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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1920
Page
6
Maynard locals report visits from Cambridge relatives and Hudson and Burlington friends. Easter week activities include school staff travels, a Progressive lodge parade planning, bakers settlement, and numerous social visits at homes across Maynard.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for support during bereavement. Also note an advertisement offering a three burner Florence oil stove for sale suitable for camp located at 23 Chandler street Maynard Massachusetts.
A vintage retail notice for Fullenton's Hat Shop at 66 Main St Maynard invites customers to explore hats of individuality. The ad emphasizes style quality and value as a key draw for buyers seeking unique headwear.
Martin Peterson Mas purchases all assets from M. M. Sullivan Bulls Head Horse Mart Philadelphia. He gains horses Lena Zombro Lurline Bingen D. O. C. Trottwood Robert Emmet along with carts harnesses and sulkies and will race them on the Bay State circuit from Joseph Johnson Combination Park Medford.
Mrs William W Oliver expresses heartfelt gratitude to all who offered support by word or deed during the recent bereavement.
Incendiary origin believed as flames swept from the Maynard House ruins and a store annex on Good Friday morning. Fire spread through the east end amid a gale, with burning brands sent across roofs and several buildings damaged or destroyed, including Gruber's store and the Coughlan home and garage. Firemen worked through the night as gas lines and electric wires risked further danger.
John Thompson, former selectman and longtime resident, found a 1847 Gazetteer volume while rummaging old relics. It notes Stow as a woolen goods center and Sudbury with a paper mill and boot and shoe manufacturing.
A large congregation attended an Easter concert at the Glendale Street Lutheran Church after Sunday evening service. The program included congregational singing readings by Mattie Heinonen a choir performance a poem by Miss Aini Ketola a vocal duet and a cello solo by Hilja and Himari Tuikka Benjamin Tuikka also performed. Mr and Mrs Orville Tucker were Easter guests of relatives in Lawrence.
Assessors begin annual tour on Friday listing both women and men. Women must provide name age residence and 1920 address. others may leave information with a household contact. Taxpayers must file a true list of real and personal property by May 15, with blanks supplied by assessors. John King notes few owners file yearly, stressing abatement rules require estate lists. Board members: John King chair, James J. Ledgard clerk, Joshua Nayler.
Tickets for the senior class comedy The Colonel's Maid at Colonial Hall on April 16 are in demand with limited sales. Rehearsals are led by Miss Helena Fowler and P. J. Hynes. The Meynard Town baseball project kicks off with a fundraising dance in Cooperative Hall, featuring a Boston orchestra, as part of five April events to fund equipment and future season games.
The St Bridget’s Woorish parish reunion is set for Wednesday and Thursday April 6 and 7, promising the largest attendance yet. The program includes children's events, adult programs, and a surprise Christmas play talent, with both girls and boys rehearsing. adults will perform a funny farce and a dance on the second evening.
Mrs Oscar Saari of Harrison Street died Wednesday morning in a Framingham hospital after a brief pneumonia illness. Survived by husband and seven children, oldest 17, youngest under two. Funeral Saturday at Socialist hall Parker Street. burial at Glenwood Cemetery with the Socialist club choir. Easter guests included Mrs Belle Carey, Edward Carey, and Mr and Mrs Clifford Milliken of Framingham.
Thomas Campbell, once a drummer boy in Maynard's 1871 town birth parade, still keeps the old drum though he says he could not play it now. He and his wife recently visited Worcester and recalled many features of that first town celebration.
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