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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1923
Page
6
Maynard and nearby towns feature visitors from Lowell Somerville and Atlanta while residents enjoy vacations hospital news and school activities. Local sports include Maynard High and Assabet mill league engagements and an outing planning by Maynard Lodge.
Chester Irwin now works with his father William Irwin at Middlesex Cigar factory in Manchester New Hampshire. William Irwin is a veteran with 44 years at the bench and known as a top tobacco judge famed for the Cuban roll producing cigars with strong aroma and taste.
Progressive Lodge and related groups will hold memorial services next Sunday afternoon. They will march to local cemeteries to decorate graves with flowers. In Glenwood cemetery the K of P service will feature Clifford Jones of Cambridge as orator. Maynard hosts Marlboro next Saturday as town team action begins. Arlington Mills of Lawrence scheduled to play Maynard next Sunday with Cadigan and Morgan as battery.
The Maynard Legion Post plans a grand Field Day at Crowe Park starting the Night Before the Fourth. A sham battle by the Black Horse Cavalry and 181st Infantry will unfold under searchlights, followed by baseball, rough riding, horsemanship displays, Cossack riding, and a fireworks show. July Fourth features soccer, Maynard vs Clinton, then Maynard vs Lexington, with extensive spectator activities, vaudeville, sawdust pile games for children, and band concerts.
The Union Congregational church held a Children’s Day with seventy young entrants marching in and each bearing a bright red potted geranium for the platform. A new cradle roll was dedicated with 20 homes inscribed. Junior girls sang Blossom Bells and boys presented a playlet Builders of America with costumed roles. Bibles were presented for moves from Beginners to Primary, several diplomas granted, a town song sung, and a $50 collection plus 38.37 from the cradle roll. Each of 79 children received a potted plant.
The Assabet Mills closed Thursday at noon and reopened Friday morning due to extreme heat. People sought cooler places, bathing at Lake Boon and nearby waters while shops faced depleted swimsuit stock as demand surged.
A convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians delegates in Middlesex County met Sunday afternoon at Workingboys' Home Newton. Representing Maynard were Mrs Lews Cook Mrs Mary Martin Mrs Katherine White Mrs Mary Puffer and Mrs Alice Smith of the Ladies Auxiliary and Michael Murray Dennis Buckley Henry Tobin Owen McCarthy of Division 44 AOH.
The notice states tickets on the tg C M H NOKSTS will be redeemed. Tickets sold by the road will pass to Master Danna Bartlett if presented before the specified date. An address is Room 329 Winut Bank Building Boston. Next Friday morning the real estate and personal property of the Street railway will be sold at auction at the car barn on Great Road.
Arlington Mills team from Lawrence Grognar Town beat Arlington at Crowes Park 9 to 2 in a tight game. Maynard led late with a four-run seventh and a two-run eighth inning. MacParland hit a long homer into the woods. Heath starred with four hits in five and two excellent defensive plays. Injury to Brawley occurred in seventh. Umpire King. Time one hour forty five minutes.
Roderick Melver, famed entertainer, sailed Saturday from Borton to Glasgow to visit his seriously ill mother. A Masonic Club delegation surprised him on board with the Lotus Quartette serenade. Singer Mr Cannell also sailed, delighting old friends as fellow passengers.
Joseph Collier of Taunton was the Weekend guest of Mr and Mrs James Mooney. Garfield st E H Davis is driving a new Dodge coupe purchased from the Vialle Motor Co of Concord. The Maynard Brass band will give a concert at the Legion lawn party at the Stow town hall next Friday evening. The Selectmen urge rail removal from town streets to finish before the Fourth of July. Rails to be removed from Meinst to the Stow line, Paper Mill bridge to Acton line, and Acton Nason to South Acton. Miss Mary Mahan and brother John, Mr and Mrs William Quinn attended a funeral in Lexington Monday.
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