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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1900
Page
8
All matter must reach the office of publication no later than Tuesday night for same week issue. Earlier receipt avoids condensation or delay of articles. Advertising matter and subscriptions left with N. J. Cole the News dealer will receive prompt attention.
James McGreen remains at home with grip while many neighbors report illnesses and daily tasks. Edson Baird from Vermont plans to operate the E Jones farm. Mrs Phoebe Woods stays ill. a saw mill resumes brief work. Miss Lilla Kenniston enjoys her school vacation. Miss Merrill from Lawrence takes the assistant high school post. Rev Buxton suffers a cold. Burglars again hit the post office. Mrs Charlotte L Brown dies at 75 with funeral at the Universalist church.
A Wednesday wedding at Mrs H M Brown’s home united Miss Lendra Hermoine Brown and William H Francis Davis in the presence of close relatives. Rev Copping of Acton officiated. The couple will visit East Acton relatives before settling in Cambridge where the groom works.
South Acton locals are offered harnesses and shoe repair by C. H. Clark and bicycle bearing cleaning for one dollar at H. E. Clough's shop.
An auction will be held next Tuesday afternoon and evening at Rubber Store in Marlboro offering wheels sold to the highest bidder. Bargains at your own price invite bidders to acquires tires and related items.
The Boston Journal promotes a free miniature portrait about one inch in diameter suitable for a locket or watch cover. Copying from any distinct photograph is possible, with full particulars in the Boston Sunday Journal. The Easter issue will feature its Easter number and enhanced pages of the New England Home Magazine.
A bicycle auction is set for next Tuesday with sessions from 2 to 4 PM and 7:30 to 9:30 PM. Both new and second hand wheels will be sold to the highest bidder at the Rubber Store in Marlboro.
Robert Fitzsimmons and Gus Ruhlin signed to meet in a 25 round bout at the Westchester Athletic Club in Tuckahoe on June 2 or the first day thereafter when photos can be taken. They share 67 percent of gate receipts and the same of picture receipts. Gate split 76 and 25 percent, winner takes more. Picture money divided equally. Each posted $1000 appearance guarantee.
In Chelsea Massachusetts on April 4 a benzine tank exploded at the Samuel Cabot lamp black factory. Frank M McCormick 19 was killed while cleaning the tank. The fire caused about 5000 in damage. McCormick was the primary support for his mother who has an invalid husband in Ireland and another ill son in Chelsea.
In Rochester on April 4 Mrs Catherine Meyer threw her two children, a 3 year old daughter and a 1 year old son, into a cistern and afterward took her own life. A note left by Mrs Meyer cited a $1.06 grocery debt and a grocer’s refusal to trust her for more supplies. The act is attributed to temporary insanity from credit worries.
Fred D. Upton was freed from Deer Island house of correction but was promptly arrested by an inspector as he stepped ashore. He is charged with presenting a bogus check to William H. Langdon of Boston, having completed a six month sentence for a similar offense that expired Tuesday.
Boston April 4. John E. Payne a contractor and builder was arrested Tuesday on perjury charges. He appeared in court on a larceny charge and both cases were continued. Payne is held on $2000 bail. The perjury charge concerns a number of bail transactions occurring recently.
The bodies of Michael Brady and his wife Mary were found in their Madison Avenue apartments. Both had died from gas suffocation, with police treating it as suicide but authorities noting indications of possible accident due to Sunday or Saturday timing.
Addison Brown dies Sunday at his daughter's home Mrs Willard. William Moore funeral held April 1 at his residence with ministers Martyn and Dusseault leading services. Pneumonia warning from Chamberlains Cough Remedy promoted. Projected social at the church Thursday April 5 led by the men. Eben Mead visits home and works at Dart's store in Concord Junction. Mr Parsons of Wakefield joins C E Woodward in his tenement house.
Otis H. Forbush auctioneers two sales in Massachusetts. On Monday April 9 1900 at 1 pm in Acton 14 cows and 1 bull to the highest bidder for Daniel Moynihan Maynard. On Thursday April 12 1900 at 10 am in the West part of Billerica near the station sale items include horses wagons carts sleds sleigh harnesses English hay and household goods.
West Acton reports from the W C T U meeting and the Woman's Missionary society at the church. Residents include Mrs Estelle Cutler, Mrs Kelleran and daughter, and Miss Vera Knowlton on vacation. A Brown family moved from Stow, and Miss Randall leaves for South Hadley Falls. A. and O. W. Mead dissolution brings Mead heirs to run the firm. Harold Knowlton sustains a greenstick wrist fracture at school. A W R C flag drill and a reader's return to Boston are noted along with a cake walk fundraiser.
Harry Vardon easily defeats Herbert Harriman and Findlay Douglass in a 36 hole Atlantic City match, winning by 9 up with 8 to play. Vardon maintains form while Harriman and Douglass struggle.
Albany April 4 the most important canal legislation of the session passed the senate yesterday removing the limit of $20 000 at which port signs are permitted to capitalize for operation on the canals. Capitalists back the bill for large steel canal boats while small boat owners oppose it.
Annie E. Parker once a lawyer’s clerk is under arrest in Lynn on forgery charges. Authorities say she forged signatures on notes totaling about $500 and passed them to money lenders in the city. Parker is about 26 years old.
Items for this column must be handed in to the regular correspondent by Tuesday morning each week. Mail sent to the Enterprise Cor respondent at the Post Office will receive prompt attention.
Mrs. Geo Parker announces a grand Easter opening of spring and summer millinery on April 10-11 at her millinery parlors. The event features trimmed and untrimmed hats and bonnets, with city trimmer service to handle growing demand. Also listed are local sales of horse stock and hay by F R Knowlton West Acton and C G Durkee.
At Berlin on March 19 a son to Mrs Wesley Db Carville. At Hudson on March 26 a daughter to Mrs Holden Marlboro on March 22 a son to Mrs William ne At Marlboro on March 27 a son to Mrs Thomas Roche. At Hudson on March 22 a son to Mrs Seldon R McCurdy. At Hudson on March 2% a daughter to Mrs Henry Gill At Marlboro on April 5 a son to Mrs John H Williams.
At East Acton on March 21 Mrs Emma Truette and S H Hasty wed. At South Acton on March 28 Miss Lendra H Brown and William H Ff Davis of Cambridge announced nuptials.
Mrs McKinley, confined by grip illness, shows marked improvement and yesterday for the first time in over a week was able to take a drive with the president in Washington.
Michael Chapdelaine a local newsdealer was knocked down and robbed of sixty five dollars in a remote Lincoln area early Tuesday. He fought back with brass knuckles as the robber fired three shots one bullet pierced his hat and another his hand before Chapdelaine fainted and the thief escaped with the cash.
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