1 20 109 https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/98ad34f52fa668c26a3c2d2f1ac7091d.pdf 6f34897f56c2aadb8fcbcc5acf4044ed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Read at the January 1970 Meeting of the Maynard Historical Society. All dates refer to issues of the Maynard News. The chorus of a popular song which came out in the early 1930's goes like this: "Once I built a railroad Made it run, made it run against time, Once I built a railroad, now it's done - Brother, can you spare a dime?" That song should have been made then our national anthem, for it spelled out in simple unmistakable terms the anguish of the times - from the promise of "a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot" to the well of despair of not knowing from where the next meal would come. Of course, we were in rather a fortunate position in Maynard, for all during the decades of its existence the residents had experienced this feast or famine economy due to the reliance on one industry, (and textile at that, notorious for its cycles and poor wages). This experience came in real handy when the big thing came along. Those lean years brought the Veterans Bonus Marchers to Anacostia Flats in Washington D.C. from which they were routed by MacArthur, the Hunger Marchers to State Capitals and Washington, and the destroying of pigs to raise the price of pork. It also brought back a feeling of community togetherness - (call it what you may) and a realization that we are all human beings, not brute animals. Let us see what the records tell us about Maynard and its people. The Wall Street crash of 1929 was actually the climax to a process of disintegration of the economy that started in 1926-1927. The result of that crash, however, triggered a sudden gigantic retrenchment that affected all parts of the American economic structure. The people that were on the lowest rung of the economic ladder felt the impact of this where it hurt the most - no money equals no food or shelter or clothes. The myth of "prosperity 'round the corner" could not feed mouths that were hungry or provide shelter from the elements. With only reassurances, but nothing else coming from Washington, by the end of 1930 most communities were in dire straits - and we were no exception. The Welfare Department did what it could but was far from meeting the needs of Maynard's wants. Under those conditions a Citizens' Committee on Relief called an organizational meeting at the High School auditorium, January 2, 1931, with James A Coughlan, Rev. M. A. Vance, Chairman, and Harold Morgan, Treasurer. The purpose of the committee was stated as promoting the general welfare of the town and to receive and disburse funds committed to it. An initial fund of $1,000 and commitments of $50 weekly started the committee on its work. Harry Templeton, agent of the mill, stated that about $400 of that amount had been donated by the salaried officials of American Woolen and a representative of the American Powder Mills reported $450 coming from its employees. A long list of general committee members is listed. The committee will publicize all contributions but not names of those receiving aid. (Jan. 9, 1931) This committee reported (May 13, 1932) that it is in distress with no funds - that a letter had been sent to all recipients that there would be no aid after May 9, 1932. $3,200 had been spent in food, clothing and other necessaries of life. Flour received though Maynard Chapter of Red Cross has been distributed. On July 8, 1932, the Committee reported for one year of operation; -- it had co-operated with the town welfare secretary - aided over 200 families, organized vegetable gardens throughout town; 19 on Fowlers Field, 40 behind Alumni Field (Salo Farm), 20 on Thompson Street, and other places, spent $600 for plowing, fertilizer and seed (goods given by stores). Committee members are Rev. Matthew Vance, James A. Coughlan, Harold Morgan, Harry Templeton, F. Allen Hall, K. Paul Helander, and B. J. Coughlin. The committee endorsed a field day put on by the Sunset Intertown Baseball League which drew audiences of 200 to 500 fans, about 80 players on the teams from which will be picked the cream to play West Concord. Businessmen contributed prizes for this affair. A parade to Crowe Park was also part of the day's festivities. (July 22, 1932). The Committee on August 26, 1932, reported that it would conduct a minstrel show with Jim Farrell in charge. He will run the show entirely with women. November 10, 1932, news note reports that the Committee will distribute 200 bags of onions, tons of squash, and bagged flour. These are stored at Coughlan's Garage on Summer Street. (Present site of Fine Arts Theater) The Committee reported on May 4, 1933, that it plans to have 6-8 acres of land for private gardens. Last year it had 250 gardens, spent about $600 and raised possibly $2,000 worth of produce. It is asking for 50 cent donations to defray expenses. The Citizens' Committee reported (May 11, 1933) that it has been working all winter getting donations from mill employees and overseers, from the various town departments, from the usual parties held by the Golf Club, from the Drama Group, The Maynard Players, and from the Little Theatre Group. The last news note we have of the Citizens' Committee is November 24, 1933, indicating that a new drive is starting. Last year it raised $2,190. We are not sure, but assume that the Committee carried out its individual garden plots in 1934 in conjunction with the community gardens that were instituted by the town in 1933 with aid from the state and federal levels. A new state law was passed in 1932 (May 20) allowing towns to accept advance payment of taxes from individuals and firms. This would assist communities in less borrowing - consequently less interest would be paid. A good barometer of the increasing hard times was indicated on July 15, 1932, by the local public Welfare Department when it reported that in 1931 welfare costs were about $35,000, but by mid-year of 1932 that sum was already expended. It asked the selectmen to call a special town meeting to vote additional funds for the remaining five and a half months of the year. January 5, 1933 - The School Department cuts wages by 10%. January 12, 1933 - Special Town Meeting, George Gutteridge, town Treasurer reports that until the annual town meeting he would be only able to pay town employees but no other bills - B. J. Coughlin said $50,000 outstanding in taxes a year ago, $65,000 now, plus water bills, sewer bills etc. amounting to another $50,000. March 16, 1933 - The annual town meeting voted to cut town rentals of private office space from $3,245 to $1,500 with no provision what happens to the department that cannot pay its rent. During the day of the meeting all tenants of mill houses received notices in the mail intimating that if the town meeting that evening voted in such a manner that taxes would go up and that rents in the company houses would also increase. This was the largest meeting up to that time in the town's history. May 18, 1933 - The School Committee voted to move Main Street School children to other schools, thereby reducing teachers by two and saving cost of heat and janitor. July 29, 1932 - The Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary held a parade and a road race to Stow, with fireworks at night, to help raise funds for needy families. August 26, 1932 - The local Red Cross, Mrs. William Crotty, Chairman, reports that it will receive cotton cloth of all kinds and will set up sewing units. March 23, 1933 - Both banks in town now open after President Roosevelt's two-week bank moratorium to prevent a run on the banking institutions of the country. March 30, 1933 - The Chamber of Commerce elected a committee of nine to find if work can be found for those on relief and then go to selectmen with the news. April 20, 1933 - It is reported that the Hunger Marchers are to pass through town going to Boston. They have asked the selectmen for food and shelter. Last year the Communists at Powder Mill Hall helped them. The Selectmen issue a parade permit to Crowe Park but no food and shelter. (April 27, 1932) The Hunger Marchers Parade (May 4, 1933) Saturday evening, then stop at the Russian Educational Society Hall where they were guests of the Unemployed Council of Maynard. They were given food and shelter by the Council and resumed their march to Boston Sunday morning. The purpose behind these marches nationally was to force the government to set up social security and they succeeded. The summer of 1933 (May 8) saw the start of a community garden effort for welfare men. It was sponsored by the Welfare Department and the Citizens' Committee. The latter committee still remained in charge of the individual gardens that we mentioned previously. Don Lent was in charge of the community garden and the Citizens' Committee plots at Alumni Field (75), Fowler's Field (25), Pond Lot (16) plus backyard plots. The community gardens were situated on Powder Mill Road (opposite the present location of Lund Products) and a canning factory was started in the building there which was owned by the Powder Mill. (August 10, 1933) The cooking tanks and pipes were made and donated by the American Woolen and the land and building and electricity donated by the Powder Mills. The town steam roller was backed up to the building and provided steam for cooking. 23,000 cans were donated by the state. 800 cans of string beans was the first effort, with beans, carrots, chard, and other items distributed fresh to town welfare recipients. As of September 21, 1933, the canning was as follows: 3,849 cans beans, 2,391 cans tomatoes, 253 beets, with this to be stored at the West Concord Cold Storage for distribution during the winter. The field near Alumni Field (Salo Farm) distributed 1,272 pounds beans, 50 bu. chard, 375 bundles turnips, 900 bu. Beets, 1,746 pounds cabbage, 2,410 pounds summer squash, 530 bunches carrots and 100 dozen cukes. The Emergency Relief Act (E.R.A.) passed by Congress allowed the town to start work project with the unemployed. (May 18, 1934) That week 83 men and 23 women received $1,332.60. Projects approved by the stated included Glenwood Cemetery extension, Florida Road drain, Assessor's map, cleaning the banks of the Assabet, sewing and knitting classes, extension of work on Alumni Field, grading track and tennis courts, and erecting bleachers. Don Lent was the local E.R. A. administrator. The work allowance was on a budget plan that allowed $2.00 a week (not a day) for food for those over 16 and $1.50 for those under -- $1.50 for fuel and light -- $5.00 for rent, $.75 for clothing. A June 1, 1934 announcement tells us that two new projects have been approved by E.R.A. the erection of a 20x24 field stone comfort station at Memorial Park with $3,000 coming from E.R.A. funds and the town contributing $700. The other project was the Community Gardens on Powder Mill Road. It is announced August 17, 1934 by Don Lent that canning is started at Middlesex House. (Our old town house). An October 5, 1934 news release by Lent tells that $9,000 will be spent this month, an increase of $500 over recent months because of heavier unemployment. An 85' × 200' hockey rink at Alumni Field as a project in 1935. (January 11) The American Legion and Auxiliary (January 11, 1935) will hold a whist social to benefit those in need. March 1, 1935 - press release tells us that a carload of cabbage from the state will be made into sauerkraut and distributed by E. R. A. - also received 168 cases of canned roast beef and lots of potatoes from the federal supply center. On June 23, 1938, we discover that the Relief and Soldier's Relief Funds are exhausted and 75 new names added to W. P. A. (Works Projects Administration) - 157 there now, 24 new girls added to N. Y. A. sewing project, (National Youth Administration) - and 12 young men to N.Y.A. Park and recreation projects. $5,000 unemployment checks a week distributed with 200 families on relief. On August 4, 1938, W.P.A. has 359 men and 14 women employees. A W.P.A. sewing project has an Open House (May 17, 1940). So, the Great Depression continued for 12 years until we were able to get into a war in 1941 - and prosperity of sorts was achieved. It did prove however, that we as a community did not sit passively - we tried long before the federal government was forced by the rising storm of protest to act. Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Red Binder Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. 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The Curious Story of The Dairy Cottage
 and the Man Who Created It In the Spring of 1938 a flurry of newspaper articles welcomed a new business to Maynard: The Dairy Cottage, located at 50 Acton Street. It advertised itself as a “New and Different Type of Eating Place” with the latest in restaurant equipment and high-quality suppliers. Less than four months later it essentially vanished from the public eye… Ernest Smith Cooper was born on July 19, 1887 in Winchester, Connecticut. By 1916 he was married to Lottie Smith, a traveling salesman for the Moore Company of Worcester, and living in Brighton, MA. In the 1920 census he was listed as a retail druggist. Around 1923 he moved to Acton and was employed as a druggist. Shortly after that (or perhaps at the same time) he opened his own drug store, The Acton Drug Company, in West Acton. A 1925 ad for the drugstore foreshadowed his entrepreneurial spirit as it also sold Kodak cameras and camera film, a variety of candies, and … a popcorn machine. Around the same time Ernest latched on to the latest technology sweeping the country (and world for that matter): radio. Commercial radio stations started in 1920 and this was quickly followed by consumer radio sets being mass produced by companies such as Atwater-Kent, RCA, and Zenith. Ernest recognized an opportunity and started selling radios in his drugstore. By 1928 the drugstore part of the Acton Drug Company was barely a footnote (not unlike the floorspace distribution of your local CVS). Advertisements highlighted selling and servicing Atwater-Kent radios, Whitman and Apollo Candies, Mansion House Fro-Joy Ice Cream, a soda fountain, and Kodak cameras and supplies. He even gave a radio out as a prize at a 1928 West Acton fair. In April 1929 the transition was complete: a full page ad in the Concord Enterprise announced a new Acton Drug Company store that filled drug prescriptions, had a full-fledged “radio department”, a soda fountain for refreshments, ice cream, candy, and a variety of sundries. In 1930 Ernest was attending technical sessions on new Bosch home and automobile radios. Somewhere in the 1930-1932 timeframe Ernest opened the “Cooper Radio-Electric Company” which focused on, as you might guess, radio sales and service (yes, radios needed service back then - those vacuum tube devices were finicky), and various electric home appliances. Where the company was started is still unknown, but in May of 1933 the store opened in Maynard at 20 Nason Street with over 700 people attending the grand opening and several receiving door prizes such as electric irons, clocks, and toasters. In 1934 the store was operating from 72 Main Street. In October 1935 the fast-growing company announced it was moving back to Nason Street to a new store on 90 Nason Street, previously occupied by the Byron Lumber Company. The new Cooper Radio-Electric company featured a “radio salon” where it displayed the latest 1936 radio models. A small footnote in this announcement, but key to our story (yes, we’re getting there…) is that this new location would also house a new company “Cooper Coolers, Inc.” under the Cooper Companies umbrella. Cooper Coolers was riding the wave of safe and affordable home and commercial refrigerators as adoption went from 10% of households to over 50% - despite the impacts of the Great Depression. The Cooper Radio Electric Company showrooms featured Frigidaire refrigerators and Delco heating and air conditioning systems. Advertisements by the company in 1936 focused less on radios and more on these heating and cooling systems/appliances. By 1937 the “Cooper Coolers, Inc.” was directly advertising in the newspapers. On April 27, 1938 the following advertisement appeared in the Maynard Enterprise: OPENING SOON
 50 ACTON ST. MAYNARD
 The Dairy Cottage A New and Different Type of Eating Place.
