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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1909
Page
4
Mrs Stedman Buttrick returns from Detroit and Miss Rose Wallace visits Marblehead. Community improvements on Horeycuckle Island, Tungsten street lights at key town sites, and a string of visits, lectures and social events populate Concord's weekly notices.
Special services will be held at Trinity church every Wednesday at 7 30 during Lent with Ash Wednesday marking the first service. Rev. Smith Owen Dexter will officiate the opening, followed by a lineup of visiting clergy from Cambridge Boston Roxbury and Manning. Ash Wednesday litany and penitential office at 9 am Friday prayers at 5 pm during Lent with Holy Week Evening Prayer daily except Wednesday and Saturday. Good Friday includes a 5 pm service and an address.
Bernard Hay, charged with larceny, skipped the trial scene Friday night and has not been seen since. John Cohen, a Waltham junk dealer alleged to have purchased stolen goods, faced trial Saturday and was discharged.
The notice lists individuals including Mr and Mrs Chas F Batchelder R S Blanchard Box 600 J P Guy ol H Levingston Plympton Press Samuele Zufferli Miss Kate Doyle Mrs Eddie Greene Miss Nellie Han non Miss Hattie G Hill Whippoor will farm Mrs Mary G Skinner Miss Gertrude Tallis Miss Anna Wil iowinski Miss Elizabeth Watts Mrs J F White for advertised letters.
Politicians discuss Murray Ballou as a potential strong candidate for selectman. He is praised for possessing nearly all requisites of an ideal town official and is likely to receive broad support if he enters the race.
Concord townspeople packed Town Hall for a Lincoln birthday program marking the 100th anniversary of his birth. Chairman Howard J. Bartlett and others led a tribute featuring speeches reminiscences, songs, and readings, with a vote to print the Warner address for wider distribution.
George Tolman 72 former editor and manager of the New England Farmer died at his son Charles Tolman’s home in Academy Jane after a year of illness. Born in Roxbury in 1837 he moved to Concord as a boy and pursued journalism after stints in Detroit and Boston. He served as Concord Antiquarian Society secretary and was a selectman and overseer of the poor. Survived by four sons Adams James H Charles B E and William. funeral held privately Tuesday conducted by Rev. Smith O. Dexter.
The Co I minstrel troupe plans a Washington trip departing March 2 with shows Thursday and Friday at Monument hall. The program blends comic acts, a rapid sketch, a short dialogue and a farce The Automatic Servant Girl. Tickets sold well and funds go to the Washington fund. Co K of Lowell joins. 2 500 troops will attend inaugural ceremonies under Gov. Draper.
Tuesday night Concord Grange conferred the third and fourth degrees on two candidates. Fred W. Park of Boston, manager of the Grange Cooperative, spoke on the advantages of membership and displayed goods. Sandwiches cocoa doughnuts and cheese were served and a social hour followed.
Public notices list a Steinway piano and Saxony rug for sale among miscellaneous goods, plus firewood offerings and a portable 10 by 16 foot wooden house for sale. A small black purse is lost on a walk including Stowe Thoreau Elm River and Main streets. return to the post office.
The Trinitarian Church announces its monthly Ladies Missionary meetings on Thursday at 2 PM and an auxiliary of the Woman's Board of Missions at 4 PM. A church supper follows at 6:30 PM, with an evening entertainment by the social committee. Friday prayer meeting will focus on Social Life in the Chapel. The choir will sing from Church Hymns and Gospel Hymns for the evangelistic services next Sunday evening. The pastor’s Sunday morning sermon titled The King's Busy will be delivered. All are invited to attend.
J W Raymond attended Marlboro lodge of Odd Fellows visitation as grand officers demonstrated the first degree and shared remarks. The officers tour the state and plan to return to Concord in April to confer the second degree. Raymond is Marlboro lodge district deputy.
The C H S Athletic Association announces an interclass meet in the town hall on Monday evening February 22. Events include running, high jump, 15 yard dash and hurdles, potato race, obstacle race, standing broad jump, hop skip and jump, and a class tug of war. Hudson Hall and Wm Davis lead the organizing effort as spectators are expected in large numbers ahead of April outdoor meet.
At a Young Peoples club meeting a letter from Theron Damon teaching in Roberts College Constantinople described Turkey under the new regime. Miss Edna G. Cates gave a Monroe Doctrine paper and Walter A. Carr spoke on Democratic and Republican history. Maude Hunt and Hisse Lowden reported Current Events. Refreshments were served by Mrs. C. H. Towle G. B. Miller and Leslie Anderson.
Local shop promotes repair work focusing on high grade leather and skilled finishing. They claim their repairs endure wear and deliver neat, durable results and invite customers to try their service.
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