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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1925
Page
7
Maynard residents and their friends gather for an evening meeting hosted by Mr and Mrs Har. Officers will be announced. A birth is noted last week to Mr and Mrs at the farm. Mrs Thomas Kelley completed a long visit before moving on.
The Rebekah Lodge set Thursday as the date for its yearly officers installation with M Price as noble grand Murray as vice grand and Mrs recording secretary Whitney as financial secretary Elsie Brayden as treasurer and Howard as trustee. A social and supper followed in the church hall served by Mrs Sarah Parker and others.
Harold Morgan and family host motor tours in Canada. Gertrude and Katherine Kelleher of Conbridee visit Miss Kate Lawton in Waltham. A beagle owned by Gertrude wins first prize at the dog show in Acton. Stow High School graduate Milfrey Milforty plans college. Dahlias bloom in William Ingham’s garden admired at W. Xx. Macurda’s window. Edwin Toophaw resumes overseer job in the weave room at Silicia Mille North Chelmsford after four months’ leave.
Maynard High School class of 1925 graduates have entered multiple colleges and schools across the region. Arline Priest and Helen Morgan study at Emmanuel College for Girls in Boston, Evelyn Playart and Harriet Naylor attend Fitchburg Normal School, Margaret O’Conner is at Framingham Normal, Kenneth Prue John White and Joe Kamesh are at Boston College High, Wilbur Croft at Chauncey Hall prep, Boston, Helen Gardner at Nis san Physical Culture, Boston, Helen Willcox at Boston School of Physical Education, Annie Kane at Tewksbury Training School for Nurses.
A Boston shower was tendered at 79 Howland Street for Miss Ida Taylor who will wed Benjamin Gruber, a World War veteran with Gruber Bros. of this town, on Thursday October 1. Friends from Maynard include Bella Gruber Celia Gruber Dorothy Gruber Paul Ler er Martin Gruber Charles ret Benjamin Gruber Jr and Alber.
Bishop Samuel Babcock of the Hoxton Diocese presided at Sunday services at St Elizabeths church Sudbury. Rector Ro Arthur B Papineau led the service with a sister assisting. At the Acton Pair displays Alvin Fletcher Maytag washer Studebaker car Ford from Gate ly Motor Co noted. B J Coughlin reported heavy crowds returning from Florida and plans to winter there. Mrs E H Davis Mrs Frank Murphy Rowland Davis and Miss Mabel Bishop drove to New York for a brief vacation and Mrs Davis will visit Cincinnati afterwards.
An open air concert on the Congregational church lawn Friday evening by the United Concert Band drew a large crowd that gathered early and stayed until the end. Theodore Wollerschied, band manager and longtime Maynard figure, reports receiving many letters praising the music and the program.
A false alarm at Box 35 on Friday triggers the fire department for the second time in ten months. Officials warn prosecutions for anyone guilty of sounding a false alarm and note a relay alarm box at headquarters allows alarms to be sounded from central dispatch.
Fire crews have been organized to report to designated stations for alarm calls. Several new locations are tentatively arranged and known to firefighters, with exact numbers and reporting points to be published as soon as possible.
Friends hosted a farewell gathering for Walter Larkin who left for Bates College. At the Larkin cottage on Lake Boon Friday evening he received a traveling bag from Frank Taylor amid music and refreshments. Attending were Mr and Mrs Frank Taylor, Mr and Mrs William Brayden, Mr and Mrs George Siswick, Harry Lark, Mrs Michael Foley, Mr and Mrs Henry Murphy, and Mr and Mrs Ralton of Lawrence.
Alvin H. Fletcher led a 30 man delegation among five hundred Maytag dealers at a Wardhurst Lynnfield banquet where Mr Maytag praised Fletcher’s success with washing machines. Fletcher also met Maytag at the Iowa factory visited last winter. In Stow, Concord Lodge BPOE members from Maynard joined over twenty five for a Wheeler's Grove outing featuring sports and a large chicken dinner.
An assortment of local notices including Mrs Lucy Rodway death after a post operative pneumonia, fall millinery opening at Fullerton Hat Shop on Main Street with living models, an auto for sale ad, and a district court report on Ludwig DarU nce charged and found not guilty for an incident at Mike Percel wicz’s mill. Additional notes mention Mr and Mrs Albert Simon visiting relatives.
Maynard defeats Lexington 5 to 4 at Crewe Park to win the series. Pep Cousins drives in the decisive runs with a triple a double and a single while handling seven chances without an error. Loftus adds two hits off pitcher Prod and Moran makes a spectacular foul ball catch. Umpires Call and King. Time 2 hours 14 minutes. Frank Sherman Roy Lent and Chief Connors of Maynard Country Club played in the state open golf at Wellesley. Eleanor O Connell visits from Newton.
The Maynard Country Club kept player scores over the weekend and totaled the cards to divide participants into three classes for the club tournament. The winner will be crowned.
The Kaplan Cup ride hinges on last year holder Roy Lent who must defend his title to retain the trophy. Weekend crowds filled the course with standout scores as players chased a par of the course in 34 while hundreds watched. Chief Police John led the event coverage as organizers prepared for the season finale.
A fragmentary note mentions placing a wafer on corn as a strange detail. The text is incomplete and lacks identifiable persons or organizations for fuller context.
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