 HOME MADE ICE CREAM - FRIED CLAMS - SODA FOUNTAIN & SANDWICH GRILL
 Under management of E. S. Cooper & Oiva O. Helenius A few days later (Maynard Enterprise, Page 3, May 4th, 1938) Dairy Cottage Opens Saturday at 50 Acton Street Maynard - "Never Sell America Short" seems to be the courageous policy of the Dairy Cottage and Luncheonette proprietors who will open their new modernistic cottage at 50 Acton Street next Saturday. The new structure of Colonial modernistic type was designed and built by Cooper Coolers, Ernest Cooper, proprietor, This firm is well known with a wide experience in commercial refrigeration and equipping of roadside stands. The interior is finished in neutral buff and red tile with chromium trim. The back bar is of stainless steel. with complete set of electric grills and Silex coffee makers. It Is an artistic cosy place to stop for some thing good to eat or for some home-made ice cream. Everything is in the latest up-to-the-minute, and of equal importance in that everything served is of the best quality. Ernest Cooper and Oiva Helenius are proprietors. Mr. Cooper was formerly in the soda and luncheonette business in Boston and more recently was proprietor of the Acton Drug Company which was favorably known for the excellence of its soda fountain service. A modern up to date soda fountain installed In the Dairy Cottage will serve delicous sodas and college ices. The ice cream all home made in the Dairy Cottage will be made of pure, heavy, teeted cream, pasteurIzed and homogenized. It will be made under a special formula of the United Farmers Cooperative Creamery Association, with all the popular favors. Fresh fruits in season will be used to flavor the Dairy Cottage ice cream and only the purest of extracts will be used. It will be made under sanitary conditions in a modern freezing room. Oiva Helenius was formerly in the retail food business in Maynard and Stow, and is an expert on the selection of meats and provisions. Among the specials to be served at the food counter are a special Hamburg steak of unusual quality from selected meat and served on toasted rolls. Fresh Fried Ipswich Clams, delivered dally, is another special. The clams will be cooked in a modern electric fry kettle. Marvelous taste frankfurters and sandwiches of all varieties, plain or toasted, are on the menu. The milk and cream for the Dairy Cottage will be furnished by The Maplecrest Dairy Farm, the clams fresh daily from Ipswich, frankfurts and cooked meat from the Essem Packing Co, of Lawrence, and fresh meats, fruits and vegetables from the United Co-operative Society of Maynard. The Dairy Cottage will throw its doors open for business and welcome visitors for inspection Saturday, May 7. Three pages later, a full page advertisement welcomed the Dairy Cottage, highlighting all of the businesses that were part of its creation and ongoing operation: E. Mariano & Son - Cement Work and Cellar P. J. Schair - Electric Wiring and Fixtures United Co-Operative Society - Wishing You Success Essem Marvel Taste Frankfurts Maynard & Acton Oil Co. - Fuel Oil for Heating and Hot Water Cooper Coolers, Inc - Designed-Built-Equipped Complete Maynard Lumber & Supply - Lumber and Building Material Maplecrest Cream Top Dairy - Pasteurized Milk and Cream United Farmers Co-Operative Creamery Association - Ice Cream Mix Lenox, Inc. - Complete Supplies for Roadside Stands Delano-Potter Co. - Bunker Hill Coffee & Peaco Tea The following week (Maynard Enterprise, Page 1, May 11th, 1938) Dairy Cottage Is Now Open Maynard. - The Dairy Cottage, 50 Acton Street, Ernest Cooper and Oiva Helenius, proprietors, said they were very pleasantly surprised at the volume of business done the week end. The staff Includes Mary Higgins, Mildred Costello and Richard Howe. A few weeks later another advertisement (The Maynard News, Page 5, June 9th, 1938) Have You Visited the DAIRY COTTAGE IT'S NEW - IT'S DIFFERENT FOR GOOD FOOD and REFRESHMENT A Place Unusual FRIED CLAMS - FOUNTAIN SERVICE 50 Acton Street Maynard The Dairy Cottage even had a sponsor block in the 1938 Maynard High School yearbook, The Screech Owl: After the Reception, Shows or Anytime Drop in at the Dairy Cottage for Tasty Home-Made ICE CREAM - FRIED CLAMS or LUNCHES ACTON STREET MAYNARD And that, dear reader, is the full extent of our (current) known history of The Dairy Cottage! The next notice we have on the building was in the Maynard Enterprise, Page 2, April 3rd, 1958: Mr. and Mrs, Stanley B. Chapman and family, 50 Acton street. visited their daughter, the former Betty Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Kohler and Patricia over the weekend in Canton, Ohio. And property records show that the current owners (July 2026) purchased the house from the Chapman estate in 1998. What of of Ernest Cooper and the Cooper Radio Electric Companies? Not much is currently known. Starting in 1936 Cooper Coolers advertisements were small and mentioned “Milk Coolers”. The 1940 census shows Ernest living in Franklin, New Hampshire. At some point Ernest and Lottie retired to Clearwater, Florida. Ernest passed away in 1961 at the age of 74. Looking at the advertisements for The Dairy Cottage and the accompanying newspaper stories it is clear that it was created as a showcase for Cooper Coolers. In addition to the Dairy Cottage they supplied refrigeration to the United Co-Operative Society and likely other businesses in Central Massachusetts. Plus the Dairy Cottage probably appealed to Ernest’s entrepreneurial roots starting a successful soda fountain in the Acton Drug Company two decades earlier. Who knows? Anyone who has started a restaurant business will tell you that they live on a knife’s edge for several years and few make it to long-term success. Maybe it was a vanity project or a last gasp attempt to drum up business, but the whole of the Cooper Companies business seemed to evaporate at the same time. There may be more to this story yet to tell. Author: Dave Griffin, Maynard Historical Society Revision 2, July 1, 2026
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The Curious Story of The Dairy Cottage
 and the Man Who Created It In the Spring of 1938 a flurry of newspaper articles welcomed a new business to Maynard: The Dairy Cottage, located at 50 Acton Street. It advertised itself as a “New and Different Type of Eating Place” with the latest in restaurant equipment and high-quality suppliers. Less than four months later it essentially vanished from the public eye… This item contains a PDF monograph of the research into The Dairy Cottage and Ernest Cooper, whose company built it. Also available is a set of 38 documents, mostly newspaper articles/advertisements that are referenced by the monograph. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Newspaper articles courtesy of the Acton and Maynard Public Libraries online newspaper archive. Many thanks for this service. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Acton Enterprise The Concord Enterprise The Maynard Enterprise The Maynard News https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/3f9c92113695a927837949d0d68edefa.pdf d51a7e91f790c9f40d841720233676a2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Red binder Text Any textual data included in the document. This January of 1968 has been so severe in its extreme cold and snow that many of us will be relating stories about it many years hence. It seems that every generation or so we get what is called an "old time winter" - 1948 was one, 1920 another. Modern equipment today clears roads in generally short order, though frequent complaints are made to the authorities that is should be practically instant. Let us hark back to 1920 - and count our blessings. The following will be verbatim from the Maynard News. February 6, 1920 - 'Maynard Feels Blizzard' - Supt. Driscoll commended for keeping plows in action. Maynard is emerging from the worst blizzard experienced in this section for many years. Traffic was delayed and people were put to great inconvenience, but as there were no fires or casualties reported, nothing but good-natured badinage is heard. The storm commenced its work early Thursday morning and kept on the job throughout the day. In the evening the snow changed to sleet, which cut the faces of those forced to go out of doors. Town employees and railroad men suffered most, but all were more or less affected by its severity. John J. Driscoll, Supt. of Streets, informed the News that it was the worst storm he has experienced since he came to Maynard to reside. Roy Worden, Supt. of the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway, is in accord with Mr. Driscoll and says it was the worst blizzard that the oldest man in his employ has any recollection of. Mr. Driscoll had four plows working all day and some of these made three trips around the town. At noon there was a change of horses and at night these horses could go no further. In addition, he had men at work shoveling. These were augmented today and if possible, more will be set to work again tomorrow. This Friday morning five plows were at work at 4:30, in order to make the streets passable for the operatives in the mill and others forced to leave their homes early. Supt. Worden ordered cars and plows out early. Supt. Worden ordered cars and plows out early Thursday morning. Two of the cars reached Hudson. One of these was left there and the other became stalled with the plow in Gleasondale. One of the cars on the Concord end of the line reached as far as Paper Mill Corner on its return trip, but the other became enmeshed in huge drifts at Concord Junction. It took just six hours to make a run from the Sudbury Street turnout to the car barn, according to Mr. Worden. He expects to get into Hudson sometime this afternoon and with any degree of luck will also reach Concord. The steam railroad had its difficulties also. Trains left on time in the morning, but were hours late at night. The mail arriving at 9 AM was the only one which was delivered. Some of the morning mail was on cars stalled. During Thursday afternoon the wind rose to a gale and huge drifts precluded any chance of railroad men fighting their way through. Automobiles were placed in the discard. Doctors made their rounds on foot and credit is due them for their untiring efforts in visiting the sick. People residing in the outskirts and surrounding towns were kept from work in most cases. At noon Thursday, restaurants and lunch carts did a thriving business, as people who had any distance to walk and who came from work patronized these places. Many had foresight enough to carry lunches with them and many more stayed in the mill at noon, depending on relatives or friends to return at one with lunches for them. Grocery and meat men also came in for a hard day. In some cases orders were taken in the forenoon which were not delivered. Many wondered why the no-school signal was not blown in the morning. Supt. of Schools Millington, says that he was undecided, as Friday is visiting day and he did not wish to lose two days' time. However, at noon, it became apparent that children could not return, so the signal was blown. The storm had its amusing features as well. One in particular was the frequency in which some pedestrians passed on snowshoes or skis. Earlier in the week these articles were used for pleasure, but the fact was emphatically borne out that they were indispensable for commercial purposes as well. Late Thursday afternoon the Powder Mill pung put in its appearance drawn by a team of six horses, enabling the help to arrive home without delay or inconvenience. During the night the sleet formed a crust on the snow and as a result it did not drift as bad as anticipated, so that as the old weather man said; 'it might have been worse. 'February 6, 1920 - Hudson - Whittier's "Snowbound' may be a beautiful thing to read when one is seated by an open fireplace, listening to the crackling logs, but it is a different proposition to be obliged to brave such a storm as raged yesterday, the worst since the memorable blizzard of 1898, the year the steamer Portland went down. There was a decided icy feeling in the air Wednesday afternoon and evening, but nobody dreamed that the world would awaken yesterday morning to find itself facing a storm of unusual proportions and severity. Electric cars were quickly put out of commission. The Clinton Line did not land a car in Wood Square after its last trip Wednesday night and is still among the missing. The Maynard Line got to Hudson at 8 AM but has not been seen since. The Marlboro Line got two cars through in the early morning, after which service was completely at a standstill until late in the evening, when service was resumed with the Armory as the terminus. Schools were closed yesterday and the no school signal sounded again this morning. Nearly all the stores which keep open Thursday evenings closed at six o'clock. Trains were from four to five hours late, with mails delayed correspondingly. The midnight train did not reach Hudson until four o'clock this morning. Marlboro people waited at the Fitchburg Station from the time they left work until nearly eleven o'clock to get a train home. Many returned to factories in which they work and remained there overnight. Lodge rooms were also resorted to as bedrooms by snowbound ones. One elderly man who started to walk to Marlboro was given a resting place at the Town House, a comfortable bed being made up for him in the court room. The Boston morning papers did not arrive until late in the afternoon, being brought from Marlboro on a snow plow, and the early afternoon papers reached Fairbanks at 5:20. No Worcester papers reached Hudson. At midnight a snow plow left the iron on the Felton Street crossing of the Boston & Maine, and three freight trains were held up by it until four o'clock, it being necessary to send out a wrecking train to straighten out affairs. People obliged to be out this morning, going to work or otherwise, were forced to wade through deep drifts, and fortunate were those that could wait until somebody else had broken a path for them. A remedy for the complete extermination of the groundhog is in order. February 13, 1920 - Because of limited transportation facilities, as a result of the snow storm of last week, Maynard people have experienced considerable hardship. There has been no schedule on the electric car lines, and Boston Freight has not reached town in two weeks. Besides being inconvenienced in travel, there has been a shortage of living commodities to add to the general discomfort. Residents have shown a commendable spirit, and this will be rewarded by better things next week. This Friday there is a schedule maintained from the center of the town to Gleasondale. It is expected that snow and ice will be removed from the tracks so that cars can run as far as the Fitchburg Depot in Hudson this evening. Supt. Worden will turn his attention to the Acton Line Saturday, and hopes to have a clear track for railroad connection by Monday. On the Concord end of the line the street department of that town are engaged in clearing tracks. The workmen have been contending against ice ranging from three inches to twelve inches. Every foot of the ground conquered so far has been by the use of the pick axe. An illustration of this phase of the work may be gleaned from the fact that it took seven hours to make a clear track from opposite the residence of William Jones, Great Road, to the car barn Wednesday evening. Local businessmen have been hit hard. One grocer says that he can trace a loss of S75 on his Saturday business from South and West Acton. Another one says that these towns, plus Concord Junction doubles his loss. Samuel Lerer suggests that the merchants pool their interests until the tracks are cleared and engage drivers for pungs... allow them to collect regular fares between the towns mentioned and reimburse the drivers to the extent of a fair profit over what is collected in fares. The Express Company has been doing double duty since the failure of the freight and have been doing it exceedingly well. There is practically no sugar in town today. In some cases stores are out of butter, egg and cheese, and unless a Boston Freight hoves in sight this Friday afternoon, Maynard will have to subsist on canned goods for the time being. Things looked serious at the mill early in the week. There was an apparent shortage of acids and dyes. About 250 carboys are used weekly and Monday there were only fifty on hand. The company got in touch with the Government and as a result there was a special engine brought into requisition and a carload of the necessary product brought to Maynard. Dyes came by express. Unless traffic is opened, a shutdown is imminent. Carloads of coal were taken from the mill early in the week by the Government and sent to the Watertown Arsenal. Automobiles put in an appearance Thursday, the first since the storm last Thursday. The truck of the United Cooperative Association was the first and this was a signal for others, and they were run with more or less difficulty. But there are better things to come in sight and in the meantime, everybody "Cheer Up". February 20, 1920 - Maynard was treated to the novel sight of hundreds of volunteer workmen Saturday and Sunday, to open the car tracks between Maynard and South Acton. Practically every resident of Maynard is inconvenienced by the lack of transportation between the two towns. In order to offset this, Roy Worden, Supt. of the C. M. & H. Street Railway Company, petitioned businessmen to aid in opening the line. A meeting was called Friday afternoon, and the response was gratifying indeed. The movement was not an individual one by