Concord News Briefs Highlight Local Events and Obituaries
Concord notes show Dr. Edward W. Emerson and family at Fitzwilliam NH while 5 Reformatory inmates have been pardoned this year. Unitarian Sunday observances, a wedding at Our Father in East Boston, and a busy library conquest add to a week of local life. He’s 55, William Bent dies in Waltham after heart clot. Sudbury ties mark his past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Towler
Newport
New Hampshire
Reformatory
Walden Street
Black
Amos Bronson Alcott
F.b.sanborn
William T. Harris
Free Public Library
John L. Gilmore
Tindall-Nickerson
Unitarian Church of Our
Grand Iele
Lake Champlain
William H. Bent
Sudbury
Waltham
Bent
George B. Moore & Co
Mt. Feake
Arrests in Bangor Maine for Rev W A Depew and Mrs M E Jordan
A special dispatch reports Rev W A Depew and Mrs M E Jordan were arrested at the Bangor Exchange on a warrant by Mrs Jordan’s husband. They were arraigned in police court. Depew posted 500 bond, Jordan 200. Both bailed. case expected to be disposed of out of court. Depew previously led Congregational church in Concord where internal conflicts arose but were settled after his departure. he later canvassed for an encyclopaedia and resided in Melrose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Journal
W. A. Depew
M.E. Jordan
Bangor
Maine
Bangor Exchange
Mr. Depew
Congregational Church
Concord
Melrose
Concord Dance Club hires hand organ for home event
The Concord Boat Club plans a dance next week but lacks space for music. A couple was sent to Boston to hire a hand organ that can play lively dance tunes, with inquiries directed to the North End Italian quarter.
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Concord
Concord Boat Club
Boston
Record
North End
Boston Record
Boston Social Records Bridal Event for Miss Gertrude Jacobs
Last Wednesday in Boston featured the wedding of Miss Gertrude Jacobs to Gains Smith Merwin a Chicago business man. The ceremony took place at the Church of the Messiah at 7 pm with Rev Henry F Allen officiating. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Asa Jacobs of Concord and was supported by a notable society gathering. The procession included the Church of the Messiah boy choir and ushered by Henry J Walcott Jr Edward W Trull Gilbert Frost and Henry W Merwin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ter
Henry J. Walcott
Concord
Alice Jacobs
Louise Bigelow
Boston
Florence Merwin
Henry W. Merwin
Mr. Jacobs
Harvard
Pierce Streets
Brookline
Gertrude Jacobs
Gains Smith Merwin
Chicago
Asa Jacobs
Church of the Messiah
Eden
Henry J. Walcott Jr
Edward W. Trull
Gilbert Frost
Reba Johnson
Daugh
Weather summary for week ending June 12 1893
The week ends at 7 pm June 12 with a maximum of 91 on June 6 and a minimum of 46 on June 8. Mean conditions show 68.5 and humidity averaging 77.9 percent with barometer at 30.03. Southwest winds prevail and a 24 mph gust occurred on June 11. Thunderstorm on June 6 dropped 0.50 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frep A. Tower
Religious Services Readout for Unitarian and Colleague Congregations
Unitarian Rev. B R Bulkeley conducts services at 10.45 a m with evening rites at 7 40. Trinity Congregational Rev Geo A Tewksbury leads 10 45 a m services with Y P S C E at 6 30 and 7 30 evening prayers. Protestant Episcopal Trinity Church Rev Walter Russell Breed rector holds morning 10 45 a m litany and sermon through June first, Sunday school at noon, Holy Communion on the second Sunday each month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinitarian Congregational
Geo.a. Tewksbury
Protestant Episcopal
Trinity Church
Walter Russell Breed
Local Trades and Goods At Hastings Concord Whitcomb Dempsey
Hastings Co offers Paris Green London Purple and other garden items. Concord Elevator and Whitcomb advertise club suits and tennis gear. C E Brown sells straw hats and camera outfits. Dempsey markets men and boys tennis shoes and Russia shoes. Richardson sells Cherry Phosphate. P W White provides horseshoeing and carriage smith services with shoe care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
London
Hastings & Co
Concord
H. L. Whitcomb’s
C. E. Brown
Dempsey’s
Richardson
Golden wedding celebrated in Princeton after 20 years of prairie life
Mr. and Mrs. Joan A. Withington celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at their Princeton home with family from nearby towns. relatives gathered for a 44 member dinner party, 65 seated and standing in the grove, gifts and a shared meal followed by songs and gratitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Wetherbee
J. R. Cobleigh
William L. Withington
Joan A. Withington
Princeton
Stow
Harvard
Pellham
N. H
Fitchburg
Westminster
Ashburnham
Sudbury Notes on Sunday Services and Local Appointments
Churches held services for Children s Day. Rev E W Virgin to exchange pulpits with Rev D W Morehouse next Sunday. Joseph H Lovering serves as juror at the Middlesex Superior Court June term in Cambridge. State order requires fire escape and steam heat at the town poor establishment. Miss Inez A Perry, a leading Sudbury teacher, teaches botany at Eagle House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph H. Lovering
Middlesex County Superior Court
Cambridge
State Inspection of Buildings Department
Inez A. Perry
Sudbury
Eagle
New England Weather Drought Threatens Crops
The past week brought gradually above normal temperatures across most of New England with 80s and 90s highs and dry, light precipitation. Drought remains severe at Provincetown with only 0.0 percent rain in 25 days. farmers report grass and crops suffering though Northern sections see some relief if rains return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Provincetown
Concord
Barre
Spencer
Fitchburg
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U. S
Edward W. Emerson
Fitzwilliam, N. H
Unitarian Church
Old Orchard House
Borden
William Craig
Maynard
M. B. Tobey
Charles Emerson
Vienna
Pig
Rae
Emerson
The
Unitarian Association
George F. Hoar
Grindall Reynolds
Henry J. Hosmer
Henry D. Coolidge
Senate
J. G. B. Adams
House
Massachusetts
England
Fisher Unwin
Richard Cobden
Professor Hill
Rowland Hill
Ashley
Oxford
George B. Bartlett
Mass
Wm. Buttrick P.M. A. G. Allen
C. F. Beattie
B. Frank Brown
M. S. Bassett
Joseph G. Edgerly
Frank P. Fosgate
A. J. Jackson
William Leavis
J. C. Norris
Hiram Perrin
A. M. Reid
Jose Marianto Soares
R.L. Tuttle
A. Warnicke
Hunt’s
Brown’s
Hunt
N. S. Daniels
C. E. Brown’s
E. F. Nealey
H. L. Whitcomb
Phila
E. A. Buck
Merwin-Jacobs
Unitarian
B.R. Bulkeley
Boxboro
Tennyson
Grange
Charles Woodward
Hager
Mr. Orendorff
Nebraska
Dr. Miner
Westford
E. W. Virgin
South Framingham
D. W. Morehouse
Weather Crop Bulletin
Yours
West Acton
Lovell Diamond
Main Street
Maynard, Mass
Healthe Agen
H. I. Whitcomb
Lexington Street
New Wheeler & Wilson
Concord Junction
F. J. Hastings & CO
South Acton
Canada
Ereseh
Bowman’s Market
Concord, Mass
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