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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1898
Page
8
All matter must reach the office of publication not later than Tuesday night to be inserted in the same week issue. Earlier receipts prevent condensation or delay of articles. News and advertising matter and subscriptions may be left with T. F. Newton.
South Acton notes William Merriam sells piano stools while Mrs Merriam vacationing in Maine. Henry Barker home being expanded by G V Bowen with L J Reed as contractor. Acton baseball team lost to Mount Washingtons in Everett amid costly errors. Henry Tolman wins 2 mile handicap at Marlboro bicycle races. Clough takes third. Liberty tree rumor stirs Boston papers. Obituaries list Mary Hosmer, 80, former Acton resident, burial in Acton. Church events include Children’s Day at Congregational Church and upcoming four sermon series by Rev W R Buxton on redemption.
Several local items including school closures for summer, visits, a milk route sale, a busy auction at Shirland, health updates from Mrs Chaffin and Mrs Gardner, and a busy week with church and lodge activities. The Odd Fellows picnic at Nagog pond, a Baptist Sunday school program, and memorial services at Universalist church are reported with community details and offerings.
Congregational church led by Rev. W. R. Buxton holds 10.30 a.m. service with 11.45 a.m. Sunday school and 7.00 p.m. praise and preaching. Prayer meeting Tuesday 7.30 p.m. First Universalist Church in South Acton, Rev. Wm. F. Dusseault, morning service 10.30 with 11.45 Sunday school and 7.30 p.m. Y P S U meetings. pews free to all.
A shepherd dog with a collar but no name is found. Owners may prove ownership at Geo Vorster's stable and pay charges. James McGreen the tailor offers clothing made to order, repair, cleaning, and pressing at moderate prices. Also, 15 to 20 tons of fine English and meadow hay for sale at T. A. Thompson on Isaac Barker estate Soncton Mass.
The senate debated the appropriation for the state hospital for consumptives. Ways and Means criticized the hospital trustees for negligence and incompetency and refused to fund without a new board being appointed.
A notice states an insertion in the issue of the same week requires an earlier receipt to avoid condensation or delay. News, advertising matter and subscriptions may be left with A. L. Noyes at the post office.
Mrs Cyrus Dole spends a short time in Vermont as graduation exercises come to Acton town hall this Thursday evening. Mrs B A Stearns, formerly of Acton, visits Moses Taylor. Mrs T S Davis and daughter visit her sister in Meriden Conn. Hosmer's dental rooms Soncton will letter remaining in post office uncalled for: Miss E M Wentworth, Mrs Edward Atkinson, J J Feeley, W F Smith, David Greno, L W Indigo.
Miss Armstrongs sells summer underwear children s E Z waists hats and bonnets. H A Littlefield advertises Hungarian seed evergreen sweet corn and a new lot prints. W E Hayward offers harness repairs and oiling. Linen hats garden hats and straw hats are promoted with various prices.
Orders from the war department designate 15 best equipped regiments for the Porto Rico expedition. Major J C Burr pays off the Eighth Massachusetts National Guard for eight days in camp, totaling about $16,000.
Soldiers of company F at Camp Alger Falls Church Va report their state pay from Framingham and per diem allowances, gifts of shoes from Louis Howe Marlboro, and box deliveries from home. They note payoffs, new recruits, and a lively, relief-filled mood with arisings of watches on guard and mishaps.
Washington June 15 The army prepares to land 15 000 troops in Cuba and begin the Santiago campaign with focus on Porto Rico. Volunteers at Chattanooga 42000 strong under General Brooke await active service as cable neutrality questions loom over Admiral Sampson and Dewey communications with Manila and Santiago.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex Ss to heirs and creditors of Margaret A D Newton late of Sudbury deceased intestate. Petition to grant letters of administration to George E Harrington without bond. Citations to appear July 5 1898 at 9 am in Cambridge Probate Court. Public notice to be run weekly in Sudbury Enterprise for three weeks. Witness Judge Charles J McIntire June 14 1898.
Herbert W. Hosmer, Clerk of Middlesex Institution for Savings in Concord Massachusetts issues a formal notice dated June 14 1898.
June 11 dispatch from Camp Alger reports Company F providing well turned orderly men for four days as officers are selected for higher posts. It notes leftover funds from the first day covering militia state expenses.
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