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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1928
Page
7
Last evening the Urquhart tsa Je Sedannina for the County Roa pe presided over a Division 56 event at Monument. The gathering focused on the next business item and community duties within the Hibernians.
Florence H. Howe longtime Roxbury resident and member of the Woman's Club died suddenly at her Monument Street home. Funeral services were to be announced by the family.
A Newton afternoon meeting of the County Board Ladies' Auxiliary was well represented. Mrs James McCarthy Mrs Robert White Mrs Alice Smith Mrs Thomas Tierney Mrs Agnes Driscoll Mrs Catherine Bariteau and Mrs Mary Puffer attended with a Concord delegation joining them on a special bus.
The Medford County Legion Auxiliary held a Saturday meeting. Grace Sweeney Elea Sheridan and Minnie Downey were absent. The local unit plans a whist party.
Charles Irwin was elected commander of Frank J. DeMars Post American Legion at Legion headquarters. Other officers elected were Joseph Dineen vice commander Leo White finance officer Harold Sheridan adjutant and historian Michael Rynkiewicz sergeant at arms Thomas Smith James W. Sweeney Leonard Smith auditors John Downey Thomas Smith Edward Ledgard executive committee William Sweeney trustee of the Nellie Fowler fund for three years.
The Knights of Pythias Supreme Lodge adopted several measures affecting Subordinate lodges. Key aims include a minimum $15 rank fee, a uniform reinstatement fee not exceeding one year or $6, and a plan to revise Subordinate Lodge Ritual. A proposed amendment would create two past chancellors at lodge inception and grant past chancellor honor after five years. Next session set for Tampa in August 1980.
The New England Council schedules a September 15 meeting at the Hotel Pinwill Lenox Massachusetts to report progress on a proposed all-New England promotional campaign. Preliminary summer studies involve over 800 business groups as the council seeks a comprehensive plan to showcase New England’s industrial commercial agricultural and recreational potential to itself and the nation.
Crouch, vice president. Love, supreme keeper of records. Mears, supreme master of exchequer. Pragnell, supreme master at arms. Wright, supreme inner guard. Reeve, supreme outer guard. Officers span Minneapolis, Wilmington, Moose Jaw, Vicksburg, Jacksonville with ranks and locations shown.
San Antonio hosts a projected record air show for the American Legion national convention with 1000 planes in formation. War department pilots, Allied aces, and international squadrons from Mexico and Canada are invited, plus a special Air Day at Burn Field and displays at Kelly Field. Colonel Lindbergh expected to fly the mail that day.
Salem New Hampshire reports preparations for the 200 mile Rockingham Speedway sweepstakes. Dave Brang drives a Miller motor Duesenberg chassis owned by W.8 Hollywood California aiming for speed records. Clift Bregere backs a Cook Special as Evans and Bregere test on the track before a large crowd.
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