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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1948
Page
3
Fragmentary text mentions Mrs. Frank of Gordon New Jersey and Jefferson Mass with years or initials, plus Maynard Marion Lewis and Mrs. W H Clark tied to Stow road, hinting at a genealogical or local notice.
A Garden Club gathering is planned at Mrs. Calvin B s home at 2 PM in August with W C ietor of the really 1 garden to speak on Garden in Mrs. Thomas E. Ed unce the birth of a , are Mr and Mrs mands of Concord children and a feed of notes from Allen G Bowry 0 F R Kidwell who is patient at Mars pital and strenuously tired to his home Road.
The Sudbury Public Hearth Nursing Association met at Mrs Louis Houen's home on July 21. Miss Lord, the Sunbury Public Health Nurse, reported 125 home visits in the last month and 686 since January 1. Fifteen children were examined at the Well Child clinic under Dr T S Golden of Framingham Union Hospital. Clinics are held at the Town Hall on the fourth Tuesday each month, with twice weekly play group sessions and health checks at playgrounds. Miss Lord will be on August leave for a rest period. she is expected to graduate from Behe Wala and will be missed during her absence.
Intimate roster of visitors and hosts in Stow Center Hopewell and nearby towns. Francis Doyle and Dr. Witlena Peck hosted guests from Montevallo Alabama and Stow with a Nova Scotia trip planned. Pearl Packard entertained relatives from Cambridge while Thelma Fletcher and Helen Ruff arrived from Ohio for a several week stay.
Sudbury hosts Governor Robert F. Bradford at a Monday afternoon garden party at the Tufts Estate Candy Hill. More than a hundred Republicans from Sudbury and guests from out of town welcomed him with local officials and party members in attendance. Refreshments were served as Mrs Melvin Guptill and Mrs Arthur V Howland presided at the punch bowl.
Bernard Paige of Maplewood New Jersey a high school professor visits his mother Mrs Ethel Paige living with her son James Paige on Boxboro road. Mrs Clifton Fletcher leaves Wednesday for Prince Edward Island to visit her sister Mrs Bertha West for a couple of weeks. Mr and Mrs Joseph Boothroyd and their three sons of Washington DC formerly of Stow Center visit ten days with Mrs Kanet Lewis of Greatroad Stow. Boothroyd is the former Ellen Lewis of Stow.
A surprise shower honored Mrs Tauno Hyden formerly Gertrude Erkkinen on Sunday evening at her mother’s Old Mill Road Stow home. About 30 guests from Acton Stow Boxboro and Maynard attended. Hostesses were Mrs Paavo Erkkinen and Mrs Bertha Bulli of Stew. Recieved refreshments included coffee fancy cakes and sandwiches.
Stow 4-H Club boys depart August 1 for a week at Middlesex 4-H Camp Ashby led by Robert Trumpett David and William Woodhead and George MacIver. Edward and Woodrick Leeming join August 8 to 21 for two weeks. Robert Balin hopes to go August 8 for one week, age, if space allows then August 15 to 21. Special praise goes to Robert Frumpolt for his garden and to Walter and Richard Seesay for farm labor projects highlighted in Agriculture Programs.
A brief note from Biel cee me Peter Larsen of Great is dated July 16 with warm greetings and best wishes from a host of friends and neighbors.
Ruth Sheldon daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter M Sheldon begins a months long cycling tour in Europe with a group of ten girls. They travel from New York through France Belgium and Switzerland visiting major towns and sailing to islands off the coast. The route includes Basel Lucerne Interlaken Paris and ends in England after sightseeing in Fryanée and Switzerland. Sheldon a 1945 Massachusetts College of Pharmacy graduate has extensive US travel but this marks her first European trip.
Mary Maclean of 46 South Street spends the summer at her cottage in Gloucester. Mr and Mrs MacLean of 46 South Street spent the week with Mrs MacLean. Paul M Sullivan of 57 Hillside Avenue enjoys a two week vacation. C Emory Gault of Springs road is confined to his home by illness. Mr and Mrs Harry Coyle and son of Los Angeles visit one town on Sunday. Coyle is the former Chattie Johnson and lived on Great Road before moving to California. Mrs Gally O Converse of 15 Fletcher Road takes a two week vacation. She entertains Miss Mine King of Lockport and her brother O’Neil of Lockport. Mr and Mrs Charles A Barrett of 49 Hancock Street rented an apartment on Ol¢ Billerica Road and are staying at the home of Mr and Mrs W Albert Arthur on Fletcher Road.
Bedford Grange committee met at Salvatore Albani’s home to finalize plans for the September 25 fair in the Town Hall. Displays of vegetables handiwork and home cooking are planned with a special prize for the 4 H club. Ken Sommers chairs outdoor children's activities and space is set for hand rugs and hand made blouses.
Services at the Union Evangelical church will be held each Sunday at 10:45 am.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary prepare a lawn party and band concert for Friday evening July 30 at Stow Lower Village. Events begin at six with doll carriage and bicycle parades, followed by refreshments and entertainment from the Minute Men Band of Sudbury.
Rev. Thomas MacAllespie, pastor of the Race Congregational Church in South Boston, will be the guest minister at Union Evangelical Church this Sunday morning August 1 at 10 45.
Registrars will be at the Stow Town Hall Friday evening August 13 from 7 to 9 for voter registration. This is the only registration window before the State Primaries on September 14.
Miss Barbara A Martell daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry A Martell of 8 Enions street Concord wed Stanley B Johnson son of Mr and Mrs Herman Johnson of Gloucester last Sunday at St Bernard's Rectory. Rev Robert D Kelliher officiated. A reception followed at the bride's home. The couple plans residence in Concord after a Maine motor trip.
Apples have a better chance of reaching teachers without bruising than in dad’s boyhood days, as observed in Cowiche Washington where an automatic lemma is noted in rural fruit handling.
A Carlisle Congregational church wedding united Miss Edna Ann Sleeper of Carlisle with Lesle Ross Stacey Jr. of Bedford in a double ring ceremony performed by Rev. Lawrence E. Tee. The couple and two hundred guests celebrated with a reception. they plan to live on Brooks Street in Bedford after a wedding trip to Hampton Beach and Canada.
Concord residents Mr and Mrs David B Fines of 53 Lexington address announce plans to move into their newly built 4 percent home on Nashawtuc Hill this Saturday. Mrs Horace D Hems and Mr and Mrs Paul B LeSage of 126 Main Street welcome newborn daughter Susan Marie. Judge and Mrs Maurice McWalter of 87 Main Street departed Sunday for a car trip to Montreal Canada.
Bedford couple Mr and Mrs John E Grant announce the birth of a daughter on July 13 at Emerson Hospital. The family also includes a daughter already. The note mentions Simmons College for women in Boston's Fenway, founded in 1902, as a pioneer in training women for independent earning opportunities.
Miss Susie Moulton of South Acton, a direct descendant of Capt Isaac Davis who led Acton Minute Men at the Battle of Lexington and Concord, observed her 85th birthday at the home of her niece Mrs Phi W Vanderhoof. She remains in good health and active in local women’s organizations.
Mrs Dorothy Higgins wife of Barry Higgins has been vacationing at Hampton Beach for several weeks with relatives Recent guests include John G Higgins Somerville Fred Besco West Concord and Miss Helen Brayden of Maynard Mrs Higgins teaches at the Ellefe Fleming School in Tewksbury during the summer break.
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