Probate Court Notice of Estate Admin Request
In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate Court a notice states that Helen of Maynard is applying to be administrator of Jane Hinchliffe late of the county estate. Interested parties may object by appearing before ten oclock on the ninth day of February in the year 1940 at the court. The notice is signed by John C. Leggat First Judge and Loring P. Jordan Register dated January 24 and February 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Jane
Hinchliffe
Helen
Maynard
Ige
John C. Leggat
Salt Court
Loring P. Jordan
Register
John JG Léggat
Loring P
Jordan
Ess
John
Hegeat
Probate Court Notice of Intention to Probate
Interest persons are notified that Annie of Maynard filed for probate of a will purporting to be Mary I Joyes late of Massachusetts. objectors must file an appearance in the Probate Court before 10 o clock on February 12. Judge Léggat presides. Register Loring P Jordan notes dates January 1 1940.
Probate Court Sets First Account for Herman Chaplin Tate Estate
Massachusetts probate court notices the estate of Herman Chaplin Tate in said county, seeking objectors to the administratrix’s first account. Interested parties must appear by ten oclock on the return date, with attorney present in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Chaplin Tate
Vebra
Probate Court Notice for Maynard Will Beneficiary
In Maynard estate the probate court invites interested parties to object to the trustee A Coggeshall’s handling. Parties should file objections before ten o clock on the return day, February THO, with the court in Sala Coun.
Female Help Wanted WANTED General
Help wanted advertisement seeks live in maid and good cook for laundering duties. State age qualifications and contact The Enterprise Marlboro in Box H.
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Box H. Co
Marlboro
Sheriff sale of Sudbury land in Middlesex County Mass
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss January 27 1940 taken on execution sold at public auction February 28 1940 at 1 PM in Cambridge all the right title and interest of Harold W Hammond as of April 21 1929 in a parcel of land with buildings in South Sudbury bounded by railroad right of way the depot road and a stone fence with rights and privileges in the deed recorded Middlesex South District Deeds book 2837 page 518 and a listed right of way as described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
Second Street
Cambridge
Harold W. Hammond
Sudbury
South Sunbury
Middlesex County
Bostons& Maine
Massachusetts Central Railroad
New York, New Haven Hartford
Ira T. Moore
Middlesex South District
Probate Court probate of Ellen G Joyce estate
Four persons seek to settle the estate of Ellen G Joyce of Maynard Middlesex County A petition filed by Annie T Joyce requests appointment as administratrix with will annexed The citation sets February 19 1940 as return day in Cambridge observers may file written appearances prior to ten in the morning Joint judge John C Leggat Esquire presided January 24 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
Ellen G. Joyce
Maynard
Annie T. Joyce
Cambridge
John CC. Leggat
Cold Job Taking Alaska Census
The article describes Alaska census work conducted in winter by dogsled and snowshoes, reaching hunters, fishermen, and isolated Eskimo communities. Enumerators face harsh terrain from Point Barrow to Sitka, with supply ships, airplanes, and a rein deer agent aiding reach to remote trappers and miners across Wrangell and Talkeetna ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alaska
Attu
Jim Smith
Annapolis
East Aurora
Seattle
San Francisco
Mer
Indian Service
Bering Sea
Point Barrow
Interior Department
Boxer
Nome
Point Bartow
America
Diomede
Beringstrait
Wrangell
Talkeetna Mountaing
Ivan Skarland
Harvard
Fairbanks
Mauntaing
Teen Age Tipplers Are Inebriates in Later Life
A Keeley Institute survey shows 74 percent of male patients drank before 21 and 18 percent after reaching adulthood. Among minors who drank, 10 percent did so in high school and 21 percent at age 18. City residents dominate, salesmen and executives notable, bartenders minimal. Ninety percent native Americans. average patient age 40, range 22 to 60.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwight
IIL
Keeley Institute
Martin Nelson
The
Institute
Coffee price rises in Budapest cafes
Budapest cafes charge 20 cents per cup after a government order lifted coffee to 3 dollars a pound. The price hike follows the new regulation and affects daily purchases at local establishments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budapest
Stolen Bathtub Baffles Butte Home Owner
Max Galasso found his own house in Butte Montana had a bathtub stolen. Police were alerted as the odd theft drew attention in local crime notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Story Butte
Mont
Max
Galasso
Legend of Ocean Born Mary Haunts the Buried Treasure Tale
Ni Renniker recounts the legend of Ocean Born Mary a Highland pirate tale retold by Meérini residents. The story centers on a pirate captain who christened a Scottish Irish baby and later shared a life with her burying seven million in gold then vanishing. Current house occupants claim Mary protects and warns of danger keeping fires at bay and vanishing near the door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Renniker
Meérini
Marty
Art
Boston
Mary
Henaiker
L. M. A. Roy
Flora
Roy
Another Town in Arizona To Join Ranks of Ghosts
Clemenceau Arizona awaits abandonment as the $5 million copper smelter is to be dismantled. The town sprang up in 1917 around rising copper prices and a smelter chimney, growing into a bustling mining community with hundreds of workers, schools, and recreation, now fading as ore handling ceases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Clemenceau
Ariz
Jerome
Experts in Knots Travel World Plying Their Hobby
Bridgeport reports on John Hensel and Roaul Graumont, renowned knot enthusiasts. They claim to have tied thousands of knots, including the Gordian knot, with both rope ends concealed. They cite about 310 orthodox knots and note simple forms used since ancient times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport, Conn
John Hensel
Roaul Graumont
Hensel
Hessel
Graumont
Excess Rainfall Shrivels Mississippi Crops in 1930s Drive
In New Albany Mississippi farmers and tenants suffer from excessive rainfall and a prolonged drought that destroyed cotton and corn. Ransom Aldrich of Michigan City, president of the Farm Bureau Federation, estimates losses at 10 million dollars, echoed by agencies reporting corn at 37 percent and cotton at 43 percent of normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
New Albany
Miss
Belt
Ransom Aldrich
Michigan City
Farm Bureau Federation
Cod Learns Lesson From School of the Sea
A Boston trawler arrived with a 20 pound cod that swallowed a school notebook inside its mouth. The notebook bore the name Muolé Luigi Razza and dates about freezing fish. The catch was from Cape Cod waters.