any means. All are concerned. The town has suffered through the storm to the extent of lack of transportation, mails, morning and evening papers, and many other necessities. It was a call for civic duty and while there were not more than fifty or sixty at work at one time, fully 500 people participated in the movement. Triumphantly swinging his pickaxe Saturday morning, B. J. Coghlin started the ball a rolling. He was quickly joined by other businessmen, laborers, and in fact during the two days, men and boys from every walk of life. It was not for the railroad, the business man, but for all concerned and this was evident from the cosmopolitan number who enthused over the work. As in many other places, the railroad could have suspended and waited for the warm sun and rain to do the work at no expense. The businessmen could have hired pungs for transportation, which was at first conceived. However, a splendid cooperative spirit was shown when Joshua Naylor called the meeting which results in opening the road as far as Parmenter's crossing. This was done through many discouraging conditions. Solid ice had to be cut through and water in many places was as high as the ankles of the workers. February 20, 1920 - The first Boston freight in more than two weeks arrived in Maynard Saturday afternoon. It was hailed like the rescue ship of old, as it brought delayed and necessary supplies. March 5, 1920 - Employees of American Woolen dug out congested freight in South and West Acton, Saturday and Sunday. In addition, they shoveled the sidings clear in Maynard and Gleasondale; paid time and a half for Saturday and Sunday work. March 12, 1920 - Responding to an appeal from the Boston & Maine Railroad to repeat the work of last week made necessary by the storm Saturday, more than 50 men responded to clear the sidings and switches in Maynard, Marlboro, South and West Acton, and Gleasondale. March 12, 1920 - While very little damage was done by the storm last Friday night and Saturday, great inconvenience was experienced. It slowed things to a standstill temporarily. Trains were stalled and people waited hours. Lights went out in one section of town. The memorable blizzard of 1888 was nothing to Saturday's storm. There was greater snowfall then, but the high wind which accompanied Saturday's storm with a near zero temperature beat all records. Even steam service was paralyzed. Nobody ventured abroad after the noon hour. A number of horses had to be dug out of drifts and it was a common sight to see some person step on what seemed a safe place, only to go through to the knees. Many cellars are now flooded because of the thaw Monday. March 19, 1920 - Ice sweeps away the Maynard Coal Co. Bridge over the Assabet. Thousands of tons of ice along the river from the rear of the Main Street School to Florida Court were loosened by the rainstorm Wednesday. March 26, 1920 - Cars on C. M. & H. Line had reached Concord Junction; hope shortly to be opened to Concord and West Acton. Spring finally came and all was well again in the little Town of Maynard along the Assabet. Read at the January, 1968 meeting of the Maynard Historical Society - B. R. Koski Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Winter 1920 Description An account of the resource How the Town of Maynard was affected by the extreme weather in winter 1920. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2026.209 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donated by B. R. Koski Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource white paper 8.5 x 11 in - 4 pages Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Maynard News Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski monograph snow winter https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/62efdb9691f6bb191bfbb345a4d524a1.jpg 1628e0823eb48542b4d45f8c9cfffb9c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. <h2>LOVELL's BUS LINES - THIRTY YEARS IN MAYNARD</h2> <h3>A Brief History</h3> John F. Lovell is born in Plymouth, MA in 1858. He leaves school at age nine to work in a Plymouth nail factory. From eleven until twenty-one, he works on a relative’s farm in Carver, MA. At age 20, while living in Carver and listing his occupation as peddler, he marries Mary C. Burgess of Plymouth. She is eighteen. Soon after their marriage, the couple move to Plymouth and John works in a shoe factory. His career and life from that age to the post WW I years are recounted in materials contained in the Historical Society’s Collection. <br /><br />In 1918, Lovell (now age sixty and a life-long entrepreneur) is living in Woburn. He acquires a jitney bus, begins operations in Woburn and over the next several years develops his Woburn and Reading Bus Company into a small regional operation. He sells the company in 1922. In January of 1923, at age sixty-five, he forms Lovell’s Bus Company and purchases the former Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway trolly barn in Maynard. From that site, he begins bus operations along some of the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway routes. <br /><br />[The Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway Company begins operations in August 1901 and ceases operations in January 1923. The history of that street railway company and its routes is told well in “Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway”, by O. R. Cummings, published 1967.] <br /><br />It appears that John Lovell moves to Maynard around 1923 when he begins his bus operation. He acquires one or more properties near the bus company’s car barn, and a loop road near the car barn is named Lovell’s Court. He and his wife Mary purchase and live in a house near Lovell’s Court at 69 Great Road. <br /><br />Initially, John Lovell operates his bus company under the trade name of Concord, Maynard and Hudson Bus Line. However, he abandons that name at the end of 1924 as his bus routes now expand beyond those three towns. Already, Lovell’s Bus Company employs fourteen people and operates eleven buses and two taxis. <br /><br />Over the next fifteen years or so John Lovell acquires numerous properties in Maynard, mostly multi-family homes. Records show that at least some of these are rented to his employees. At the same time, he expands his bus operations. In 1932, he acquires the White Bus Company routes. He operates that route structure as the Weymouth Division of Lovell’s Bus Company while operating the balance of his company’s routes as the Maynard Division. <br /><br />Lovell buses run an extensive regional system, including: (a) east through Concord, Bedford and Lexington to Arlington, Cambridge and Watertown; (b) southeast to Sudbury, Wayland, Weston and Waltham; and (c) northwest to Acton, Stow, Hudson, Clinton, and Leominster. <br /><br />As the Depression deepens during the 1930’s life gets harder, including for John Lovell and his employees. At some point, Lovell asks his employees to give back an earlier wage increase. It appears they do. But by 1934, employee-management relations at Lovell’s Bus Company are souring, and the Lovell’s employees vote to form a union. As reported in the Maynard News of September 14, 1934, John Lovell (represented by attorney Alfred McLeary) claims to have no knowledge of union organizing activity, insists he has been a generous employer, and he refuses to recognize the union. At the time, Lovell is paying his employees $4 a day, and the workday is apparently about nine to hours. <br /><br />Employee and management relations remain unsettled during the next few years. And then in May of 1937 disagreements culminate in a four-day strike. The Maynard Enterprise for May 7, 1937 reports that while the employees wanted 70 cents an hour and an eight-hour day, the settlement is for 60 cents an hour (a 5 cent an hour increase) and a nine-hour day. In addition, John Lovell formally recognizes the Amalgamated Association of Railway and Streetcar Workers (an AFL affiliate) as representing his workers. As was the case during earlier employee-management disputes, John Lovell is represented by Alfred McLeary. <br /><br />By 1939, Lovell’s Bus Company reports owning 63 buses, and it announces plans to purchase more. John Lovell is now in his early eighties, and he has acquired through the Lovell Bus Company a portfolio of properties in Maynard. Perhaps in order to finance the expansion of his operations, in 1939 he liquidates all or most of those investments. The MHS has in its collection a 1939 auction notice for the sale by Lovell’s Bus Company of twenty-four residential properties in Maynard, including the Lorenzo Maynard home on Dartmouth Street. <br /><br />Throughout WW II, Lovell’s maintains operations, including through the difficulties of gasoline-rationing and younger employees being subject to the draft or electing to enlist. Then, with the war nearly won, In April 1945 John Lovell dies at age eighty-seven. The war in Europe ends a month later. It ends in the Pacific in August. Masses of young men and women begin to return to civilian life. <br /><br />Following John Lovell’s death, operations at the bus company are taken over by one of John Lovell’s grandsons. However, like all for-profit, regional bus companies, Lovell’s struggles to compete with the post WW II explosive growth of private car ownership and the build out of highways. <br /><br />In 1947, Lovell’s Bus Company sells its Weymouth Division, a set of routes and a collection of buses. The core of this sale appears to be the old White Bus Company purchased by Lovell’s in 1934. The purchaser is Hudson Bus Lines which was founded around 1932. Lovell’s Bus Company retains its Maynard Division. <br /><br />The sale of the Weymouth Division is not enough to save Lovell’s Bus Company. After six more years of severe economic challenges, Lovell’s Bus Company ceases operations. Based on an August 27, 1953 article in the Maynard Enterprise, operations cease in the spring of that year. With the company’s demise it appears that all its routes are discontinued, with the following two exceptions. <br /><br />A bus route between Maynard, Stow and Hudson operates for some years under the name Maynard Bus Service. The August 27, 1953 article noted above suggests the operation commences in the fall of 1953. The business is owned and operated by Maynard native Joe Mancini and his family. This new bus operation has evolved from a taxi service operated by Joe Mancini and named ‘G.I. Joe Taxi.’ It appears that Mancini’s bus service ceases operations in 1958. <br /><br />The Lovell’s bus route from Maynard, through West Concord to Concord is taken over by The Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Company, which despite its name ran its last streetcars in 1930. From and after 1930, the Middlesex and Boston operates only buses. In 1972, the Middlesex and Boston bus operations are subsumed into the MBTA.<br /> <h3>The MHS Lovell’s Collection as of Early 2026</h3> The following summarizes as of early 2026 the Maynard Historical Society’s collection of material relating to Lovell’s Bus Company and its informal successor the Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Company. &nbsp; <em>Note: You can access these items by clicking on the "Lovell Bus" tag in the sidebar.</em><br /><br />The collection includes:<br /> <ol> <li>Numerous bus tickets and passes</li> <li>Full page and partial page newspaper ads from late 1941 for Lovell’s that give the following two timetables (i) Arlington to Leominster and to Maynard and on to South Acton and West Acton, and (ii) Lexington to Watertown through Arlington, Belmont and Waverly</li> <li>A Maynard to Waltham (through Sudbury, Wayland and Weston) timetable dated October 1942</li> <li>A Maynard to Harvard Square timetable dated April 1950</li> <li>An undated Maynard to Hudson Timetable with the phone number for chartering buses given as TWinoaks 7-2623 (the phone number dates this to circa mid-1950’s)</li> <li>A twenty page 1925 brochure offering a two night-three day bus tour of New Hampshire’s White Mountains; the cost being $27.50 per person which includes transportation, two nights’ accommodation, meals and guided tours (the brochure is described in detail at the end of this memo</li> <li>An operator’s daily report</li> <li>Several pictures of Lovell buses</li> <li>A photocopy of a menu from Maynard’s Twin Trees Café on Maynard’s Powder Mill Road that reprints the bus schedule (the menu notes the café’s phone number as 191, and a three digit number dates the menu to pre-1955)</li> <li>Photocopies of several 1920’s-1930’s articles as to John Lovell and the Lovell Bus Company</li> <li>A copy of Maynard Memories, issue 20 from September – October of 2003, that reprints an article about John Lovell that first appeared in the Maynard High School paper The Screech Owl in 1939. That 1939 article is the source for some of the above.</li> <li>A ‘Report on the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Bus Line,’ prepared by Cyrus Hosmer, Jr. and Walter Henry Ridley of Concord MA., dated December 12, 1924. The Report was prepared for John Lovell at a time when the unofficial name for Lovell Bus Company was ‘The Concord, Maynard and Hudson Bus Line.’ The Report summarizes the first ten months of Lovell’s operations and offers a strategy for growing the company and improving its operations and financial performance. The Report itself is an interesting early example of the emerging practice of business consulting. The fact that John Lovell paid for such a report speaks to his entrepreneurship and willingness to experiment. For those interested in snapshot looks at life in 1924, the Report offers brief but intimate portraits of Concord Junction, Maynard, Stow, Gleasondale, Hudson, Berlin, South Action and West Acton as of that date.</li> </ol> <br />The MHS collection also includes items not related to Lovell’s Bus Company but rather related to, or that appear to be related to, bus routes through Maynard after Lovell’s ceases operations early in 1953:<br /><br /> <ol> <li>There are two schedules for Middlesex and Boston buses that run a route from Maynard through Concord, Bedford Airport, Lexington and on to either Harvard Square or Arlington Heights. The schedules are dated September 1966 and May 1969.</li> <li>Several undated commutation tickets for the Middlesex &amp; Boston Street Railway Company. It is unknown whether these tickets were for use on buses or were for use on the trollies run by the Middlesex and Boston up to about 1930. A 1912 map on Wikipedia Commons of the Middlesex and Boston trolly lines shows a line west from Bedford through Concord and then to Maynard and on to Berlin and Marlborough. Further research is necessary to properly identify these tickets.&nbsp;</li> </ol> <br />The twenty-page brochure as to a White Mountains tour noted above is dated 1925 at page 5. It promotes and describes a Lovell’s Bus Company tour titled ‘Lovell’s White Mountain Tours,’ The brochure was mailed with a one and half cent President Warren G. Harding stamp (first issued in 1925) but with no addressee. The lack of an addressee indicates that the brochure was mailed as general advertising. The brochure contains numerous half-tone photos, including photos of several famous White Mountain hotels and of Lovell’s fleet headquarters in Maynard. The brochure was printed by Murphy &amp;. Synder of Maynard. <br /><br />As for that printing firm, Alpert Murphy and John Snyder start their business in 1917. In 1957, the business relocates to the corner of Waltham and Parker Streets in Maynard into a one-story building constructed in 1936 for the United Co-Operative Society. Murphy &amp; Snyder cease operations in 2003. As of early 2026, the building at Waltham and Parker Streets retains the old Murphy &amp; Snyder signage. Storage Location in the archive VF72 Lovell Bus Lines folder SU20-2 Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Typed 8.5 x 11 in. paper Six pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A History of the Lovell Bus Line Description An account of the resource After the closure of the Concord, Maynard, and Hudson Street Railway a bus line was started by John Lovell in 1923 and it continued into the 1950s.<br /><br />This monograph details the history of John Lovell and the Lovell Bus Lines in Maynard. