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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1909
Page
8
The Marlboro Enterprise lists subscription prices for one year at 1.00 with three month and six month options. It notes single copies at 3 cents, and a 151 Main Street office in Marlboro Massachusetts.
Advertisements offered at one inch for a week at 75 cents with 25 cents for each additional inch. Special yearly rates apply for steady advertisers. Business notices available in local columns priced at 10 cents per line per insertion.
The January thirtieth coldest morning recorded in North Acton with 10 to 15 below zero. Mrs F A Hollowell returns feeble after Boston visit. Civil War veteran Ephraim Forbush moved to Soldiers Home on Powder Horn Hill Chelsea with Wm Hartwell hosting. Marion B Frost travels from Waltham for Grange officer installation amid stormy bad winter weather.
In South Acton Dr. George Tuttle and Dr. A Hoisington visited town. Claude Chapman is ill with pleurisy. Walter Bird enjoyed a blizzard visit from Harvard. Rev. Farren remains ill with tonsillitis and will continue his Congregational church series. Church events include W C T U food gates, Ladies Social circles, and a C E society auction. A Massachusetts General Hospital injury ends a fireman’s hand. a West Acton funeral for Mrs Charlotte Flagg Holmes. and a Varied schedule of socials, sales, and church notices fill the week. A sale of a large estate near West Acton is listed at $5,000 with 100 acres and a windmill pumps water from a well.
The State Relief committee asks Acton selectmen to establish a fund aiding Italian disaster victims. Citizens willing to contribute should leave donations with town treasurer J. K. W. Wetherbee per the order of the selectmen.
Ruth Mildred Bullard of West Acton died in Boston January 13 1909. Born January 5 1883 in South Acton she attended Acton public schools and Concord High School class of 1901. She planned to attend Wellesley College but due to her mother's death did not enroll. She graduated from Burdett College and lived with her aunt and uncle Roscoe J Richardson in Revere from 1908. She was briefly engaged in business from then until summer 1905.
To all who by deeds or words of sympathy helped us in our recent bereavement to the Acton Grange and those who contributed flowers we tender our heartfelt thanks. F. W. Bullette A. Bullette IC. A. Jewett
Annie E Payson of Acton Massachusetts advertises an oil and drawing class for students. Studio hours run from 9 a m to 3 p m with orders taken in oil and pastel.
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