Bennison Funeral Home Celebrates First Anniversary
Pigeon, Baker and D Belcher elected as selectmen. The Bennison Funeral Home at 174 Winthrop Street marks its first anniversary, touted as a modern, homey facility for Winthrop with care focused on easing the burden of grieving families. The article lauds the Bennison family’s forty five year ambition to provide up to date funeral services in a comfortable setting.
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Bennison Funeral Home
Winthrop‘street
Boston
Roberts Named Police Sergeant
Monday evening motorcycle officer Henry G. Roberts assumed the duties as sergeant of the night shift. The appointment was announced by the department. continued on page 8.
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Henry G. Roberts
Winthrop DeMolay Boys Discover Fire
Five members of Winthrop Chapter Order of DeMolay on a road trip in Chelsea spotted a shed fire behind a brick kiln. They notified Engine 25 and a bystander rang Box 154. Firemen credited the youths with likely saving the larger brick manufacturing complex.
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Newton
Winthrop Chapter
Order of de Molay
Parkway
Chelsea
Broadway
Capt. Armstrong
A By Stander
Pigeon Baker and Belcher Win Town Board Seats
Roy W. Pigeon Walter G. Baker and David Belcher were elected to the Board of Selectmen by clear margins in a light election. Abe ly led the Board of Assessors race while Thomas A. White barely defeated R H Anthony for Parks Commissioner. Fréd Gardner Smith won Cemetery Commissioner and Lewis B. Pierce took Board of Health, with no trouble for reelecting Tax Collector Carl I Nelson and Constables.
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Roy W. Pigeon
Walter G. Baker
David Belcher
Board of Selectmen
Board of Assessors
William F. Abely
George W. Coffin
John
J. MacDonald
John Webster
Abely
Coffin
Thomas A. White
R. H. Anthony
Fréd Gardner Smith
Henry W. Wilson
Board of Health
Lewis B. Pierce
Guy H. Lothrop, Jr
Carl I. Nelson
Horace A. Edwards
Willaim D. Childress
Big Meeting of Local Taxpayers Association This Friday
Reginald W. Bird of the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Associations is slated to address the Winthrop Taxpayers Association at 8 p m in the Shirley street school auditorium this Friday March 5. W Neal Kimball will also speak as a federation member. The event includes electing officers and directors and discussing town affairs and taxpayer action.
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Reginald W. Bird
Massachusetts Association
Shirley Street School
Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers’ Associations
Winthrop Taxpayers’ Association
New
Shirley Street
Taxpayers’ Movement
Baseball Dropped at Winthrop High School
Winthrop High School will drop baseball this year due to a lack of a proper diamond. The current muddy field needs dirt grading and rolling before play can resume. Mr. Boudreau convened a Senior Class meeting to discuss fixes and gather ideas, but no workable proposals emerged.
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Winthrop High
Boudreau
Bishop Lee School to Present Two One-Act Plays
The Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association met at the Barn on March 9 for a business session and election after a supper. Bishop Lee School students in Boston will stage two one-act plays Russian and Puppet Love with Mrs. Wilma Dearborn Carter arranging the program and reservations via Ocean 2410-R or 0587 M.
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Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association
Memb and Friends
Bishop Lee School
Boston
Wilma Dearborn Carter
Winthrop
Ocean
Pigeon Elected Board Chairman at Organ Meeting
Roy W. Pigeon was unanimously elected chairman of the Board of Selectmen in the organizational meeting. He begins his fourth term as a member. The board also appointed Charles A. Hagman as clerk and Harry Hills as moth inspector. Further appointments will follow.
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Board of Selectmen
Roy W. Pigeon
Pigeon
Charles A. Hagman
Harry Hills
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Bennison
Roberts
T. S. Kaiser
Jem
Beach
Océan
Winthrop Centre
Oce
Highlands Tel
Winthrop Co-operative Bank
Winthrop, Massachusetts
A Bwhitthmore
Anthony
Smith
Wilson
Republican Council of
A. Russell Belcher
Chester O'Donnell
Leonard C. Atkinson
Baker
WM. F. Abely
Local Taxpayers’ Association
Ingleside Park
Smirnes
Boardman Street
Orient Heights
Improvement and Historical Association
William's Market
Crest Cash Market
Winthrop Quality Meat Shop
Swett’s Market
Hagman
Winthrop Trust Company
Winthrop, Mass
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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