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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1897
Page
8
Reports from South and West Acton list church services at Congregational and Universalist churches with Easter music and concerts. Local auctions and farm news note cattle condemnations and a Norman Davidson farm sale. Also advertised are watch and jewelry repair, poultry eggs for sale, and post office mail notices.
John Aldrich and wife visited town while Miss Jennie Kraetzer of Ashmont spent the week here. Mr. and Mrs. Coffey welcomed a baby daughter. Auctions near Marlboro and a busy social week with a Mrs Hutch gathering featured music and readings. Local shop talk includes 250 hens 400 chickens and 800 eggs in incubators. Windsor Cash Store and Littlefield's advertise goods from hay and boots to farm tools and kitchenware.
Miss Florence Dodge visits at home and Mr. and Mrs. Chas Bradford welcome an 11 pound baby. A 10 pound girl arrives for Mr. and Mrs. John Coffee. Wood and Conant labor changes noted. The Ladies circle plans a maple sugar supper at the Congregational vestry. The Grange reports a large meeting with seven members advancing to third and fourth degrees. Whitcomb Bros meat cart shifting. West Acton market closes Friday forenoons.
The Peoples National Bank promotes its services in Mariboro Massachusetts offering drafts payable worldwide and in foreign countries. It buys and sells Government Municipal Railroad and other bonds and highlights water company bonds as strong investments. The bank emphasizes careful investing, bond selection facilities, and safety deposit boxes with security from fire or burglary. John L. Stone is cashier.
J Whitman will conduct the season's largest horse auction Friday April 16 at Proctor Court Marlboro Massachusetts. About 60 horses in all with consignments from Seward Nebraska and Sunbury Ohio. The sale promises carefully selected stock and a public benefit.
A crowd gathers for Marlboro Rubber Co annual sale expected to draw many young men seeking wheels at low prices. The auction at the store is a popular feature and slated for Tuesday.
Acton Centre reports a failed Rex chemical engine trial due to untrained handling. The Rex company president will supervise a redesigned demonstration next Saturday night, constructing a building like last week’s to saturate with kerosene oil and prove its fire emergency use. Auctioneers announce sales in Medfield and Westford. notices list dates, times, and items.
Concord reports the town buys a fine pair of gray horses for the road department. The Society of the Children of the American Revolution sends an elm to the District of Columbia association to be planted in Mount Vernon Cemetery. The tree was presented by Charles W. Prescott and comes from the sacred soil of the old Battle Ground.
Special Easter services planned at the Trinitarian church with Rev. Geo A Tewks bury preaching an Easter sermon. Musical selections include Awake Thou That Sleepest by Caleb Simper. Evening Easter concert for children and others, plus a Procession of the Centuries featuring 19 youths. Rev. Tewksbury to speak at Fall River convention on Concord and Christian Patriotism. Also Concord union presents a King’s Daughters and Sons event with local talent and a Grecian tableaux exhibition.
The committee organizing the April 19 events names Sherman Hoar as chairman and William Barrett as secretary. Others include Harvey Wheeler John M Keyes John B Studley Edward J Bartlett and Cyrus H Cook. Activities feature bell and cannon salutes lectures band parade and a ball. The ball committee lists Barrett Hoar Gilmore Dakin Bradford Buttrick Baker Eaton Phelan Keyes Keyes Scott Walcott Wheeler. This year’s appropriation is higher than last year.
Evening services at Union church move to 7 30 with Y P S C E at 6 30. Barrell of the Waltham horological school visits Officer Blossom. Several precinct applicants miss muster but urged to join soon. Deaths include Mrs Annie McCallister and Effie Andrews Wilson. Willow Rebekah lodge hosted minstrel show on April 7 with a large audience. Local ads promote fashion items, purses, carriages, pocket books, periodicals, tailoring, and new spring millinery.
When a cold appears, the ad claims One Minute Cough Cure will cure pneumonia bronchitis croup and all lung and throat troubles. It lists B F Johnson Son Maynard C H Whitney Concord and H A Littlefield West Acton as sources or distributors.
The Concord post office lists names of addressees awaiting mail on April 13 1897. Included are Frank W. Browne Mikel Beyrgeleni ca M H Calvert H Conant Master Willie Coupe Robert E Congdon Geo BE Chatto A F Carlson J Dowling F E Durand Rev D C Eaton Clairance Falkner James Fitz Patrick F J Garland Frank Gallant E M Haskell E E Handley C E Hunt J C A Hill J Hanson C H Kohloff Fred James Lindsay Arthur E Mason Elmer Olsen O Parnell Read and Barton C E Stryker W S Ward W H Whitehead Mrs William Dodge Mrs Horace Hammond Miss Elizabeth McMeely Miss Susie O'Brien Miss A W Smith Mrs Geo Smith Miss Florence Thayer
The program lists a Sunday service at Trinity church with a 10:45 am start featuring Processional hymn No 121 Easter chant Mornington Te Deum by H Van Boskerck Benedictus by H Aldrich hymn No 116 Kyrie Eleison Elvey Gloria Tibi anonymous hymn No 118 Gloria Patri Pitman Anthem Awake Up My Glory J Barnby Offertory chant anonymous Sanetus Cruickshank Eucharistic hymn No 9925 Gloria In Excelsis Zeuner Recessional hymn No 126.
Request for any information about the whereabouts of Henry Porter’s children from Coldbrook Kings Co Nova Scotia. Respondents should address W Enterprise office Marlboro Massachusetts.
In springtime, gentle Annie and others are advised to take DeWitt's Little Early Risers. The pills aid liver and stomach health year round, offered by B. F. Johnson & Son of Maynard and C. H. Whitney of Concord with H. A. Littlefield of West Acton promoting the remedy.
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