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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1897
Page
8
Notices urge timely submissions to reach the publication office by Tuesday night to ensure inclusion in the same week’s issue. Early delivery prevents condensation or delay of articles and may be left with T. F. Newton for handling.
Local residents report new arrivals and moves including Frank Holt with a new racing wheel and Ed Googan moving in with Daniel Hennessey. J. P. Fletcher’s cellar work begins. Will Kinsley starts on the Fletcher project. A lawn party at Acton Centre draws a large, pleased crowd and the Universalist Congregational union picnic is planned at Lake Walden.
Boston reports a wet week with nearly daily rains harming farm operations across New England. Crops suffer from excessive moisture, cool temperatures, and late sun. outlook varies by state with hay losses, delayed harvests, and scarce apples and blueberries expected.
Hudson society notes report a Windsor week resi dence for young ladies returning Monday and several local updates. Carpenters fitted new shelving at S Wood & Co grocery, blasting in Wood Square began last Saturday, and Warren E Taylor of C L Woodbury Sons enjoys vacation with Charles Tranter taking the order wagon. Hon and Mrs L D Apsley vacationed at Ocean House Swampscott, Mrs Apsley remaining, while G Fred Glines and family spent Sunday at York Beach. An old bugle and bullet relic from Bunker Hill may soon grace Worcester’s newsroom window as recounted by Fred H Sawyer of the Hudson House. A moulded well sample from between Boston and Concord, carried by soldiers, shows water exposure.
Chicago reports show major life and accident insurers instruct agents nationwide and in Canada to refuse risks for people planning to visit the Klondyke. Home office memos stress prohibitions due to perceived travel hazards and poor preparation. Water rights suit.
Concord NH Aug 4 The Lake Sunapee Protective association has retained counsel for a suit in the New Hampshire supreme court against Sunapee Dam company to decide whether manufacturing firms may draw supply from public waters. The issue, debated a decade ago, led to regulated flows but renewed complaints prompt a final decision on lake use rights for all parties.
West Acton notes include social visits from Ruth Granger of Brooklyn and Abbie Knowlton of New Bedford, a seaside trip to Salisbury Beach, a Fort Bond outing, and church and band events. A bicycle race drew $5 prize money won by Harry Clough of South Acton. The Baptist Sunday school picnic is planned for Nagog on Aug near midmonth.
Local society notes report visits and travels including Miss Florence Sykes in Hartford visiting Dr. J. M. Pettengill family Mrs S G Soules returning from a three week province trip Harry C Page returning from Princeton Clara Parmenter visiting E Bell family at Cherry street Mr and Mrs F A Davis and child at China Maine J E Walsh and family at Nantasket beach and Salem Willows E J Prescott to spend August at Holderness New Hampshire No drill held by a company last week but workers met for business Apsley Rubber Co former employees visit the works in a show of maintaining a strike Mrs S Jackson and daughter Ida L Jackson return from Chautauqua small delegations of former employees frequent the works in a ceremonial strike tone.
Herbert Marshall of Unionville reappears in Easton after six years abroad. He left Oct 23 1891 to escape a family dispute over his wife’s inheritance and spent time in California Arizona and the Transvaal before health failures and a doctor in Africa. He later found and reunited with his wife and children in Connecticut.
Box scores list Taunton Brockton New Bedford and Newport games with runs hits errors. Batteries credited to McGamewell Burke Miller McManus Stanhope Hawley Crisham Knorr Buelow and others. ERASTERN LEAGUE results show Montreal Springfield Wilkesbarre Buffalo Scranton Syracuse Providence with pitchers and batters named.
An expository study of 1 Thessalonians iv to v on brotherly love in God, walking worthy of Him, and the imminent second coming. It discusses resurrection, the rapture, comfort for the bereaved, and the warning of apostasy before Christ's return, with reflections on living uprightly before unbelievers.
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