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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1910
Page
10
South Acton residents report health and business notes from Hudson to Maine. Local social visits include Miss Allée Fairbanks from college and Miss Hurlburt of Ayer. town caucus urged for tonight. Measles hit high school. temperance sessions planned. Prattie recovering from broken ribs days after.
The town notes Frank Hosmer’s 74th birthday celebrated quietly at Sunshine Villa. The Acton Improvement Association re elected Wills Wetherbee treasurer and F Z Taylor secretary. Residents complain of Sunday nuisance from Maynard youths blowing whistles at the electric car near the bridge.
Funeral services for Florence Geneva Hapgood wife of Frank B E Hapgood of Newport Vermont were conducted at the Hapgood residence with Dr Flagg and Rev S Willis officiating. She belonged to several local groups and is survived by a husband, her parents, three brothers and three sisters. Interment was in Mt Hope cemetery. Also includes an advertisement for Jarvis Solude Oil and thanks note.
Gaylon Spinney works on the B. and M. section while Mrs Cheney and daughter spent Sunday in Dunstable. Richard White has measles but is improving. rest of family gaining slowly. Funeral for John Magnesee at his late home Thursday with Rev E C Hayes presiding. He loved flowers. relatives and friends sent many, gratitude expressed for flowers, gifts, and aid during illness and death of husband and father from Mrs John Maynes and family.
State Master Stetson opened the Maine state grange session urging personal responsibility and supporting proportional representation. Resolutions favored parcels post and oleo price controls, with opposition to lowering import duties and to party boss nominations. The 433 granges reported 230 paid members, receipts $12,116.10, and a treasury balance of $5,511.91.
Miss Ruth Knowlton contracts measles. Walter Tuttle works at Whitcomb's market. Mrs A H Perkins seeks treatment at Westboro hospital. Winona Rebekah lodge plans a social after its next meeting. Mr and Mrs L W Irish visit Miss R G Baker in West Paris. Temperance rally draws attendees from Maynard. Mrs John Green recovering from blood poison in finger. BE Parker farm auction at Boxboro draws large crowd. cows sell high. Clayton Beach and Mabel White wed at Baptist parsonage. plan to reside in Foxboro.
The Kansas Grange stresses Patrons fire and tornado insurance with risks totaling $0,404,705 as of December 1900. It urges state goals including a state marshal, agricultural and domestic training in rural schools, utility regulation by railroad commissioners, an experiment seed farm, and national aid for good roads.
A large appreciative audience attended Tuesday evening listening to the Weber Mae quartet of Boston assisted by Miss Grace E B Sanborn as reader. The program featured Quartet March Reading Night Run of the Overland Miss Sanborn Quartet The Beautiful Rose Solo Selected Mr Prescott Quartet Selected Reading Sally Ann's Experience Reading Selected Quartet Lallaby.
The W C T U meets at Mrs Horace Tuttle home. Boston auto show drew many locals last week. Mrs A C Hardy and Helen visited A E Payson. Town reports point to town meeting on the 28th. A substitute took Arthur Rayner's place at Acton station. Mrs Russell and son George visited the Noyes home. Miss Mary Jackson's body interred at Woodlawn. James B Tuttle organized a Lincoln Grange ladies staff. Rev E C Hayes officiated Maynes funeral. interment at Woodlawn. Measles reported in eastern town. three cases listed. A concert by Edwin N Barnes and assistants drew a good audience. Attendees went to Lexington for Middlesex Central Pomona benefit. The drama Old Acre Folk was once performed locally. The piece Facts versus Fiction on liquor laws circulated. urges voting no license. Rev E C Winslow will speak at Congregational church next Sunday morning. Home for Little Wanderers choir to attend. Geo Greenough will lead the evening C E service with Money a Curse or a Blessing.
Last week a Grange gathering featured the lecturer’s hour on The Grange Journal. The discourse highlighted witty sayings and related content recently included in the publication.
A town meeting dinner priced at 25 cents was approved with no snow removal plan discussed. Auctioneer Otis H. Forbush of Acton Mass announces several upcoming sales in March and April across Massachusetts including cows horses tools and personal property for buyers in Nobscot Framingham Harvard Danvers North Sudbury Minster and Groton with posters available on request.
B J Adams sold a horse to Benjamin Leschapelle Elmst. Thomas Drummey returned from Brockton Sunday. B W Johnson left F T Curtis grocery and joined Harry Whitman store. Dennis Hurley home from Milford Sunday. James F Howen of Feder al Shoe Co Lowell visited family on Chestnut St. firm makes 4000+ pairs daily. Annie Wilson child with measles at Harvard St home. Mrs L J Holden and Archi William Matenann with Gertrude Walker guests on Huntington Ave. Arthur Butter bought house on Estabrook Ave. Miss A B Maynard began duties as district nurse under director.
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