Concord News Highlights Local Guests and Activities
Easter town visitations and social events fill Concord pages. Col Gordon Dexter inspected company midweek. Mrs O H Underhill and Miss Isabel Mack are noted visitors. Harvard golfers beat Concord Club 29 holes to none at Nashawtu¢. Edn F Loughlin rejoined Harvard baseball on southern tour. Reeves American band to play in town. The Thoreau House reopens as a first class hotel under new owner Rand retains Wright Tavern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. H. Underhill
Gordon Dexter
H. J. Hosmer
Main Street
Isabel Mack
Asa Jacobs and
Gilbert Gall
Dayton
Keyes & McWalter
Eleanor Bush
Boston
Concord
Harvard College
Concord Club
Thoreau House
Rand
Wright Tavern
Manchester Fire Hero Honored as Concord Visit Noted
George Terrill of Manchester made a brief trip to Concord after recent praise for his gallant fire work in Manchester. Trinity church held a parish meeting electing officers including John L. Gilmore and F. O. Leland. An appropriation of 300 dollars funds the April 18th celebration with plans by the arranging committee and the Concord Independent battery under Captain Charles W. Prescott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Terrill
Manchester
N. H
Concord
Terrill
Trinity Church
John L. Gilmore
Fred A. Tower
Treas
F. O. Leland
F. A. Pratt
C. N. Miner
F. B. Rodman
R. H. Jones
E. P. Merritt
Concord Independent Battery
Chas W. Prescott
Concord Free Public Library honors long serving librarian
The 25th anniversary of Ellen Frances Whitney’s appointment as librarian was celebrated at the Concord Free Public Library. A gold lined silver bowl was presented by library committee member Woodward Hudson, Edward Emerson, and George A. King in recognition of her faithful service since 1873.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Ellen Frances Whitney
Concord Free Public Library
Miss Whitney
Old North Bridge Society Tours Boston Historic Sites
National president Mrs Lothrop and Miss Bigelow led 16 members on a Saturday tour around Boston. They inspected the navy yard and ships under wartime conversion, visited Copp's Hill, the old North church with Paul's lantern, Revere house, the state house collection, and the public library via the subway. A second historic trip is planned for May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lothrop
Society
Miss Bigelow
Navy Yard
Boston
Constitution
Copp’s Hill
Old North Church
Paul Revere
Letters Advertised At Concord Mass April 12 1898
An 1898 Concord Massachusetts notice lists individuals and firms advertised in a public notice dated April 12 1898. Names include Adams Brown Brigham Jarlson Clarke Chevey Cooker Croutcey Day Morse Osgood Preble Pike Pike Strang Spencerian College Surrette Sullivan Whitney Williams Daly Kane Kelley McLean Moore Park Patterson Warpell Wadsworth and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Mass
J. H. Forncock
Get Card Co
John F. Johnson
Walter S. Keith
James C. Knox
Arthur E. Mason
Magic Yeast Team
C. Morrill
Edward S. Morse
C. H. Osgood
J. Elwin Preble
F. B. Pike
Frank Pike
E. F. Strang
Spencerian Business College
Louis D. Surrette
J. P
Church Services and Schedules for Local Congregations
Sunday morning services at First Parish Unitarian and Trinity Church with Sunday school times. Trinitarian Congregational and Scandinavian Methodist hold evening services and Friday prayer meetings. Rev. Loren B. McDonald, Rev. Henry King Hannah, Rev. Geo. A. Tewksbury, and Rev. J. P. Anderson listed as pastors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loren B. McDonald
Young People’s Guild
Trinity Church
Protestant Episcopal
Henry King Hannah
Geo. A. Tewksbury
Scandinavian M. E. Church
J. P. Anderson
Concord observance marks 123d anniversary with parade and concerts
Public program for the Concord fight anniversary includes sunrise gun salute at 45 shots, 10:30 exercises at First Parish with addresses by Rev Edward Everett Hale D D Hon Thomas J Gargan and Hon Alfred S Roe, 12:00 salute of 19 guns, 1:30 concert in Monument square by Reeves American band Providence, 3:00 street parade under Capt Cyrus H Cook with Old Concord post and Concord Independent battery, 6:00 45 gun salute, 8:00 promenade concert and dance in town hall with Reeves American orchestra Providence, tickets via committee and Whitcomb's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
the First Parish
Edward, Everett Hale
D. D
Thomas J. Gargan
Alfred S. Roe
Charles H. Walcott
Monument Square
Reeves’ American Band of
Providence
Cyrus H. Cook
Ty Sixth Régiment
Old Concord
Town Hall
Reeves
Sherman Hoar
R. F. Barrett
A. B.C. Dakin
W. Emerson
Edn
J. Bartlett
H. H. Braley
Charles W. Prescott
B. Farnham Smith
George Keyes
M. B. L. Bradford
Harry W. Wheeler
Harvey Wheeler
John L. Gilmore
Cyrus H. . Cook
Prescott Keyes
Joseph F. Scott
Herbert W. Blanchard
Concord License Applications in 1898 Overview
Concord Massachusetts on April 13 1898 announces multiple sixth class licenses to sell intoxicating liquors for medicinal mechanical and chemical purposes. Applicants include John C Friend at Main and Waldeby street, C Hayden Whitney at Association building Concord Junction, and Horatio St Richardson at Main and Walden street. Selectmen Harvey Wheeler John M Keyes and John B Studley issue notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
