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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1936
Page
5
Maynard residents attend state and church events while town groups plan activities. Local students and staff feature in school sports and civic events as the town prepares for Legion activities, dances, and fundraisers.
Prizes at the weekly whist party of the Ladies Auxiliary A. O. H. were awarded to Eleanor Slimond Gertrude Tucker Elizabeth Play rt Eben Hayes Mrs. Adams Sarah Bell Mabel Tobin Susie Sheehan Julia Coughlin. Proceeds of the afternoon will aid Joyce Kilmer camp.
Position vacancies in the Boston Engineer District offering $120 a month. Information and applications available from the Secretary, Board of Civil Service Examiners, Maynard Post Office or from the Manager, First Civil Service District, 1040 U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Boston Massachusetts, with applications due by May 12, 1936.
A Mother's Day service will be held at 10 30 next Sunday morning with women from the Deaconess Home attending. Music will be provided and the sermon will be delivered by Pastor Rev. Eaton Marshall.
The Children of Mary Sodality met Monday night at St. Tytens Church and the Junior Holy Society will meet tonight. A children’s first communion class will meet Friday at four in the church. A food sale will be held in the Naylor building.
The article informs mothers and fathers that children reaching six by January 15 1937 may enter school next September and emphasizes fitness for schooling. It notes about 8000 Commonwealth children repeat first grade annually and that many repeaters stem from health issues.
George Barbier, veteran actor of stage and screen, announces retirement after completing his role in the Mary Boland Charlie Rugges farce Early to Bed. He has spent over five decades performing Shakespeare, comedy, and modern screen work.
Frances Drake and Randolph Scott headline a feature with 18 exterior locations, the year’s high so far. Madeleine Carroll, co-star with Gary Cooper in The General Died at Dawn, is noted as a skilled horsewoman polo swimmer golfer and tennis player.
George Burns and Gracie Allen prepare to start work on Hotel Haywire while announcing the adoption of a boy and a girl from Chengo. Olympe Bradna, 15, stars in Three Cheers for Love and has danced before numerous royal audiences.
Bennie Bartlett, nine, will star as Tom Sawyer in a stage like screen adaptation. Virginia Weidler is set to play Becky with Headrace Finn yet to be cast. Sam Mintz wrote Skippy and will pen the screenplay as Bartlett continues film work on location.
The United Cooperative Society education committee selected the Fin nish Cooperative Festival and Eastern Cooperative League and Wholesale convention committees for Maynard. A. N. Rivers coordinates speakers. dance planned at Vose's pavilion on May 30 with a ten piece orchestra.
The New Federation of Men’s Glee Clubs holds its annual prize contest and concert on May 9 in St. Anne’s auditorium Fall River Massachusetts. The 1600 seat room expects 800 competing men from New England with the Highland Glee of Newton as conductor and prize winner in recent Hartford contests.
In the afternoon a prize song titled Princely Visitors will be judged for singing ability by three judges including Sir Granville Bantock who will conduct his own number at the evening concert. Other judges are John Archer of Providence and Francis Findlay of the New England Conservatory. The Lost Chord closes the evening concert.
The report notes Fred C. Hayes and family occupy a home tied to John Sisson and his relatives on Central Street West. It mentions Forrest Bean and Michigan references, plus a sale of farm and household goods of Mrs. Hattie Tuttle last Saturday, with the estate now up for sale.
Women coal steamers operate in St Thomas Virgin Islands once called the Gibraltar of America. The town holds a military interest due to its proximity to the Panama Canal. Bay rum is produced nearby while coal is transported by women who balance baskets of coal on their heads.
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