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THE LOWELL SUN FRIDAY OCTOBER 28 1938 LOWELL'S SUBURBS MISS CHAMBERS GUEST Part of large group present last night at the pre-nuptial shower tendered Miss Margaret Chambers in No. Biilerica: Seated, Mrs. Harriet Considine, Miss Margaret Chambers, Miss Mary White and Mrs. James Chambers; standing, Miss Ann Seery, Miss Violet Higson, Miss Alice O'Hare, Miss Elizabeth White and Miss Eleanor White. Dracut Biilerica Legion and Auxiliary to Install Officers at Exercises Tonight (Special to The DRACUT, Oct.

of Post 315, American Legion, and its a iliary will be installed at exercises to be held tonight at the Charles Randal auditorium. County Senior Vice- Cmdr. Daniel P. Brennan will be the installing officer. The Middlesex county cadets will take part in the exercises.

Those to be instated are: Commander, Roland Hill; senior vice- commander, Joseph L'Heureux; junior vice-commander. Albert KuJaga; finance officer, James P. Kiernan; historian, John Perry; adjutant, William Chamberlain; sergeant-alarms, Arthur Cordeau; chaplain, Mrs. Jessie Gunther; executive committee, Arthur C. Gunther, Vincent D.

O'Leary, Bernard O'Reilly, Joseph Dufoe and John Battersby. Officers of the auxiliary are: President, 'Irs. Doris Battersby; first vice president, Mrs. Amelia O'Leary; second vice president, Mrs. Alice 1'Heureux; secretary, Mrs.

Erna O'Reilly; treasurer, Mrs. Alice Kiernan; strgeant-at-arms, Mrs- Mary Dorris, historian, Mrs. Christobef Gill; and chaplain, Mrs. Blanche Bell. The exercises are open to the public.

The annual harvest supper and dance was held last night at Harmony hall, in Collinsvilie, by the Ladies sodality of St. Mary's parish. The affair was well attended and proved to be one of the social highlights of the season Rev. Edward A. Gallagher was honorary chairman of the affair, assisted by J.Irs.

Hugh McAnespie and Miss Anna McNamara as co-chairmen. Other members of the committee Mrs. James F. Brennan, Mrs. John W.

Brennan, Mrs. Armand Boulanger, Mrs. Robert C. Biakely. Mrs.

William Collins, Mrs. John Dillon, Miss Katherine Fogarty, Mrs. i liam Eraser, Miss Beatrice Favrcau, Mrs. GUI. Mrs.

John J. Inland, Mrs. David Kennedy, Mrs. James P. Kiernan, Miss Pauline i Miss Nellie Kukilez.

Mrs. Anna Meade, Miss Alice McAnespie. Miss Elizabeth McNamara, Mrs. George Plam- andon, Mrs. Walter Pouliot.

Mrs. Thomas F. Roddy, Miss Louise Silk, Mrs. Fred H. Craves.

Miss Carrie Szymanski. Miss Marie Prmiiot, Miss Mary Brennan and Miss Isabeile Westover. Friends of Mrs. Coburn of 1533 avenue, i be sorrv to learn of her death which occurred last night at St. John's hospital.

Mrs. Coburn was a resident of this town for many having former! lived on Parker avenue the Navy Yard section The Draut Tigers" wHl hold whist a tonight at the Navy Yard i-rehous---. Many prizes wiil be awarded ments will be served. Proceed 1 the party will be used in the chase of athletic eqi refresh- Pepperell (Special to The PEPPERELL. Oct.

23 On Tuesday evening. Nov. 1. wiil be a joint meeting cf the Pepp'-reH Women's club and the Parent-Teat her association in Prescott hall o'clock. It is to be an open and public is cordially Mr.

a a i I Nason of the West C. C. camp vrill be the gu st -in-i take as his topic thf C. Iviura- tional Program." 1 H- v. him three of the ivy.

who speak in turn and a short entertainment. Miss Chambers Guest of Friends at Miscellaneous Shower (Special to The Sun) BILLERICA, Oct. 28-Miss Margaret Chambers, of Mrs. William Chambers of Twombly avenue, North Biilerica, who i wed William Rowlandson. of 136 Parkview avenue, Lowell, on Nov.