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Terry Jones Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Terry Jones Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2026.61 Lovell Lovell Bus monograph transportation https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/778e36e622c0a60335799206dd4d807b.jpg 467b0cd967a8bb793509882e54d1083d https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/88049139f9d8a370dd6e7ccefc558422.jpg 10af25491e4f05626d6d20a888944b68 https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/d145da3838593fa32cf91f59a0c6262d.jpg aecb662e3acecda733662c2beb9c0f67 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Storage Location in the archive VF57 SU20-4 St. Casimir Church - History/Newspaper Articles Folder #5 of 6 Text Any textual data included in the document. Account #1: St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church In 1905, the Polish people of Catholic faith began using the lower church at St. Bridget's for their services. By 1910, there were about six hundred Polish-speaking people in Maynard, most of whom were attending St. Bridget's, and Rev. Walter A. Browne, pastor of St. Bridget's asked Archbishop O'Connell to provide a Polish priest as an assistant. Sunday, December 8, 1912, Rev. Francis Jablonski of Boston, administrator for the Polish-speaking people of Maynard, said his first mass at St. Bridget's Church at 10:30 a.m. Fr. Jablonski began immediately looking around for a suitable place to erect a church. The name of St. Casimir, patron saint of the Polish people, was chosen for the parish. In the middle 1920s, they purchased land formerly owned and occupied by the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway on Great Road and converted the powerhouse into the present beautiful St. Casimir's Church. The church was blessed on November 12, 1928, by the Rt. Rev. Richard Haberlin as personal representative of His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell. Fr. Jablonski served from 1912 to 1926; followed by Rev. John S. Dziok, 1926 to 1939; Rev. William F. Maciaszek, 1939 to 1945; and Rev. Francis S. Miaskiewicz, D. C. L., 1945 until his death on January 10, 1970. Rev. Louis Bilicky was named pastor in February 1970. The parish rectory is at 253 Main Street, being purchased in 1937. Account #2: The Polish People of St. Bridget's In 1905, due to the steady growth of Polish people in Maynard, permission was granted to them to use the lower church of St. Bridget's for giving services. By 1910, some six hundred Poles resided in town, and through the intercession of Fr. Walter A. Browne, Pastor of St. Bridget's, His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell assigned a Polish-speaking priest to care spiritually for the Polish people. On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, 1912, the Rev. Francis Jablonski, the first Polish-speaking priest in Maynard, celebrated mass at St. Bridget's. They continued to use the lower church. In December 1926, Rev. John S. Dziok (who was later appointed a Monsignor) was assigned to Maynard to succeed Fr. Jablonski. During his pastorship the power station and land formerly owned and occupied by the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway on Great Road was acquired. The hardy and faithful parishioners by the sacrifices of time, energy, and sweat of the brow remodeled the building into the now beautiful "House of God", known as St. Casimir's Church. On November 12, 1928, the church of St. Casimir's was blessed by Monsignor Richard Haberlin. In 1937, the rectory at 253 Main Street was purchased. Account #3: Saint Casimir's Polish Parish Founded in 1912 The Reverend Fathers, who served this parish, include the following: 1. Reverend Father Francis Jablonski (from January 4, 1912, till December 19, 1926) for some 13 years and 11 months. He returned to his native country (Poland) and there he died July 15, 1929. 2. Reverend Father John S. Dziok (from December 19, 1926, till February 24, 1940) for some 13 years and 2 months. He became pastor of Saint Hedwig's Church in East Cambridge, upon the death of Rev. Father Henry Zmijewski a. Church was blessed on November 12, 1928 b. Stations of Cross erected by Cardinal O'Connell on Nobember 20, 1928 He died on Nobember 13, 1975 3. Reverend Father William Maciaszek (from February 25, 1940, till Nobember 24, 1945) for some 5 years and 9 months. He died December 9, 1968 4. Reverend Father Francis Miaskiewicz D. C. L. (from Nobember 25, 1945 till 1963) served some 18 years as administrator a. from 1963 till January 10, 1970, some 7 years as Pastor b. New cross dedicated on top of church, September 21, 1958 Died January 10, 1970 5. Reverend Father Louis S. Bilickly (from February 10 1970 till <present>) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource History of St. Casimir's Church - Three Accounts - ca 1978 Description An account of the resource Three accounts of the beginning of St. Casimir's Church. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Likley various St. Casimir's parishioners Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ca 1978 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2024.236 2024.237 2024.238 2024.239 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Paper, 8.5 x 11 in. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Storage Location in the archive PB76 SU18-7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alice L. Mullin (1912-2005) and Leo F. Mullin (1910-1993) Biographies Description An account of the resource Alice Louise Fearns Mullin: Alice Lousie Fearns was born on September 27, 1912, in the home in which she grew up, at 7 Haynes Street, Maynard, MA. She was the daughter of Bertha Amelda Wall, a high school mathematics teacher from Marlboro; and Frank S. Fearns, a Maynard native and pharmacist, who owned Fearns Pharmacy which later became Manning Pharmacy. Alice had two siblings: a brother, Edward Fearns, and a sister, Frances Fearns. Alice was elected Class Vice President and graduated from Maynard High in 1930. She attended Boston University School of Liberal Arts and graduated in 1934. She began teaching English at Maynard High in 1935 and in 1940 took time off to get married to the Maynard High Principal, Leo Mullin. Alice and Leo had eight children: Edward (B. 1941 ), Leo (B. 1943), John (B. 1945), Joe (B. 1947), Walter (B. 1948), Peter (B. 1950), Mary (B. 1951), and Bill (B. 1953). In 1965, she returned, teaching English, and Latin, at MHS until 1983. Like her husband Leo, Alice somehow found time to become an elected official in Maynard’s Town Government and served on the Maynard Public Library Board of Trustees from 1978-1981. After retiring as a Trustee, she was appointed as Chair of the Maynard Library’s Fundraising Committee in 2000 in advance of the securing financing to build the new Maynard Public Library in the former Roosevelt Elementary School on Nason Street. Alice died at the age of 92, on August 15, 2005, at home in the room in which she was born. Leo Francis Mullin: Leo F. Mullin was born on July 3, 1910, in the home personally built by his father, James Mullin at 199 Main Street in Maynard. Kate and Jim had five children: Walter (B. 1902), Alice (B. 1904), Mildred (B. 1907), Leo (B. 1910), and James Maley (B. 1915). Leo graduated from Maynard High School in 1928 and Fordham University in 1933. After graduation, he began teaching English at Maynard High. He also began working toward his master’s degree in education, nights at Boston College. He also joined the Maynard Drama Society, and began acting, singing, and dancing in plays and musicals. Leo completed his master's in 1940, and eventually moved up from teaching to become Assistant Principal of MHS from 1941-1943, and then Principal from 1943-1945. He became Auditor for the State of Massachusetts Department of Corporations and Taxation from 1946-1974. He also successfully ran for Maynard Selectman from 1949-1954. He was a member of the building committee for the Memorial Gym on Summer Street which opened in 1955. In the 1960s, Leo became more active in Maynard civic and charitable organizations. He often served as Chair or President at times, of the following: - The Maynard PTA - The Maynard Band Parents - The Maynard Booster Club - He personally decided to create and organize the Maynard Community Chest - He became a Board Member of the Maynard Co-op - He joined the Maynard Council on Aging and assisted in its “Meals on Wheels” program - While continuing to support the Maynard Drama Society, he intermittently continued acting in plays - He became a Member of the Maynard Centennial Committee, and personally organized its All-Class Reunion Dinner at the Maynard Elks. After 1972, Leo and Alice both had a more than well-deserved, 100% retirement, and they had 19 grandchildren’s names and birthdays to remember, and to visit; and 8 children and their spouses to visit; and their final years, in Maynard, were completely relaxing, peaceful, and fulfilling. Leo passed away in 1993. Photos: 1. Alice and Leo ca 1990 2. Alice - MHS Glee Club 1929 3. Alice - MHS Band 1929 4. Alice - MHS Senior Portrait 1930 5. Leo - MHS Screech Owl Staff 1928 6. Leo - MHS Screech Owl Staff 1928 7. Board of Selectman at Middlesex County National Bank Celebration 1952 (l-r) Leo Mullin, chairman, Joseph P. Dineen, and William Bain 8. Leo - Co-Op Board of Directors 1966 9. Leo - Maynard Council on Aging 1977 10. Mullin Family 1967: (l-r) Back: Leo Jr., Alice, Leo Sr., John, Ed Front: Walter, Joe, Bill, Peter, Mary 11. Class of 1983 dedication of yearbook to Alice in her retirement year. She taught for 23 years. 12. Alice and Leo Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource This narrative (edited) was written by Tom Sheridan and Joe Mullin. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. 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Photocopies, 4 x 6 in. - 11 copies; 2.5 x 3 in. - 1 copy Storage Location in the archive PB43 SU18-4 SU21-3 Lawson, Richard folder VF100 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard Thure Lawson 1909 -1978 A Remembrance of Teacher and Friend Description An account of the resource He was universally known as "Dick". Dick and his siblings (Virginia and Eleanor) born in North Acton of a Swedish father, Axel, and an American mother, Anna, spent their early years in Concord, moving to Maynard in the 1920's. He graduated from Maynard High School in 1928 and Springfield College in 1932 where he excelled in baseball. In 1936 he married Veronica Arciszewski of Maynard and later had a daughter, Carol Ann. During the 1930's Dick worked for the Maynard Coal Company owned by his father. In the autumn of 1942 he became a Roving Physical Education teacher for the Maynard public school system visiting each school- three Elementary , one Junior High and one High School - on a weekly basis. In addition Dick coached the basketball, football and baseball teams. His teaching career was interrupted by service in the US Navy, 1945-46. After returning form the war he continued as Physical Education teacher. Dick remarried in 1946 to Lena Fayton and had a daughter, Barbara Ann. During Dick's P. E. teaching days at the grade schools, it was common to hear the phrase " Dick, throw me the ball" with variations depending on the sport. During the 1940's and 50's his High School teams produced many winning seasons and league championships. Some of Dick's players went on to success in college and professionally. During this period the basketball team played all their games away. Their court on the lower level of the George Washington Auditorium had a low ceiling resulting in the nickname "Nomads". Dick was instrumental in getting a new gym built on Summer St. in 1957 so the team could have home games. With the new gym Dick started a basketball program for the sixth graders with assistance from his former players. The program was on Saturday mornings during the winter months. His players had great affinity for Dick and even gave him nicknames. One of these "The Hawk" referred to his ability see and know everything going on at all times. Dick had his own sayings often used: "Treat the basketball like it was 24 carat gold. Don't let anyone take it away from you until you put it through the hoop. Then start again by taking it away from the opposing team." Dick was also involved in the Pop Warner football program. In 1961 he was appointed Athletic Director. Dick managed the growth of the department and finances. planned schedules, lined the fields and still had time to be the trainer to meet the player's need. Dich continued as Director until his retirement in 1970. Throughout Dick's career he was a kind and gentle man who always had a smile on his face. He was there to help out with what was needed especially as related to sports. Dick influenced many boys as they became men. His office door was always open. Dick passed away in 1978 leaving his wife Lena and children, Carol Ann Lawson Atkinson & Barbara Fayton Oriface. In 2009 Dick was recognized by his past students, players and coworkers by voting him into the Maynard High School Hall of Fame. Photos: (11) Click on thumbnails to enlarged photo l to r: 1. Cover photo taken in 1963 when Dick was Athletic Director and Director of Physical Education. 2. Yearbook dedication language to Dick Lawson by the Class of 1963. 3. 1926 photo of Maynard High School baseball team. Dick, top row left. Coach is Don Lent, bottom right 4. Dick at High School on Summer Street - 1943 5. At Alumni Field as Assistant Football Coach -1945 6. Dick with music teacher, Dorothy Colburn and art teacher, Ann Pasakanis 7. Head Basketball Coach - 1952 8. Head Baseball Coach with Captain Gerald Connors -1955 9. Dick as head Baseball Coach standing in front of Field Stone Field House at Alumni Field - 1955 10. Baseball coach standing in front of stands at Alumni Field -1957 11. Dick's photo in the 1964 yearbook. 12. (l-r) Dick's daughter Carol Ann, his father Axel, mother Anna, and Dick - 1955 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource The narrative (edited) was written by Thomas Sheridan, a former player and student for his 12 years in the Maynard Public Schools. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photo copies Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. One 8" x 10" Two 4 x 6 " Two 5 x 7 in. Storage Location in the archive PB7 VF100 SU18-5 SU21-3 Donald Lent Folder Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Donald Asford Lent (1896 -1978) Athlete - Educator - Public Servant Description An account of the resource Donald Lent was born in Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada. His parents were Charles and Harriet Lent, Don being the youngest of seven children. The family immigrated to Maynard in 1899. They were farmers in Tiverton and were farmers in Maynard. The Lent 52-acre farm on Puffer Road was one of the parcels taken by eminent domain in 1942 to make way for the Maynard Ordnance Supply Depot. Don served in the Canadian Expedition Force during WWI becoming a naturalized US citizen in 1932. Don excelled as a three-sport athlete while attending Maynard High School: football, baseball, and basketball, graduating in 1916. He was acclaimed in the 1971 History of Maynard book as Maynard's finest athlete. After the war, Don attended Massachusetts Agricultural College (now UMass) in Amherst. He continued starring in football, baseball, basketball, and track, being named in 1920 as the All New England football player of the year. 1921-1926: During this time, Don played semi-pro baseball, coached the high school football, baseball, and basketball teams, and married Evelyn Pineo. They had four children: Ann, Donald, Jr., Charles, and David. He started his teaching career in 1926: Math, Biology, and Science. Don continued to coach until 1932. His teams won both the Midland and Middlesex League championships. 1930s and 1940s: Don was Superintendent of Maynard Schools, 1939-1941; served as a Selectman for five years, 1934-35, 1937-39, 1940-42; administered the E.R.A. and W.P.A. that implemented many projects: construction of Alumni Field, the Field House, bandstand at Crowe Park, Alumni Field grandstands, the hockey rink, and the track. He also oversaw extension of the town's drainage system, sewer system, sidewalks, and water system. Throughout his life Don was active in a variety of civic and private endeavors including: as a member of the Masons, coaching Little League, United Co-operative Society Board of Directors member, served on the town's Finance, By-Laws and Power & Light Committee. He was Superintendent of Public Works from 1960 to 1966 improving water and sewer system, creating a road management system and updated financial controls. In his retirement years, he still stayed involved. Don consulted with the Centennial Committee in 1971 and was always available for a question at his Fowler Street home. After his death a tribute memorial was published in the 1978 Annual Report. See 1999.882 for a renowned story as a baseball coach Photos: 1. ca 1915 Teenage Athlete 2. 1916 MHS Yearbook 3. 1921 Senior Year at Massachusetts Agricultural College 4. 1926 MHS baseball coach 5. ca1966 Superintendent of Public Works 6. 1989 Dedication Stone of Don Lent Field adjacent to the Green Meadow School 7. In his Mass Aggie Uniform 8. His college record as a graduate 9. A memoriam of him printed in the Maynard 1978 Town Report 10. A tribute to him printed in the Assabet Valley Beacon of March 6, 1978 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles Berriel Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2023.468 2024.26 2024.27 2024.28 2024.29 2024.30 2024.31 2024.33 2026.53 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1896-10-25 to 1978-02-24 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource This narrative was arranged by Thomas Sheridan who worked part time (1964-66) for Don as an assistant/gopher. Thomas Sheridan later became Superintendent of Public Works in 1975. Alumni Field biographies CO1916 Department of Public Works DPW E.R.A. public official school selectman sports W.P.A. https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/4a0b0ba29df20a1f1fc18ac1b38a938b.pdf fbb21cd1754d909c1d1c72b0bf8ef211 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. With the incorporation of Maynard in 1871 one of the needs was a Town Cemetery. Steps were taken immediately and the following is a chronology of events from the beginning. First to be buried in what is now Glenwood Cemetery: JOHM MARBLE - 1750 - 1820: burled in the Daniel Whitney lot in the original burying ground before the incorporation of the town. (from Nick Kavalcuch, caretaker) TH0MAS H. BROOKS, buried May 9, I872: first after incorporation. Cemetery chronology: MAY 26, 1871: Voted to appoint a committee to select site for a cemetery consisting of Aaron S. Thompson, Amory Maynard and John Proudman. JULY 1, 1871: Committee to bargain with Messrs. Amory and Lorenzo Maynard and take deed to land for cemetery (being part of the "Mitchel place"). To purchase six to eight acres at $150 per acre. Voted to purchase lot for cemetery from Amory and Lorenzo Maynard for $1,031.25. This must have from from the Maynard Family Tomb towards near the junction of Parker Street and Great Road, excluding the Turnpike School grounds. SEPT. 16, 1871: To build a bank wall of stones with split stone afoot in width on top. This would run along Parker Street to the Turnpike School grounds. DEC. 11, 1871: To leave the style of fence up to the Commissioners. APRIL 1, 1872: To purchase a hearse and build a hearse house. With no mode of transportation but the two feet for most people, the town furnished a hearse for funerals. The hearse house would be situated on the cemetery grounds. AUG. 21, 1872: Paid Amory and Lorenzo Maynard, cemetery lot, $1,031.25. Paid for building fence at cemetery. $732.68. OCT. 12, 1872: Henry Fowler appointed Sexton and established prices, as follows: For interments in town, adults: $4.00 For interments in town, children: $3.00 For out-of-town services: a reasonable sum In case of dispute, as determined by the selectmen. The word Sexton in relation to Henry Fowler meant he was undertaker. APRIL 3, 1876: Voted to grant a lot to the G.A.R., Henry Wilson Post #86, said post to select same, and said lot to he used under their discretion for the burial of deceased soldiers. APRIL 12, 1878: Herbert Fowler appointed Sexton. 