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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1898
Page
8
Office request for all material to reach by Tuesday night to ensure inclusion in the same week issue. Early reception helps avoid condensation or delay of articles. News and advertising matter and subscriptions may be left with T. F. Newton.
Chester Smith moves to Northboro and questions Acton’s role in the electric road business. May sales at Cong church succeed. A strawberry festival is planned at Universalist vestry. Tufts preacher Boynton cites Matthew 5 14 at Universalist church. Steam roller returns to Boxboro line. Powder mill construction speeds up with operations soon. Rev Buxton preaches on Protestant Christianity. James Tuttle residence auction draws many, flowers bid lively. Woman's club meets at F A Patch with Miss Helen Mason. next meet June 13. Massachusetts law requires schoolhouses display the flag. residents urge flag over local school.
Local items include Waldo Littlefield’s bustling bicycle business and Edgar Donell’s visit to Flatbush. Reports cover parish activities, housing, and social visits along with Memorial Day plans and a teachers’ reception for Superintendent Edward Dixon. Community groups like the W R C and G A R coordinate events and decorations.
James McGreen announces purchase of the tailoring business of Tuttle Jones and Wetherbee in South Acton Mass He will continue operations at the old stand and offers the newest samples and latest styles with suits made to measure at reasonable prices Trade is solicited and satisfaction guaranteed.
Universalist church in South Acton Mass led by Rev Wm F Dusseault offers morning service at 10 30 with Sunday school at 11 45 Y P C U meeting at 7 30 p m and news free to all Congregational church led by Rev W R Buxton offers preaching at 10 380 a m Sunday school 11 45 U P S C E 6 15 p m praise and preaching 7 00 p m prayer meeting Tuesday 7 30 p m
A Boston Beacon note on spring entertaining advises enlivening tiny spreads with homemade pastes and butters. It suggests anchovy butter, various fish and meats, and a French style paste using soft centre of French rall mixed with milk, caviar, and butter. Fresh butter preferred for salt ingredients to create novel relishes.
Local ads show Mr Geo B Parker Millinery Parlors listing hats both trimmed and untrimmed and summer styles at Littlefield's selling new fet shirt waists wrappers and belts plus laces gloves and sandals. Littlefield's also advertises brown or black Nobby Oxfords at low prices and a tire care pitch for Biko. W E Hayward opens Harness Shop for repairs and maintenance with prompt service. Shoup operates as Wyman's shoe shop and will handle orders.
Sudbury Burnside post G A R will attend service at the Methodist church Sudbury on Sunday next at 1 30 p m Sermon by Rev Edward Higgins or The Hand of the Lord in American Affairs.
Mrs Michael Curtain of Plainfield Illinois says she contracted cod settled on her lungs and could not be cured by medicine. A druggist recommended Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption. After six bottles she recovered, and now does her housework. Free trial bottles at J C Friend's Concord and B F Johnson & Son's Maynard. Large bottles 50 cents and 1.00.
Key West and Boston dispatches report the arrest of Romigno Jimenez a captive aboard the Panama accused of gathering harbor plans and charts for Spanish authorities. He denied spying while authorities pressed for evidence and continued interrogation. Separate reports recount Cuban conflict losses at Cardenas and incidents near Santiago Guantanamo with U S ships engaging shore batteries.
An order to secure insertion in the issue of the same week notes that an earlier receipt will prevent condensation or delay of articles. News, advertising map and subscriptions may be left with A. L. Noyes at the post office.
Isaac Flag visits his children in Worcester. Mrs Barker entertains relatives last Sunday. Charles Tuttle recovering from rheumatism. Mr Dole to occupy The Old Homestead soon. Grace Russell from South Framingham visits Monument House. Cambridge Cycle Club to Acton next Sunday with dinner at Monument House. C Wood injured last week but back riding. Uncalled letters: Mrs John Robbins Mrs J W Graves John L Roberts Walter J Weeks. Church work progresses with bell moved to new place.
O. H. Forbush to sell for Mrs Lizzie Haywood a wide range of household items including chamber sets chairs tables crockery glassware wickerware feather beds wattreses pillows carpets lace curtains and more. Also two buggys a sulky a carriage two harnesses garden tools and twenty hens. Sale Saturday May 28 1898 at 1 p.m. at residence on road to South Acton in West Acton village.
General Miles in Washington recommends First Lieutenant Andrew S. Rowan of the Nineteenth Infantry be promoted to lieutenant colonel in recognition of his perilous Cuba mission and valuable information provided to the United States government. Meanwhile reports from Atlanta note the battleship Oregon arriving safely at Jupiter Florida. Port au Prince describes British Rear Admiral Osborne seeing a Spanish squadron near Curacao and Cuba allows coal and provisions duty free.
From the army, the Ninth Massachusetts volunteer infantry is split with Colonel Fred Bogan leading a battalion to Quonset Rhode Island. A lieutenant colonel and a major with six companies go to Fort Adams Rhode Island, two companies to Dutch Island New York. The First Massachusetts heavy volunteers under Colonel Pfaff send two battalions to Salem Massachusetts to guard the north shore fortifications. A lieutenant colonel and two battalions go to Clarke's Point Massachusetts. Major Frye with four battalions remains at Fort Warren where the regiment is quartered.
A Port de Paix dispatch to The Financial News says Admiral Cervera may have divided his fleet and that the Vizcaya and Alfonso XIII are reported destroyed.
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