Two Men Die After Train Collision at South Acton
A B M line freight strikes two of five men resting on the tracks near South Acton station as an express approaches. Walter Connor of Machias Maine and George Monckton of White River Junction Vermont die. survivors flee without identifying the victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Acton
Concord Junction
Walter Connor
George Monckton
Machias
Pennacook
N. H
White River Junction
Connor
Westvale
Monckton
South Acton notices and local happenings
Frank Taylor carpenters in West Acton while Will Merriam travels south on business. Nettie Baird visits Lena at Royalston. Ruth French visits Hingham. Several residents travel to Ashland Adirondacks Lake Sunapee and Kennebunkport. Christian Endeavorers meet in August. Community events include a 50-couple dance in Exchange Hall and a blood poisoning illness delaying work at Ferrule factory. New high school principal Pierce of Goffstown will live on Maple Street.
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Exchange Hall
Carl Willis
A. Johnson
Congregational Church
Isaiah Leach
White
Providence
R. 1
Mr. Pierce
Goffstown
N. H
Maple St
Faxon
Ambrose P. Ferris
Lester Fletcher
Northampton
Frank Stiles
Tuttle & Newton
Howard Tuttle
Concord
East Acton
Intettve Tage
Acton Teams Clash in Blood Game Misfortune For West
A rough test between Acton teams ended with the regulars prevailing as Cotting played sick, Littlefield pitched six innings with control problems, Center delivered sharp fielding and catching, and the score favored the Actons.
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West
Cotting
Littlefield
Actons
Acton Centre Movers and Auctions Report Local Doings
Camteton Taylor works for James Tuttle. Notables and visitors from Lowell to Dorchester and Bedford towns gathered at the Monument House. Real estate moves include Gallagher and Livermore farms sold by J E Durkee, plus several properties in Cambridge Stow and Stoneham. Auctioneer Otis H Forbush to sell 10 Jersey cows and stock at Balmy Oaks farm on Aug 17 for James B Packard. sale noted as sure as owner heads west.
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J. E. Durkee
Gallagher Farm
Geo. C. Bunker
Stoneham
Livermore Farm
Greenwood Bros
Boston
James Fiske Place
Mr. Boyd
Cambridge
Locke Farm
Stow
W. H. Shepard
Jamaica Plain
Otis H. Forbush
Acton
Mass
James B. Packard
Balmy Oaks Farm
Grafton
Jersey
Hood Farm
Lowell
Grafton Centre
Boston Road
Timmen's Place
Advertised Letters for Mrs Florence Dock and Miss An nette Collins
Advertised letters list Mrs Florence M Dock and Miss An nette Collins as undeliverable. Post office notices indicate awaiting pickup and potential forwarding or return to sender.
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Florence M. Dock
Annette Collins
Westford Notes and Local Arrivals
West 4cton items list sailings and visits. Will Watkins sailed for England last week. Fred Gray moved into an A. F. Blanchard house. Emery Clark and wife visited H. T. Clark. F. R. Knowlton’s family stayed at Five Islands Maine. Rev. Leavitt preached at the Baptist church. Miss Rose B. Granger visited Mrs. J. E. Richardson. Arthur Gould and Miss Charlotte Wood went to York Beach. Maud Huntington Benjamin visiting Miss Clara Stone. Kenneth Charlton visiting Mrs. May Willard. Wyman Holden visiting aunt Mrs. A. A. Andrews who is recovering. Mr. and Mrs. William Southwaite welcomed a baby daughter Aug. 1. Mrs. Southwaite’s sister Miss Alice Stone staying with them.
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Rose B. Granger
Brooklyn
N. Y
J. E. Richardson
Arthur Gould
Charlotte
Wood
York Beach
Maud Huntington Benjamin
Malden
Clara Stone
Kenneth Charlton
West Springfield
May Willard
Boxboro
Wyman Holden
Concord
N. H
A. A. Andrews
For Sale or Exchange Six and Two Second Hand Work Horses
Wag nell Farm West Acton offers six and two second hand work horses for sale or exchange. Dr Christie's office hours are 2 to 4 p m daily except Sunday 3 to 6 p m. Telephone number 6. Teeth extracted without pain.
