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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1917
Page
6
A dense pane of short notices includes help wanted for general housework and a Catholic girl, several sales ads for oak furniture awning and dining room table, and local services. Listings show Concord Massachusetts items with contact details and telephone numbers. multiple small ads span goods for sale and rental offerings along with job requests in Maynard Sudbury Bedford and Acton regions.
Passed papers from Finigan and Magurn record ownership transfers. Mrs. Robert Connorton to Herbert Nealey for two houses and a lot on Sudbury Street. also a Potter Avenue house. Bedford Coal and Grain Co transfers property to Henry McBreen of Concord.
A Tuesday morning blaze destroyed farm buildings owned by Frank Mason on Monument Street. The fire started in the shed near the house before 5 am. only the chimney remains. Dr Wentworth addressed the town hall Monday afternoon on Better Babies due to Mrs. Carrie Marks’ illness.
Mortgagee's sale of a Concord property under a 1911 mortgage to Middlesex Institution for Savings. Court-ordered public auction on May 3, 1917 at 3 PM for a 1.36 acre parcel with the described boundaries and improvements, secured by the deed records in Middlesex South District. Cash payment of 300 dollars required. terms noted in the deed references.
Concord High beat Maynard 6 to 1 in a varsity baseball opener at Concord. O'Brien and Loftus each struck out 10 in a pitching duel, Fallon belted a decisive 8th inning homer for Concord, while Maynard's Jamieson and Jones showed promise.
The Concord Musical club presented its annual Easter Tuesday concert April 10 at the First Parish vestry with 200 attendees. Karl Barleben of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Miss Margaret Anthony assisted. program included pieces by Czibulka Ries Wieniawski and MacDowell. The Concord Home Garden Association urged all to plant gardens to aid wartime food needs and support Allies. schools will teach canning and storage.
The Trinitarian Church outlines Sunday services with a morning sermon on Nehemiah's wall rebuilding and the Lord's Day resurrection. Sunday school at noon, 6:15 Christian Endeavor on lying and character, 7 PM preaching service, followed by a Scandinavian service led by Rev. A O Huseby. Friday topic is Fruits of Faith in the Resurrection.
A public appeal from the Committee of Public Safety urges Concord residents to work on farms due to food shortages. All ages are asked to volunteer, with roles available at current wages to boost civilian and troop supplies as the nation fights Germany.
An inter-town dinner at Boston City Club on April 12 honored William Wheeler candidate for the Constitutional Convention from the 13th Middlesex district. About 40 citizens from five towns attended and voiced strong support for him through brief speeches and wit. Lincoln Senator Charles S Smith sent a letter of support, while Judge Prescott Keyes acted as toastmaster and Ed McKenna and his reply drew the evening’s standout moments.
The second event of the 1917 rowing schedule lists Batesman’s pond as the venue for the graduate eight and the first, second, and junior crews from Assabet and Sudbury clubs to race. The program includes the Middlesex school crews racing next Saturday afternoon.
The Co I soldiers at Fitchburg armory were told mail would be free but postage was collected from their sweethearts or mothers. Headquarters found the error, and future mail will be delivered like ordinary mail unless the unit is away and stamps unavailable. The girls say the letters are worth the cost.
The Knights of Columbus host a dancing party at the Concord armory on Friday evening May 4 to benefit Company I. The Colonial orchestra will provide eight pieces. Event directed by J. W. Mara chairman and A A Magurn secretary with Tpenaties Harrington Hopkins McSweeney Varley assisting. Large attendance expected.
The Willow Rea bekah lodge marked its 25th anniversary with a Monday evening banquet at 7 in the lodge rooms. An entertainment program featured Mrs. Benjamin of Derby, Phyllis Dennison, Maria Russell with Willis accompaniment, followed by a regular meeting and remarks from past district deputies and other members.
At a recent Concord Grange meeting Waltham Grange was invited and entertained with a supper in A. O. U. W. hall. Mrs. Maria Olsen chaired the event with assistants. The supper included cold ham salads pies and cake before the business meeting and further entertainment at the town hall.
The Grange auxiliary met at Mrs. Frederick W. Taylor's home in Concord Junction on a Tuesday afternoon in April. Members sewed and voted to devote future meetings to knitting for navy and army members, followed by a salad supper served by the hostess.
The article notes heat as key to plant growth and cites drainage as the main factor making soil warm. Well drained soils are several degrees warmer and heat up faster after cold spells, with drained soils warming earlier in spring. It also suggests dynamiting heavy soils will pay.
J. H. Haniford died Sunday evening at his daughter Mrs. William Chisholm's home on Willow Street. Born in Ireland he had lived in West Acton for 40 years and was highly regarded. He moved to Concord last November to live with his daughter. Funeral services were held Wednesday at St Bernard's church with high mass at 9 and burial followed in Maynard.
Indigenous people make bread from moss that grows on spruce fir. The moss is soaked, fermented, rolled into large balls, and baked in underground pits along the Columbia River.
The annual meeting of the Concord bivic League will be held Wednesday evening April 25 at 8 p m. Everyone is urged to come and bring a neighbor. Members will decide their share of the burden and contribution to town and nation solidarity.
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