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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1909
Page
8
The Enterprise published weekly at 151 Main Street Marlboro Massachusetts offers subscriptions at 1 year for $1, six months for 50 cents, and three months for 25 cents. Advertising costs include one inch per week 75 cents and 25 cents for each additional inch, with business notices in local columns at 10 cents per line per insertion.
South Acton items note Miss Whitney visiting with her niece and guests like Henry Wotten. Visits include Dr. George Tuttle and Walter Bird, with Fitchburg’s Mrs. Osier stopping by. Community events feature whist, a Masonic concert in Maynard, and a food sale by the Congregational L. 8. G. C. in Exchange hall.
West Acton notes include travels to Fitchburg Boston and Washington, theater and drama events, a mail car fire at North Station and local meetings. Residents join temperance rallies, plan fundraisers for Memorial day flowers, and discuss school funding classifications and licensing.
Reverend Oscar F. Stetson pastor of the Congregational church will take a three month leave of absence for a funded trip abroad. The donor will cover costs totaling 1100 dollars for the journey and its expenses.
Fred C. Grenier announces a new blacksmith shop in the old building under James De vane's paint shop West Acton offering horse shoeing balancing and various smithing tasks. He promotes satisfaction guaranteed and invites trial work dated March 15 1909.
A Philadelphia Ledger note recounts a groom at Niagara Falls misreading a hotel register entering John Doe and wife then John Doe and bride. A second item presents a playful math riddle: subtract 9 from 6, 10 from 9, and 50 from 40 and still get 6 through letter play with IX SIX XK XL and the letters Y and X.
Acton Centre schedules a March break for Acton schools during the week of March 21. The drama The Country Minister presented by Acton residents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Priest, who are ill, is in convalescence. A town hall bar masque auction, temperance talk, and a successful Dramatic club performance in Acton and Stow are noted along with upcoming shows in West Acton and at Winona Rebekah lodge. Auction notices list hay sales by Otis H. Forbush on March 13 and household goods sale on March 20, plus a farm sale near Bedford on April 1 offering cows and poultry.
Barred Rocks White Rocks Rhode Island Reds and Brown Leghorns offered for hatching 15 eggs for 75 cents or 4 dollars per 100. Acton Centre seller J. E. Durkee.
A Young Peoples club meeting discussed upcoming town warrant articles. Moderator chosen as Mrs. C. Hi Towle. Debated water works extension to Nagog pond with bonds up to 40000. article laid on the table. Foot bridge extension on Elm street article lost. Other funding for band concerts Lincoln Day printing watering troughs street watering and grade crossing abolition left for citizens. Miss Grace Hunt spoke on current events. Capt. R. B. Petersen discussed Co. I Washington trip. Refreshments served.
Lawyer Breef reports Mrs. Bickers seeks divorce with alimony of $5,000 a year and vows to defend or not defend the case. Mr. Bickers seeks peace at any price, rejecting defense while acknowledging the large alimony.
A humorous exchange in a classroom recalls a teacher asking what people did before steel pens. A clever student quips that the pinions of a goose were used to spread opinions, delivering a playful remark at the end of the line.
The interior department opens about 3,000,000 acres along Wyoming eastern border to homesteaders. Applicants may claim 160 or 320 acres on dry land not suitable for irrigation. Full 320 acre entries require cultivation attempt. 160 acre holdings not mandatory. Aimed as an experiment to test dry farming viability.
Lawrence Mass March 10 President Wood of the American Woolen company warns that a tariff cut on woolen goods must not lower wages. He notes that American Woolen mills are paying record wages and have kept high pay through hard times. The company employs nearly 40 000 operatives in thirty plants.
Mayor Hibbard signed the order accepting the Parkman bequest of five million dollars after the council, with acting mayor Brand having previously signed, followed a counsel's opinion on the acting mayor's action.
In New York on March 10 five teams retired from the six day race leaving eleven of twenty seven teams still racing. Cibot and Orphee from France hold a commanding lead of more than eleven miles over their nearest rivals Davis and Metkus.
The Missouri Supreme Court overruled motions for a hearing and for modification of the oyster suit judgment by Standard Oil Company of Indiana and Republic Oil Company of Ohio. The decisions expel the Indiana and Ohio firms from Missouri.
Marlboro items include the Odd Fellows third degree, local illnesses and attendances, funerals in North Adams, a Friday sermon in Hudson, store improvements on Main Street, and residents moving or ill. Births, clerks at the Public Market, and a fistula operation at Marlboro Hospital are noted, along with a Sunday School union meeting with speaker W. C. King of Springfield.
Mrs Marian Louise Hood died at her father Henry C Curtis home in Marlboro Hyde Park after a long illness. Born April 17 1864 she taught piano and served as organist at several churches including First Baptist Hyde Park. Survived by her father and brother Frank T Curtis. Funeral Friday at 2:30 PM with burial in Southbridge Saturday.
J Rhodes, recently employed at the Albee Photographic studio in the Albee building on Central Street, died in Boston of heart disease at age 67. He leaves a wife a son and a brother.
Bedford A. J. Poland Co completed a large plumbing contract for Dr. E. E. Hamblen. Master Hollis Halladay has been ill with a severe cold for days, keeping him from school. Blue birds appeared in town signaling spring and inquiries rise for tenements and property, highlighting Bedford as a suburban location.
Sudbury society notes Mrs Geo Moon, once ill, can go out again. Roller skating remains popular as basket ball season ends. Warden Mr Pickering of the town farm retires at term end after buying a New Hampshire farm.
George E. Tulis of Boston visited with his parents on Sunday. Mrs. A. W. Stone spent time with relatives in Cambridge. The Goodnow library reopened after its annual inspection. Mrs. Alice E. Rice was reappointed librarian.
Fitchburg and surrounding communities gathered for a daylight camp fire led by the G A R Post 19. Nearly all 22 nearby posts attended signaling a new community outreach effort in Fitchburg. Grafton librarian Miss Lucy Biscoe replaces Miss Mabel Howe who resigns after eight years due to ill health.
Leominster officials and business leaders heard Thomas E. Byrnes vice president of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad discuss how the rail line shapes local development at the quarterly Board of Trade banquet Monday evening.
Town notes list a March 29 town meeting and upcoming events including an Arts and Crafts club gathering with Mrs Abbott. Letters received about a Boston mail car fire dominate May mail. The community hosts lyceum, high school dances, and a novel men dish supper to showcase chafing dish cooking.
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