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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1917
Page
8
Acton news highlights preparations for the 1917 18 school year with teachers returning and T F Newton named janitor. Local social news covers visits and trips including Mrs Hooper of Lynn and Mrs Abby Pratt, a Huntington school dance, and church activities at Acton Center.
Henry Barker died in a Boston hospital after a lengthy illness for senile gangrene. A lifelong Acton resident born in West Acton nearly 84 years ago, he was a prominent local businessman for about six decades. He is interred beside his wife in Woodlawn.
The Congregational Church led by Rev. Relph Barker will hold Sunday morning worship at the usual time. Sunday school meets at an early hour with a lesson themed Tell Why. A praise and preaching service is scheduled for the evening, with Mrs. W. S. Fletcher assisting.
Entertainment by the Paradise family of Troy New York featured Miss Edna Paradise and Edgar Paradise with Miss Dora Burns Barnadette Bursaw. The program included dancing and character costumes in a lively performance for attendees.
The Public Information Committee in Washington sends a broad National Service Handbook to the Acton Memorial Library. It will not be distributed to every citizen, but one copy will serve as a reference for all. The book covers domestic welfare war relief religious and professional topics financing the war commerce and labor agriculture civil service medical and nursing service army navy aviation maps flags and federal banking districts. It is available for viewing at the library.
Chester Wood son of Mr and Mrs EB Wood died Tuesday afternoon in Acton after illness. The village mourns as relatives arrived and townspeople recall his well regarded character.
A misprint stated the Dixie Highway runs from Chicago to Maine. it is being built from Chicago to Miami Florida. A pocketbook lost between Clapp's stores and the post office contained $9 and receipts. return to Joseph Dinsmore for reward.
West Acton resident Fred W. Gilmore spent Sunday at Camp Devens in Ayer. Stoneham’s Mr and Mrs George W Hutchins visited relatives here. Henry Teele has been staying with relatives in Brookline NH. Geo W Burroughs visited son Wendell at Framingham camp and will leave with Hudson company this week. Frances Whitcomb, child of Mr and Mrs Fred Whitcomb, is very ill under a nurse’s care. Edward Pierce of Boxboro recovers from a fall. Fred W Green and wife enjoyed a trolley trip to Nahant and Revere Beach. Geo Holbrook and Alfred Richardson spent two days in Boston with the Hudson Camp Sons of Veterans. both attended the G A R parade on Tuesday.
William Lee, a laborer boarding at Mrs. Davidson’s home in Boxboro, was instantly killed by an eastbound freight train on the bend between Boxboro and South Acton Thursday around 6 p.m. The firefighter saw him struck. He was intoxicated. Selectman C. J. Holton and the coroner viewed the body before burial preparations.
The Bedford Grange fair set for Wednesday October 3 at town hall features prizes for best kitchen garden including 5 and 8 dollars and a 1 dollar award, yield of potatoes, 12 ears of Flint corn, and a heaviest yearling turkey.
Local ice dealer Mr Hiram BE Young announces he is short handed and asks the public to expect ice deliveries at his residence on Main Street.
At the Sunday morning service communion will be observed and the sermon titled The Challenge of the Cross. The evening service at 7 o clock features a sermon The pastor will speak on Wigton and Service. Friday evening the monthly covenant meeting will be held.
The article lists residents and visitors including Herbert Bent and Mrs Etta S Bent Suny Mrs Fred Robinson and Sanahies at J S Rice home George Sanders from Pittsburgh visiting Roy Hawes Elbridge Whiting Billy Eaton Lot Eaton camping at Lake Boon Chester Noyes traveled to New Hampshire Helen Rice and Mrs C W Rice visited Swampscott Walter Stone visited with Harry Perry and returned to work Frank Hadley returned from New York trip and Hudson River sail Mrs Albert Sheffield treated for ear abscess and recovering Rev Seymore of Texas preached at Unitarian church with the sermon on Gods good things for those who love him.
A letter notes desecration of cemeteries with removal of metal joining tomb components and occasional chipping of stones. The author urges the guilty be found and brought to justice.
Town residents on the main streets express relief that the streets have been oiled. They note the dry season and heat made dust unbearable, and keeping doors and windows open was impossible even as summer waned.
A stylized account describes Guiseppe Denaro as a bold leader who works on roads, builds drains, and signals at night. The piece chronicles his ascent to gang boss, his vanity, marriage prospects with Calucet, and his alleged wealth and romantic exploits.
A compendium of historic milestones lists battles, monarchs, and political changes from 1803 to 1858. It notes Napoleon's campaigns, the Inquisition's suppression, the War of 1812, the founding of universities and colleges, and advances in science and industry including the discovery of iodine and the Bessemer steel process.
The piece argues wealth boosts courage and efficiency while poverty breeds fear and timidity. It cites that saving money, having banked funds, lets one negotiate wages and conditions, approach businesspeople with confidence, and avoid accepting any offered job. It adds Americans waste over $2 billion in food annually.
The United States Department of Agriculture will immediately begin a quick nationwide survey to inventory foods and feeds on farms, in factories, stores, and homes as of August 31. The study, led by multiple bureaus, aims to inform action on national food supply within weeks.
A garbled excerpt laments education as a public good not for a favored few, invoking ideals tied to James and Garfield. The fragment references blood, Birte, and national spirit without coherent context or identifiable events.
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