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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1916
Page
5
Maynard residents report visits from Brockton Worcester Framingham and Swampscott as schools reopen with no staff changes. Local clubs and lodge activities announce events plus a spring festival plan and a charity dance at Riverside hall with 150 attendees.
An old advertisement promotes Citrolax as a thorough laxative offering quick relief from constipation, stomach issues, and headaches. It touts flushing action with no pain or nausea and urges readers to ask for Citrolax.
Magdalene chapter OBE held in Masonic Hall conferring the degree on a class of nine candidates. Supper followed the exercises prepared by Graham Forgie and guests Miss Bertha Binks Miss Elizabeth Deane and Mrs Harris Clements.
Family moving out of town owes 129 dollars on a handsome upright grand piano. It is yours for the balance, Write The Gibbs Piano Co. at 71 78 Main St Springfield Mass. The business has 30 years in one location.
Mrs Henry Kankala died at Waltham Hospital early Monday from heart disease. She is survived by her husband. Services were held at the Finnish Congregational Church Tuesday afternoon conducted by Rev. John Vaananen, with burial in Glenwood Cemetery.
Mrs Ellen 8 Persons aged 78 mother of Charles H Persons of this town died at her Leominster home Friday. Funeral was held at her home Sunday afternoon. Burial took place in Bernards town Monday morning. Mr Persons Miss Dorothy and Carl Persons attended.
A pre Lenten dancing party at Exchange hall South Acton drew attendees Tuesday evening from 8 to 1. Brooks Reed L A Sebastian Luther W Piper and Adelbert B Messer organized the event with refreshments served. State Treasurer Charles Burrill attended as the guest of Mr Messer.
Arthur J. Sullivan named manager for the Grange play set for Tuesday and Wednesday evenings May 8 and 9. The committee includes Mise M. Louise Dorntee James B. Farrell Mrs. Alice Brown Howe Mrs. Aliie W. Martin Herbert Martin P. J. Schnair and Lloyd Walker.
Mr and Mrs Emanuel Taylor announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Beatrice B Taylor to Ernest H Meisterling of New London CT. Miss Taylor a popular young woman associated with the M B church a graduate of M H S class of 1910 and a member of the local Grange. Mr Meisterling holds a position with the Fleischmann Yeast Co.
At the request of Ham C. Hill counsel for George F. Mortis, serving a life sentence in Charlestown jail, a number of his friends will appear before the parole board at Charlestown prison Friday afternoon. He was formerly a loom fixer in the mill. Extenuating circumstances are cited for the activity of his supporters seeking a pardon. Dr C L King Dr Daniel Goode and Dr Raymond Palmer and William Taylor Jersey Butter store proprietor were among Maynard people who attended the automobile show in Boston Monday.
The Y P S C B of the Finnish Mission church marked its 11th anniversary with programs and delegates from Quincy Worcester Fitchburg Gardner and others. Town meeting items include 10 articles with debates likely over all night street lighting and band funding.
Mrs P Redkamp of Covington Kentucky endorses Foley's Honey and Tar as safe and reliable cough syrup for her eight children who suffered from croup. The advertisement cites her two year usage and mentions Johnsons Pharmacy Maynard as a source.
William Punch, a former Maynard boy, has risen to supervisor at Intermediate Insurance Co. of Baltimore after a promotion from assistant superintendent, signaling a higher post and salary in Philadelphia. H. J. Dwinell buys the rear post office lot known as the park from B. J. Coughlin for a new one story building 109 by 30 feet with a garage on one end.
An advertisement urges readers to choose glasses that fit perfectly to avoid discomfort. It claims uncomfortable glasses worsen vision and urges visiting Louis Peel for the right pair. Also mentions Foley Kidney Pills from Johnson's Pharmacy and notes changing Macon weather brings sickness.
A Rhode Island artist colony dean dies in Providence while an Everett night watchman passes away at General E works. Mass. workers at Pretiss Wire Holyoke refuse open shop. a 94 year old painter dies in Boston. a trolley crew proposal is withdrawn by a Massachusetts committee. Swampscott man killed by train wheels. a Boston man dies in a freight elevator. A Boston card dealer sustains $16000 in fire losses. Nantucket icebound schooners freed by coast guard cutter. Salem teen drinks poison in personal crisis. Milton firemen respond to a meat incident.
Mr Bacon hosts an odd dinner in Toledo where each guest prepared their own meal by electricity. Mrs Bacon notes the event was unusual since guests avoided hard words to the cook.
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