Old Home Week Timetable and Local Notices
South Acton residents join a string of community updates as families travel for visits and outings. Old Home Week runs July 31 to August 6 by legislative act, with towns authorized to fund festivities.
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1904
Page
8
South Acton residents join a string of community updates as families travel for visits and outings. Old Home Week runs July 31 to August 6 by legislative act, with towns authorized to fund festivities.
Local notices show Lawrence Clark offers boot and shoe repair services at reduced prices in Acton locale. Information reads as a small classified item likely from a 19th or early 20th century page.
West Acton notes residents traveling to Herkimer and Maine coast cottages, visits from Teele and Fletcher families, and illness updates. The next W R C meeting is set for Monday evening. Madge Hall and J M Fletcher hosted lessons. Holt’s relation to L A Holt noted. Port pond pickerel claim, and Port Aether supply update. Local ship news mentions Lt McCully remaining at Mukden.
The State Department began an exhaustive study of precedents since the Crimean War on stoppage of neutral ships and search rights in response to Red Sea actions by Russian volunteer cruisers. Officials emphasize neutral flag protections and note the Trent case framing British views on mail and contraband.
Hudson residents host relatives from Millville and Brockton while local workers adjust schedules. A Trappist father visits St Michael’s church. Miss Corena Knapton may marry in August in Pasadena. Alfred Marshall received 100 Italian bees by mail from Italy, with 34 dying on the journey.
The Woman's League of the Congregational church hosted a well attended lawn party Tuesday at Mr. and Mrs. Milton T. Bailey on Cottage Street. The grounds were lit with numerous Japanese lanterns, creating a pleasing evening ambiance.
Mrs Isabel W Pelton age 74 died Monday morning at her daughter Mrs Frank Barker home in Acton Centre after a lingering illness. She and husband George Paton celebrated their gold wedding two years ago. Eleven children born to the Peltons, eight living. Funeral held 10 30 at Dr Barker Acton Centre. Interment in Waltham. Husband paralyzed and unaware of wife's death.
Harris Burland’s romance The Black Motor Car debuts in the Boston Daily Globe this Friday July 22. The tale follows Jack Porteous, a bank cashier who falls from grace for love, sacrificing his wife and child to ruin and sin.
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