Concord Notes and Local Notices Highlight Community
Mrs. M. B. McClure arrives from New York. Miss Sadie Richardson visits Concord. Obituary for Charles Burrill. funeral arrangements. Lectures at Trinitarian church on The Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Harmony lodge reports eight new memberships. Ensign Lloyd H. Chandler on leave. Monument street club meets with Miss Amelia K. Brown after postponement. Sanford vs Brooks decision favors Sanford. Chamberlaine funds Egyptian collection at Boston Museum. Snowfall exceeds 1856 record. 75 inches from Nov 5 to Feb 26. Ann Whipple dies at 84. Concord Alliance concert features Yale performers and local readers. Colleen Bawn staged by Cambridge Dramatic company with strong acting. Miss Maggie Haggarty awarded for tickets sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. B. McClure
New York
Concord
Sadie Richardson
Belfast
Maine
Dora Wheeler
C. W. Sanford
Charles Burrill
George A. Tewksbury
Trinitarian Church
Harmony Lodge
Lloyd H. Chandler
J. G. Chandler
U. S
Monument Street Club
Amelia K. Brown
Gilmore
George Brooks
Boston Signal Service
Ann
Whipple
New Hampshire
Concord Alliance
Trinitarian
Harvard College
Jennie L. Hatch
Maud Banks
Waltham
Lena Mellen
Worcester
Alliance
Bicycles and Boots Highlight Spring Tips for Riders
Winter drifts delay spring spins as boys debate how to spend earnings. A Brockton shoemaker Crocker patents corrugated leather soles for bicycle shoes with a steel plate to guard feet from pedals. Bishop Coxe's quip about witches stirs comment. Early rides debated with breakfast and milk or coffee before pedaling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coxe
Crocker
Brockton
Milmore Memorial Tablet by Daniel C. French on View
A detailed note on the Milmore Memorial tablet by Daniel C. French now in the Art Museum gallery of casts. Milmore, born in 1844 in Sligo Ireland, studied with Thomas Ball and was famed for portrait busts including the Sphinx at Mt. Auburn. The bronze tablet shows Milmore guiding a chisel with Death as a winged woman, cast in Paris, set on Tennessee marble in a Boston designed exedra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milmore
Daniel C. French
Art Museum
Martin Milmore
Sligo
Ireland
Boston
Thomas Ball
Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Paris
Tennessee
C. Howard Walker
French
Forest Hills
Cemetery
Concord
America
Local Caucus Names Officials and Weather Review
A Thursday caucus named town officers led by Prescott Keyes as chairman and George G. Russell as secretary. Officials include Town Clerk Prescott Keyes, Selectmen James B Wood Cyrus Fletcher Frank E Cutter, Assessor George G Russell Edwin Wheeler Charles E Brown, and others. Also reported are weekly weather statistics for March with temperatures, humidity, and precipitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin W. Brown
Prescott Keyes
George G. Russell
James B.wood
Cyrus Fletcher
Frank E. Cutter
Edwin Wheeler
Charles E. Brown
D. Goodwin Lang
George H. Wright
William H. Hunt
John C
Stedman Buttrick
Charles W. Sanford
John A. Crowe
Hiram P.,worthley
Annie
Anna M. Holland
Samuel Hoar
Board of Health
James B.,wood
John M. Keyes
Joseph W. Godfrey
Charles W. Prescott
Restored Tombstone Details Benj Estabrook Memorial
Inscription in Lexington’s old cemetery honors Benj Estabrook, former pastor of the Church of Christ here. It notes he died July 22, 1697, aged 26 years five months, as son of Rev Joseph Estabrook of Concord, with Latin motto Vertus Anteit Annos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elbridge Dakin
Concord
Geneva
N. Y
Arklodge
A. M
Reformed Dutch Church
Presbyterian Church
Toledo
Buffalo
Mary
The
Genever. Advertiser
Lexington
Benj. Estabrook
Church of Christ
Joseph Estabrook
Church Services and Guild Meeting Schedule
Unitarian led by Rev B R Bulkeley holds services at 10 45 a m and 7 40 p m with a March 26 guild meeting on Moral use of Recent Inventions led by B Farnum Smith. Trinity Congregational led by Rev Geo A Tewksbury has 10 45 a m services and evening 7 30 p m with Friday prayer at 7 30 p m and Y P S C E at 6 30 p m. Episcopal Trinity Church led by Rev Walter Russell Breed offers 10 45 a m services through June first with 12 m Sunday school and lent Wednesday 4 30 p m addresses. Holy Communion second Sunday. Seats free.
