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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1917
Page
9
Women of Concord Junction plan to attend a course at the town hall on June 6 8 13 15 20 and 22. Mrs H H Darling a Simmons College graduate will lead the lectures on food values inexpensive cooking waste utilization and practical housekeeping methods.
The second and final recital of piano pupils of Mrs. W S Leland took place in Association hall. Pupils Alice Anderson Marjorie Anderson Mabel Hunter Dorothy Hendrickson Helen Logan Mary Loring Mary Mc Hugh Josephine Loring Thelma Neff Esther Olsen Norah Simpson Marian Spinney Lawrence Clark Harold Desmond performed with credit. Mrs W B Conant accompanied and sang a group of songs. Leland will teach through summer vacation and remain at her studio.
Miss Helen Connell celebrated her 10th birthday at home on Main Street with many young friends. The party featured music from a Victrola, games, dancing, and refreshments of ice cream cake and candy. Guests included Rose Frawley Josephine Pendergast Dorothy Mason Marjorie Dickenson Margaret Sheehan Gertrude Steinman Betty White Edna O Leary Marion Pope Jennie Gresala Clifton Pope Celia O Leary Rodney Akers and Robert Connell.
Mrs William Reilley was among hundreds converting to Catholicism at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross during Memorial Day morning confirmations. She then left with her daughter Geraldine to join her husband in Gray Massachusetts where they will establish their future home.
Charles Simpson Alex McEachern Jr. Thomas Reilley and John Crossley passed the physical examination at Lowell Saturday to join Co I 6th Regt Mrs J P Bowen and Mrs George Hagerty spent Monday driving to Framingham as guests of friends
Mrs. Ernest Pringle and her daughter Helen stayed several days with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Shattuck in Rutland. Helen, who turned 10, received a cake decorated by inmates of the Prison Camp as a birthday surprise from Mrs. Shattuck.
Sunday services at Union Church include morning worship at 10 45, church school at noon, events for youth at 3 30 and 6 with a children's concert, and no evening service due to the concert. Weekly activities include a Tuesday midweek meeting and Thursday Ladies Union in the vestry. Local notices mention hospital and military injuries, visits, and upcoming auctions and cattle sales in nearby towns.
In Bedford on Saturday June 2 the Middlesex Central Pomona Grange held Bird Day. Members walked fields to study birds with Charles W. Jenks, Mrs. Winifred B. Simonds and Mrs. Mary H. Laws guiding. Luncheon followed at the schoolhouse and Rev. Sylvester Robbins spoke on birds while Commissioner Bourne gave an illustrated lecture on state efforts for avian preservation.
A lawn party hosted by the Paul Revere Chapter of Bedford is planned on Blake's lawn. The event runs Wednesday June 13 from 3 to 5 PM and 7 to 9 PM with a sale of various articles.
The Woman's Guild of the Church of Our Redeemer contributed 38 dollars at a May 28 meeting hosted by Mrs. C. W. Willis to support Red Cross work in Lexington. Robert French aids John Myers at the Bedford drug store Sundays. H. Smith plans a first class tailoring shop on South Street. Miss Margaret Kelley and Miss Florence Murray took Lexington park openings. Agnes V. Kelley and Blanche Congdon of Boston visited Bedford. Fare-rate increases to take effect June 25 are noted elsewhere. Bedford W. C. T. A. sent a delegate to the Middlesex convention in Marlboro on May 22.
Mr Borden of Bonnie Brook farm plowed and planted about one and a half acres for his helpers to tend crops and reap the harvest vegetables and potatoes will be grown. A sample of Mr Borden’s generosity was shown when Mr and Mrs Nelson of O Nelson enjoyed a visit from Waltham last Sunday. Frank Parsons has sold his farm and moved to Carlisle with new owners preparing to occupy it soon.
Seventy five enrolled for registration in South Acton yesterday. George Clapp adds ice cream service ready to serve. W W Benjamin dies in Boston. he owned the Frank Pratt farm earlier. Emerson council and Acton council consolidate under Acton council, Royal Arcanum. The Men's Forum hosts a mock trial with buffet lunch at Universalist church on June 13 with Nelson Tenney as defendant.
Communion and evening services were held with the Sudbury Guards present. music by the choir and a male quartet. Memorial day activities included a dinner and programs while town hall repairs left it unfit for occupancy. Italian band Framingham provided daytime music and Miss Alice Hosmer joined the Memorial day events at home.
A submarine’s magnetic compass is unreliable due to hull metal interference. It mainly uses the gyro scope compass, invented recently, which points true north and resists magnetic disturbances. The gyro works by a wheel free to turn. its axis aligns north-south with Earth’s rotation.
Pittsburgh nearly tied the major league record for men left on base with sixteen in a Cubs game. Seventeen stranded is the mark set by the Philadelphia Nationals in 1905, and equaled by minor league teams. In the Cubs versus Pirates contest, Pirates left runners on base in every inning, scoring none in several frames.
The banner of a large wool mill embodies America as a mosaic of nationalities. Wool from an American sheep was sorted by an American and processed by workers from Italy, Sweden, Germany, England, Scotland, Belgium, France, and Armenia, Albania, Ireland, and Turkey, with Albanian scouring and Polish pressing.
Hudson conducted a quiet registration day enrolling 812 names by 9 PM from 6 AM to 9 PM. Interpreters aided all day, 18 registrars worked in four hour shifts, and many factory owners provided transport for workers. The tax list showed 856 eligible ages, with foreigners and out-of-town residents accounted for separately.
Grover Morin died at his home 60 Broad St after a yearlong illness of heart trouble. The 69 year old native of Canada resided in Hudson over 40 years and was a shoemaker. He leaves a wife a son Grover Morin and daughter Mrs Patrick P McManus. Funeral set for tomorrow morning.
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