Mrs Russell Dies After Long Illness at Home
Mrs Joanna Gleason Russell 89 widow of James M Russell died last Monday night in a West Concord rest home after a long illness. A Lincoln native, she lived most of her life in Concord and resided at 5 Thoreau Street. Born September 10, 1857, she leaves nieces. Funeral services were held at her home, then a high mass at St Bernard's Church at 9 o'clock followed by burial in St Bernard's Cemetery Concord.
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Concord
Joanna
Glea
Russell
James M. Russell
West Concord
Lincoln
Thoreau Street
St. Bernard’s Church
St. Bernard's Cemetery
Claire Milot Wins First Prize In Poster Contest
Concord Red Cross chapter held a poster contest at Concord High School. Claire Milot of West Concord won first prize for an interpretation of global Red Cross services. Honorable mention went to Geraldine Peterson. Other entrants included Rhoda Henry, Jack McHugh, and Shirley Smart. Posters are on display in Concord and West Concord store windows.
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Concord
American Red Cross
Claire Milot
West
Red Cross
Menition
Geraldine Peterson
Rhoda,Henry
Lincoln
Jack McHugh
Shirley Smart
West-Concord
Concord Garden Club Plans Spring Flower Show
Local Concord and West Concord Garden Club members announce their annual Spring Flower Show to be held at Horticultural Hall in Boston between March 10 and March 15. Event features exhibited blooms and related horticultural displays.
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Concord
Concord and West Concord Garden
Hall
Boston
Taxpayer Help Planned in Concord Hall Meeting
Concord Deputy Collector of the Internal Revenue Department will be at the town hall on March 10 to assist taxpayers in preparing their Federal Income Tax Returns.
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Concord
Internal Revenue Department
Concord Notes: Guard Enlistments Play and Social Events
In Concord a review of local happenings notes enlistments in Company H of the National Guard with Captain Hagerty inviting youths to join at the State Armory on Monday or Thursday after 1:45. The Concord Academy will stage Richard II this Friday and Saturday at 8:15 pm with a large, rehearsed cast. Dr and Mrs John Wilson Boynton Jr returned from a mid winter dentist conference in Chicago and a Laurentian ski trip. The Evangelical Free Church Young People's Society meets Friday at 8 pm at Gerry Andersen’s home on Main Street West Concord.
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National Guard
John W. Hagerty, Jr
State Armory
O’elock
John Wilson Boynton, Jr
Chicago
Ilinois
The
Laurentians
Young 'People’s “Society
Evangelical Free Church
Gerry ‘Andersen
Main Street
Concord
Concord Friends Honor National Champion at Assembly
Concord youths honored national 440 yard champion Mustofo Muscato at a Tuesday high school assembly. West Concord supporters had bought and inscribed a watch for him, while Concord fans presented a traveling bag and praised his town boy hero status.
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Concord
Val Muscato
West Concord
Concord Academy Presents Annual Play This Week
Concord Academy stages its annual play this week with performances tomorrow night and Saturday at 8 oclock in the school hall. Proceeds go to the Susan Hurd Warren Scholarship Fund for tuition for a Concord girl. Sets were created by the girls under Miss Doreen Young and Miss Emily Hale.
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Concord
Susan Hurd Warren
Academy
Doreen Young
Carlisle
Emily Hale
Carter Family Becomes Wurlitzer Piano Agents in Concord Area
Robert Carter of Carter Furniture Co appointed agent for Wurlitzer pianos in Concord Me ndard Actons Sudbury and nearby communities. The firm founded by the late Robert W Carter in 1920 is noted for piano tuning and agency. During World War II Mrs Winifred Carter managed the business. The Carters invite locals to visit Main Street West Concord to hear the new Wurlitzer.
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Concord
Robert: Carter
Carter Furniture Company
Wurlitzer Pianos
Maynard
Actons
Sudbury
Carter ‘Furniture Company
Robert W. Carter
Carter
U.S Navy
Winifred.Carter
Bob
Carters
Welegtp
Main Street
West Concord
Middlesex Teams Selected for Tech Tourney and Local Prep Changes
Two Middlesex Basketball League teams, Lexington and Tunner up Reading, earned selection for the Tech Tourney at Boston Garden with Lexington the prior year's champion. Concord High gains a new coach Bill Boland luck and Middlesex School reports practice readiness. New baseball coach Johnny Adzigian to replace Irving F Wood as Irving steps aside.
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Middlesex Basketball League
Tech
Boston Garden
Lexington
Tunner
Reading
Bill Boland
Goachinge
Concord High School
Concord
Lexington High
Johnny Adzigian
Stoneham
Harvard Flash
Irving F. Wood
Massachusetts restricts new billboards to commercial zones
The Massachusetts Outdoor Advertising Authority drafts rules prohibiting new billboards in open country and residential districts. The rules aim to limit outdoor ads to business areas, signaling a new standard in billboard regulation. Chairman William J. Wallace and members Fred J. Watts and Smith J. Adams lead the authority.
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Boston
Massachusetts Outdoor — Advertising “Authority
Scanesoeas
Massachusetts
William J. Wallace
Fred ‘J .Watts
Smith J. Adams
Authority
Suit the house plant to the window where it will stand
The article notes plant light needs by type. For flowering plants many require sunshine and a south window for best bloom while begonias also favor bright light. African violets tolerate minimal sun and can grow in east or west windows. Foliage plants may thrive in north windows with little or no sun.
Miss Ena T McInerney Retires After 48 Years Teaching
Worcester Massachusetts remembers Miss Ena T McInerney who retires at 70 after 48 years of teaching first grade. She notes that students once applied themselves more industriously than today and reflects on changes in schooling over the years.