30, was tendered a miscellaneous shower last night, at the home of Mrs. Harriet Considine, Wilson street, North Bii- lerica. Approximately 60 and relatives attended the affair, which was one of the most Attractive showers of the season. The homo was effectively decorated with i and white streamer. 1 and cut.

flowers, with chrysanthemums predominating. Jn the spacious living room was a large arbor, decorated in pink and white, xvhich Miss Chambers opened her beautiful gifts and responded fittingly. A luncheon was served by the Donnelly Catering of Lowell, after which an enjoyable program of entertainment was presented. Among the guests were: Mrs. William Chambers, mother of the bride-to-be; Mrs, William.

Row- landson, mother of the bridegroom-to- be; Alice O'Hara, Mrs. C. Morrison, Mrs, Virginia Fiedler, Miss Marion Morrison. Emma Fulton, Minnie Brown, Mrs. Edwin Welch, Miss Quinton Rowlandson.

Miss Janet Rowland- son, Miss Bertha Rowlandson, Miss Martha Rowlandson. Miss Helen Chambers. Mrs. Emma Chambers, Miss Violet Higson, Miss Hazel Chambers, Mrs. James Chambers, Miss Lillian Hijrson, Mrs.

Rose Holgate, Mrs. Helen Chute, Mrs. Fred O'Hara, Mrs. Doris Grady, Mrs. Frank St.

John, Mrs. Harriet Considine, Mrs. Harriet Mahoney. Mrs. A Lcmay, Miss Grace Monohan, Mrs.

Florence Anderson, Miss Rita Monahan, Agnes Barton, Mrs. Eleanor Lelacht-ur, Mrs. Lelacheur, Agnes Gannon, Mrs. Margaret Ready, Miss Elizabeth Nadeau, Mrs. George Nadeau, Frank Sheehan, Miss Mary Rule, Miss Eva Campbell, Miss Ruth Potter, Mrs.

Francis, Miss Mnrjoric Snell, Mrs. Josephine Hall, Miss Velma Anne Seery. Jennie O'TooSe, Mrs. Mildred Cats 1 Mrs, Marie Mc- Mrs. John Grant.

Mrs. Allan, Mary Grant. Mrs. A i McCuske.r, Mrs. Charles Fairbrothcr, Miss Elizab McCarthy, Mrs.

Louise Cab ill, Mrs. Joseph P. Meaney, Peggy White, Mrs. Roy Kirke. Miss Marion Connell, Mrs.

Conncii and Mrs. Gwendolyn McDonald. A a for the a a i were i i i i I'ase i Chelmsford Successful Harvest at North Village Church Special to The Sun) CHELMSFORD, Oct 28--Despite last night's rain, the harvest supper and entertainment held at the Congregational church at North Chelmsford met with gratifying response, as over 225 guests from this town as well as other nearby communities wore present to enjoy the program sponsored by the Church Aid society. Decorations in the- Halloween color scheme were used on the supper tables, and the colors were repeated in the costumes of the waitresses. A program of entertainment was presented, which included readings by Donald C.

H. Mitchell; guitar and piano selections by Michael Popolizio and Wayne Berubee; accordion solos by Everett Olson; vocal duets by Ruby and Jennie Hutchinson, with piano accompaniment by Miss Esther Atkinson; and selections by the bugle quartet, Lucille Bill, Norma Dows, Mao Reno and Claire Hazeltine. A sale of fancy work, candy, and flowers took place following the supper, and at tho close of the evening, the unsold articles were auctioned off by Clark Gray. Committees in charge of the affair as follows: Supper, Mrs. Evelyn Stadig, chairman, Mrs.

William Shaw, Mrs. Hilda Dolan, Mrs, Mabel Syvret, Mrs. E. Jenkinson, Mrs. John Howard, Mrs.

Gertrude Connell, Mrs. Silas Gauthier, and Mrs. Margaret Yeomans; dining room, Mrs. Carl Blodgett, chairman, assisted by Mrs. Cyril Trubey, Mrs.

