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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1929
Page
6
Fragmented lines describe civic tasks and events in Concord including a public exams week, a university golf tournament in Boston, and local hospital flowers. Mentions of officials, clubs, and dates are unclear due to damaged text.
Concord Garden Club tours Topsfield Garden today taking box lunches. Congratulations to Arthur A Magurn of the Board of Assessors and Mrs Magurn on the birth of a daughter at Forest Hills hospital. Firefighters from Concord and West Concord battled a scrub fire on Ol Marlboro Road burning about 20 acres before flames were stopped. No buildings were affected. Sergt William J Purgo, long in charge of Walden Pond sub station, transferred to Framingham Barracks. Patrolman John Foster now in charge of the Concord State police station.
Sunday service and Sunday school at 10 45 am with a Wednesday testimony meeting at 7 45 pm. Reading room hours 2 to 5 pm on weekdays. Lesson Sermon title Ts the Universe Including Man Evolved by Atomic Force? based on Bible passages from Job II Peter and the Christian Science text by Mary Baker Eddy.
The church in Dexter, Massachusetts, announces a service on Sunday June 23 at 8 am Holy Communion at 11 am morning prayer and sermon led by Rev. Mith. Regrettably OCR is garbled but preserves the event and timings.
In 1929 June 11 at Emerson Playground the Peter Bulkeley Emerson School girls beat Harvey Wheeler West Concord 7 innings. Rosemary Byron pitched for the winners with Helen Howardt catching. Mary Griffin and May Ryan starred for the losers. Ruth Hmmons directed the event.
Severe weather forced cancellation of the Trinity Parish Meastes Pest er Picnic scheduled for Friday June 7. Thunder lightning and rain dampened plans. fire alarms responded on Wednesday with a small fire on Main Street and a brush fire at Sters Hill later extinguished by West Noord men.
An advertisement notes silk slips priced at one dollar and a line of new purses located near the bank, with nearby Broadway advertising in the Con-adv section.
Eleven graduates from Concord Academy receive diplomas in a sunlit ceremony attended by trustees, alumnae, and families. Principal Hobson honors two scholars for outstanding averages while nine graduates plan to enter college in September. Tennis champion Mary Cootes wins the school title and earns the Alice Blake Newell Cup.
Freshmen claim the interclass baseball championship at Concord High School with a 9 to 2 victory over the Seniors on Emerson playground last Tuesday afternoon. Capt. Louis McKenna held the Seniors to 3 hits and 15 strikeouts, while Williams caught McKenna in top form. 11 players from the freshmen squad will receive class medals.
The Billerica Junior High baseball team dominated the league with a 13 to 0 victory to clinch the championship. Coaches and players celebrate the title and season's end.
Gordon Cunningham of the Junior Class was elected captain of the next year's Concord High School track team, succeeding Edward Flannery. Cunningham scored over 70 points this spring, starred in dashes and relays, and also played on the baseball team and in the school play.
In Concord on June 19 at the Concord Rod and Gun Club skeet grounds William J. Bulger Jr. shot his 22nd perfect 25 with Lem Moulton matching and Augustine W. O Macone close at 24. The day’s results list Bulger 26 Moulton 25 Bacone 24 Foster 23 and other competitors with single and low scores.
Winthrop High School defeated Concord High School in a girls tennis contest on Emerson Playground. Irene Turner and Dorothy Browne won singles for Winthrop. Elizabeth Rudd and Elizabeth Cook won for Concord in others. Doubles saw Fahey Peterson of Concord upset by Ricker Iner, and Crowy Fitzgerald of Winthrop win the final set marathon. Mrs Hormel of Pasadena visiting Concord as mother to Mrs Rudd.
Advertises Crepe de Chine dresses at Miss Buicks Store opposite the Bank in Concord as best value for the price.
James P. Lee of New York is chosen captain of the Middlesex School baseball team for 1930, succeeding Alexander Keyes who graduated. The club posted 12 wins and 4 losses, with Litchfield 30 appointed manager for next year and a list of 15 letter players honored with watches.
Waldo P. Lapham started cellars for two Pine Street houses. The Concord Girl Scouts reported about 1277 dollars raised at a garden party. Mrs Joshua Bennett Holden registers at the Colonial Inn for the summer. Her apartments at Hotel Brunswick Boston are closed. Miss Ethel Tucker of Bermuda visits sister Mrs Charles Carruth on Lexington Road. Mrs Raymond Emerson and daughter Dilon travel six weeks in Scotland by bicycle. The Concord Female Charitable Society met at Mrs Russell Robb's Monument Street home for the season’s last session and sewed for charity.
Concord High School falls 2 to 1 to Maynard High in a nine inning contest on the Emerson playground. A passed ball and battery errors in the ninth inning let l Gruber walk steal and score for Maynard while Wesley and Tierney pitched for Concord and Maynard outhit Concord 3 to 2.
In Concord on June 19 the Massachusetts Skeet Association formed at the Concord Rod and Gun Club clap house with about a dozen organizations including the Concord Rod and Gun Club and Oxbow Gun Club. A 12 team circuit is planned for light and Saturday shoots. by-laws will be adopted at another Concord meeting. William J. Bulger Jr of Concord was elected president with J McCormick of Saxonville as first vice president and W F Davis of Acton as second vice president.
Concord Lodge of Elks marked Flag Day with the order’s rites in Elks Hall Friday evening led by Exalted Ruler William Graham Murray. The organizing committee included Charles Robinson Dr John Fulton P E R Edward W Sheehan Louis J McCaffrey and Harold J Wellington.
James B. Baldwin posted a 71 to break Concord Country Club’s nine holes record during the three days event over the Bunker Hill Day weekend. He beat the previous 73 set last year by Michael Cody Jr. of Concord.
Walden Royal Arch Chapter plans a pre-summer meeting at Masefife Temple Monday evening with High Ex. William A. Wilkins presiding under Mrs. Dun can G. Chapman. Dinner in banquet hall at 7. Rev. Dr. Percy T. Edrog to speak. no degree work. Rain and flooding reported in Cot cord area, weather by Fred A. Tower of the U S Weather Bureau. Edwin D. Brooks Jr. graduate of Bemont Hill School.
Off Westby 1 hits by pitcher 2. Tierney and Bartolomeo credited. Westby 9 runs. Passed balls noted by Carthy. Umpire Wilam M tthy. Time of game 1 hour 45 minutes.
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