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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1908
Page
4
Concord report covers lodge meetings moving to A A W hall. Residents travel for events in Boston and Keene. Thanksgiving and Christmas prep underway with bazaars, dances, and charity efforts. Sports plans include Harvard Yale game remarks and a Sportsmen show. Railway mail carrier changes and upcoming Supreme Judicial Court milk case decision teased.
The Women's Parish Association held a successful two day fair in the vestry of First Parish church. A children’s afternoon featured a fairy bower, a musical rock, a doll table, toys, grab bags and a kinetiscope. An evening performance of No Cure No Pay followed with a noted cast. Friday and Saturday crowds bought items from fancy and candy tables, a luncheon counter, and a bundle counter while attendants sold lemonade and sweets.
The Concord Woman's club organizes a public food sale at town hall on November 23 to fund a forthcoming lecture on Tuberculosis by Dr. R. C. Cabot and Dr. J. B. Hawes. Meyer Bloomfield of Civic Service House Boston will speak on Planning the Future Career. The event aims for wide attendance and strong support.
Groton police reported fifty one speeding motorists processed after the St Mark's Groton football game. Some incidents involved two violations at once, one party coming and another leaving. John M. Keyes comments this week on the case load.
The Ladies Missionary Society and Woman's Board auxiliary hold a 2 o clock meeting in the Ladies parlor with a 6 30 church supper and social to follow. Friday night midweek meeting features Light in the Shadowed Hours. Sunday services include Rev Charles T Riggs of Constantinople speaking morning and Harvard Praise service at 7 30. All invited.
A Tuesday Young Peoples meeting featured a debate on whether steam or electricity drives development with R D Willard and Miss Lillian Thorpe leading the affirmative and Miss Maud Findeisen and George Urquhart the negative. The event included foreign current events by Mrs G W Hopkins and home news by Miss Grace Hunt. Refreshments were arranged by Miss Cornelia Thorpe and Miriam Davis with Henry Thorpe. In football, Concord defeated Hudson 5 to 2 at Central Street grounds, marking a spirited, well contested game with standout lines by Matthews, Banks, and Carver and a strong Hudson defense despite Eddie’s absence and Morgan’s debut for Hudson. Attendance reached about 300.
Mrs Theodore Chamberlain represented the Concord Mass Woman's club at the Massachusetts Federation civics conference in Perkins hall Boston. The keynote stressed need for more playgrounds and Thomas Curley of Waltham led the afternoon program. Other topics included medical inspection of schools stamp savings tuberculosis traveling health library and juvenile court.
Citizens celebrate Co 1s year of rifle practice leading the sixth regiment. They urge a fully equipped local range in Concord to spare men the cost and time of traveling to Wakefield and missing work. Sergeants and musicians qualified as experts after revolver practice opened to them.
In district court on a football day, Armstrong Smith of Boston, driver for Mrs Mary Butler, faced charges of reckless driving refusing to stop and overspeeding. He pleaded not guilty and was fined 40 dollars after witnesses testified. Frederick Ayer of Newton also faced a no contest plea for refusing to stop and paid 25 dollars. Bowker closed his Nashatuc hill house and moved to Boston for the winter.
A special meeting of the Committee of Citizens to investigate alleged October drunken conduct at a dance appointed Col. R F Belmont former alderman Stedman Buttrick and Herbert Blanchard to sift the matter. Company I, one of the oldest militia units, denies the charges while awaiting the inquiry outcome.
District Deputy Grand Matron Mrs Harriette H Simpson and Deputy Grand Marshal Mrs Hattie A Longley visited Hawthorne chapter O B S for its annual visitation at Odd Fellows hall. Two candidates were initiated as members from several visiting chapters attended the event and banquet.
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