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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1909
Page
8
The Marlboro Enterprise published weekly lists pricing and mailing terms as well as office details. It notes a 51 annual subscription, single copies for three cents, six months for 50 cents, and three months for 25 cents, with post office compliance and office at 15 Main Street Marlboro Massachusetts.
Rates listed for one inch ads at seven cents for one week with additional charges of twenty five cents per inch. Special rates offered for yearly advertisers. Business notices in local columns charged zero cents per line.
Local items from South Acton list visits by residents to Shelburne Falls Marlboro and Hudson. railway painting crews at the station. a concert by Musical Five from Boston. W C T U meeting. a golden wedding anniversary event planned. and a near drowning incident on Merriam pond.
The society reports a prosperous year with a large surplus after funding a new Well and repairs. It was voted to paint the church in early spring and a committee was chosen to let the contract.
Fred Welsh of Waltham visits Bedford relatives. Entre Nous club meets at Mrs. David Limitch. Miss Eleanor Parker tours Europe into late autumn. Willis Kenrick heads pumping station for water board. Dudley Hartford recovers from illness. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Blake in Boston for theatre and auto show. L. H. Halladay hosts whist with luncheon. Miss D. A. Smith visiting mother in Waltham. Four generations share tea at Lane home. Illness frames Bedford life with colds la grippe and whooping cough. Master John Lyons ill with tonsillitis. Norbert English moves to Lexington. Bedford friends wish happiness.
West Acton notes report Hall Bros. saw mill evenings and local trades. Glen Hawes, aboard the battleship Missouri, spent Sunday at home. Boxboro license vote favored no sale by 41 to 12. Tufts Glee and Mandolin club concert planned for April 6 with special train arrangements from Boston and nearby towns.
Weather permitting candidates for the ball team should report to R A Whittier at Page's Field Saturday March 20 at 3 o'clock. A junior reserve schedule may be organized. Bedford Civic Club becomes incorporated under Massachusetts law to conduct business and improve town historic spots. The club may promote flowers and vegetable gardens on school land with work by school children.
Pool table for sale cheap. Apply C W Blake Co Bedford. For Rent tenement six rooms centrally located. Apply C W Blake Co drug store.
Governor Hadley said he would exhaust all state powers to prevent railroads from returning to the three cent a mile passenger rate. His comment followed a Chicago railroad conference decision to restore the old rate. He declared he would not permit unfair rates harming the people.
Madison reports the assembly passed a bill to detach territory from Rosevelt town in Taylor county to establish Taft town. In Middletown Italian colony fears grow as Black Hand threats target witnesses in upcoming murder trial cases. relatives seek police protection.
West Acton locals list barred eggs for hatching from Barred Rock White Wyandotte and Rhode Island Red. G. W. Burroughs Boxboro Mass sole agents for Acton for Gold Seal Rubbers selling at 25 cents above common types. Eastman Kodaks and supplies in stock. A new blacksmith shop offers horse shoeing and general smith work with emphasis on fixing faulty gaits and ready to please customers. March 15 1909.
North Acton reports visits to Concord and returns of residents including Ruth Robbins from Bedford and Stephen Dane from the New Jersey at Charles Town navy yard. Letters unclaimed list names Albert Clifford W J Champlain Leo Kachursky. Elwin Hollowell heals from a severe ankle cut. Acton Grange to stage School-day Reminiscences with a dinner pail lunch auction.
Dramatic parliamentary disclosures in London reveal Germany's rapid battleship buildup threatening Britain's naval supremacy. Balfour and McKenna debate while a near future plan for additional Dreadnoughts is urged. In Washington Taft calls an extra session to revise the Dingley tariff to fund government needs and avoid deficits.
William Strong of Westville, member of the United Mine Workers, was denied naturalization in Danville Illinois. Asked which to follow when union and U.S. law clashed, he answered the union. Judge Wright declared citizenship cannot be granted to those who follow trade union dictates over the laws of the United States.
Paris reports indicate a widening strike among telegraph, telephone, and postal employees. Postal and telephonic services are demoralized as telephone girls vote to quit and letter carriers adopt strike resolutions. The Logan Still Aground is a separate dispatch from Honolulu noting the army transport remains on the reef after last Saturday’s attempt to enter a harbor slip. In Helsingfors, a senate measure bans Jewish ritual slaughter of cattle.
In Newport Rhode Island on March 17 Frank Pinto a 32 year old Italian barber died after an accidental rifle discharge while climbing a fence. The blast tore off the top of his head. The report cites the fatal mishap as the act of a stray shot.
Acton Center will close schools this Friday through the next week for vacation. A town meeting is scheduled for March 25. Acton Grange will provide the dinner. Harold Phalen hosted a college friend at his home over Sunday. Rev. E. Co. Hayes will preach a temperance sermon Sunday morning. Carleton Taylor repairs his buildings with Robert Wayne handling the work. Prof. Lovett plans a necktie and apron party in the town hall on Thursday evening, March 25. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Noyes and daughter Mildred of Wellesley visited Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. Elbridge Robbins and Chester Robbins left Monday for a trip to Asheville, North Carolina. Mrs. Chester Robbins is visiting in Cambridge. The Acton Dramatic Club will present The Country Minister in West Acton Thursday and in Concord Junction Friday of this week. Luther Conant and his son Elbridge Conant of Brunswick, Ga., were guests of Luther Conant Jr. in Washington last week.
At the Acton Grange meeting on Tuesday March 9 Dr Geo M Twitchell of Maine spoke on fruit growing. A farmer with practical New England orchard knowledge the lecture was found interesting and encouraging for worried orchardists. The program featured two vocal solos by Worthy Master Arthur E Payson and a piano solo by Mrs H Hi Hawley.
Otis H. Forbush announces sales of household goods for the late Mrs. Reed at Acton Centre on March 20. Executor E A Phalen will sell J W Sheehan's household goods near South Lincoln on March 26. Shawsheen River herd sale for A H Parker at Bedford on April 1. Dean Farm Company sale at Islington Norwood on April 5 includes 85 cows and 4 horses.
Barn items offered include horses, wagons, buggies, harnesses and 40 tons hay with sales set for Saturday March 27 at 1 pm. Driving team, top and open, sleighs and tools to be sold at Geo W Davis place near the Pail Factory. Eggs for hatching Barred Rocks White Rocks Rhode Island Reds and Brown Leghorns 15 for $1.75 $4 per 100 by J E Durkee Acton Centre.
Miss Grace Richardson is at her home during vacation. Isle of Wight area residents like Ira P. Nadeau of Lynn visited relatives. Framingham District Sunday School convention meets in Holliston. A large Memorial church gathering enjoyed a sermon for men by Rev Whiting. L S Hanan to supervise A W Rogers farm. Rogers to occupy part of his house.
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