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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1897
Page
4
The column notes Wayland plans a future electric rail connection with Framingham and Waltham as it moves toward a new boom, while adjacent dry towns struggle with licensing. It contrasts Wayland’s shift with nearby towns and reports on local sentiment and public issues.
A humorous proposal imagines a lodge for loafers with roles like Chief Expectorator and a one day drinking treasurer. It mocks pompous titles and burlesques a coat of arms with tobacco imagery, a tobacco brown uniform, and a club yell ending in a chorus to chew tobacco and spit.
Joseph H. Stevens of Merrimac is engaged by Sudbury overseers to serve as warden at the town almshouse for the year starting April 1. He was among about 150 applicants from New England and New York, attracted by two insertions of an advertisement. The piece notes a Coventry cycle trade employing 5,000 hands with one third women, and the rising importance of the silver chafing dish at formal dinners.
Warren A Haynes died at his home Friday after a two week illness from pneumonia. Born September 11 1840 in Sudbury he built a large Maynard business with his brothers later expanding into grain hay coal and real estate. He leaves widow and son Albert F. and three brothers Abel Fred and Asa all in Maynard. The funeral Monday at Congregational Church drew a large crowd, with Odd Fellows Red Men fire department and Chamber of Commerce in attendance.
Delegates from the Boston chamber of commerce and members from South Acton West Acton and Fitchburg attend a local gathering. Cards of thanks express gratitude for birthday party kindness bereavement and services. Maynard upholstering millinery bicycle repair and dress goods advertised with discounts and store events including Miss Naylor's millinery opening and Maynard Ideal Minstrels April 19 with seats on sale April 5.
The ladies social is postponed while Mr and Mrs Norman Wetherhbee are ill with la grippe. Lewis Richardson finds his best colt dead in its stall Monday forenoon. He plans house painting with Fred Norris as painter. Population rising and W H Furbush is father of an 11 pound boy. The ladies auxiliary to the Woman's board meets at the church vestry Thursday at 2 pm. A Perkins appointed purchasing agent for the Grange. price list available at Windsor cash store or at town hall meeting.
Lima reports a growing crisis as Peru refuses U S minister McKenzie’s demand to free Ramsay the American sailor. Ramsay, of the Gambrian Monarch, was jailed for a year at Callao after a brief arrest for alleged misconduct without any formal trial.
The column notes Waite's store whitewashed and a new sign by L Dart. Meetings of the Ladies’ union and W C T U with Miss Mary Curry and Mrs Campbell are noted. A whist party, an archery event, and a Mothers class meeting update appear. A rear end freight collision near Westvale caused delays but little damage. The post office moves to new quarters April 1 with Miss Gaddis leaving. Church notes and a town social at Association hall on April 2 are listed with local goods and a music program by Becker’s orchestra.
Former Congressman Apsley, injured last fall at Brigham's factory after slipping on Hudson steps, underwent an operation and is reported doing well in Washington. He hopes to return home to Hudson soon as lung health and cough prevention advice circulate.
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