Adsm Zabierek and the Misses Esther Quimby, Mae Foote, Janet Shaw, Mae Reno, Harriet Parks, Margaret Gauthier, Margaret Drake, and Ruth Russon. At the sale tables, the fancy work was in charge of Mrs. Farley Kemp, and Mrs. Nettie Vinal; the candy, Mrs. James Buchanan and Mrs.

James Ki- herd, parcel post, Mrs. John E. Johnson; and flowers and plants, Mrs. Clara Vfnnard. Mrs.

John Hoyt supervised the sale of tickets. The class organization of Westlands school held its second meeting of tho season yesterday, with Francis DeKalb, president, in charge, and pupils of grades 5 and 6 as guests. A program committee for tho next meeting was appointed, with Walter Parker as chairman, Robert Michaud, Shirley Pickard, Edmund and Shirley Coburn. The organization will sponsor a candy sale next month, the committee in charge to include Ralph Coleman as chairman, Harry Shaw. Norman Brooks, John Dulgarian, and Constance Desaulnicr.

The entertainment which followed the business meeting was featured by a talk by Miss Vera Rafuse, teacher of the fifth and sixth grades, who described her trip to the West Coast and taken last summer. A piano solo by Cora Lakin, and a song by Vera Desaulnicr were also enjoyed. Do to the lack of street lighting in West Chelmsford, meetings of the Junior Epworth league of the Methodist Episcopal church will be held at 3 p. m. on Sunday afternoon rather at the- usual hour of 5.15 o'clock.

The change of time will continue until further notice. BOSTON-LOWELL HIGHWAY STARTED Tewksbury Genera! Town and Social News of Current interest Children of St. Josf-pb'? Sunday school will receive Holy Communion jn a body tomorrow morning at 7 and 7-30 o'clock masses Thf-re will be Halloween party this evening at the Oak Hill to hvip defray property tax expenses on the building, be conducted tonight by the Senior and Intermediate Christiaa Endeavor societies The Weekly' Sewing circle met xuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Austin Hfchols on. Mill street A social hour the meeting during which -were served fey the 'Sptvia! The TFLWKSBl'KY.

Oct. '23- Denis A. i a C). M. pastor of St.

a i announces a I be uvo novcna services i i t' Our one at VciiK: and the otJu-r o'clock a i i be i trr.i.rnw niyrnim; at the no- The a In aid i.on;~ht. Friday. Nov. 4. i P.

for a a to be i i i at i Scout dar a 1 i Jr.ine Cross. Joy, Flor-ncc Mills, troop on a i i Marjoru' Scoboria and Lk-ut. i Manier Garland of Astle has from a visit i relatives in Maine All shools in i tov.ri v.ci"*; dosed todsv in order that teachers could aiu-nd the Middlesex) county convention in Halloween masquerade wil! be held at the high school tomorrow evening, The auditorium has been decorated in black and orange for the occasion. Prizes for the funniest, most attractive end most original costumes, will be awarded. "Fanny Kemble." a biography, by Margaret Armstrong, was the book chosen by Mrs.

Lewis A. Putnam of Lowell for tho third in her series of book reviews given yesterday at the Unitarian church. Fanny Kernble's life, as nn actress as well as author one! reader, was described in an interesting manner and was found highly a i i by the large audience. Next Thursday, Mrs. Putnam will review "And Tell of Time." an historical novel by Rachel Field.

Another successful food sale was conducted at the Unitarian church yesterday afternoon, under the auspices of the church standing committee. Mrs. Leroy Parkhurst served as chairman, and was assisted by Mrs. William M. Greig, Mrs.

Clarence H. Woodward. Mrs. E. B.

Emerson, Mrs. Linwood Farrinnlon. Mrs. E. C.

Perham and Mrs. Elmer R. Hill. Some 25 members and guests of the Kiselo club of the Central Congregational church enjoyed a Halloween party last night at the home of Mrs. Eva Dobson at Baptist, pond.

