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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1918
Page
5
Community notes list residents at Riverside Cooperative and Assabet mills on vacation. Local staff, guests, and visitors fill homes along with tax rate details and Red Cross support. Field day plans, entertainment, and a war time song poem close the Maynard update.
The class of 1918 plans to fly a service flag with a star for each soldier who attended Maynard high school. They ask the public to send former pupil names to Miss Anna Coughlin Maple Street secretary.
The W. A. F. A. composed of patriotic young Maynard girls will hold a lawn party on the Congregational church lawn July 27. Proceeds will go to the Red Cross as the girls push for community support from local business people and residents.
A group including Mr and Mrs Harry T Bates Mr and Mrs George Merrick Mr and Mrs Wallace Priest and Mr and Mrs HE McCleary depart Tuesday for a motor tour through the White Mountains and expect to return by week’s end. Also notices advertise a Lake Boon cottage for August and sale of a saddle and driving horse with carriages and harnesses from H V Skene of Bedford.
Committees of the Congregational and Methodist Episcopal churches study consolidating services at the Congregational church for the coming winter to conserve fuel. Rev. Charles E. Parsons of the M E church would officiate. Union services last winter occurred during coal shortages. a merger could delay selecting a new Congregational pastor.
The Maynard Enterprise urges families to send change of address details for soldiers listed on the Roll of Honor. Updates affect the 250 names and require name, company, regiment, division, and location.
Police list fourteen men under the work or fight law who went into effect last Friday. Most are usually employed but are temporarily out of work. a few are physically unable to work, and only one or two are deemed lazy. They must report weekly to Chief Banks on Wednesday evenings to receive an identification card until they engage in permanent work.
At the next regular meeting Earl Kitchiner lodge Sons of St. George will work the initiatory degree for a class of candidates. A delegation from Earl Kitchiner lodge took part in a recent Clinton parade by the Sons of St. George of Clinton Worcester and Fitchburg.
Mrs Thomas Bell proprietor of the Assabet House on Main Street had a permit request to the Massachusetts Food Administration for 400 pounds of sugar per month for three months. She was granted 250 pounds per month instead, a reduction of 150 pounds monthly.
The Maynard Grange met at I O C F hall on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Alice Brown Howes was elected lecturer to fill Mary Murray's vacancy. A short program followed with readings by Agnes Richardson and vocal solos by Genevieve Coughlin.
A local editorial defends the National Army and drafted men against slur comments. It praises the Selective Service Act, urges unity behind troops, and cites Congressman Rogers and a Maynard resident opposing belittling remarks about those in uniform.
July Red Cross allotment arrives larger than June and must be filled quickly. Government order requires all to contribute. Supplies chairman will host sessions at Summer Street School on July 18 and 25 from 6 30 to 8 30 for those who cannot attend Wednesday afternoon. Help Maynard go over the top.
Cards announce the engagement of Sarah A Shaw daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis Shaw Hast sr and 2nd Lieut Bertram T McCarter of Cambridge Miss Shaw a graduate of the Sargent School of Physical Education teaches in Plainfield New Jersey Lieutenant McCarter a Harvard graduate recently returned from active service in France is now stationed in Augusta Georgia as an instructor in a machine gun camp
John Drigcoll reports nearly finished on the State county and town road from Parker street to the Sudbury line and outlines repairs for Main Street from the railroad crossing to the Main Street School building and Great Road from William Jones’s home to the Stow line. The work will scarify roll and apply tarvia but has been postponed due to material shortages until federal permission is obtained.
A verse filled recruitment style poem invites youth to Maynard offering marriage, music, and entertainment. It extols a wholesome life in the town with bands, cinema, and safe social order. The piece ends praising perseverance and civic pride under the local banner.
A Sunday afternoon storm swept over the district and damaged the electric light system in the home of A. A. Hilferty lat Stow. No injuries are reported.
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