Concord Notices Of Local Residents And Gatherings
Local notes report Thomas O Connor back at Walcott and Halden s Frank Simonds enlisted in company I Rev A W Jackson preached at Unitarian church William Tufts ill but improving and Col and Mrs Richard F Barrett back from St Augustine Several property transactions and visits by Geo Arthur Gray Samuel Y Nash and families updates Lieut B Farnham Smith returns to company I Dr and Mrs Fred H Cleaves hosted a large gathering Norman R Talcott now in first heavy artillery prayer meeting moved to Manse Doroth y Dodge Reynolds hosting friends and Dorothy Upham during vacation James Field Spalding and wife back home after touring major cities burglary at their former residence resolved High School baseball practice resumes under captain Wm L Loughlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas O’connor
Walcott & Halden
Frank Simonds
Harvard
A. W. Jackson
Unitarian Church
William Tufts
Tuttle’s
B. Farnham Smith
Sixth Infantry
Fred H. Cleaves
Main Street
Norman R. Talcott
Brookline
Company A
First Heavy Artillery
Trinitarian Church
Walden Street
James Field Spalding
Lexington Road
Spalding
Wm L. Loughlin
Loughlin
Concord School Committee Chooses New Leaders
Prescott Keyes hosted a gathering at Main Street for Concord teachers and the current school committee to meet incoming members. Dr Edward W. Emerson will succeed Keyes as chairman, with Sherman Hoar Fred A. Pratt and Wm H. Hunt elected to the committee, Hunt reelected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prescott Keyes
Main Street
Concord
Edward W. Emerson
Keyes
Sherman Hoar
Fred A. Pratt
Wm H. Hunt
Parlor millinery and local shop notices
Mrs Geo B Parker West Acton offers choice line of parlor millinery with prompt order execution. Found a female fox terrier by box 582 Concord. Easter cards and novelties at Miss Buck's. Towle Kent's sell canned fruits vegetables and New Maple sugar and syrup. Richardson's sells paint oils varnishes brushes and beef wine iron tonic. Geo F Wheeler offers strawberry plants asparagus roots. Barber near post office and Tuttle's stable offers shave or haircut. H L Whitcomb agent for Noyes Brothers laundry. Store policy: goods left before Tuesday noons returned Friday p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo B. Parker
West Acton
Concord
Miss
Richardson’s
Geo F. Wheeler
Towle & Kent's
Richardson's
Tuttle
H. L. Whitcomb
C. E. Brown to Close Out Dry Goods Stock Soon
To buy dry goods clothing and other items at unmatched prices will end as C. E. Brown plans to close out the balance of his stock to one buyer soon. He is going out of the business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Brown
Sunday Services At Local Churches Noted In Parish Listings
Multiple local churches publish their weekly schedules. First Parish Unitarian lists morning worship at 10 45 with Sunday school noon and evening meetings. Trinity Episcopal notes 10 45 morning service 12 15 Sunday school and 4 00 evening prayer. Trinitarian Congregational shows U P 8 C gathering with prayer Friday. Scandinavian M E Church reports services 10 30 morning and 7 30 evening with class Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loren B. McDonald
Young People’s Guild
Trinity Church
Henry King Hannah
Scandinavian M. E. Church
J. P. Anderson
Easter Services at Trinitarian Church Cantata Priest and King
The Trinitarian church will hold Easter services with a pastor led sermon and choir music in the armory next Sunday morning. That evening at 7 o'clock a cantata titled Priest and King will be performed by a church chorus featuring a list of anthems by Ashford Kratz Palmer Henderson Loring Buchanan Packard and Vance. All are cordially invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinitarian Church
Armory
Palmer
Jesus
February 1898 Weather Summary for Concord Massachusetts
Monthly meteorological register notes mean barometer 30.212 inches with 30.781 on the 26th and 29.619 on the 23rd. Temperatures average 40.0 with 64.9 top on the 13th and 17.3 low on the 6th. mean humidity 77.5 percent. prevailing wind 5.26 percent. Precipitation totals 71.87 inches with 7.2 inches snowfall. 9 clear days, 8 partly cloudy, 14 cloudy. Observed by Fred A. Tower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Massachusetts
Anches
Fred A. ‘Tower
State Federation of Women's Clubs Meeting in Lowell
The Middlesex Woman's club in Lowell hosts a state federation gathering at the First Congregational church on Merrimack Street Wednesday April 13. Morning sessions feature historians Rev Francis B. Hornbrooke and Rev Edward G. Porter with an noon visit to Lowell textile school. Afternoon program includes Miss Elizabeth Thompson on studying history. Luncheon at noon in the vestry. Train schedules from Boston and Framingham with reduced Boston and Maine rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlesex Woman’s Club
Lowell
State Federation
First Congregational Church
Merrimack Street
Francis B. Hornbrooke
Newton
New England
Edward G. Porter
Lexington
Elizabeth Thompson
South Braintree
Boston
Union Station
Framingham
Ayer
Boston & Maise
The Best Salve For Cuts and Skin Ailments
Advertisement offers a salve guaranteed to cure cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, eruptions and even piles with no pay if not satisfied. Priced at 25 cents per box, sold by B F Johnson & Son in Maynard and Jno C Friend in Concord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Johnson & Son
Maynard
Jno
Town votes for sewerage and electric plant at meeting
