South Acton Social Notes Sweep Local Visits
Mrs Eugene Miles visited Foxboro while Mr and Mrs F R Tule were in town Sunday. H Lewis Jones moved into his Prospect hen house. Miss Clara Sawyer returned from Old Orchard and Miss Ruth Piper from a Maine trip. Mrs A A Jones visited Greenville New Hampshire for a week. Public well work connects water to Willards drug store. A reception for J Willis and wife at the Universalist church Thursday at 8. Inez Chapman of Amherst is at Homeopathic Hospital after an orthopedic operation. Quad club visited Rev Pebbles and returned hungry from a harbor trip. Martin Baker of West Acton rode into town and fell from his wheel suffering a two inch chin gash requiring three stitches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Lewis Jones
Prospect At
Inez Chapman
Ambherst
Seth Reed
Homeopathic Hospital
Quad Club
Pebbles
Martin Baker
West Acton
Fales
Melrose
G. P. Littlefield
Everett Spinney
Fort Pond
Stow
South Acton
Great Exhibition Game Pairs Married and Single Men for Friday Clash
Acton's town braces for a baseball match on Saturday July 25 at the Stow grounds pitting the Benedicts against the Bachelors. Notables include Johnny Kling Center Iron Man Piper and R Waddell Reed among others with R Fitzgerald umpiring and health insurance in place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acton
Piper’s Corner
Iron Man
Piper
Jack Knight
Back of Jones
Harry Ray” Baird
Carl “Bowerman” Jones
Doc. Gessler
Christie
Roy
Johnny Kling
R. Waddell
Reed
Hal Cheese” Pratt
Jimmy Collins
Willard
Boston
George Worster
George
Shank
the Benedicts
Johnny Bates
Socks Seybold” Weatherbee
Harry Bay” Baird
Jiggs Donahue
Davis
Larry Lajoie
Willis
Honus Wager” Merriam
Jimmy Collins” Willard
Johnny Kling” Center
Rube Waddell
THE
Bachelors
Ginger
Beaumont” Owen
Doc Gessler
Willie Keeler
Tolman
Amby McConnell” Lawrence
Terry Turner
F Hayward
Jack Knight" Piper
Carl Bowerman” Jones
P R. Fitzgerald
West Acton News Highlights Local Visits and Baseball Victory
West Acton notes list numerous visitors from Boston Somerville Manchester and other towns. The West Acton ball team defeated Stow 10 to 3 and prepares to host Hast Pepperells with an 8 pm Thursday game at the A F Blanchard grounds.
Card of Thanks for Fire Recovery Help
A reader expresses gratitude to all who helped and contributed after a house fire. The writer hopes friends find timely aid during their hour of need and thanks the community for support.
GOOD BALL TEAMS COMING
The West Acton baseball team plans to deliver quality games for the town the rest of the season with several away games if local fans attend and support the events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Acton
Lost dog Tots sought by West Acton residents
White fox terrier with brown face and ears and a short black tail. Name Tots. Notify J. W. Ramsdél of West Acton Massachusetts. Also note a printed quip about neighbor’s bond and probate surety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Ramsdél
West Acton
Mass
Roosevelt Attends Newport Naval Officers Conference
President Roosevelt arrives aboard the Mayflower at Newport Rhode Island for a major naval officers conference with 100 officers. The talks focus on two battleships under construction and tentative future ships, with no immediate decisions expected as sessions continue in Washington Oyster Bay and Newport through the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
R. I
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
War College
General Board
Washington
Special “Battleship Commission
Republican committee sets Chicago as national HQ
The national Republican committee after a Hitchcock chaired conference votes to establish headquarters in Chicago replacing New York. Hitchcock will move forces and campaign funds operations to Chicago with Taft forces directed from there. The inter mountain conference ended with a dinner for national committee members and state chairmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Committee
Colorado Springs
Col
National Republican Committee
Hitchcock
Chicago
New York
Taft
National Committee
Ditchcock
Marlboro Tag Day Prompts Hospital Aid Efforts
Marlboro residents arrange tag day on Friday July 30 to support the hospital. Readers report ill neighbors and visitors from nearby towns, with multiple people listed as ill or traveling and local movements noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlboro
Howard R. ‘Moore
Maple ‘St
Bristol
N. H
Acton Notes and Local Activities Daily Missive
Acton centrz B A Phalen works in Little ton Harry Tuttle began his summer marketing Monday Daniel Baxter of Quincy visited friends in town The Grange lawn party will be held on Acton common Aug 4 O D Wood assists Robert Wayne at the Bacon place Mrs Lyman Taylor spent several days in Lancaster last week Mrs Chester Robbins chaperoning a party at Fort Pond Prof Lovett considering a town hall talk soon A letter remains at the post office uncalled for addressed to Miss Ethel Frizzell John Sheehan and son Arthur of South Lincoln visited friends in town Miss Edith Smith of Manchester New Hampshire visits Aunt Miss Martha Smith Hiram Proctor shipped first batch of blackberries crop looks large Sumner Hayward and Myron Hayward guests at S R Burroughs Miss Ethel Wayne vacationing in New York state including Hudson River trip and Niagara The Sunday school picnic at Fort Pond was well attended with rowing and swimming Otis H Forbush auctioneer Acton will sell July 24 1908 at 1 pm sharp the household goods of J W Bent South Acton within one minute of post office next to American House hotel owner leaving town cause of sale
