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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1905
Page
8
Eleven votes decide the race with Lyman C Taylor defeating B A Phalen for selectman by 11 votes at Acton town meeting. Old Home Week and 170th town anniversary approved, band concert defeated, and multiple improvements planned including a new watering trough and town hall addition. Yes 68, No 124 on license. various appropriations listed for schools, town hall, library, and public services.
South Acton residents and visitors listed include Mrs J W Burgess at her father Henry Hanson's home, Everett Sumner of Peabody, Luther Piper on a business trip to Norfolk Virginia, Wilbur Jones of Worcester with his mother, Miss Alice Warren visiting Natick, and Mr and Mrs H A Fletcher of Cambridge with the former's parents. Also Ula Skelton returns to Holden duties, Mrs Arthur Lawrence and two children visit New Hampshire, delay of Mrs Crompton's Manager due to Piper's absence, Hayward place Maplestown now occupied by Mr Shaw, and local shop ad for wallpapers and painting services by Wm H Howe, 13 Pope St Hudson.
The vestry preaching service begins April 2 at 7 30 PM followed by the Endeavor meeting. At the Y P S C E annual meeting March 27 officers were elected including President H E Clough and Secretary Miss Margaret Quimby. The L B S C meets March 30 with Mrs Geo Worster. North Middlesex Mission Board joins Ladies Auxiliary April 5 with a posted time and speakers notice. A King's Daughters meeting was postponed to the next Y P S C E session. A rally is planned at the Congregational church around April 12.
Adelbert Mead ill from acute indigestion. Mrs. 8 M Battles visits Arlington. Oliver and Mrs. Mead return from the South. John Watkins shoots a fine dog. Mrs. D H Hall under doctor care for throat trouble. Roscoe Knowlton and Hallam Crosbie visit T R Knowlton. Helen Hall and Helen Knowton home from Bradford academy. Rev Gorham Easterbrook preaches last Baptist church sermon. Mrs J B Richardson hosts Department Officers and Veteran Relief corps reception. Woman's club meets with papers on Japanese life and heroes and current events. George Guilford and Ida Robinson wed at bride’s home. Mrs Chas Beach worsens from heart trouble but improves Tuesday.
Julius Loewe spent several days visiting friends in Cambridge Waverly and Boston. Overseers of the poor organized with James Mullin as chairman and James R. Bent as secretary. Attendees at Alleppo Temple Mystic Shrine services in Boston Monday night included Julius Loewe John W. Ogden Horace Hammond J Keyes Hall and Charles H. Persons.
Next week four afternoon and four evening services will be led by Rev. W. W. Sleeper of Wellesley. On Sunday evening Rev. E. C. Hunt and Mr. Sleeper will exchange pulpits. The morning sermon continues the Kingdom of God series by Mr. Hunt titled Young Men and the Kingdom. A 40-voice chorus, directed by Robert W. Carter, prepares for the Y P S C E district school production on April 28. Samuel Townsend Miss Ada Bowers and Miss Jessie Robinson attended a Y P S C EB convention at Ayer Tuesday night.
Nelson Hall, Civil War veteran and longtime Maine port customs collector, died Wednesday and was buried Sunday at Glenwood cemetery Maynard. Services at Congregational church. G A R and Gen Wiley camp members attended. hall of St George district veteran long in public service.
About 50 friends attended a smoke talk Tuesday night with Collins orchestra and vocalists Collins assisted by Hilferty Butler and Scully. George Messer of Concord and Simon of Boston outlined benefits of the order. A supper followed as several new applications were received. The committee included Sheridan Butler Driscoll Rainville and Barlow.
West Acton notice offers limited B P R and White Wyandotte eggs at 50 cents per sitting. Ge o W Burroughs lists services. Wanted girl for general housework must be good plain cook and laundress, wages five dollars per week, no washing. Address Box 135 West Acton.
Acton Center reports moves and calls for clergy Reverend F Brooks Noyes accepts a call to Scituate Reverend Bernard Copping to a New Hampshire church. Fred Styles will move to East Acton. Mrs Gertrude Daniels visits from Pittsfield. Old Home Week agreed for July first. Dinner served for over 100 attendees by the A C L 8. Isaac Flagg returns to reside in his former Acton Center home. E A Phalen homebound due to a serious foot issue.
Marlboro news provides a snapshot of community activity. The Marlboro Brass band holds a Friday rehearsal. C J Toland acquires canaries from New York. W C Hazeltine opens a jewelry store in Masonic block, Southboro. Joseph Fredette launches a restaurant in Monument block, Main St. Christian Hansen starts as superintendent of the filter beds.