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Wagnell Farm
West Acton
Christie
Local Visitors And Town Notes From Sudbury
Miss Ellen Clark visits Mrs. Arthur Burnham in Medford and Miss Grace Coudin stays with Miss Sarah Pratt in Sudbury. Jonas Hunt joins the board of health. Rev Ida Hultin speaks on spiritual forces. a Walnut tree remains in the town center. Various Clark family trips and wedding anniversaries observed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Clark
Arthur Burnham
Medford
Grace Coudin
Jackson, Il
Sarah E. Pratt
Myron Lawin
Winthrop
Edward Young
Somerville
Frank R. Gale
Berlin
Jonas Hunt
Board of Health
Selectmen
Wayside Inn Chapter Hosts Field Day on Historic Sudbury
The Wayside Inn chapter D A R met August 5 with Mrs. S N Sanders of Wayland. Mrs Nel He Rie Fiske presented The Framingham Bicentennial. Rev Ida Hultin was named honorary member. Next meeting to be a Sudbury field day on Historic Sudbury. Program included Historic Wayland and poems Musketaquid and America. Four generations attended. Refreshments served.
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Wayside Inn
S. N. Sanders
Wayland
Nel He Rie Fiske
Framingham
Fiske
Sanders
Gertrude Loker
Inez A. Perry
Louisa Sanders
America
Horatio Hunt
Janie Shaw
Shaw
Nameless Daughter Named Inez A Perry in DAR History
A verse memorializes a child described as a nameless daughter in a family scene. The poem praises a baby in the Chapter's circle, noting her bright eyes and curls, and ends with a pledge that when she is named in the future her identity will be recorded in the D A R history by Inez A Perry, Historian.
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Inez A. Perry
Local Visits and Upcoming Hale High Reunion Set
Miss Eleanor Smith visits Kingston Rhode Island while Miss Grace Whitney stays Lexington friends. Hale high school reunion planned for August 28. Randall library to close August 16 with a 50 cent fine for overdue books. Several local residents and visitors named including Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Jensen Cambridge and others from Boston Haverhill Worcester Springfield Lowell Lynn Lewiston Maine Littletown.
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Eleanor Smith
Kingston
R. I
Grace Whitney
Lexington
Hale High School
H. J. Marshall
John Swift
Robert Swift
Rossindale
B. G. Salisbury
Roslindale
Ida Thompson
Margaret Priest
Weston
Josie Newhall
Lucy Fletcher
Clifton Fletcher
Worcester
Randall
Nellie Webster
Haverhill
John Dobson
Boston
Fred Stevens
Alice Wilder
Springfield
Henry Clark
Lowell
A. T. Robinson
Lynn
Ruth Sprague
Lewiston
Clarence Brown
Littleton
Marlboro Notes Several Residents Leave and Return
Local items report work resuming at the armory, re enlistment in the U S artillery, openings such as Augustus St Mitchell announcing a pool room, and multiple residents traveling or visiting. Excursionists from Marlboro visited Boston beaches, with positive reports of the trip.
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John Mullane
United States Artillery
Augustus St. Mitchell
Main St
Charles Warren
Chicago
Ernest Hollis
Diamond M
Patrick Hyde
Florence St
Neil Sheehan
Wellesley
Mary E. Glynn
Washington St
Long Branch
Robert Searles
Spofford
Waltham School of Business Announces Faculty for studious term
The Waltham School of Business lists George Frederick Spring as principal teaching Business Arithmetic and Commercial Law. William Elbridge Shaw Jr teaches bookkeeping and penmanship. Dartmouth and Bowdoin alumni lead Shorthand and Bus Habits courses. English by Georg Ward. Johnson lectures on Commercial Law. The school is in the Waltham Trust building with August hours and Wednesday Saturday on site.
