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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1929
Page
2
Ameeting discussed turning real estate over to the Holding company in exchange for stock shares valuing the property. No action was taken at the recent gathering. Notice of the upcoming meeting will be sent in a few days and all members are urged to attend.
West Acton notes small community items from the week including Mrs Hall moving to a new residence in Montre t and Roland Lavoie preparing to leave Jenks farm for his home in Haverhill on Saturday. George Rifford recovers from a collision and hopes to resume duties next week.
SO. SUDBURY IT. A Child Study Circle meets Tuesday evening at Mrs Na e Gillette’s Landham road home with Mrs William as leaders for the 3 Ritchie family. Marlboro men discuss recent events as Dr C T Warner and others are mentioned.
Memorial program coverage notes plans for the Memorial event at Concord this year with details on activities and participants.
Veterans, James J Mansfield Post 158 American Legion, Concord Independent Battery, and Boy and Girl Scouts will form the march at the center. A ceremonial at the center and graves will be decorated at Hollow and at Bernard's. Taps and valets by the hat and flag pole ceremony follow, with Women’s Auxiliary serving supper after.
Members of St. Elizabeth's church choir and organist honored Miss Tena Hennessy of South Acton with a fine gift for her new home on Saturday. Miss Hennessy, popular and with many friends, is to be married June 10 at the church as Annie Kinsley acted as mistress of ceremonies and prepared a decorated banquet.
Marlboro scouts join Memorial Day exercises and parade. Scout Executive Ralph H. Whitman requests all scouts assemble at Rawlins Avenue by 7:30 in the morning for the event.
Immense crowd gathers at Old Orchard as the American Bellanca Green Flash and French Bernard monoplane Bernard 191 begin preflight checks for a trans Atlantic air derby. Pilots Williams and Yancey, Lefevre and Assolant ready for a long overwater run with escort and coast guard protection.
Old Orchard Beach Maine reports a collision medley as the American monoplane Green Flash attempts takeoff at 9 52 am EDT while the French Yellow Bird alternates flight patterns around the beach. Yellow Bird later returns after a sea sortie and a sharp turn. Green Flash is a Bellanca cabin monoplane weighing about 6200 pounds.
A House session considered a referendum proposal for Boston dated May 28 ins. Representative Roland F Sawyer introduced an advisory measure amid today’s proceedings, with discussion continuing on the plan and its implications.
The INS reports last minute statements from the Trans Atlantic air crews aboard the Green Flash and Yellow Bird. Pilot Roger Q Williams and Lieut Yancey express confidence in reaching Rome by Friday evening after careful flight preparation. A baby alligator mascot found aboard the Green Flash will be presented to Premier Mussolini.
Marlboro notes a local meeting for the Marlboro Community Service Inc organization scheduled for Monday. Names include Gus Heffron returning to Newark and several residents with health and travel updates from Marlboro and nearby towns.
Berlin reports say German delegates offered a compromise to save the Paris reparations talks. They proposed shifting from the Dawes plan to the Young plan on September 4 while keeping the Young plan in effect. The proposal aims to split differences but retain ongoing reparation terms and occupation cost payments through year end, influencing Anglo French positions.
Representatives from Marlboro City, Sons of Italy, Gleasondale, Ma rd Turners of Clinton and ry plan a Friday night meeting in Gleasondale to form a new Aix Nines league. The year’s recent league was named Assabet Valley League and public ownership versus private operation questions may be on the ballot.
Sudbury plans a Memorial Day program Thursday led by H. W. Fairbanks as chairman. The town committee includes A. M. Borjan, Thomas F. Neil, Rev. Whiting, Irving A. Priest, Alfred F. Bonazoli, Robert Dyaw, Miss Sarah Pratt, and William Bills. Events begin at 9:45 A.M. with a parade, memorials at 10 and 12:30, and a concert by the Atlantic National Bank band at Sudbury Centre.
A May 29 ceremony in West Concord marked First Holy Communion for fourteen children at Our Lady of Christians Church during the 8:30 Mass. Recipients included Mary Murphy Mary Lawrence Mary Davie Virginia Spanelli Marjorie Bell Agnes Sheehan Viola That cher Walter Murray Elmer Am ero William McCarthy James Keenan John McGarry John Higgins Carlo Macaulan. An afternoon May procession featured depictions of hope charity Sacred Heart the Rosary and the twelve apostles by Sunday school children with Mary Elizabeth Sheehan as May Queen crowning the Blessed Virgin. procession guided by Sisters ise-Borothy and Mce.
Old Orchard Beach Me May 28 International News Service reports Roger Williams president of a new aviation company plans a New York to Boston air service as the start of a transcontinental and transoceanic network. Two planes carry sixteen passengers with landings at Boston and New York. Ten more planes order ed for routes to Bermuda Providence Florida and more. The venture includes pilots engineers and radio operators with a radio telephone linking to No 30 Board Street New York.
Marlboro and Clovis area welcome Marathon runner Bourdelais now residing in Brockton. A Canadian Army veteran of World War I and second Battle of Ypres, he was captured in 1946 and endured prison camp hardships. His wartime ordeals and later marathon career are noted.
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