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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1955
Page
4
A puzzling report notes Pretty Boy and a figure described as a toe miss ter won their match while one party remained in hospital. Details are unclear but the victory is highlighted amid medical absence.
Three months apart in Lander Wyoming a gust of wind smashed a plate glass window at Jim Anspach's service station causing $100 in repairs. Winds struck again recently, breaking another window and another $100 bill. A quick casserole recipe idea uses canned spaghetti tuna olives and cheese baked 20 to 30 minutes.
Stow notes mark Hale high reunion with cor sages for the oldest women graduates and boutonnieres for the oldest men. attendees include former staff and principals, a secretarial change, and plans for the next reunion in 1960. also reports on Camp Eden reopening, new neighbors, a dog clinic, kindergarten visit to the fire station, and local residents’ celebrations and travel plans.
Ithaca New York reports the 127 year old Bight Square Schoolhouse six miles northeast of the city will be preserved as a Tompkins County landmark. Dryden Central School District voted to transfer the building for a nominal sum to the DeWitt Historical Society. Preservation will be undertaken jointly with the New York State Bankers Association. The current schoolhouse was built in 1827 to replace an earlier wooden structure and remained in use until 1941.
In a Saturday ceremony in a garden at the Stow home, Nancy Slayton Clemens wed Lyman Allen. Rev. Charles O. Richardson officiated as family and friends gathered for a 4 pm service. The couple, traveling to Bermuda for their honeymoon, will reside in Cambridge as they begin life together. Nancy is a Concord Academy graduate and Middlesbury College junior. Lyman is a Middlebury College alumnus and Brown University candidate for an MA.
Grand Island Nebraska report highlights Mrs Helen Williams 80 who has rented the second floor of the Bartenbach Building for 50 years under four generations of the Bartenbach family. She started with her grandfather George, then Henry, then Henry’s son, and now George’s son Henry. The piece notes she pays little more than at first and includes a recipe idea for baked beans with bacon.
G P Schultz resigns as selectman after being chosen to serve on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors to President Eisenhower. The one year appointment requires the Schultz family to reside in Washington, with plans to return to Red Acre road in fall 1956. John Turnbull and family from Minnesota will occupy the Schultz home during their absence.
The Union Evangelical church of Stow held a Sunday Children Day program led by superintendent Kalervo Hekkala. Children and youth directed worship with ushers readers and singers while Sue Nichols and others gave greetings recitations and songs. Baptism for Nancy Jean Buzzell was performed. A summer Children Hour and nursery care were announced with arrangements for services starting June 19 for nursery at the parsonage.
Workmen digging in Anderson uncover a granite like boulder fourteen feet across and seven feet high, partly underground. They estimate the weight at about fourteen tons and believe it was part of a glacial deposit carried to the area ages ago.
A farm couple announce retirement after 41 years. Arthritis leads them to consider Arizona. The going farm holds forty healthy cattle and full modern facilities. Doug Langille, a known local broker, lists the property and can provide full particulars at Marlboro 1180.
Troy based Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute physics department conducts research on the sound absorption properties of materials used in carpet and rug manufacturing.
Stow On Thursday principal William J. Hartley presented 33 junior high diplomas in an informal school cafeteria ceremony. Vice Principal Richard H. Bejume announced American Humane Education Society poster winners and pins, with Elizabeth Roach and Barbara Scott taking first prize, Mary Terro and Nancy Goucher second, Gay Witherbee and Sandra Campbell honorable mention.
Lincoln road resident Alfred G. Davis has been named postmaster of Lincoln after serving as acting postmaster since October 1954. A Concord High School graduate, he captained the baseball team. Buy U S Savings Bonds.
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