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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1955
Page
5
Town residents prepare for a March 6 church event at 7 30 PM with plans for a senior and junior mothers meeting. The area hosts a federal committee session and a guest appearance by notable locals, including Sadie Stanton, as organizers invite participation and entertainment.
Girl Scout cookie sale runs March 5 to 12 with booths at the Post Office, Lower Common, and Clark's Store on Red Acre Road. Volunteers will call on homes and Brownies will be in Beach Wagons. Also tickets remain for a First Parish Church Smorgasbord on March 9 and a Grange stocking drive to Washington. Union Church club meeting postponed to March 7 due to town meeting. Stow PTA Auction donations invited for March 20.
A Get-Acquainted Meeting lists David Smith William Turner Robert Bird Mrs William Drake and others on Great Road Gleasondale Road Wheeler with Herb Potter as Auctioneer to raise money for the Project Fund for school equipment. Mrs Lois Campbell announces a Low Teen Dance March 5 at Town Hall 730 to 10. Judging calls on Dr Edgar Bell Jr prompts notes on resident doctor needs and housing by Dr Boardman Dr Bell may be reached through Maynard office until permanent arrangements are made Girl Scout meeting February 28 at Hale High School split into cooking and Player Badge groups with leaders noted Join the Red Cross.
Concord Rotary Club celebrated Rotary International's 50th founding anniversary at Howard Johnson's with skits on the group's history. The event highlighted more than 8,000 clubs and nearly 400,000 members, and noted over 1.5 million dollars in scholarships for foreign study.
Town meeting in Stow closed with 410 voters selecting town officials and electing several candidates. The highlight was the new school project prompting a special town meeting next Monday to decide final details as residents weigh funding and transportation costs.
Catherine Wilder Hansen of Maynard died at 206 Great Road Tuesday night after a prolonged illness at age 64. Survived by five daughters, one son, two brothers, two sisters. funeral from home Wednesday with a High Mass at St Bridget's Church. Burial in parish cemetery.
Stow Mrs. William A. Robus of White Pond Road announces the engagement of their daughter Dorothy Ann Robus to Thomas E. Prendergast Jr. of West Concord. Dorothy is a Concord High School and Fitchburg State graduate and Newton teacher. Thomas is a Concord High School alumnus and Tufts student athlete. They plan to marry soon.
West Concord report states Walter Miller, long-term inmate, assaulted correction officer Walter Gebo last Friday at the Massachusetts Reformatory. Miller gained entry by jamming a corridor door lock. Gebo was shaken but returned to duty after medical check.
Dorothy Harly announces a special open meeting at Pilot Grove School this Thursday March 3. First Grade mothers are invited to attend with guest speakers from the School Committee to ease strains through cooperative action.
Grennan said the attack seems to have preceded an attempted break and that the affair was settled so quietly that 34 other inmates in the security section were unaware of it.
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