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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1899
Page
8
All items must reach the office by Tuesday night to be inserted in the same week issue. Early receipt prevents condensation or delay. Advertising and subscriptions left with N. J. Cole the News dealer will receive prompt attention.
Walter Jones visited town this week and Amos Levy reappeared in public life. The Acton cadet band heads to Concord for Labor Day. A horse theft reported by Isaiah Reed, new school room work supervised by Sept Thompson, and water in town well drilled deeper for better supply. Preaching at Congregational church resumes Sunday with morning and evening services and communion.
Abram H. Jones marked his 80th birthday with a family gathering at Fort Pond last Tuesday August 22. Relatives and friends joined in boating and merriment and a remembrance letter from a Jacksonville Florida niece was read along with a Boston written poem by Mrs A L Warren. Present were Oscar Jones Clarence Jones and sons Marshall and sons A Merriam Gus Hosmer and several Jones spouses.
Advertisement notes McGreen the tailor provides made to order garments, cleaning and pressing at moderate prices. Also available for rent are rooms over Tuttle and Newton’s store in South Acton, suitable for millinery and dressmaking, plus a shoe maker’s room. Inquiry to Tuttle and Newton. Band concert and dance at Lake Nagog House, North Acton, Friday evening mentioned.
Concord and more than a dozen towns celebrated New Hampshire old home week with hundreds of returning Granite staters. Governor Rollins and Senator Chandler spoke at Dunbarton, with Chandler recalling his 50 years ago stage runs and defending rural moral life and churchgoing in the state.
Four cavalry units relieve infantry at Darien Georgia under Colonel Lawton while the tug Crescent City carries 25 soldiers to Savannah to bring 28 rioters confined there to Darien. In jail here are 18 rioters. A McIntosh county negro leaders’ address to their race, signed by six preachers, the postmaster, the port collector, the Democratic chairman, and an editor, is said to be stirring the community.
Police expose an anarchist group in San Paulo with a young girl amid those chosen for a mission to dynamite buildings at the Paris exhibition. Several arrests are reported as the investigation continues in Rio de Janeiro.
The Cologne Gazette argues that after Panizzardi and Schneider failed to sway the French, Schwartzkoppen's intervention would be futile. Germany already did more than expected by Count Von Buelow and by Schwartzkoppen’s 1897 assurances denying relations with Dreyfus.
The Havana commission reports 33,692 soldiers received their share of the $3,000,000 gratuity for surrendering arms. Total distributed amounts to $2,526,900 as of the latest tally.
Tug William Sprague at Deer Island pumped out the steamer Mayflower and patched hull. Wrecking company plans to float and tow the vessel to Boston this afternoon for railway transport to undergo examination and repairs.
West Acton reports vacation travel by Grace Richardson and others, school reopens Sept 5, and numerous short notices. Residents visit relatives in Poland Springs and Bellows Falls, camps at Nagog, and a lines of social events including a Women’s Relief corps meeting and a Baptist picnic. A buggy engine collision injures Peter Foley family members. repairs and injuries described.
West Acton locals advertise a lunch fork and spoon at Miss Armstrongs, Java and Mocha blend coffee at 25e per pound, doilies and tray cloths, a Whitcomb treadle motor demo at Miss Armstrongs, and sale items including a canopy top from Kimball Bros Boston. Lost outside jacket in Acton vicinity dated Sunday Aug 27. reward offered to J W Raymond Concord. Sheet wadding and cotton batting also listed.
A fraternal committee records resolutions praising Isaiah Hutchins for friendship, love of truth, and service. The text notes mourning the loss of a loyal member and directs publication of the resolutions in local papers and submission to his family. The signatories are Alphonso A. Wyman P. G. Frank A. Patch and Frank H. Whitcomb.
Mr. Farmer of Worcester visits his sister Mrs. 5. P. Dodge. Mrs. Hayden has been ill but is better. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Wood visit relatives in New Hampshire. Burt Wood and Miss Gertrude Ross stay with Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wood. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm offers quick cure for sprains, rheumatism, cuts, bruises and burns. For sale by H. A. Littlefield West Acton. Johnson's Drug Store Maynard Mass. Richardson Concord.
Hartford August 30 county commissioners finish the inquiry into charges against Henry M. Adams superintendent of the county home for dependent children. The hearing focused on cross-examination and Adams denies many allegations. The panel will render a verdict later.
C G Dole and Luke Smith are on the sick list. Mrs Helen Taylor visited town. Luke Tuttle plans to build a barn with D Wood as contractor. The Monu ment House hosts guests from South Framingham and Cambridge arrivals. Local muster trip to Framingham yields praise. The Bostonians club plans a half century run to Acton on Sept 10 with dinner at the Monument House. Various residents and visitors are named including Miss Dunlap and Mrs Dearborn. Rev Flood preaches at the Congregational church. Town Hall dance events feature Fiske's orchestra and A L Noyes catering with cake walks and refreshments.
A Virginia editor credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with restoring health after long suffering. The Times Hillstille Virginia reprints his testimonial praising the remedy and noting local suppliers H A Littlefield West Acton Johnson's Drug Store Maynard and Richardson Concord.
Boston swept two games from Cleveland as the home club unraveled in the first inning of both games and played poorly. Attendance was light. The second game ended after seven innings due to darkness.
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