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Boston
Arlington
Muolé
Luigi Razza
Cape Cod
Trinitarian Church Schedule in Walden Week
The Trinitarian Congregational Church in Walden lists services on February 4 with 9:30 morning worship led by Rev. Wilfrid J H Bunker and Dr Hugh Robinson preaching, children’s Sunday School at 10:45, a 3:30 Young People's Conference led by Drs Cadbury Bixler and Rev. Leslie Pennington, and an 7:00 evening session. A church committee meeting is set for February 7 at 7:30 in the Parish House and Lent’s first meeting will be led by Rev. Wilfrid Bunker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Trinitarian Congregational Church
Walden
Stree
Wilfrid JH
Unker
Eliot Howard
Hugh Robinson
Cadbury
Bixler
Leslie Pennington
Wilfrid Bunker
Evangelical Free Church Announces Guest Speaker Visit
Concord Massachusetts Evangelical Free Church invites all to attend with Pastor Otto Rafos hosting Miss Martha Moennich of New York as guest speaker on Wednesday February 4 at 7 30 P M. Moennich travels widely as a missionary and speaker and is praised for her ministry. The Ladies Missionary Society plans its regular pay meeting at Edwin Christofferson’s home Friday at 8 P M with the PS place to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evangelical Free Church
Long Street
Concord
Mass
Otto T. Rafos
Martha Moennich
New York
Moennich
Ian
Ladies Missionary Society
Edwin Christoffferson
School Street
South Acton
West Concord Union Church Weekly Schedule and Events
The West Concord Union Church announces a Sunday program with church school for various ages at 9.45 and 10.45, morning worship and sermon on Our Threefold Program for 1940, and a 3.30 P M youth congress with speakers from Cambridge and Lincoln. Afternoon retreat at Gleasondale Methodist church followed by evening services. Week events include Ladies Union meeting Tuesday, Lenten services guest preacher Friday, and choir practices plus a prophets class evenings this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Concord Union
Kenneth R. Teed
Trinitarian Congregational
Concord
Lincoln Son
Bedford
Lexingtgn
Beuig
Baunding
Seslye
Bill Vara
University
Hen ‘Cadbury
Bett Divinity School
Leslie Pennington
Cambridge
Unitarian Church
Gleasondale
General Publi
Caitts Glenn Atkins
Suesday
Ladies Union
Ira J
Religious notices from First Parish and connected groups
The notice lists a morning service at First Parish in Cambridge on February 4 with Emerson Society led sermon by Frederick Allen, a Young People's Conference on Personal Religion at Trinitarian Church at 3 30 PM with Cadbury Seelye Bixle and Pennington, a King’s Daughters meeting February 6 at 2 30 PM, and Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest to be staged in the Vestry on Friday at 8 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Seelye Bixle
Harvard University School
Hev. Lest’. T. Pennington
Cambridge
King’s Daughters
C.F. Bowers
T. Alfréd Wilson
Oscar Wilde
Harnest
Plan DeMolay Banquet At Masonic Hall
Maynard L D Wilson Chapter of DeMolay will mark its 14th anniversary with a banquet at Masonic Hall on Monday February 6. Florence and Ruth Croft will headline entertainment after recently winning first prize at the K of C Amateur show. The group will also conduct a food gate at the Fashion Shop on Main Street Saturday February 3 with Mrs Ja Smith and Mrs Ernest Johnson assisting the boys committee led by Kenneth Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maynard
L. D. Wilson
Order of DeMolay
Masonic Hall
Florence and
Ruth Croft
K. of C
de Moley
Main Street
Ja Smith
Ernest Johnson
Kenneth Johnson
Mrs Jennie Campbell Celebrates 72nd Birthday in Keene NH
Mrs Jennie Campbell of Central Street Keene New Hampshire recently celebrated her 72nd birthday and is enjoying good health. Rev Arthur H Wilde was taken to Emerson Hospital Sunday morning after his auto was struck by another vehicle in a skidding accident. He suffers neck and spine injuries and is under care of Dr Orma I Clark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Campbell
Central Street
Keene
New Hampshire
Local Illnesses Reported From Acton and Concord
