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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1916
Page
6
Classified notices advertise rentals in Concord and surrounding towns including Maynard Bedford Acton Sudbury and Littleton. Listings show TO LET rooms and houses with rents and contact details plus job ads for maids and general help in Concord Westford and Green Arbor area.
Concord High defeated Dedham High 8 to 1 at Stone Park in eight innings. Concord built a 6 run lead by the sixth, with Mulcahey, Boyce, Williams, Hayes and Giles scoring and Lyons delivering later. Pitcher Love ly earned the mound win for Dedham while Boyce fanned 12 for Concord.
The Concord Grange auxiliary will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday May 9 in the A. O. U. W. hall. The business session for election of officers begins at 7 30. At 9 o clock a social hour follows for the gentlemen.
A special town meeting on the 15th will hear the committee report on the municipal light plant. The report is expected to oppose selling the plant and favor keeping operations as is with no improvements. Additional articles include a 24000 rebuilding appropriation for Thoreau and Walden streets to the Lincoln line and acceptance of a new street by Association building.
Frederick B Miles died at his daughter's home on Lexington Road on April 26 after a week with pneumonia. He was born on Hayti and worked on major engineering contracts in the US and abroad. He leaves a son in Wales and two daughters Mrs Surette of Philadelphia and Mrs Kinney of New York City. Funeral services were held in Philadelphia with burial in Laurel Hill cemetery.
The Concord Massachusetts Equal Suffrage League held its annual meeting at Mrs. Robertson James's home on April 26. Officers elected included President Mrs. Robertson James and Vice President Mrs. L. B. Macdonald. Resolutions urged both major parties in June to adopt a plank endorsing equal suffrage. Mrs. Claude A. Gilson of Wellesley Hills spoke after the business session, and tea followed at 5 o'clock.
The body of Edward Ingalls will arrive today from Morristown Pa and will be taken to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery for services conducted by Rev. G A Tewksbury. Interment will be in the family lot.
Miss Madys Love relocates her gown shop from near Kent’s Grocery on Main Street to an apartment above W A Stevens store on Walden Street. Her family plans to move from Littleton in June to join her in the new location.
The comic opera production was postponed from Friday and Saturday to May 12 and 18 because Miss Sue Parker and Herbert Picard fell ill. Director ER N Hudspeth also missed time. past show The Mikado had been delayed but later succeeded, raising hope for this show’s success.
The Lord's Supper will be observed Sunday at 10.46 with member reception and a contribution to the American Missionary Association aiding Negro and mountain white uplift. A brief sermon titled A Beautiful Apostolic Flower will follow, after a Friday lecture at 7.45. At vesper, 7.15 to 8, the pastor preaches A Misguided Conscience with recent illustrations.
Thursday night 45 company members attended prize drill in Lowell. Friday Concord Minute men held drills and heard a lecture by Rev Pickett of Hudson. Saturday civic turnout for a waving picture entertainment. Sunday regiment officers council at state armory with 37 present followed by basic course and Year A schools and a luncheon catered by Lewis Meenna of Arlington. Upcoming: Wednesday night picture shows with dancing, Dus in Farnum in Soldiers of Fortune, Thursday regular drill and indoor rifle competition, Friday drill and Major Keville lecture, school for non commissioned officers led by Major Dolan, Saturday Vitagraph film The Great Divide. Indoor rifle matches on 8th 9th 10th. Colonel orders third battalion non commissioned officers to Concord for a tactical walk on the 21st. The Birth of a Nation shows on the 8th 9th 10th with big crowds. Examinations for Year A in service school set for the 13th in South armory.
Mrs Lothrop stays at the Colonial Inn for two weeks. Isaac MacRae buys a 1916 Ford touring car from Torrey and Vialle. Nathan Davis buys a 1916 Ford touring car from the same firm the latter part of the week. James Byron and Hubbard Byron celebrate their 50th anniversary Saturday night. F H Clark reopen their Barretts Mill Road home after wintering in Providence. S Pierce Sewall reports a 1916 seven passenger super six from Torrey and Vialle last week. Marie Hagerty of the Peoples Choral Union of Boston participates in Verdi's Requiem at Symphony Hall Sunday evening April 30.
The town hall serves as an art gallery this week hosting Concord artists and many others in a two hundred piece show. Proceeds from posters sketches and an auction Monday night support war relief. Tea service offered on select afternoons.
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