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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1898
Page
8
Instructions request all material reach the office by Tuesday to ensure insertion in the current week. Earlier receipts help prevent delays and condensation of articles. News and ads and subscriptions may be left with T. F. Newton.
SOUTH ACTON. Mr Sibley moved into the Hos mer house on R. R. square. The Ladies' Tuesday whist club net with Mrs James Symonds this week. The Acton cadet band prepares for a minstrel show. Roswell Tuttle left T. J. & W. and moved goods to West Acton. Rev W. F. Dusseault preached on the Zola trial. James and Varnum Tuttle remain bedridden. J. T. Sibley assigned to Martin street crossing. Communion at Congregational church next Sunday. A turkey dinner at Universalist church raised 10 cents per person. A 400-signature petition seeks incorporation of Marlboro Acton Lowell electric railway.
Ed Comeau buys a houselot from F D K Hoar in West Acton. Aerys Richardson pays respects to local farmers. Acton lodge I O O F initiates two candidates. Mrs Alice Howe visits cousin Lizzie Hayward and returns to Franklin. Spring vacation begins this week with March 28 return. New pupils admitted at term start. Chas Hubbard leaves Windsor hotel for Avery Lac Tad Co Littleton. Local Y P S C E delegates attend Ayer meeting. weather limited turnout. George Burroughs attends funeral in Florence for Carrie Page. Acton lodge I C O F buys upright piano placed by C H Persons. Baptist church to renovate interior. Woman's club discusses Mexico with sketches by Mary F. Rich and others. next meeting March 14. Tea at 6 30. Isaac Davis Post G A R hosts W R C with army reminiscences by D H Hall about Shenandoah campaign. Speakers include Eugene and John Fletcher. Up-to-Date Quartet performs. Wright Holton and others. Wright com presides. guests give speeches. minister silences provoke mirth. Cake and ice cream to close.
Special train of Wagner palace cars via the Fitchburg route under the Pennsylvania R R tourist bureau. The tour rate is $25. J R Watson G P Agt F R R Boston Mass will send itinerary on application.
Local brief from South Acton notes a house seeks a tenant open to boarding. Applicants directed to A. Merriam & Co. for details and arrangements.
Congregational church led by Rev W R Buxton offers 10.30 a m morning sermon 11.45 a m Sunday school 6 15 p m U P S C E and 7 p m praise service. Prayer meeting Tuesday 7 30 p m First Universalist church Acton Mass led by Rev Wm F Dusseault with 10 30 a m morning service 11 45 a m Sunday school Y P C U at 7 p m. Pews free to all.
An all-expenses tour via Fitchburg R R departs April 1 at a rate of 25 dollars. Full itinerary available from J R Watson general passenger agent Boston Massachusetts.
Mrs Alice E. Rice is elected librarian of the Goodnoon library for the year. H W Pollard has gone to New Bedford for work. Town accounts closed. annual officers election due the fourth Monday in March. A local greenhouse proprietor shipped 8500 English violets to Boston. Wadsworth school patriotic entertainment drew a large crowd to aid buying a flag for the room and a Lincoln portrait. Frank Q Jones resigns as Sudbury schools head to lead a union district. R E Corlen of Providence named to fill the term. many applicants sought the post.
Twenty five dollar ticket price for a Pennsylvania R R personally conducted tour to Washington on April 1. Travel includes all expenses with return. Write J R Watson G P A Fitchburg R R Boston for itinerary.
M. A. Armstrong's offers hosiery gloves laces stationery and small wares with a large canned goods department at cut prices managed by H. A. Littlefield in West Acton.
We the undersigned extend sincere thanks to neighbors and friends who kindly remembered and befriended us during illness. Mr and Mrs Elbridge L Wheeler and family West Acton February 21 1898.
Twenty tons of stock hay offered by F R Knowlton of West Acton Massachusetts at reasonable prices. Local buyers can contact the supplier for details and availability.
Notices request articles and advertising material be received by Tuesday night to be inserted in the same week issue. Subscribers may leave news and ads with A. L. Noyes at the post office to avoid condensation or delay.
Otis H. Forbush offers auction on Thursday March 10 1898 at 9 30 a m in Acton Center for Mrs Nancy D Robbins. Equipment includes cows heifers horse hens wagons sleigh tools fodder hay mill feed and gluten meal plus coal potatoes and household goods. Farm features orchards pasture new house barn hennery and grass land. sale to highest bidder with no reserve.
Lorenzo Barnes, condemned for the murder of farmer John Deane, will hang next Friday. His lawyer J L O Neill argued for a new trial based on possible new evidence, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court denied the writ, leaving Barnes to await the scaffold. Barnes spends his days in a monotonous jail routine, supported only by jail officials and the prison chaplain.
A local Hudson column records Sunday visits from Tufts and Haverhill residents, farm trades in Wood Square, and the Millay Last Co interests. It notes a scarlet fever quarantine on Cherry street, a court matter with George Gilroy, and a fire-alarm incident near Brigham factory. It also covers a funeral, marriages, a Lent sermon, new tradesmen, and development plans for C E Prescott’s corner building near Main and Felton.
Vermont results show Democrats gaining ground in municipal offices statewide. In Rutland Clement was re elected 1115 to 734. Barre elected John W. Gordon Citizen as mayor, opposed by Harvey Hersey and S D Allen. Montpelier chose J H Senter Democrat as mayor without opposition. Vergennes elected O C Dalrymple Republican without opposition.
Chairman Goetting named executive and finance committees for the 1898 campaign. Executives include B H Woodsum of Braintree and J O Wardwell of Haverhill. many members listed with towns such as New Bedford Suffolk etc. Finance chair A P Gardner of Hamilton and others named.
In Burlington Vermont on March 2 E M Sutton Democrat won the mayoralty by 59 votes as GOP support fractured. Six aldermen elected split 3 Democrats and 3 Republicans with Republicans retaining the city council.
In St Albans Vermont a closely fought election produced a narrow mayoral win for Fuller C. Smith a Republican. Initial tallies showed Smith ahead by seven then three before a recount gave Smith a nine vote majority. Hopkins won clerk and treasurer by 156 and Sullivan polled 1051 in the constable and collector race.
Telegraphic items report an accomplice admitting participation in a plot to kill the Greek king using a dynamite bomb. Two Canadian Pacific trains collided near Smith Falls Ontario, killing Engineer Sims and Fireman Wilson as cars burned.
The advertisement proclaims Bucklens Arnica Salve as the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions and guarantees satisfaction or refund. It lists 25 cents per box and sales by B F Johnson & Son in Maynard and Jno C Friend in Concord.
The advertisement promotes Electric Bitters for seasonal illness and languor, claiming it remedies liver sluggishness, headaches, indigestion, constipation, and dizziness. It touts prompt use to counter malarial poison and lists prices and retailers B F Johnson Sons Maynard Avenue and C Friend's Drug Store Concord for $1.00 per bottle.
School teachers are invited to a personally conducted Easter vacation tour to Washington and Philadelphia on a special train of Wagner palace cars via the Fitchburg line. The rate is attractive and highlights first class arrangements under the Pennsylvania R R tourist bureau. J R Watson Boston Mass will furnish the itinerary on application.
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