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George Frederick Spring
William Elbridge Shaw, Jr
Land Court summons for Sudbury land title 1905
A notice to James R Bent et al to appear at the Land Court in Boston on September 5 1905 regarding the Ministerial Lot in Sudbury containing about seventeen acres. It seeks confirmation of Frank B Barton’s title to the parcel bounded by the town road heirs of J J Haynes Bent Mossman and other landmarks. Failure to appear may result in default and petition denial.
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James R. Bent
John Bent
Helen Mr. Curtis
Sara W. Bent
Maynard
Elizabeth Amirsult
Edith Gens Everett Haynes
Herbert Haynes
County of
Middlesex
Commonwealt
Frank B. Barton
Sudbury
Town Road
J J. Haynes
Sarah Mossman
Bent
Mossman
Boston
Suffolk
Hudson Roscoe Sargent Visits Westboro for Sunday
Hudson Roscoe Sargent of Westboro spent a Sunday in town visiting friends at the Sherman House. Charles Magorty of Cochituate is spending a week in town, with Michael Hurley and H. G. Glendenning also noted as in town.
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Moses Taylor and
Ralph Saunders
Lowell
Town
Butterick and Son
Melrose
Monument House
Roscoe Sargent
Westboro
Sherman House
Charles Magorty
Cochituate
Receives
Michael Hurley
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Stow Road
Red Acre Farm
Nan Lyon
Waltham
Electa
O. B
Ethel Hosmer
Miss Hosmer
Frank Taylor
Will Merriam
Lute Piper
Nettie Baird
Lena
Royalston
Eddie Holt
Fort Pond
Ruth French
Hingham
B. F. Richardson
Ashland
Walter Bird
Rangeley Baker
James Burke
Our Village
Mary Lothrop
Adirondacks
Mrs. Ewell
Fletchers Corner
Hinghaw
James Brown
Lake Sunapee
Norris
Gleasondale Club
Acton Centre
Camteton Taylor
James Tuttle
Chapman
Crosby
Dorchester
Robt. Wayne
L. H. Pinkham
Arthur Allen
Arlington
Don Wittemore
Bedford
Joseph Reed
Reed
T. M. Miles
Cottage City
Enterprise
Will Watkins
England
Fred Gray
A. F. Blanchard
Emery Clark
H. T. Clark
F. R. Knowlton
Five Islands
Mr. Leavitt
New Boston, N. H
Baptist Church
Unitarian Church
Ida
Hultin
Boston Post
Eleanor Gerry Elims
Finnegan
Bertha
Alice Griggs
Norwell
Eliza Clark
Fred L. Clark
Princeton
Lessie Clark
Leslie Everett Clark
Ernest Clark
Charles Clark
Sara
Conrad Jensen
8. M. Lawrence
Marlboro
Edward Flynn
Worcester’s
John T. Lounsbury
H. K. Andrews
F. A. Hingham
Lester Maddox
Alice Morrison
Sanbornton, N. H
H. F. Walker
Nancy Brigham
Mary Parmenter
Ames Pl
Edmund Brown
Lincoln St
John Brown
Annie Howe
Jennie Rounds
Baltimore
Evangeline
Thomas Murphy
Nashua
Cleveland
Hattie Round
Warren H. Howe
East Main St
Boston & Worcester
Co. B. McManus
Texas
California
Harry Bemis
St. Louis
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Waltham School «of Business
Charles Demster Montgomery
Dartmouth
William Emerson Preble
Bowdorg
Simmons College
Georg Liggett Ward
Yale
Melvin Maynard Johnson
Tufts
Boston University Law School
Waltham Trust Company
Sherwin-Williams Ename
T. F. Parker
Main
Enterprise Weather Tips
Hudson
Frank Murray
H. G. Glendenning
Margaret Cullerton
T. H. Seally
Nantasket Beach
Timothy Conlin
Lawrence Dun
Margaret Kilbun
Laura Nedreau
Jutore
Board OF Sel
R. J. Parmenter
Arthur J. Coughlan
Senet
Board OF Selectee
Wen
Bob Seaatecoment
Main Street
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