Flag Day Exercises Highlight Concord Dedication
Concord marks Flag Day with an 85 foot six inch all steel pole dedication in the playground area. A parade from Veter ans to Mill Lexington road featured Avery and a staff of Elks and Girl Scouts. The ceremony included a speech by C Childs and a flag salute by Wood and McLaughlin, closing with the Star Spangled Banner.
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Concord
New Pole
Oeed
Walden
Egbert S. Newbury
Concord Lecimenions
Ellis
Jer B. Williams
Burke, Jr
James Post
Arthur Wood Grange
Jine DeMars
J. Buchanan Nimsy
Peter Diassistant
Marshal’s
Alexander Bernard J. Rushe
Ander
Michelectt
G. Harold Carlson
Byron
William
J. d James Denaro
Newbury
Road Commission
John J. Flannery
Williams
Wood
Frank J. McLaughlin
Legion
Elks
Leon J. Moreau
George Horrocks
Arthur W. Parke
Thomas F. Garrity
Robinson
America
Childs
Newton
Elk
Col
Otis M. Kitney
Governor’s Council
The
Concord Elks
Recreation Commission
23Rd Infantry
23Rd Infantry Band
West Concord Cyo
Girl Scouts
Young Republican Club
Knights of Columbus
Whitney Coal and Grain Company
Ralph Macone
Catholic Daughters
Concord Cyo
Water Colour Exhibition At Concord Art Centre
Concord Art Centre opens a show featuring Road to Bone Algeria a water colour by Hazard Durfee presented by the American Society of Arts and Letters of New York. The late Childe Hassam left works to the Academy of Arts and Letters with sales funds supporting American and Canadian artists for gifts to galleries and museums in the United States and Canada. The Concord Art Association is among the beneficiaries.
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Concord
Concord Art Centre
Road To
Bone
Algeria
Hazard Durfee
American Society of Arts and Letters of
New York
Childe Hassam
Academy of Arts and Letters
United States
Canada
Concord Art Association
Concords Public Schools Close Friday with Closing Exercises
All of Concords public schools will end for the week Friday with closing exercises to mark the occasion.
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Concord
Bartlett Named To Committee
Concord doctor William B. Bartlett of 28 Monument Street was named a trustee of the Town Donations at the selectmen meeting. He succeeds Wisner I. Park of 18 Upland Road who resigned.
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Concord
William B. Bartlett
Monument Street
Wisner I. Park
Upland Road
West Concord
Rotary Meets On Thursday Concord Rotary Club
The Concord Rotary Club will hold a weekly meeting at Colonial Inn dining hall on Thursday at 12 15 pm led by President Lester B Whittemore with luncheon by Thomas L Sanborn. Wallace B Conant led the last program. A new slate of officers will take over on July first.
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Concord
Concord Rotary Club
Colonial Inn
Lester B Whittemore
Thomas L. Sanborn
Wallace B. Conant
Knights of Columbus Meeting Reminds Members in Concord
Local Bishop Cheverus Assembly Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus remind members of the next meeting at the Copley Plaza Hotel Boston. Election of officers will take place with James A. Huban of Brookline nominated as Faithful Navigator.
Senator Furbush Re Nominated for Third Term
Senator Richard I. Furbush of Waltham in the fifth Middlesex district is nominated for a third term. He will face Frank J Gaziano, a Waltham School Committee member, who was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.
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Richard I. Furbush
Waltham
New Schedule For Concord Board Of Selectmen
Concord Board of Selectmen announces summer schedule changes starting July 1. Meetings set for the first and third Mondays at 7:30 PM at the Town House. Office closed Saturdays and from July 13 through July 29.
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Concord
Concord Board of Selectmen
Board of Selectmen
Mrs. Maude Stephens Gold Star Mother Dies at 73
Mrs. Maude Frizzell Stephens, 73, of 166 Commonwealth avenue, died last Saturday. Funeral services were held Tuesday at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Manning. burial at Belle Vue cemetery Harvard. Survived by husband Joseph E. Stephens daughter Mrs. James C. Bemis five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. She was a Gold Star Mother who lost son John E. Stephens in WWII. Also noted is Bernard J. Rushe named marshal for the Fourth of July parade sponsored by Knights of Columbus and the field day program. he is a WWII veteran with Purple Heart Bronze Star and Legion of Merit.
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Concord
Concord Council
Ights of Columbus
Monument Hall
James J. Loughlin
Concord Enterprise
St. Bernard’s Holy Name Society
Lincoln Mohawks
23Rd Infantry Band
Harry Neilson
Joey Wheeler
Peter Bulkeley
West Concord
St. Bernard’s Holy Name
Maude (Frizzell) Stephens
Commonwealth Avenue
St. George’s Episcopal Church
Maynard
Goll
Bellevue Cemetery
Harvard
Stephens
St. John’s
New Brunswick
South Barre
Degree of Honor Association
Pride of Thistle Lodge
Somerville
John E. Stephens
Joseph E. Stephens
James C. Bemis
Bernard J. Rushe
VFW
Knights of Columbus
Rushe
Legion ‘of Merit
Concord High Grad Paul Swanson Completes Holderness School
Paul Swanson of Carlisle, a Concord High School graduate, completed graduation from Holderness School in Plymouth New Hampshire last week.
