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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1909
Page
4
Concord residents enjoy frequent social activities from proms and dances to church services and lectures. Local students prepare for a BA A meet and graduation music rehearsals. officials report 66 deaths last year as a sign of the town’s health.
A Loyal Temperance Legion gathering at Trinitarian church vestry drew a smaller crowd due to mumps but engaged children with Ada B. Frisbee recounting Lincoln's life and Taft's wine glass refusal. Mrs. H. Rolfe of the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union spoke as sessions continue to grow.
A party of about 40 Odd Fellows traveled to Waltham on the 2.03 train to participate in degrees at Prospect lodge. The home lodge conferred the first degree at 3 PM, Concord lodge the second at 4:30, and Dunster lodge of Cambridge the third at 8 PM. A turkey supper followed, and visiting fellows set records at the bowling alley before returning home at midnight. Concord members completed their visit pleased with the day’s proceedings.
Mrs. Arthur F. Adams hosted Concord Grange members at her Junction home. Whist awarded first prize to Mrs. Prescott Hosmer for the highest ladies score, while Arthur Jones won the gentlemen’s first. Consolations went to Mrs. G. W. Hunt and Mr. Howe. Confectionery was served before departures.
Dr Chapman hosted a Saturday night meeting in Mechanics hall inviting a party of 16 including Mrs G A Tewksbury Miss Dorothy Tewksbury Miss Mary Tewksbury Marion Towne Helga Nelson Miriam Davis Bertha Garfield Mrs Charles Towle Frank Hubbard Leslie Anderson Robert Baker Henry Thorpe George Miller Wm Davis and Peveril Peterson.
The will of Mary H. Witherle of Concord filed for probate at East Cambridge provides $12,000 to establish a free public library in Castine named the George H. Witherle Library or Witherle Memorial Library. Remainder funds, including part of the Mary Hooker Fund, go to Frank E. Cutter in trust with distributions to Castine Congregational Unitarian Church, the Concord Home for the Aged, the Py A Society of Boston, and the Animal Rescue League of Boston, plus further trusts for heirs. The estate totals about $20,000 personal and $75 real estate. dated February 1905.
The Washington fund of Company I reported large attendance over two nights at Monument Hall in Concord for a minstrel show. The program featured an interlocutor, end men in blackface, comic sketches, a caricaturist act, and a Hebrew sketch, with dancing after Friday's performance and a list of officers and volunteers involved. The troupe departs Concord Tuesday afternoon by special train to Fall River, then returns to arrive in Concord Sunday or Monday.
Little Johanna Mulcahy aged 12 of Byron Street was severely injured when a double runner sled lost control on Hird's hill. The sled struck a tree, breaking one of her legs in two places while two boys escaped uninjured. She was returned home to rest.
A Saturday night dance promoted by Joseph S. Richardson John M. Eaton and George M. White drew many out of town guests. The First Corps Cadets orchestra provided music from 8 to 12 with refreshments served at 10 30 during intermission in the lower hall. Matrons for the event were Mrs. F Alcott Pratt Mrs Stedman Buttrick Mrs Henry H Braley Mrs M B L Bradford Mrs William H Allen and Mrs Henry Braley.
The Professional Chauffeurs Association dance at town hall Tuesday night drew few local attendees as bad roads kept out several out of town partygoers. Those who attended praised Wilson's Military Orchestra of Fitchburg for superb music.
Old North Bridge C A R group met at Walden street with Mrs G A Tewksbury hosting. Members heard Daniel Webster style Lincoln memories including poetry recitations by Dorothy Tewksbury Viola Foss and Lida Foss and Gettysburg address read by Warren Hix and Herbert Mills. Remarks by visiting members followed with refreshments served in the dining room.
Last week at the Wright Tavern included Miss Amy J. Thomas and Mr. George B. Thomas of Youngstown Ohio, Miss Minnie Erb of Lititz Pennsylvania, Dr. R. T. Herring of Reedy Island Delaware, Harold O. Stewart of Youngstown, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Fisher of Boston, Miss Marian T. Loomis of Five Forks Indiana, and Wilson's Singing Orchestra of Fitchburg using the tavern as headquarters. Mr. Busch, wintering in Jacksonville, has recovered from a malarial fever. Automobilists enjoyed the pleasant weather on Washington's Birthday as several parties stopped for luncheon.
Last rites for Mary H Witherle were held Thursday afternoon at the home of her nephew Frank E Cutter on Sudbury road. Rev I B Macdonald of the First Parish church conducted a simple service between 3 and 4 o clock. Interment followed at Sleepy Hollow cemetery.
Help wanted notices seek plain sewing at home or day labor with contact Miss Clements 60 Thoreau St Marlboro Mass seeks home duties companion for refined lady with small family and home privileges. Also requests wood for sale birch maple oak by C W Prescott. Other ads seek bicycle sale and furnished rooms near Concord Massachusetts.
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