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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1907
Page
2
Rev W W Campbell pastor lists Sunday services 10 45 am and 7 pm Sabbath school 12 pm and junior activities EB at 3 pm CR at 6 pm meeting Tuesday evening 7 30.
Rev. George A Tewksbury pastor with Lord's day preaching at 10.45 a m and 7.30 p m Sabbath School at 12 m Y P 8 C B Sunday evening at 6.30 Chapel Prayer meeting Friday evening at 7 20
Rev. Loren B. Macdonald presides with Sunday services at 10.46 a m. Young People's Guild meets at 7 p m. Sunday school at 12 m. Communion services on the first Sunday in January March May July September and November. Preparatory meetings held Friday evenings before communion.
The Scandinavian M. E Church Haver Pastor offers Sunday services with Sunday school at 10.4, Epworth League 7 to 7 45, evening service 7 46 to 9, and a Friday prayer meeting 8 to 9. A Christian Science service is held Sundays at 3 30 in Insurance hall, Monument square. Rev. Sidney J. Willis presides at South Acton Church with Universalist services Sundays at 10 30 and Sunday school at 11 80 led by J. K. Witherbee.
Congregational Church lists morning service 10 45 Sunday school 12 m superintendent Frank E san derson Christian Endeavor at 6 p m evening service 7 p m prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 p m choir director G B Lawton organist R W Carter and Annie G Adams. Methodist Episcopal Church notes pastor Rev R B Bisbee services 10 30 11 45 sunday school superintendent L D Wilson Epworth League 6 p m evening service 7 15 class meeting Friday choir director George Lawton. St Bridget R C Church pastor Rev F F Killirea masses 8 30 and 10 30 am vespers 8 15 pm West Acton first Sunday 2 15 pm.
St George's Church presents Rev Arthur Bradford Papineau as rector. Services include Holy Eucharist at 8 am and 10:30 am on Sunday, morning service and sermon, catechism at noon, evening prayer and sermon at 7:30 pm, Friday 7:30 pm litany and instruction, and holy days at 7 am Holy Eucharist.
Foresters meet on the first and third Mondays while Companions of Forest meet on the second and fourth Mondays. A O U W holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays. Maynard Lodge No. 131 I O O F meets every Wednesday Mizpah Lodge No. 54 D of R meets first and third Thursdays. Eastern Star meets first and third Tuesdays. Knights of Pythias meet on the 24th and fourth Wednesdays. The Lodge I O G T meets on the first and fourth Tuesday night. St Bridget s C I 8 meets every Sunday night. Hibernians meet on the second Thursdays. Royal Arcanum meets on the first and third Mondays. KU meets on first and third Wednesdays.
Massachusetts probate notice directs heirs and interested parties to appear January 13 1908 in Cambridge Middlesex for will probate and administration with will annexed to Olga M Kettunen. Publication required in Maynard Enterprise weekly for three weeks with last issue at least one day before court and notice mailed to known interested parties thirty days prior. Charles J McIntire judge.
Massachusetts probate notice invites heirs, creditors, and interested parties to Concord on January 13, 1908 to show cause why Michael Ward of Milton should be granted letters of administration without bond. The citation is published in Concord Enterprise. Witness: Charles J. MelIntire, First Judge. Register: W. E. Rogers.
A compact advertisement offering manicuring shampooing facial and scalp work, vibrator and electrical treatments at reasonable prices located on Walden Street near the post office.
John Wade Marlboro leaves for Ormond Florida January 1 to take a position in a tensorial establishment. Dee Fay and Ethel Neal are mentioned in connection with marriage. Reverend A H Whec ock officiated. Parsons machine shop on Gay street shows booming business with heavy job work. Margaret Claflin visits Park street home during college vacation. Edmund Labossierre leaves General Electric Supply Lynn to join S H Howe main factory counter department. Hattie L Hudson sues city for Maple street fall injuries. W M Brigham represents her. Ulysses Brigham, son of ex representative W M Brigham, is reappointed as a Massachusetts House page for a third year. Joan A Rawlins post G A R and Ladies G A R Relief Society officers set to be installed January 14 by Post Commander John F E Gilman of Boston.
A vintage advertisement promotes Uric-O as a permanent cure for rheumatism, claiming it purges the rheumatic poison from blood muscles and kidneys. It touts exclusive anti rheumatic formulas, offers free samples, and lists Syracuse and Cornort as locales with local endorsements.
An 1907 poem by Frank H. Sweet recasts St Nicholas as a patient listener to a knightly doll and a soldier. A maiden pleads over injuries, while the saint consoles that a future year may restore them to a rightful place in stockings. The piece ends with a moral about living for another’s satisfaction.
The article reports on odd parcels handled by the British post office during a Christmas rush, noting live animals and unusual gifts found in hampers. Examples include leeches, an artificial leg, a dormant alligator, 300 dead mice, a decomposed puppy, live frogs, adders, and other creatures sent as gifts despite restrictions.
A brief dialogue features one person claiming to know how to cure a cold while the other insists the illness is their own pet. The exchange hints at a humorous misdirection about ownership and remedy.
The piece laments gossip and harsh judgment of others, noting how people smile at detraction while condemning flaws. It hints at borrowed wit and moral doublespeak, ending with a quip about friendship tested by need and the cost of judgment.
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