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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1908
Page
1
Lincoln residents attend dances and social visits while local teachers and students follow schedules. Notable notes include Venturi water meters install, Mrs Hamilton’s Mustard Pickles expanding production, and the 11th Middlesex Republican convention in Ayer with district committee choices.
Members of the Unitarian Guild join a union meeting in Harvard Sunday. The Ladies Circle of the Baptist church plans a harvest supper in the vestry Wednesday evening. Mrs A W Knowlton and relatives visit Wo burn weekend. Miss Hurd of Somerville named second assistant at the high school replacing Mrs Keese. Hugh McDonald travels to New York for a carriage exhibit and a premier auto show. John Ryan returns from Los Angeles for a two week visit. Weekend visitors to the Ryan home include Mr and Mrs Andrew Ryan of Boston and Mr and Mrs John Corish of Somerville.
A. Purlin and sister from Ecton Centre were seen spending Sunday with Hudegh and another relative, sharing a quiet day at home.
Maynard entries list visits by John Hetherington Robert Bisbee and many others to town over the week. residents and guests attend gatherings in Weston Roxbury Nantucket Worces ter and Kit tery with church and public events noted along with road work and police shifts.
The year's program lists events for the Maynard Woman's Club including musical afternoons by Miss Lotta M. Smith and Laura Belden, lectures on Jane Austen and Russia, dramatic recital Judith and Holofernes, Gentlemen's Night, and Children's Day with various soloists and entertainers scheduled from October to April.
Concord St Andrews school football launches season at West Newton with Arthur Restarick as manager. Captain position pending. Upcoming games include Allen at St Andrews October 6 and November 20 meeting Brown Nichols. Persistent Coca Cola advertising noted.
Local notices cover sales of subscriptions at C W Blake Co and medical visits, frost across Bedford, new road traffic changes on Lexington and Boston streets, a 15 mile Thanksgiving walking race entry, and the mile-long sugar candy rosary beads gifted to a Bedford resident.
Sudbury residents report visiting relatives in town and Wayland where a Republican rally featured speeches by Lt Governor Draper and Col Doty. Mrs Perry guest of her son in Brockton during the fair. Others attended church services and Sunday school programs with a large chorus.
The Wayside Inn chapter D A R unveiled a marker near the Old Town Bridge over the Sudbury River in Wayland. The stone preserves two inscriptions about Concord men slain by Indians in 1676 and notes the crossing. A large crowd from Concord and nearby towns attended the ceremony with prayers, addresses, poems, and benediction.
Robert Miles ill with malaria. Mrs. C. S. Hunt with daughter at Elm farm Friday. R. H. Hall repairing the bad places on the state highway. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Rogers visiting friends in New York and Philadelphia. Republican rally in Wayland Monday evening. Mrs. Kendall of Leominster visiting her mother Mrs. B. F. Howe. Mrs. George Eaton and Marguerite from Waltham visiting Mrs. C. A. Cutter. Mrs. Margaret A. Allen returns home to Wayland. Albert T. Moore and Edgar M. Moore of Boston visiting. Mrs. S. C. Morse dies from shock. leaves young son and relatives in Milford. Funeral in Milford Tuesday with interment in Upton.
F. E. Cousins, a grain and coal dealer, is erecting a new coal shed near the railroad. Business appears strong. Wm. R. Warren of New York visited Lincoln with his wife and daughter. He plans to return to New York. No summary of the Saturday ball game is available as some Lincoln players requested not to publish the score.
Kidder Bros sold several acres of their farm to Dr. Robert De Norman die who plans a summer residence. The Aikinson estate in East Lincoln was sold and new owners have begun foundation work on a fine house.
Concord Junction reports guests and visitors including Mrs Stephen Fogg and Miss Ida Garrity. Local meetings, employment changes, vacations, and a harvest supper are noted along with restrictions on shotgun use near ponds and rivers and gun laws for non naturalized citizens.
Milk price rises to nine cents a quart in Boston. Loring Fowler and family in Nova Scotia. Mrs. Eenore visited relatives in poverty Pride. A. B. C. Dakin returned from Maine trip. Miss Mary Eaton left for two weeks at Manomet. Loughlin played with Stoughton team. Div 56 AOH officers to county convention. Mrs. Murray sold Turnpike road and will winter locally. Various residents: juror summons, visits, and moves. Cattle show in Belton with Raymond as judge. Concord Golf Club event. prizes noted. Harmony lodge invited to May grand banquet. special car rumored. Jake Bartholomew back in fruit store. locals pleased.
A local retailer proclaims it carries every kind of indoor and outdoor game. It calls itself headquarters for sporting goods supplying clubs schools and the community. It claims guaranteed qualities and fair prices with $9 noted.
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