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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1907
Page
8
Thirty five measles cases reported Saturday in West 4cton. Local holiday plans altered due to epidemic. Notables include Crosby and Carl Hoar returning from Dartmouth and Miss Evelyn Shaw visiting Mrs D W Lovett. Mrs Miner dies of pneumonia. burial in Sleepy Hollow. Col Edward F Jones sends souvenir cards to former Mass Vols commander.
The phrase notes an upcoming eighty year milestone for HET Jue, described with emphasis on age and timing. The text provides no clear event details, affiliations, or locations beyond the stated age reference.
Lucy A. Burbeck aged 86 died Monday at the home of her nieces Misses Nellie and Fannie Wetherbee where she had resided for years. Widow of Thomas Burbeck she had been frail but mentally clear. Survived by sister Stephen Hayward of Roxborough and the late James Hayward. Funeral Thursday Dec 26 at 2 pm from her home. Also notes John Albert Hayward has passed State board exams and opened medical practice in Boston.
This excerpt outlines an orange layer cake recipe with steps for a rich batter, including butter, sugar, yolks, milk, flour, and vanilla. It covers cake tin preparation, batter handling for flat-topped layers, oven considerations, and a citrus filling made from sugar, corn starch, lemon rind, orange juice, and butter, with cooking in a double boiler.
In South Acton the old folks dance is planned for New Year’s and Miss Cathryn Feeley visited friends Saturday. Schools close for a two week Christmas vacation. Christmas services at both churches were well attended. Conductor Fletcher recovers from a grip illness. A Christmas baseball dance is set for Exchange Hall tomorrow night. Various residents visited relatives in Leominster and Winchester. Frank Hapgood and wife visit from Newport Vermont. Don Center returned from New York after his grandmother’s funeral. A baby girl arrived to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Chickering. both mother and child are doing well. Frank Smith, longtime flagman at Parkers Crossing, hospitalized for prostatitis surgery at Massachusetts General. The town paid Mrs. O’Neil’s land damage claim tied to road use for Mary T. Loughlin’s benefit. Judge Joslin to handle O’Neil interests with possible supreme court action. Edgewood church adopts a resignation resolution for Mr. Farren praising his leadership and the Men’s Sunday Evening club’s role in boosting church attendance.
Rev. Merritt Augustus Farren born November 13 1867 in New Haven Conn rose through Y M C A and Christian Endeavor work and led temperance efforts in Connecticut He studied at Bangor Theological Seminary Brown University and previously preached in Lyndon Vermont and Edgewood Rhode Island His new pastorate is marked by clear direct preaching modern methods and strong parish cooperation with a promising future ahead
Sadness fills the village as six year old Mamie Gray dies after three weeks of pernicious malaria fever. Her funeral is set for Thursday at 10 a.m. at the family home with interment at Mount Hope. Residents express deep sympathy for Herbert Gray and family.
North Acton report lists visits from Mr and Mrs N F Patterson of South Lancaster and A L Day returning to Concord Junction. C E Dailey moves to Chelsea for factory work while Dexter Spinney loses a horse to colic. Ice cutters prep as Lake Nagog freezes and thaws. Sickness grips area with several families struck, W H Hagkeh to hospital for lung trouble and a surgical proposal for Prof Pickard.
Flora Reed and Sophia Taylor are home for the holidays. Acton Grange plans a meeting on Tuesday evening December 24. The Chapel hosts Christmas festivities that evening. Rev Granville Yager from Concord supplies the local pulpit. Elizabeth Edwards was ill last week. Isabelle Pelton Bess Robbins and Helen Wood attended a ball in Concord Saturday. Sarah Wood of Hudson and Helen Wood of Malden will holiday with C D Wood. Centre schools held a Christmas celebration Friday afternoon. Santa Claus handed out gifts to all attendees.
Goldfield Nevada readers hear that federal troops won’t be withdrawn on December 30 despite a Washington statement. Mineowners plan to appeal to the president again, offering new facts not yet presented.
Charles Mellen of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad addressed the National Grange gathering in Hartford on November 13 delivering a trenchant critique of trusts and blackmail, praising Morgan and business leaders while denouncing corporate misdeeds. The Grange adopted resolutions renouncing the statements as not official creed and reaffirming anti trust principles and lawful conduct by all, including railroads and other corporations.
Nahum J Bachelder of East Andover New Hampshire was re elected master of the national grange and has long played a leading role in state politics agriculture and the order He has held multiple grange posts in New Hampshire and nationally and is noted for expanding Old Home Week and making abandoned farms productive.
Governor Granger and Governor R. 8. Woodruff received the highest degree in the Order of Patrons of Husbandry in Hartford on November 15. In remarks to a public audience, J. W. Darrow notes the Grange has fostered businesslike farming and urges continued education to raise agricultural standards nationwide.
A collection of reflections on kindness fear and pride in human behavior. Observations note how people respond to rewards consequences and social expectations with wry humor and practical wisdom.
A man flung a boy into a thrashing machine after taunts but the boy survived, later asked about his address for a football team. The exchange hints at an improbable recovery and curiosity about the boy’s fate.
A poem warns of a year of heated elections as voters bargain for a president from a broad field. Neighbors may clash and name call if ballots diverge, threatening civil discourse while a fall “peach” calm is celebrated despite political tension and social jokes.
A fragment on marriage strain and alimony follows a tale of a girl seeking to separate from a partner. The voice hints at deception in tenderness and calls for a new address to send support.
President travels with an immense escort to memphis for the deep waterway convention on April 4 and 5. Eighteen western and southern governors join over fifty senators and congressmen in support of inland waterways irrigation forest preservation and public land policy. The gathering underscores A. B. Burton and Garfield pushing federal schemes to develop commerce and national resources against lumber interests and western land issues.
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