreshments followed under Mrs. Charles F. Bowers.
Old North Bridge Chapter of the Children of the American Revolution met at Mrs. William N. Dudley's Wood Street home. Miss Juliette Gordon presided in the absence of officers and read a paper on Concord's early settlement. Refreshments were served by Misses Esther and Ann Dudley. Next meeting set for Feb 11.
Services are held Sunday at 10 45 with the sermon Trink and testimonies of healing in Science. Sunday school for pupils up to twenty meets at 10 45. A free reading room in the church edifice offers Bible and Christian Science literature for reading borrowing or purchase daily from 2 to 5 except Sundays and holidays. All are invited.
The Cord Woman's Club literature class began its first meeting of the year at Mrs S Ripley Bartlett’s Sudbury Road home. Led by Mrs Leslie R Moorethy, the group will study Bible poetry on six Tuesdays in January February and March after regular club meetings.
The Concord Square and Compass Club met in the Masonic Temple club rooms Tuesday evening with Howard B. Daniels presiding. Duncan G. Chapman was elected president and James Derby secretary treasurer, succeeding Elmer L. Joslin. The executive committee includes Chapman, Derby, MacRae, Baker, Cox and Raymond.
The Concord National Bank held its annual stockholders meeting last Tuesday afternoon. Directors re-elected include Judge Prescott Keyes Charles E Brown William Wheeler C Hayden Whitney and C Fay Haywood. Keyes was re elected president and Haywood vice president.
Salvatore and Joseph Albans of Lexington Road were found guilty of manufacturing intoxicating liquor illegally and fined $200 each by Judge Keyes in the District Court. The cases were continued until March 13 to allow time to raise the fines.
The program for Monday January 26 features violinist Alessandro Niccoli baritone David Blair Mc Closkey and pianist Ella Flanders in a concert. Mrs G Winthrop Lee will speak on the work of the Tuskee Zee and Hampton Schools.
After a Friday rain snow and ice storm the Concord Road Department plowed all roads and cleared sidewalks by mid morning Saturday and applied sand to surfaces for traction.
Mrs Isabella Gutteridge wife of William H Gutteridge longtime Maynard resident died at her Brooks Street home Sunday morning after months of illness Funeral services were held at her home with Rev William Boicourt officiating Burial followed in Glenwood cemetery She attended Congregational Church since 1871 and was active in the Ladies Benevolent Society and Magdalene Chapter Maynard mourns a kind neighbor and devoted church member
A January 12 1871 census for the proposed town showed 1797 residents with 90 from the Stow portion and 827 from Sudbury. At Riverside Hall a name vote yielded 294 for Maynard and 32 for Glenwood with scattered votes for other names.
The Maynard Women's Golf Club held its first whist party at Masonic Hall with 12 tables. Bid whist winners were Mrs. Edna Flood first and Mrs. John Lawton second. straight whist winner Mrs. Howard Case with Miss Edna Hinchliffe second. The club plans another whist event soon.
The will of William H. Maynard of Winchester filed in Middlesex Probate Court revokes a $5000 bequest to the Methodist Episcopal church of Maynard and redirects it to the Winchester church. The estate, valued near $500,000, includes many public bequests to organizations in Boston and area charities. Ralph Eroslin of Winchester seeks appointment as administrator.
Mr. F. Harrell of Newtonville arrives in Maynard next Sunday to perform hymns and sacred music on musical glasses. These glasses, filled with water to varying heights, produce tones by finger touch. Five o'clock vesper services have drawn large congregations at Union Congregational Church, and last Sunday the Junior Christian Endeavor attended and led the singing.
President Coolidge appoints Weeks Cooke and Mrs Sabine to a Federal Commission for the Concord fight anniversary in April. Speaker Gillett names House members James Gallivan Morton Hal Andrew Montague and others. A $10,000 appropriation and 300,000 special silver half dollars are authorized for the celebration.
A daughter named Mia arrived for Mr and Mrs Clarence Doten at Waltham Hospital. The town hall screen hosts Peck's Bad Boy with Jackie Coogan as the national attraction for Extension Service Movies on Wednesday January 28 in Sudbury.
Grange officers were installed Tuesday evening January 1. Deputy H Prescott Burroughs aided by Albert Tallant Clarence Baldwin Lester Baldwin. Officers named include Master David S Baldwin Overseer Roy Hawes Scourer Mrs Myra Boerr Chaplain Rev George H Clarke Steward John Labarea Assistant steward Merton Haskily Lady assistant Mrs Mabel Moore Secretary Mrs Rico Haskell Iren Greer Flora Mrs Lillian Davis Pomona Signet Manty Cer es Eisle Oliver. Executive committee Harry Gleason Pianist Mildred Davis. Refreshments served to a large number premily.
President Coolidge may speak at an April 19 and 20 celebration. An invitation to address the event is under consideration. Samuel Hoar requests the Marine Band, Army Navy and Marine units, and the Shenandoah derigible for the commemorative issue.
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