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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1915
Page
9
A new timetable takes effect next Tuesday on the Marlboro branch. The 6.35 a m service to Boston resumes, the 6.20 p m to Boston is discontinued, and the 6.30 electric car to Concord offers a 7.07 arrival in Boston. The 5.15 p m from Boston will continue through to Marlboro. No Sunday changes.
Maynard selectmen split band concerts among three local bands each offering three shows. Surplus funds fund police protection at venues while the Maynard band refuses to perform and must remove the band stand within ten days. The donor originally opposed donating the stand to the town.
The Middlesex Institution for Savings will hold its annual meeting in the Banking Rooms of the Middlesex Institution for Savings on Tuesday June 1 1915 at 3 20 oclock P M. Herbert W Hosmer Clerk Concord Mass May 17 1915 May 19 26
Mrs Ellen A Billington longtime Concord Junction resident died after years of ill health from apoplexy at her daughter Mrs John Donovan's Riverside home aged 66. Married 50 years to John Billington, she had lived in Maynard over 25 years and was born in England. Funeral service held Tuesday with Rev 8 W and Mrs Carrier providing music. Interment Glenwood cemetery Maynard.
Sunday gatherings and neighborhood news span from Miss Etta Merriam visiting relatives in Fitchburg to Mrs. A F Sweetser of Portland visiting Mrs. B Lorentsen. The column also notes a Nor Mal School vacation, a truck conversion for ice cream, and several local social events and arrivals.
Miss Bertha Wilson hosted a Dutch supper at her Commonwealth Avenue home with blue and white decorations Dutch china and a Dutch atmosphere. Menu included Welsh rarebit frankfurts rolls potato salad apple cake ginger ale nuts and candies. Whist ended with Ruth Burrill as high card and Gertrude Knowles as consolation. guests included Clara Robinson Ruth Burrill Virginia Wilson Katherine Adams Clara Graveson Harriet Lawrence Mrs Harriet Robinson and Mrs John Bordman.
Thomas King concludes his service as agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co in this town and moves next week to Franklin as resident agent. George Garfield will assume his duties here and handle company business directly with headquarters, marking a notable promotion for King.
The fragmentary note hints at a playful scene with an elephant and two sheep, described in quirky dialect. No clear event, date, or organization is identifiable from the text.
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