Spring notes and church items from Acton area
Miss Daisy Rice visits Dorchester. Rev Boxton speaks on Bible study in Boxboro. Two bodies buried in town. Local business plans for Geo Hayward of Concord and manager Warren Miles. Entertainment notes and Easter services at Congregational and Universalist churches. Legal case: Alvin Tuttle and Mr Winslow over cider selling. Accidents involving Ed Banks and A Merriam Co engine. South Acton items include church schedules and local sales of two horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Dorkee
Geo. Hayward
Concord
Dannondale
Warren Miles
Alvin Tuttle
Keyes
Winslow
Powder Mills
Tuttle
Thomas Hillis
Maynard
Mr. Tuttle
Ed Banks
A. Merriam & Co
God
Miss Jones
Miss Allen
O’er
Mendelssohn
W. F. Dusseault
E. O. Excell
South Acton
Congregational Church
W. R.buxton
First Universalist Church
Mass
Wm. F. Dusseault
Y. P
C. U
West Acton News and Community Notices
Community items from West Acton including W. C. T. U. meeting with Mrs. Hutchins and illness of Mrs. John Vose. Local events at Maynard temperance meeting and Benevolent society. Reward offered by Hastings & Co. for arson conviction. Various births marriages and funerals. Easter services and memorials at Baptist and Universalist churches. Local ads for millinery, repairs, rent, and sales. Dana’s Sarsaparilla ad and new hats at Miss Knowlton’s. Brigham’s Cadet orchestra to perform at Littlefield’s hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlesex
Northwest Temperance OF
Weste
Maynard
Aiew Benevolent Society
Astings & Co
Chas. Twitchell
Littleton
Barker
Easterbrook
Baptist Church
G. B. Parker
the Baptist Church
Clarence V. Twitchell
Martha M. Haddock
Boston
Chandler Street Presbyterian Church
McDonald
E. H. Richardson
Wooward
Windsor Cash
John W. Aldrich
A. A. Wyman
Somerville
A. B. Brown
Hattie Whitcomb
J. Carter
Littlefields
G. A. Conant
E. C. Parker
So. Acton
Dana
H. A. Littlefield
New York
Miss Knowlton’s
Littlefield’s
Brigham
DeWitts Little Early Risers Advertisement
An old style advertisement promotes DeWitts Little Early Risers as the cure for great ill. The copy lists BF Johnson Son Maynard C H Whitney Concord and H A Littlefield West Acton as distributors or retailers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
BF. Johnson & Son
Maynard
C. H. Whitney
Concord
H.‘A. Littlefield
West Acton
B. F. Johnson & Son
C. H Whitney
H. A. Littlefield
de Witt
Death of Mrs. Jane S. Perry of Sudbury
Mrs. Jane S. Perry wife of Albert Perry of Sudbury and formerly Marlboro died April 1 after a brief illness of erysipelas. She left a husband seven children four living and three deceased. Survived by Rev E A Perry Rev G W Perry Professor Oscar H Perry and Inez A Perry. Funeral at Sudbury then Marlboro grave service in Maplewood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane S. Perry
Albert Perry
Sudbury
Marlboro
E. A. Perry
Cooperstown
N. Y
G. W. Perry
Chester, Vt
Oscar H. Perry
Rutland Vt
Inez A. Perry
Henry H. Perry
Universalist Church
Maplewood
Local notices and church gathering in Boxboro week
Nellie Norris visits Boston for the week as a social gathering occurs at Mrs Nelson’s. Middlesex Union Evangelical alliance holds a program at the Boxboro Congregational church with several pastors speaking and a devotional service led by Rev. A B Peabody. Millinery rooms opening April 15 in Harvard opposite the common. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve advertised as a remedy for piles and skin issues with several store mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlesex Union Evangelical, Alliance
Congregational Church
Wm. R. Buxton
South Acton
Torrey
Harvard
B. F. Kellogg
West Townsend
C. L. Clay
A. B. Peabody
C. S. Mentzer
Geo. Harrod
Reminder to submit articles by Tuesday for weekly issue
All matter must reach the office of publication not later than Tuesday night in order to secure insertion in the issue of the same week. An earlier receipt will insure against condensation or delay of articles. News advertising material and subscriptions may be left with A. L. Noyes at the post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ee Ai Rans
A. L. Noyes
Middlesex
Albert P
Florence C
Adaline M. Willis
Sudbury
Luman F. Parmenter
Lowell
Tdian
Sudbury Enterprise
Charles J. McIntire
Esqire
S. H. Folsom
Register
Acton Town Meeting Notes and Local Auctions
