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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1908
Page
2
Church notes list Sunday services at 10 45 a m and 7 p m with a Wednesday or weeknight meeting to be announced. An entry mentions a seller meeting Tuesday evening at town.
Congregational and Unitarian services listed with pastors and times. Activities include Sunday school Young People's groups and prayer meetings, with details for Scandinavian M E Church and other congregations. Local lodges and fraternal orders meet weekly or monthly, plus notes on Christian Science and Union class meeting.
Public auction set for November 6, 1908 at 3 PM for a parcel in Acton described as about one acre with a dwelling. Title conveyed by mortgage to Eva C. Bassett from Arthur D. Shaw and Annie M. Shaw. Purchaser to pay $200 cash at sale and balance within ten days at The Park Law Company Boston.
A Bedford account recalls two sportsmen entering a treacherous swamp between Carlisle and Caledonsford, later separating. One man battles exhaustion, calls for help, and fires blank rounds while the other fights unseen peril to survive, resolved to search until his companion is found.
An unnamed narrator recounts a perilous ordeal in Tophet Swamp near New England. After wandering lost, he reunites with a friend and together they escape across a broad highway to civilization. The tale ends with warnings to avoid the dangerous swamp and notes a prior lost person whose existence is little known locally.
The October 5 timetable shift changes evening trains to 6.36 p m and 9.57 p m for Boston travel with return trains at 8.51 p m. Bedford residents still face a late 10.21 p m last train to town and a long wait for the Lexington theatre service. Theatregoers endure cold waiting for the final Bedford street car with 1 am home arrival possible.
A nearby city resident reports a week of gunning on land by the Concord river. He recounts woodcock quail and partridge daily and claims wild geese were seen near gunshot range. He hints at potential caribou buffalo and elk sightings to come.
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