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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1909
Page
8
The Enterprise presents its masthead listing Walter B. Morse president Walter P. Frye treasurer and Wm D McPherson manager. It notes entry as second class matter August 26 1908 at Marlboro Mass and lists subscription prices: six months 60c, one year three dollars, three months 25c. all in advance.
Rates announced for small ads at 75 cents per inch for one week, plus 26 cents for each additional inch. Special rates offered for yearly advertisers. Business notices in local columns priced at 10 cents per line per insertion.
South Acton residents and guests share travels and visits from Brighton Lynn Hingham Oxford and Maynard. Word of a stork birth in town and a baby show winner in Maynard highlights community life with local families and a hospital visit.
Mrs. J. 8. Hoar begins a trip down east while Miss Katherine Richardson visits Peak's Island Maine. Many residents travel to Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts and Oregon City. The first electric car runs on the new line. Mrs. Allen Hawes dies after a year of illness. funeral held in Baptist church.
Mrs. Jerusha Morto Blanchard widow of Luke Blanchard died at home Aug 21 after paralysis and long illness. Born in Boxboro June 14 1826 she was last survivor of seven children. She leaves son Arthur and daughter Annie, grandson Webster, and many relatives. Funeral at home with Rev Lovett and Schubert quartet. Burial Mt Hope.
Acton Centre items note visits and illnesses from Milford to Chelsea, plus local social events. Sunday gatherings include Miss Clara Payson and Mrs. Katharine Gould with Arthur Payson, and Harland Flagg with East Acton youth at Lake Nagog. A sermon topic is Foreign Missions Our Work. The piece ends with a citizen view on liquor laws and town votes, urging stricter enforcement after Prohibition.
Otis H. Forbush acts as auctioneer for M. T. Carrigan in Concord Mass. 35 dairy cows and heifers from Vermont to be sold at the Wheeler barn on Thursday August 26 1909 at 1 PM regardless of weather. Cattle may be inspected August 25. On Friday August 27 at 2 30 PM sale of farming tools harnesses hay and household goods for Mrs Mabel A McCallar on Main Street Concord with no postponement.
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