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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1911
Page
8
Disjointed OCR fragment references large sums and a graft scheme. Names, dates, and concrete actions are unclear, but hints at deposits, bank funds, and a plan to “turn over a af” next year imply potential financial crime. Readable entities are minimal due to garbled text.
A collage of humorous notes and stray facts ranging from literature and astronomy to fashion and apples. Entries mention Saturn and Mars, a fast horse named 8o prano, a humorist Gilbert's $250,000 estate, New fall hats, cider vinegar prices, a 26-cent weekly college professor, and various whimsical observations on society, weather, and inventions. The tone blends light satire with fleeting trivia and local quirks.
Kateane Symonds and family visited from York state to enjoy the tide at the parental home. Mrs G P Morgan visits with Mrs Christie. Mrs White celebrated her sister's birthday with presents and well wishes. The Acton club Christmas dance was well attended. Fort Pond guests Madison Fairbanks and others camp for a week. N B O P lodge moves meeting to the Congregational church vestry. The Actonian club plans a three act comedy The Time of His Life in January.
The Sunday service featured a sermon from the text Through the tender mercy of our God. The program included music by Frank Merriam, with Herbert Mallinson assisting and a duet by Mrs. Elsie Rose and Harold Merriam. Ladies circle meetings and church events were announced, including next Sunday's morning theme Gather up the fragments and the evening Forgetting the things that are behind.
Mrs. John Brown hosted a Christmas party for grandchildren and neighbors with five children and four grandchildren visiting from the West. Harold Phalen begins a Tufts Glee Club tour this week. Geo. Tuttle of New York visits Horace F. Tuttle. Leonard White returns from Dartmouth. Aurin Payson enjoys a Boston University break. Miss Isabella and her brother Howard Daniels visit uncle F. J. Barker in Concord. Geo. Braman recovers from a sprained ankle. Daniel Tuttle, once of the village, is ill in South Acton.
The church held a Yuletide program with a well attended Christmas tree concert directed by three teachers led by Mrs Dusseault. Ebba Fredrickson sang with Dorothy Dusseault on violin while Harold Phalen dressed as Santa handed out candy to every child. The pastor was out with laryngitis and Rev W J Batt of Concord Junction led the pulpit. A large choir sang three anthems.
Mrs H F Robbins leads a Sunday evening program titled Things I Want to Do Better Next Year at 7 o clock. An auction sale at Nahum Littlefield farm Friday morning December 29 1911 begins at 930 with 25 cows heifers and bull 3 horses 50 tons hay and raven. Waldo Littlefield administrator Otis H Forbush auctioneer invite livestock dealers and hog buyers to attend.
West Acton residents report visits and holidays with family in Norwell Shirley Worcester and Stoneham. Clergy announce a unanimous call to Rev Charles L Pierce of Essex Conn for the Baptist church. Christmas trees, church services and social visits fill the holiday week with many townspeople hosting relatives and friends.
South Acton gentlemen allied with West Acton to press water question unite with west village to push this issue. The South Acton committee includes William Rawitzer Nelson Cole Lyman Taylor C H Fairbanks and F W Holt. A petition circulates to present to the legislature to form a water district for the two villages.
Dr Albert Pfeiffer of London England arrived at his parents home in Bedford Sunday evening. The physician, who spent his early youth in Bedford, counts among his clients many famous English writers and the notable noble families.
Marlboro hosts holiday visitors including Miss Florida Leblanc of Rockland and Mr and Mrs Pierre Pelletier of Spencer. Steeple Charley Charles Taylor called on an Enterprise reporter en route to Leominster. He gilded church crosses and painted steeples in town.
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