Monday’s town meeting approved a 270000 sewerage system and 35000 electric lighting plant under specified commissioners and committees. A fire alarm system, celebration committee, and various appropriations were approved. 870000 for sewerage debt and a sinking fund planned. An 8500 bicycle shed at the high school was also funded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Wheeler
Henry J. Hosiner
Woodward Hudson
Richard F. Barrett
Prescott
Keyes
Sherman Hoar
Harvey Wheeler
Geo M. Bowker
William Barrett
Cyrus H. Cook
Samuel Hoar
May Day concerns in muted peace time sales appeal
J. D. Murry promotes a broad assortment of goods for spring cleaning and home needs. He touts Austrian Bohemian and German vases wall paper tableware and glassware while hinting at peace era anxieties over possible hostilities with Spain. The advert stresses timely delivery and broad stock across furniture crockery and groceries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Spain
J. D. Murry
Farm and lots on Walden and Thoreau streets sell to suit buyers
A twenty acre farm on Walden street with a cottage house and four house lots on Thoreau street opposite Dr Osgood will be sold as the lots of one per buyers. Also three farms on Lexington road two in Concord and one in Lincoln. For particulars apply to Benjamin Derby Concord Junction Mass. The cottage house may be sold without the farm if desired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walden Street
Thoreau Street
Osgood
Lexington Road
Concord
Lincoln
Benjamin Derby
Concord Junction
Mass
P. S
Concord Junction News Briefs and Local Updates
Mrs Hall is at Boothbys private hospital. Officers Chase and Chapman are on vacation. Mrs Barrett returned home on Tuesday. Completely cured. Mrs J D Wilson visiting sister Mrs Files of Roxbury. Officer W H Wood confined with a severe cold. Rosie Bowker had a bad fall while running. Officers Wright and Supt Comery on duty again. Rev E W Beers to lecture at Mrs McKenzies. Mrs C R Weston of Boston visited Officer Blossom’s family. William P Barrell of South Turner visiting. I H Bebarrell won a contract for remodeling Acton Centre church. Biography of Spot in Our Paper worth reading. Blossom Undertaking Co occupies temporary quarters in pail factory. Kev Mr Bakater preached at reformatory and Union church. Reformatory coal record: 30 cars moved in 90 minutes under Capt Geo W Bourne. Elijah Tolman funeral one of Taunton’s largest. Reed & Barton Co attended. Sick list large. Miiton Butcher’s son pneumonia. Rev W W Campbell ill. Margaret Campbell improving. Ethel G Blossom ill with la grippe. D A Lakin improving. Mrs Sweet has a bad cold. Mrs Qua improving after operation in Boston hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kev Mr Bakater
Concord
New Hampshire Methodist Conference
Reformatory
Union Church
Geo W. Bourne
Miiton Butcher
W. W. Campbell
Margaret Campbell
Ethel G. Blossom
la Grippe
D. A. Lakin
Sweet
Qua
Boston
Souvenir Spoons of the Maine and New Goods Ad
Advertises souvenirs spoons included with Old Grist Mill rolled wheat and soap offers at low prices. Promotes millinery by Mrs Geo B Parker and Miss Tuttle, shoe repairs by J Cyrensen, and furniture and upholstery services by Thomas Hutchinson near Chaplin's stable. Local shop activity highlights repairs and interior decorating services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Union Church Services and Weavers Strike Update
Union church in New Bedford lists morning services led by Rev. W W Campbell with Sunday School and evening meetings. In New Bedford mass reports the weavers union rejects executive demands, votes 382 to 62 against a secret ballot, and extends the strike six weeks, warning mills to avoid unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newedford
Mass
Weavers Executive Committee
Wamsutta
Weavers’ Union
Concord Clothing Offers Spring Overcoats and Suits
At the Concord store a line of genuine covert wool overcoats is offered at 8. 50 each, lower than compares elsewhere. Two covert cloth coats in stylish shades are priced at 10. Suits range from 5 to 15 dollars, with modern styles and up-to-date cuts for all buyers.
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Royal Baking Powder CO
New York
Royal
Col
St Augustine
Wm Tobin
River Street
E. Etta Jennison
Howard, R
Enoch Garfield
Bedford Road
Geo Arthur Gray
Atlantic
George Gray
Samuel Y. Nash
Devens Street
Dorothy Dodge Reynolds
Mac Duffee
Springfield
Miss Reynolds
Miss Dorothy Upham
Chase & Sanborn’s
Edward Hanley
C. H
First Parish
Unitarian
Episcopal
Trinitarian Congregational
Geo. A. Tewksbury
U. P
Fred A. Tower
State Federation of Women’s Clubs
Town Meeting
Mrs Hall
Boothby’s
Chase and
Chapman
Mrs Barrett
J.D . Wilson
Files
Roxbury
W. H. Wood
Rosie Bowker
I. H. Bebarrell
Acton Centre
The
Blossom Undertaking Co
Elijah Tolman
W. L. Tolman
Taunton
Reed & Barton Co
J. Cyrensen
Miss Tuttle
Sondon
Thomas Hutchinson
Chaplin
W.W. Campbell
Boston Patent
Concord Clothing Coo
Concord, Mass
J. H. Pray Sons & Co
L.N. Fowler & CO
Association Block
Rigl Tke
Ben, W. Brown
Stockbridge Manures
Canada
Democrat
Concord. Mass
Geo. S. Whitney
Concord Junction, Mass
Middlesex Institution For Savings
Henry J. Holmen
Treas
Martha M. Ewer
San Francisco
California
Frank P. McLennan
John H. Adams
Concord Juinetion Mass
J. F. Meade
Eptlorist
Loring Farm
Barrett Mill Road
Remington, Sterling, Dayton, Orient, Crescent, Gendron and
Reliance
Maurice McWalter
Mari.st, Concord, Mass
Thos. H. King
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