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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1908
Page
4
Public notice from Marlboro Massachusetts dated August 26, 1903 lists subscriptions at 91 cents per year with three cent single copies and six months for 6 dollars, rates for three months at 26 cents including postage, and advance payments required. Advertising rates show 6 inch one week at 75 cents and 26 cents per additional line, with special yearly advertiser rates and business notices at 10 cents per line.
July 29 1908 updates report Chapman on two week reformatory vacation. Beharrell builds on Commonwealth Ave above the bridge. Adams runs a vegetable peddling business. Keath and Mrs Armstrong guests over Sunday. Marra on two week vacation from N H Colman Co Boston. Picnic at Whitepond by Annie Connell Sadie Burke Mary Grimes and Flossie King. Young ladies planning a camping party at Onset next week. Boston Harness Co resumes work with shortened half day. Westvale mill pond dry this week. Strathmore Worsted Mills gates rebuilt. Alfred Loring built a small motor launch with 3 hp engine. Abiana Howe enjoying two week vacation, some time at Cottage City. Finney & Holts mid-summer sale draws crowds at South Acton store. Batchelder club formed in town with membership details via Allison H Willis. Reservoir location debate near Annursnack is about summit. Survey predicts water level rise ten feet. A coal car hot box incident near Whitney’s elevator led to prompt unloading by Whitney and crew.
Cambridge court heard Gilmore allege he acquired a morphine habit while a Concord reformatory inmate. Superintendent Alval Baker denied the charge, stating prisoners are searched on admission and while in custody no outside items are received. Gilmore said he obtained the drug while at Deer Island.
The Alden Kindred of America holds its 8th annual meeting in Duxbury on August 5 to honor the purchase of the Old Alden Homestead. A special train from Boston to Duxbury and a shore dinner at a $1 plate are planned, with tickets due by August 1. Secretary Flora Matherson handles orders. Geo W Alden presides. Ebenezer Alden will speak on the house’s history.
Lawrence Academy in Groton Mass seeks parents to send boys to a long established boarding school. J Clough A M named principal, with Mrs Clough, promises personal care and trained assistants. Trustees include Dr Samuel A Greene ex Mayor of Boston Hon A B Pillsbury and Judge Sanderson. Jurisdiction and fees discussed.
Concord Junction Luther Pranks visits friends in Rockland Maine while Mrs Fannie Meade and daughter Elizabeth visit relatives in Dover Maine. Frank Connor trades his Napier runabout for a large touring car. Connor and son in law Charles Noll travel to Pittsfield in the new machine. Alfred A Loring and family occupy B B Shattuck's Lake Nagog cottage for two weeks. Loring launches a motor boat Tuesday and chases lake speed honors currently held by Officer C T Judge.
The Iyamdumat, a South African mammal described as a cross between a kangaroo and a bear, will be shown at the New England Food Fair and House Furnishings exposition in Mechanics Building. Bostock's Wild Animals exhibit, totaling about 60 cages, will occupy Grand Hall basement with free admission to fair patrons.
Concord short items show residents visiting, traveling, and returning home. Mentions include Dr. Fernald’s new car, Bartholmew visiting Marlboro, several residents traveling to Ol Orchard and Gloucester, and a new barber shop opening in Urquhart's block. Also notes a rifle team, a Memorial Square concert, a drowning of a TNT employee? No, Katherine Burke killed at a crossing in Concord Junction, and a mid-summer sale at Finney & Holt's.
For sale two items: a forty light Gas Ma chine by Walworth Mfg Co in perfect order and an electric automobile with new batteries from 1908 in good order. demonstration offered. Also wanted a cook or general worker position at 24 Bedford Street. A young Italian girl seeks housework at 46 Main Street. applies details by address.
The article lists baseball results from Boston Brooklyn Philadelphia and New York with battery pairings. It then reports the conviction of Archie Herron for first degree murder in New Brunswick New Jersey for the July 15 killing of Rev S W B Prickett, with a death sentence by electrocution set for Sept 7. Also notes death of Congressman Liewerlyn Powers in Ellsworth and arraignment of Frank Baldasare in Ellsworth. Finally, Central Pacific settles with the U S government for 2939661 dollars covering its last note and total debt.
Thomas A. McIntyre of the defunct T A McIntyre & Co is seriously ill at Old Point Comfort Virginia and may not live to face the indictment by firm creditors. The trial has been put over until fall.
Concord pharmacist H S Richardson offers a topical remedy for mosquito and insect bites. The advertisement presents the product as calming and effective for local irritation and itching.
The Concord board of assessors led by Erastus H. Smith Alvah Wheel er and Loring Ne Fowler announced a tax rate of 15.40 per thousand for the current year an eighty cent rise from last year yet total levies increase modestly due to higher assessed values. 1907 valuation was 6 126 187 75 while this year it is 6 379 275 with 253 087 75 more. polls rose from 1529 to 1610 and car assessments total 63150. The total levy funds state county highway and town taxes with over a quarter earmarked for schools.
Thieves broke in on Hubbard street between 8 and 9 Tuesday evening while Mr and Mrs Daniels attended a band concert at Monument Park. A back window with a chisel end allowed entry. silverware three watches money and a diamond ring were stolen. Chief Craig was alerted and canvassed the scene for clues.
Edward Ole Thorpe of Concord married Miss Leslie Ella Wallace of Millstone Connecticut on July 22 at Abbey Craig with Rev Ole O Thorpe officiating. The groom’s father and immediate family witnessed the ceremony. Thorpe, a Concord High and Williams College graduate, teaches at Black Hall School. The couple plans a Concord and Williamstown honeymoon then reside in Black Hall as Concord Fish Co renovates a vacated store for fish dinners.
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