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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1908
Page
4
The Enterprise published every Wednesday by The Interprice Company in Marlboro Massachusetts. O H Wilder is manager and the paper is entered as second class matter August 26 1908. Subscriptions are 1 dollar per year with a 3 cent single copy price and discounts for six months or three months. Office is 151 Main Street Marlboro Mass.
Rates for one inch one week 76 cents. Each additional inch 26 cents. Special rates for yearly advertisers. Business notices in local columns 10 cents per insertion.
Local residents report painting at M J Kelly's residence on Church street and F W Andrews securing a contract to lay 80 000 inthes in Southboro. Wallace Raymond visits town. Miss Gertrude Hefty celebrates 13th birthday. A 60 mph Napier runabout purchased. Albert Noll earns state pharmacist license. Michael Fox undergoes appendectomy. Co 1 6th Regiment set for Watertown maneuvers. Junction boys to join troops.
Levi Golding of South Framingham faces larceny charges after conspiring with Zalman in a scheme selling tea and premium gifts in several towns. In Concord court Judge Keyes calls him the cheapest swindler in 40 years and sentences him to the Reformatory. Golding appeals.
Village Improvement leaders seek action over the bandstand at Laws Brook Road and Commonwealth Ave, calling it an eyesore in a prominent location. A West Acton dance party from the Junction reports a very jolly time.
Paul Noll and his baker brother Wm Noll visit the town. Misses May and Plorence Gaddis stay with Miss Harriet Lawrence over Sunday. Allie Hodgeman starts a two week vacation from a Boston brokerage office. Percy Rideout completes first year at MIT.
Local ad from East Acton Massachusetts by George F. Lowery announces harness repair services. Also promoting house lots for sale on Central Street to be sold in sizes suitable to purchasers by James Russell.
20 000 tomato plants for sale. The three best varieties are Stone Triumph and Moore's early. Address for contact is Telephone Concord 241 3 F. L. Garland, Concord Junction.
Concord hosted guests and local visits while a high school game with Belmont was rained out. Other items cover Aldermanic actions, alumni meetings, a despondent drowning near North Andover, and railroad control debates. Also noted are a divorce suit by Warren Fales, a murder suicide in Boston, and Confederate Veterans reunion details.
Keyes promotes a Ford car as a graceful easy going vehicle ideal for couples. The ad highlights mechanical design, graceful structure, comfort on long rides, and strong value for the price.
For sale the estate of the late Herbert L Greene 16 Highland street Concord Junction. House features 10 rooms first floor 4 rooms and laundry space on first floor 4 sleeping rooms and bath on second floor a large attic hardwood floors hot and cold water electric lights Magee range furnace cemented cellar frontage 80 feet 8160 square feet. Apply 16 Highland Street Jn 10 tf.
The Monadnock ecotoon mills at Claremont N F ordered a 10 percent wage cut starting June 15 affecting about 700 workers. In Massachusetts Albert Maxwell 17 drowned in a West Lynn marsh pool suspected cramps. The battleship South Carolina under construction at Cramps yard set for launch July 11, about 60 percent complete. Northwestern National Bank and National Bank of Commerce Minneapolis plan consolidation under Northwestern National Bank name. Boston businessman George M Butterworth dies from a fall in an elevator shaft fracturing his skull. Secretary of the Navy appoints Captain Barton USN to head steam engineering at League Island. A city letter from Mayor Taylor San Francisco praises the conduct of enlisted men while the fleet lay in harbor.
Joseph W. Swan a Everett real estate owner was arrested aboard the steamer Balasites in Rio de Janeiro on charge of kidnapping his son Robert G. Swan aged 45. Extradition papers sent Swan to contest return. The divorce decree gave custody to Mrs. Adyra Swan with alimony set at 52.08 monthly.
Henry C M Helsher and Miss Elsie Boresen were married Saturday evening at the Trinitarian Church by Rev. George N Tewksbury. The church held wild flower decorations and an organ solo preceded a vestry reception. Afterward the couple will live in Concord.
Major James C. Smith spoke to noncommissioned officers at the armory about the upcoming tour of duty. Co I, with 60 enlisted men and three officers, will depart Concord at 5 am Saturday June 13, likely from Concord Junction. They will ride by special train to Pine Camp near Watertown New York for an eight day assignment.
The Trinitarian church will hold Children Day activities Sunday at 10 45 with songs readings and baptisms plus Bible presentations and plant distribution. The evening sermon at 7 30 will be The Rule of Addition in Religion. All welcome. Advertised letters listed.
Classified notices list items for sale and rent in Concord. A keel boat with oars is offered for 10 dollars at 30 Hubbard Street. 15 acre pasture lands near Barrett Mill Road is available through Mrs. George Brooks or H F Tuttle. a large front room with optional board is for rent at 26 Walden Street. a town center house lot of about 11000 square feet near railroad, schools and post office is offered via Box 514.
By order of the factory the Cyclemower price is cut. The 18 inch Cyclemower now costs 5 50 down from 9 00 and the 20 inch Cyclemower is 6 00 down from 10 00. These are high grade ball bearing lawnmowers offered by Towle and Kent Concord.
The June Union meeting was held with Mrs Sheehan hosting Concord Junction neighbors and a large audience. A. R. Brigham of Medford praised Mrs Brigham as a capable leader in promoting ideas and moral education of children. Refreshments followed the social hour.
A plea asks readers to gather old jewelry silverware bent spoons and any plated metal and return them to Frances KH Wittrd Settlement 44 Chambers St Boston or send directly. The message stresses hard times and asks for donations before July 1 to fund running expenses.
Charles S. Richardson posted a net 77 to win the medal handicap event at Covéot Golf Club on Saturday. Scores show Richardson 89 and 12. Tower 95 16 79. Hosmer 91 8 83. Vilas 106 20 86. The holiday cup tie, played May 30, awarded to John M. Faton at even par. Murray Ballou and I. Pierce Sewell tied for second at 4 down, with M. B. Bradford third at 5 down.
The company receives the Springfield model 1903 rifle in a new unsigned consignment. The new rifles are shorter than the previous pattern and feature a different loading mechanism. A United States Army field oven is added to company equipment.
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