Decorations of orange and black were used effectively, and Halloween favors wore distributed among tho guests. An informal program of games was led by Mrs. Helen Parkhurst and Rev. Howard E. Paige, and refreshments were served bv Miss Wilma Mourad and Miss Evelyn Hayden.

An outdoor w-Ttm- roast which had been planned was ruled out due to the rain, and took place instead at an indoor fireplace. In order to raise funds for tho redecoration of the beginners' Sunday school class room nt the the club members will sponsor a Mipner on Nov. 10. the comm i in charge including Miss Mabel Mourari. Miss Sally Hemenway.

Mrs. Parkhurst and Miss Evelyn Bell. BILLERICA GKANGE A regular meeting of Billerica Grange was held last night, at Grange a i in Biilerica. Boy and Girl Scouts, an-! 4-H club members of the town were guests. Halloween games were enjoyed, and a program of motion pictures shown by Donald Knight.

A i made by the Wide-Awake Girls club was awarded to Grace McCra- ke.n. Guests were present at the meeting from Ayer and Pinehurst. Refreshments were served under the direction of Miss Frances Ellerton and her committee. On Thursday evening. November 3.

the annual business meeting will be held and elected. Staff Scene at the dedication of the Boston-Lowell six-lane cement superhighway at the Billerica-Chelmsford line yesterday afternoon. At the top--Mayor Dewey G. Archarabault of Lowell and Frank Kelley, chairman of the board of selectmen of Biilerica, turned the first spadeful of dirt. Between them is Rep.

Edith Nourse Rogers. Below--Gathering at banquet following the exercises--In the group are Joseph W. Martin, at head of table, Councilors George Callahan, Robert Desmond and Thomas Maher, Hope Grantz, Councilor William Barrett, John Lardner, former Councilor Joseph Montminy, Frank X. Ricard, Smith J. Adams, Frank S.

Powers, H. M. Hansen, Chelmsford selectman, George T. Walsh, School Committeeman Arthur McGlinchey, Fred Brown of Biilerica, Selectman Joseph Meaney of Biilerica and Peter J. Maguire of the Lowell election commission.

Westford Tadmuck Club Members to Attend Sunday Services (Special to The Sun) WESTFORD, Oct. 28--Members of the Tadmuck club have been invited to attend services Sunday morning at First Parish church (Unitarian) at 11 o'clock in observance of "Tad- muck Club Sunday." The Rev. William W. Lewis's sermon will be on "Good groups of the Young People's Religious union will meet at 6 o'clock, Sunday night in the Unitarian vestry. The pastor, Rev.

William W. calling this special meeting of the older members, to 'organize and start the winter activities. The i members will hold a business meeting. Mrs. Lionel Gouchrr spent, today with her son and his wife, Mr.

and Mrs. Gordon Macomber, in Boston, making the i i her daughter, Miss Emma Goucher and Miss Madeline Stone, who attended the teachers' i a Crocker, who was injured last Saturday, when he fell from the staging of the home of his mother, Mrs. i i a Critzlo. on Groton road, was taken Wednesday night to the Lowell General hospital. His condition is Bernice Gould, secretary of the Merrimack Valley Simmons club, attended the bridge Thursday i in the au- i i at the Lowell Gas Light Co.

and was in charge of the candy sale-. Joseph E. Dupuis, of Hayden road. Groton, who died Thursday at the Groton hospital following an a i accident, is the father of Mrs. Leo Larkin of this town.

High School Seniors Select Class for Farce-Comedy (Special to The Sun) LITTLETON, Oct. 28--Tryouts for the farce-comedy "Aunt Abby Answers An Ad," to be held later in the season by the Littleton high school senior class, to aid its Washington trip fund, were held Wednesday evening and the cast was selected. Those chosen and the parts they will play are: Marion Smith, "Abby Mary Pickard, "Lucindy Hilton Starr, "Horace Virginia Lawrence, "Anna June Hirtle, "Lillian Kendall Phelps, "Billy Edward Sullivan, "Bobby Maxyne Luce, "Mrs. Purvi- John Myers. "Horace Anna Hartwell, "Elsie Ebber- Rehearsals will begin at once and John Geddes Moran, high school prin- i a is confident, that the show will be on a par with the high standard set by previous classes.

