Knights of Columbus elect two Army men to officers slate
Concord Fort Devens soldiers Hugh E. Kilmartin and Richard Mullaney head the new Knights of Columbus officers for the coming year. Other officers include Leonard E. Wetherbee deputy grand knight John J. Sheehan Jr chancellor Philip A. Carrigan warden Past Grand Knight George S. Lawton recorder J Edward Finigan treasurer Edward Rundgren inside guard Maurice McWalter advocate Rev Michael J Burke chaplain with financial secretary and lecturer to be named later Installation planned for fall Delegates Lawton and John Finigan and alternates Powers and Lawton outlined in the slate.
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Concord
Knights of Columbus
Fort Devens
Hugh E. Kilmartin
Commonwealth Avenue
James W. Powers
Richard Mullaney
Thoreau Street
Leonard E. Wetherbee
John J. Sheehan, Jr
Philip A. Carrigan
George S. Lawton
J. Edward F Finigan
Edward Rundgren
Maurice McWalter
Michael J. Burke
Lawton
John B. Finigan
Powers
Kilmartin
John Finigan
Concord Man Wins NACA Certificate in Cost Accounting
Waldo W. Neikirk of 54 Main Street Concord and assistant treasurer of the Army Chemical Co. received a Lybrand certificate of merit for outstanding contribution to the literature of industrial accounting for 1950 1951. The award will be formally presented at NACA’s 32nd international cost conference in Chicago this week.
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Concord
Waldo W. Neikirk
Mainstreet
the & Army Chemical Co
Lybrand
National Association of Cost Accountants
NACA
Chicago
Junior Nurses Aide Course Opens in Concord
The first class of the Junior Nurses Aide Course was held at Emerson hospital in the Nurses' Home on June 27. Enrollment remains open for high school age girls in Concord and nearby towns served by Emerson. For information call Mrs Stephen L Smith at Concord 1006-W.
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Concord
Emerson Hospital
Stephen L. Smith
Bedford Couple Marks 19th Wedding Anniversary
Bed for d residents Albert William and his wife observed their 19th wedding anniversary. The couple wed in Cambridge and now live in town with three children David in the U S Marine Corps at Quantico Virginia and Fean and Albert at home. An usher Gordon Phillips attended the John son Pierson nuptials at St Bridgets in Maynard. Local Anthony Hunt Hamilton Post A S Auxiliary members joined the Middlesex County Council meeting in Somerville. Pvt Victor Tomys US Marines stationed at Parris Island is on furlough with relatives here.
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Albert Williamson
Houston Street
Cambridge
David
US. Marine Corps
Quantico
Virginia
Fean
Albert
Gordon
Phillips of
Bedford
St. Bridget’s Church
Maynard
Anthony-Hunt-Hamilton Post
A.S
Middlesex County Council
Somerville
Pvt
Victor Tomys
U. S. Marines
Parris Island
Four Local Men Receive Degrees at Northeastern Commencement
Northeastern University in Boston awarded degrees to about 1150 graduates in six colleges and granted six honorary degrees at a Sunday afternoon ceremony in the Boston Arena. Robert G. Dodge and Dean Charles W. Hawke participated. 340 engineering graduates expect jobs in industrial defense plants. Notable degree recipients include George E. Neagle, Robert S. H. Turnbull, Anthony Hid, and Murray D. Black.
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Boston
Northeastern University
Boston Arena
Robert G. Dodge
Northeastern University Corporation
Charles W. Hawke
College of Engineering
George E. Neagle
Willow Street
West Acton
Lincoln Technical Institute
Neagle
Robert S. H. Turnbull
Matin Street
South Acton
School of Law
Anthony Hid
Summer Street
Maynard
Fourth Degree members elect officers in Boston meeting
Concord local Fourth Degree K of C members attended the officer election at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston last week. The latest bulletin notes the death of memoriam Wasp Ey Lincoln, a Concord Council attorney who died this spring. It cites federal prisoners peaking near 26,000 in 1932 and dropping by 10,000 after prohibition repeal.
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Concord
Bishop Cheverus Assembly
Fourth Degree
K. of C
Copley Plaxza
Boston
Waspey Lincoln
Concord Council
United States
Plant America Day yields plantings shown in Stow
About 60 people from seven towns gathered at the First Parish Unitarian church in Stow for a Plant America Day tour. Pruning demonstrations were given by Mr Bolcourt and questions answered as projects were viewed.
