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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1908
Page
6
In Holliston milk producers and children exchange greetings while townsfolk sell cows amid economic strain from unprofitable milk business. Other towns report church clerks long served, deer sightings, ice price controls, and legal actions from slander to curfew debates.
Michael Flaherty a Whitinsville lawyer files a petition requesting use of the Australian ballot at town meetings. The move aims to change how votes are cast in local elections and gatherings.
Boston reports four arrests for looting metal from ruins and two more bodies recovered, as an inquest into the Chelsea fire continues. Witnesses, including Captain Casey, detail multiple fires and potential incendiary activity.
Ralph Barnes will graduate May 16 from the Posse School of Physical Culture. Several residents and visitors are mentioned with Easter sojourns and returns, including families visiting in Natick Somerville Boston and Dartmouth.
In Chester on April 22 President Riggs of the traction company proposed ending the street car strike by rehiring the striking motormen and conductors at the prior scale of 16 28 cents per hour with a seven cent raise planned for July.
Engineers at Rockport granite quarries end a strike as a three year wage scale is adopted. Many workers win pay increases and all veteran workers regain their prior positions. The settlement brings workers back to their old jobs with new pay terms.
In Concord on April 22 six of eight New Hampshire GOP delegates to Chicago backed Taft after a division battle over preference. The state and district conventions approved a noninstruction platform and reaffirmed a Taft-leaning slate amid mixed signals from Taft supporters.
The McCall campaign publicity bill was unanimously recommended to the house for passage by the committee on election of president vice president and representatives in congress. Though introduced by a Republican the bill had the undivided support of the Democratic members of the committee.
A western town resident named William Dollar is celebrated as a good citizen nicknamed Dollar Bill. The piece laments many Dollar Bills leaving town to big cities this year draining local trade and cash circulation, harming community growth.
Experiments in intensive willow culture by the United States Forest Service aim to reduce foreign dependence. Arlington plots show strong growth for four approved varieties with close spacing improving rod quality. Harvested rods are boxed, stored in shallow water to reawaken sap, then bark peeled in spring, with many rods selected for free distribution.
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