1880: $250 deposited in the hands of the Town Treasurer by Benjamin Conant for care of his lot. This was the first money received by the town for "perpetual care". APRIL 29, 1881: Voted to layout and draw plan of new half of cemetery. F.A. Henderson to procure services of a surveyor. MARCH 14, 1882: Orrin S. Fowler appointed Sexton. MAY 2, 1884: Voted town hearse be varnished. Mr. O.S. Fowler to supervise doing of same. MARCH 8, 1886: Voted to build a receiving tomb at the cemetery. It was around this time, a year or two this way or that, also that the Maynard Family Tomb was built. 1887 --A substantial stone wall laid around the old Turnpike School grounds, enclosing them with the cemetery proper. The Turnpike School must have been at the junction of Parker Street and Great Road. It is the original school built 1779 on Old Marlboro Road about hundred yards north-east of Parker Street, then later moved to the junction, vacated in 1881 and moved to Acton Street for a residence. [Gutteridge's History of Maynard, 1921] APRIL 2, 1888: Voted that Abel G. Haynes, Warren A. Haynes and Orrin S. Fowler attend to the building of a receiving tomb. 1888: Paid North Acton Granite Company for receiving tomb, $7OO. 1889: Board of Selectmen serving as Cemetery Commissioners. MARCH 12, 1889: Orrin S. Fowler appointed undertaker (sexton). MAY 20, 1890: Complaints of plants and flowers being stolen from cemetery. MAY 28, 1890: To put article in the paper regarding penalties for desecration of cemeteries. AUGUST 27, 1890: Wood at cemetery sold for $2.25 per cord at auction. OCTOBER 8, 1890: To sell American Powder Mills all remaining wood for $1.50 per cord. JULY 8, 1891: Thomas McCarthy of Acton engaged to build wall near the tomb for $120. MAY 3, 1897: Voted to have hearse house painted. JULY 14, 1899: Vandals at the cemetery. SEPT. 1, 1899: Pump broken and lot owners complain about not being able to water graves. SEPT. 13, 1899: Standpipe with faucet erected at Glenwood. NOV. 17, 1899: Voted to have new part of cemetery laid out and plans drawn for same. 1903: Cemetery Commissioners, a board of three members, now elected for the first time at Town Meeting. Orrin S. Fowler, Sidney B. Shattuck and Fred W. Taylor. 1904: Since building known as the hearse house was appropriated for a "pest-house',' a building was purchased from George Hart for $50 to store tools and equipment at the cemetery. Sometime previous to 1904 the use of the town hearse was discontinued. The need for a "pest-house", for isolation of smallpox: victims from the rest of the population, required a small building. The hearse house filled the requirements and was moved across the street from the Poor Farm, somewhere set back in the vicinity of the high school or Alumni Field. An incidental note about the sale of the town hearse would be in order here. A practical joker by the name of Emil Boeske bought it and one busy Friday evening, dressed in his best, laid himself in it and had somebody parade him around town. NOV. 10, 1908: Voted to accept $1200 for perpetual care of the lot of Lorenzo and William Maynard. 1925: Voted to appropriate $1500 to replace toolhouse and contents which was destroyed by fire, 1927: Voted to transfer and appropriate so much of the land acquired by the Town by virtue of a deed from Lorenzo Maynard to be added to the cemetery. Voted a committee of two be appointed to act with Cemetery Commissioners, regarding additional land for cemetery purpose. 1928: Voted to instruct Cemetery Commissioners to purchase in behalf of the town for cemetery purposes land containing about eleven acres, adjoining Glenwood cemetery, from the heirs of William Taylor and appropriate $2900 for same. This land is between Glenwood and St. Bridget's cemeteries. 1928: A beautiful granite arch recently erected at the entrance of the cemetery, gift of one of the leading citizens of Maynard, Mr. William F. Litchfield. The December 7, I928 Maynard News details this as follows: New Milford granite archway had been completed and open for usage. Arch is supported on two columns 15 feet high and 3 feet deep, weighing about 30 tons. (A) gift to the town from William F. Litchfield, retired coal merchant. The name "Glenwood Cemetery" is inscribed on the columns. George Smith, grandfather of Mrs. Litchfield, was one of the first to purchase (a) lot in (the) cemetery. 1933: Voted to set aside for enlargement of the cemetery, premises described in a deed from Lorenzo Maynard to the Town of Maynard, dated March 26, 1903. New section plotted. The November 16, 1934 Maynard News reports that the iron fence has been installed from the The Maynard Family Tomb to Great Road. (This must have been one of the make-work projects of the W.P.A. during the Great Depression). 1935: Purchased a power lawn mower. Now possible to cut grass in entire cemetery in a short time. Roy E. Marsden appointed full time Superintendent at the cemetery. 1937: Voted $200 to purchase a parcel of land between new addition. 1938: 78 spruce trees destroyed by the hurricane on September 21st. Owing to loss of spruce trees surrounding the "summer house" it was thought advisable to remove the structure, which had stood there for so many years, and make a planting of shrubs and flowers. We have been unable to ascertain when the summer house was built. It was circular with seats around it for people to sit and rest. 1943: After September 1, 1943, all interments must be made in concrete, stone or steel vaults. Wooden interment boxes will not be permitted. Will solve sunken grave problem. 1947: Purchased truck, lowering device and artificial grass. 1950: A five foot fence erected at Maynard's tomb. 1952: Voted to approve the regulations at Glenwood. Cemetery nov under the Public Works Department. Interred in the Glenwood Cemetery is a cousin of Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. Ruth Trent by name. A monograph has been written on her. I am indebted to Ralph Sheridan for all research in the Town Reports, Selectmen's Reports, Town Clerk's Records and the Maynard Enterprise. A few dates are from the Maynard News. Read at the Meeting of The Maynard Historical Society B.R. KOSKI Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Glenwood Cemetery Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.277 Description An account of the resource A chronology of the Glenwood Cemetery from its coincident start with the town in 1871 through 1950. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ca 1967 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ralph Sheridan cemetery Glenwood Cemetery https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/86024895e68086dfc428e772ac87ea76.pdf 5efb89f23a62feebbd69b78ed4474804 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The first of the Finnish people in Maynard came not long after the incorporation of the town, sometime during the 1880's, Conditions being what they were in Finland under Czarist Russian rule, the lure of "streets paved with gold" as too much to withstand. The first five families settled on River Street (as related to me by John Saisa). John's father, Topi Saisa, John H. Simons and Weckstrom among the five. Many of the later ones however settled on farms throughout the entire Acton, Stow, Maynard and Sudbury area. By 1894 they were numerous enough so that the Evangelical Lutheran Church was founded in 1895 and the Finnish Temperance Society in 1898. People of the Congregational religious persuasion occasionally had meetings in homes and the Temperance Hall with Rev. K. F. Hendrickson and Rev. Andrew Croup coming from out-of-town. In 1903 the Finnish Congregational Pastorate was established with Rev. W. W. Sundeline as the first minister. The Imatra Band was organized in 1899. A newsnote of January 5, 1900 tells of a new Finnish Cooperative store on Main Street. (This was the predecessor to the United Cooperative Society subscribed for in 1905.) In 1903 the Finnish Workingman's Socialist Society was organized. The Lutheran Church, founded In 1894, built the church building on Glendale Street in 1907-1908 at a cost of $8,000 and dedicated in June 1908. A parsonage was built in 1928 at a cost of $6,225. It had no synodical connection until November 10, 1908 when it affiliated with the Suomi Synod. They had fourteen pastors up to 1934. A Sunday School was organized in 1906; Ladies' Aid Society in 1906. There were one hundred seventy-five members in 1934 at the 40th anniversary celebration at which Jacob Laurila, chairman of the celebration committee, recited a history of the church. In 1967 the church moved to a new building over the town line in Sudbury, at the Junction of Great Road and Waltham Street. The Finnish Alku Temperance Society was founded In 1895 and moved March 23, 1900 from Harriman Court to the Whitney building. English classes were started with Mrs. James Coulter in charge in November 1901. A temperance society Eastern summer festival with twenty-eight towns represented, five bands, had between one and two thousand participants at Pumping Station Grove, Winter Street, in May 16, 1902 and July 4, 1902. October 16, 1903 the Society moved to Darling's Block, corner of Summer and Nason Streets, taking over the Associated Templar's rooms. The Acton Street quarters was converted into an Italian boarding house. July 15, 1904 new quarters were obtained In the old school building on Main Street owned by James Mullin. A naturalization society was organized February 24, 1905 by the Temperance Society. Over one hundred persons went March 1, 1907 to Boston to get first papers. June 18, 1909 fifty went to Cambridge for second papers. July 29, 1910 the Temperance Society opened its new building on the comer of Harriman Court and Main Street, which it was to live in until the organization was disbanded in the early 1960's. Through the years, the Summer festivals held In various Finnish communities drew thousands of people from all over the Eastern seaboard. For example, June 26, 1925 the festival being here at Vose's Pond had three bands, dramas, sports, with about eight thousand people In attendance. The Society also had a Summer place In West Concord called "Punkaharju's Activities of the Society included program evenings, dramas, chorus, a band (the National Band), sports (Kanto A.C.), gymnastics, and jointly with other temperance groups in town, a yearly campaign to vote liquor our of town. The Finnish Congregational Church, established as pastorate in 1903 had the following Ministers up through 1913: W.W. Sundellne, L.P. Miettinen, J.E. Sillback, A.F. Wirta, John Vanenen. Meetings were held in the Temperance Hall, Haynes Hall (Riverside), harness shop near depot in 1904, and American Congregational Church Chapel in 1905. The cornerstone of the church building was laid May 23, 1913 with one thousand people in attendance, different ministers speaking, The box imbedded in the cornerstone contained: Finnish hymn book, song book, Finnish calendar, picture of W. W. Sundeline (first Pastor), history of the Free Mission Church, names of all members and officers, Finnish coins, copy of Evangel, Jouluvista, Maynard News, Maynard Enterprise, Finnish Friend, North Star. August 29, 1913 the church vestry was dedicated with appropriate exercises. December 19, 1913 the church dedication took place with many ministers in attendance. The C. E. Society of the Church was set up in 1905 with twenty members. The Sunday School was organized in 1907 with seventy-five members, and the church had sixty-five members in 1913. In 1903 the Finnish Workingmen's Socialist Society was organized. It carried on sports, dramas, gymnastics, wrestling, acrobatics, dances, program evenings. It bought Vose's Pond area and set up the pavilion and track, fixed up the pond for swimming, held Summer festivals there which drew thousands of Finnish people from the Eastern seaboard. The Imatra Band became part of this society. The Tarmo Athletic Club was organized which participated in all sports. For those that remember that far back the basketball rivalries of the twenties have had no equal since, with Tarmo usually in the lead. A hall was built (John Pettokarju, builder) in 1909 with a two day dedication in November. The hall was enlarged in 1916. The 13th anniversary of the Society was celebrated for three days with the opening of the new hall in January 1917. The United Cooperative Society was initiated by this group. With the passing of years the Society as a viable group is now in 1969 just a memory. The Parker Street Hall was sold in 1969. In June 1915 the Knights of Kaleva was organized as "K.R. Knights of Kaleva" and the Ladles Auxiliary "Saluttaren Tupa K.N". The Alku Temperance Society Hall was used for the initiation with 175 persons in attendance. This Society is founded on the great epic poem of Finland "Kalevala". It is similar in precept to the Odd Fellows and Rebekkas. It is reported that the Kaleva Society has camp and grounds at a lake in Littleton. In 1933 the parent group set up the "Young Kalevas". The Knights of Kaleva is still alive as of this writing and have headquarters on River Street. During the Finnish-Soviet Winter War of 1939-40 all of the Finnlsh organizations In town united to raise funds for Finnish relief, with the exception of the Finnish Workers Federation. A symphony orchestra composed of the best Finn musicians in many communities in Massachusetts, including many from Maynard, led by one of Finland's leading directors toured New England for this beneficial purpose. As with all other ethnic groups, the off-spring of the original settlers have more or less moved into the mainstream of American life, into their own homes, vocations, hobbles and raising an American family. Quite a cry from the peasants of May 23, 1902 that were ordered "to vacate homes just built by the American Woolen Company on McKinley, Roosevelt and Harrison Streets in the new village because they were packed sixteen to a house built for six, burlap bags fastened to the walls to make rooms in half, spikes in wall for this purpose, wood chopped on floor". Freshly arrived from the old country there was no room otherwise. Quite a far cry, wouldn't you say? All dates from Maynard News. Read at the April 1969 meeting of the Maynard Historical Society. B.R. Koski Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: The Finnish People in Maynard Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1969-04 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.276 Description An account of the resource A historical summary of Finnish immigrants arriving in Maynard and their wide-ranging impact on the town. Alku Finland Finnish Finnish Congregational Church Finnish Imatra Band Imatra Band Kaleva Kanto Lutheran monograph pond socialist Tarmo temperance United Co-operative Society Vose Pond Vose's Park Pavilion https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/f26dd3bfc747628b7acdef8a51d05519.pdf 615d01bf9f2703947fc15568145961c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. JAMES B. FARRELL 1886 - 1968 It has been related That he hated wakes - For a part of Jim died With the passing of every friend. We hated Jim's wake - The wit, the sallies, the voice Raised in song, no more; A part of all of us died that evening. He was of Maynard's History - the human part, And helped to chronicle it, His father one of seventy-one To sign the Charter in '71. A part of all of us died that evening. B.R. Koski Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Tribute to James Farrell Description An account of the resource James Farrell was a frequent contributor and speaker in the nascent years of the Maynard Historical Society. He passed away in 1968, four years shy of the Centennial celebration he helped shape. