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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1896
Page
4
All material must reach the office by Tuesday night to ensure insertion in the same week issue. Early submissions prevent condensation or delay of articles. News and advertising matter and subscriptions may be left with T. F. Newton.
Mrs Henry Shapley improves after illness. Christmas services at Universalist and Congregational churches with special music. Union temperance meeting topic Public Sentiment in January. Hastings on crutch after rheumatism attack. Bowen family to spend winter in California. Y P C U notes and large attendance. Christmas tree events and social gatherings at churches. Tuttle family items and local theft incident. Rev Buxton sermons and church announcements. South Acton church schedule and local society notices. G A R and Baptist society events. Local classified: tenement for rent and millinery sale at G A Conant and Mrs Parker.
Miss Elena Messer visits West Acton Concord N Y plans two week school vacation for Christmas. Universalist ladies hold annual fair and entertainment Thursday evening. Miss Knowlton offers attractive fancy goods. C H Mead Co souvenir ware featured. Rehearsals for Old Folks concert at Universalist church Tue 8 pm Sat 2 pm. Young Men's club of Littleton hosts fourth annual concert and ball Christmas night at town hall. Woman's club meets Mrs Eugene I Hall on Monday to discuss The Huguenots. papers by Miss Henrietta Cutler and Miss Mary F Rich. C A Perkins buys Windsor cash store and offers low prices. Fred Elmer Wetherbee and Minnie E Ratter wed at bride's home December 16. They reside in Revere. Page eight contains further notices.
Local brief roundup details sickness and convalescence, a large number of tramps housed at the poor farm in nine months, a Worcester milk producers meeting, Perkins Institute entertainment, church fair planning, and Sunday sermons by Rev. Easterbrook and Rev. Buxton. Library book purchases planned, Christmas ball set for Dec 25 with Natick orchestra, turkey supper by A. L. Noyes, and a successful Ladies Aid fair netting over 125 for the church. A driven well project resumes with deeper borings if needed.
The Ivers & Pond Piano Co advertises convenient payment plans and a stock of slightly used pianos. It invites readers to write outlining their needs and promises complete satisfaction. Location noted as 114 Boylston St, Boston.
Miss Adalyn Riley teaches singing and voice building with references to Miss Clara Munger and Mr. George Parker of Boston. For terms contact 31 Newton St Marlboro.
An old advertisement extols Absolutely pure, perfectly harmless cold remedies. It cites quick relief for colds croup and lung troubles and notes children like the medicine for its pleasant taste. Names B F Johnson & Son Maynard CT Whitney Concord and H A Littlefield West Acton appear as distributors.
At the annual meeting of the Pandwing company the report urged recognizing the Panama canal as best for U S interests amid rival Nicaragua project. Directors show growing confidence in the undertaking’s potential and prospects.
The advertiser reports arrangements to sell chairwood formerly sold by Loving Bros and offers prompt delivery in Concord or Acton at usual prices. A push to buy coal and a note on Hay and Feed at extraordinary low prices accompany the winter supply message.
At Marlboro on December 11 a birth announcement reports the arrival of twin girls to Mrs. Cyrus G. Stone.
In Framingham on December 12, Addison Belknap aged 85 years died suddenly.
The Middlesex Probate Court requires the wife annexed administration for William Jones late of Tancoln. Charles Giles of Somerville is named or another suitable person. A hearing in Cambridge is set for January fifth, 1807 at nine in the forenoon. Publication in Concord Enterprise weekly for three weeks and notice to all named devisees and legatees.
Testimony from Fitzsimmons and Sharkey camp offers conflicting claims of foul play and a doctor paid for evidence. Lynch denies involvement in a National club scheme while a sports reporter claims no foul blows were seen. Sharkey describes groin injury and dressing room pressure. Separate notes report Buffalo invited for 1897 WCTU convention and New York GOP delegate races favor regulars plus Berlin Dispatch on Crete envoy recall.
A roundup of varied events and notes from 1896 including plans for Hungarian colonization in Terag, a mobbed healer in Chicago, Chicago streetcar fare debates, antitrust and gas monopoly plans, Behring Sea disputes, a missing Behring steamship Comentry, New York police costs, Canadian cattle embargo potential, Floyd Courthouse fire damage, Brazil’s President Moraes, Indian distress in the Cascades, railway labor threats in Canada, the Marie Fanny loss, the AEA meeting in Baltimore, murder probe in Leominster, Harvard Yale rowing tensions, mileage ticket plans, naval movements in the Bosporus, Morton on Canadian cattle bias, congressional funding gaps, Boston stamp sales by carriers, actor Alexander Salvini’s death, Boston snow dumping license, Gloucester Fishermen's Institute bequest, Lawrence Arnold fraud case, Kentucky court rehearing delay, Rhodes country house fire, French Legion of Honor cap, Ounois Central rail talks, New Orleans to Europe steamship service talks, and executive moves at Staten Island Rapid Transit.
Boston reports a subdued statewide election with six cities voting yesterday. Most contests ignored national politics, except Lynn where a fusion ticket backed by Populists and Socialists won amid wage concerns. License voting shows 124,776 Yes and 104,095 No statewide, with Haverhill and Lynn flipping licenses.
Boston results show Republicans winning seven of fourteen aldermanic seats while Democrats take five. the license vote passes with a narrow margin. Dr. Samuel E. Courtney, a colored Republican, is elected to the school committee by about 2000 votes.
Newburyport voters passed the election quietly with a large turnout and a 135 majority. The Municipal league backed candidates winning three of four aldermen and 15 of 18 councilmen. Mayor Andrew R. Curtis was reelected. In North Adams Albert C. Houghton secured the mayoralty as a unitaried candidate. Republicans took all eight council seats and Democrat C. B. Bartlett won assessor by 42 votes. License support stood at Yes 1415, No 1120.
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