Local Notes and Family Visits Highlight Week
John McNiff and family spent Saturday at the beach. Mr and Mrs C D Cram enjoyed a seaside outing to Salisbury Beach. Walter McClenathan retired to work as fireman on the Boston and Maine line. Boxboro vendors reported Welberries selling for 42 to 45 cents a box for Boston market. James Smith Jr of Littleton stays with uncle Peter Foley while seeking better health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill Brow
Margaret "Coneal
Johnsbury
John. McNiff
C. D. Cram
Salisbury
G. B. Parker
Walter McClenathan
Boston & Maine Railroad
Bostton
Dover
Boxboro
Boston
James Smith Jr
Littleton
Peter Foley
Smith
Local social notes from South Acton and surrounding area
Miss Ruth M. French returns home after visit with aunt. Mrs Henry Halliday of Lewiston is guest at Mrs Henry Capelle’s on Martin Street. Helen and Marion Cole depart for The Weirs New Hampshire for vacation. Priscilla Townsend of Revere visits grandparents on Acton Street. Mrs Frank Tule and Norman return to Somerville after visiting Hastings relatives. Mr and Mrs Asaph Merriam celebrate birthdays this week. Jennie and Alma Stowell visit uncle Austin Stowell in Lawrence then Athol. Austin Graves of Framingham and Fred Reed’s party visit Harmon Rudolph’s home. Mr and Mrs Herbert T. Pratt leave for Lakeport New Hampshire for three days. Merriam factory staff move to Roxbury. Irene Merriam stays with brother Harold at Wollaston. Florence Mire receives kindergarten teaching position at Frances Willard settlement Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priscilla, Townsend of
Revere
Samuel Jones
Acton St
Frank Tule
Norman
Somerville
Lewis C. Hastings
Acton
Asaph Merriam
Merriam
Jennie
Alma Stowell
Austin Stowell
Lawrence
Athol
Austin Graves
Framingham
Fred Reed
Hopkinton
Harmon Rudolph
Martin
Herbert T. Pratt
Lakeport
Edward F. Pratt
W. J. Conkey
Roxbury
Irene “Merriam
Wollaston
Harold
Mire Florence
Frances Willard
Boston
Congregational Church Announces Services and Picnic Plans
Rev Ralph A Barker will lead Sunday services at 10 30 and 7 00 with Sunday School at 12. Friday prayer meeting in the vestry at 7 30. Topic World Ness and Other Worldlineas. Union picnic with Universalist church planned at Lake Boon next week, date to be decided likely Wednesday or Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph A. Barker
Union Picnic
Lake Boon
Vocational Plan Wins Wide Approval at National Legion HQ
The American Legion reports broad approval for its cooperative vocational education plan with the Federal Board. Oshkosh Post 70 rapidly cleared 80 stalled training claims, and nationwide efforts aim to expedite government funded training for disabled veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Federal Board For Vocucationnal Education
Legion
Oshkosh
Wis
Chicago
Indianapolis
Michigan
Federal Board
New Jersey
Ohio
Utah
Legions
Wisconsin
of the Legion
Green Bay
California
Arkansas
Alabama
Girl With Trick Memory Heads Legion Weekly Maltings
Miss Tillie Turk of New York City is described as knowing by heart the names and addresses of more Legion members than any other person in America. She holds the position of head of the malting department of the American Legion Weekly, the Legion's official magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Legion
America
American Legion Weekly
The
Legion
Tillie Turk
New York City
Maynard Street Improvements Begin on Acton Street
Supt of Streets Driscoll to start improvements on Acton Street from Nason Street to Whitney Lane this week. Work continues from last year with scarification and stone laid, topped with tarvia. Haynes and Woodwards push work on a tenement house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Driscoll
Acton St
Nason St
Whitney Lane
Haynes & Woodwards
Man and a Maid Ends In Unexpected Domestic Twist
