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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1908
Page
4
The Marlboro Enterprise lists subscription rates at 1 year for 1 and 3 month options with prices. It notes mailing details and office location at 181 Main Street Marlboro Mass. The issue header identifies editors H F Wilder and manager. Spots the post office second class status and date of August 25 1908 applies.
The Fifteenth Annual Concord Lodge I O O F concert and dance filled Association Hall with many out of town guests. NobIe Grand Charles A Hunter led the event with a large grand march and turkey supper at midnight under Randall Woodworth and Lucius Hodgman. The guest list included J W Raymond and many lodge members with dozens of partners, marking one of the most successful gatherings in years.
Social visits and illnesses mark the week with Miss Matel Griswold a guest of Officers Bowker and Mrs Bowker. Rev Favor ill and unable to work. Funeral attendance for Mrs Arch ie Stronach. Marriages include Capt George W Bourne and Mrs Sarah P Leavitt. W C T U meets. Old Concord Chapter reports. Loyal Temperance Legion reorganization underway.
A playful exchange shows plans for spring work with Jas Dev ane and W Acton. A mother scolds her son Reginald for preferring a roommate who uses many sesquipedalian words. An elder requests a magazine, but a joke sign at a news agent mocks the miss.
A Philadelphia Press column excerpt shows a teacher asking children what would bring perfect happiness and a bright boy responding we want things we don’t have. The playful exchange reflects desires and reactions in a classroom moment.
A stuffed cat from the unfinished Washington Monument era is mounted in a Smithsonian case. The tale describes the cat's 500 foot leap from the shaft, its graceful fall, and subsequent death by a terrier, with the remains preserved for display.
A Washington scientist explains wind and temperature differences tilt sound waves, preventing sound from traveling straight ahead. Atmospheric deflection causes sirens to be audible only a few miles instead of the predicted 1,500, due to wind strength variation and air temperature gradients.
Cape Times recounts a Queensland bush episode where five men meet a tramp barber who shaves them all. A six man posse bursts in seeking a murderer who once shaved a victim in Unadilla. The shaved man is captured after a fight and recalls intent to finish off the last shaved man before thinking of something else.
Reports from St. Petersburg note the withdrawal of Turkish forces west of Tabriz and a more conciliatory tone from Constantinople. Observers say these moves improve Russo Turkish relations and reduce tensions.
Miss Helen C. Rust of New York visits Miss Reod at Main Street. Ice houses in Concord nearly full with 16 inch thick ice. C M & H line trains delayed by ice at Concord Junction. A O H will hold a dance in Monument hall next Wednesday night with an 8 to 9 pm drill by Waltham L A O H degree team. Abraham Lincoln service marked the 99th anniversary at Trinitarian church with Rev Yager and Rev Tewksbury delivering addresses.
Miss Winifred Alice Stumbies of Wollaston married Lieut. James Fernald Bagley of the 2nd Maine National Guard at Capt. Alfred B. C. Dakin's Lowell Road home. The couple to honeymoon and reside in Tagus Maine. Rev. Loren B. MacDonald officiated. guests were intimate relatives. decorations featured Valentine motifs. The bride wore Chantilly lace over taffeta with a bouquet of roses and lilies.
From the fourth congressional district reports center on Hon. Walter Morse as a candidate for delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago this June. George A. Wallace of Fitchburg withdraws from consideration, clarifying the field and leaving Morse with strong Fitchburg backing potential.
Nora the new maid tells callers Mrs. Blank is at home but Nora refuses repeats. She warns that no one will press for access and asserts she will not be pushed. The Home Magazine notes the cautionary tale of deception at a doorstep.
An indignant customer confronts a barber about a 25 cent charge while the sign boasted 15 cents. The French barber shrugs, apologizes, and explains that not all customers who come in have first class hair.
The Union met February 4 with 15 ladies present led by Mre H Ralfe. They reported completed bags, lunch for the Congregational Maternal Association, a notice from Supt Ogden about ads removed from cars, one new member, and a commemorative Union Signal issue for Frances Willard. Plans for a February 28 food sale at Mrs Rolfe's home were arranged.
The Massachusetts Asparagus growers Association met at the home of President Charles W. Prescott Mono nmment Jr with representatives from across the state. Officers elected were Prescott as president Hollis as secretary and treasurer Wheeler as vice president and an executive committee including Prescott Hollis Wheeler Hutchins Morse Davis. Prescott reported his Washington visit to discuss the Concord substation and rust resistant plant efforts, noting government support. Seeds from abroad are arriving and the government will expand test areas to about ten acres at the substation this year.
A letter to George Arnold condemns cheap filler paints that dilute real paint with lead zinc and oil, calling them fool knave sick paint. It argues real paint should be standard Devoe with honest pricing and warns about excessive gallons and weather notes a cold week bottoming at eight degrees below zero.
A Concord Centre family seeks a maid for general housework. Good references required. Apply to A. T. Jacobs at 5 Monument Street, Concord Mass.
A. L. Hicks advertises manicuring shampooing facial and scalp work with vibrator and electrical treatments at reasonable prices. The notice emphasizes affordable beauty services for clients seeking facial care and scalp therapy.
The third meeting of the Concord Woman's Club was held with Mrs Rolfe presiding. About 35 members attended as Mrs Stedman led the discussion on the moral value of esthetics and beauty in schools and child development.
The 20th annual coinvention of the Middlesex C. E. Union will be held in the Congregational Church at Ayers on Saturday Feb 22. It will be largely attended by members from the section. Speakers include Arthur W. Robinson of Natick Victor Bigelow of Lowell Rev William W. Sleeper of Wellesley and Rev James K E Norcross of Jamaica Plain.
The Bennington road and nearby addresses appear on an advertised letters list. Names include Francis Dane Bennington road BR L Gureey Peck Stow' Willcox Levi Wheeler Winchester Repeating Arms Co Miss M Banigan Mrs F A Bugbee Mrs H Garney Delia Marshall Savery Cedar street Gertrude Williams.
Property offered in Concord Massachusetts with running water available year round for nominal price. Interested parties directed to contact Wm D Wright at 104 Hanover Street Boston Massachusetts for details.
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