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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1916
Page
1
Local items note Assabet mills payroll last Friday at 34000 dollars and multiple personal movements. People change jobs, travel, and attend meetings across Lowell Brockton Concord and Boston with weddings, illness, and social events locally documented.
Concord residents hosted guests from Lynn Bedford Maynard and Lincoln. Car trades flourish with Torrey & Vialle selling 1911 1914 cars to local buyers. Community events include Grange night in Lit tleton and The Birth of a Nation seating at the armory.
John G. Loring reopens his Mainst home after a Boston winter. Miss Marion Keefe of Cambridge visits at aunt Nellie Keefe’s. Horace Webber enjoys two week vacation from the Reformatory. Eric Judge and Thomas W. Ryan take vacation from MIT studies. The Birth of a Nation draws Concord Junction residents. W M Taylor Roxbury and Mrs Lawrence host weekend guests. Miss Cora McClellan returns from Boston. Holy Name society meets at Help of Christians parish. Wells A Hall, Benjamin Derby and John Anderson join the Boy Scouts troop committee. Clifford C Jones elected grand vice chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. The G G G G’s meet for a pleasant evening. Rexall popcorn machine gains attention. The Chimes of Normandy performances postponed to Friday and Saturday attract crowds.
A Rexall store window featured the judged prize winning dollies in a recently started contest by Mr Noll. Girls from town wore outfits from bride to Camp Fire styles, while judges Mrs F C Baker Mrs Willian Fought and Miss A Churchill handed out prizes including first place gifts of one dollar to Loretta Lyons Mary Loring and Emma Hefty.
Auctioneer Otis Hi Forbush of Concord Junction Massachusetts will sell Thursday May 18 1916 at 1 pm a desirable lot of buggies carriages sleighs harnesses robes blankets and stable equipment plus a family cow. Proceeds from the late Charles Bigelow of Groton Massachusetts on Main Street. See posters for full description.
Fifty dollars cash is paid by the purchaser at sale. The balance of sixty dollars is due ten days after sale on delivery of deed.
A sale sale at Mrs W Bright's Sudbury residence on the old Boston Post road four miles east of Marlboro and near Wayside Inn features many rare and valuable antiques and a large collection of furniture crockery glassware pictures engravings and more in good condition. Exhibition on sale day with a full description to follow in next week's Enterprise.
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