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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1947
Page
3
The report states that machine mixed concrete achieved 20 to 35 percent higher strength when mixed two minutes versus 15 seconds for inet mixed. It mentions arrival by wagon on April 27, 1877 and credits the game as a contributing factor.
The Autumn Flower Show at Acton Woman's Club House drew a large crowd with many entries. Prize winners across classes include blue and red awards for window boxes, small shelf arrangements, bridge lunch setups, autumn foliage designs, children's entries, gladioli, dahlias, and 194 plant total judging by Mrs. Harriman Reardon and others.
Acton 4 H club members meet at the Acton Woman's Club house to plan an exhibition at the Acton street fair this coming Saturday. A $30 donation was approved for Camp Middlesex in Ashby where many Acton youths attended last summer. Edward W Estabrook is town chairman with Mrs George Newton as treasurer and Mrs Kenneth Est the secretary and other officers named.
Acton Woman's Club plans a street fair this Saturday September 13 at the Center. General chairman Mrs George Newton leads a large committee including volunteers for tables flowers tea hay ride food and games with a baby care service and a wheel parade for children.
Sudbury World War II veteran Robert McManus, a Gunner's Mate who served 1939 to 1945 aboard ships from destroyers to the U S S North Carolina, is nominated for commander of Legion Post 191. A Sept 17 meeting will elect officers for 1948 and whist parties begin Sept 18 in Lower Town Hall.
The Gordon H. Wilson place in Sudbury is rented to Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Browning from Orange Virginia. They will reside there starting September 10. The Wilsons built a new house on the estate and will occupy it. Gloria Moore, Sudbury High School class of 1946, now works for E F King Co Boston as a stenographer. She was chosen from sixty trainees as one of two who will attend a business machines training school.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen G Moody of East Acton are on a trip visiting Bar Harbor and the White Mountains.
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