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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1920
Page
4
Maynard notes list visits and social events around town. Names include Charles Visocchi Sudbury Gladys Darem Stow and Beatrice Cuttell Pleasant, with remarks on neighbors, theatre outings, whist clubs, and local readings.
A unusually large crowd enjoyed Sunday evening Union service with a strong musical program and Atiyeh’s talk on school days. Next Sunday features a 10 45 morning service The Sign of Triumph and an evening Union service at 7 with Dr ees speaking. Also listed are Sunday school and Men’s class at 12 Junior Endeavor at 4 Senior Endeavor at 6 with Our Pledge as the topic. Pastor’s class meets Wednesday at 6 30 and Sunday school teachers meet Thursday at 8.
A group including Mrs Del la Moore Mrs Robert White Mrs Mary Cook Mrs Patrick Lannigan Mrs Alexander Espie Mrs William Hellewell and Misses Grace Gertrude Theresa Moynihan Elizabeth Donahue and Mrs Harlow Green attended the performance of Pilate's Daughter at St Alphonsus hall Roxbury on Sunday afternoon. Wanted a second hand folding go cart in good condition Address Box 107 West Acton. m24 1t
Edward OConnell leads the freshman class in the Thrift Stamp contest at Maynard High School in the commercial department with a weekly score of 115 points. Oda Petersen is second with 25 and Ruth Weckstrom has 2.
Dr Payson Smith commissioner of education will deliver a lecture on Americanization at Riverside hall on Wednesday March 31 at 745 pm. Music by the Maynard Woman's club Glee club accompanies the talk as part of a three lecture series by the Maynard Woman's club civic department. The lectures are free and open to the public.
Swartz Bros tailors announce a service offering of $150 for the new hospital project. Donors anticipate high demand for services. travel difficulties hinder data gathering. The hospital committee plans personal visits to totals and discussions with experts as good molasses arrive.
The Sons of St. George Cobweb party followed a regular I.O.O.F. hall meeting. Capital prizes went to Nathan Crowther and Mary Taylor. Albert Tay received a special award and a ton of coal. A social followed and an initiatory degree will be given to a class at the next regular meeting.
Officers installed include Liam Hayward as dictator and Joseph Sheridan as vice dictator. Charles serves as prelate and Walter White as treasurer, Alex Bourke as secretary, with George Fleon and C J Murphy in training. A banquet will follow at C F Hall Monday.
The Alku Temperance Society marked its 25th anniversary at its Main Street hall with a program attended by members and delegates from several towns. Hugo Kajander, treasurer, reported 156 members at founding, now 56 enrolled, and owned property valued at 6364 with a small mortgage.
Over 300 men from St Bridgets church attended the 8 30 mass Sunday then joined a Communion breakfast at Masonic Hall. Dr Frank May led the post service exercises with Rev Edward Crowley and Richard McSweeney as speakers. Crowley reviewed The Economic Consequences of the Peace by K M Keynes. Kilferty Powers and King provided vocal numbers. This was the third such breakfast, with Durant committee members Sullivan, Hannon and Connolly organizing.
Earl Smith and Ralph Sheridan Maynard, longtime government department stenographers in Washington since the war began, resign to join Firestone Tire Co in Akron. Both are high school commercial graduates and started duties this week. Reports say Elizabeth Sweeney and Ida Hendrickson, graduates of the same department, are expected home.
Heavy cakes of ice swept down the Assabet river and knocked the piles from under the Main street scales of the Maynard Coal Co. The scales frame was carried to the dam at the Powder Mills and recovered Sunday by workers breaking ice. Andrew Peterson ordered a new bridge and scales at once, with concrete piers and a price around 2000 dollars.
James Mahon, 86, died at his brother Edward Mahon Thompson Sr. home after weeks of heart trouble. He lived here six months after moving from East Cambridge where he worked for years. He leaves a daughter in Washington and two sons in Kansas. Funeral Mass at St. Bridget's Church was led by Rev. John J. Sweeney. Bearers were Timothy Duggan William Quinn Herbert Lemoine and Frank McCarron. Burial followed at St. Bridget's Cemetery with spring interment in Malden family lot.
Local shop advertises Saturday specials with frank corned beef priced at ten cents and tomato sausage offered at a promotional rate amid brief, garbled OCR text.
Maynard High School launched a weekly titled The Oracle to showcase school news, sports, personals, and fiction. Editors Bernard Lever, Stanley Wardzala, and John Driscoll, with printers and reporters, aim to print a larger edition next year and build a 200 paid subscription list.
Funeral services for Ira Howard who died Tuesday of last week were held Saturday afternoon under the Weavers union's direction. Rev. Charles F. Parsons officiated at the U. S. Owl er Rooms on Main St. Bearers included Richard Crosby Francie Johnston Henry Sylvert James O'Brien William Weir and Edwin Carlton. The body was interred in Glenwood cemetery receiving tomb. A New Jersey nephew plans to arrive soon to arrange burial.
A snowshoe repaired and returned to Arthur Sullivan reveals a narrow escape during a snowshoe trip in the woods. A companion accidentally pulled a shotgun trigger, blasting the rear end of the shoe. the incident details follow the repaired shoe return.
Mizpah Rebekah lodge will initiate a class of 14 candidates at the next regular meeting on Thursday April 1. Mary A. Williams D D P of Concord and Frances Hallier D I of Hopedale will pay an official visit. Supper will precede the meeting. Plans include celebration of the lodge anniversary and presentation of the Traveling Lily.
The cooking club of the Home Economics club will hold a food sale at Macorda's drug store on Nason Street Saturday afternoon. Townspeople are urged to attend and support the effort with a purse that is not too flat.
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