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.275 monograph https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/19a98204aafec0e8387bccd6cf790b67.pdf 7edb4610694383f0066f5af7967f365e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The Gala Barbecue and Field Day October 12, 1916 by Elizabeth . Schnair for the Maynard Historical Society Robert Burns' famous philosophy "the well-laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglae" has proven true to most of us many, many times. It came to my mind when I uncovered this story of an event which took place in Maynard exactly 50 years ago. The year 1915 was the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Civil War. Although there was no such town as "Maynard, Massachusetts" in 1861, the village of Assabet made up of parts of Sudbury and Stow sent thirty-six men into the war of rebellion. Several G.A.R. men settled here soon after the war. One of these was A. D. Holt, who became commander of the Isaac Davis Post, G.A.R. of Acton. His daughter, Anna, a talented musician and teacher of piano, conceived the idea of raising enough money to erect a memorial in honor of the men who served from this area in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War of 1898. She had given two concerts, one in 1915 and one in June 1916, and donated the proceeds to such a fund. A few public-spirited citizens became interested in her project and offered to help. A committee was organized under the chairmanship of the Rev. A. K. Osgood, minister of the Maynard Methodist Church. Others on this committee were H. J. Dwinells, Miss Anna Holt, Mr. A. B. Holt, Mr. Howard Wilson, and J. J. Hilferty. They petitioned the trustees of the Methodist Church to secure a portion of their lawn at Main and Summer Streets. This petition was approved in August 1916, when the church agreed to deed to the town a grass plot of about 20 feet at the lower end of their lawn. By now the fund was about $700.00. The cost of the monument was estimated at $2500.00. At first it was suggested to canvas the whole town to raise the extra money. This was deleted by many prominent businessmen who came up with the idea of celebrating the October 12th holiday with a gala Field Day and Public Barbecue, the proceeds to be given to the Monument Fund. This idea was enthusiastically approved and a Barbecue Committee was formed: C.J. Lynch, P.J. Sullivan, Albert Batley, James Bent and William Taylor. Everyone in town was urged to make this a successful affair. All Social, fraternal and labor organizations were contacted to get their ideas and suggestions. A parade was planned to open the festivities. Then a ball game at Crowe Park, followed by a short speaking program, then the dinner, an afternoon of sports, and an evening of dancing. Mr. Osgood described it to be "a great historic and social occasion for the town." Mr, Louis Arigoni, barbecue man from Canton was contacted and agreed to supervise the barbecue. Understand, this was to be no ordinary cook-out! Mr. Arigoni would roast an 800 pound steer! A few weeks prior to the appointed day, he met with committeemen and marked out a spot at Crowe Park near the baseball backstop suitable for a roasting pit. He directed the pit to be dug by these measurements: 9ft. X 7ft. X 2ft. and lined with boulders. He also ordered these supplies: 15 bushels of corn 30 bags of charcoal 20 pounds salt 2 pounds pepper 5 barrels of potatoes 50 pounds of butter 120 loaves 10 cent bread! October 12, 1916 was a beautiful warm fall day, ideal for an outdoor celebration. The steer was put on irons and the fire started at 7:00 the night before. A tent 120ft. X 30ft. with seating capacity of 500 was also erected the previous afternoon. The town was gaily decorated with flags and banners strung across the streets. The parade started at 9:30 from Paper Mill Corner (Waltham and Parker Streets) up Main Street to Sudbury Street and thence to Crowe Park. James Mullin led the parade on horseback. Included in the line of march were the police, the National Band Company 1 of Concord, Alice Newton as a soldier girl, Robert Jackson, as Uncle Sam, Francis Coughlin as a sailor, G.A.R. member, Miss Holtz's music class with flags, school children, Maynard Fife and Drum Corps, Summer Hill Lodge, Holy Name Society, Eagles, Polish Society, Scouts from Maynard and Acton. A ball game was played at 10:00 A.M. followed ty a short program of speakers. Mr. Osgood introduced the following: Senator Nathan Tufts Congressman John Jacob Rogers Dr. John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald who was then a candidate for the U. S. Senate. He was well-known and liked in Maynard and received a tremendous ovation. Ex-Senator Sherman Hoar was the final orator. Then the dinner was announced. About 800 people were fed. Following the dinner was an afternoon of sports and games, and an evening of dancing. Everyone enjoyed themselves but the affair was a social success only. After meeting expenses of $900.00, only $250.00 was realized. This gave the Monument Fund a treasury of $1,029.00. The committee again suggested a house to house canvas for funds, but it was decided that the townspeople were already burdened with too many expenses. They decided to enter an article on the warrant at the spring town meeting for an appropriation of $1500.00. Before this was carried out, the United States entered the Great World War in Europe. All plans and ideas were temporarily dropped, the money deposited in the bank, and eventually applied to the expenses of the present monument in Memorial Park. We all hold great respect for these memorials. For me, knowing the story of Miss Anna Holt's patriotic endeavor, my respect goes even deeper. Her plan did not materialize as she expected, but she was responsible for one of the greatest celebrations ever held In Maynard. Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: The Gala Barbecue and Field Day Description An account of the resource An account of a fundraising event that turned out to be, perhaps, the largest single event ever held in Maynard: "Barbecue Day". Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elizabeth Schnair Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-10 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.274 Barbecue Day Civil War GAR Methodist Church monograph monument Mullin parade picnic https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/0f10e9a09cb9ffc877570bc2cd6b1e74.pdf 558d33ab5a86793f0f62ac1d7d572e0a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. In 1899 a group of local business men organized a social club to be known as the D.Y.W.Y.K. club ("Don't You Wish You Knew?). Membership in the club was limited to twenty. A masquerade ball was held annually at Music Hall, with the exception of two years when they were abandoned due to dullness of trade. Two prizes of $5 in gold were offered annually: one for the handsomest lady and the other for the most comical costumed gentleman. A grand march and drill executed by the members in fancy costume under the direction of a competent instructor was always the feature of the occasion. The hall was always decorated by a Boston Decorating Company and the best orchestra available played. A catered supper would be served and dancing enjoyed until 3 a.m. In 1900, with the largest attendance in the history of the club, the concert was delayed owing to late arrival of violinist McEnnelly of Marlboro who had all of the music in his possession. Members of the club in 1900 were Joshua Edwards, John Lawton, Dell Martin, William Casey, George Whitney, William Irwin, Thomas Smith, Peter Kivlehan, Frank McCarron, William Punch, Lee Donahue, Edward Doherty, James Cleary, William V, Cameron, James Coughlan, Michael E. Sheehan, Bartholomew Coughlin, William Mahoney, William Lawler and Arthur J. Coughlan. It is interesting to note that a Miss Harris of Acton won the Handsomest lady prize for several years. Also, at the 26th anniversary ball in 1912, before a packed house, Frank C, Sheridan, won the prize as the most comical costumed gentleman. At the 21st annual ball, February 1907, a concert by the Bingville Band, under the direction of Charles Smith, was a feature of the evening. Music was so intoxicating that officer Connors was on the verge of making several arrests. The artists of the band were: Matt Campbell, Jack Kelley, Mell Butler, Bill Cleary, Jimmie Farrell and Marcus Kelley. Prepared by Ralph L. Sheridan Credit to the Maynard News --------- For further research: The dates suggest that the club was organized in 1886, not 1889 (typo?) Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: D. Y. W. Y. K. Club Description An account of the resource The "Don't You Wish You Knew?" club was a social group started in 1899 by local businessmen with membership limited to 20 with the apparent goal of sponsoring elaborate masquerade balls. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ralph Sheridan Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1965-04 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.273 ball club dance DYWYK Club monograph https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/e84124015d5c11260a51a4b8dbad0df8.pdf cca796080df8964873155ea61089f2d0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The Lincoln Library has the following to say about the International Order of Good Templars: "A Fraternal Society having for its object the promotion of total abstinence from the use of alcoholic beverages and of universal prohibition of the manufacture and sale of such products. Membership is unrestricted by age, sex or color. A committee appointed by the governing body of the Society inaugurated the Prohibition Party in 1869. In 1874, Good Templar women founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union". The Iola Lodge No. 91, International Order of Good Templars was instituted in Assabet Village February 19, 1866 with fifty charter members. Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Riley of Stow being instrumental in this. At first the lodge met in Union Hall, part of the Methodist Church, then removing to the Vestry of the Congregational Church. Later it rented Riverside Hall on Main Street, finally having its own quarters about 1888 in Darling's Block, comer of Nason and Summer Streets, the present abode of the Eagles. In 1893 the Associated Templars were formed in town. From the record it is not clear why the formation of this group, as an Associated Templar had to be a member of the parent body. This group had a membership in 1902 of about forty. The activities of The Good Templars Lodge centered on temperance work. Meetings and entertainments at their own hall plus larger temperance affairs at Music Hall was the order of the day. Mr. Frank Coulter, now of Stow, who was Secretary of the Lodge from 1900 on for a certain amount of years told me an amusing anecdote of a meeting held in Music Hall. The speaker from Boston held forth with fire and brimstone -a veritable vocal male Carrie Nation. Sometime after the meeting lo and behold, he was discovered in one of our wet spots, "tanking it up", in Mr. Coulter's colorful language. His explanation was ingenious indeed: he needed the experience better to convert his audience to abstinence! Other officers with Mr. Coulter in 1900 were Robert Archer, Emma Archer, Sydney Coulter, Chris Wilson, George Robertson, Ada Bower, Edith Woddart. The Associated Templars held dances and had an active Bicycle Club of about a dozen members, riding on weekends to Waltham, Worcester and further afield. We have spoken of this club in our paper on the Bicycle Clubs of Maynard. No known records exist when the Good Templars dissolved. Our last date in the newspapers about the Associated Templars was in 1907 advertising a dance. Most of the factual material in this paper came from the Maynard News: June 2, 1899; Feb. 2, Mar. 9and March 16, 1900; March 1902 and Feb, 15, 1907. I am indebted to Jim Farrell for directing me to Frank Coulter and also to Mr. Coulter for his reminiscences. Read at January 30, 1966 Meeting of The Maynard Historical Society B.R. KOSKI Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: The First Lodge in Maynard Description An account of the resource The International Order of Good Templars, who promoted total abstinence from alcoholic beverages, had a lodge in Assabet Village, prior to Maynard's incorporation. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-01-30 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.272 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Frank Coulter bicycle fraternal organization Iola lodge monograph Music Hall society temperance Templars https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/72a8fa6cde6a666d2d665a908a2f0809.pdf 780b311ad7d9151a41e73401e86d2b48 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. In the old days traveling groups of entertainers would make a circuit of towns large enough to warrant a one-day stand. They would send advance agents into a community to drum up interest for the group that would come later. Some of the larger groups would remain longer than aday. They added zest and excitement to lives of people before cars, radio and television - lives that were insulated greatly from the outside world. No matter that most of the entertainment was second-rate or cheap - it was a change from the hum-drum existence of day-to-day life. As with all things, once the need disappears, the thing itself disappears; and so it was with these groups. In 1968, now, only two groups come into town: carnivals hired by the American Legion Post and St. Bridget's Church. Our records are sparse. We have a few newspaper notes only of Maynard being visited. These groups did not advertise in the papers as is done today, it was word-of-mouth and hand-bills. The first date is July 26, 1901: The Saxonians Comedy Company entertainers and specialty stars will give a series of entertainments in Maynard all next week at their pavilion, corner of Glendale and Summer Street - admission 10 and 20 cents. The pavilion, of course, was a tent. The location was the present grounds of Anderson Ford used car lot on Acton Street. June 6, 1913: The Downey and Wheelers Circus will be in Marlboro, and the Selectmen in Maynard have granted a license to the Sautelle Circus, which will show Monday, June 30. May 14, 1915: On Wednesday, D. F. Knowlton of Lowell set up a Merry-go-Round on a lot at corner of Glendale and Acton Streets. Before the large garage on River Street, situated practically on the corner of River and Main Streets was built, (presently housing the Middlesex Laundry Self-Service) this lot was used in the latter 10's and early 20's by carnivals and circuses. Also, the area at and about 98 Summer Street (James Ledgard's home) was built up, where Spark's Three-Ring Circus with elephants and other wild animals would come yearly in the 1920's. The Legion Post for years now has been hiring a carnival around the Fourth of July to appear at the Rev. Crowe Park for raising funds for the organization; and St. Bridget's Church has done the same on its grounds at the Parochial School. The children enjoy these tremendously: the merry-go- round, pop corn, taffy, hot dogs, all the whirling things that make up a carnival. The parents, not so much, for it is a continuous dipping into the pocket, but as the French say, 'C'est la vie' - it's the kids' night out! All dates are from the Maynard News. I am indebted to Ralph Sheridan for additional information. Read at the February, 1968 meeting of the Maynard Historical Society "” B. R. Koski Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Carnivals and Circuses Description An account of the resource Before entertainment was available at the push of a button, the arrival of a carnival or circus in town would bring a little bit of excitement to quiet town life. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968-02 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ralph Sheridan Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.271 American Legion carnival circus entertainment monograph Saint Bridget Church https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/d83f631b4070e9f971e27317fe53911f.pdf 1613c641a14bf4096514908fc925bb44 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. An article of July 12, 1918 tells us that the idea of this Circuit originated in the mind of a Dr. J. H. Vincent, a patron of learning. Originally this Association was chartered by the State of Pennsylvania but later moving to Chautauqua, New York. The purpose of this Association (January 19, 1917) was "to send speakers to communities to uplift family life which does not take enough interest in literature and social uplift of town. Ticket sellers, ushers, other male help, are mostly college boys getting their education from its lessons. Young girls are college women, their presence in the community helps it by their high standards". It was the custom of Chautauqua to display banners of the towns on its route. It was discovered that Maynard did not have any colors so H. Linwood White, a member of the Grange, was delegated to request the Grange to sponsor an article for the next town meeting to obtain colors for Maynard. A group of sponsors for each town had to guarantee a minimum amount of money for the Circuit and these sponsors signed a contract to that effect. A huge tent was erected ori the high school grounds on Summer Street approximately where the gymnasium is, and for five days, afternoon and evening, speakers, plays, singers would entertain. The first group of sponsors were the following in January 19, 1917: Kenneth Damren (Chairman), Rev. A.H. Osgood (Secretary), Bertha N. Osgood, E. J. Toop, H. Linwood White, Mrs. Howard Wilson, Mrs. Orrin Fowler, F. P. Flagg, William Millington, C.J. Lynch, C.H. Persons, M. B. Church, Arthur Walker, George Elson, G.H. Merrick, W.D. Priest, William Gutteridge, C.H. Stanley, Ralph Case, W.A. Haynes Co., W.F. Litchfield, Dan Goodenow, G.A. Theodore, Harry Bates, Edward J. Flaherty, Kenneth Damren, George F. Morse, C.J. Morse, Howard Case, William B. Case, J.S. Peterson, Frank E. Taylor, F.A, May, A.T. Haynes, Horace Bates, Arthur J. Sullivan, James Hilferty, 0.C. Drechsler, William Naylor, Howard Hamblin, Mrs. G.B. Hooper, Sidney McCleary, Samuel Lerer, George Gutteridge, Mrs. L.H. Maynard, James A. Coughlan, C.A. Stetson, Arthur Coughlan, Amory Maynard, Herbert Mallinson, John Ingham, W.R. Peterson. At the next meeting, February 23, 1917, held at Co-op Hall to plan for the next summer's program, a quartet composed of Arthur Sullivan, Albert Goettler, Everett Toop, George Coggswell, Mrs. Harry Andrews, pianist, sang. June 21, and July 12, 1918 meetings of the guarantors saw Kenneth Damren as President; Mrs. Carl Stockbridge, Secretary; Sidney McCleary, Treasurer; and close to a hundred guarantors. May 30, 1919 - George Elson, President; Mrs. Joseph Schnair, Secretary; William Naylor, Treasurer. From 1920 through 1929 when Chautauqua ended, possibly because of the depression, William Naylor continued as President. July 16, 1920 saw the addition of Junior Chautauqua. This was the local school children who would put on a show or play the last day of the program. This was later called Junior Town. Up to a hundred children participated. Mrs. Adelaide Sims usually directed the doings for the children. As an aside, may we mention that two of our Society Members in 1928 were in this group: Winifred Tobin Kearon and Elizabeth Schnair. Admission was charged to the programs: 50¢ afternoon, 75¢ evening, season ticket (10 performances) $2.50, and junior ticket $1.00. We do not know if the purposes of the Circuit were fulfilled in Maynard, but the motives were high-minded enough. All dates are from the Maynard News. We are indebted to Elizabeth Schnair for additional information. Read at the Meeting of the Maynard Historical Society B.R. Koski Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Chautauqua Circuit Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.270 Description An account of the resource Chautauqua was a traveling adult education and social movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It came to Maynard starting in 1917 and continued through 1929. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ca 1976 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elizabeth Schnair Chautauqua education entertainment monograph https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/0a5337ef32366b2155ca6b5bb4c11a0b.pdf 64a477fc3334e59329c8d74ebb06a17e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. This association was born at the Finnish Congregational Church on Walnut Street in October, 1915, with a charter membership of forty-two. (Maynard News, Oct. 22, 1915.) As was mentioned in our paper on the United Cooperative Society of Maynard, this group of forty-two refused to go along with the vote of the Maynard Milk Producers' Cooperative to affiliate with the United Cooperative Society. Their reasons stemmed mainly from political differences as the United Cooperative Society leadership of that period had socialist leanings. The Rochdale principles of cooperation did not apparently prevent the dominant group from throwing its weight around. The first store of the First National was just across the street from the United Coop Society: the comer store presently occupied by Western Auto Store. Milk was processed somewhere on Maynard Hill for home delivery and the store. It opened in March, 1916, approximately as the First Annual Report and meeting of the Society was reported in the Maynard News of March 2, 1917. The building (owned by the Naylors') housed also Banders Clothing Store, which later became the New Idea Store of Sam Lerer. A fire, reported Sept. 15, 1916, caused considerable damage to both establishments but was not fatal. The Association bought the Somerset Hotel property on the comer of Main and River Streets (Mar. 26, 1920) and moved in June 11, 1920. This store is presently occupied by Jacob's Market. The milk room and bakery were added to this at the rear of the building. Membership fluctuated around the two hundred mark through the years. Some of the managers were Lauri Koski, Waino Williams, Alex Sopanch, Toivo Kieki, Tuevo Krekula and Mr. Kaikkonen (first name missing). The Association went bankrupt in 1941, due mostly to the leniency of the management and board of directors during the Great Depression starting in 1929. Members charged or had to charge to fee themselves and unable finally to pay, felt the Association (which was theirs, of course) should support them. And so passed into Maynard history another cooperative alongside the Riverside Coop and the Polish Coop. All dates are from the Maynard News. I am also indebted for additional information to Ralph Sheridan, Mrs. Rachel Aho, and especially to Veeti Taival, sixteen and a half secretary to the Association. Read at the November 1968 meetirig of the Maynard Historical Society -B.R. Koski Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: First National Cooperative Association of Maynard Description An account of the resource A small Finnish cooperative that was born out of a political differences with the United Coop. It operated for about 2 decades. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968-11 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ralph Sheridan Rachel Aho Veeti Taival Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.269 co-operative Finnish Congregational Church monograph Somerset Hotel United Co-operative Society https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/dc1594f9fa76b9f8ff9bee7f666ef1eb.pdf 8fc19a76ded34fd5104823164a2f88d6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. "Early Telephones in Maynard" - That Is the title of the subject assigned to me this evening. Birger suggested that we had better call It a vignette because of its brevlty. I replied "Its a monograph of nothing". A brief scuffle ensued with Birger finally consenting to regard my laborious work as a monograph provided I was able to fill one page with substantial facts and figures. Day after day and night after night I have worked on this subject and I am sure you will all agree I have met the challenge. The first telephone operator In Maynard was Miss Ruth Blanchard, whose little office was located In Dwinnell's Drug Store. As there were no private phones in town at that time, it was necessary to call at the drug store to send and receive messages. I would be remiss If I didn't go Into some detail relative to the Blanchard family. Ruth's father was the Rev. Merrill Blanchard, pastor of the Congregational church from 1891 to 1897. He was a wonderful man and In many respects resembled Father Crowe for whom I will present another monograph at our next meeting. Besides Ruth, Rev. Blanchard had two sons, Benjamin, a local dentist, and Jessie, an outstanding athlete at Bowdoin, Ruth married Kenneth Damren, a rabid Bull Mooser, who was later rewarded with a good political Jjob at the State House by the Democrats for helping bust up the Republican party. In June 1903 the new telephone exchange was located In Naylor's block with Miss Nellie Clahane In charge. She remained for two months to get the new exchange rolling. Miss Margaret Loughlin succeeded her. More private and business phones were being Installed and the phone company found It necessary to acquire more space In the Naylor Block. Some of the earliest subscribers were O.S. Fowler, B.F. Townsend, Priest Brothers, James Mullln, Rev. Arthur Papineau, E.H, Davis, W.S. Howe and Arthur Walker, W.A.Haynes and Dr. C.L. King. Up to 1910 very few businessmen were using their names in the telephone directory. O.S, Fowler was the first with an ad in 1901 (Monumental work). E.H. Davis and B.F. Townsend followed in 1902. With the complete destruction of Naylor Block by fire In 1917, the telephone company was forced to move to its new quarters located in Mannings Block in 1921. where it remained for fourteen years. I must not forget to tell you about the phone strike by Local 12-A, June 1919, in which six local operators were involved. Below are their modest demands: 1. First six months with a minimum of $6.50 per week. balance of year $10.00. 2. After five years service, a maximum of $12. Yet, they speak of the good old days. Incidentally, the strikers won out. Many of my listeners can recall the old box telephones with the crank on the side. There were usually six or eight people on the so-called party line with every one listening in. Paul Revere might have been a news spreader but he could have learned so much more if he could have continued his drive to Maynard. Their eaves dropping reminds me of a minstrel joke I used to use: Mr. Interlocutor, what is the three fastest ways to spread the news? I don't know Sambo, what is the three fastest ways to spread news? Sambo, "telephone, telegraph and. tell a woman". The various telephone companies have made marvelous innovations since the old days of the crank-box. We now enjoy direct distant dialing, and the new push button system, and I predict that within three years we will be able to see the image of a person on the other end of the line. So be prepared to put on a shiny face. The telephone company has made tremendous strides. You can get an idea of its healthy growth when you consider the town of Maynard has now approximately 4000 subscribers. The following is a list of former employees: Nellie Clahane Mary Dunn Sena Peterson, Marie Peterson Mary Kelly Margaret Kelly Brennan Elizabeth Kelly Lawrence Mary Donahue Helene Donahue Edna Denniston Grace Sweeney Margaret Loughlin Irene Loftus Kay Fitzgerald Mary Hansen Grace Spence Frances Christian Dorothy Warren Barbara Whitney Robert Lester Columbus Rainville Thomas Lawler Frank Riley Walter Sheridan These were all operators. Those on the distaff side usually performed day work, while the young men were night workers. I suppose you are all expecting me to conclude my monograph with a wee bit of humor. Frank Riley and I were high school classmates. In the evening he worked for the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company and quite often I would keep him company for a few hours. One night he pulled a fast one on me. He casually asked me who liked best, Nellie Clahane or Julia Mahoney. Now, besides being the chief operator in Concord, Julia was also my godmother. At that moment, without me knowing it. Frank plugged in the Concord switchboard, and the local operator listened to the whole conversation, which ran something like this: "of course I am very fond of Julia, being my godmother, but I would have to choose Nellie, as I think she is one of the most beautiful girls that Concord ever produced." From that day forward I never again received a Christmas gift from Concord. Again, I would be remiss if I did not pay tribute to all our Maynard operators, who because of automation were forced to give up their Jobs. They were always on hand to report any fires, to call doctors in time of distress, in fact they were Johnny on the Spot for any emergency. With this thought in mind, I will now conclude my vignette, pardon me, I mean monograph. "Jim" Farrell Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Early Telephones in Maynard Description An account of the resource How telephones got their start in Maynard. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource James Farrell Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ca 1967 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.268 drug store Manning Block monograph Naylor Block telephone https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/2a62f30879c36103cb03dfa12f97da7a.pdf e1f773638517c83f6c690174711be2fe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. The real threat of the settlement of Assabet Village to supersede both Stow and Sudbury began in 1646, when Armory Maynard and William Knight began the operations which established their woolen mills on the Assabet River. The Village began to assume new life. The water power which had been used only by Asa Smith's combination saw, grist and cider mill located near the bridge on what is now called Mill Street, and afterwards called "Jewell's Mill", where spindles for textile mills were made, was purchased. On November 24, 1845, Mr. Knight purchased from Asa Smith the "Jewell Mill" and two houses nearby at Mill Street and Summer Hill Lane (now called Summer Hill Road). In the house now owned by Mr. Maynard made his first residence. Mr. Knight, for some years, had owned and operated a carpet factory at Saxonville (a section of nearby Framingham), and which had recently been destroyed by fire. Mr. Maynard had left school at the age of fourteen to enter the sawmill owned by Isaac Maynard, his father, at Fort Meadow, Marlboro, aIso helping on the farm. The elder Maynard died when Amory was sixteen; the boy took charge of the business, carrying it on successfully, taking on building and contracting and within a short time was employing about sixty men. In this way he came in contact with Mr. Knight, for whom he had done some building and this resulted in their partnership for the manufacture of carpets. When the City of Boston took over Fort Meadow Pond, the sawmill lost its water rights, and Mr. Maynard turned to Assabet Village as the scene of his further operations. On May 19, 1846, he made his first land purchase from Eben S. Brooks this land being on both sides of the "Elsibeth" River. Land was also bought at this time from Thomas H. and Silas P. Brooks, and of Haman, George, and Benjamin Smith, continuing his purchases until he controlled all the available water power, water rights and mill sites in this vicinity. In July 1846, no less than thirty-four deeds are recorded, covering his purchases: a map of November 1846 shows that he owned one hundred and nine acres of choice land in the heart of the Village. Within a few years he had control of the water rights up the river to Boone's Pond (Stow) and to Fort Meadow Pond (Marlborough). It is related, when Mr. Maynard approached Ben Smith regarding a large tract of land he desired to purchase, Mr. Smith was not favorably impressed by his looks, and doubted his being a desirable citizen and questioned his ability to pay for the land. To make the river a more stable source of power he bought a strip of Harman Smith two and one- half rods wide, from the river to what is now the mill pond; dug a canal and led the water to what was then a low swarnpy hollow with a trout brook running through it. The tract was cleared of trees, an earthen dam built across from the Thompson Street side to the Main Street side, near where the present railroad crossing is located, making everything ready for the erection of the mill buildings, for which his early training had fitted him. (Note: Artemas Whitney, who was born in that part of Stow, which is now Maynard, was closely associated with Mr. Maynard as a friend and advisor, took the contract to build the (Ben Smith's) dam across the river and did the first day's work on it alone. Also, helped to build the present Mill pond, and laid the foundation for the first 100 houses built to accommodate the mill operatives.) The Ben Smith Dam having been thrown across the river, the water led into the Mill pond, water wheels being installed, they were ready for the mills. The first building was a wooden structure, 50 x 100 feet, and was located at the corner of what was later called Main Street and Walnut Street. (Note: There was no Main Street when Mr. Maynard came to the village. On September 22, 1848, Stow appointed a committee "to contract for the building of a new road and bridge as ordered by the County Commissioners on the petition of William H, Knight and others." Sudbury voted on April 2, 1849 "to pay for the road and bridge at Knight's factory, $1,310. The bridge was a two-span wooden one resting on a center pier of stone. Walnut Street was originally built on the south side of the river from Main Street to Thompson Street. In 1872, it was necessary to use this land for additional mill buildings, and Walnut street was relocated on the north side of the river and an iron bridge erected. In the Spring of 1847, they began to make yarn, and soon after carpets. (Note: the former Mary Wood, mother of William K. Gutteridge, author of "A Brief History of the Town of Maynard, 1921", wound the first bobbin in the factory. Robert Gutteridge, his father, was a carpet weaver. Worked sixty-six hours per week, 6:30 A.M. to 6:30 P.M., with forty-five minutes rest at noon.) (Note: A piece of the first carpet made at the factory is now owned by the Maynard Historical Society.) The company was granted a charter of incorporation by the General Court in 1849. In 1855, the industry was contained in three wooden buildings, and consisted of eleven worsted combers, four sets of cards and fifty-two hand carpet looms and employed one hundred and twenty-five hands. Note: One of these three buildings was used as a wool shop. It was moved to Main Street, where it presently stands, now number 165-167, and converted into a factory boarding house and then into separate tenements. At Mr. Knight's retirement, Mr. Maynard took over the entire business and ran it successfully until the panic of 1857 crippled him so badly that he failed and the mills were sold at auction. In conduct of his mills, Mr. Maynard's two sons, Lorenzo and William were associated with him. In 1859, he purchased, from the City of Boston, the Fort Meadow(Marlboro) reservoir containing three hundred acres, and he had previously, in 1846, obtained entire control of Boone's Pond (Hudson), containing two hundred acres by his land purchases and flowage rights, adding materially to their valuation. In 1862, the mills were reorganized as a corporation, with the name Assabet Manufacturing Company, P.A. Goddard, President; T. Quincy Brown, Treasurer: Amory Maynard, "Agent". The small buildings