Concord News Highlights Brief Local Changes and Events
Dr F B Chase plans a new public sign display while Towle Kent announce store front upgrades. Mrs Charles B Dodge returns from New York. Miss Anna Locke Bixby visits Mrs A H Burrill. Fire brigade reorganizes and harmony returns. H S baseball opens interscholastic league at Framingham. First brigade encampment set for June 8 to 12 at South Framingham. Musketaquid council initiates Dr C B Towne to full membership. School transport bids show price increases. Mrs Mary Fuller Rust dies May 6 in Boston hospitals. funeral at Mt Auburn. Carpenters begin tower addition at Methodist church. Debating club selects arbitration treaty resolution. Concord and Framingham high schools play tough game. Framingham wins 14–7 after Penniman left due to captaincy duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Dodge
New York
Anna Locke Bixby
Wellesley College
A. H. Burrill
Middlesex
Agawam Routs Concord In 21 Hole Golf Match
Agawam led by John Moran defeated Concord 23 to 2 at Nashawtuc links on Saturday. Todd of Concord suffered a 6 up loss to Moran while Lockwood was the sole Concord winner. Barker set a club record with a 43 round. The Concord club expanded membership and elected new members and honorary members at a later meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agawam Hunt Club
Providence
Concord Golf Club
Nashawtuc Links
Todd
John Moran
Lockwood
Concord
Samuel Hoar
Avawam
William Moran
Smith
Barker
Congdon
Keyes
Ballou
Bradford
Agawami
Lincoln
Henry C. Rolfe
Herbert Hale
Elizabeth Barrett
Charles L. Hutchins
Edward Hoar
Death by own action on Lexington road near Merriman's corner
A 29 year old man, H. O. Tuttle, hanged himself to a tree behind a barn on Lexington road about 5 30 Tuesday morning. He left a wife and two children and was said to be in normal health the day before though anxious about business. The death was instantaneous from a neck break in the fall. possible temporary insanity noted. He was a Royal Arcanum officer in good standing in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington Road
Merriman’s Corner
H. O. Tuttle
Royal Arcanum
Fire Department Minus Men In May
In a rare move the town's 55 firemen quit en masse refusing to sign for another year. The dispute centered on the non reappointment of former chief Frank W Holden and the board order placing Bullock as chief with Hosmer as assistant. Though out of uniform the men would respond to a fire as citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George McDnald
Independence
Michael Kelly
Michael Collins
Frank W. Holden
Densmore B. Hosmer
W. E. Rand
M. J. Collins
Peter H. Bullock
R. C.woodworth
Concord Junction
Holden
Bullock
Hosmer
Local bargains and new lines fill Concord stores
Concord merchants advertise 2000 rolls of paper hangings and low prices on old stock. H. L. Whitcomb offers a paper hanger, Towle Kent lines push farming tools and raffia knives, C. E. Brown debuts hats, millinery, and new men’s and boys hats, Buck dresses and shirt waists arrive weekly, Hop Sing opens a Chinese Laundry, Ferris Chase sells ice cream and chocolates, wagon sales and corsets advertised with low prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Whitcomb
C. E. Brown’s
Towle & Kent’s
F. B. Chase's
C. E. Brown's
E. A. Buck
Towle & Kent
Philadelphia
Democrat
Concord
P. W. White
Miss Buck’s
Hop Sing
Walden St
Towle & Kent's
F. B. Chase’s
J. W. Rymond
Greece Accepts Mediation and Orders Crete Evacuation
Athens reports the powers led by France Italy Great Britain Germany and Austria will mediate to secure an armistice between Greece and Turkey if Crete troop withdrawal and autonomy are accepted. Greece recalls troops from Crete and evacuates by sea from Canea as talks proceed. An American journalist and Fremdenblatt correspondent were arrested at Almyros as Turkish spies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
M. Onou
M. Skouloudis
France
Italy
Great Britain
Germany
Austria
M. Onon
Russia
Greece
Turkey
Crete
Canea
M. Ralli
Foreign Office
Constantinople