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Worcester
Mass
Sudbury Grange Anniversary Night With Charles M Gardner
Sudbury Grange marks its 62nd year with annual visit by Charles M Gardner High Priest of Demeter. Regular meetings include minstrel show progress reports. neighboring Grangers invited to attend March 11 to celebrate the affiliation.
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Sudbury
Charles M.gardner
Demeter
Engagement announced for Miss Jean Campbell in Acton
Mr and Mrs Leland H Campbell of Central Street West Acton announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Jean Campbell to William W Drury son of Mr and Mrs William C Drury of South Acton and Clearwater Florida Miss Campbell is a graduate of Acton High School and Cambridge Hospital School of Nursing Mr Drury a Acton High School graduate is a World War II veteran who served in the European and Pacific theaters
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Acton
Central Street
West Acton
Jean Campbell
William W. Drury
William C. Drury
South Acton
Clearwater
Florida
Campbell
Acton High Schools
Cambridge Hospital’ School of Nursing
Drury
The King's Daughters Meet at First Parish Vestry
The King's Daughters gathered Tuesday afternoon in the vestry of the First Parish Unitarian Church with Mrs William Wadsworth as hostess. Roger F Conant, once at a West Concord plant and now self employed in Littleton, is having a late season sale on snowplows many suitable for jeeps station wagons tractors and cars.
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King’s Daughters
First Parish
Unitarian ‘Church
Roger F. Conant
West Concord
Littleton
Goncord High School Principal Speaks at PTA Meeting
Goncord high school principal H Smith spoke at the Peter Bulkeley School PTA monthly meeting. He outlined the start of a guidance program for junior high pupils. President Martin Diskin presided. refreshments were arranged by Mrs. Dorothy Diskin and Mrs. Erma Venti. Next meeting is the fourth Wednesday in March.
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Concord
Willard H. Smith
Goncord High School
Peter Bulkeley
Parent Teachers Association
Crfeteria
Martin J. Diskin
Dorothy Diskin
Erma’ Venti
Concord All Woman's American Legion to Host Whist Night
The Concord post will host a public whist party on Tuesday evening March 11 at 8 at 9 Stow Street, the home of Mrs Arthur Berry. Beginning March 10 the local post joins a state wide drive from March 10 to 22 inviting women former service members and ex servicemen to join. contact Edith E Monson or Capt John A Hutchinson.
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Concord
American Legion
Arthur Berry
Stow Street
Legion
Peter Bulkeley School Beats Harvey Wheeler In Rubber Match
In Hunt Gymnasium on Tuesday afternoon Concords 39 to 8. Leo McKenna led with high scoring totals as Peter Bulkeley School leveled the series. A return game is set as a preliminary to the Maynard game at Hunt Memorial Gym on Friday night.
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Concord
Peter Bulkeley
Harvey Wheeler
Hunt Gymnasium
Leo McKenna
Concords Maynard
Hunt Memorial Gymnasium
Hilarious Evening At Lions Program at Concord High
The well attended event at Wells A Hall Memorial Auditorium Concord High School featured Rothwell N. MacRae as host. Several professional acts delivered sensational performances leaving the audience in high spirits as they departed happily.
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Concord
Wells A. Hall
Concord High School
Rothwell N. MacRae
Explaining Scout Cubbing Meeting in Acton
Parents invited to Blanchard hall next Wednesday at 8 p m to hear Boy Scout Council members outline cubbing for boys ages 9 to 11. Emphasizes parent involvement for new Cub Pack forming in Acton with charter members sought for March 12.
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Cub
Acton
Concord veteran Bennett runs for Selan in Lexington
Concord Newton E Bennett a former Company H soldier who served three and a half years in the Pacific Theatre finished third in the Lexington race last Monday. It was his political debut and he is currently employed at a Lexington printing concern.
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Concord
Newton E. Bennett
Pacific ‘Theatre
Selan
Lexington
The Making of Models And Ancient Hobbies Topic
A fragment notes that the making of models is among the oldest hobbies of mankind and cites the Encyclopedia Britannica as saying so.
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Britannica
Boston Children’s Medical Center plan discussed in Concord meeting
About 40 attendees, including 16 women’s groups, gathered at Mrs Hen A Laughlin’s Concord home on February 26 to discuss plans for a new Children’s Medical Center in Boston. Dr Donald Matson, Neurosurgery fellow, spoke on expanding facilities and the decision to build a dedicated medical center for children.
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Concord
Wadnesda
Children ‘Medical Center
Boston
Hen A. Laughlin
Friends of the Children’s Hospitl
Donald Matson
Th Hospital
Children’s Hospital
Acton Woman Named Chair for Children’s Hospital Campaign
Mrs. Thomas Motley II of School Street Acton has been appointed chairwoman of the Actons in the Women's Educational Division of the Children's Hospital $10,000,000 Medical Center campaign to be held in April. J. W. Farley, president of the board of trustees, announced the appointment. Motley previously worked as a technician in the hospital blood laboratory. The campaign aims to raise funds to expand the Children's Hospital into a medical center for child and adolescent health care and preservation.
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Acton
Thomas Motley II
School Street
South Acton
Wmen
Children's Hospital
J. W. Farley
Motley Form
Children’s Hospital
Social and Dance at Eagles Hall Maynard Friday Night
Local folks invited to a social and dance at Eagles Hall in Maynard this Friday at 8 o clock. Event promises community fellowship and music for attendees in the area.
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Eagles Hall
Maynard
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