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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1928
Page
3
Unclear OCR fragment mentions days, locations, and names in a garbled list. Details insufficient to identify a single event, person, or organization with reliable context.
Maynard residents and friends share updates as members attend Legion functions visit relatives and attend social engagements. Frank Binks heads Memorial Park plans arc light installations while John Lovell reports a new Miami to Key West bus line in operation. Local births, guests, and travels populate the week.
The Frank J. Demers Post American Legion presents The Lost Battalion at Rialty theatre in Maynard on June 6 and 7. The motion picture recreates the 1918 Argonne stand with romance, recounting heroism amid German fire, hunger, and wounds as the unit endures six days awaiting relief.
Inspectors Seede and Barrett from the Register of Motor Vehicles tested 73 cars for brakes in Maynard on Friday and found 48 good and 25 defective. Of 58 cars tested for lights, 23 were good and 35 defective. Local police assisted in this year’s tests.
Junior High pupils directed by Miss Mary Doyle held Memorial Day exercises in the school auditorium. The program featured recitations and poems including In Flanders Field and The Unknown Dead, with songs such as Star Spangled Banner.
At a Maynard meeting on Monday night Earl Kitchin Lodge Sons of St George elected officers: William Oates president, George Webster vice president, Nathan Crowther recording secretary, John Trench financial secretary, Albert Axford treasurer, Marsden Waterhouse past president, Albert Reynolds chaplain, John Webster messenger, Walter France assistant messenger, Nathaniel Davis inside guard, George Brown outside guard. Installation set for Monday June 11.
Maynard reports the annual Legion Auxiliary Poppy Sale raised 1300 poppies for the local Post. Chairwoman Eve Evers led the drive with assistants Nellie Wolcott Georgiana Cassidy Ruth Hull Rosaland Hines Mary Paul Marjorie Murphy Esther Smith Margaret Tierney May Tierney Joseph Stucka and Julia White.
Maynard Lodge I O O F and Mizpah Rebekah lodge plan a memorial service Sunday June 3 at the Methodist church with Rev. Charles Carroll preaching. Graves of departed members will be decorated Saturday June 2 by a committee including William Duckworth George Jamieson Louis Shaw and several others. Mizpah Lodge and Winona Lodge of Acton will neighbor Willow Lodge of Concord next Monday evening and on June 6 Mizpah and Willow will neighbor Winona of Acton.
The big school diamond classic is set for Wednesday at Crowe Park Maynard HS vs Concord HS at 3 PM. Maynard aims to even a season series after a prior win while pitcher injuries and reshuffles test the squad.
The Sheiks will face West Concord in an Assabet League game Tuesday evening June 5. The team, young and multi sport, includes former Holy Name players and local juniors. All eyes turn to Hudson next Saturday for the Midland League baseball title between Maynard High and Hudson.
Dr. Franklin P. Flagg has returned from Florida where he spent the winter season.
The Manchester Unity I. C. O. F. will decorate the graves of departed members next Sunday. Local lodge members are invited to attend the ceremony at the cemetery.
The church announces services for Sunday including church school at 9:30 a.m. and sermon at 10:45 a.m. The annual Memorial Service honors Maynard Lodge No. 131 I O F Miznah Rebekah Lodge No. 54 I O O F with a vested choir led by Hira Parkin and Elsie Howard. Summer schedule changes discontinue evening services until September and Holy Communion is moved to early July.
Maynard Massachusetts church calendar lists June 3 services led by Rev. William Boicourt with Sunday School and church activities including a Young Peoples Meeting and a church council meeting. Childrens Day baptisms are planned for June 17. A Wider Fellowship item mentions Tougaloo College Mississippi and funding for 200 boarding Negro students at nineteen dollars monthly with daily work. Also local hat shop ads list new hats and a May sale at Fullenton Hat Shop in Maynard.
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