Miss Bartlett Starts Community Gardens in Rhode Island Mills
In Lonsdale Rhode Island Miss Bartlett daughter of the late Admiral Bartlett established community gardens near mill tenements to aid children in urban areas. She provided seeds tools and small seed payments to teach ownership as sixty children aged ten to fourteen began planting in early June.
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Lonsdale
Bartlett
Admiral
Mes Bartlett
Bartett
Miss Bartlett
Advice to Town Cleaners and Civic Improvement
The article urges prioritizing sidewalk and street cleanliness as essential civic assets. It discusses ordinances, garbage removal, and the role of progressive improvement associations in promoting clean public spaces. It also includes humorous and miscellaneous historical notes on divers and Siamese pottery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iprovement Society
Progressive Improvement Association
Local notes of visitors weddings meetings and events
Mire Willman and children visit Allston. Miss Loulse Plagg hosted former Whexton Seminary pupil. Large turnout from Littleton Grange invited to Worcester Middlesex at Groton. Drawing contest draws 75 men at Irving Smith harness shop with a tire split between Wright and Barteaux. awards divided. Mil ford guests visit aunt Mrs. Anne Hume and cousins the H. F. Proctors. Juror Harry W. Ireland excused from Lowell court duties to help Thacher & Ireland store. United Workers hold meeting with Mrs. Chas. A. Kimball. talks on immigration causes and alien attitudes. poetry and songs noted. Woman's club to meet Nov 13 with Miss Cora Warren speaking on Europe trip. Harry Anthony moves to Wamesit to work as fireman for Avery Chemical Co.
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Mire Willman
Allston
Loulse Plagg
Whexton Seminary
Littleton Grange
Middlesex
Groton
Irving Smith
Taylor At
Edmond Wesley
Doulgas Whitcomb
John Wright
Harry Barteaux
Martha Kimball
Elizabeth Houghton
F. S. Kimball
Geo. H. Kimball
Chas. K. Houghton
Frank D. Lawton
Cora Warren
Europe
Harry Anthony
Wamesit
Avery Chemical Co
Water system contracts awarded to Deane Steam Pump Co and others
The Deane Steam Pump Co of Holyoke will supply a Deane Triplex Pump 200 gallons per minute with a 25 horsepower engine. A.L. Lowden of Concord won the siding contract. R. L. Day & Co. of Boston bid $102,789 for the first $30,000 Water Loan bonds. The note concludes with a quip about self-satisfaction and judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deane Steam Pump Co
Holyoke
Deane
ee _— and Weiss
A.L. Lowden
Concord
R. L. Day & Co
Boston
Notices of executors and administrators in Maynard 1911
Notice appoints Wilbur F. Jones as executor of Ann E. Jones of Acton and calls creditors and debtors to act. Also cites Timothy Moynihan for administration of Timothy Moynihan's estate in Maynard with court date November 20 1911 and notices to next of kin to be mailed seven days prior.
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Ann E. Jones
Acton
Middlesex
Wilbur F. Jones
Sweeney & Wilson
Attys
Maynard
Mass
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex
Timothy Moynihan
Timothy B. Moynihan
Cambridge
Maynard Enterprise
Charles J. McIntire
Fequire
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Green Houses
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