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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1900
Page
1
A vintage advertisement appeals for money and offers safes and guaranteed investment. It promotes 50c carpets and tapestries with free car fare and freight, featuring rugs, art squares, straw matting, oil cloths, and linoleum for the next two weeks at cash cut prices.
Editorial instruction warns that all material must reach the office by Tuesday night to ensure same week publication. Earlier submissions prevent condensation or delay and may be left with C. H. Persons in Riverside block or with B. J. Coughlin's news room for subscriptions.
Miss Olive Burgess of Newton visited friends in town. James Coulter and George Robertson spent the weekend in West Newton. Rumor indicates the A O H society will hold an assembly on March seventeenth evening. The Y M S N club gymnastic exhibition Thursday includes dumbbell and bar bell drills, horizontal and parallel bars, Indian club swinging and vaulting. V C Van Etten will read Kipling and George Binns will read When the Minister Come to Tea.
A Thursday morning blaze in Sudbury Street damaged five tenements in the American Woolen Company block. Firemen fought a difficult fire from the upper front room of tenement No. 8, spreading between ceilings to No. 5 before being checked. Residents displaced include Gilbert Stronach and four others with temporary housing found on Nason, Thompson, High, Sudbury and Pyver streets.
The fires in town show two facts. A well trained fire brigade guards town property well. The other need is a complete alarm system to warn residents, especially with high winds threatening parts east of Nason Street.
A pleasant social dance by the Maynard social club at Co operative hall last Saturday evening drew about 50 couples. Young people from Hudson Concord and nearby towns attended while the Union orchestra of Marlboro provided music. The event ended at 11 30 with all satisfied.
Local notices report social events and visits, in particular the Ladies' Union sociable, church services, and ministers’ meeting. Town meeting actions focus on school enlargement plans, April 19 observance, Middlesex hotel property sale for a public park and future municipal offices, and a memorial for the Concord fight anniversary.
Notices state that insertions appear within the issue of the same week and may be delayed. Advertising matter and subscriptions can be left at H. L. Whitcomb’s bookstore and at the post office for submission.
Concord notes hearings this week for electric roads with the Clinton Concord line on Thursday and Lexington Boston line on Friday. The Waltham Ayer Pepperell road was recommended for repeal of a Main street restriction by the committee. Names listed include Al rack Carr and Maria Svennson among others.
T N King of Concord Junction died Sunday after being struck near Concord station while walking home from Will iam Connors. The 42 year old blacksmith, visiting from the Junction, was found dead by G A Browning of Lincoln about 4 o clock. His wind was blowing hard and it is believed he did not hear the approaching express. He leaves a widow and six children.
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