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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1899
Page
8
All matter must reach the office of publication not later than Tuesday night in order to secure insertion in the issue of the same week. An earlier receipt will insure against condensation or delay of articles. Advertising matter and subscriptions left with N. J. Cole the News dealer will receive prompt attention.
Miss Maud Chandler visits South Acton while Elnathan Jones is frail and Samuel Jones Jr. lays a high school floor. Amos Levy improves but remains hospitalized as Olive Clough suffers rheumatism. George Keyes visit Boston. A free show draws a crowd. A Merriam & Sons' piano stool factory resumes operation. Families at Lake Nagog and a lawn party at West Acton are noted. Hotel property bought by Mr. Maker. Mrs. Horace Howard visits from Lexington. Upcoming sermons titled In His Name and Dost Thou Not Know Me Philip. Public invited to Sunday services and Y P C U consecration. Lynn ’99 delegates to report at convention. Universalist and Union churches invited. Potential New England Motor Carriage Co shares promoted at higher price.
Mrs. Shapley died at 73 from a paralytic stroke at home in the village on July 22. Born in 1826, daughter of Elnathan Jones, she married Henry Shapley in 1846 and had nine children, seven living. Her sons George Charlie Eugene David ran cordage and menswear businesses in Boston and Leominster. daughters Eva Eda Carrie ran a dressmaking shop and clerked in a store. A longtime church leader she chaired the Ladies' Social Circle 21 years, and died strong in faith. Funeral was held at the Universalist church, interment in Woodlawn cemetery.
To all the friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us in our great bereavement, we extend heartfelt thanks for your expressions of sympathy and support during this difficult time.
A brief expression of thanks for sympathy and flowers is signed by Mr. Henry Shapley and family and dated Acton July 25, 1899.
A neighbor possesses the item in question and the speaker suggests asking Ray Tuttle if the neighbor does not have it. The note implies local inquiry and a named person who might know the outcome or location.
South Acton locals can have clothing made to order and repaired cleaned pressed by James McGreen the tailor at neat prices.
Town visitors linger in Stow as Unitarian church closes for four Sundays and the library prepares for book inspection from August 2 to 23 with fines of 50 cents for overdue returns. Gifford Vance wins the district scholarship to Amherst Agricultural College this fall.
West Acton hosts Rev C L Rhoades and wife from New York. Emma Hart visited Newburyport for a Sunday with a friend. Railroad station agents gathered at Nagog. Ellsworth Woodward family with Will Woodward and spouse visited their parents here. Universalist lawn party Friday night proved successful. Clarence Perkins of Lynn and Walter Dinsmore of Dochester stay with grandfather Andrew Hapgood. Overalls factory whistle signals resumed work after idle weeks. Mrs Jane Bruce oversees the W C T U flower mission for two weeks with flower donations welcome Thursday evening or Friday. Misses Hattie A Davis Marion Burroughs Mabel Lizzie Burroughs stay in Lynn at Wm Perkins home during family absence in Maine. Mr J R Houghton of Toledo Ohio and grandson Ralph visited, left for Clifftoundale Monday. Clark Durkee begins locating for old house sale to allow new structure on old site.
Four new seven room tenements with furnace heat and pure waters to let two minutes from depot at West Acton Mass Rents ten and twelve dollars monthly Apply F R KnowltonWest Acton Mass Also new carriage robes and whips at Littlefield s New sofa pillow designs and table covers at Miss Armstrong s Leave bakery orders at Littlefield s Same prices with liberal discounts to societies and organizations
Miss Helen Taylor of Lowell visits. Prof. Barton from Technology in town. Miss Annie Hogan guests of N Johnson and family. Mrs. Ed Switzer and children return home. Eldridge Conant expected home in August. L H Tuttle runs market team to Boston. Cosby and White return to duties in Boston. Miss Mabel Bartlett of Boston visits the Tuttes. Gus Conant introduces a new turnout. Grand bicycle dance at town hall Friday July 28 with good turnout expected. Boys serenade newlyweds Mr and Mrs Morrison with instrumental tunes. Rev Bernard Copping called to funeral in Groveland and preaches in Bradford and at West Newbury Lower Parish. Mr Flood, a student, supplies the pulpit.
Several Boston business houses trading with Porto Rico and other recent U S possessions filed protests with the treasury department against duties on goods from these areas. They claim these possessions have become parts of the United States and should be treated the same as interstate products.
Benjamin Hager of Boxboro spent Sunday with his father B S ilager. Rev Mr Martyn delivered a strong sermon to his congregation from Heb 4 16 last Sunday July 23. Miss Gertrude Roberts of Worcester visits her friend Miss Mary Nelson for a few days. they were Smith College classmates, class 90.
Mr A N Noell of Asherville Kansas spent years treating chronic diarrhoea without relief and feared death. He finally used Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and was permanently cured. For sale by Hl A Littlefield West Acton Johnsons Drug Store Maynard Richardson Concord.
Residents of Norwich Vermont report an attempted burglary at Captain Converse's home in Montromery. Mrs Converse and daughters awoke to confront the intruder. a daughter fired a revolver but the burglar escaped.
A fragmented ad notes an item to combat lice on hens with a product named Uye Anti-Fly to be used freely around roosts and nests. It invites dealers to request the circular from the manufacturer.
A Manchester Kentucky preliminary trial of George and Peter Philpot for the murder of Morris and Griffins ended with dismissal after witnesses testified, Griffins not appearing. Judge Wright presiding in Cincinnati filed the action.
James Harren and Agnes Herzog, engaged to wed, were killed when lightning struck the Herzog home in Millwood near St. Cloud yesterday. They were sitting on the porch when the bolt hit.
Waycross Georgia July 26. Mrs M J Mock, her son Joe Mock and Cora Smith an orphan were drowned yesterday while bathing at Balls Bluffs on the Satilla river. They went beyond their depth and perished.
Almanac notes unsettled weather with showers from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast. Temperature remains steady elsewhere. Forecast calls for showers and moderate temperatures in New England with fresh east to southeast winds.
Campers at Montwait join in a campaign to buy the New England Chautauqua Sunday school assembly grounds from owner Gov. Claflin of Newton. Wilbur F. Brigham pledges 500 and offers to join 20 stockholders to form the corporation for perpetual use.
Mr. Charles Holzhauer, a Newark NJ druggist, endorses Chamberlain's as safe and effective for coughs colds and hoarseness. It is sold by H A Littlefield in West Acton Johnson's Drug Store in Maynard and Richardson in Concord.
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