Members of the Littleton Ameri- can Legion auxiliary wiil sew for the Community Memorial hospital on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 2 p. at the home of Mrs. George E. Wood Donald "Bo" Leighton, second baseman on this year's championship Littleton A.A is on vacation from his duties at Hartwell's sawmill The Littleton Troop of Boy Scouts met Wednesday evening in the upper town hall, under the direction of Scoutmaster Lyman Chase.

Jr. Town schools were closed today as all teachers were in attendance at the Middlesex County Teachers association meeting in Boston. Boston-Lowell Highway, to Be "Best Ever," Is Started National, State, City and Town Officials Join With Turnpike Association in Dedication; High Praise for The Sun Graniteville (Special to The Sun) (See editorial, "At Long Last--The Highway," on Page 20) What state engineers stated would be "the last word in modern high- GRANITEVILLE, Oct. 2S--A successful Harvest supper and entertainment was held at the Methodist Episcopal church Thursday evening under the auspices of the Ladies Aid society, with Mrs. Walter Blanchard as general chairman.

Many were present from out of town. An excellent supper was served, in charge of Mrs. Edmond De La Have, Mrs. Albert Forty, Miss Maggie Billings, Mrs. S- Hanson.

Mrs. Eldon Turner, Mrs. William Wyman, Mrs. Carl Hanson, Mrs. Benson, Miss Phyllis Hall, Mrs.

John ways" was formally started yesterday afternoon at the Billerica-Chelmsford town lines with national, state, city and town officials turning out to see the first spadeful of ground broken, The highway, commonly known as the Boston-Lowell road over the route of the old Middlesex turnpike, will be constructed during the next three years. Mayor Dewey G. Archambault and Biilerica Selectman Frank Kelley broke the ground yesterday to pave the way for state workers to cut brush and timber to enable steam Ellison. Mrs. William Brown and Miss shovels to start excavation.

Catherine Appleby. Mrs. Roger W. Mirtard was to 23 members of the i Crusaders" of the Littleton Baptist, church and i guests at a Halloween party held Wednesday i The guests came in costume and en.joyed a cookout and appropriate a Minard is the leaner of group The Nabnassf-t Dramatic club i sponsor a dance Saturday i at town hall. Tho Misses and i a Fletcher entertained Mr.

and Mrs. John K. Feieh of Thursday. nt a i in honor of Mr. Feich't 72d birthday.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Feich. former residents of i i are enjoying gi'od a Miss Eileen was among tho of students who today York. to a The football game between Lowell Textile- I i and the City College of New York.

The dining room was in charge of Mrs. Ella Perkins. Decorations were in keeping with the harvest time by Miss Phyllis Hall and Mrs. Dorothy Sinton. Waitresses were the Misses Margaret Ann Preston, Lois Hanson, Following dedication ceremonies which were held in a heavy rain, a "victory banquet" was held at the Middlesex Turnpike inn through the courtesy of Joseph Martin, proprietor.

A chicken dinner was served, following which Hilda Blanchard Dorothy Sargent, Chairman George Walsh of the Grace Hanson, Stella Britsco Bernicej i TurI pike assoc iation in-, iko, Luba Britsco and troduced various speakers. Harvard university has an endow- men I in excess of SI 28.000.000. and is the richest university in the United Slates. The selectmen rso'irieo a who want wood alone i property on the to rcrr.ovo it before Nov. l.

A a date, the town trucks will pick it up and a it to the town farm to be sawed for the welfare. Notice was also given th.it those having fire hazards on their property and wishing it cleaned up. were to register at the town hail at once. To date, there has been only fair registration, and while some have asked to have this done, adjoining lots, owned by others, may be hazards, yet the town cannot enter unless the owner permission, to do the work, which win be done vtithout charge. The Forget Not circle of the King's Daughters, will meet at 2 o'clock on the- afternoon of Tuesday.

