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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1911
Page
2
Local notes recount vacation travels of Gladys Wilson and family, school holidays, Christmas trees, carol events by the First Parish youth, and a series of gatherings at homes on Bedford and surrounding streets. Concord Grange to install officers January 2 and Odd Fellows election planned.
Central Middlesex Pomona met in Grange hall Concord selecting officers led by James B. Tuttle. New appointments include Master Sylvester P. Robinson and Overseer Charles H. Howard with a supper by Concord Grange and a program featuring Myra Laws on Birds and other talks. About 160 attended a profitable evening.
At a Wednesday night meeting Willow Rohelah Inde chose N G Mrs Charlies Hunter V G Mrs Edgar Clark ree nee Mins Clara Petti rail f n sac Mira Villa Wether bee treas Mrs Wm Lawrence thns tees Mia Alec Dye Mrs Martin Whitney and Mrs Montague as officers. They will be installed January 17.
The Trinitarian church will hold a Sunday morning service titled The Bene diction of the Year and a 7 30 p m year end song service with a short sermon on The Writing That Altereth Not. The Sunday school Christmas sermon featured The Man who missed Christmas read by Dr Winchester, with a closing pastor’s address. Also notes differ in money terms with two bits for a quarter on the Pacific coast and shillings in New York and New England.
The excerpt notes Ellen Terry remarking that many young women believe they can be actresses and that actors think they are under 30. It also mentions poultry keepers seeking shade for fowls in hot weather with ideas from Poultry Review and Farm Life, plus London Punch suggestions of parasols or keeping birds “In the Shadows.”
A town meeting in Concord authorized a memorial volume listing local veterans who served in the Civil War and the Spanish American War. A committee, chaired by George Wheeler and others, prepared blue bound volumes with names, enlistment details, units, and death information, including Civil War and Spanish War monuments reproductions. Distribution decisions rest with the selectmen.
The woman Mary E Christian was killed Wednesday evening near Lincoln while returning from Boston. She was found beside a railroad track and died instantly. Her body was moved to Dorchester for funeral arrangements, with surviving husband and other relatives mentioned.
The funeral of Mrs. Frances Skinner, native of Concord born Oct 28 1823, was held at her Wabbard street home with Rev Loren R. Macdonald officiating. Interment followed in Sleepy Hollow cemetery. Survivors include her son Fred in Toronto and a stepdaughter Sarah F. Skinner. The piece also notes the C H S Seniors Christmas Hop at Eaton hall with Merriam's orchestra, decorations in purple and gold, and committee members listed. It closes with a note from Walter Wood that the C1 S hockey team needs frozen water for a potential trip north.
Concord Artillery hosts a Wednesday banquet at the Colonial Inn for honorary and associate members. Speeches by U S Infantry officers and local leaders, plus presentations of Civil War and Spanish American War memorial books, marked one of the unit’s most memorable evenings.
The Concord National Bank stockholders will meet at the banking house on Tuesday January 9 1912 at 3 146 o'clock p m to elect directors and conduct other lawful business. C F Heywood cashier announces the notice from Concord Mass November 21 1911. Also several local rental notices list half double houses with seven rooms and amenities in Concord including Hubbard street and Concord Junction.
The First Parish holds its vesper service Sunday December 31 at 5 o clock. The program features Mrs George Hollis Blake as soloist with Miss Marion Barker violinist and a mixed voice quartet. Selections include Organ March of the Magi Kings Anthem There Were Shepherds and O Holy Night plus a Christ Child prayer response Nazareth and Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah. Kenneth K Cook a Lowell Textile School student is on vacation at home. Misses Helen Marion Douglass and Edith Burnett are vacationing from Proctor Academy studies.
In Middlesex County Massachusetts Frances Maria Skinner of Concord died leaving a will presented to the Probate Court in Cambridge for letters testamentary to Frederic Francis Skinner without bond. A citation requires public notice in Concord Enterprise for three weeks and personal delivery to known heirs seven days before the January 11, 1912 hearing.
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