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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1921
Page
5
Mrs Minnie Hughes of Melrose arrived Friday to spend a few days with her sister Anarlotte Allen, who is ill with a severe cold.
Memorial day exercises will be held at the schoolhouse on Friday afternoon May 27 at 1:45 o clock. All parents and friends of the children are invited to attend. An exhibition of school work will be in every room and continue until June 1.
The Acton League of Women Voters meets at the community house on Tuesday May 31 at 2 30 PM A speaker from the Massachusetts League will discuss matters of importance for discussion and decision All members are urged to attend
The Young Men's club of Acton ball team lost to South Acton 19 to 12 on Saturday. They will play again next Saturday the 28th. Practice is hindered by lack of an accessible field, currently held opposite Luther Conant's home.
At Acton Center Congregational Church Mr May spoke to children on ears that do not hear, echoing the phrase He that hath ears, let him hear from a parables series. The Woman's Church Aid society sets a Thursday vestry meeting at 3. Attendance at Thursday entertainment and sale drew grateful patronage.
May 29 ushers no preaching at the First Universalist church while Congregational church hosts the service with Isabel Porter soprano and Harold Merriam bass assisting the choir. Attendees include Eva Shapley Carrie Shapley Frank Z Taylor and Herbert Pratt at the Universalist State Convention in Melrose. IOOF and Rebekahs lodge members attend a Congregational service with Rev Dugseault a Boston guest who preached in the Universalist church morning. Relief Corps women plan Memorial Day grave decoration prep at George T Ames residence Friday at two o'clock.
A special meeting at the former Tuttle and Newton store in South Acton was set for 7 45 PM to arrange a joint Fourth of July celebration with the West Acton Men's Civic Federation and to conduct other business.
First Universalist church ladies host a supper and entertainment in the vestry on Thursday evening May 26. Miss Hazel Easthope and Roderick Melver of Maynard will present the sketch The Girl from Broadway with Miss Esther Grey as piano soloist.
Rev Ralph A Barker, pastor, will lead a communion service at 10 30 with Universalist members uniting. Issac Davis Post GAR and Woman's Relief Corps will attend. Sunday School at noon. Evening service at 7. Midweek prayer and conference in vestry Friday at 7 30 on Openmindedness. Millinery stores to open with summer hours in June August in Maynard.
The Ranger club of Bedford lost 8 to 7 at Concord on Saturday. A Lexington couple Mary Bresii and Martin McMahon had a marriage ban published for the second time. A Ford touring car overturned near Lexington park injuring two. Randall A. Whittier of Hartford street was assaulted by five men and fined by Judge Keyes in Concord court. Bedford high school beat Concord 7 to 5 on Parker field with Roach and Cassidy pitching. Prof A T Davison led a concert at First Parish with Harvard Glee Club. A May dance in the town hall hosted by the Women Auxiliary and American Legion Post 221 benefits post colors. Bedford Civic club plans a ball game Saturday with Winthrop at Pagefield Loomis.
St Williams Athletic Club of Dorchester defeated Bedford Civic on Page field Saturday afternoon by 10 to 4. Battery for St Williams consisted of Sweetman Leonard and Thaxter.
Miss Bertha Haynes daughter of Mrs Carrie Bent Haynes wed Joseph Maker of Boston in a ceremony conducted by Rev George Clarke of the Methodist church. Mrs Maker, a Sudbury native and last year’s high school graduate, and her husband plan to reside in North Sudbury. In sports South Acton defeated Sidbury 14 to 6 here Saturday. next game May 28 hosts Weston AC.
New York health department findings show private house families with servants waste about 1 1/4 pounds of good food daily, while apartment dwellers waste much less. Tenement areas share one garbage can for 20 families, and many pails hold bread meat potatoes and cereals. Waste rises with more servants.
A 19th century experiment shows malaria mosquitoes favor dark gray clothing and avoid white, with color boxes revealing most attracted to dark blue and least to yellow. Large basins bred mosquitoes in a gauze tent as sunlight poured through windows, noting varied responses to cloth colors.
The torpedo boat destroyer Satterlee broke All American speed marks on a Rockland Me measured mile, hitting 38.26 knots, surpassing 37.04 knots set by Dent and Wickes. The ship also set a class horsepower record of 41.225, six months after commissioning from Newport News Shipbuilding.
The principal asks for the meaning of alter ego and receives a garbled reply. The misread line "The otier LL" hints at a tongue tied student. another prompt echoes confusion with the phrase "He winked lis other LL."
British Naval and Military Veterans Association of Massachusetts visited Concord to place wreaths on graves and the Lexington battle monument in tribute to World War I and earlier wars. Lt. Col. George W. Bentley led the event with local turnouts including Lexington minute men and Bedford delegates. ceremonies spanned Lexington, Bedford, and Concord with multiple wreaths and remarks.
Residents report changes in employment and housing including Albert Talent leaving Mr Hill and living with Warren Hunt. A Wallace of Waltham buys Dwight Dean farm. Frank Burr and wife move to South Sudbury occupying Calvin Eaton’s house. Arthur White installs electric lights in his new home. Whist club at Mrs Frank F Gerry’s. prize to Mrs Henry Maynard. May festival at Memorial church a success. Memorial day plans outlined with patriotic societies serving dinner and graves decoration by Sons of Veterans and American Legion auxiliaries.
The Goodman society met at the town hall and elected officers including Pres Leon E Hawes and vice president Jennie F Hawes. S Josephine White was secretary, Charles H Way treasurer, Frances E Bent auditor, and Florence Hosmer on the care committee. Funds were appropriated for the care of the common as in past years. The society, though small, maintains the town center by its efforts.
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