Hudson Lyman Beede underwent an operation for nasal trouble last week. Arthur Jacques accepted employment at the Hudson Woolen mill. Dr. Thomas F. Tierney attended a relative’s funeral in Fitchburg Sunday. James P. Clare of Boston visited in town. Michael Collins was the contract for the foundation for the new house of L. D. Apsley. James and Joseph Lighte spent Sunday with Sargeant in Northboro. Adrian Vincent and Peter Breen were guests in Concord and Lexington Sunday. Charles Orliss of Cambridge visited Tullicks in Pleasant Street. Fr. Cusack spoke on Brockton calamity at St Michael’s Church. George Kerrigan visited Holy Cross in Worcester. Edward Cuff left Knott and Pope factory for Jetts factory. Grover Moran left Doyle and Murphy’s barber shop. Albert Lambert took his place. The Underwood building, owned by Mrs. Margaret Croswell, was settled after Daniel J. McCarthy leased it and will move in next month.
Sudbury residents enjoyed clear weather for a Sunday drive on state highways. Three patients remain in Framingham hospital. Rev J H Mansfield D D made an official district visit to the Methodist church. The winter term ended and spring term begins April first. Mr and Mrs John Clifford Hall returned from their March 22 wedding trip and will live in Sudbury Center. Ice suitable for use was cut in western Sudbury at week’s end, unusual for late March. Oscar H Perry of Westbrook seminary and Portland resident spent the night with his sister Inez A Perry. The Rev Albert A Felch will preach Sunday for the last time this conference year, before starting at John Eliot Congregational church in South Natick on April ninth. State Lecturer Charles H Rice of the Massachusetts Grange spoke Tuesday on Boyhood of Great Men at a well attended public meeting. The remains of Miss Lizzie Harmon Lansil were taken to Malden for interment at Woodlawn Cemetery. she died Sunday at 30.
Keith's weekly program features Richard Golden in Jed Prouty's Visit to Boston with a seven performer company. The Three Keatons lead the comedy segment with Buster the famed midget comedian. Other acts include Josephine Amoris trapeze, Lucy Clark Irish songs, George Wilson blackface and stump oratory, Trovollo ventriloquist, Tony Wilson and Mile Heloise horizontal bar, Pearl Danforth dancer, John LeClaire jug trick, plus the biograph short.
In the annual meeting held Monday with Francis F Walker moderator the town elected officers for terms including Jonas S Hunt town clerk 3 years Waldo L Stone Frank W Goodenow Earl F Lansil assessors 1 year Sylvester D Perry overseer of poor 3 years Francis E Bent treasurer collector of taxes F E Bent school committee 3 years F Walker road commissioner 8 years Thomas F O Neill auditor Henry M Hall Jr constables F E Bent Harry W Gilbert J Stanley Rice tree warden William E Baldwin trustee Goodnow Library 3 years Jonas S Hunt board of health 3 years L Herbert Huntley. Liquor licensing vote No. Town house repainted color white blinds green. $100 allocated for enforcement of automobile laws. $5500 allocated for school support.
Mrs Rebecca Hall of Sudbury expresses heartfelt thanks for sympathy and kindness after a death. She thanks Rev E C Hunt and the quartet for funeral services and donors of flowers, and cherishes memories of friends’s assistance during bereavement. March 29.
Rear Admiral Evans leaves Washington for Pensacola to take command March 31, while Rear Admiral Barker retires. Enoch G. Bidwell, longtime Norwich postmaster, dies at 75. Railroad talks between New York New Haven Hartford and Springfield Street Railway proceed. Seaboard Navigation incorp with 1 million capital. Panama canal panel approves Ancon marine barracks costing 65000. Repairs to cruiser Galveston will take twelve days after bent piston issue.
Leroy Wheeler spends Sunday with his Waltham family while Mrs. H. W. Eager and daughter visit Ossining New York. Arnold and Ermst guest at Ossing. Thomas O Halloran returns from University of Maine for vacation. Bostonites Charles Connors and Louis P. Ingalls visit relatives here and in Pleasant Street. J P She returns from Savannah trip and Beabthan. Acute disease diagnosis noted with brief updates on local health.
Charles W. Curtis of Marlboro, representative for Rice & Hutchins, plans to add windows to the Curtis factory basement to convert current storage space into manufacturing area. The change follows greater demand than originally expected for the Main street plant.
Charles BE Parmenter appeared in Cam Superior Court and pleaded guilty to fault on a female child. The judge sent him to the House of Correction for months. The jury had disagreed in the previous case. He pleaded guilty to avoid a longer prison term.
The school board plans a reception for teachers to foster better acquaintance within the educational community. Date is undecided but certain to occur, aiming to bring teachers and board members closer as committee colleagues.
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