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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1896
Page
8
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Miss Jennie Fletcher visits friends on the east coast. N E Willis and family take a two week vacation to Marlboro MH. The sand bank is back in service with new help. Harrington begins a western timber tour. Mrs Frank Houston and two sons vacation in New York for six weeks. Hapgood recovered and back at TJWs store. Lawn party slates July 23 with Acton brass band. Reform club funded watering trough praised in the square. Acton Athletic loses 17 to 8 to Concord High. Willows bicycle meet on Maynard road ends in injuries. Sloan, a theological student, visits the reformatory. sermon notes given. Rev Buxton starts vacation. he preaches at Congregational church. Mrs Walter Whitney from Boston visits. health improved. Leavitt preaches at Congregational church. Stow youth attend. Pretty wedding at West Concord July 22 for Clarence Hosmer and Misan Grace Jewett. plan to live in Milford. New stone watering trough installed, labeled Reform Club 1896. quarry from North Acton. P C Union meeting focuses on Temperance. delegates report from Jersey City Y P C U convention. South Acton church notes: Congregational service 10:30, Sunday school 11:45, Y P C U 6:15, evening 7:00. Tuesday prayer 7:30. First Universalist, South Acton, services 10:30, Sunday school 11:45, Y P C U 7:00. pews free.
Charles Thorndike of Boston visited his parents on Sunday. The second reunion of the old North school is set for August 27 in Hudson. Mr. Hamilton arrived from Chicago on business at the Apsley factory. Louis Cadaretté has returned to Hudson after months in Maine. John H. Hapgood is laid off due to a carbuncle. LP Ellithrope served as undertaker at Deacon Curitis of Marlboro's funeral. Mrs. F. W. Ordway visited her parents in Haverhill for two weeks.
In St Louis the Populist national committee names Senator Marion Butler temporary chairman amid three factional blocs. Debate centers on endorsing Bryan and Sewall with southern fusion plans and possible vice presidency, while Butler and Cyclone Davis push competing strategies.
The United States agricultural bureau reports showers were widespread but light, aiding haying and crops across New England. Corn and oats look strong, apples and berries ripen, potato bugs cause some damage, and pastures dry with cows shrinking in milk. New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut report variable rain and improving crops overall.
West Acton news covers visits and illnesses in Franklin and Portland, local auctions, a Baptist Sunday school picnic at Nagog, army worm alerts, rental and housing notes, and new sailboat in Nagog. Socials include lawn party at Eva Webster’s and a surprise for Miss Margaret McDonald. Local listings advertise rentals, pasture land, masonry work, groceries and sales at Windsor Cash Store, and bargains at Miss Knowlton’s.
Centralia Illinois lines suspend service as washouts clog tracks. A St Louis passenger train derailed a coach after hitting a washout east of Centralia. A tramp on the platform was killed. Illinois Central reports a washout south of town halting southbound service.
Advertises a cough remedy claim from B F Johnson Son Maynard C H Whitney Concord and H A Littlefield West Acton. States a tickling throat causes nightly coughing and that a single dose can stop the spell.
A promotional notice for the Pome Watertown Ameena bash summer tours offers a handsome illustrated book detailing 190 new half tone views 150 illustrations seven maps 800 hotels and boarding houses and 600 combination tours. The publication covers from Niagara Falls to the Atlantic coast including Canada and New England with rates and routes for travel.
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