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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1948
Page
5
A snippets list shows items including a room table priced at fifteen dollars and a toboggan priced at five dollars. It mentions Maynard and a contact call for New SAGE.
The Stow Garden Club will meet Tuesday July 6 at 1 PM at the president Mrs Herbert H Cooke’s Walcott street home for the annual luncheon followed by a program and business session. Mrs Ruth Phillips of Brimfield visited Mrs Allison P Smith of Great Road over the weekend.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at Fowler funeral home in Maynard for Mrs. Lizzie M. Gale Smith of Harvard Street Stow widow of George I. Smith aged sixty eight who died Sunday at the Hospital Concord after a week’s illness. Survivors include three sons Irving H George W and Joseph E four grandchildren one great grandchild a sister Maud L Beal of Wayne N J and a brother Charles Gale of Vineyard Haven. Rev Howard Weaving of Framingham officiated. Burial was in Brookside cemetery Stow.
The First Parish Sewing Circle met at the church Thursday afternoon to tie a quilt. They planned their next gathering for Thursday afternoon July 1 in the church vestry with refreshments and business.
Wedding invitations announce Miss Mary Frances McLaughlin former teacher of Lexington Massachusetts will wed Henry Van Gelder on Saturday June 26 at St Bridgets Church in Lexington. The town reception follows as families and friends celebrate the union.
The Hudson Civitan Club hosts its second annual outdoor penny sale at Riverside Park expected to draw 5000. Prizes totaling 409 items worth over a thousand dollars plus a 1948 Oldsmobile Hydromatic will be awarded. Tickets, transportation from Wood Square and Marlboro, and floodlit facilities are arranged with a rain date of July 1.
Sunday observance at the Union Church on June 27 at 10 45 a m with a special children’s program. The young people plan a visit to Kev Howare A Andrews at Swampscott for a beach party and evening vespers. Wayne Moody of Methaonst church van Massachusetts will be guest speaker at the Union effort. all are invited.
Mr and Mrs Barclay B Tatler of Great Road Stow hosted a weekend family reunion with their four children home for the occasion. On Sunday the infant son of Mr and Mrs Charles Gray Carolyn Tatler of Hudson was christened Frederick Barclay Gray at the grandparents home with Rev James V Miller officiating and Barclay Tatler assisting. Henry Tatler played piano before a house guest from New York City James Morganti. Attendees included Dr and Mrs Archie Keigan of St Lukes Hospital New Bedford Mass and Mr and Mrs William D Tatler of Stow for a year end family gathering.
The Stow The Service Chib of the Union Church sponsors a Lawn Party at the church this Saturday afternoon and evening starting at 3:30. A doll car wage and tricycle parade is planned among activities.
A local church hosts activities for children and boys with games and stunts starting at 4:00 p.m. A salad supper with strawberry shortcake is served at 6:00 p.m. followed by a minstrel show at 8:00 p.m. Madame Vita will offer fortunes and outdoor music runs 3:30 to 8:00 p.m. from 1 Sunday at the Paradise of Great Road.
At a past masters observance at the Littleton Grange Stow Grange had the largest attendance and received a prize. Attending from Stow were William Newsham Mr and Mrs John Stanton Mrs Basil Stow Mrs Annie Wood and Allison Smith.
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