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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1908
Page
4
The Enterprise published weekly at 451 Main Street Marlboro Massachusetts lists subscription at 1 year for 1 and three cent copies. Advertising rates include 75 cents per inch for one week with 25 cents per additional inch and discounts for yearly advertisers.
Mrs C T Judge goes to a hospital for an operation. Rockport hosts guests who find a prepared table and pantry. A May 29 benefit concert in Associa tion hall supports the Help of Christiane church with Miss Mary Macone headlining. Flawthorne chapter meets Wednesday for work demonstration. O B E 8 M and P annual meeting in Boston and the 32d Grand Chapter session in Ashburton Ford hall next Thursday. An officer connected with the reformatory dines well. A gardener buys pea seeds in Philadelphia and his wife misinterprets them as dinner and cooks them. We draw a veil.
20000 stocky tomato plants offered by F L Garland of Concord Junction. Three best varieties grown Triumph Moore's early and Telephone Concord 2418 advertised for sale at the nursery. Local market description notes sturdy plants ready for transplant.
Concord Junction harness repair shop promises prompt service and satisfaction. George F Lowery of East Acton lists Central Street house lots for sale by James Russell. sites offered suitable to purchasers.
John P. Casey of Canton won the Republican nomination on the first ballot at the Second Congressional District convention to succeed Charles E. Littlefield whose resignation will take effect in September Swasey received 212 votes Sewall 123 Wing 17 A motion to make the nomination unanimous was carried in Lewiston Maine May 18.
Richard Hale Smith, 63, chairman of the board of public works and president of R Hale Smith Manufacturing, shot himself in his office. Worry over business and illness cited as cause. Also reported: Chelsea fire victim Captain Peter Callahan dies of acute blood poisoning after injuries from the April 12 blaze.
Concord High School beat Middlesex School 1 to 0 in a tight contest highlighted by Williams pitching. Earlier Middlesex won the four in a boat race on Bateman's Pond and H. W. Hormer posted a 37 net at the Concord polo club event.
Fr. Mortimer Twomey announced at Masses he will be transferred to St. Eulalias in South Boston. Sunday was his last service as pastor of St. Bernard church after arriving in Concord in 1903. He built Our Lady Help of Christians in Concord Junction, St. Joseph's in Lincoln, and the town center parish hall, leaving them debt free. The Concord Junction work and Mass Reformatory were restructured earlier this year. Parishioners and many friends wish him well on his new assignment.
Lisbon May 13 Premier Ferreira said the judicial inquiry into the Feb 1 assassination of King Carlos and the crown prince found no evidence implicating others beyond Butea and Costa who were executed. Grand Rapids May 18 Michigan's Republican convention instructs a united vote for Secretary Laft and endorses Roosevelt.
The body of a man about 65 was found on the rocks near the naval training station. Found with him were a silver watch 83 in cash and a ticket for passage on the steamer Puritan from New York to Boston via Ivall River.
Friday evening at 7 30 Mr Todd will share reminiscences of forty years with the Trinitarian church. Sunday morning the pastor speaks on The Power of Personality. The 71st Sabbath School Missionary anniversary is at 7 30 Sunday evening with Miss Munroe reporting and Miss Alice Kyle delivering a talk. All are invited.
Memorial Sunday May 24 services planned at Trinitarian church with Van cord Post 180 G A R Company I M V M and the Spanish War Veterans expected to attend. George Tolman held an auction sale Friday afternoon disposing of his household effects.
Multiple classified notices offer furnished rooms to let addressed to Mrs. Luther Franks in Concord Massachusetts and requests for a girl for general housework with good references. Also an available house lot in central Concord near railroad, schools, post office, and a modern ten room house for rent or sale with amenities in Boston area. Includes contact box numbers and local agent references.
Geo Williams formerly managed Rinkatasset Farm and now operates Maplewood Farm on Lexington Road. Beginning May 1 he will retail first class milk and cream to Concord residents, with baby’s milk as a specialty.
George G Morrell is appointed fire chief by the selectmen. Assistants are Samuel H Tuttle Frank W Holden Silas A Bean and George A Bickerton. The fire companies are reorganized with captains lieutenants and clerks listed for Combination No 1 Hook and Ladder No 1 Hose Co No1 Combination No 2 Hook and Ladder No 2 led by named officers.
Mrs A R Colton announces the engagement of her daughter Miss Jennie Louise Colton to Edmund Pendleton Taliaferro of Elizabeth New Jersey formerly of Virginia Also her oldest son Albert Harding Colton to Miss Janet Scofield Hay Miss Hay is a cousin of the late Secretary John Hay and great niece of General Scofield and Vice President Colfax This notes their family connections and Harding lineage in New York Concord and Stow
May 13 reports Secretary Taft sailed from here on the Prairie for Charleston. His six day stay on the isthmus focused on canal zone administration improvements the Panama Colombia boundary dispute and relations among Panama Colombia and the United States.
Mrs and Mrs Thomas Todd celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their Main Street Concord home with afternoon and evening receptions attended by over 800 guests from Concord and nearby towns. Organizers included Miss Gertrude Todd and Thomas Todd Jr. They were married fifty years ago in the bride’s home on Sudbury Road by Rev William Whitcomb. He is active in religious, charitable and fraternal groups in Concord and Boston. she has led church and charitable work. The event featured a tented lawn reception with a Boston quartet, golden decor, and gifts from local chapters and societies.
Advertised nominees for the coming year include Karl Anderson Ole Anderson Thomas Kelley A C Leavy and others with addresses and several local residents listed for positions. committee chair Fran cis A Houston and clerk F Alcott Pratt named.
The Belmont Dramatic Club staged a three act farce His Wife's Relations in the town hall on Thursday to aid Chel sea sufferers. A large audience enjoyed continuous applause as the cast, under Henry D. Coolidge, presented the production with an orchestra providing music and floral sendoffs at the end.
The Concord Union met May 6 with Mrs. Harvey Wheeler. Reports by committees were presented and temperance legislation progress was reviewed. Members noted the defeat of reinstating saloons in the National Soldiers' Homes by 167 to 46 in the House. Next gathering will be at Mrs. Sheehan's for a mothers' meeting.
A letter from Ra F W Devoe & Co argues Devoe is the strongest and most durable paint, with less gallons needed and longer wear. The writer speculates rivals could overtake Devoe, noting Towle & Kent as distributors selling their paint.
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