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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1956
Page
2
The readable scraps mention Union Church Route 62 Leicester Ashby Thoreau Walden pond and local figures like Ted Nel and Mer manager. Mentions of land, rates, and a town house apostrophe confusion suggest a collection of community notices, names, places, and events in a historical local page.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions a session on Tuesday with a law topic and a date like 31 but lacks coherent details or identifiable names.
About 135 members of the Thoreau Society met in Concord for the annual gathering. Speakers included Dr. Herbert F. West of Dartmouth and Dr. Kenneth A. Robinson. Howard Zahniser was elected president and Ruth Wheeler named curator of the archives.
Company H 182nd Infantry M N G at Camp Drum New York since July 7 will end training Friday and return home by train at 5 a m Saturday. The 81 men are under Capt Paul V Dee with Brig Gen Otis M Whitney Capt John C Dolan Jr Maj Robert E Anderson and Maj Norman L Scherer among the local officers.
Concord area churches hold three Sunday services at West Concord Union Church at 9 30 with Rev. Edwin B Nylen preaching on Security Soloist Reine Tuomanen Other participants include Trinitarian Congregational and First Parish Members and friends invited to attend
Concord James Shepard chief game biologist Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Game spoke at Concord Rotary. He described the division funded by licenses not general taxes and outlined activities. The state controls ponds 20 acres plus state pheasant releases and harvests and notes strong Cape quail and waterfowl hunting with 5000 deer taken in 1955.
Concord D A V members attended a three day state convention presided by Judge David B Williams. Williams was endorsed for national D A V office and Boston selected as the 1957 convention city. Jerome Patrick Troy of South Boston named state commander without opposition. Guest speakers included Joseph Francis and George A Wells.
Concord Civil Defense Director John E Mutty says the local auxiliary police will be on duty for the first time Saturday and auxiliary firemen report to Emerson Playground at 3 o'clock to be dispatched with emergency equipment during national tests this weekend. Radio and communications units will also be on duty.
Concords Knights of Columbus Council 287 met at Monument Hall Tuesday evening with Grand Knight Leon J. Moreau presiding. Officers and six committee chairs discussed the year's program and a summer outing seems unlikely this year.
A R Wheeler longtime teacher and former head of the history department at St George's Newport Rhode Island died at his Middletown home after a long illness. He was 77 and taught at St George's for 45 years retiring in 1947. He graduated Brown 1901 and earned a master from Columbia. Surviving are his widow a son and a daughter. Funeral Friday at 2 pm at St Columba Berkeley Memorial Chapel.
Civil defense director Mutty announces air raid signals will sound twice today at 1 30 p m and 2 15 p m for three minutes each. Central Fire Station communications center staffed 11 a m Friday July 20 to 11 p m Sunday July 22. A radio dial test between 4 10 and 4 25 p m Friday accompanies National Civil Defense tests.
Sudbury River rescue halted a drowning incident Saturday afternoon as firefighters and police joined a call to the Sudbury River bridge Route 2. The unidentified swimmer was found entangled in weeds and was rescued by a companion or by his own actions. authorities did not release names.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilson Brooks Sr celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary on Tuesday July 19. The couple, married in Chicago, have long resided in West Concord. Brooks known as Ted is a field representative for the Department of Labor and Industries Division of Apprentice Training.
Concord Public Library Trustees present portraits by Josephine M. Lewis of Scituate and landscapes by Morris Hall Pancoast of Cambridge. The midsummer show runs until Friday August 24, featuring Lewis portraits from 1898 to 1944 and 1920s Cape Ann landscapes by Pancoast.
Cambridge Harvard Trust Company announces Thaddeus R. Beal elected vice president by the directors. Beal, a Harvard Trust director and Yale and Harvard Law School graduate, is a Boston attorney with a family of four living at 108 Brattle Street in Cambridge.
West Concord announces the birth of twin boys to Mr and Mrs James M Anderson of 57 Old Marlboro Road at Emerson Hospital on Sunday July 15.
A daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Pino of Route 2 Lincoln on July 10 and a son born to Mr. and Mrs. G Edward Wilkins of 2 North Avenue Weston on July 14. Joseph F Cannion of 11 Southfield Road Concord appears listed on July 10.
Concord Town leaders briefed the press on drainage work and the new machine costing 800 dollars with potential 3200 total if purchased. They discussed the West Concord site, the Tufts Wessell report, the North Bridge dedication on September 12, and town bond plans for the Municipal Light Plant.
Brooks Sr and Mrs Wilson Brooks of Main Street enjoyed a reunion with their son Robert Jr a Navy petty officer who served over twelve years including the Pacific and Korea. He recently signed for six years and requested foreign service.
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