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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1909
Page
2
Concord Junction church notes list Sunday service at 10 45 a m and 7 p m Sabbath school at 12 m B B C at 6 p m Junior C E B at 3 p m Prayer meeting Tuesday evening at
A listing of Concord area churches details pastors and service times. Trinitarian Congregational holds 10:46 a m and 7 30 p m sermons with Sabbath school at noon and Y P S C B activities. First Parish Unitarian 10:45 a m service and Sunday school at noon with late month vesper. Trinity Episcopal 9:45 a m service and 10:45 a m prayer. Scandinavian M E schedules morning services 11:00 a m and evening worship 7:00 p m with leagues and meetings. First Church of Christ Scientist offers services 10:30 a m and 7:30 p m with reading room hours.
Church notes say Rev Sidney J Willis serves as pastor at the Universalist church with services each Sunday morning at 10 30 and Sunday school at 11 30 conducted by J K W Witherbee as superintendent of Sunday school.
A compiled notice lists meeting nights for multiple fraternal groups including Foresters Companions of Forest AOO W Maynard Lodge No 131 I O O F Mizpah Lodge D of R Western Star Knights of Pythias Iola Lodge I O G T and other orders with first second or fourth Monday Tuesday Thursday or Sunday sessions.
The building committee invites sealed proposals for erecting a four room school at Stow Centre. Proposals must be received at Town Hall by 7 30 P M Tuesday May 18 1909. Plans and specifications available from committee members listed.
Olga M. Kettunen of Maynard petitions the Middlesex Probate Court to assign the entire real estate of Johan Kettunen, deceased, to her as widow, noting estate value does not exceed five thousand dollars after debts and costs. Court in Cambridge to hear May 27 1909. Citations to interested parties required fourteen days prior or by three weekly notices in Maynard Enterprise.
In Middlesex County Probate Court at Cambridge on May 7 1909 Francis Allen Shepley of Concord petitioned to change his name to John Shepley. The court approved the change and ordered public notice in Concord Enterprise for three weeks and an oath return. Judge Geo F Lawton presided.
In Concord Charles Miner named substitute letter carrier after Matthew Harrington declined the post. Mrs. Roger P. Ingalls and her infant visited Lexington this week with Mrs. Ingalls’ mother Mrs. Herbert Nealy. Hawthorne chapter OBE members plan a Wednesday evening program with refreshments for the young group.
The Old Concord Chapter D A R held its annual meeting May 8 in the Chapter House with a large turnout. Officers were elected for the coming year. the unit system to raise funds starts June 1, and five new members were elected bringing total to 67 with plans to hit 100.
The selectmen granted permits to New York & Boston, Buswell's, and the National and American Express companies to carry liquor within town limits. Such permits, known as pony express licenses, have been opposed in nearby communities.
Breaks Continued From Pase One. The youths, seen by officers at morning hours, claimed to belong to an Edward Payson Weston Walking Club and to walk ten miles daily. They recounted escapades likened to Dick Turpin, with one brother headed to Amherst after prep at Concord. A reformatory sentence marks an older sibling, and Chief Kelly probes pawnshops to trace stolen Bedford property.
Bedford items include Miss Nettie M. Clark summoned to West Medway for her aunt Mrs Isitchfield's illness. Henry D. Uyonis recovers from grip. Touring Mansfield visited town and once served as chauffeur for Francis S. Parker now in Boston. Letters from Lyman J. Cole detail Bristol England versus American towns. A granite memorial for William Tygart was erected at Shawsheen cemetery, with contractor Mr Hern of Woburn and careful grounds by John Walsh. Alex McKee of the U S Navy is home on leave from the Reina Mercedes wreck near Santiago. The Enterprise recall notes the ship’s Spanish battle damage and later Portsmouth repairs.
A fragment shows product ads for Royal Purple Grape Juice and hats at Springs Road millinery parlor, plus sales of incubators and wood. Probate Court notices name Margaret Kaler estate with Maynard summons for letters testamentary and executrix Julia May. executor Chester R. Smith. administratrix Catherine T. Lucier. all require claims and payments with dates in May 1909.
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