05 Jun 1912
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
1
The Bedford Junior baseball club won Thursday morning at Lane Park with a 13 to 6 victory. Louis Kelley pitched creditably, signaling a bright future for the team.
Memorial Day honored with a mounted squad, G A R members, Lexington drum corps, and Minute Men escorting to Shaw sheen cemetery for services. Flags adorned homes as the town ponders an old home week to boost hospitality and civic pride with citizen committees urged to organize rapid, broad involvement.
The article notes intolerable dust in Bedford and urges instant action. It cites a modern watering cart purchased two years ago and ample water supply, arguing dust carries deadly germs and causes diseases like pneumonia and tuberculosis, demanding prompt street and sidewalk care.
The article states about 3,000 naked eye stars in one hemisphere and 6,000 in both. Telescopes reveal thousands more. with a two inch instrument over 310,000 northern stars have been charted. Estimates suggest celestial vaults may contain up to 80,000,000 stars.
Maynard residents Elizabeth Hunt and Mabel Taylor visited friends in Keene and Franklin respectively. Mary Leithead and Emily Garrick spent the weekend with relatives in Stoughton while Kitty Cleary visited the Clearys in Bellows Falls. Mrs. George Salisbury returned from Somerville with daughter in tow. Fred Mead and Ruth of Worcester stayed with George and family on Hillside Street over Sunday. William Barron, recently ill, returned to duties at the R. A. fully recovered. Laura McPherson and Emma Guillow were hosted by Nettie Taylor at Simmons College Boston. Taylor is about to begin her first year. Elizabeth Doyle and Thomas Herlihy of Cambridge and others were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. McNeil of Brookline. A storefront on Main Street, formerly used by B. F. Townsend Plumbing, moved to a site in front of Main Street, to be remodeled for Robert Kierstead Plumbing.
Sunday was set aside as children day in local churches. The miss Porter sisters of West Acton visited their niece Mrs Nahum H Whitcomb while several locals attended college events and family gatherings. Malcolm, son of the Priest family, graduated this week from M I T and will join the American Bridge Co in El mira New York. The Baptist Christian Endeavor rally drew youth from Acton Concord Ayer Boxboro and Shirley with Emma Ostrom Nichols of Boston addressing the assembly. A quartet of male voices provided social time in the vestry.
Mr and Mrs C W Richardson visit with out of town relatives in South Sudbury. Mrs E B stays Memorial day with relatives. Albert L Hunt of Boston spent Sunday here with relatives. Arthur H Burr and a friend visited his former home over Sunday. Mr and Mrs O F Nelson entertained many friends on Sunday. Mrs Isadore F Goodwin goes to.
The fifteenth century library of Philip the Good of Burgundy rivaled Europe’s finest, housing nearly 10 000 vellum illuminated volumes. Bruges, a ducal court hub, hosted skilled crafts and jewel decorations, with some works preserved in the Belgian royal library.
Next Sunday will mark a Children's day at Concord Junction with a morning service including a children's story sermon and baptisms. An evening Sunday school concert features special music. The Middlesex Northwest Temperance union observes its fiftieth anniversary in Ayer on Monday June 17 with sessions at 9 30 am and 1 30 pm.
The notice promotes a dessert style product in rat foot wear from Boston Rubber Ghee with an expansive advertising campaign. It urges attention from Hub to inform the public and warns that customers will be satisfied.
A Spokane boy, age about ten, endured his medical ordeal except for anesthesia during a grafting procedure on his eye. The episode reflected remarkable nerve as doctors performed the operation in a single week.
Workmen clearing Oxford street uncovered a well believed to have supplied early Sydney residents. The shaft reaches 30 feet with about 26 feet of water and handmade bricks with no mortar. A court exchange followed as a barrister joked about pleasure. the chief justice replied the court would hear him Friday.
Reports say large native copper heaps of 420 tons and silver chunks of 1.5 tons have been found, but the biggest copper nugget seen weighs 190 tons. Gold seekers are cautioned that larger finds are unlikely, while a cryptic aside from a mysterious six foot figure and a poetic quote from Starr King appear amid the text.
Cyrus Hosmer buys a new Ford car while C H Towls drives a Ford touring car. Mrs C R Wheaton and family report measles. Mr and Mrs Charles Brows spend weekend at Rowe. Joseph Fewry joins play of A Vanderhoof and J W Raymond family Memorial Day with relatives in Ford NH. Thomas Todd夫妻 plan summer home at Goon Cove. Miss Alice Brown resumes duties at local telephone office after vacation. Many attend South Acton dance. late car brings crowd home. Trinity Church junior auxiliary to hold sale at Mrs Geo M Weed June 7. Mrs Frank Barker visits Syracuse NY to stay with daughter. Miss Margaret Cull of Somerville visits. Holus Howe and family attend Memorial Day at Hudson. Mrs Mary Myers hosts guests as GA of the Children of the American Nation on June 8 with address by Mrs Alvin Bailey of Newton. Final rehearsals for Gade’s Crusaders held. town hall show Friday evening. expected large audience. Mrs C H Smith of Boston liner has been in Concord several days weekly, overseeing activities.
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