Acton notices reveal Barnard buys Samuel Hosmer farm and post office uncalled for letters for local heirs. Auctioneers announce sales for Durkee and Mead, with dates in April 1896. Town meeting approves officers, budgets, and gifts to Acton Memorial Library, and votes on taxes and liquor license with no stone crusher on the agenda. Tramps warned, improvements praised, meeting described as harmonious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South East
Acton Memorial Library
Wm. A. Wilde
Memorial
Blanchard Road
F. C. Nash
Rev. F. P. Wood
R. L. Reed
Edgar Hall
Acton
Acton Village Improvement Society
D. H. Hall
Fourth district convention names alternates for St Louis
Colonel Parsons and Senator Burns named as alternates after a Waltham Republican convention. The event chose permanent officers and a ballots committee, endorsed Congressman Lewis D. Apsley, and urged support for Thomas B. Reed of Maine for president. A banquet accompanied the gathering with firm attendance and spirited debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waltham
St. Louie
F. E. Holman
Talbot
Burns
Charles P. Bond
John M. Lewis
Hudson
Walter
Marlboro
H. M. Nash
Lancaster
Thomas Hillis
Maynard
J. N. Harwood
Littleton
J. D. Edgell
Gardner
Forest N. Adams
Natick
John E. Kellogg
Fitchburg
John F. Hutchinson
Lexington
E. M. Rockwell
Leominster
John Connolly
Wayland
O. M. Gove
E. C. Barrett
Concord
F.H. Fales
Framingham
W. H. Chase
N. F. Bond
Jacob Jaquith
Billerica
B B. Johnson
Charles H.moulton
St Louis
W. E. Parkhurst
Clinton
George J. Burns
Ayer
Thomas Talbot
Coleridge
Walter Perley Hall
George W. Weymouth
Nelson F. Bruce
Mr. Farrar
Arthur H. Lowe
E. F. Blodgett
A. H. Lowe
C. H. Moulton
G. W. Weymouth
A.H Lowe
Blank
Messrs. Weymouth
Moulton
Henry Parsons
Apsley
Republican Party
L. D. Apsley
Washington
Thomas B. Reed
Maine
United States
St. Louis
Reed
Two Lives Saved By Dr King S New Discovery
Mrs. Phoebe Thomas of Junction City Illinois told doctors she had consumption with no hope but two bottles of Dr King s New Discovery cured her and saved her life Mr Thos Eggers of San Francisco California suffered a dreadful cold near consumption but one bottle cured him in two weeks He praises the medicine and free trials are offered at local stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoebe Thomas
Junction City
Ill
B. F. Johnson & Co
Maynard
H. S. Richardson
Concord
Electric Bitters Promised For Elderly Health Support
Elderly readers may find Electric Bitters a suitable remedy for bowels and kidneys as it acts mildly on the stomach, adds tone to organs, and aids digestion without whiskey or intoxicants. Sold for 50 cents per bottle at B F Johnson Co Maynard Mass and H S Richardson Concord Mass drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Johnson & Co
Maynard
Mass
H. S. Richardson
Concord
Also Mentioned on This Page
Daisy Rice
Dorchester
G. V. Bowen
W.R. Boxton
Boxboro
Middlesex Evangelical Alliance
Rouliard
Malden
Hayward
Frank
Edward Harris
C. C. Torrey
H. J. Hapgood
Francis Conant
C. Ford American House
Isaiah Hutchins
John Vose
Dr. Marsh
P. O. Box
Mrs
Nellie Norris
Nelson
Canada
W. C. Robbins
Will
Acton Centre
Mr. Barnard
Samuel Hosmer
Cyrus E. Barker
Henry S. Allen
P. A. Williams
John Robbins
P. M
A. L Kittredge & Co
Central St. Lowell
Otis H. Forbush
F. L. Durkee
Adelbert Mead
Florida
Mead
E. H. Smith
P. Sexton
Old Turnpike
Town Meeting
Luther Conant
Horace H. Tuttle
J. K. W. Wetherbee
E. F. Conant
Daniel J. Wetherbee
James B. Tuttle
Anson C. Piper
Wm. F. Stevens
Moses Reed
Edwin C. Parker
Lyman Tuttle
Wm. H. Kinsley
Hiram J. Hapgood
Charles J. Williams
E. A. Phalen
Wm. H. Lawrence
James Kinsley
John Fletcher
Colonel Parsons
Senator Burns
Shrewsbury
Aaron Brigham Rice
Damiel Wetherbee’s
East Acton, Mass
North Sudbury
County of
Commonwealth
M Husetts
Elizabeth Coughlin
Abel B. Jones
Daniel Coughlin
Thomas J.sawyer
Middlesex South
Huen H. MccGratt
Maynard Mass
Post
Nortice
England
good _ ENGLAND REMEDY CO
U. S
Belknap Street
Fitchburg Station
Main Street
Concord, Mass
N. L. Chaffin
Cornhill
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Clement Goodnow
Geo. W. Davis
Hhis
Davis
Emarch
James T. Joslin
Justice of the Peace
The
Williams Studio
Central St
Swan Bldg
Lowell, Mass
Soring Bros
Concord Junction
Vermont
Benj. C. Brown
Stow, Mass
Middlesex County
A. L. Kittredge & CO
S. S. Griggs
Dedham, Mass
Stockbrigde
C.H. Mead & CO
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