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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1913
Page
6
The Marlboro Enterprise lists office at 161 Main Street Marlboro Mass and dates of registry. It names Walter B Morse as president and Walter P Frye John H Lawton as treasurer and manager with subscription rates of 1 dollar per year and 30 cents for six months, payable in advance.
A physician warns against worry and urges self help and steady effort. He stresses not depending on easy solutions, keeping active, and facing challenges directly rather than seeking external aid or procrastinating. He references life lessons from music and history to encourage resilience.
The New York Tribune notes the O prefix as the oldest in Europe and traces Irish naming to the twelfth century. It highlights Irish and Dutch family histories in New York and the social standing implied by this surname tradition.
The article notes that forty years ago copper was mined in southern California but declines since then due to high fuel and transport costs. It highlights iron deposits at San Isidro as a promising find yet with no active development.
A quirky domestic scene shows Pather splashing in two waters and ruining a suit in a stranger’s house through a 30-cent fire. When the ice-box leaks, he ascends to wake mother who then mops up the spill.
A Leeds jeweler once fashioned a silver model of a beam engine that is complete in every detail yet weighs only one and a half pennyweights and stands half an inch tall.
The Concord National Bank calls stockholders to its banking house on Tuesday January 13 1914 at 3 45 PM to elect directors and conduct other legal business. C F Heywood cashier Concord Mass December 3 1913. For sale first driving horse seven years old chestnut color. A.
A mixed local update notes a new sign for A Vanderhoof, social arrivals and visits, ice delivery from Angier's mill, and a Trinity College student visiting Maynard. Christmas decorations brighten doors, a midnight watch service invites participation, a eugenics lecture by Dr Evangeline Young at Miss Holland's, and a Scandinavian church party. Christmastide mass at St Bernard's features soloists Blanchard O Neil Flavin and Powers.
Limited crowd of 25 couples attended the C H B Senior dance held Saturday night due to strict graduation class entry rules. Despite the small turnout the hall gleamed with Christmas greens and flags, the Tremont orchestra played well, and a capable committee managed the event.
About 100 attendees gathered Friday evening for the Concord High Alumni Association’s tenth annual reunion in Eaton Hall. The program featured theater, sleight of hand, and dances, with officers elected for the coming year and refreshments served by the committee.
Miss Webber discusses economic planning for a family of four with an $1800 yearly income. She outlines 25 percent for food 20 percent for rent and utilities 15 percent for operating expenses 25 percent for higher living and 10 cents per meal for raw foods. She argues true economy is making the most of what one has and previews a next talk on living at 10 cents a meal with Maid cost considerations.
A Boston college student visiting a suburban hen yard admires a well marked hen and exclaims with delight what beautiful folly the hen has. The moment captures a lighthearted vignette of rural charm through a city visitor's reaction.
A Surinam method uses copper sulphate to kill bacilli that injure tobacco plants through tat damage. The technique aims to protect crops by targeting the disease-causing microbes and reducing leaf burn and deterioration.
More than 100 residents and visitors attended the O. K. Christmas Dance at the Town Hall Monday night. About 125 danced to the B Noss orchestra with home for the holidays and Boston guests among the crowd. Decorations featured holly and a miniature forest on stage while refreshments were served at intermission by Whittemore of Boston. Ushers were from the U. K. committee led by Berkley Wheeler Julian Ballou and Stephen Pepper.
John P Marshall of Boston, organist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a Boston University lecturer, will speak at the Concord Musical Club on The Romantic School. The first of two lectures will be given Wednesday at the club president Mrs Henry F Smith Jr’s home with musical selections by club members.
In the small hours a placid man asked for a bottle of soda water. The druggist, despite strong feelings, agreed to a ten cent return credit on the bottle. Two hours later the same man returned, demanded his ten cents, and left with the bottle.
First Parish hosted a Christmas party for its young people on Friday afternoon. The program featured a Christmas play Christmas Guests by Ruth Wood and others, a ventriloquist act by J H Marshall of Boston with his dolls, a small dance, and a children’s supper overseen by Berkley Wheeler.
The Punkatasset Camp Fire Girls met at Miss Esther Wheeler’s home to study the manual and start Indian basket making. They planned meetings every two weeks, with the next set for January 10, and the group ages range from 12 to 13. Sixteen Nashawtuc Camp Fire Girls gathered at Miss Mary Parker’s home for the first camp session, reviewing rules, singing, and bead work for headbands in the tool house.
About 30 children and their mothers attended a Christmas party in the Trinity church parish house, hosted by Rev and Mrs Smith Owen Dexter. The afternoon featured games and refreshments, following a carol service with a brief address by Mr Dexter and a tree gift distribution to the City Mission for distribution to the needy.
Concord postoffice reports its busiest week ever with rapid handling of mail. A special parcel post window and precancelled stamps aided efficiency as clerks and carriers cleared daily incoming and outgoing mail. The Christmas rush extended into Friday with many postcards awaiting delivery.
A Sunday school teachers meeting at The Manse is planned for Thursday evening. The first service of the year is a preparatory communion lecture by the pastor Friday at 7 30 with the topic The Vision of Zechariah a New Year s Assurance. The New Year s communion follows next Sunday morning with member reception and a weekly program of prayers and services led by Rev W J Batt and others.
Concord Lyceum announces a Wednesday evening show at Monument Hall by The Players, an amateur group from West Newton. The four act Jerome K. Jerome piece The New Lady Bantock will be staged, after venue rules forced the move from town hall to Monument Hall.
A long list of names appears as advertised letters in the notice. Recipients include H Burke Joseph Belrose A J Bons James Darrell Charlie Flanders Kenneth Emerson Frederick Jones Mr and Mrs M B Mellor Curtis Snow Mr and Mrs Webster Mr and Mrs John Wilson Miss Josephine Battles Mrs T H Biglow Mrs J Whitney Beals Jr Miss Catherine Clark Mrs Bertha Frasher Miss Helen Gannon Miss Nan Hunter Miss Emily Matthews Miss Dorothe Mathews Miss Delia Nestor Miss Isabel Parker Miss Ruth E Frei Mrs Charles H Roberts Miss Grace Ced ed Mrs Smith.
Saturday afternoon the annual Christmas party of the Sunday school at the Trinitarian church was led by Miss Mary V. Tewkstir. The program featured a Bethlehem birth scenes portrayal with songs stories and stereopticon pictures. A young ladies chorus sang while Miss Lilian B. McConnell read the Christmas stories. After the program adjourned upstairs to a decorated Christmas tree and refreshments, each child leaving with a candy treat.
The road department installs a guide post at Walden Street and Main Street to direct traffic. Drivers urged to keep to the right to avoid accidents.
The State Board of Registration issued certificates to local druggists this week. The law takes effect January 1 and prohibits any druggist from practicing without a valid certificate. It targets drug stores, described as places where dope is sold, with about 2000 stores in Massachusetts mentioned.
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