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Newspaper
Acton Enterprise
Location
Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1915
Page
9
In clear resonant tones the message urges men and women to join the church as a broadening stream of worshipers enters the doors. The piece casts believers as a great army answering the call to go to church with conviction and purpose.
Marlboro Mrs. Robert Howe is ill at her Lakeside home. The Grange Auxiliary supper is at 7. The stone crusher began business yesterday afternoon. Leary and Sawyer fished at Littleton yesterday. A. R. Babcock of Leominster visits his daughter Mrs G W Brigham. William Hanson has Saxon agency. A J Coombs buys a Maxwell. The senior class plans a food sale in Burke's block. Supt and Mrs Carr leave July 1 for California returning in about a month. Foster sold Chapinville farm to James McMaster of Hudson. Arthur Leary buys land and plants potatoes. D W Towers houses get new paint. Marlboro High travels to Wayland for a game. Henry Eager goes to Exeter. Irish blackthorn blossoms displayed at Burke drug store. Marlboro to attend Alice in Wonderland at Hudson Armory. Adanary club guests from Pawtucket visit Main St. workers wear mourning for Fr Shaw.
The Maynard Woman's Club annual meeting at Masonic Hall reviewed a profitable year with a 195 dollar treasury balance and a 20 plus name waiting list. Miss Alice Nagle reported on philanthropic work while new officers including President Mrs. Bessie Richardson were elected. The program featured readings by Lucile Barry and soprano Florence King before a banquet.
At the water department meeting the school building committee accepted bonds from Dolan of Cambridge and the Power Heating and Ventilating Co. Boston. The revised plan replaces a pitched roof with a flat one saving the town seven thousand dollars.
At a Tuesday meeting of Summer Hill lodge one candidate was initiated and one application received. The group later joined Etta F. Ray lodge in a whist party with musical items by Hugh Connors and Edith Garlick. Prizes awarded to Miss Mildred Rodway and John Gallagher with speeches by G C of H Mrs. Carrie Locke and others. Refreshments followed in the banquet hall.
An evening concert at the M I church featured members of the old choir from 18 years ago. The program included anthems readings vocal and instrumental solos and a yoral duet. Refreshments followed under the event committee led by Mrs L R Cheney.
A fragmentary biblical quotation speaks as a speaker addressing wives of Lamech and Cain. It references slaying a man to wounding and a young man to hurt, claiming vengeance sevenfold and seventy sevenfold according to Genesis style.
A Sons of the Revolution luncheon honoring Admiral Pletcher and the Atlantic fleet praised Washington's restraint and the navy's readiness to defend national honor. James M Beck argued Washington would choose honor over peace if necessary, while Admiral eteer noted enlisted training as sightseers thronged the waterfront and the submarine flotilla outgrew pier space.
Miss Rae Tanzer, famed for her breach of promise suit against James W. Osborne, is indicted by a federal grand jury on perjury charges. A prior indictment accused her of using murals to defraud, tied to testimony from the Frank D. Safford trial.
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