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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1905
Page
4
Office advertising rates listed per inch and line with advance payment terms. Subscription price set at 91 per year including postage. Local column business notices priced at 18 per line per insertion. May 24, 1905.
Maynard reports William Maynard of Winchester was in town Tuesday and Edward Williams of Boston visited. Miss Edna Porter of Bedford stays with Mr and Mrs A C Loewe. Henry Fowler works as night operator at West Acton exchange. Congregational Church service Sunday night led by Men’s League with speaker John Anderson of the floating hospital and a male chorus including Axford names and others.
Memorial Day events begin at West Acton Mt Hope cemetery with a barge trip to Acton center for Woodlawn decorations then to Maynard for dinner by town ladies. After noon, marches to Glenwood St Bridget cemeteries and Music hall for memorial exercises led by Atty Gen Parker with band music and student singing.
Maynard local notice announces the J C Dakin farm in North Sudbury is for sale. Interested buyers should apply to C J Morse.
Frank Brannigan recently went to work in Winchendon and spent Sunday with relatives on Franklin Street. Joseph Lemay moved his family from Webster to Sumner Street. Baggagemaster William Adams returns from Fitchburg and Vermont and is ready to resume duties on the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad. The First Communion will be at St. Marys Church on Sunday June 4 with about 100 children participating. Thomas S. Bryant and Miss Katherine Butler were married by Peter B Murphy. Donald McRae, formerly a florist at F A Howe, now head gardener at State Farm in Bridgewater, married Miss Bessie Dunham. Henry Dudley of Amherst College spent Sunday with his parents and attended the N E I A A championship meet in Worcester. William H. Murphy attended the Holy Cross Alumni Hall cornerstone laying at Worcester.
A report on bulk seed varieties available this year highlights the broad range kept and the selection deemed the best kinder type.
Towle and Kent report Memorial Day events for Old Concord Post 180 G A R with services at Trinitarian church Lincoln address and Gettysburg remarks by Rev W W Campbell and Hon John E Keyes. Graves decorated at Cemetery and Sleepy Hollow and St Bernards. Finances noted for local offenders and the Lexington & Boston summer schedule begins.
In Bedford district court on Friday, several automobile cases were heard. Ralph Holden of Concord had his speeding case withdrawn at the request of Police Chief Edward P. Kelley. Edward B. Kelley of Boston and Edmund A. Fordyce of Boston each paid $5 for the fun they had in Bedford last Sunday.
Henry Flynn, a Westminister hotel clerk in Boston, visited relatives here Sunday. The New Haven baseball team beat New London Saturday thanks to Billy Fitzmaurice’s bat. Merchants discuss forming and incorporating a debt collection organization. Parsons' Machine shop shipped a dozen sole cutters to shoe towns in two weeks. Marlboro Electric Co now controls Southboro street lighting, previously Fay school. About 20 couples attended the Jolly Five dancing party in Maynard with Newell's orchestra. Marlboro lodge Knights of Pythias reports 15 new members this season with more pending. Rev T B Sullivan preached charity at Immaculate Conception church Sunday. The marriage bans were published for David Bourette and Miss Nellie Crowley. Patrick Giblin of Essex sr. settled his surface water damages case with attorney Joseph A McGee and City Solicitor J W McDonald. An apple tree on the Marlboro Southboro street railway line bears blossoms as if in fertile soil. Nebegonga club opened the season at Fort Meadow cottage. many visitors attended a dinner led by club chef Edward Vickers.
A new telephone installed at Urquhart's bake shop prompts local chatter. The Boston and Maine Southern division time changes May 6. Amherst athlete Walter P. Hubbard sets a New England intercollegiate broad jump record at Worcester with 23 ft 3¼ in. A third Lowell railroad station break suspect is arrested in Boston and remanded to the grand jury. A large Concord wood fire near P. McGrath's area is blamed on the railroad. Maynard residents, court actions, and district court requests stir local frictions as towns grapple with license reform and loiterers.
