Concord Notes and Social Roundup This Week
Concord residents mingle at the Colonial Inn and at a Maynard visit. Church and club events unfold with lectures, dances, debates, and a Lincoln centennial service featuring Dr. Albert E. Winship.
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1909
Page
4
Concord residents mingle at the Colonial Inn and at a Maynard visit. Church and club events unfold with lectures, dances, debates, and a Lincoln centennial service featuring Dr. Albert E. Winship.
Musketaquid council No. 872 Royal Arcanum held installation at A O U W hall led by District Deputy A N Fogue and Grand Guide L Gordon. New officers named include Regent John M Isner and vice regent Harry A Isner with Geo B Arnold as orator and W D Cross as secretary. A concluding collation followed the ceremony.
In Concord residents return to boyhood as Nashawtuc hill becomes a popular winter venue. People of all ages ride the half mile slide using sleds from top artistic models to simple homemade runners, enjoying excellent sliding conditions.
The notice lists individuals and groups with advertised letters including A T Harding Peter Mereika John Peterson A W Stanley Miss Louie Norpell Abbott Academy Miss Agnes OBrien Miss May Sullivan plus others awaiting pickup at the post office.
Miss Clements of 60 Thoreau Street seeks plain sewing at home or by day. Also advertised are for sale: a Steinway piano square one large Saxony rug almost new and various household items. Apply to Miss Jessie C Brown at West Concord School Concord Junction Mass. Wood for gale birch maple oak offered by C W Prescott.
The filled music room on Walden street hosted a recital by Miss Elsie E Lowden with Boston soprano Adalyn Riley. Riley performed two selections while Lowden played the program including Beethoven Mendelssohn Rogers Carvel Staub Van Laer Reinhold and Sullivan pieces. The audience praised the masterly renditions and the ambiance of the afternoon concert.
A sizable audience attended the vesper service at the First Parish Meeting House Sunday at 5 p.m. Mrs Louise Bruce Brooks of Boston sang with a contralto voice and Miss Edith May Lang was the organist. The pastor Rev Loren B Macdonald spoke on faith the unseen from Hebrews 11 3.
In Cambridge before Judge Dana the Middlesex superior court awarded J. W. Cull a victory in a breach of contract suit against Russell Robb Charles W. Prescott and Stedman Buttrick. The case stemmed from disputes over the Simmons place on Monument street.
A blaze at 4:40 AM gutted the $12,000 residence of Dr. F B Cheney on Monument Street. Neighbors aided the displaced family as firemen, hampered by distant hydrants, battled the flames. Loss estimated at $15,000 with $9,500 building and $4,100 contents insured. cause blamed on a defective chimney. Dr Cheney undecided about rebuilding.
Concord high school seniors hosted their annual hall dance at the town hall with gold and blue decorations. Harry E. Brigham’s Marlboro orchestra provided music as seniors from Bedford Lincoln Acton Maynard Medford and Boston danced until midnight after a grand march led by Supt Wells A. Hall and Miss Annie J. Fisher.
Div 56 A O H staged a successful annual dance in Monument hall Friday night with McWalter's orchestra providing music from 8 to 9 for a concert and from 9 to 1 for dancing. Supper was served at 10 30. Edward Flannery led the floor with Joseph English as assistant marshal and the arranging committee included Joseph English John Haggerty E W Flannery David Carey and Thomas Burke.
Miss Jessie Wilson invited friends for a Friday sleigh ride leaving Concord at 4 pm and returning about 10 pm. The group dined at Wayland Hotel with lunch and social time, then headed home escorted by George Miller and Miss Julian Wheeler. Participants included Frank Hubbard Julian Ballou Dorothy Tewksbury Marion Towne and others.
A week long charity fair called The Festival of Months will be held at Morgan Memorial 89 Shawmut Ave Boston to aid Morgan Memorial work. The event opens February 8 at 7 pm and runs February 9 10 11 12 from 1 to 10 pm. Concord residents back the effort with a baby table coordinated by Miss Caroline P Holden Bedford Street and donations welcome for sale items.
Thirteen girls aged 13 form the Lucky Thirteen on Hubbard Street. Miss Hilda Raymond hosts a sleighing party to Lexington with her father J W Raymond providing a tandem ride and warm drinks. Guests include Mary and Helen Haunt, Eddie Penniman, John Hunt, Gertrude Towle, Helen Towle, Marion Moody, Lyda Foss, Maude Rockwood, Olive Hosmer, Andrew Raymond and Clara Graversen.
The youngest son of Henry Brooks of Fairhavens Road suffered a coastings accident on Nashawtuc hill last week. X rays showed no internal injuries, but ligaments in one wrist were torn. He is able to move about again this week.
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