Marlboro and nearby towns gather for Friday event
Community notice lists Hudson Marlboro Maynard Concord Acton Sudbury Stow and surrounding towns preparing for a Friday gathering. Attendance expected from residents and local officials.
09 Jan 1891
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1891
Page
1
Community notice lists Hudson Marlboro Maynard Concord Acton Sudbury Stow and surrounding towns preparing for a Friday gathering. Attendance expected from residents and local officials.
The office invites prompt attention to matters connected with the office and will gratefully receive news items. Readers are asked to forward information and tips to assist timely coverage.
The article lists events and club notices: the D Y W Y K masquerade fixed for January 30. Foresters initiated seventeen new members. Charles A. Welch Lodge dance set for February 27 with Brigham's orchestra. Nashoba Tribe peace dance anticipated. English Tea Party at M E Church January 24. Masonic dance with a special supper plan. various notices on local business and social events.
Public installation at Masonic hall led by Henry G. Goodwin of Boston with D D G R John Wiley and suite of Hudson. Recitals included piano solos humorous readings and a banquet for about two hundred. New officers named: Regent F R Connor Vice Regent George N Jones Orator Michael Sweeney Past Regent Benjamin Carter Secretary F H Salisbury Collector Alex Veitch Treasurer M H Garfield Chaplain J K Fix Guide William Lord Warden George L Smethurst Sentry Timothy Buckley Trustees George H Hart Edw Henderson J B Lord. Maynard Lodge I O O F held their annual officer installation with Lorenzo Clark N G and others installed.
Maynard residents hear about growing furniture mattress and carpet trade as Haynes Bros offers lower prices at the Co operative Store. Best 96.25 and granular sugar 17 for 1 dollar with oranges for sauce at 600 per peck.
West Acton updates report Mrs E. Rich ill with Dr Dodge attending. New baby daughter born to Mr and Mrs C J Holton. Miss Hattie Davie visiting Fitchburg friends. Raymond Dodge home from Atherst. Mrs Isaac Graham ill with consumption in Concord. New Year's concert at Baptist church led by Nellie Hall and Stella Steele. Universalist Society circle and sociable held in church parlor. Will Holt sprained while leaving for Lowell. on crutches but recovering. C L S C met with Mrs Mart. review questions discussed. Balls church annual roll call and supper. speeches and stories shared. Advertisements for Littlefield flour and coffee, tenement for rent, and tea and coffee offers.
Sparse winter deaths. residents listed with scattered health and job notes. Local trades and moves appear as Mrs Farrar’s spinal trouble, Wright the Boston silverware drummer, Merriam visiting from Meriden, and Freath the watchman moving. A school roof leak, a steel eye injury near Maynard, and shop pins at Wood's Lunch Rooms close the irregular town update.
The piece surveys Sudbury town items including the new North Sud ice house and ice operations at White Pond, land conveyance for a new school site, remarks on local clergy, a history society talk, a lecture on the electric telegraph, social gatherings, and a military prize event with dances into the night.
A widow contested the Once & Western Railroad Company for laying a rail over her farm at a steep grade without fair compensation. She periodically soap-cleaned the rails to hinder trains, effectively pressuring the company to settle and pay. The tale underscores soap's practical, unexpected role in historical disputes.
The report notes a post drill event with weather improving for the Military Ball. It mentions prettily dressed cadets not pleasing judges, a Floor director First Sgt. Cull, the Thoreau house hosting, and questions about meaning of II VII VII.
A flood of shopping and club notices appears: Hamburg Edgings at Hunt's, Spurr's cigars, overcoats at KE and Brown's, oysters fresh daily at Hunt's, Golden Temple Charter opens with $5 fee and $100 after two years, Great Bargains at Miss Buck's millinery, Columbia Flour at Towle's, sleds and skates at H L Whitecomb, rubber stamps via H C Derby, lanterns and farm goods at Hastings Co, laundry agency at H L Whitcomb, axe at Hastings Co, furnace for sale, and more including a cigar and cough remedy and local services.
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