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Town Hall
MacDougall
Middlesex County Extension Service
Concord
Boicurt
University of Massachusetts
Bobcurt
Sinilar
Stow
America Ray
Local residents take visits and trips around New England
Stow John Peck visits his aunt Mrs. Donald Fogg in Chelmsford while Toivo Erkinen and family head to Moosehead Lake Maine for a weekend cottage stay. Elsa Heikkenen funeral mourners travel from Maynard to West Parish Maine. Donald Smith attends Massachusetts Christian Endeavor Conference in Northfield. Mrs. Perkins and Miss Moore depart for a California motor trip with planned stops along the route.
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Toivo H. Erkkinen
Albert
Wayne
Red Acre Road
Moosehead Lake
Maine
Gretta Wanhatalo
Great Road
Peter Heikkenen
Maynard
West Paris
Elsa Heikkenen
Ehen Perkins
Crescent Street
Rilot Grove
Myldred Moore
Brookline
California
Rose Hawthorne School Planned for Concord Area
Archbishop Cush ing announced a new co educational Rose Hawthorne County Day School to memorialize Rose Hawthorne Lathrop born in Knox. The school on the Pratt estate in Concord will draw pupils from Concord Acton Maynard Bedford Stow Lin...
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Concord
Rose Hawthorne
Acton
Maynard
Bedford
Stow
Linin
Lexington
Richard J. Cushing
Pratt Estate
Main Street
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lenox
George Parsons Lathrop
Lathrop
Bedford Briefs Show The Vacation Season On
Bible school is underway at Church of Christ Congregational under Miss Ruth Liviermore. Classes run through July 6 with a make up next Wednesday holiday. Mrs. Dorothy Hume attended the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in New Bedford. Sons of Union Veterans Auxiliary held a strawberry festival at Mrs. Edward Pike Great Road home. Barbara and Louise Albani, recent Concord high grads, now work at Raytheon and Middlesex Insurance in Concord. Carol Julia, Lexington high grad and Julin family member, won the Bedford Woman's Community Club scholarship of 100 dollars and will enter Northeastern University in fall. she is the eldest of five.
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Dominican’ Sisters of St Rose of Lima
New York
Fall River
Concord
West Concord
Sisters of the Holy Union of the Sacred Heart
Groton
Archdiocesan Superintendent of Schools
Cornelius T. H. Sherlock
Bible School
Church of Christ, Congregational
Ruth Livermore
Dorothy Hume
New Bedford
Sons of Union Veterans Auxiliary
Edward Pike
Banbara
Louise Abani
Concord High School
Raytheon
Middlesex Insurance Office
Salvatore F. Albani
Schoolway
Bedford
Carol Julia
Lexington High
Stanley Julin
Southroad
Bedford Woman’s Community Club
Northeastern University
Julin
Greetings From Beyond Lewiston Couple Reported
Lewiston couple Roy and (unnamed) Coleman received messages from friends who have died, with details suggesting a spirit contact. The communication mentions a journey lasting 22 days and references travel time of 12 hours.
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Lewiston
U. P
Roy Coleman
Lewen
Vacation Church School Opens at Stow Parish
The First Parish in Stow will hold a vacation church school July 2 to July 13 in the church vestry. Bible lessons stories handwork games and songs will fill 9 to 11 30 each day. Rev Charles O Richardson Jr directs with a teaching staff. All children welcome to a non creedal non denominational program.
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Stow
School Boards Meet New Supt Harriman in Joint Session
Members of the joint school committee union superintendent held a Friday meeting at Hale High School to meet Edwin Harriman the new superintendent from Shelburn Falls who will replace Blynn Davis as Harriman has bought a home in Harvard.
Thieves Break Into Dauray Textile Plant Take 12 Yarn Cartons
Superstitious thieves struck the Dauray Textile Inc plant in Woonsocket Rhode Island stealing 12 cartons of yarn valued at 4000 dollars they left behind a 13th carton citing bad luck and avoiding the number.
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Woonsocket, R.I
U. P
Dauray Textile, Inc
Stow Bride Weds Lawrence Johnson Jr in Stow Church
Veronica Petersen of Stow becomes Mrs. Lawrence T. Johnson Jr. in a June 17 ceremony at St Bridget's church Maynard. The couple, of Stow and Belmont, will reside in Stow after a Maine wedding trip.
