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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1905
Page
1
A local bakery promotes breads, rolls, biscuits and muffins as pure nourishing options. The advertisement touts breads as staff of life and urges customers to try the daily bread for any meal.
Walter Hanna leaves Hodges firm and Harris Clements quits Loewe’s block janitorial work. David Loewe buys a three tenement house on Winterhill Somerville. Stores adopt summer closing on Wednesday afternoons next week. Richard Henderson’s body brought from Hyde Park for burial. Land and residence trades: L Kroll buys rear Maynard block lot and Arthur Malcolm’s house. T P Hartey wins Maynard block extension contract to first curbing adding two stories. Hudson reports quieter hotels. towns differ in conditions. Revival events include EB Hunt at Hudson, George Frost exchange, John Anderson speaks at Congregational church via Men’s league. Epworth league elects leaders: Naylor, Johnson, Fisher, Binks, Wilson, Gates, Harwood. entertainment and supper held.
A special town meeting Tuesday night elected A J Coughlan moderator and heard a small blaze at Mrs James Sullivan residence, Main St. The main action was a vote to build a four to eight room schoolhouse on land to be bought from C F Monk for 1800 dollars, with total project and site cost 18000 dollars. A committee was named to oversee construction and grading for Glenwood cemetery was funded. The executor of Mrs Mary Green estate was directed to pay a bequest to Miss Lettie Kelsey. An appropriation of 100 dollars covered brush fire fighting expenses for Memorial Day at A F Silloway Great Road Maynard.
Miss Bessie Lowe visited Groton friends last week. Winslow Russell likely moves to Hartford about May 20. Benjamin Hardy of Boston guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wilson Sunday. Fred Waite returned to Amherst Monday. Thomas Ryan back from Canada for his father’s funeral. Concord Junction Literary Association met with BE Giles and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Loring vacationing in Maine. Investment company leased Westvale houses to Concord Mills. Concord council whist party May 13. Telephone company installing new phones in area. B. F. W. Russell in town. to be married in Chicago June 7. Ladies’ Union strawberry festival May 19 with entertainment. Ministers Dunklee and Wilmot preached at Union church. Ladies’ Union to meet with Mrs Cadwell. supper at 6:30. Frazier Knowles, naval service, joined Union Electric Power Co. of St. Louis. Whist party for Help of Christians Church drew 250. 50 tables used. Concord District Sunday School Convention at Hudson May 10 votes delegate to Toronto June 23–27. Hawthorne chapter OES represented at Grand Chapter in Boston May 11. Union church society annual meeting reports finances healthy. officers named: president Charles E. Hart, clerk John D. Wilson, treasurer George F. Knowles, standing committee Holly, Allen, Bullock, Curity, Lane.
Items from Concord recount visits by Thomas Surette and others from New York, new telephone in Cross store, Dr. Chamberlain moving, the Colonial hotel for sale, social events from May party to Sunday school, travel plans of Stedman Buttrick and C Fay Haywood, L T L convention in West Acton, Middlesex school loss to Harvard second team, chimney fires, Travelers class talk on Japan, personnel changes at the Municipal Light department, a prison escape incident on a Boston court officer train, John M Keyes expanding shop with children's wagons, coupon party for Miss Hurd, town billing for fire damages from locomotive sparks, forest fire alarms at Nine Acre Corner, and Hot Air club on municipal ownership with dialect and songs.
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