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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1916
Page
4
Voters welcomed earlier town reports ready Tuesday enabling informed decisions on department actions. Some noting wasted paper from ballots listing friends’ names as jokes, increasing clerk workload and costs. A few residents question moving town meeting up a month due to weather and late reports, with Monday’s vote to test the idea.
At meetings of the board of registrars 39 male and one female names were added across sessions January 25 February 7 February 17. Net gain 18 voters. total eligible voters for town election is 1053 male and 186 female, grand total 1189 with poll assessment 2096.
Certificates from the state board of agriculture on display at De Lee's pharmacy show Charles Visocchi earning second prize in the junior clean milk class for the northeastern district. Joseph Visocchi won fourth prize in the employee contest and Agostino Visocchi took eighth prize in the same district. The family operates a North Sudbury farm with a model barn and rigorous milk cleanliness.
Andrew Seiton, 60, served with the Seaforth Highlanders in France and has prior campaigns in Afghanistan in India and Egypt. Belonging to a soldier family, nine brothers include five in the English army, with Seiton long attached to the crack regiment.
The freshman class of the high school remembered three classmates who are ill last week. Flowers were sent to William Sexton at St Elizabeth's hospital Edith Carr at Massachusetts General Hospital Boston and Paavo Jarvinen at his home in this town.
Concord Junction and nearby towns report social visits and arrivals. Mrs William Bertell visited friends in Portland while Alexander McCabe spent the weekend in Worcester. Mrs Harvey Stone is able to be out after a week’s illness. Neil Butcher and family receive congratulations on the birth of a son. Harvey Stone joins Garden City laundry in Newton. David Scanlon moved to Hartford for a new position. Miss Ethel Dubois returned to Taunton after extended stay with her parents. Monthly Holy Name society meeting held at Help of Christians church. Miss Etta Wilson leads the Maynard Co local branch inits new block. Catholic club met Monday evening. Damon and A P Simpson transferred from Wellesley Hills to Norton. G G G G met last Tuesday with Mrs Arnold Lowery. hostess served a delightful luncheon. Ruth Allen unable to hold dancing class this week. will offer both afternoon and evening classes next Tuesday. Mrs Heyman and son Charles left for Detroit to establish their future time. Samuel Heyman, MIT student, remains in Boston to complete his course.
The Catholic club held a successful whist party at Warner's hall on Friday night with about 150 attendees. Play continued until 10 15 PM followed by refreshments. Prizes went to Miss Regina Connell, Miss Theresa Macone, Mrs. Fisher, Aime Pageau, William Quinn, and Frank Gagnon. Dancing ran until midnight, with many visitors from Maynard and Concord.
Miss Gladys Miller was surprised at her Central street home Saturday night by a group of about a score friends. A bracelet was presented to her on behalf of those present and refreshments followed the pleasant evening. Attending were Lena Dixon Markenson Ina Crowson Doris Pratt Helen Loring Mary Comorton Frances Kennedy Edith Massie Bertha Massie Hester Massie Alfred Chabot Arnold Hewitt Arthur Small William Heeks Clarence Hewitt Michael Lane Harold Wetherbee Harold Miller Walter Kennedy Chauncy Garland Sherman Reed and Albert Payson.
Probate filings list the Concord will of Harriet A Fowler dated 1912 naming Orrin Fowler as executor with bequests to local churches and heirs Herbert Maynard Loring Concord Junction George Framingham Waltham. estate values not given. Also Lydia Burr of Medford will proceedings. Edwards Loughlin Concord Junction handles papers. Estates of William Hartwell Bedford and Mary Brigham Concord proceed with executors and bond details. A divorce libel by Mildred Hunter Sudbury against Robert D Hunter Boston seeks custody and $5000 property. Cossar Sudbury executor bond $1500. Reed Maynard inventory shows $3979.4 in personal property.
Mrs. Jennie Bowen of Meredith New Hampshire sends a testimonial letter claiming her sick boy was saved from grave danger. The ad extols Dr Laxative and Worm Expeller as advertised for decades with warnings of stomach pains nose itching cough and tremors and offers free advice with prices of 35c 50c and 1.00 at dealers.
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