were replaced by others of more substantial and enlarged capacity. New machinery was installed and the manufacture of carpets dropped -- blankets, flannels and cloth being substituted. The Civil War was in progress and large Government orders were executed, which enabled the company to undertake an extensive program of expansion. Note: In 1864, a large brick icehouse with 40,000 tons capacity, which had been erected in 1850 by N.J. Wyeth where the Front Street houses now stand, and ice cut from the Mill pond and shipped to Boston, was purchased by the Assabet Manufacturing Company, as it was no longer being used. The building was torn down and the bricks used for mill construction. The granite arch and keystone may be seen over the door of No. 12 mill on Main Street (the building in which the Digital Corporation offices are now located.) The business continued successful and several large buildings were added from time to time. The number of employees became so great that tenements to house them had to be built by the company, streets were laid out and an entire community life grew up around the factory. Mr. Maynard continued as agent until failing health in 1885 necessitated relinquishing the position to his son Lorenzo, with his grandson, William H. Maynard, as Superintendent. In 1847 the valuation of the business was set at $150,000, and on the death of Mr. Maynard in 1890 (March 5) it was $1,500,000. In 1886, the present red brick chimney, two hundred and seven feet high, was erected. It is still in daily use. In 1892, the fine "Town Clock" on the mill was given by Lorenzo Maynard and placed in position in the Fall of that year. The tower was erected by the Assabet Manufacturing Company. (Note: It is still operating and it serves as a landmark for folks of yesterday and today. ) Dull times and poor business during 1893-1894 and later finally drove the company into insolvency on December 31, 1898. Receivers were appointed who kept the mills running on a reduced output until May 1, I899, when the American Woolen Company bought them for $400,000. At that time it was the largest woolen mill in the United States, with sixty-six sets of cards and three hundred and fifty broad looms. The American Woolen Company soon after began to improve the property, replacing the old machinery wlth new and increasing capacity. Note: The Assabet Manufacturing Company, while still in operation, had conducted a savings bank where the operatives, as well as others, deposited their money. When the company failed, the bank did also. The Assignees on August 12, 1899 paid to the depositors a 25% dividend, and on October 13, 1899 a second dividend of 35% was announced, but was not paid until February 3, 1900. This was final. The Town of Maynard was among the depositors and lost $3333.33. The General Laws now prohibit this type of banking. In May 1901, the mill office was enlarged and new rules for entering the mill in effect. The new "Riverside" building constructed -- the finishing room located on the bottom floor and the finish burlers on the second floor. In 1902, another floor was added to this the building. With its modern windows the building looked well from the Sudbury Street bridge. In 1901, to make room for the new weave room, the freight sheds near the old sawmill were moved across Walnut Street to company owned land on Hillside Street. The sawmill torn down and rebuilt on the river bank not far from the freight sheds on Walnut Street. June 1901: the Reardon estate off Parker Street purchased to build sixty tenements. July 1901: Agent Amory Maynard, 2nd, and Superintendent George Hinchcliffe assisted in laying the first stone of the new No. 5 Mill on Thompson Street. This building, when completed, will be the largest woolen mill in the United States: 640 ft. long, 106 ft. wide and five stories high. The powerhouse adds fifty feet more. It will be known as a 100 set mill. Dynamos replaced the gasometer. The building was completed in March 1902. ////////////////// Note: Since its birth the plant has been under the supervision of the Maynard famlly, and it is by singular coincidence that the man who now stands at the head of the mammoth textile establishment should bear the name of the man who gave it its birth, that of Amory Maynard. He is to retire on October 1, the last of the family connected with the Assabet Mills: Amory Maynard, 1st, until 1885; Lorenzo, his son, Superintendent; William Maynard, 1st, Assistant Superintendent; William Maynard, 2nd, Superintendent; Amory Maynard, 2nd, Superintendent and also the first Agent under the American Woolen Company. In 1901, a Iarge boarding house with eighty rooms was built on Main Street, and an old mill barn was torn down to make room for it. This was later known as the Assabet and Middlesex houses, and is now the site of the United States Post Office. In 1902, the the Mahoney estate of Waltham Street purchased and staked out for tenements. In all, one hundred and sixty erected. Also, sewerage system, installed by the Company to take care of these tenements. To erect another boarding house near the Central House on upper Main Street, where a similar structure was just completed. Note: These were the Minto House and the West End House. One was destroyed by fire several years ago and the other is new occupied partly by Buscemi's Market. Also, built five new blocks: two on Sudbury Court and three on company property near the Paper Mill dam. With the installation dynamos in the new power plant, electricity became available on September 1, 1902, a contract was made between American Woolen Company and the Town of Maynard for lighting the town, and the old kerosene lamps passed into oblivion. Note: James Hall was the first person to operate a power loom in the Assabet Mills. He had also worked as a young man in these mills over forty years ago. In 1904, No. 6 mill was built. (Note: This is the mill in which the Beacon Publishing Company is now located.) In 1905, a new office for the mills was built on Main Street. In 1906, five new double houses were built on Maynard's hill: two on Dartmouth Court, two on Dartmouth Street and one on Elmood Street. In 1911, work started on a new storehouse, 100 x 50 ft. x five stories, out over the Mill pond, August 1913, rebuilt the dam and sluiceway at the "Old Paper Mill". (Note: The Assabet Manufacturing Company had purchased the Paper Mill property in 1895.) In 1916, a chimney of hollow brick two hundred feet high was built near the red brick chimney. This was tom down in October 1956. In 1918, No. 1 mill was built over the Mill pond, 500 ft. long, and a steam turbine engine installed. Also, the Gorham Brown farm was purchased and several new houses were built. One of the streets being named for Frank J. DeMars, the first Maynard man to fall in World War I. August 17, 1920, four horses, a barn and storehouse located on Hillside Street burned with a loss of $75, 000. The barn was one-half of the original Lorenzo Maynard barn that had been moved from Maynard's hill. One of the storehouses was the old origin Mill building of 1846. It was moved to this location in 1901. [?] In 1934, the American Woolen Company became solely a manufacturing, enterprise. At that time they sold at public auction all their property except the mill buildings, because ownership of mill houses, once a necessity, was no longer economically justified. Most of the houses were purchased by the tenants. The Town of Maynard purchased the old Assabet and Middlesex Boarding House on Main Street to be used as a town hall. This was sold in 1962 and is now the site of the United States' Post Office. The Great Depression of 1929, which lasted until 1939 when trouble again broke out in Europe, placed a serious pinch on the American Woolen Company and the Assabet Mills. Serious labor troubles also haunted them and in October I931 the mill closed down and all help (1200 workers) locked out. This dispute between labor and management saw considerable of the machinery moved to other mills. Maynard was faced with real hard times, which were somewhat alleviated by the various agencies created by the Government to keep some of the people busy. In 1941, when the United States again became involved across the oceans, and World War II began, the mill was soon booming on a seven-day week, twenty-four hours around the clock, employing over 2000 making blankets, overcoating. and suitings for the Armed Forces. Following the close of this war conditions came to a standstill and the Assabet Mills became a casualty of the shifting public taste in textiles. No longer were soft woolens such as were made in Maynard in fashion. People wanted the hard woven worsteds. Also, the synthetic materials, i.e., rayon, nylon, dacron, polyester, etc., were making heavy inroads in the cloth manufacturing business. In 1950, the American Woolen Company closed the Assabet Mills for good. These mills had served as a barometer for the Town during its existence. Most of the townspeople and many from the surrounding towns found employment in them. When business was good at the mills the Town flourished; but there were many lean periods. They passed through their share of panics, strikes, shutdowns, and the whole community suffered thereby. With the closing of the mills the people of Maynard were now facing a situation which had become too familiar in New England in recent years: that of a "one-industry" community suddenly bereft of the mill payroll by which the community by and large has existed.. In July 1953, ten enterprising Worcester business men formed Maynard Industries, Incorporated, purchased the huge mill property for $200,000, and besides helping the Town to solve its unemployment problem secured the diversification denied the community for more than one hundred years. Maynard had faced the loss of its single, all-important industry. Today some twenty firms are doing business in mill buildings, and no longer are our economic eggs all in one basket. This has also resulted in other well-known industries to locate in the Town. ----------- Excerpt from "Stow, Massachusetts, 1683-1933, Crowell, Page 48. An interesting story is told of Amory Maynard, the founder of the large mill in what is now Maynard, then Stow. Amory Maynard was a carpenter by trade; he was employed in a mill in Marlboro, now Hudson, and made frames for buildings. A man by the name of "Knight" came from Saxonville from time to time, noticed young Maynard, and considered him a most promising young man. So he told Maynard if he would select a suitable site, he would furnish him money to build a mill. Maynard, looked up and down the Assabet River for sufficient water power as there was no electricity in those days, to run his mill. After some deliberation, he selected the present site of the Maynard Mill. Dams were accordingly built, and business was flourishing. In 1846, he purchased land on both sides of the "Assabet" river, and from time to time, from individuals owning land along the river, till he controlled all the available water power, water rights and mill sites in this vicinity. Within a few years he enlarged his possessions in order to control water rights up the river to Boone's Pond and Fort Meadow. His father, Isaac Maynard had a sawmill at the foot of Fort Meadow in which he had worked, having left school at the age of fourteen. When sixteen, his father died, and Amory took charge of the business, till at one time he had sixty men in his employ. In this way he came in contact with Mr. Knight. for whom he had done some building, and this resulted in their partnership for the manufacture of carpets. Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Assabet Mills Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ralph L. Sheridan Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.267 Description An account of the resource A detailed account of the founding of the mill and its impact on what became a "one industry" town. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource ca 1967 American Woolen Company American Woolen Mills Amory Maynard Amory Maynard 2nd Assabet Manufacturing Company Assabet Mills Assabet River Jewell Lorenzo Maynard Mill monograph river William Knight William Maynard wool https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/79380ca805e80317f5b200ce155697ae.pdf 09b6f5e3c171cb21ef383c3f16c6ebba Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monographs Description An account of the resource The Maynard Historical Society has a growing collection of monographs. Monographs, by nature, are focused and detailed research on a single topic (places, people, events, etc.) Many of these monographs, especially by guest authors outside of the Society's research team, contain personal anecdotes and details of life in town during their lifetime. In the years preceding the 1971 Centennial of Maynard the rather new Maynard Historical Society gathered a series of monographs on a wide variety of topics. 96 papers, written by primarily by Birger Koski and Ralph Sheridan, plus a number of "guest" authors, many of these were read at Historical Society meetings in the late 1960's and then became source material for the 1871-1971 History of Maynard book written for the Centennial of the Town. Monographs from that project are titled as a "Centennial Monograph", Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Maynard Historical Society, et. al. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-current Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. - Congress of Friends - - Order of Alfredians - - Nashoba Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men - This paper is concerned with three organizations that existed prior to 1900 in Maynard. We know very little about them for their existence was of such short duration and newspaper coverage was scant. The first organization is the Congress of Friends. Sources available to me do not list this organization at all for State, Regional or National significance. It was an insurance and endowment order. The only news note we have of this order is the following from the Concord Enterprise of July 10, 1891: "A new organization, Congress of Friends, has been instituted in Maynard, is an insurance and endowment order. The officers are: Dr. Rich, Crawford Latham, Levi Cheney and W.W. Oliver". We do not know how long it was active but by 1899, when the Maynard News began publishing, it apparently was no more as this paper did not make mention of it. Of the second organization. Order of Alfredians, we know just as little. It is not listed as a State, Regional or National organization. Possibly the name was adopted from King Alfred of England, indicating a link to English literature. However, with the limitation of membership to Anglo-Saxon Protestants, (as the following news note will show), it might indicate a protective organization against non-protestant elements in Maynard. The aforementioned news note comes from the Concord Enterprise of April 17, 1891. It reads as follows: "The Order of Alfredians has been organized in Maynard with between 25 and 30 members. It is open to Anglo-Saxon Protestants. James Lord is the Secretary". Again, we find nothing in the 1899 Maynard News so this organization died before that. On the third organization, Nashoba Tribe - Improved Order of Red Men, we do have a little more information. The Lincoln Library of Essential Information has this to say of the Red Men: "A Fraternal, Beneficiary and Benevolent Society organized October 14, 1833 and based upon the manners, traditions and customs of the North American Indians. Subordinate bodies are known as Tribes and the Supreme body as the Great Council of the United States. Councils of Pocahantas provide for female membership in the Society. The ritual work of a tribe is divided into three sections of degrees - those of the adoption, the warrior and the chief. The motto of the order is "Freedom, Friendship and Charity". The Nashoba Tribe was organized sometime during the year 1888 for we have two news items from the Concord Enterprise of May 8 and 15, 1891. The first reads as follows: "The Red Men are planning for the third Anniversary to be held at Masonic Hall". The second reports: "The Red Men hold their annual affair at Riverside Hall. E.R. Hooper in charge". The Maynard News of March 23, 1900 reports that arrangements for the anniversary early in May are progressing. However, by 1902, we note from the February 14 issue of the Maynard News the demise of the Red Men. The news note states that the Nashoba Tribe is surrendering its charter as the membership has declined so low. So passed into history three more of the numerous organizations that the citizenry of the town of Maynard has seen fit to bring into existence and as Jim Farrell might say about this paper and its contents: C'est Finis! Read at the meeting of March, 1966 Maynard Historical Society B.R. Koski Storage Location in the archive SU9-4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Centennial Monograph: Little Known Organizations Description An account of the resource In the early days of Maynard's history three organizations sprang up (which we have little information on): "Congress of Friends", "Order of Alfredians", and "Nashoba Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men". Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Birger Koski Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-03 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2019.266 Relation A related resource 50 years after this paper was written we now know (a bit) more about these organizations. Searching the web will return citations in books, etc. fraternal organization Levi Cheney monograph organization