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Paul Swanson
Carlisle
Concord High School
Holderness School
Plymouth
New Hampshire
Navy honors Sgt Sheehan with posthumous Navy Cross
Concord residents honor Sergeant Joseph D. Sheehan USMC with a posthumous Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism on Peleliu Island October 4 1944. He led demolition efforts under heavy fire destroying a machine gun and enemy positions while advancing with his squad. Survived by mother Mrs Edward W Sheehan father and three brothers and a sister. He was a standout miler at Concord High School and Worcester Academy and earlier served at Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester.
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Concord
Joseph D. Sheehan
USMC
Edward W. Sheehan
Bridge Fond West Concord
Sheehan
John W. Antonelli
Charlesa Navy Yard
Cita
Hle
First Marine Sion
Peleliu Island
Alge
Concord High School
Worcester Academy
Holy Name
Johnny Kelley
Hank Zamparelli
Sergt. Sheehan
Robert E. Edward F
Jeremiah H
Rag
Leo
Mary) Dale
Bedford Q E S To Mark 30th Anniversary
The Paul Revere Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, Bedford, will hold a Town hall meeting at 5:00 led by Mrs. Olive A. Bieron with a 6:30 supper at the Church of Christ. Miss Evelyn M. Thresher handles reservations and plans an evening reception and entertainment for honorary and charter members plus past matrons and patrons.
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Evelyn M. Thresher
Tuval S. Johnson
Bryn Mawr Grad Rosamond Brooks Earns Cum Laude
Miss Rosamond Brooks daughter of Mrs Susan Brooks of 10 Belkway Street graduated last Wednesday from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She completed the degree with honors cum laude as part of a 112 seniors class.
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Rosamond Brooks
Susan Brooks
Belkway Street
Bryn Mawr College
Pennsylvania
Concord to Hold Special Town Meeting July 1 on Veterans Housing
The Concord Board of Selectmen calls a special town meeting at 7 30 p m July 1 at the Veterans Building Walden Street to consider two articles. The first would authorize funding and a veterans housing committee to provide housing facilities and shelter for town veterans. The second would consider amending zoning to reclassify Five Sudbury Road from single residence use.
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Concord
Concord Board of Selectmen
Veterans Building
Walden Street
Cancer Housing
Chen
Sudbury Road
Titcomb
Surprise Shower For Miss Dorothy Prentiss
Miss Dorothy E. Prentiss of 143 Commonwealth Avenue was honored with a surprise shower last Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Josephine Hall in West Concord. About 45 guests attended and presented many fine gifts as preparations for her August marriage to Chester Smith of Chelmsford.
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West Concord
Dorothy E. Prentiss
Common Wealth Avenue
Josephine Hall
Chester Smith
Chelmsford
God the Preserver of Man as Lesson Sermon Topic
The sermon titled God the Preserver of Man was read last Sunday at the First Church of Christ Scientist. The lesson focused on divine protection and moral guidance.
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God the Preserver of Man
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Concord primary yields Whitney and Tompkins victories
In Concord and surrounding towns on Tuesday, Otis M. Whitney and Harold Tompkins were nominated for Governor's Council and State Representative, with Whitney winning the Third District Governor's Council in a three cornered race. Tompkins secured re nomination for a third term. 944 votes were cast in Concord with 878 for Republicans and 66 for Democrats.
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Concord
Otis M. Whitney
Harold Tompkins
Tompkins
Middlesex
Whitney
Perlie Dyar Chase
Boston
Edmund J. Cheney
Lowell
Well
Chase
Cheney
McGrail
Callahan
Thomas
Bennett
Lombard
Lincoln
Weston
Wayland
Richard I. Furlough
Waltham
Linwood I. Locke
Furbush
Locke
Frank Gaziano
Gaziano
Robert F. Bradford
Paul A. Dever
Roger Lowell Putnam
Maurice J. Tobin
Francis D. Harrigan
Arthur W. Coolidge
Coolidge
Trade Cole
George E. Thompson
William G. Andrew
Clarence A. Barnes
Jination
Francis E. Kelly
Will
Barnes
Edith
Nourse Rogers
Congress
Frederic W. Cook
Henry Lodge
United States
Frederick L. Putnam
Jesse A. Rogers
Laurence
State
Fred Burrell
John E. Hurley
Thomas J. Buckley
Sympathy Sent To Edgarton On Sister's Death
Sympathy is extended to Charles G. Edgarton of Nashaw the road for the recent loss of his sister. Funeral services were held last Friday afternoon at Shirley.
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Charles G. Edgarton
Nashaw the
Shirley
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