The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-11-15
West MedfOrG
lis Jerome Street Arlington 5455-R
lis Jerome Street

VIC uAAO wednesdays Oh ILLS
month and December are ex-
pected to bring forth important
announcements. We hope you
received cards inviting your at
tendance at the Shiloh Sunday
Forum this coming Sunday and
every Sunday. Make it a regular
date. There is r Medford city
wide Church Bowling League of
fellowship which we hope will
include Shiloh next year. For
many years Shiloh belonged to
and was baseball champion of
the Mystic Valley Union which
included Winchester, West New
ton and Maiden. Our team man.
ager was Joe Johnson, the play
ers had uniforms, and the league
had a real trophy. Large crowds
on holidays and at the church
p!cnics followed these church
league teams and attracted the
young people. Much can be done
to revive youth interest by all
churches today. In baseball,
bowling, Softball, horse-shoes,
track, and even chess and
checker tournament each church
could sponsor these programs
for young and old. A recreation
director and coaches for such
projects ought to be included in
every church. st. Raphael's Of
fers local and successful eX-
ample. Moreover, we have the
bowlers in Medford who, desir-
ing competition, could enter the
Medford Church League on
short notice. In 1850, Medford is
slated to adopt the Plan E City
management form of govern
ment and the officials will be
chosen by the Board of Alder
men in November of 1949. The
mayor becomes q presiding Off
Ger Of the Board and the City
Manager must be q man who
has been out of public Office for
two years previous. Mayor Wal
ter E. Lawrence, therefore be-
comes our last presiding Mayor
and, IN spite Of all the keen riv-
airy, eX-Mayr John c. Carr
might still b Elm the running for
city manager two years hence.
Mayor Lawrence easily carried
Ward Six which gave him the
edge but we saw some ardent
Carr workers in the minority, The
Teachers Pay vote won out also,
but a huge item of interest was
the Ward Six Precinct One vote
which gave Mr., Columbus Ether
idge 1893 votes to 1902 votes for
Alderman Anna Roberts. This
large vete for the local candi-
date, VIII chad very little public
ity, was a big surprise and was
bigger than the Ward Seven
winning vote of Callahan (S75)
and his rivals, Bucci (65D and
Luongo (319) Now, en- the aver
age the Ward winners garnered
between 1900 votes, although in
Wards Two and -Four Macklin
won with 1898 and Farnham with
1880. In Ward One where Skerry
was winner (1738), candidate
Frazee, the runner-up got only
$50 votes. This is to show that
Etherbridge was far from Glow
man" in the city poll and &C
tuallv made an amazing bid for
72year old citizen in his first
political try. Imagine what could
be done by a more widely pub
licized candidate winning a
goodly share of white and col
ored votes? Palestine will be the
subject at the Medford Public
Library Book Talk, Tuesday Nov,
| rs, at 1890 a m, open free to the
public, as is the entire series on
the second and fourth Tuesdays
of each month. There is also a
social hour from 10-10:S0 a m
before lectures during which
coffee is served the ladies and
gentlemen who attend. Put
these lectures in your date book,
Motion Pictures will be presented
Thursday, Nov. 20 at the Com
munity Center by the hard
working Education Committee
and everyone is invited to at
tend. Speaking Of gardeners, as
we were last week, the report
comes of Mr.. Rufus Haskins
picking excellent cucumbers and
luscious red tomatoes from his
garden a few days ago. How do
these farmers do such amazing
things on Mystic soil? This re-
wives the idea of many citizens
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