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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1908
Page
8
Marlboro Enterprise announces subscription prices and office address. Advertising rates list one inch for one week at 75 cents plus 25 cents per additional inch with yearly advertiser discounts. Office at 161 Main Street Marlboro Massachusetts.
South Acton village reports visits by Charlie Miles and Mrs. Pierce to Lexington and Mrs. HM Hapgood, while Gertrude Bird heads to New Orleans. Warren Green starts a beginners dancing class. Duren family resides in Boston. Local talks, after November 7 store hours, illness reports, and social events fill the week.
A genuine surprise Thursday night honored Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Hastings on their twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Friends gathered at the Universalist vestry to recall the couple’s life partnership formed 25 years ago in Stowe, with decorations of colorful blooms and a warm town welcome.
Mrs Hastings entered a room expecting a committee meeting but found the Improvement Association and was urged to stay. Carl Hastings arrived with friends from Stow Marlboro Hudson Summerville Norfolk Downs and the Actons. Rev Mr Willis and others presented the couple a purse of coin amid gifts of silver china and flowers including a large red heart inscribed 1883 1908 with ten cent pieces and twenty five quarters conveying festive wishes.
Miss Rebekah War ren of South Acton is highlighted as a violin teacher and soloist with a string quartet.
North Acton reports the Eliza Wheeler place has been sold. E A Phalen repairs at Swastika Park for Campbell and Goward. No new scarlet fever cases. Mr Bartlett of Lowell plans to build a barn at the old Wheeler house and move in spring. Herbert Scott returns to activity after foot injury. The Wetherbee monument ball, weighing 14,000 pounds, was set at Woodlawn with four horses pulling it.
West Acton residents share updates on Miss Helen Flagg and Miss Arvilla Gilmore. Harold Littlefield secured a position with Pierce-Arrow in Boston. The Ladies Relief Corps visit G A R hall after a post inspection. South Acton dances draw crowds. Ada Brown to wed Harding Armstrong in Chelsea on Nov 25. Baptist church Ladies Benevolent serving supper with an East Milton reader and Maynard vocalist providing entertainment. Homemade candies and crafts to be sold.
Frank Fiske moves into the south side of the hotel. Several residents report visits and relocations including families moving to C B Stones residence and Pawtucket Rhode Island. The D S W D club plans a dance at Odd Fellows hall Nov 21 with Flanagan's orchestra Marlboro. An Acton cottage for sale or rent lists seven rooms and garden with contact Alfred L Brown.
Paris and Berlin sign an arbitration pact after Franco German talks over the Casablanca incident. The agreement calls for a court to decide law and facts and for the offending country to offer an apology. In Augusta, Georgia, Fred Davis is held for murder await grand jury action. TAitan Chamberlain and William Henry are held on $1000 bail each as witnesses.
Mrs. Mary A. Parlin is ill. Harry Tuttle has his apple house painted. The board of health fumigated the schoolhouse. Roger Shaw visits grandparents in Somerville. William Norton of Clinton dies suddenly from heart trouble. Dr. Barker chairs the health board for several days. Center schools close due to scarlet fever. patients improving. Dr. Dole and family return to Cambridge winter home. Mrs. Elbridge Robbins to reside with them. Pinkham of Somerville visits Graduating Exercises of Acton Academy. Wm. Livermore’s house fires with chimney blaze. shingles damaged. Mad dog scare causes excitement. dog shot after biting hens and a dog. dog returned to East Acton and was killed.
Acton Grange presented The Graduating Exercises of Acton Academy with James B. Tuttle as principal and Edwin A. Phalen as superintendent. The program featured poems essays songs and readings, including a class poem by Emma Grace Coney and a class prophecy by Eleanor Woods. Levi Perkins Harry Tuttle and Elmer Cheney earned praise for solving the high school question via an aeroplane transport plan.
Otis H. Forbush of Acton Mass a veteran auctioneer with 31 years experience in seven states and 134 towns announces upcoming sales Friday the 18th He will auction household goods of Mrs Blanche Miller Le land formerly of Concord Junction now Worcester The items stored at T Sheehan Barret Millroad will be offered starting at 1 p.m A barge will depart afterwards
Post office at Concord Junction will transport buyers to and from the sale with cattle to be sold by C A Kimball of Littleton Depot on Nov 14 at 1 30 pm and by W C Robbins of East Acton on Nov 16 at 1 pm totaling 75 cows heifers and bulls. Additional sales planned in Bedford and Sherborn with notices to follow. In Lawrence mass the body of William Oswald, head of Telegram Publishing, was found with a self inflicted gunshot and laudanum evidence suggesting premeditated suicide near Methuen.
In Boston on November 11 the initial returns showed Joseph F. OConnell ahead by forty two votes. The completed recount last night trimmed the margin to four votes with OConnell still ahead of Republican J M Galvin who plans to contest his seating.
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