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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1917
Page
3
A Maynard plan proposes a town wide weekly fund to supply cigarettes tobacco candy and pastries to local servicemen in the nation s service. A committee including representatives of all groups would canvas residents to join and raise about 1000 yearly with volunteers like Oliver Trees coordinating.
The union church posts a Wednesday 7 30 PM service led by the pastor with Sunlight in the First and Sunlight in the 20th Century as the topic and a Sunday service with choir singing led by Horace Bates. Sunday school at noon, Junior C E at 4 and Senior C H at 6. The Middlesex Union association falls meeting is set for October 24 at Maynard with morning and afternoon sessions and speakers.
Directors of the American Woolen Co authorize modernizing the Assabet mills to include a new building. Some cards will move from old No 3 mill to the new structure due to larger newer cards needing extra head room.
Eddie Boyce of Lincoln delivered the game winner with a bases loaded drive to left in the ninth as Maynard defeated Wakefield 3 to 2 at John A Crowe Park. Pitcher Scanlon fanned six and limited Maynard to five hits while Boyce’s heroics sparked the largest crowd of the year to roar approval. Morgan and O’Brien contributed key plays for Maynard alongside strong fielding by McManus and Flaherty’s clutch sacrifice fly.
A long roster of National Army men and their families visited Camp Devens in Ayer on Sunday. The list includes Mr and Mrs Harry Andrews Peter Schultz Mr and Mrs Chester Sawyer James Kelley Mrs Bertha Mason and two children Miss Sadie Wetherbee Rachel Marsden Annie McDonald and many others reaching beyond fifty names.
Mizpah Rebekah lodge met at IL O O S hall on Thursday evening with three membership applications filed. After business, a White Elephant party gave surprise packages, followed by a sketch The Silent Church and social with games and singing.
Monday evening the district superintendent Dr Spaulding conducted the first quarterly conference in Worcester. The Epworth league traveled by auto to Westboro for a district league meet. The Parsonage Aid society gathered at Ada Hodges home on Maple Street. The regular midweek service is set for 7:30 this evening at the vestry. Thursday afternoon the W C U will meet at the parsonage at 3 o'clock.
Bishop Anderson will confirm a large class at St Bridget’s on Saturday morning at 10.30. Sunday a two weeks mission begins with women first then men. Rev J P M Walsh and Fr McCarthy lead. Mass hour changes take effect: masses at 7, 8.30 and 10.35 a.m.
Funeral services were held Saturday in Marlboro for Miss Alice Wall sister of Mrs Frank Fearns. A beloved Marlboro Public Schools teacher the Marlboro Teachers Association marched from the home to the church with mourners from the town attending.
Former members gathered at the Masonic temple in Westfield Thursday evening for a reunion and banquet. Three dozen now serve with the Divisional Mounted Police and 47 with D, 103d U.S. Inf. About 150 former members attended, with plans arranged for care of company funds and other property belonging to the unit.
The column lists Mrs. William Sayward of Wollaston with the briers week of Principal and Mrs. Horace Bates, highlighting social connections and local affiliations in a concise community note.
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