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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1909
Page
8
Published weekly by the Enterprise Company Marlboro Massachusetts. Manager H F Wilder. Post office registration details from 1903. Subscription and single copy prices listed with advance payment required. Office address 151 Main Street Marlboro Massachusetts. Advertising rates specify one inch per week 75 cents and 25 cents for each additional inch with yearly specials. Local notices priced at 0 cents per line per insertion.
Moses Taylor visited his daughter Mrs. C. B. Saunders in Lowell last week. Prof. Lovett to give a barn dance in the town hall Thursday evening this week. Miss Heyen Wood presided at the organ in the Congregational church in South Acton Sunday morning. Real estate in Acton Center owned by the late Mrs. Joseph Reed advertised for sale. Ladies of the Congregational church to host supper and entertainment at the church on February 25 with public invitation extended.
After the Grange business meeting on Tuesday February 9 the public enjoyed a Lincoln program in a prettily decorated hall. Luther Conant spoke about his trip to the Chicago Convention. Last Wednesday evening P M Ward, dairy bureau agent, lectured in the town hall on dairying under Grange auspices, with local citizens praising the milk question.
Local items report ice house fill at Boston Dairy Co and a newborn girl for Chas Heath. Community events include Rev. Farren sermon topics, sports banquet plans in Boston, social circles meetings, and a turkey supper at the Universalist church. Notables: Lieut. Blodgett’s death, George Shapleig’s passing, and Bert Moore’s death in Roxbury.
Local pupils observed Lincoln day with literary exercises in the Congregational church. All participants delivered their parts in nearly perfect form and Francis Cahill's harmonica solo was notable.
Mrs G P Littlefield and children visit Melrose while Mrs Bertha Hall and daughter stay with relatives in Everett. Tufts Glee and Mandolin Club perform in I O O F hall on April 6. F E Harris and S A Guilford attended the G A R convention in Boston. Woman's Club plans a Gentleman's Night at Mrs G B Parker's on Feb 22. Residents travel to Concord Junction for a masquerade ball. Local anglers report 28 pickerel at Long Pond. Clarence Whitcomb of Malden dies of pneumonia at 54, with funeral held. West Acton notices advertise hay and local services.
Pupils hosted Lincoln Day Friday morning with a large crowd and G A R members in attendance. The program featured Loretta Moore violin, Thelma MacGregor Keller's American Hymn, and Thelma MacGregor along with readings and songs about Abraham Lincoln and King question.
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