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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1904
Page
1
Local notice urges Maynard residents to vote as the Grand Voting Contest ends in three days. A Holiday Goods sale offers a 12 percent discount through January 1st to attract shoppers.
The note thanks patrons for their generous support and reports record business volume achieved during the season.
John Sim visits Percival street from Prince Edward Island. Michael Punch spends Sunday with Mr and Mrs Murray in Boston. Elizabeth Porter visits East Boston friend Hannah Sweeney. Gladys Taylor visits grandparents J B Brown in Waltham. Harry Carson from Brooklyn visits Frank Ferns. School board meetings move to the 2nd and 4th Mondays monthly. Reverend Bisbee and Rev Bisbee arranged old clothes for the Sun Chapel mission in Boston.
The Union Fraternal League formed at the Congregational church to aid fraternal aims. Open to male attendants, it plans eight yearly meetings on the second Tuesday each month except summer. Trustees Joseph Rollinson. The group sent 160 dollars to Fall River cotton operatives, totaling 400 dollars from a 40-member union.
Miss Nettie Binns on Hillside street was surprised by friends Friday night and given a handsome watch chain. An evening of music and games followed with attendees William Stubbs Clarence Bodfish William Johnson John Coulter Samuel Townsend John Lord and the Misses Johnson Jessie Porter Edith Speight Katie Sweeney Sara Marsden Isabella Pet Bowers.
Enterprise weather tip notes a cold day with snow in New England. Sun rises at 7:18, sets at 4:20, moon rises at 11:53 p.m. High tides at 4:15 a.m. and 4:45 p.m.
The report lists visits by Daniel S Wilson to Marlboro and J D Wilson to Acton, plus social calls by Harold Osborne of St. Louis and the Blossoms at Hudson. Union church supper planned for Wednesday. Christmas tree event drew large attendance. Recounted are a hip injury to Mrs. Lucy Dodge, entertainments at the reform school and Concord Junction Lyceum program updates with the Colonial Orchestral Club Boston and upcoming Life Savers program on Jan 9.
Local notes report a Christmas party at the Canoe club house with about 20 attendees. Sherman Potter and Miss Dempsey are mentioned, along with church services, a funeral for Mrs. Abbie Garfield, a milk sickness case, and festive events at St. Bernard's and St. Joseph's in Lincoln. Sleighing and horse racing on Lexington road are described with local interest in future races.
Thomas E B Cahill of Chelsea died by his own action at the reformatory Saturday night. He had been sentenced on June 25, 1904, from the Chelsea court for larceny and would have reached first grade February 1. No reason is known for the act. The Union church Christmas concert Sunday evening drew a good crowd with Sabbath school children and solos by Miss Elsie Luick and a duet by Miss Bertha Wilson and Miss Sadie Butcher.
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