Nov. 1. at G. Edward Prouty club house on Foster James D. Chrislie, president of the Littleton board of a attended the a a meet- iris and banquet, of the Middlesex Medical association, held nesday evening at the Rex Center in town recentlv sold several Long Lake parcels of land, which had' boon confiscated for back taxes.

The purchaser? were: J. S. Carroll. P. J.

Conrad. M. A. Hinchcliffe. D.

Marden. K. E. Specht. R.

P. Thorpe. Members of Get Together club spent an enjoyable evening on Wednesday. at horne cf Arnold i on Adams str-vt. for an A piayir.c grimes the hostess cement i a being put in on Shattuck street, hns progressed as far as the r.ew school, i a walk leading to one entrance to the school being completed- It is expected that the balance of tho.

section that is to be completed this fall, will be finished next week. It is being done as a A was given "Best" Highway Assured in charge of Miss Bernice York, Mrs. E. R. Boucher, assistant district Dorothy Sinton and Miss Phyllis Hall, engineer of the state department of consisting of moving pictures through public works, declared that he and the courtesy of Dan O'Dea of Lowell, his co-assistant, R.

B. MacKinnon, followed by a play "The. Country School." The part of the teacher was taken by Mrs. Robert Heman and pupils were Miss Jessie Sinton. Mrs.

Ella Perkins. Mrs. Walter Blanchard. Mrs. Carl Hanson.

Mrs. Richard Hall, Waiter Fletcher. Morris Doucette. Richard Hall and Oscar Benson. Tickets were in charge of Mrs.

Otis Day. Candy was sold by Misses Hilda and Mildred Blanchard and Grace Hanson. Posters for advertising were made by the pupils of the Cameron school. Many from this village attended the Republican rally at Abbot hall. Forge Village.

Wednesday Mrs. F. W. Preston had the misfortune to sprain her-back The children of Mr. and Mrs.

Francis LeDuc of River street are confined to their home by illness---Miss Laura Benoit of West Graniteviile is a patient at the Lowell General hospital Francis LeDuc and F. Russell Furbush of River street, accompanied by Christy Martin of Lowell, have returned from a three-day trip to Montreal Three Rivers. were resident engineer, had been instructed to proceed with the highway construction and declared that when the road was finished it would.be second to none in the nation. He said that a strip 200 feet wide would be taken over by the that the road would be six-lane type of 30 feet each lane and a 20-foot grass plot in the center. He said that practically even," intersection would be iridged and that the "curse of modern speed highways--billboards, hot dog stands and gasoline stations" would be barred.

In this way. Engineer Boucher stated, accidents caused by stopping for refreshments or auto fuel will be prevented. H- M. Hansen, Chelmsford selectman and director of the Turnpike association, assured the gathering of continued co-operation of the town and forecast that the highway would be of immense benefit to that corn- Lowell Councilors Speak Councilor William F. Barrett de- closed today for the teachers conven- dared that the highway should prove tion in Boston Dr.

and Mrs. of creat benefit "to greater-Lowell. Fayne of Lowell announce the ststhip- that "modern times birth of a daughter, Oct. 21. LUUeten and West Boylston high schools met Wednesday afternoon on Whitcomb in a touch-football gam-? of the Wachusetts High School leacue.

i the lads from West Boylston taking the honors by a 24 to 6 score. Mooney, quarterback for the visitors, was the outstanding stating that "modern times need modem facilities and that this high- I John's hospital. Lowell. Dr. Payne is av would be the means of pulsating I a.

former resident this village industries in this area." He i Mike Sobosky of Broadway "is a Middlesex patient at the Lowell General hospital, i Continued on Page HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY AUSPICES East Chelmsfprd P. T. A. At the East School House FKL OCT. 28--8 O'Clock TICKETS 25 CEXTS NFWSPAPER( association for pushing this 1 work to a successful close.

i Former Councilor Joseph Montminy declared that the highway will mean much to all who use it from the safety standpoint. Ke, too. congratulated the Turnpike association with special mention of Chairman Vice President Smith. Contlnncd on Page KIne N.EWSFAPEsflR.