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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1907
Page
10
Publication details indicate The Enterprise Company issues on Wednesdays with Marlboro Mass mailing rights and a 1903Second class entry. Subscription rates listed include annual six months and quarterly prices. Office address at 461 Main Street Marlboro Massachusetts.
Concord Junction society notes list residents visiting relatives and hosting events. Miss Linda Ritcher and Mrs Carrie Derby visit, Supt Osborn hires a house, Mrs F W Taylor returns from Danvers, and Rev Geo B Frost conducts services in Hudson. Other brief gatherings occur in Carlisle Gardner Groton Louth Framingham Milford.
Sunday night services at the church featured Rev Campbell. A busy week included Holy Week lessons led by Rev Bradley, a no license stance, a Hawthorne BE meeting, and a Cambridge court action that was dismissed. Music at the Union church impressed with a double quartet and skilled solos by Baxter Lawton Matinson. The Trinitarian church mission circle held a supper, an entertainment program, and a Philathea gym drill followed by a pass ball exhibition and a charity apron sale to support the Christian Endeavor society.
Several children in Concord are ill with measles while the community plans a Christian Endeavor sociable at the Trinitarian church. A Grange hall whist party filled eight tables with refreshments served at close. Grass fires on Saturday, high winds hindered containment after no alarms. Water main burst on Main street caused widespread outages all day before repairs.
The Trinitarian church schedules Holy Week meetings Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and adds Thursday and Friday at 7 30. Friday features the cantata Stainer's Crucifixion with two Boston soloists and the church chorus, plus a brief sermon. Librettos will be distributed. Easter Sunday service with music and sermon at 10 45, and Sunday school concert at 6 30.
A letter from 18 F. W. Devoe & Co argues that pure paint costs $1.75 a gallon and adulterated mixes yield higher prices. It claims the average adulteration is about one third, pushing the effective price to roughly $2.62 a gallon while customers lack awareness and pay painters more for workmanship.
Henry Hartwell Hale once drove an express wagon in Concord and now lives at the Old Peoples home. He makes quilt masterpieces from calico scraps, completing over 150 quilts in two years, priced at two dollars, funded by donated materials and his own simple needs.
A list of names for advertised letters appears with H. J. Carter and others. A large delegation of school teachers from Dunmore Pennsylvania visited Concord on Tuesday, arriving at 9:45 via the Fitchburg division, then touring historical sites and boarding a trolley for Lexington.
General housework girl and nurse maid positions listed in Concord with English requirement for G D Sohier and Mrs G E Walcott. Also tenement for let Barrett Mill Road renovated with heat and electric lights. Hay for sale by F R Knowlton West Acton and framing services offered by Vanderveer. Also stock and real estate ads and a small classified notice to advertise in The Enterprise.
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