Elliot Livermore of South Acton is seriously ill at home and transferred to Emerson Hospital in Concord for treatment. Mrs Edward LeClerc of Piper Road is receiving treatment at Emerson Hospital for a recent illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliot Livermore
Emerson Hospital
Concord
Edward LeClerc
Piper Road
Party for Priscilla Lane
Friends gathered at Miss Martha Sheehan's home on School Street in South Acton for a send-off party for Priscilla Lane before her move to Reading. The afternoon featured music, games, and dancing, with gifts presented to the guest of honor. Attendees included Peggy Fraser, Belen Jones, Eleanor Larrabee, Kay Flagg, Hazel Knight, Geraldine Tracy, Murial Pelley, Janet Hayes, plus the hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Acton
Priscilla Lane
Martha Sheehan
School’ Street
Reading
Peggy Fraser
Belen Jones
Eleanor Larrabee
Kay Flagg
Hazel Knight
Geraldine Tracy
Murial Pelley
Janet Hayes
Acton Budget Talked at Town Hall Meeting
The France board met at the town hall on Wednesday evening to prepare a budget to be presented to voters at the town meeting set for March 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F'rance Board
Urges Caution Against Fires Maynard
Chief George T. Priest warns of chimney fire risk during cold spell as wood fuel use rises. Prompt reports aid firefighters. A chimney fire struck Hebert Fowle home at 15 Tim Court on Friday, a 200 year old building. another chimney fire occurred at 11 Railroad Street Monday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maynard
George T. Priest
Hebert Fowle
Tim Court
Railroad Street
Pupils of Miss Salloway To Entertain
Fourth annual voice recital by Mrs trace Salloway’s pupils held Saturday night at K of Chall. Promising vocalists captured applause with solos and duets performed by Mariel Iray Gertrude Toepin Gertrude Saisa Elma Kansariva Dianne Stuart Marion Browm Mary Oates Ruth Cattell Carol Lee Downey Elma Kansattiva Janet Poison Ruth Cattell Mel Math Pratt of Concord accompanied the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maynard
Trace Salloway
K of Chall
Mariel Iray
Gertrude Toepin
Gertrude Saisa
Elma Kansariva
Dianne Stuart
Marion Browm
Mary Oates
Ruth Cattell
Carol Lee Downey
Elma Kansattiva
Janet Poison
Mel
Math’ Pratt
Concord
Whist Club Awards Prizes At Maynard-After Noon
The Whist Club held a Monday afternoon event with party prizes awarded to Adile Wolfe Anna Ida Eb Ty noe eae 1 al fan Swinney Mrs Albert Murphy Ma deline DeMars dle Baritesu Allee Murphy and a Specialto Sa fie King.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maynard
Adile Wolfe
Anna
Ida
Cme
Eb Ty Noe
al Fan Swinney
Albert Murphy
Madeline DeMars
Dle Baritesu
Allee Murphy
Judge Sifts Self in Phrase Confession Riddle
A playful exchange frames a courtroom musing on guilt and innocence as a judge debates the line between truth and pretense. The quip suggests legal theater where questions probe motives and certainty.
The Spendthrift Proverb Echoes a Cautionary Note
A Victorian style proverb warns that a spendthrift who overspends will not need to spend when the time comes. The line emphasizes restraint and prudence over reckless extravagance.
Probate Court Notice in Middlesex County
Middlesex ss PROBATE COURT to all interested in Adele M Rice late of Sudbury deceased. Executors present second account for allowance. Object by filing written appearance in Cambridge before ten oclock in the forenoon on February 23 1940. Witness Judge Leggat January 26 1940. Register Loring P Jordan February 14 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
Ss. Probath
Adele
M. Rice
Sudbury
Cambridge
C. Leggat
Sunday services at First Church of Christ Scientist Concord
The First Church of Christ Scientist Concord offers Sunday services at 10 45 with Sunday school also at 10 45 and a Wednesday testimonial meeting at 7 45. Reading Room hours are 2 to 5 p m on week days holidays excepted. The lesson sermon theme Love is read worldwide with citations from the Bible and Science and Health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary, Baker ‘Eddy
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