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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
8
The notice states THIOENTPERPRISE is published every Wednesday by The Enterprise Company and shows the manager, with entry as second class matter on August 25, 1908, at Marlboro Post Office under the 1879 act.
Subscription options listed: six months 50 cents, three months 25 cents including postage, advance price one dollar per year. Office at 151 Main Street Marlboro Mass.
Classified style notice notes one inch per week ad space with 25e per extra line. Special yearly advertiser rates apply. Local column lists business notices available at fixed per line pricing.
Chief George W. Sullivan arrived as a mattress in a cell ignited causing a blaze. Charles Regan had hidden matches but three prisoners were removed from their cells and later returned.
Local items include residents Scarr and Miss Warren visiting relatives in Melrose and Colorado, new wool expert J P Leary arriving from Northboro, and various visits among Charlestown West Medfield and Canada. Community events feature a Christmas sale, a Sunday concert by the Howard Mandolin Club, a village tree plan not consumated, and church activities plus the Young Peoples Union forming at Universalist church.
Mrs. Herbert Robbins is on the sick list. At the last Acton Grange meeting officers were elected for the coming year with Arthur K. Payson as Master and notable roles for Albert P. Durkee, E. Grace Cheney, Herbert F. Robbins, Raymond F. Durkee, Aurin E. Payson, Charles J. Miller, Nelson H. Tenney, Ella L. Miller, Marion A. Frost, Gertrude M. Prentiss, Alice M. Perkins, Harriet D. Phalen, and James B. Tuttle as executive committee for three years.
Mary Lucetta Reed widow of Joseph Reed died at her Acton Centre home Sunday at 2 PM aged 82. Four children Moses A. Reed George H. Reed and two daughters survive with six grandchildren and a sister in Newport Vermont. Cause listed as heart failure after a long shock years earlier. she was born in Campton New Hampshire in 1826 and moved to Acton at 18.
West Acton reports residents Mrs John PecNiff visiting Berlin relatives and George B Parker on the sick list. Gladys McGregor read in Medford. Sanford Wheeler of Cambridge visited Parker. W O Holden uses crutches after injury. Ra chael Teele ill with pneumonia under trained nurse care. West Acton bowling teams beat Littleton by 20 pins at Maynard alley. Winona Rebekah lodge initiated two candidates. Local church supper at South Acton praised. Ladies Relief corps officers listed. Ramsdell noted as a war veteran with five children and a Newton chapel funeral held. community prayers and interment planned. The firehouse championship standings and team details are reported with the current score.
The Young Peoples' society of Christian Endeavor observed its 21st anniversary with an organ prelude, anthems, readings, addresses by Rev. Mr. Foshay, and a retrospective sketch. Rev. C. L. Rhoades of New York, former pastor at the church, attended unexpectedly, followed by a social hour and light refreshments.
J V Ramsdell aged seventy two died after suffering a paralytic shock Wednesday. He was born in Littleton and was a Civil War veteran with Company K Thirty second Regiment. His death followed a quiet day at home after rising Wednesday morning and collapsing later that day.
Invitation to an exhibition and sale of embroideries and fine linens at the home of Miss M. J. Houghton West Acton on Thursday and Friday afternoon and evening December 17 and 18 with Enterprise Ads paying.
Robins were heard last week and a Christmas service is planned for Sunday morning at the church. Miss Esther Bigelow and Dr. Ira Gates spent Sunday in Cochituate. Mr. Adams introduces manual training in Center schools. Mrs. Joseph Reed died Sunday afternoon and her funeral was held Tuesday. Mrs. Mary A Parlin returned home after weeks of illness at Herbert Robbins’s. Fitchburg mayor Fred O’Connell suspends law practice to avoid conflict with police court duties.
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