Local Notes and Social Items from Watertown Borough
Dewey listed as improved at Baker Memorial Hospital Boston and expected to return home soon. Mrs Spurrell recovering from operation at Massachusetts General Hospital Boston. Mrs King and Sof. Richard King visit Watertown mother over weekend. Sanderson attends Massachusetts Town Clerks Association convention in Swampscott with family. Miss Greeno to wed Vincent Gerace at St Bridget’s Church. Ruth Bishop accepts surgical ward position at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Boston. Heinonen couple return from honeymoon. Heinen family details. Downey couple mark 15th anniversary with theatre and dinner in Boston. previously married at St Bridget’s Church.
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Gibton Dewey
Liscoln ‘Street
Baker Memorial Hospital
Boston
Gor
Ruth Bishop
Summer Street
R.N
Peter ‘Bent Brigham Hospital
Card of Thanks for Kindness During Bereavement
We thank neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy during our recent bereavement. William Gateg and family express gratitude for support received.
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Wiliam Gateg
Maynard Notables Link to Army Service and Local Plans
Dr Donald O Feltus now in Miami Beach awaiting definite assignment after Army training following induction at Fort Devens. Local students and couples file marriage intentions and begin fall studies at Boston University, Wentworth, and other campuses. civil defense leaders plan a Monday meeting at the Town House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald” O. ‘Feltus
Acton
Case
Nason Street
Miami Beach
Fla
Army
Fort Devens
Local births and hospital notices from Maynard area
The community column records births and hospital updates including Mr and Mrs Vincent Scavelotti welcoming a daughter at Emerson Hospital Concord. Amelia Wasruk receiving treatment at Union Hospital Framingham and mother of Joseph Wasruk of Josephs Market. Mrs Harry Burnham transported to Shaw Hospital Lowell and Bea Parsons improving after collapse at Fletcher's Corner Acton. Sergeant Imari Tervo on vacation. post office stamp shortages noted. well baby clinic set for July 9 at Town House. plans for Hampton Beach trip by Maynard residents. Elks smokers fundraiser supports Christmas party fund. John F OLeary and wife announce birth of a son at Providence Lying-In Hospital on June 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amelia Wasruk
Powdermill Road
Union Hospital
Framingham
Joseph Wasruk
Joseph’s
Main Street
Florence Prowse
Norman. Parsons
Walter Prowse
Fletcher’s Corner
South Acton
Emerson Hospital
Concord
Parsons
Bea Parsons
Acton
The
Enterprise
John F. O'Leary
Providence,r.i
Maynard
Providence Lying-In Hospital
Willard and Williard Boyd Celebrate 50th Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Willard Boyd observed their 50th wedding anniversary with a dinner at Davis Turkey Farm Sudbury. They married in Lynn on June 30 1892 and lived for years in Hudson where Mr Boyd worked at Firestone Rubber Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard Boyd
Hans A. Erikson
Great Road
Davis Turkey Farm
Sudbury
Lynn
Hudson
Boyd
Firestone Rubber Co
Summer activities noted in Cape Porpoise and town wide notes
Mr. and Mrs. George Merrick vacation at Cape Porpoise Maine while Assabet mills begin a semi annual stock inventory. Frank Case and family occupy a Lake Boone cottage for the summer. Volunteer Motor Corps members and Red Cross home nursing courses operate with 14 students, under Mrs. Alan F. Palmer at Town House. A supervised recreational program registration for school children opens Monday at the Junior High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prank ‘Case
Family É
Lake Boone
Motor Corps
Ellen Sheridan
Ranghild Nelson
Red Cross
Town House
Alan F. Palmer
Mabel Bemis
Alice Boulden
Elizabeth Garey
Mary Corey
Mine Denniston
Elfrida Dittrich
Emily Finizio
Rachel McCleary
Senna. Messier
Olive Morgan
Mona Priest
Hollywood Stunt Work and Costume Details for 1942 Films
The article catalogs stunt roles and dramatic bits across several 1940s films. Frederick Gildart plays a miner in Tombstone The Town Too Tough To Die. Claudette Colbert performs a pantomime in The Palm Beach Story. Veronica Lake appears with extra-long hair in Married a Witch and grime in This Gun For Hire. Richard Denning faces lions and falls in Beyond the Blue Horizon. Vera Vague debuts risky physical bits in Priorities of 1942. Ralph Sanford executes a dangerous fall in Wildcat. Jimmy Dundee drives a limousine in My Heart Belongs to Daddy. The Forest Rangers showcases Montana to California locations with MacMurray Goddard Hayward.
Local Maynard youths register in latest draft drive
A total of 136 Maynard young men registered on Tuesday under the direction of Frank Sanderson and a volunteer corps of workers.
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Maynard Young
Frank Sanderson
Remembrance Verse on Courage and National Duty
The piece recalls fleeting flaming glories in the sky as memories of brave men endure. It speaks on dam, ear and steadfast minds that carried the country through tempests, urging that memory must not fade or perish like a rocket in the sky.
Lutheran Church announces weekly services and meetings
Rev. Bernard Hillila presides over English services Sundays at 9 30 a m with sermon topic Priorities and Finnish services at 7 30 p m Choir rehearsal Thursdays at 8 p m Ladies Aid meets Tuesday at 8 p m Frequent announcements outline service times and church activities in Maynard.