Mass
John C. Friend
Main
Waldeby Street
Massachusetts
Harvey Wheeler
John M. Keyes
John B. Studley
C. Hayden Whitney
Association Building
Commonwealth Avenue
Concord Junction
Horatio St. Richardson
Walden Street
Concord shop women offered work and millinery at Cleary & Williams
Mrs KE Waters of Mediste seeks part time work for Concord ladies at their homes. French styles hats bonnets trimmed hats and children's hats sold at low prices through Thursday at Cleary & Williams Main street Maynard. Numerous ads for wheels, wagons, barbers, laundry, plants, and bicycle gear accompany the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KE. J. Waters
Boston
Loewe’s
Nason Street
Maynard
Concord
Cleary & Williams
Keating
W. L
Tolman
Concord Junction
Richardson
Democrat
P. W. White
Geo F. Wheeler
Towle & Kent's
Richardson’s
Tuttle’s
H. L. Whitcomb
Noyes Brothers’ Laundry
Towle & Kent’s
Farm for sale and lots on Thoreau and Lexington roads
Twenty acre Walden street farm with a cottage, four house lots on Thoreau opposite Dr Osgood, to be sold as one per party wishes. Three Lexington road farms, two in Concord and one in Lincoln. For particulars contact Benjamin Derby, Concord Junction Mass. Cottage house may be sold separately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walden Street
Thoreau Street
Osgood
Lexington Road
Concord
Lincoln
Benjamin Derby
Concord Junction
Mass. P. S
Big closing sale announced by local merchants
Ladies are invited to shop a large assortment beginning Thursday at Mrs L E Cleary and Mrs C E Williams on Main Street Maynard. C E Brown will close out the balance of his stock to one purchaser soon as he is going out of business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Brown
Concord Junction Community Notes and Announcements
The W C T U meets with Mrs S M Bowker on Thursday afternoon. Easter concert at Union church packed. infant death mourned by Mr and Mrs Walter Ge. New building on Church street to house a milliner and a jeweler. L N Fowler Co installed a Climax refrigerator boosting store appearance. A bakery upgrade at Warner shed with portable oven. Charles Hatch to become head baker around April 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm Chaplin
Adelbert Messer
Nashua
W. W. Campbell
Union Church
Walter Ge
Church Street
L. N. Fowler & Co
J. H. Marrs
West’ End
Maiden Dye House agency and local classifieds mixed items
I have taken the agency for the Maiden Dye House and will attend to orders. A newly painted democrat wagon for sale. To Let a room suitable for a milliner or dressmaker. Apply to Mrs A P Joyce at the variety store. Souvenir spoons of the battle ship Maine with Old Grist Mill Rolled Wheat. A new white soap for the good as Ivory and a cake of castile soap and wash cloth for 10c, or a dollar’s worth of white soap with cake of castile and wash cloth free at Dart’s. Millinery at Mrs Geo B Parker’s West Acton. Boots and shoes repaired by J C Jensen Mann Street. Miss Tuttle offers millinery at Loncton. Furniture repaired and upholstering. carpets cleaned and relaid. Interior decoration promptly attended to by Thomas Hutchinson near Chaplin’s stable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wagere
Dart
A. P. Joyce
Maine
Dart’s
Geo B. Parker
West Acton
J. C. Jensen Mann
Miss Tuttle
Loncton
Union church service schedule and tragedy in Brockton
Union church in Brockton lists morning service at 10 30 Sunday school 11 30 Y P and S C K at 6 30 p m and evening service at 7 30. In Brockton Massachusetts on April 13 Prorence Hathaway 18 years old a housekeeper who resided with a family there committed suicide in her room yesterday. She had been despondent and had threatened to take her life for some time. She came to the city three years ago from New Bedford where her father lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Mass
Prorence Hathaway
New Bedford
Also Mentioned on This Page
Royal Baking Powder CO
New York
Royal
Helen Waldron
Joseph Orendorff and
Robert L. Richardson
Burdett College
Edn F. Loughlin
Harvard
George Hubbard
Mr Hubbard
Mercie E. Reed
Rockland
Jemimah
Alan R. Wheleer
Brown University
Nel Perfect
Chase & Sanborn
Seal Brand
OLD North Bridge Society
First Parish
Unitarian
Trinitarian Congrega
Selectmen of
Remington
Crescent
Gendron
Reliance
Orient
Victor
Humber
Maurice McWalter
Main St
L. E. Cleary
C. E. Williams
S. M. Bowker
Wood
Lakin
Chaplin
Fallon
Carlotta B. Bullock
Ethel G. Blossom
Ja Grippe
Percy Blodgett
Thomas Hutchinson
Boston Patent
Concord Clothing CO
Friend’s Block
Concord, Mass
L.N. Fowler & CO
Concord Junction, Mass
Acton
The
Grain and Feed
Middlesex Institution For Savings
Henry J. Hosmer
Trens
Martha M. Ewer
San Francisco
California
Givin Bond
Frank P. McLennan
Ada Arnaaa
Wilfrid Wheeler
Fairhaven Road
Benj, W. Brown
Stockbridge Manures
Canada
Crean
Oliver
Children’s Goods
Main St., Concord, Mass
Thos. H. King
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