A rambler narrator and his friend Bill visit a household where Bill admits his wife has left him. The pair share doughnuts and stew as the maid unexpectedly seems drawn to Bill, revealing a surprising mutual attraction between Bill and the maid and prompting a shifting sense of domestic happiness. The wife returns, while the maid contemplates leaving, and the narrator confronts the odd loyalties and desire inside the home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClure
Ageia
Aga
Bill
Frank
Marian
Mr. Dighton
Local Notes on Residents and Visitors
Miss Lizzie Richardson stays briefly at her home on Maynard. Harry J. Clark returns to duties in Boston after a two week vacation. Mrs Margie Kimball spends the week as guest of Mr and Mrs B Milton Kimball at their Fort Pond summer cottage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Richardson
Maynard
Harry J. Clark
Boston
National Refrigerator Co to Occupy Moore and Burgess Factory
The National Refrigerator Co has leased the former Moore and Burgess factory and begun fitting the buildings for its line of business. Machinery should arrive around the 15th and be in operation by September with plans for steady local employment. Boston offices list W B Burke as president and salesman, N P McDevitt as resident manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Refrigerator Co
Moore’ and Burgess
McDevitt
Boston
W.B. Burke
N. P. McDevitt
Belated July Celebration Disrupts City Tracks
A belated July holiday celebration ended with torpedo bursts on trolley tracks at the bridge near Maynard bound car. The noise resembled pistol shots at a distance, rattling residents Saturday around 10:15 p.m. also noting a local store’s big removal sale and a lease expiration on September 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lever
Main St
Maynard
Lonial Hall
Ady
West Acton social notes list visitors and local events
Fritz Oelschlegel and family spent Sunday at the beach. Mrs Davis of Hamilton visits A J Edwards. Margery Stearnsig at Bowell with relatives. Rev Batt preached at Baptist church. Large gathering spent July 5 with Mr and Mrs Glenn Gould at Rindge. Mrs Edward Holton of Meatdha visited. R W Foss camping at Lake Nagog. Miss Rose B Granger of Brooklyn visiting Mrs James E Richardson. Mrs Minette Decoster returned from Weymouth. Charles H Mead spent time at Biddeford Pool. Stanley Payson left tent for Hampton. July 4 night note reports a window and door broken. Several families rented tenement from F S Knowlton. George Cummings at North Acton Miler House while Geo Greenough works on State road. R B Moore and Lowell B H Gram witnessed a fatal Salisbury beach accident. For sale 20 tons of grass. Contact Rt Knowlton West Acton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fritz Oelschlegel
G. L. Michelson
Acton Centre
Ape
Glenn Gould
Rindge
Edward Holton
J. Holton
R. W. ‘Foss
Lake Nagog
R. T. Barrows
Rose B. Granger
Brooklyn
James E. Richard
Minette Decoster
Weymouth
George E. Holton
Charles H. Mead
Biddeford Pool
Stanley Payson
Hampton
Allen Kennedy
Baptist Church
Lamb
F.&. Knowlton
del Wombout
George Cummings
North Acton
Miler
Geo Greenough
R. B. Moore
Lowell
Gram
Salisbury Beach
Ait
Mane
Richard Long
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Gabe Pipelone Farmase
George Stansfield
FORD
United States
Goodrich
Finney & Hoit
Concord
P. Lapham Waldo Foe
MASS
Kelley & Mulcahy
Mase
Smu
G. Russell
Leland
Cies
Carit
Sudbury
West
South Acton
Ruth M. French
Adler Wells
Watertown
Jonathan. P. Fletcher
Prospect
Henry Halliday
Lewiston
Henry
Capelle
Martin St
Helen
Marion
Cole
Congregational Church
William F. Kelley
W. F. Kelley
W. Acton
James B. Tuttle
Fottier’s
Wonder
A. B. Frost
Acton, Mass
Iockeukiee
U. K
G. J. Murphy
Silas Peirce & Co
Framingham, Masa
West Acton
Knowlton
Neponset Roofs
Bird & Son, Inc
Rest Walpole, Meat
T. F. Parker
Main Street
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