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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1909
Page
8
The Enterprise is a weekly paper published by Waterprise Company with office at 161 Main Street Marlboro Massachusetts. It notes second class matter status and post office filing under the 1879 act with subscriptions at 1 dollar per year and various single copy and short-term rates.
Rates listed for advertising include one week at 750 with each additional ad 250. Special yearly advertisers receive rates. Classified notices in local editions priced at 10 cents per line per insertion.
George H. Harris shows great improvement and is nearly recovered. Mabelle Maynes visits from Boston where she worked this winter. Arthur F. Harris went to Danbury Connecticut to work in granite and monument making. White renovates his house with a modern bathroom by B Z Granley. Charles Brooks suffers eye swelling and rheumatism. Fred Morrison buys Frank Harris’s hogge at West Acton and makes improvements. An auto owned by Dr Godfrey and driven by his son broke down near Mrs Munroe’s after leaving a dance. damage about 200 dollars. crowd notes good walking home. Plymouth Rock Minorca Pegs advertised by H Cheney North Acton.
Local notes from South Acton cover health updates and daily hires, theater and church events, school vacations, and neighborhood moves. Names include James Kerrigan, Mrs. Hosmer, Ralph Piper, Miss Winnefred Chandler, and Rev. S. J. Willis with activities at Universalist and Congregational churches alongside school and mill work updates.
Albert Durkee has accepted a position as foreman of a stock farm in Bedford, appointed by The Ladies' Relief corps. The appointment follows a supper event supporting relief efforts in the community.
For sale items include a dining table chairs iron bed and other furniture from J E Richardson. Pure bred Buff Wyandotte eggs offered for hatching at one dollar per dozen from S L Richardson. Fred C Lee announces a new blacksmith shop in the old building under James De vane's paint shop West Acton offering horse shoeing balancing and general blacksmith work with trial jobs and satisfaction guaranteed. March 15 1909.
Mrs. Gertrude Harris Goss and Mrs. Lillian Harris Ashworth visited last week with their uncle, George Worster, continuing a family reunion in the area.
Acton Centre reports Mrs G Dole spent Monday in town. Raymond Durkee works in Connecticut. Miss Martha Smith bought an organ for her school. Mrs George Dusseault attended Grand Opera Saturday. Miss Flora Reed takes a week’s vacation from Franklin duties. Prof Lovett to host a regular dancing class Thursday evening. Centre schools plan an entertainment at the town hall soon. Mrs Mary A Parlin confined to bed. Asaph Parlin ill with a cold. Miss Lena Laker of Cochituate returned home after visiting her aunt Mrs Emerich Gates. Miss Marian Taylor on a week’s vacation from Boston Normal Art School. James B Tuttle ends milk supplier role to Boston dealers at start of April. Special high music planned for Sunday church service with youth joining, followed by a concert.
Otis H. Forbush auctioneer Acton Mass will sell for D Wesley Dutton Billerica Mass pest pit bull seven horses all tools carts sleds harnesses rye and silage and 20 cords of wood for the stove Sale Saturday April 10 at 930 am Friday April 25 at 1 pm he will sell for Adrienna Wood Bedford Centre buggies harnesses garden tools and many household goods Monday April 26 he will sell for 08 Carbrey East Acton Mass the tire contents of his house well furnished also garden and carpenter tools carriages ponies etc Postets will soon be out with all particulars A sale at Lowell Leominster and Norwood he could not do as parties could not wait for open Dire Acton Centre Eggs for hatching Barred Rocks White Rocks Rhode Island Reds and Brown Leghorns 15 for 4 per 100 J B Durkee Acton Gyngre
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