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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1948
Page
9
Jocelyn Thom Le received honors from Mrs Alan Jr and Mrs Concord, tied to a school graduation at Bryn Mawr College and St Timothy’s Maryland. The notice notes nursing studies and spring completion with a junior college summer program.
Michael G Logan of Lexington is nearing completion on a new home on Lexington road. Mr and Mrs Allison F Clark and family attended a Clark family reunion at Lupenberg with 25 to 30 present. Concord firemen responded to a 90th alarm last Sunday. Parishioners at St Bernard s Church and Our Lady Help of Christians Church in West Concord received Holy Communion at morning masses.
Lincoln candidate James DeNormandie announces his bid for the Republican nomination for State Representative in the new tenth Middlesex District covering Lincoln Wayland Sudbury and Hudson. A Harvard graduate and dairy farmer, he served on town boards and state agriculture roles and runs a dairy and frozen foods business.
Miss Lois Sargent announces the Alumnae Fund campaign at Colby Junior College raised 14236.85 dollars, 37 percent of alumnae gifts from the preparatory school and junior college. Contributions include senior class and club gifts from Boston to Worcester and campus Student Alumnae Fund earnings from snack bar drives.
Stow hosts a two week vacation church school starting July 6 with classes at First Parish Unitarian and Union Evangelical churches. Good first week enrollment reported. On Friday July 16 at 7 pm Union Church presents a program for pupils, parents and friends. Each department will display handwork from the two week session. Miss Jessie Lewis leads Beginners with Miss Virginia Batsford. Primary is taught by Mrs James Miller and Mrs Robert Koch with Mrs Christine Hunter and Mrs Arthur Roach directing the Junior Department.
Fireman Walker and his family left for a week at a cottage on Lake Winnepesaukee New Hampshire with Walker to resume duties at Central Station next Monday. Firemen from Central Station responded to a car fire on Box 25 last Friday with minor damage and it was the year's 89th alarm.
Concord H Russell Davis Jr of Lincoln is appointed New England Division Group Manager of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company's Accident and Health Department. He joined in 1937 after Dartmouth and Harvard Business School education and prior service as a lieutenant colonel in the quartermaster corps.
Concord announces a regular fire drill at 7 o'clock Thursday evening under Chief Harry E. Tuttle. Farm land values in the United States rose seven percent in the year ending March 1, 1948, reaching the 1920 peak.
Ruth Lightbourne Wilson daughter of Mrs Michael Lambert Wilson of Litchfield Connecticut will wed Harold Eugene Gibbs Jr son of Mr and Mrs Harold E Gibbs of 91 Centre Street West Concord in a September ceremony The bride is a Navy WAVES veteran and graduate of St John Baptist School Mendham NJ and Cambridge Junior College The groom a Concord High School alumnus captained the 1940 football team and a UNC Playmaker member who served in the Navy During World War II Both plan a fall wedding confirmation of engagement text.
Concord notes a seventh wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Anderson nee Barbara A. Dempsey. They wed in Lexington and now reside in Georgia. Mr. Anderson, a World War II veteran, previously lived on Bedford Street in this town.
Revered priest Rev Bernard M Kane directed a coast to coast radio tribute to the late Rt Rev Flanagan of Boys Town Nebraska. The program aired on WBZ WBZA last Sunday afternoon and featured actor Paul Kelley. Kane, an Acton native, formerly served at St Bridget’s Maynard and now assists at St Agnes Reading.
West Concord unit S Couts on Sea Scouts continues summer activity with weekend cruises on the Charles River aboard the flagship Mohawk under Skipper George R. Simms. Buy U S Victory Bonds.
Waterloo Oregon unit gathers to formally inducted James W. Smith a Civil War veteran who will be 105 this month claiming the oldest cub in the world on its roster.
Mr and Mrs Robert Rockwood Voigt are settled in their home after a recent trip to Bermuda. Miss Virginia Valentine of 109 Main Street flew to West Yarmouth last week to join her mother Mrs Reba Valentine vacationing at a summer resort. The Ladies Union picnic originally planned for yesterday afternoon was indefinitely postponed.
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