The South Hopedale Branch Library was operated out of the home of Adeline Caldwell, 1 Warfield Street, shown above, from 1924 to 1949.
Hopedale History
January 2024
No. 423
Hopedale in 1924, Part 1
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Twenty-five years ago – January 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
Earthquake hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,900.
Fifty years ago – January 1974 – Due to the oil crisis, large numbers of gas stations throughout the United States were closed on New Year’s Day.
One-hundred years ago – January 1924 – Kuomintang in China holds its first National Congress, initiating a policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party.
The first Winter Olympics, 1924, open in Chamonix, in the French Alps.
Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad; it will revert to Saint Petersburg in1991.
News items above are from Wikipedia. Hopedale news from 25, 50 and 100 years ago, from the Milford Daily News and Milford Gazette, obtained at the Bancroft Library and the Milford Library, are below this textbox.
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Hopedale in 1924, Part 1
From the Milford Gazette
January 4 – Pupils at the high school tendered a surprise party to Charles Lemon Friday evening and presented him with a purse of money. Mr. Lemon was a junior at the high school and has left school to become a page at the state senate.
January 11 – While skating Friday night Frank Bettany struck his head on the Hopedale bridge, sustaining a cut over the eye in which two stitches were taken.
January 18 – The Ford coupe of Stanley Green was stolen from his garage on Jones road Wednesday evening.
Thieves entered the garage of Ernest Fisher Friday night and stole a brass pump, a light and a kit of tools.
February 1 – Ice cutting with 10-inch ice was started on Hopedale pond Monday morning.
February 8 – The branch library at South Hopedale will be reopened this afternoon at the home of Miss A.A. Caldwell.
Verna Boomer, eight years old, broke through the ice on the Hopedale pond, Sunday afternoon, and was rescued by Edith Nourse, aged 12.
February 15 – A gasoline saw used in ice cutting dropped to the bottom of the Hopedale pond recently and was fished out with considerable difficulty.
February 22 – A subscription dance under the direction of Mabel Lapworth, Jeanne Butterworth, Mrs. V.W. Collier, Mrs. W.W. Dutcher and Mrs. Irvin Darren was held Friday evening in Town Hall with about 150 couples attending.
The Draper Corporation has purchased from the Parker-Young Co., 25,000 acres of timberland in Carroll County N.H. The deal also included 25 miles of railroad, and the mills, dwellings and boarding houses of Beebe River.
February 29 – The warrant for the town meeting contains 15 articles. One article deals with an appropriation for repairing Highland street and another for a motor truck for the highway department.
March 7 – The selectmen organized Monday with E.A. Darling, chairman. Among the various appointments, S.E. Kellogg was chosen chief of police, chief of the fire department and forest warden.
March 14 – The Men’s Club held the last meeting of the season in the Community House last night. A roast beef dinner, with all the fixings, was served. After the dinner, while the men smoked cigars around the table, Henry Carroll, principal of the Brookline High School, entertained with character sketches, which were especially good, and were well received by the members. Mr. Carroll is a brother-in-law of R.E. Gourlie, Supt. Of the Community House.
March 21 – As a result of the rhetoricals at the high school last Thursday, Eleanor Arnold, Helen Shannahan, Wilfred Turner and Sidney Beard were chosen for semi-finals.
March 28 – Joseph Marsh and two sons will leave today for a fortnight in Bermuda.
April 4 – Chief of Police Kellogg held up all the automobiles conveying passengers from the Draper plant Monday afternoon to see if the drivers possessed the necessary federal papers and found only four persons who could show the necessary credentials.
April 11 – The late George Albert Draper left an estate of $10,757,332, according to an appraisal filed in New York. $5,000,000 to his son Wickliffe. The daughter, Mrs. Helen Taft, is left $500,000 outright and over $5,000, 000 in trust. The will expressly states that her divorced husband shall not be entitled to any interest in the estate.
April 18 – While endeavoring to extinguish a brush fire near his home Saturday, John P. Durgin was painfully burned about the limbs. The fire department was called out after the fire got beyond Mr. Durgin’s control.
April 25 – Francis Larkin and William Larson attended the postal clerks’ convention at Brockton Wednesday.
Hopedale News – January 1999
Hopedale News – January 1974
Hopedale News – January 1924
