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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1908
Page
3
Maynard reports repairs at the fire department house and ongoing nightly picture shows at Music Hall. The mill reopens after a brief shutdown while residents travel to Belmont and Chelsea to view ruins. Local deaths, visits, church notices, sports plans, and upcoming events pepper the week with civic and social activity.
Groton H beat Maynard H 7 to 6 after Maynard led until the last two innings. Key players include Needham Dilbert Hodgman Gibson Boynton Simms Persons Sullivan Greer and pitcher Bywater Perry with multiple hits and errors noted, time listed as 1h 30m.
The Masonic Social club hosted a Tuesday evening dance at Cooperative hall marking the hall’s reopening after years of closure. A large merry crowd enjoyed Brigham’s Orchestra of Marlboro, with planning by Thomas Deane George Hart Samuel Lawton Fred Hayward Joshua Edwards and James R Bent.
Maynard lodge I O O F plans a Saturday evening concert with grand selections from Faust Gounod Astrella Brothers impersonations Walter Eccles Rolling Down to Rio and more. A Crusade Against Spitting note reports the Board of Health will urge strict enforcement of anti spitting laws with police notification and careful summons use.
Moving Pictures at Music Hall offer entertaining and inexpensive entertainment for 10 cents. Two shows nightly at 7 45 and 8 45 with intermission in between. pictures change Mondays and Thursdays. Wednesdays are amateur night with prizes of 3 2 and 1 dollars awarded by audience vote.
Local tradesman Eugene Daweon offers quick neat electrical services and telephone connections. He promotes the Nernst lamp as a benefit of his work.
Samuel Kaplan died at his Summer Street home after a brief illness. He leaves a wife and two children and was a member of the local Aerie of Bagies and the Foresters. The body was taken to Boston. Other items note Daniel O Connell moving to Allston, John W Lynch visiting from Dorchester, Maynard Woman's club sending 10 to Chi Tsea relief, Harrison Persons home from Wesleyan on vacation, Mrs John Gardner of Lowell visiting, Stow residents living with the Litchfields, and West Acton man Thomas Devane selling a Marsh Metz motor cycle at a rock bottom price.
The Maynard Board of Selectmen advertises license applications for alcohol sale. Patrick H. DeLee seeks a sixth class druggist license at 1% Main Street. Frank Fearns requests a sixth class druggist license at Coughlins Block on the northerly side of Main Street.
Harley J. Dwinell applies for a liquor license in Maynard to sell intoxicating liquor at 383 Main Street known as Creighton’s Block. Public notice indicates the application details and location.
In Maynard Massachusetts on April 22 1908 Adolphus Loewe and Benjamin Harris doing business as A O Loewe Co apply for a Sixth class license to sell intoxicating liquors as druggists at Loewe's Block on the Westerly side of Nason Street Maynard under Chapter 100 Revised Laws.
Ex Chief of Police P. J. Sullivan watched Philadelphia beat Boston at the American League grounds Tuesday as Patriots day passed quietly in town with no arrests and a calm Sunday atmosphere.
In a surprise move the Maynard house was denied a license by the selectmen on Wednesday. Harry Clark and William Campbell will hold the new license as they operate a cafe in a hotel space rented from B. J. Coughs at Main and River. Other license matters, including grain licenses, were postponed for a week. Max Blatt junk license application may reopen old feuds with the board.
John Wall Robert Sullivan and William Conley attended the Hudson day convention as delegates from St Bri Temperance Society.
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