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Newspaper
Acton Enterprise
Location
Acton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1921
Page
2
The Center started on the Hawley farm and moved to McCarthy fire Friday evening. A business meeting of the Agricultural Fair committee was held in the town hall with final fair plans made. Committees reported new members were voted in.
Woman's Church Aid met in the vestry to study missionary work in India. Members spoke on topics such as superstition poverty caste and Christianity's role. Miss Elizabeth Tuttle Mrs E A Phalen and others presented talks. A collection of 22 was raised for the missionary work.
Middlesex County Commissioners endorse relocation of Main Street in Concord Massachusetts from the Sud River easterly to fifty feet east of River Street. The action precedes street prayers and names John M Keyes and four others among the petitioners.
At a meeting in Lowell Middlesex County Massachusetts the Sheriff is to notify interested parties that Commissioners will meet at East Cambridge on Friday November 4 1821 to view the premises and hear the petition. The notice requires service on Concord Clerk and newspaper publication in Concord Enterprise three weeks, with copies posted publicly and a return to the Commissioners.
September 26 1921 petition to Middlesex County Commissioners from John M Keyes and others requests relocation of the Lexington Readim Concord highway from Main easterly to end of highway. Notice ordered for public view November 4 at Concord Court House with three weeks of Enterprise publications.
Mrs W H Musgrave and her children Janet and Robert Neff left Concord Junction for Canso Nova Scotia after an extended visit with her parents Mr and Mrs Charles Libby.
Funeral services were held Tuesday morning for Jamies A Hurley, Lexington businessman, at Help of Christians church Concord Junction. Rev. Myles D. Kiley presided with several clergy and choir performances. Pallbearers included local men from Lexington and Winchester, and burial followed at St. Mary’s cemetery North Attleboro.
Joseph F. Daniels, longtime teacher and drawing instructor at the reformatory, died in Riverside California from a stroke. He served as librarian in Caries Colorado and then at Colorado Agricultural College before returning to Riverside to oversee county branches. He was active in the Chamber of Commerce and civic groups and was highly esteemed.
The Hurley family of Concord thanks the Lexington Council Knights of Columbus Woburn Lodge of Elks and local groups for tokens sympathy and floral tributes following the death of their son and brother James A Hurley. Mrs Mary Millier Hurley and Mr and Mrs John K. E. Hannon and Mr and Mrs Charles A. Dooley express gratitude.
The 11th annual Community fair under Bedford Grange will be held in the Town Hall on Wednesday afternoon and evening. Prizes will be awarded for best fruit vegetable and live stock exhibits.
A church vestry gate sale occurred last Tuesday from 2 to 5 50 p m with many local attendees. Next Tuesday evening a prize dance will be held at Lexington Town hall under the Two Musketeers with Sawtelle Orchestra providing music for dancing. LEXINGTON 13 ARLINGTON 0 in high school football as Capt McNamara and Fullback Newhall scored touchdowns and Fardy kicked the goal.
The tax collector mailed the tax bills. a theft occurred Saturday at Concord Junction as Mr Lamson’s new car was stolen from a moving picture venue. The car contained belongings of his family and guests. no trace has been found. The town clock has behaved erratically for two weeks. Mr and Mrs Fletcher Clark visited their daughter on Monday.
The Christian Endeavor society invites members to a rally on Wednesday evening October 5 at Union Church Concord Junction. The County Christian Endeavor convention will be held there Wednesday afternoon and evening October 12 with sessions from 2 30 and 7 pm and supper. Rev Mr Pierre of Somerville and Rev Herbert Whitlock of Manchester will be the principal speakers. The Sunday service remains at 7 pm and Pastor Rev Russell J. May resumes studies at Boston University.
Fred S. Whitcomb won first prize on his field coin at the Boxboro Fair on Saturday. Comrade E. Preston attended the national encampment in Indianapolis last week. Rev Ralph A. Barker of South Acton will preach at the Baptist church next Sunday morning in exchange with Rev A K Wheeler.
Public auction to foreclose a mortgage on a Boxborough farm of about 140 acres with buildings. The sale follows a breach of the April 1854 mortgage to Middlesex Institution for Savings. The property runs along the Old Harvard Turnpike and borders multiple adjacent owners. Auction set for October 27, 1921, at 3 PM on site.
Jonathan Brace traces California’s name from romance to reality. Spanish explorers named Alta California after a fictional island, followed by missions and Mexican-era independence. The 1848 peace set US territory, gold rush spurred growth, and 1850 made California the 31st state with 158,297 square miles and thirteen presidential electors.
Notice to appear in Cambridge Probate Court on October 10 1921 at 9 a.m. to show cause why letters of administration should not be granted. Public notices required in Acton Enterprise weekly for three weeks and mailed to heirs fourteen days before court. Witness George F Lawton Esq First Judge dated September 12 1921. Also notices to Concord Estate administratrix Mary A Murray to present account for allowance and serve citation fourteen days before court or publish weekly in Concord Enterprise. Dated September 16 1921.
The petitioner must serve copies on Marlborough mayor and Hudson South, Maynard and Stow selectmen at least seven days before the hearing and publish in Marlborough Enterprise Hudson Daily Sun and Maynard Enterprise weekly for two weeks prior. A return of service and publication is due at the hearing. By order of the Commission signed Andrew A. Highlands Secretary.
Notice states the subscriber has been duly appointed executor of the will. The address 664 Eat itiente is listed, indicating the executor's residence or contact point for probate matters.
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