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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1909
Page
8
The Marlboro Enterprise lists editorial leadership and office at 151 Main Street. It notes annual subscription at 1 dollar, single copy price three cents, six months and three months rates, and advertising charges including one inch per week at 75 cents with 25 cents for each additional inch. It also mentions class matter date and post office registration.
Local notices from Acton on June 23 1909 report visitors from Boston Bayonne Lowell Concord and Winchendon. Measles sickness at Sheldon Littlefield's and a Maynard water scare. A W T U excursion to Lexington park a lawn party July first and baseball games for Married and Single men. School term closings new teachers and staff changes noted with local student Japan talk.
West Acton reports closures and events including the high school closing Friday, July 1 recital, residents traveling to Vermont and Boston, camping trips, a Harvard graduation, and preparations for electric streetcar service. Residents attend picnics, dances, and class days while local letters and visits fill the week.
The notice lists residents and guests in Acton Centre and nearby towns, mentions Miss Helen A. Wood taking a summer position in an orchestra, and describes the Albree Farm Sale in Concord with prices and buyers. Auctioneer Otis H. Forbush details two sales for Henry M. Smith estate in East Acton on June 25 and 28, 1909.
A Louisville Courier Journal quip notes two words to pity buthering and egregious as rare in use. The remark laments that people only employ them to insult others like fools or asses.
North Acton George Robbins of New York arrives at Lake Nagog Inn on Tuesday. A large crowd attends Bunker Hill Day. Edward Anderson and others harvest strawberries. Thomas A. Scott oversees three tenement homes in Malden. Cc. H. Chapman and family camp at Magog for their annual outing. Axel T. Lawson welcomes the new resident, a 912 pound boy arrived Friday the 11th. Mother and child are well. sister Miss Peterson visits. Concord high class day exercises feature Leonard D. White's oration. Lena McCarthy graduates and plans to enter Framingham state normal in fall.
Ex mayor F Rye Mildon and many townsfolk are noted visiting Roxbury Salem and Peabody while Marlboro residents attend weddings travels and graduations. Several locals start new jobs visit relatives and return from vacations across Massachusetts and New England.
Lincoln loses to Wakefield 7 runs in the final frame after Hodge’s rough stretch undermines an eight inning hold. Hicks closes the ninth as Lincoln fights back with three runs, while Kiley Romdebush and Romdebush lead Wakefield with multiple hits and two base hits.
Evelyn records a 1080 January comet described as a meteor of obscure bright color like a sword blade. He compares it to a 1640 comet seen before the Earl of Strafford’s trials and the Bloody Rebellion, praying God avert His judgments.
A town schoolteacher glimpsed George Eliot titles in a general store window and asked for Middlemarch. The clerk, a red cheeked girl, replied they did not have it but offered Sousa’s works instead.
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