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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1897
Page
8
Publication office accepts all copy by Tuesday to appear in the same week. Early receipt prevents condensation or delay. News advertising and subscriptions drop off with A. L. Noyes at the post office.
Schools closed for summer. social visits and calls. Miss Helen Bradford graduates from Fitchburg State Normal School Tuesday. Letters to Powers, Jackman, Davis. Lectures by Rev. Dusseault and others. Y P C U convention in Detroit week of July 6. Local incidents include Packard horse accident and a disputed pine tree. Obituary for George Quimby. Church notes and local ads for Stow area.
The Concord high school graduation exercises were held in the town hall Tuesday evening. The hall was crowded with parents and friends, with about 100 lower grade pupils on a platform. Hon. Charlie Almy spoke, along with Principal William L. Eaton and others. Prescott Keyes presented the diplomas to 29 graduates, 2 post graduates, and 31 diplomas in total, as cheers rose for each recipient.
A local graduation featured the class song The God of Love My Shepherd Is and a closing verse of America. Graduates include Mary Lawrence Edna Thatcher Fanny Rich Hattie Lawrence Dorothy Reynolds Ethel Magowo Edith Eaton Ellen Emerson Annie Burke Genevy Connell Emma Clabane Alice Stratton Nettie Hartwell Hope Robinson Kitty Hagerty Rose Farrington Florence Bowker Lottie Elms Susie Wood Viola Skelton P G Mabel Lund Mabel Gillespe. Teachers and alumni listed among Acton area towns.
The first of the Western Middlesex company rifle matches was held last Saturday afternoon between I company Sixth regiment and B company Fifth regiment. I company won with a score of 390 to 366.
The Fresh Air Fund in Boston promotes two week stays at Rosemary Cottage in Eliot Maine for tired mothers and their children. Donations support not only Rosemary visits but also wide outreach such as streetcar rides, beach outings, and park trips, with gifts of all sizes welcomed and acknowledged by Rev. D W Waldron at 7 Beacon Street Boston.
Transacts a general banking business sells drafts payable in any part of the United States and in foreign countries buys and sells Government Municipal Railroad and other bonds. Careful and conservative investors are realizing that bonds of good paying water companies are among the best investments. This bank has facilities for selecting bonds of this class. Correspondence and accounts solicited. Safety deposit boxes to rent. Absolute security from fire or burglary. John L. Stone, Cashier, Marlboro, Mass.
Ellsworth Woodward leaves Windsor House for G. A. Conant to run it again. Waldo Whitcomb’s illness, market substitutions, and telegraph changes noted. Strawberries ripening with a smaller crop. Wedding invitees at Melrose for Miss Jennie Kraetzer and Mr. Plumer. Lodge visitations, local accidents, and recovering patient at Cobleigh home. Community notices cover Odd Fellows picnic, lost spectacles, shop ads, and town improvements.
The Blaine factory reports a sharp drop in business while the Damon woolen mill closed last Saturday for an indefinite period. Local social items note visits by M. Janvrin’s son, Ethel Blossom at Charlestown, lawn party invites, and a Hawthorne chapter O.E.S meeting. Community events include a Shawmut cycle club ride to Leominster, a strawberry festival in Reformatory Grove, and a weathering of local social events at the church and stores. A number of minor incidents are recorded, including a vacation for Timothy F. Sheehan after a knee injury, a burglary scare at the Coolidge house, and ongoing town notes.
Miss Abbie Conant returned home from Brooklyn for the summer. Mr and Mrs Horace F Tuttle welcomed a girl born Tuesday morning. Spofford Robbins bought the old North Acton mill property from his father and plans repairs to saw lumber next winter. Miss Day and Miss Sloan at centre school treated scholars to ice cream and cake at the end of school. children praised the teachers.
A new maple floor has been laid in the selectmen's room of the town house in Hudson. The upgrade updates the council chamber area used for meetings and official business.
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