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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1918
Page
5
Maynard residents host visitors and note service members joining the 33d Engineers at Camp Devens. Reports cover school events, sports ahead at John A Crowe Park, and letters from Magloire Lesage describing trench life and Allied gains.
Harold Morgan former M H catcher and standout for the ayward nine attracts offers from New Departure Mfg Co Bristol Ct to join its Liberty league squad. He declines the tempting terms to stay with Maynard, preferring to continue with the Maynard team.
Merchants' Representative Joshua Edwards Brown Jr has orders to survey all retail business in Maynard for the Statistical Department of the U S Food Administration. The survey will report the number and kinds of stores and the number of employees, male and female, engaged in the retail trade.
On Friday May 31, three more men from Maynard report for military duty under the draft selection board. Barney Fishman Earl T. Foster and Vaino Kangas are called and will be sent to Fort Slocum New York for service.
Hudson High School beat Maynard 4 to 3 in a close afternoon game at Hudson. Rowell fanned 12 for Hudson while Groves homered to seal the win in the eighth. Maynard's defense was solid but timely hits were lacking. return game scheduled at John A Crowe Park Memorial Day afternoon.
West End Stars won 19 to 9 against Walnut Street Mission at John A Crowe Park Saturday afternoon. Paakanen Johnson and Smith scored for West End while Laisa and Lauto led Walnut Street Mission with their points.
Federal agents with local police rounded up Otto Leina and Paul Marjarmaki in Maynard on charges of conspiring to spread inflammatory literature to obstruct the draft. They were held on $2500 bail for a June 10 hearing. Police searched homes for unpatriotic material and transported the men to federal headquarters in Boston before placing them in Cambridge jail.
Two young women in the Assabet mills weave room found ground glass in lemon drops purchased locally. Police seized the candy, traced to a New York delivery, and an investigation is under way. Officials note wartime reports of alleged ground glass in candy, often due to crystallized sugar resembling glass.
A 30 member Loyal Assabet lodge delegation traveled to Littleton Sunday to take part in a Memorial parade of the Littleton lodge M U F. I O O F. Four departed members were honored with grave decorations. Next Sunday afternoon the annual Memorial services and grave decoration will be held at the M E church at 2 15 p m with the Am munition Train band of Camp Devens providing music for the parade to Glenwood cemetery where 30 graves will be decorated.
A delegation of Knights of Columbus from Maynard attended the parade connected with the patriotic celebration of St Michael’s Parish in Hudson. Rev P D Penera of St Bridget’s parish assisted at the open air vesper service on parish grounds in the afternoon.
The Assabet Parks beat South Acton 12 to 8 at Bancroft Street grounds Saturday afternoon. Pitchers Jensen and Moynihan with catcher Kierstead led Assabet Park, while Prescott pitched and Merriam caught for South Acton. Loss sealed by errors in the final inning.
Rev and Mrs Charles F Parsons receive a wire from their son Private Carl D Parsons Co A 36th Engineers stating he is en route from Camp Grant Rockford Illinois to Camp Mills New York a port of embarkation. The Parsons depart for Chicopee to briefly meet him as he passes through on Friday.
On Thursday evening June 6 Mizpah Rebekah lodge holds its regular meeting at the I O O F hall. District Deputy President Mrs Eva Bingham and her Hudson suite and Mrs Elizabeth Clark district deputy instructor will make an official visit and the degree will be worked upon four candidates.
Memorial Day events listed by Isaac Davis Post G A R begin with assembling at West Acton at 8 o'clock and a parade at 8 30. Services occur at Mt Hope cemetery at 8 45, then decoration at Acton Centre 10, Woodlawn cemetery 10 45, flag raising at Exchange hall 11 45, dinner at Maynard 12 45, parade 1 45, services at Glenwood 2 15 and St Bridget's 3. Public exercises at Cooperative hall 4 15 with Rev Mr Pierce as orator. The piece honors veterans of 1861 and connects their memory to 1917 wartime service.
Town Clerk Frank BE Sanderson has been appointed Explosives Licensing Agent in Maynard to enforce laws on manufacture distribution storage use or possession of explosives and ingredients by the U S Interior Department Bureau of Mines. Licenses may be secured at the town clerk’s office at C H Persons store in Maynard.
A special town meeting at Cooperative hall had five attendees including the moderator town clerk and hall janitor. Voted to appropriate 1200 for gypsy moth suppression 50 for Memorial day and 100 for care funds for Glenwood cemetery lots of Feltham Cheney Binks and Watson. The Maurice O Connor fund with interest to the parish priest of St Briggets cemetery was rejected.
A weave room employee raised a service flag with 32 stars including a gold star for Edward Miller who was killed in action in France as a Canadian Army member. An honor roll of the names is posted and large American flags adorn the walls.
Earl Smith and Edward McManus left for Washington on Friday to enter the office of Judge Advocate General Crowder as stenographers and typists. Frank O'Brien also received an appointment in the same office but has not yet accepted, still considering while employed in Boston.
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