Mrs John Manning died Thursday morning at Massachusetts General Hospital after several weeks of illness from typhoid fever. She was 35 and survived by her husband, her brother Richard B, two sisters Margaret and Mary. Funeral held at St Bernard's Church Monday with solemn high mass by Rev Fr There was a large gathering of relatives and friends. Bearers included Maurice Met Walter Thomas McWalter John H Goulding Caspar Jenney John Con norton and Mr McSweeney of Boston. Interment in parish cemetery with profusion of flowers from friends and relatives.
The following committees have been appointed for the school board. High school: Houston Pratt Emerson and Mrs Hudson. Emerson school: Emerson Wheeler Shaughnessy and Mrs Leland. West Concord: Campbell and Mrs Leland and Mrs Hi. Manual training: Pratt Hollis and Mrs Hudson. Repairs: Houston Shaughnessy and Hollis. Conveyance of pupils: Wheeler Emerson Shaughnessy and Mrs Leland. Finance: Pratt Houston and Hollis. On report: Campbell and Pratt.
Mrs Ellen C Hunt longtime Concord resident died after a long illness at her sister’s home in Chelmsford on May 17 She is survived by two sons George W Hunt station agent at Concord and Charles W Hunt station agent at Littleton Her husband George W Hunt preceded her in death Two funeral services were held in Chelmsford with interment at Sleepy Hollow cemetery Concord
The Middlesex Hunt club held a Saturday run after A Henry Higginson imported hounds. Riders started at River Hill and followed a route across fields and woodland to the kennels at South Lincoln. Participants included Mrs Grafton, St L Abbott master of the hounds, Higginson, H Adams, J S Chamberlain, F P ears huntsman, and Thomas Coatsworth with Robert Coatsworth as whip.
The five act drama The Streets of New York by Concord council K of C drew large, appreciative crowds at Parish hall Monday and Tuesday evenings. Cast performances and drama points were praised, with dancing until 1 am Tuesday as McWalter's orchestra pleased attendees from Bedford, Lincoln, and Maynard.
On the Concord Golf Club links a bogey handicap match saw George 8 Keyes win. Semi finals: W H Allen Jr defeated G St L Abbott 1 up and 8 Kerns beat M H Garland 4 and 3. Finals set for next Saturday afternoon at the club.
The 68th anniversary of the Sunday School Missionary association was celebrated at the Trinitarian church. The secretary and treasurer reports were read and accepted. Miss Mary Munroe, who has served in offices for 40 years, was re elected. Mr Charles H Towle led the exercises. An address by President Perry of Doane College Nebraska spoke on the college’s work.
Saturday in the district court the Volkman crew members accused of breaking in for a race with Middlesex school crew faced Judge Keyes. John Cutler Eliott Cutler Richard Faulkner John Wheeler and James Kay pleaded guilty and were fined 25 dollars each. Witnesses included Benson McKenna Peters Tolman Lee Clark and Police Chief Craig.
The annual Memorial Sunday service commemorating the Civil War 1861 1865 will be held at the Trinitarian church Sunday at 10 45 o clock. Post 180 G A R commander George M Bowker and Co I 6th Regt M V M Captain Walter Sohier will attend with the Spanish American War Association Co I president Joseph B Hart. The sermon will be by Reverend George A Tewksbury with appropriate music. all citizens are invited.
Public notice lists missing mail recipients including Charles Barker Mr Byard Capt John 8 Camrell D B E Fitzgerald John Elliott Howard Elliott Howard Mc Phee Edward Leeahan J T Trow bridge Wm Yorkes Miss Charlotte Reed Mrs Annie Watson.
Classified items include estate sale of 5 acres on Walden Street in Concord and household/barn goods in process. Listings cover a runabout carriage by Kimball of Boston with harness, a chestnut mare for sale, general housework positions, and a request for white Wyandot chickens. Also offerings of sheet music, a Goddard buggy, wall paper stock, a Colonial hotel for sale, and a rear wheelwright shop to rent in Concord.
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