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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1917
Page
7
A group of Concord women will attend a course at the town hall on methods of household economy. Mrs H Hi Darling, Simmons College graduate, will conduct six sessions on June 6 8 13 15 20 and 22 covering food values inexpensive cooking buying and utilizing waste.
The second and final piano recital by pupils of Mrs. W S Leland followed Saturday afternoon at her music room in Association hall building. Students performed with credit under Mrs. Leland’s guidance and were joined by Mrs. W B Conant who sang. The teacher will continue lessons into summer vacation at her studio.
A group of Miss Helen Connell s little friends gathered at her home on Monday afternoon to celebrate her 10th birthday. The party featured music games and dancing to a Victrola with cream cake and candy served as refreshments. Guests included Rose Frawley Josephine Pendergast Dorothy Mason Marjorie Dickenson Margaret Sheehan Garinude Steinman Betty White Edna O Leary Marion Pope Jennie Gresala Clifton Pope Celia O Leary Rodney Akers and Robert Connell.
Mrs. William Réilley was among hundreds of Catholics confirmed at Holy Cross Cathedral on Memorial Day morning. She later left with daughter Geraldine to join her husband in Gray Maine for 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 Regiment. Mrs. J. P. Bowen and Mrs. George Hagerty enjoyed an automobile trip to Framingham Monday as guests of friends.
Mrs Brngst Pingle and her daughter Helen returned from a several days visit in Rutland where they stayed with Mr and Mrs Elmer Shattuck Helen the 10th birthday girl received a decorated cake made by inmates of the Prison Camp presented to her by Mrs Shattuck
Middlesex Central Pomona Grange held Bird Day on Saturday June 2 with a field walk led by Charles W Jenks and Mrs Winifred Simonds and Mrs Mary Luncheon followed at the schoolhouse. Rev Sylvester Robbins spoke on birds and Commissioner Bourne gave an illustrated lecture on state efforts for the birds.
57 enrolled for registration yesterday. George Clapp expands his business with ice cream service anytime. Eva Wrye of Medford and Milton Brown visited with Dora Fletcher at Maplestown. Herman Duren, former Acton resident, returned from Somerville to see friends. Miss Bethia Keith visited Mrs George Smith on School Street. Death of W W Benjamin in Boston notes his former Frank Pratt farm purchase. Frank Merriam and wife drove to Plainfield Conn to visit daughter Florence teaching there. Emerson council Royal Arcanum of Ayer met Acton council to consolidate under Acton council Royal Arcanum. Frank Johnson, ex Maynard route driver for Tuttle & Newton, now with American Woolen Co. of Maynard. Mrs William Rawitzer steadily improving. Men’s Forum plans mock trial and buffet at Universalist church June 13 with Nelson Tenney as defendant.
Rev Alfred W Stone and Union Church announce a Children s Day program with a 10 45 morning service, church school at noon, Intermediate Endeavor at 3 30, a 5 concert, and Senior Endeavor at 6 with the sins of the mind topic. There is no evening service and midweek and Ladies Union meetings are scheduled in the vestry.
A lawn party under the Paul Revere Chapter 0 15 8 of Bedford will be on Blake's lawn Wednesday June 13 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 in the evening. A sale of various articles will be held.
Mrs John White returns from visiting relatives in Waltham Joseph Alexander ends term as instructor at the Mass Reformatory Mrs Lydia Morreau and daughter Sylvia spend weekend with relatives in Lowell Mrs Charles Priest operated on for appendicitis at Deaconess hospital Chester Elmes and John Grady home from Attleboro on a 24 hour furlough Jennie Dorr of New Market N H visits Miss Louisette Sydney Bennett to undergo stomach ulcer operation at Mass General Luther F Jewett at Deaconess hospital after serious operation Mrs Fred Hewitt and daughter Muriel visit Framingham with Co I Ralph Hewitt stationed there Concord Junction Catholic club continues weekly social dances every Tuesday night
At the Church of Our Redeemer in Lexington on Monday afternoon May 28, members contributed 38 toward continuing Red Cross activities in Lexington through the summer. Other notes include local staffing changes and upcoming fare-rate notices.
Auction notices list sales by H Forbush in West Acton on June 9 1917 at 9 am for the late Miss Josephine Fletcher household goods. A second sale June 12 and 13 features 125 Holstein cattle from eight breeders across New England and New York. An Athol sale is set for June 21 featuring registered geleipins.
Mr Borden of Bonnie Brook farm plowed and planted about one and a half acres for his workers to tend crops and share the harvest. Vegetables and potatoes will be raised. Visitors from Waltham praised Mr and Mrs C F Nelson after calling on Sunday. Frank Parsons has left his farm for Carlisle, where new owners prepare to move in soon.
Communion service Sunday morning and special evening services with Mr. Pope speaking on the war. Sudbury Guards attended. music by a choir and a male quartet. Memorial day events delayed by town hall repairs. Italian band from Framingham performed. Memorial exercises at the school house Tuesday. local residents visited or hosted guests across Hyde Park, Cambridge, and Haverhill.
Submarines rely chiefly on the gyroscope compass. This instrument, invented only a few years ago, points true north and is not influenced by magnetic conditions. A wheel suspended freely spins to align with the Earth's rotation, keeping a north south axis.
The article reports that 812 names were enrolled in yesterday's registration effort. Registrars operated in four hour shifts with interpreters available in many languages. Some workers used company autos to transport staff and most registrants complied with the law, with no incidents.
Morin 59 or 60 Broad Street Hudson died after a year long illness. Heart trouble listed as cause. Native of Canada he lived in Hudson over 40 years. Shoemaker by trade survived by wife a son Grover Morin and daughter Mrs Patrick P McManus. Funeral planned for tomorrow morning.
Pittsburgh stranded sixteen runners against the Cubs, nearly tying the major league mark of seventeen set by the Philadelphia Nationals in 1905. The Cubs and Pirates left men on base in every inning, with two in the first, one in the second, three in the third, two in the fourth, one in the fifth, three in the sixth, two in the seventh, one in the eighth, and one in the ninth.
A newspaper note describes a flag produced at a major Worsted goods mill with a multinational labor chain. The banner's wool comes from an American sheep and the workers span nationalities from American to Albanian, Turkish, Armenian, and others, illustrating a diverse industrial workforce.
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