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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1920
Page
5
George T. Soisson has returned home from France after months overseas. George Cummings and his Sunbury family spent Monday in town. Mrs. Angie Knowlton began work June 1 at Concord for Miss M Houghton.
Last Friday, a public Memorial Day event was held by the school district. Attendees included Gem Pes Isaac Sams Post 138 and members of G A R and other visitors.
John T McNiff the ilige black smith closed his ie Saturday due to business conditions. An auction will be held later and he plans to open a repair garage soon. The brief item mentions a hospital, a birthday gift, and a playful stork tale amid a fragmented report on currency history.
Veterans spent a busy day visiting and decorating the graves of fallen comrades in Acton Maynard and Stow cemeteries. They honored soldiers from past wars and new veterans from the Spanish American War and both World Wars, fulfilling their annual labor of love.
Memorial day exercises in several school rooms drew large crowds of students and parents. Miss Julia McCarthy and Miss Gladys Farnsworth led shows at 1 30 with careful training and pleasure for the audience. About 50 visitors attended Miss Stowell’s room at 2 and at 2 30 similar attendance in Mrs Cummings’ room for the 7th and 8th grades. George Annis and Isaac Ford represented the Grand Army and were listened to attentively.
Dr and Mrs Robbins from Malden stayed at their Acton Center home for a few days as Knights suffered an illness and was taken to the hospital. J Sidney White hosted Prof and Mrs Leonard D White in Hanover New Hampshire for several days. Miss Charlotte Allen returned from a several week stay with Mrs Hewes in Melrose High. Florian Fisk of Newburyport visited Mrs Frank Fisk for Memorial Day. Edna and Ella Handscomb from Washuta New Hampshire were guests of Mr and Mrs Pearley Mason over the weekend.
Sunday services by the pastor were appropriate to the occasion. White lilacs decoratively draped the pulpit. Prayer meeting Friday at 7 30. Memory Of Our Dead discussed. Christian Endeavor Sunday evening topic Being a Good Comrade. Hospital Day June 5th in Concord Square.
Lady Campbell and Mrs Stover with an old friend and teacher spent the winter in Watertown and are now visiting Mrs Chas Whitney at the Faulkner homestead on the hill. Elizabeth Boardman of Calais and Mrs William Boardman with a New York girl visit Rev and Mrs R A Barer. Miss Marjorie Peebles of Trenton visited Ray Peebles and Carl Flint then traveled with family to Rutland to visit their father, longtime Congregational church organizer.
Mr and Mrs Frank Merriam spent the week in New York city where he presided over the Piano Stool Manufacturers association convention as its president. After the meeting they attended a musical convention enjoyed by both.
Rev Ralph A Barker leads morning service at 10 30 with Sunday school at noon and an evening praise service at 7 The Friday social service follows at 7 30 The sermon titled The Memory of Our Dead cites Hebrews 11 32 40 12 1 3 Visitors without a church home welcomed to attend The L 8 C plans a Thursday meeting with Mrs Po Quimby
Progressive lodge Knights of Pythias conducted memorial rites Sunday with graves decorated at Glenwood cemetery and two at St. Bridget's. William V. Cameron and John Wollerschied read the ritual. A parade led by Maynard Brags band and Thomas Fox marched from the meeting hall to the cemeteries with uniform rank escorts from Marathon Cambridge and Roosevelt companies.
Graves of departed members were decorated in Stow Concord and West Acton as uniform rank members gathered for observances honoring the fallen. The ceremony reflected on service and remembrance within the organization.
The Sovereign Lodge of Oda laws schedules a convention and parade in Boston on Sept 29 the largest ever for Odd Fellows in New England. A Thursday conference at Preston Hall Marlboro gathers delegates from Maynard Marlboro and Hudson to discuss consolidating district lodges for the march.
Alf Randall is identified as the man of the detonation that will represent Maynard at the conference, signaling a notable leadership role in the parade event.
Forty hours devotion observed at St Bridget’s Church with confessions on Monday evening and Tue Wed, masses at 6.46 each day. Thursday and Friday mass plans noted. Mrs Theresa Grady of Grant 1 visited relatives in Franklin.
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