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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1909
Page
8
The Marlboro Enterprise announces subscription prices at 1.00 per year and smaller periods, with single copy and advance payment requirements. Advertising rates are listed by column inch and per-line charges for local business notices, with special yearly rates and office address at 161 Main Street Marlboro.
Acton residents hosted and visited relatives during the week long string of social calls. Notable items include John Gilbride named superintendent of the round house, Everett Reed joining A Merriam Co, and Ralph Hastings clerking for Tut le Newton. A major rainfall of 4.25 inches fell Friday as Universalist Sunday school prepared a Lexington park picnic. Dr F T Campbell of London received knighthood from King Edward VII.
The Fletcher and Willis families thank friends and neighbors for the beautiful tributes and acts of kindness shown during their time of bereavement.
Hill father of Mrs Sprague died. Surday Oliver Wood building cottage for Arthur Gould in Leominster. Gould family staying in Leominster where house is being built. Few attendees at Friday dance due to bad weather. Mrs John Keyes hosted visit from grandson Herbert Larrabee of Waverly. Mr and Mrs John W Flood visiting Mr and Mrs James B Tuttle. Sunday sermon in Congregational church titled First the Blade. Helen A Wood engaged to play in a ladies orchestra in a Manchester hotel. Elm trees in the common sprayed this week. effectiveness questioned due to rock-age of trees.
At a Grange meeting on Tuesday evening, visitors from Littleton Grange spoke on cooperative buying of coal grain and flour and the group elected E C Sheney as purchasing agent. Several members plan to join a new Pomona with Granges from Waltham Lincoln Lexington Concord and others. A short musical program featured a ladies quartet and Harold Phalen.
North Acton residents report Mrs Cheney and daughter visiting friends in Pittsfield and Barnstead New Hampshire. Harry Hollowell is on vacation from Jacksonville Florida with Chase and Co. Western Union linemen work on a Lowell to New Bedford telegraph line. Water pipe progress from Concord to Lake Nagog advances with blasting on ledges. Digging nears the railroad making parts of the road nearly impassable. Hall brothers face wood car inspections delaying shipments for Cambridge brick yards. F W Taylor recovering from heat prostration at a Waverly sanitarium while wife and family stay at Lake Nagog camp. Taylor is with the American Woolen Co chemical department overseeing New England territory.
Miss Helen Hall visits in Ohio while Mrs. John Beach stays with her sister in Boston. L. Hall and family travel to Five Islands Maine. Miss Maude Priest vacationing in Fairhaven and Mrs. Holton entertains her Northampton mother. Fritz Oelscheger attends Cambridge fair. D Fessenden’s barrel shop reopens under Louis Popple. Crowell family camps in Lebanon New Hampshire and W Barnes’ cottage at Fort Pond.
Crowell serves as Leban High principal and is Barnes family son in law. Vivian Reed visits Mabel Tracey at Concord Junction. Michael McNiff and children visit his brother J T McNiff in Harding. Lovett family visits relatives in Revere. B W Clark and daughter visit H T Clark in Newton. EB Swift family spend week with relatives in Somerville. Mead family and Miss Bruce enjoy a long auto ride in Chas Ford’s car. F R Knowlton buys land at Five Islands Maine to build a cottage. Death of Charles Leighton formerly of town reported in Maine on July 4. Twitchell and Chas Schwab paint Universalist church. Mrs Warren Hayward hospitalized in Boston for operation. Charlie Burnette Arthur Slack Frank Williams EB B Coolidge fished harbor recently. Mr and Mrs James D Coburn visit with Mr and Mrs Oscar R Adams in Holden. Mr Loewe of Maynard towed home after auto trouble near here and Littleton. Mr and Mrs John Goding and children visit Hudson relatives. Miss Helen Hawes and sister Flora visit relatives in New Hampshire. Ac ton lodge No 208 I O O F officers installed by D D G M C C Balcom and Hudson suite. James A Grimes named new warden. Joseph Reed friends with Ray Collins Boston American pitcher. Reed praises Collins pace and left handed throwing and hopes for success after first game against Cleveland.
A Friday afternoon electrical storm in the town produced vivid lightning and thunder. A bolt struck Jeremiah McCarthy’s new house, knocked down a man under a shed, and caused temporary paralysis before he recovered. Another bolt killed two cows on W. H. Teele’s pasture. branches were torn from trees and no fatalities occurred.
James Walsh joins H B Young's staff. Dr W W Beane and family return from a month in New Hampshire. W W G Webber and family spend the summer in Rindge New Hampshire in a new bungalow. Six year old Thaxter child suffered head cuts after a hay wagon fall. Dr Whitton treated the wounds. Rev T DeWitt Talmage.
Dean Bailey argues for a national rural progress campaign built on federation of country life agencies. He urges open public schools for agricultural education, industrial education in public schools, and coordinated administration linking agriculture with broader industrial training.
New York county deputies joined the state grange meeting with papers on the deputy's duty to the state master organizing granges and grange inspection. J J Barden of Ontario county presided and outlined harmony with the state master and timely county reports.
Master F N Godfrey of the New York Grange calls for permanency and economy in highway work. He urges a commission to supervise repairs with market roads prioritized while trunk lines may be extended for travelers. He notes 5 percent of total costs should fund preliminary work and pledges Grange support to the highway commission.
Local residents and visitors are noted on summer travels from Marlboro. A. J. Forbush paints houses for clients including W. H. Mace and G. N. Cate estate. Miss Margaret Goins is ill in Pittsburg. Several townsfolk enjoy vacations from Boston to Deer Island and Long Island Maine.
Finney and Host of Northport Maine pass a vacation time with relatives in Marlboro. Mr. and Mrs J O Pope of Boston also vacation in Marlboro. Pope previously worked at A T Haynes Co and now at Jordan Marsh in Boston. The Marlboro Foresters of America installation was postponed to August 9, with a dance at Lake Chauncy tonight. The C B Society met at Wm Weagle’s. 60 attended including District Deputy J W Raymond of Concord. Marlboro Lodge Odd Fellows officers installed Monday evening. Mr and Mrs Joseph Pacific returned from their honeymoon and hosted a reception at Guest hall. Mr and Mrs George Phaneuf are critically ill.
The Marlboro Woman's Club Civics Committee submits a quarterly report from April 4 to July 3, 1909. It records 183 patient attendances and 14 unpaid calls, with total expenditures of $201.06 and receipts of $101.46. Clothing and medical supplies were distributed, including infants clothing, socks, bandages, adhesive plaster, and cotton. Ellen M Brown serves as secretary.
Inspector Brigham and officers Callahan and Bernard raided the Hi Beaudreau on Lincoln Street Monday evening with a search warrant against John B. Marcure. Nothing was found.
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