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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1909
Page
4
Congregational church host Rev G W Tewksbury sermon in Stow. Parish reunions and dance invitations noted for St Bernard’s and O E S Hawthorne chapter. Women’s Missionary meetings and Mothers’ Meetings planned. Harvard Yale game draws Concord crowds. Asbestos roofing gains notice in Waltham. Classifieds list ads and small rentals.
Excellent work by the team saw No 1 dropping a few points to finish lower than last year in the rifle shooting event. The competition featured shooters from several local clubs and a tight final scoring stretch.
Sergt Chamberlain tops state rankings with 249 of 250 at Wakefield. Co I 6th Mass shows 57 qualified out of 59, including 36 experts and 1 sharpshooter, amid Wakefield range conditions.
Bishop William Lawrence officiated at Trinity Church Sunday, confirming a class of 25 at 4 p.m. The ceremony filled the small edifice as the bishop delivered a simple sermon on confirmation. Named confirmants include Const ance Grant, Jenni Baker, Henry Helsher, Louise Grant, Cabot, Dunning, Upham, Merwin, Wheeler, Tower, Goodell, Hollis, Adams, and six St Andrews students: Toler Eckfeldt Barnes Searle Wetherald Wild.
The Concord lodge I O O F received the third degree Thursday evening from Hudson lodge degree staff. Sixty five lodge members from the Assabet Valley town attended with the degree team. After the work speeches followed and refreshments including sandwiches coffee doughnuts and cheese were served. J W Raymond and M Hansen oversaw the refreshments. Mrs F C Rockwood Mrs J W Raymond and Mrs George Williams visited the Rebekah lodge in Lynn that night.
Tax Commissioner D T Trefy held a hearing in Room 431 at the state house on exemptions for educational and public institutions. Concord faces about two million dollars in exempted property including a reform school valued at one million. The inquiry follows Rep Gates of Westboro bill directing public institution property to pay a fair tax share.
A Thursday evening gathering at Thoreau Street hosted by J W Millbury featured a four course coon and venison feast. Guests included Samuel Hoar Jr Clement R Ford W F Allen Wm Francis Henry C Wheeler Ira F Penniman and Samuel Staples who enjoyed cigars after the meal.
In a bogey handicap event at Concord Golf Club on Saturday, Hi H Braley won the turkey with 2 down. Herbert Hosmer took plum pudding for second with 3 down. Hosmer and Grace B Keyes tied for third with four down. Other prizes included produce and confectionery.
Wilbur P Richardson of Concord Massachusetts returns from a two month western trip for A D Little of Boston to investigate the feasibility of locating paper mills in the Northwest to use flax straw. He visited Montana Kansas and North Dakota and reports the flax crop is sufficient for permanent production and that the project would require over half a million dollars.
Seven candidates were initiated into the mysteries of the first and second degrees Tuesday evening by Concord Grange. Following the degree work an amusing farce titled Box and Cox was performed. At the next meeting the third and fourth degrees will be conferred and the men will receive the supper won in recent competitions.
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