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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1920
Page
3
Maynard residents report visits from relatives and friends across towns as James Carr and others attend funerals and gatherings. Local travelers like James Cleary return from Florida while Harold Morgan and William Oates prep for baseball season. Comings and goings fill Main Street with neighbors dining and strolling at the Boston Common.
The Cooking Club and Doughkneaders of the Home Economies club held a successful sale at a local store generating fifteen dollars for the planned bake trip to a lake near Framingham in the spring season. Miss Alice Murphy led the event with assistants Misses Odeo Peterson Edith Landenstein Olga Wehkola Dorothy Gruber Mary Di Grappo Eileen Murphy Laura Johnston and Eleanor Green.
The M. P. C. A. announces Be Kind to Animals Week from April 12 to 17 and praises efforts to relieve animal suffering. Horse and dog welfare are highlighted with calls for driver harness instruction and preventing galling. Copies of Our Dumb Animals are in schools as teachers promote humane work.
Members of the Fortnightly club enjoyed a Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Wallace Priest in Brookston. Whist games were played and a social hour followed with refreshments. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. R. E. Hartingst, Mrs. George H. Gutteridge II, and Mrs. Frank Goettler as consolation.
A reconstructed 1904 Cyclones image highlights Philip Bower, famed Mayfold basketball star, along with teammates John Mackin Billy Stockwell Frank E. Taylor George Jamieson Alvin Titley and Charles Gordon. The Cyclones reportedly dominated local amateur basketball.
The First National Cooperative association purchased the Harry Clark estate on Main Street including the Somerset hotel and two rear houses with land to River Street. The cooperative runs a milk business and a grocery and provision store and plans repairs before moving in. They intend to convert part of the hotel into offices and a rear house into a clap room or office space.
Frank Thompson, long time conductor at Concord Maynard Hudson road, resigns to manage a vulcanizing business recently purchased from William Baxter of Stow. He will devote full time to the venture with part time help from partner Harry Cook, a motorman on the CM&I line.
James Kingsley postmaster of West Acton was seen in Maynard on a Saturday night in eight weeks. John J. Murray Peter Foley and other West Actonites also visited in the same period. Rock Prue of Waltham spent the weekend with his brother Frank Prue on Summit Street.
The seller Tony Abramowich lists six cows with a new milker producing 18 to 20 quarts, livestock including a dapple gray horse, 16 White Leghorn fowl, two shepherd dogs, multiple bales of hay, wagons, harnesses, and furniture. Equipment includes implements, hen house, fencing, incubator, and home goods. Located ten minutes from Ordway's Station on the Central Railroad. cash terms. sale posted.
The Enterprise sketch chronicles Maynard and Assabet village education from Stow and Sudbury roots to the Old Brick Schoolhouse era. It traces district formation, early teachers such as Joseph Wild and Henry Fowler, rostered students, and the shift from the Brick School to the Nason Street and Roosevelt era buildings, including dates 1872 1881 1892 1916 1918 and figures like James Sweeney and O. S. Fowler.
Three act comedy directed by Ed Grange to be performed at Cooperative hall on April 12. Cast includes Mildred Barstow Rose Hanson Mabel Bliss Mary Finn Adelaide Sims Walter Denniston Albert Goettler Orville Tucker and Patrick McGrath. A dance with Stuart's orchestra follows the show.
Benjamin C. Brown held a successful auction of the furnishings and fixtures of the Maynard Restaurant on Saturday. Campbell the restaurant’s proprietor and ex serviceman will enter a Boston hospital for treatment. Mrs Charles Weaving of Boston spent Sunday with her. Mrs Hannah Shea of Summer Street, ?
A historical pageant titled The City Beautiful will be presented by the Methodist and Congregational churches at the Congregational church Sunday evening. Scenes include biblical entries by David and Jesus, Crusaders, modern city’s evil, Christian victory, and a forward look to New Jerusalem with 70 characters in costume. H Augustine Smith of Boston University wrote the music.
Mrs. Clara F Shattuck aged 80 sold her Maynard homestead to John Hogan an engineer at the As sabet mills and will move to Marlboro to live with her brother Austin Nichols. She plans to join her daughters there. Her son Ralph Shattuck intends to depart mid April for Baker City Oregon to resume his business after wartime service.
Mrs. O. S. Fowler attended the unveiling at the State House Boston Tuesday of a bronze memorial tablet honoring horses and dogs that died in World War I. The tablet was funded by animal lovers through subscriptions.
A regular Old Concord chapter D A R meeting is set for this Saturday at the Chapter house Concord. The April meeting moves to the first Saturday since members will attend the D A R congress in Washington around April 17. James Higgins and Miss Nora Cashman of Worcester were hosted over the weekend by Mr and Mrs Patrick Murphy on Trooks Street.
A newspaper sale listing promotes White Ribbon Soap at 8c per cake, oats, Frank Corned Beef at 10c per pound, Tomato Sausage and Hamburg at 25c to 50c per pound, labeled Quality First.
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