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Robert
Stow Country Club
Maine
Stow
Cambridge
Boston College High
Northeastern University
International Business Machine Co
Boston
Nuptial Shower for Miss Bertolino in Framingham
A Stow area miscellaneous shower for Miss Roseanna Bertolino of Framingham was held at the Dramatic Club in Framingham on Thursday evening. Over 90 guests from Worcester Fayville Framingham Maynard and Stow attended. Mrs. John Thomas and Mrs. James P. Lund and Mrs. Albert Hatch were among the hosts. The event featured decorations gifts refreshments and dancing. Miss Bertolino, to marry Ernest M. Thomas in the United States Army stationed in Virginia, plans a July wedding. Mr. Thomas is a former Stow resident.
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Stow
Roseanna Bertolino
Framingham
Dramatic Club
Frami m
Worcester
Fayville
Maynard
John Thomas
White Pond Road
James P. Lund
West Acton Road
Albert Hatch
Bertolino
Ernest M. Thomas
United States Army
Virginia
Mr. Thomas
P. T. A. Nets $75 In Paper Drive
The Stow Parent Teachers Association reports over 75 dollars raised in a paper drive to fund Hale High school band instruments. Members thank all who supported the effort.
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P. T. A. Nets
Stow
Stow Parent Teachers Association
Hale High School
Air Vigilance Wasted as Barn Fire Spreads in Kokomo
Joseph Harris' barn burned despite efforts of a commercial airplane pilot. Captain Danny Hass, piloting a Lake Central plane en route to Chicago, spotted flames and smoke. He alerted Kokomo airport, which summoned a township fire unit.
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Kokomo
Ind
U.P
Joseph Harris
Beef Shortage Seen Now in Massachusetts Markets
The Boston OPS district office reports ample beef supplies in Massachusetts with extra shipments reducing shortage risk. No retail violations noted. Prices have fallen below ceilings due to weak demand from housewives. warnings urge avoiding pre packaged ground meat labeled differently than Hamburg.
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Boston
Massachusetts
OPS
Hamburg
Edwin A Howard Heads Stow PTA
Stow Parent Teachers Association held its final meeting of the season at Hale High School. Edwin A Howard was reelected president with Albert A Schaal Jr as vice president and Ellen Perkins as secretary supporting lunch program chair Jean Woodhead and program chair Alvin Fletcher.
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Stow
Stow Parent-Teachers Association
Hale High School
Edwin A. Howard
Albert A. Schaal, Jr
Ellen Perkins
Jean Woodhead
Alvin Fletcher
Edward Saari Is Six at Family Birthday Party
Edward Saari, son of Mr and Mrs Albert Saari of Great Road, celebrated his sixth birthday with a family party at home. Guests included John and David Wanhatalo and Shirley and Sandra Wanhatalo, Marie Parkkela and Barbara Saari, with Edward’s grandparents and other parents present. Refreshments, games, and gifts followed the celebration.
Hudson Bumps Motorcycle Leads to 30 Day Sentence
Mike Hudson, 4B, bumped a parked motorcycle owned by Officer W. T. Curtis in Fort Worth. Curtis arrested him for drunken driving, resulting in a 30 day sentence.
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Fort Worth
Tex
U. P
Mike Hudson
W. T. Curtis
Hudson
Miss J View Teacher Arrives in Summer Visit
A brief item notes Miss J View, a teacher, arriving for a summer visit amid activities in Quebec and Ch eertown with Mrs boro road and Otta Si involvement. Details are fragmentary from the OCR.
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J View
Stow-Gitl committee meeting notes relay town events
The Stow committee meets with Mrs Arthur Dale and secretary treasurer Derby outlined. Pelham and Derby youths plan a June outing for Sandra and Macomber. Police and state officers in Vermont report on a theft case and wounded prisoner details with unclear names.
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Stow—Gitl Mittee Mets
Arthudale
Udes Cha Rick
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S. S. Pierce Fine Foods and Cosmetics
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John Peck
William’ H. Peck
Donald Fogg
Chelmsford
Hawthorne
Bedford Briefs
New Supt
Dodge
ST. Bridgets
Veronica Peterson
Lawrence T. Johnson, Jr
Belmont
Roseanna_ Bertolino
Ernest Thomas
Jeanne Mary Foster
The
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Newton-Wellesley
Warren
Ing
Pri ‘Burg
Marshall Field & Company
Edwin A.howard
PTA
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Quebec
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Mrsboro Road
Otta Si
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Stow Wills
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Vermont
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