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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1952
Page
16
Seven persons were treated after a chain collision in Concord on a Sunday evening. Four cars traveling eastbound were tangled, leaving one driver with a broken knee and others with minor injuries. Police and fire units controlled fuel spills and assisted at the scene.
Mrs. Mary D. McSwee McSwee born in Ireland in 1912 died after long illness. She was married to Pomponio and lived on Concord Road Somerville. Funeral services were held at St Ann’s with Rev. Officiating. Burial followed at Bridge Cemetery. She leaves husband John R Adams daughter Mrs. Thomas Coningtion two brothers and a sister.
A Concord brief lists events including the Reli tation Institute lecture by Dr Raymond Col on St Paul at West Union Church Monday November 10. Also mentions the Central Middlesex Churches and a harvest card party at Dublin and a mothers club gathering at 35 Harrington Ave Concord.
Sudbury Garden Club meets Wednesday November 12 at 3 pm at Mrs Albert Beckwith’s home. Urban Edgren will discuss Christmas customs in Sweden and display Swedish gifts and crafts. Gift Shop owners Mr. and Mrs. Edgren are in Boston.
Bedford Mrs Robert E Pike of Webber Avenue entertained United Workers members and friends at a dessert bridge party last Tuesday assisted by Mrs Edward F Pike. Winners of notes were Mrs Howard F Davis Mrs Harry A Gilman Mrs Harden L Bodkin and Mrs George D Fraser. Monthly parties are discontinued until January.
Halloween in Sudbury unfolded quietly with young costumed children visiting doors for treats. A school auditorium event hosted by the Sudbury Police Association drew attendees of all ages, followed by private parties and the Hayloft Jamboree.
Mausetts Audubon Society ornithologist and former MacMillan expedition guide R L Grayce will speak on North of the Labrador at the Stow Civic Club meeting Monday November 10. Open to the public at 8 p.m. with a members guests supper at 7 p.m. The club, in its 50th year, invites Stow residents to join.
Concord Troop 49 announces door to door wreath sales to support scouting activities. Seniors held a Hallo we'en party last week and plan the next meeting for Wednesday November 12. Callers include John Valentine Carleton Walker Alfred Baptiste and Peter Muscato. Den chief John Downing graduates to Troop 49 this Friday. George Watkins named magic scout and Frederick Walker to appear before the board for life scout honors.
Mr and Mrs Walter B of New Sham Box 97 Piper Road South Acton announce the birth of a baby daughter on October 27 at Emerson Hospital Concord The Universalist Church of South Acton hosts a weekly whist party Saturday November 8 at 8 PM with prizes and refreshments for all attendees
L Roy Hawes returned from Memphis Tennessee where as a member of the Agricultural committee of the U S Chamber of Commerce he attended meetings. He visited a cotton plantation with 64 negro sharecropping families and noted the plantation as an entre village in itself. On the return he stopped in New York for an aug as a hieuiver Yee On the Votial tug Uaamoer ot Cotamence.
Sudburys Mrs John D Copp returned from a 10 day trip escorting her mother Mrs Evans to Toronto and attending her brothers wedding. She then travelled to Sackville New Brunswick visiting Mr Copp in his hometown after seeing many friends in Toronto. Three inches or more snow blanketed the St Lawrence River region signaling winter arrival.
Bedford resident Bernard J. Porot 26 The Great Road was elected by the Board of Directors to membership in the Boston Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants. He works for the Atlantic Coal Company at 80 Federal Street in Boston. Michael J. Powell is Director of Publicity.
Acton-Edwards Quimby Post 284 will sponsor an Armistice Eve concert and ball at Town Hall next Monday night November 10. Music by the Jones boys of Nashua and Lowell from 8 to 10:30 will include a grand march at 10:30 and dancing until 1 a.m. Tickets selling, with assistance from Edward J. Higgins and Allan Erickson. Next Legion meeting Friday night 14 at 8 o'clock at the church in South Acton.
The Bedford Red Feather Campaign opens today with a goal of 2200 dollars the highest yet for the town. Twenty new homes boost confidence while last year 467 Bedford residents used Red Feather services from local and regional groups. November 9 is Red Feather Sunday as volunteers tour neighborhoods from the Bedford Public Library headquarters to collect donations for the United Defense Fund and related agencies.
On Halloween Eve Bedford Box 351 was sounded last Friday night due to a false alarm. A two alarm brush fire on Page road near the Lexington line was believed to be a prank but was extinguished in time. A second fire alarm, Box 27, came from Bedford Air Base around midnight attracting Bedford firefighters.
Nashoba Regional School District sends Stow Board of Selectmen details of a $100 000 bond issue to finance land acquisition site tests surveys and architects consultants fees for a new school. The plan spans twenty years with state aid offset and proportional shares for Bolton Lancaster and Stow.
The Sudbury PTA will hold its next meeting on Thursday November 13 at 8 p m in the high school auditorium. The theme is What we do in 52 What you see in 53 and will include a business session followed by a question box. No visitors admitted before the meeting.
The Men's Committee of the First Parish Church plans a Saturday Nov 15 supper at 6:30 p.m. Fred Olsen leads the event with a corps of waiters under Ken Throckmorton. Miss Lorraine Whittemore from Wakefield will perform on accordion and add cheer to the evening.
Mrs. W Gordon Hunter and daughter Nancy toured New York with Alma Brockett joining from Phoenix. They visited the zoo Rockefeller Center ice skating and Fifth Avenue buses and enjoyed theater, then shared Nancy on a TV program. Weekend with Robert Hall and Patty in Pennsylvania followed.
Bedford residents attended a Hallowe en party at the Bedford clubhouse. Guests enjoyed a smorgasbord and dancing with the ways and means committee led by William J. Beecy coordinating activities.
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