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Guild
B. Farnum Smith
Trinitarian
Geo.a. Tewksbury
Trinity Church
Walter Russell Breed
Mr. Smith
South
Acton
Concord Junction
J. W.F. Barnes
Charlestown
Concord Cycle Club
H. S. Russell
Russell
Ladies’ Union
Waldo Chaplin
P. H. Bullock
Concord
S. C
Union Church
Association Hall
W. W. Campbell
Local Ads Share Goods Services and Sales
Daily and weekly papers on sale at H. L. Whitcomb s delivered by carriers. Laundry goods at Whitcomb s returnable Friday. A. W. Hosmer frames and C. E. Brown samples. Whitcomb s wall paper borders arriving. P W White opens new wheelwright shop April 1. New suits measured at C E Browns. Indiana horses for sale at the stable near the F R R station. Frank McManus Jr offers horse exchange refunds. Concord souvenir spoons at N S Daniels. Asparagus roots and strawberry plants for sale by George F Wheeler. Hawaiian number of the Californian at Hunts. Miss Buck s spring millinery stock arriving April 1. Concord souvenir fans at Miss Buck s. Competent girl wanted for general housework at C W Sanford Concord Mass. Marbles at Hunts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Whitcomb
A. W. Hosmer
C. E. Brown’s
S. P. W. White
Indiana
Frank McManus, Jr
Concord
N. S. Daniels
George F. Wheeler
Hunt’s
Miss Buck’s
C. W. Sanford
Mass
Measles spread in town as residents attend events
The note reports widespread measles in Concord area with activity around town. It mentions Miss Lottie Conant at home, Rev. Allen supplying the pulpit, and Frank Bolig of Boston visiting. It highlights the Village Improvement Society entertainment on March 28 with free admission and a sale of personal property on March 30 by Otis H. Forbush at George H. Bent farm near North Sudbury station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessey
Village Improvement Society
Otis H. Forbush
George H. Bent
North Sudbury Station
Concord
Acton
Old Fletcher shop fire at Acton Centre destroys building
The Old Fletcher shoe shop at Acton Centre burned Wednesday morning, 4.30 o'clock. The building owned by Mr. Woodman housed the Boston Tea store with a living apartment above. The blaze destroyed the shop and adjoining storehouse, scorching the Monument House. loss estimated at 6000 to 8000, insured. Citizens, lacking a fire engine, fought flames with buckets to save the Monument House and Congregational parsonage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher Shoe
Acton Centre
Woodman
Boston
Monument
Monument House
Executors Sale of House and Land on Walden Street
An executors sale listing describes a property on Walden Street with accompanying land details. The notice invites bidders and outlines terms of sale under probate control. Public notice indicates location, ownership, and sale process without specific dates.
Town Meeting Officers and Budgets Record
Town meeting held March 20 chose officers including Moderator A Littlefield Town clerk George F Keyes and elected three year posts for selectman and road commissioner J A Walker. Ballot totals show 16 yes 85 no 31 no on a monument to Parson Willard and 100 total votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Littlefield
George F. Keyes
N. E. Whitcomb
D. W. Cobleigh
J. A. Walker
J. F. Hayward
D. H. Orndoff
C. H. Burroughs
A. B. Peabody
Edward Wetherbee
Parson Willard
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Cambridge Dramatic Company
Dion Boucicault
Colleen Bawn
Kittie Sharkey
Eily O’connor
Andrew F. Dwyer
Danny Mann
Maggie Hagarty
Bicycle Notes
Milmore Memorial
Frep A. Tower
New York State
Unitarian
B.R. Bulkeley
Protestant Episcopal
H. L. Whitcomb’s
Mr. Allen
Frank Bolig
J. S. Wheeler
Nashua
J. F. Daniels
Rebekah Lodge
Harrington Paint Shop
E. Dardis
Amesbury
McDonald
Fletcher
Whitcomb
Xecutors’ Sale
Walden St
Mary R. Wright
Will
American Express Office
Harriet Farrar
Folldd
Mir
Boxboro
C. L. Woodard
F. A. Patch
R. T
J. W. Hay
J. S. Bru
Cobleigh
G. W.&c. H. Towle
California
Main Street
F.ur
Hastings & CO
South Acton
Concord Elevator
Canada
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