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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1937
Page
2
The Historical Survey plans a Concord campaign to locate letters diaries account books and manuscripts from Middlesex County for store in the state archive. Residents are urged to share sidelights on early history noting that even seemingly trivial personal papers can aid future researchers.
The notice advertises a contest with a possible two thousand dollar first prize. Readers are urged to check entries with friends for accuracy and include a ten cent piece to receive four photogravure prints by Sam Chamberlain depicting New England scenes.
A discussion outlines the need to relocate criminally insane from State Prison West Concord and Norfolk to free space for feeble minded and psychotic patients. It calls for reducing overcrowding at State Prison and studying a future Department program before full treatment facilities are used. The speaker thanks the committee for their courtesy during the hearing.
A fragment notes that varnish has been in use for at least three thousand years and credits the ancient Egyptians as early specialists in its practice.
The text lists Girl Scout awardees and badge recipients across multiple troops. It includes names such as Annie Arkin Rita Keese Joanna Ballou Betty Baker Ruth Haysey Constance Moulton Mary Hatch Frances Keese and many others earning badges in First Aid Lifesaving Swimming Health and Attendance stars.
The Concord Rod and Gun Club aims to net about 100 from ticket sales for an outing at Maynard Rod and Gun Club grounds on Lake Boon Hudson with a rain date September 26. The club plans pheasant releases and fish and game funding, aided by member Elmer Rankin and others amid details of pheasant provisioning and finances.
James Brooks will depart for California next Monday morning June 28 with Miss Reba Vail of Lexington and her mother. They plan to visit Miss Vail’s sister in Antioch and tour Yosemite National Park Washington Oregon and other Pacific Coast interests. They return to Lexington and Concord mid August to start school.
A strawberry supper is set by the Ladies’ Sewing Circle at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Lanter of South Acton at 4 p m with the evening service to follow at 6 30 p m.
A Concord University committee criticizes state penal institutions for overcrowding and aged facilities at Charlestown State Prison and calls for immediate repairs and policy continuity. It notes four commissioners of correction in five years and highlights improper housing as the root issue. The Norfolk Prison Colony receives general praise without detailed recommendations.
The Massachusetts committee criticizes Norfolk Prison Colony as an economic waste and urges reforms for the Concord Reformatory. It calls for careful transfer of suitable inmates to Concord, a study of parole supervision, and a commission to align prison policy with practical penology.
Councillor Frank A Brooks criticizes the idea of a State Prison in Concord and defends the local reformatory. He cites parole statistics and contrasts Concord’s record with other state institutions, urging support for reformatories over state prisons.
The Executive Board of the Wo mans Club nears completion of plans for the 1937 38 season. Speakers include Mr Kettell Middlesex School author of Early American Rooms Dr Philip Osgood Emmanuel Church Boston and designer Joseph Reynolds. Senorita Oyarzabal and Michael Strange also on the program with Wellesley College singers and a string quartet. Members urged to join before July 1 to not miss these artists.
John J. McWalter of McWalter Insurance Agency and his brother Maurice McWalter head to Wentworth by the Sea Portsmouth New Hampshire for a five day testimonial outing by United States Fidelity and Guarantee Company of Baltimore Md. About 100 New England agents will attend with a two hour meeting amid five days of leisure and sport. Miss Josephine Castelline will supervise the office during their absence.
A list of attendees from C H S 1912 reunion includes Edith Woodward Pillsbury Gladys Park Harold Merriam Fred Adams Caroline Wheeler Washburn Dr Francis Sargent Dorothy Davis Vincent William Fallon Florence Hubbard Underwood Ralph Barton Priscilla Wheeler Mansfield Margaret Mansfield Elwin Hallowell Bertha Cram Montague Mary McManus ONeil Gladys Kerrigan Davis Everett Montague Harry Dye Arthur Goding Winslow Damon Margaret Coughlin Hazel Robbins Frye Alice OConnell Hill Frank McCarthy and others.
Sunday morning worship at 10 45 a m sermon titled The Inescapable God Being an exposition of Psalm 139. Tuesday prayer meeting at 7 30 p m with Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God Matthew 5 9.
Mr Brooks praised Chaplain Walker and Father Ford and urged public support for workers aiding troubled men. He expressed satisfaction with the Concord Reformatory and pledged to keep it a reformitory, not a state prison, with minor changes only. He lauded Major Michael J. Dee and Charles T. Judge for their efforts.
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