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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1909
Page
8
The Patorphase weekly publishes from Marlboro Massachusetts with manager F Wilder. Subscription rates are 31 per year or 3 cents a copy. Office located at 151 Main Street Marlboro. Advertising rates listed per inch per week with discounts for yearly advertisers.
South Acton notes Eliza Fletcher enjoys a home vacation while Helen Wood visits Mrs. George Keyes. An inauguration ball is planned for Exchange Hall Thursday night. Local moves include Mae Wetherbee joining Harriman as bookkeeper and James W. Coughlin taking a position with Henry Siegel Co. in Boston. Birthday celebrations honor Edward Richardson on his 76th, and news from Washington covers Mrs. Alvin Lothrop’s death. Birds signal spring with bluebirds and robins around town.
The Men's club hosted a Thursday night talk at the Congregational church. Despite a rough setting, the address captivated a sizable audience and educated attendees about the history of the Negro in the South.
Sunday program drew large audiences as women led services ringing the bell collecting funds and guiding songs while Mrs Emma Howland of Boston spoke on Character Building in simple incisive terms. Miss Florence Salisbury sang solos and a ladies choir supported. Miss Alice Warren delivered a moving recitation The fence and the ambulance. Mrs Case presided Mrs Fletcher read Scripture and Mrs Christie offered prayer.
An essay notes that civilization brings indoor air problems that cause snoring. It links blocked nasal passages, mouth breathing, and unheated air to health issues and predicts widespread snoring among future men and women, alongside tooth decay and baldness.
A traveler at a quiet railroad junction orders coffee with little time to spare. The young restaurant attendant calls the superintendent to delay the train, explaining the branch line has no other traffic and the boss owns the eatery. The traveler enjoys a lengthy meal.
Town meeting set for the 29th. Mrs. Hall Staples visits in Waltham. James Kinsley to New York to see his son Richard. Mrs. Howland ill and silent at Baptist church. Rev. D. Lovett's brother visits from Somerville. Thomas Moore leaves for Washington, D. C. for duty with Co. J Concord. School closed for rain. Nelson Cobleigh hires farm in Boxboro. Mrs. Ernest Banks improving with nurse in attendance. Tufts college mandolin concert April 6 at I O O F hall. Don't Worry club apron and necktie dance March 17 with King & Cole orchestra. H. H. Holt visits after long NYNH engineer tenure. Barred Rock fowl and eggs for sale. Gold Seal rubbers advertised. 15 tons Brook Meadow hay for sale by John McCarthy.
Miss Una Holden and Miss Florence Whitcomb spent Sunday with friends in town. Prof Lovett plans a masquerade ball in town hall on Thursday March 11. In Hopedale Quincy Fletcher visited Albert Smith and family. The Country Minister will be staged in town hall Wednesday evening. Luther Conant leaves for Washington to attend Taft inauguration. W I C T U leader Mrs Howland gave an address. new members joined. A fine church supper was served last Thursday. Auction notices advertise sales in Bedford and East Watertown with cattle horses and farm equipment on March 6 and March 8 respectively. A Shawsheen River cattle and poultry sale is set for April 1. There will be four more sales announced later.
Palmyra Grange of New York dedicates a two story pressed brick hall with concrete basement and tile floors. Ground broke June 8 and the building costs $16,000 featuring a 57 by 33 foot dining room, a 58 by 33 foot assembly room with a 25 by 12 foot stage, bay windows, mosaic entrance foyer, porte co cher entrance, and two fire escapes for safety.
The thirty seventh annual Vermont state grange session in Burlington drew about 800 members from 180 granges, with total membership 16 200. C F Smith of Morrisville named new state master after G W Pierce declined due to illness. Six degree conferrals and resolutions to empower cattle testing and tax evergreen shipments were approved.
A quotation attributed to Abraham Lincoln condemns legalized liquor traffic as civilization's tragedy. It argues for active public knowledge and destruction of evil, calling saloons the greatest foe and blighting curse of modern civilization.
The supreme court ruled first and fourth class licenses may be granted any time of year and must apply to buildings already built, not to structures still under construction. The ruling suspends the hotel’s operations and stirs state debate over licensing months and construction criteria.
Mrs. Philip Miller of Central Street is on the sick list. Mrs. H. M. Pickering is seriously ill with dropsy at her Shaw mut avenue home. Miss Mary A. Murphy, Pleasant Street teacher, visits Havre Hill. John Hutch of Washington Street works as conductor on the M and W street railway. Frank Lyons leads the brown tail moth work during Supervisor M. E. Lyons’s Washington absence. Roy Carter works as baggage porter.
Master at the B and M station speaks during Fred Aldrich’s Washington absence. Joseph Lapierre Clarice Noel and Ida Gariepy return from New York millinery openings. Marlboro lodge K of P knights a candidate Monday with a collation. Pericles lodge visitors attend. Guy Lane moves to Shawmut Ave lower tenement. Burton Allen to occupy upper tenement on Commonwealth Ave. Allen is a Goodyear operator at Douglas factory.
A three week revival begins March 21 at Marlboro Universalist Church and runs through Holy Thursday April 8. Rev Mrs Updale organized it with parish approval and seven outside clergymen will assist on different evenings. Protestant churches and choirs will join in music and ecumenical aims will guide the event.
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