Fremdenblatte
Almyros
May Defy the Powers Sultan Mobilizes Forces
A Constantinople dispatch says Turkey orders mobilization of Fifth and Sixth army corps reserves from Bagdad and Syria and dispatches 50 battalions to Konieh for Ismeed. Also reports 80,000 Thessalians displaced, villages burned, and aid efforts hampered by rains and requisitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Standard
Constantinople
Sixth
Bagdad
Syria
Konieh
Ismeed
Asia Minor
Turkey
Greece
Fourth Army
Erzercum
Erzingen
Janina
Louros
Phillippiada
Daily News
Lamia
Fiendish Turks Burn 14 Villages in Epirus Massacres Reported
Athens reports from Colonel Manos that 14 villages between Tolour and Kastrosykia were burned by Turkish forces after women and children were massacred. Survivors hid in Mount Zalongo and marshes, with some reaching Greek ships half dead. A village near Louros reportedly left with severed limbs on the roadside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Athens
Daily Chronicle
M. Ralli
Manos
Epirus
Toulour
Kastrosykia
Mount Zalongos
Kamarina
Mount
Zalongos
Arta
Louros
Church services and schedules for local parishes
Among the Churches listing ministers and weekly times includes FIRST PARISH UNITARIAN with 10 45 a m morning service 12 m Sunday school 7 p m Young Peoples guild and evening services first and third Sundays 7 40 starting Nov 1. TRINITY CHURCH offers 10 45 a m morning prayer litany sermon and 12 m Sunday school with free seating. IRINITARIAN CONGREGATIONAL led by Rev Geo A Tewksbury with Y P S C E 6 30 p m and Friday prayer at 7 30. SCANDINAVIAN M E CHURCH Pastor Rev J P Anderson with services 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m and class Friday 7 45 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FIRST
Unitarian
Loren B. Macdonald
Young Peoples’ Guild
Trinity Church
Irinitarian Congregational
Geo.a. Tewksbury
Concord Post Office List of Names May 11 1897
At Concord post office on May 11 1897 a roster of individuals and entities appears including Baker & Knowlton F S Berry S F Blodgett Christian Bjornstad Thomas Bynatu F Carlsen Wm Carlson C F Chase Wm J Estey Wm Frederiksen C A Freeman Co T E Farmer James Fitzgerald Bernard M Kimball F A Leavitt Fred James Lindsay Charlie Lovely H Lovering S W Morgan D A Mc Donald Simon Peterson C H Ryan G L Starr John A Thebado CC W Thompson Chas Yapp Mrs I F Bickford Mrs E E Brown Miss Ellen A Boynton Mrs H M Kelley Miss Esther McLeod Miss C A Osborne Miss Carrie Rowe Miss Anna Woodman.
Weather Summary for Week Ending May 10 1897
The week ended 7 p.m. May 10 reports a maximum 82 degrees on May 10 and a minimum 31 on May 8. Weekly mean temperature 53.8 and total precipitation 1.12 inches. A second thunderstorm on May 10 dumped 0.24 inch in five minutes from 5:31 to 5:36 p.m. Observer Fred A Tower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred A. Tower
Also Mentioned on This Page
Royal Baking Powder CO
F. B. Chase
Messrs.Towle & Kent
State Campground
South Framingham
Musketaquid Council
Dr. C. 8. Towne
Order
Mary Fuller Rust
Boston
Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Senate
Norman £. Talcott
W. Allie Hart
William L. Hildeboro
Frank W. Penniman
Allan R. Wheeler
High School Voice
Albertus L. Dakin
Framingham
Ireland
Penniman
Dakin
Loughlin
Wheeler
Gallagher
Dewey
Framingham Boys
Concord Golfers
F. Johnson & Son
Maynard
C. H. Whitney
H. A. Littlefield
Wets Acton
Fire Department
ARMY
Sultan
Ben, W. Brown
Stockbridge Special Fertilizers
Pillsbury’s
POLE
North Pole
Concord Clothing CO
Friend’s Block
Concord, Mass
Whstvale
Westvale
Mass
Milldam Bicycle Store
Old Post Office
Main St
COMET
Gendron Stearns Snell
Reliance Fowler Transit White
Wolff
Remington
John M. Keyes
H. S. Richardson
Pharmacist
Canada
DeWitt
Johnson & Son
C. W. Whitney
A. Littlefield
West Ac
Maurice McWalter
Main Street
Crawford B. & D. Special and World
Cornelius Crowley
Glendale Street
M. J. Crowley
M. J. Garvey
Taylor Street
Waltham
William Q. Tolman
Ageabet
Coxcorp Junction, Mass
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