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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1938
Page
1
Fragmentary account recalls Lemuel F Barton and a later return to France at seventy two. The text weaves spiritual heritage with mentions of teaching, music education, and figures like Tolstoi and Shakespeare amid wartime references.
The Concord board of selectmen and related staff are detailed with a long list of names and addresses. Entries include Walter Akers clerk Julian W. Batleu and many others occupying roles from banker to mechanic across numerous streets such as Central street Bedford Road and Lexington road.
The Massachusetts State College area centers interest for Middlesex County 4-H clubs. Camp Middlesex reported 180 attendees during the event and the upcoming Forty-second Two-Day Trip to the State College will occur July 13 and 14 as an award for outstanding club member work.
The Middlesex County office announced staff reshuffles in 4-H and home demonstration work. Ruth Peterson resigns as associate 4-H club agent to head the clothing department at Weber College in Ogden Utah. Clara Dean of Grafton New Hampshire will succeed her as associate 4-H club agent. Eleanor B Winters of Framingham becomes home demonstration agent, reporting September first, with nutrition as her focus.
Harry Bilis, 61, of Providences, released from Massachusetts Reformatory at West Concord after five years for theft, was rearrested by a Brighton police sergeant on a $140 theft charge from 1980. A 20 year old default warrant from Boston Central Court was served.
Concord notes announce the engagement of Helen Le Roy Blanchard Dow to George Lincoln Bow Jr. Helen Blanchard is the granddaughter of Mrs. Herbert W. Blanchard and Mrs. Nathaniel T. Bow with ties to Marblehead and St. Louis. Dow is Harvard-educated, Class of 1933, and a member of the Hasty Pudding Club Phenix S.K. and the Eastern Yacht Club.
Five West Concorde girls Rosalie Christian Mary Laughlin Margaret Damon Natalie Darnes and Bertha Mullen attend Salubrity Hi Camp in North Gom Maine for six weeks ending July 14. Rev Harold T Handley of Lexington will deliver the sermon at Morn ington on Elm Street gunday at 9 30 m.
Rev Edward Perry Daniels of First Parish Church was installed Thursday as president and was presented with a president's badge by Past President Burleigh L Pratt. Other officers named include Lowell Ram vice president Joseph Dee secretary Irvin L Bumford treasurer Russell Hunt sergeant at arms Alden R Wheeler August G Ziewler and Hubert M Wardwell directors.
A Middlesex County Council of the American Legion Auxiliary will meet in Waltham on Saturday July 23. Lunch is at 1 PM at the Weston street Legion Home and the business meeting at 2 PM in Banks Square Schoolhouse. An invitation to the tenth anniversary observance of Bedford Veterans Hospital is extended for Sunday July 17 with hospital tours for all Auxiliary members.
All are cordially welcome to the Summer Union Services at the parish church. This notice invites local residents to attend a shared worship event hosted by the church community.
The recovery followed a careful riverbank search by Concord Police led by Chief William G. Using two specially pronged poles to probe weed choked areas, investigators found the body of Poland within about half an hour. Medical Examiner Dr. Henry J. Walcott ruled suicide amid scarce clues.
Walter Channing Inc announces sale of 37 acres by the Sudbury River to Sidney Coolidge Jr. The parcel sits across from the Bigelow place near the Kingman property, famed for woods and a bridle path. Each wooded knoll could hold a house, but terrain is rugged for small lots.
Charles G. Wood erects a large sign on Ridge Turnpike directed at F D R and WPA officials. He urges stopping the Nanny Goat project and finishing the Mosquito Control Project amid claims of abandoning a 040 000 job for a cityside project and calls for workers to return to mosquito control tasks.
About 3000 residents and visitors heard Vaino Hakkila Speaker of Finland's Parliament and former Agriculture Secretary Piso Pekkala at Vose Playground. They delivered greetings from Finland and discussed little Finland and its obligations along with other remarks atCentenary programs in Delaware Pennsylvania and New York area venues.
Concord Massachusetts National Guard Company 182d Infantry trains at Falmouth Reservatio with Captain Hagerty leading officers and sailors. Camp setup completed by afternoon Saturday followed by church services and regimental parade. Twenty sixth division guard practices and a long artillery drill underway with listed personnel in the unit.
Fragmentary report describes a Friday head-on crash on Route 3 involving an aged woman and a driver named Chester I. Duntop. Details on speed and additional victims are unclear in the damaged text.
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