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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1917
Page
5
Maynard notices detail church attendance, visits, and weekend guests. Local officials repair roads, set sidewalks, and prepare for Memorial Day music. Community members share family updates, appointments, and school plans including new uniforms and year’s schedule.
At the Ba circuit annual meeting near Gleasondale a delegation attended led by C. B. Spatding of Worcester as speaker. Ernest Hodges was elected treasurer of the circuit. A notice seeking a man with a steady temperate household job in New York referenced a 8000 salary figure.
Maynard Grange will host an open meeting next Tuesday at 8 pm featuring an illustrated lecture on Small Fruity and Berries by Wilfrid Wheeler of Concord, secretary of the Mass State Board of Agriculture. Wheeler is noted as a leading expert on berries and related fruits and will discuss varieties and cultivation.
Mrs Mara-Di Grappo died Saturday at her home 45 Glenifalest after a long illness. Funeral services were held at St Bridget's Church at midday with Rev Walter J Browne officiating. Interment followed in St Bridget Cemetery.
Students in Miss Grace Holbrook's class at Holbrook High presented a diocese and gold chain as a farewell gift. Holbrook resigned to teach in South Manchester Ct starting Monday. Gavin Taylor Jr delivered a presentation speech.
Merrill Osgood leads a 7 30 p m service in which the pastor discusses the Significance of the Lenten Season in relation to social life. Palm Sunday is observed with 10 45 a m musical selections and sermon Heaven Begun on Earth and Continued in the Future Life from John 14 3. Sunday school at noon Men’s Bible class in vestry Young People and B Y P W meet 6 p m Are We Fooling Ourselves led by Miss Gates Public worship at 7 includes illustrated sermon stereopticon on companionship with Jesus in victory and Passion Week stories The Palms and Holy City will be illustrated and sung by a quartet An invitation is extended to all.
Mrs James J Storrow hosted guests Mrs Hdlmond Whitney H Linwood White Mrs D A Dunham and Miss Mabel Bishop at her Lincoln home Saturday for a Middlesex Farm Bureau meeting. About 150 delegates from towns across the county attended.
In a brief notice, J Colighidt, John H. Murray Co, and Eli Field are named as members of the finance committee, with Moderator Ken presiding over the appointments. The announcement confirms new terms and committee leadership.
Legal Order of Moosar held a regular meeting on Monday night and elected officers G J Murphy D B Tasranged Edward Faherty Y By J Gwhnair delegate to convention T J King alternate Connolly George D Rison and J J Smith trustees. Two applicants were received and three were initiated.
Miss Edith Hinchcliffe of Arlington sails for France to serve with the Harvard unit as a Red Cross nurse. Her brother Thom Hinchcliffe will drive an ambulance. The pair, popular locals, were hosted by Mr and Mrs Joshua Naylor over the weekend.
The Bird Committee of Maynard Grange prepares an exhibit of bird houses to be placed in the windows of the Maconda store this week. The houses serve as models for children to build their own bird houses, with prizes to be awarded at the Grange meeting on April 17.
A fragment references Thomas McCormick in Maynard Massachusetts and a vague inquiry about a drug and a nerve remedy. Further readable detail is insufficient to confirm event type or outcome.
The Middlesex County Farm Bureau executive committee selected Mabel E. Bishop Hattie Dunham Edmund Whitney and H Linwood White as Maynard directors. A luncheon at Mrs J R Storrow’s Lincoln home drew local directors and a membership drive will start with two or more new appointees.
The new high school building on Summer Street will be open for public inspection Thursday from 7:30 to 9:30 PM. Children may attend only with their parents, and the teachers’ restroom, recently furnished by the Woman's Club philanthropic department, will also be open.
The 12th annual Finnish Young People's Christian Endeavor convention met at Walnut Street Mission church on Saturday and Sunday with delegates from town and nearby cities. Rev John Vanaanen opened the event, with addresses by Rev Alex Raita and various speakers, musical numbers, poems, and a social hour concluding the weekend.
William Moynihan of Co K Regt headquarters Clinton was mobilized Sunday by President Wilson. Co K served in the Mexican border crisis last summer and was among the first to respond to the call for mobilization. John Driscoll to attend Mass association meeting at Hotel Brunswik Boston.
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