South Acton Notes of Local Events and Personalities
Miss Ella Barker visits Newton friends while Anson Piper gains steadily in a wheelchair. Rev. Mr. Rice reads his resignation at Sunday service. Universalist ladies plan an entertainment and supper Thursday night. Mrs Compton’s Manager hosts about 100 at Stow last Saturday. Harry West rejoices as the last coke returns. A dance and masquerade at Strang Hall on the 28th with Brigham’s theatre attraction. Congregational ladies meet Thursday with Mrs. Glines. Aurea Flint serves as Cambridge juror. Bi-monthly Women’s Foreign Missionary Society meeting held with Mrs. Christie. Eliza Fletcher substitutes at Malden school for her ailing sister Genie. Alvin Lothrop visits relatives, returns to Washington DC. Hope Kimball turns six with a birthday party. Howard Tuttle named assistant at Tewksbury Medical for 18 months. Sympathy given to Pettickaps family. purse nearing $300. Dan Bent visits Judge Keyes after a satire incident. probation four months. Carpenters lay timbers for Marlboro crossing bridge. big iron on the way. Bradley’s rear building bought to become a lockup with two cells for lawbreakers. Congregational annual meeting elects officers: Deacon A. Merriam, deaconess Mrs. M. M. Tuttle, treasurer A. Leigler, secretary H. L. Clough, collector Mrs. L. C. Flagg, auditor Dr. S. A. Christie. Sunday School officers named: Superintendent W. L. French, assistant Mrs. Mae E. Griswold, treasurer Mrs. Flagg, secretary Hal Warren, librarian J. D. Christie, organist Ethel Duren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry West
Sean
Brigham
Thestra
Shrange
Congregational Church
Glines
Aurea” Flint
Cambridge
Ladies Foreign Missionary Society
Christie
Eliza Fletcher
Malden
Genie
Pettickaps
Dan Bent
Keyes
Marlboro Throuch Track
For Sale H P Shipman Engine and Heater
Local notice advertises a used H P Shipman engine and a small hot water heater suitable for heating three or four rooms. Sold by N J Cole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. P. Shipman
N. J. Cole
Acton Centre Notes Social and Local Events
Acton Grange to meet next Tuesday evening. Schools closed Friday afternoon for teachers meeting in Westford. Mr and Mrs E S Forbes welcomed a son born last week. W C Robbins East Acton returns from the west with horses for sale. Monument House reopen to the public. Sadie Russell Annetts of South Framingham buried at Woodlawn. Rev T M Miles preached on The Land Proves the Book. Citizens generous with Frederickson fund donations. Local youths attended a South Acton Dramatic Club performance in Stow Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acton
Westford
Harriman
Sadie Russell Annetts
South Framingham
Woodlawn
T. M. Miles
Frederickson Fund
Stow
South Acton Dramatic Club
Local notices and society items in West Acton
The column records residents health travel and visits including Wm Teele illness D H Hall business trip to St Louis James Jewett ice house work Miss Gertrude Webster Leominster visits Miss Mary A Armstrong Rindge and East Jaffrey N H Florence Woodward Sherborn visits Mr and Mrs F R Knowlton in Lowell activity of the Woman's club and Ladies Benevolent society The joint installation of Isaac Davis Post 138 and W R C 62 lists officers including D H Hall F R Knowlton and Susie A Hall The piece notes obituaries for Mrs Mary E Knowles and family tributes and funeral details plus local notices of Dr Cochran dentist piano lessons and a stray dog in West Acton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary A. Armstrong
Rindge
East Jaffrey
N. H
Florence Woodward
Sherborn
Chas. Woodward
Elywin H. Whitcomb
Malden
Fred MacDonald
Lowell
Somerville
Fannie Parker
Susie A. Hall
J. M. Fetcher
Mary J. Lawrence
Ellen A. Holbrook
Harriet P. Hart
Harriet Williams
Hattie C. Hayward
Nellie H. Knowlton
Nancy
Chaffin
Lilla Hawes
Gertrude Webster
Winnie Coolidge
Nellie Norris
Julia Baldwin
Knowles
Corps
Widow Mrs Marietta Holton Dies After Long Illness
Mrs. Marietta N. Holton wife of Charles H. Holton died at home on Monday afternoon January 14 after a long illness. Born in Boxboro 64 years ago she was daughter of Varnum and Mary Bowers Taylor. She lived in the old Taylor homestead and later moved to this village with her family. A charter member of Isaac Davis W R C No 62 she served as treasurer for five years and secretary later, remaining active in the Corps welfare. She was a devoted wife and mother and a dutiful daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marietta N. Holton
Charles. H. Holton
Boxboro
Varnum
Mary Bowers Taylor
Luther Conant Returns to Action for California Detail
Simon Taylor is confined to the house with the grip. Letters remaining in post office uncalled for include L. M. Felagg and J. Henry Drury. Acton Centre column notes Luther Conant starts this week for California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther Conant
California
Simon Taylor
L. M. Felagg
Acton Centre Auctioneer Ships Friesian Cow to Panama
Otis H. Forbush of Acton Centre Massachusetts received an order from Broadst New York City for a Holstein Friesian cow and calf to be loaded on a steamer and sent to Panama. The shipment tests the breed and could lead to more exports if successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otis H. Forbush
Acton Centre
Mass
Broadst
New York City
Panama
Gratitude for Sympathy in Bereavement
Mrs. John Fredrickson and family express sincere thanks for the sympathy and help shown during their great bereavement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Fredrickson
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Maynard
John F. Gannon
Loewe
Nason Street
P. S
Maynard, Mass
Vasa
South Acton
Ella Barker
Newton
Anson Piper
Mr. Rice
Universalist
Alvin Lothrop
Washington, D. C
Hope Kimball
Howard Tuttle
Tewksbury
E. S. Forbes
W. C. Robbins
East Acton
West Acton
Wm. Teele
D.H. Hall
St. Louis
James Jewett
Leominster
F. R
Knowlton’s
F. R. Knowlton
Geo. Watson
Hyannis
Littleton
Westford Academy
H. T. Clark
Coatinook
Canada
Ft West Acton
Woman's Club
Grace M. Hall
Deborah Bond
Russell Flint
Sacramento
Cal
Lydia Houghton
Flint
May Burnham
Warren Houghton
Ladies’ Benevolent Society
Isaac Davis
W.R. C
Charles. J. Holton
Geo. E. Holton
Northampton
Daniel Colbeigh
Sarah A. Law
Colleigh
Dr. Cochran
Case's Block
Nascnst
Mary E. Devane
G. W. Burroughs
W. Acton
W.C. Robbins
Arthur J.sullivan
Maurice McWalter
Fire Insurance
Main St
Concord
Palatine Insurance Company of
London
England
New Hampshire ‘Insurance Company of
Manchester
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