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Bérnard Hillila
Union Service Schedule at Local Churches
A union service at 10 45 a m will unite the Congregational and Methodist churches. Sermons by Rev Herbert F Tulton July 5 to August 2 cover The Redemption of Our Nation Church World Ourselves and Finding Peace In a Waning World. Beginning August 9 services move to the Methodist Church with Rev Leonard Fowler as speaker through September 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Methodist
al ‘Churches
Uniting
Herbert F. Tulton
Methodist Church
Leonard Fowler
Maynard Grange Outing Plans Include Bowling and Dinner
Maynard Grange Ladies Degree Team will meet Tuesday night July 7 for a local outing due to gas and fire rationing. They will dine then bowl in two teams with prizes for each. Arrangements by Mrs William Robinson and others. A second notice covers Middlesex Central Pomona Grange summer outing at Simnell Lodge Lake Boone on Sunday July 12 weather permitting with a possible July 19 date.
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Maynard Grange
William Robinson
Leslie Sims
George Holmes
Milton Duclos
Ruth Woodworth
Middlesex Central
Pomona Grange
Simnell’ Lodge
Lake Boone
Adelaide Sims
Polish National Catholic Church Mass on July 5
Sunday morning mass will be held bi monthly at the Polish National Catholic Church located at 23 Dartmouth Street Maynard. Rev Stanley S Gogul pastor of the Parish is in charge with Leohadin Donat recording secretary assisting.
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Dartmouth Street
Maynard
Stanley S. Gogul
Leohadin Donat
Maynard Board Seeks Early Sugar Ration Applications
The Maynard Rationing Board urges canning sugar ration applications before July 9. After that date the board will be busy for some time handling requests for additional gasoline rations in the permanent rationing program.
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Maynard Rationing Board
When men speak ill of thee I live that nobody will believe
A brief quotation attributed to Plato urging a life that speaks louder than rumors to counter false accusations.
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Plato
Life’s happiness rests on perspective, not fate Lavater
The quote notes that joy comes more from our mindset than from events. It asserts that happiness hinges on how we interpret and respond to life’s happenings rather than the occurrences themselves.
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Lavater
Grange Meeting Plans and Local Social Events
Grange members prepare for a farm outing at Lake Boone cottage hosted by Albert Larkin with horse shoe contests swimming and a feast scheduled for Tuesday evening July 8. Maynard residents attend a roast and dance at the Country Club on July 14 under Grange auspices.
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Grange
Lake Boone Cottage
Albert Larkin
Orville Tuc
iMaynaml Grange Mem
Jon Granre
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Dorothy ‘Spurrell
Massachuetts General Hospital
Walter King
Sof. Richard
King Street
King
Watertown
Rank E. Sanderson
Massachusetts “Town ‘Clerks’ “Association
Swampscott
Sanderson
Eleanor Jones
Maynard ‘Resistant
Elizabeth Kathleen Greeno
Dominic Greeno
Harrison Street
Will
Ecome
Vincent Gerjave
Dominic Gerace
Littleton
St. Bridget’s Church
Leo Downey
Charles Street
Bosnias
St. Bridget’s’ Church
Father Palato
Panese
Assahet Mills
Downe
Mary Darcy
Carol Lee
Mary Zaniewski
John Zaniewski
Maynard Igh
Boston University College of Practical Arts and Letters
Leonard McKenna
Harry McKenna
Pump Ing Stations Road
Went Worth Institute
Maynard High
Peverly Denniston
Walter Denniston
de Mars Street
Boston University
Jean Lynch
Jeremiah Lynch
Tremont Street
Massachusetts School of Pharmacy
Melvin Clifford Smith
Bernard WH. Smith
Great Read
Mary Elizabeth Newman
Cora E.newman
Arthur Street
Vincent Gerace
Max
Mrs. Morton Merrick
Pomcilicut Avenue
Lawrence
Rocky Hill Club
North Sudbury
Ernest DuGrenier
Douglas Avenue
Maynard Natick
Wellesley
Committee On Public Safety
James A. Coughlan
Wittera’s Wesson
Wilder X. Macurda
Maes
Vincent Scavelotti
Harry
Burnham
Demars Street
Shaw’s Hospital
Lowell
Imari Tervo
Acton Street
Maynard Police Department
Frank Sheridan
Sheridan Ha
Board of Health
M. Cremer
Mary Ward
Hampton Beach
Rita Curley
Mary Sokolowski
Walter Sokolowski
Marion Ledgard
Ruth Marsden
Elks
Walter France
Helen, Little
F. J. DeMaed
A.S
Ward-Bell
Pate
America
Crowe Park
George Merrick
Poiheithcut Avenue
Cape Porpoise, Maine
Assabet Mills
Wiley
Padan
Trussell Wickl Y
Jean: Rogers
Pacific
Harry Sherman
Rattlesnake Canyon
Calif
Tombstone
Frederick Gildart
Claudette
Palm Beach
Veronica Lake
Yan Pe
Dorothy Lamour
Richard Denning
Vera
Jerry Colonna
Bill Pine
Bill Thomas
Ralph Sanford
Ralph
Daddy
Jimmy Dundee
Hollywood
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
California
Forest Rangers
Fred MacMurray
Paulette Goddard
Susan Hayward
Race Cree
Pacfic
Rede Voy
Reval Store
Rexall Drug’ Store
Ohnson Pharmacy, Inc
Rexall
Mass
the Flower of Liberty Wiley
Maynard Churches
Union Services
Maynard Grange News
Miriam Kangas
Crane Ave
Board of Selectmen
Selectmen
Walter Cheslak
William Stockwell
Joseph P. Dinéen
Robert Browning
Charlotte Wilson
Walt
Leslie W. Sims
Alea
John Dora
Roosevelt Street
Brooks St
Tel
Hardy
Chryswey
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