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Marlboro
Oline
Gervais
Paris St
Holyoke
Albany
N. Y
Arthur Gervais
Margaret Corrigan
Kansas
City
St. Mary’s Church
Ellen ©. Stratton
Denver
Col
Frank
Wheeler
Pleasant St
Worcester
Mary Linsley
Etta M. Miller
Louise A. Burness
Louis E. Burness
Davens‘church
East Greenwich
R. I
O. D. Wood
Robert Wayne
Bacon Place
Lyman Taylor
Lancaster
Chester Robbins
Fort Pond
Otis H. Forbush
Acton
Mass
J. W. Bent
South Acton
Post Office
For sale Mason and Hamlin organ in maple case
Two bank Mason and Hamlin organ in good condition enclosed in a maple case offered for sale. Suitable for lodge vestry or summer camp. Price 40 dollars. Moses Reed Acton Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason and Hamlin
Moses Reed
Acton Center
Long Trips and Visits Mentioned in Local Notices
Mrs Chickering and daughter return from Weymouth after a week. Mr and Mrs G Turner depart for two weeks in northern New York to visit relatives. Mrs Allah H Drew of Detroit arrives with Merton and Dorothy to visit her parents the Hasseltons. Elnathan Kimball and Henry Burke begin a Monday trek to New York City with a shelter tent, planning weeks on the road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs.g. ©. Turner
New York
Allah H. Drew
Detroit
Merton
Dorothy
Lucius Hasselton
Elnathan Kimball
Henry Burke
New York City
Mrs Hildreth of Somerville Visit Recounts Early West Acton Life
The narrative recalls Mary Ann Haywood born in Boxboro in 1836 who taught at South Acton school on School street. She oversaw 75 pupils, earned 1.25 weekly with board, and saved 11 that year. She taught children of James and Varnum Tuttle and Miss Charlotte, in a West Acton then consisting of a blacksmith shop and two houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hildreth
Somerville
Mary Ann Haywood
Boxboro
Mr.Haywood
Edgar Mead
South Acton School
School St
Piper Hill
O. Titus
James and
Varnum Tuttle
Charlotte
Tuttle
West Acton
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Eugene Miles
Foxboro
Mrs. F. R. Tule
Ruth Piper
Maine
A. A. Jones
Greenville
J. Willis
Universalist Church
Bims
Jae
John Littlefield
Lizzie Field
W. D. Hart
Thomas Monahan
Wih Tenney
Brunswick
B. H. Hall
Lake Nagog
Ella Burroughs
W. H. Teele
Miss Ward
B. T. Swift
Michael O'Connell
Norumbega Park
B.D. Hall
L. Hall
Five Islands
George Watson
Lowell
O. A. Knowlton
George G. Hutchins
Stoneham
A. Hutchins
Bessie A. Hunt
Manchester
Marion Nickerson
Dorothy Mead
Grace Richardson
D. T. Kingsley
Theodore Anderson
Concord
George E. Holton
Northampton
C. J
A. W. Armstrong
Hyde Park
J. R. Knowlton
Albert Hopson
Cushing Academy
C. H. Colpitt
Alice M. Teele
Everett
W. W. Knowlton
A. Maud Hunt
Lake Whitehall
Frank Hardeman
Pennsylvania
William Watkins
Jacob Withrow
Waltham
H. BE. Gates
Josie Baker
M. Sheppard
Clara E. Holt
Harold Knowlton
Ruth
Helen
Evelyn
Alice Teele
James Kinsley
Fritz Hawes
Geo. Rockwell
Fred Green
Brookline
Annie Blanchard
Mrs. Blanchard
Princeton
A. F. Blanchard
Webster
Charles Ford
Lincolns
Westfords
Groton
Pepperell
Norris
Littlefields
Collier
Beach
Hammond
Bixby
Tuttle If
Bird Cf
Goucher Rf
Winnipesauree
Chas. B. Stone
Agent American Surety Company of
Eliza Rines
Ruthie Freeman
Boston St
Joseph Asselin
Cross St
Frank Meanor
Lynn
I. P. L’heuyer
Spring St
Joseph Burns
Brockton
Amedee Robillard
Fall River
Frank Dumais
William Hamlin
P. H. Fahey
Stoughton
B. F. Greeley
Wro
Grace
Newburyport
Percy Creelman
Charlestown
Nellie Finegan
Brooklyn
Mary King
Emmett St
Clement Laboisierre
Highway Department
Broad
St. Emery Desrochers
Morse & Bigelow
Mary Burns
Chestnut St
Alice Bordage
Putnam
Joseph Delorme
George and
William
E F. Simpson
Monmouth, Me
H. C. Steward
H. K. Steward
East Main St. Joseph Larrivierre
West Main St
St. Vincent Hospital
Marie
May
Quebec
Acton Centrz
B. A. Phalen
Littleton
Harry Tuttle
Daniel Baxter
Quincy
Grange
Acton Common
Prof. Lovett
Ethel Frizzell
John Sheehan
Arthur
South Lincoln
Edith Smith
Manchester, N. H
Martha Smith
Hiram Proctor
Sumner Hayward
Myron Hayward
Webster Hayward
S. R. Burroughs
Ethel Wayne
New York State
Hudson River
Niagara
Acton Centre
Mary
Ann Haywood
A. T. Haynes & CO
Maynard, Mass
North Acton
Leonard White
Richard White
Chelmsford
Mrs. Reed
B. H. Waters
Boston Mailing Co
J. S. White
Richard
J. L. Dupee
Nantasket
KE. K. Sherman
Barbara
Charles ‘Nash
Newtonville
J. 8. White
Alice Sawtelle
George‘ ~ Mathur
John Dion
Edith Hector
William Sears
H. W. Doten
iCharles “Wood Bond
Whipple, Sears & Ogden
20Th Regt
Nagog Lake
Powell
Fannie Lott
Italy
Wm. H
Baptist Church
H-Ty Cer
Clark. Panna
Miss Frost
Concord, Junction
R. H. Cotton
Boston Telephone
Wakefield
George D. Elson
Brooks Street
Maynard
Whitcomb
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