South Acton notes and town updates
Ed Conant won second prize as the most popular baseball fan of the Boston Journal. Several residents travel, work shifts, and family news fill the page. Local moves include Chester Sawyer into the Conant tenement and Claude Cochran’s recent vacating. A stereopticon lecture on Northwest scenery and a note about a peeping Tom appear amid social calls, travels, and community happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed. Conant
Boston Journal
David Clayton
Annie Gray
Local notices recount gatherings and visits in South Acton
The community page lists a October 22 social event with a patchwork drive, a county convention report from Woburn, a church social circle meeting, and various visits and travels. It notes fairs by Universalist and Congregational ladies, hunts by sportsmen, and an Oct 22 governor candidate talk in Central Square.
Ladies Social Circle Plans Marriage Meeting and Worship
The Ladies' Social Circle meets to marry at 2.30 with Mrs. F. F. Chandler. Midweek prayer meeting Friday at 7 80 p m focusing on the Book of St John. Sunday morning preaching as usual with Sunday school at noon. C B Meeting at 6 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. F. Chandler
West Acton Notes On Meetings Travel And Local Visits
West Acton notes detail a G A R encampment report from Chattanooga and visits to Andersonville Richmond Gettysburg and Washington. Local residents Chas Bradford and wife spoke to relatives. Dr Roscoe Knowlton and family head to Florida. Miss Etta Blanchard attends Worcester convention. music changes in Stow. various visitors dine and visit, with a Harvard Syndicate truck incident near the pumping station causing minor damage.
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No. E. Preston
Chattanooga
Tenn
Andersonville
Richmond
Gettysburg
Washington, D. C
Chas. Bradford
Shirley
Arthur L. Wilbur
Vermont
Etta Blanchard
Worcester
Roscoe H. Knowlton
John Franklin Knowlton
Florida
Alice Genthner
Stow
Ellis Harlow
Ayer
B. D. Hall
Nellie Norris
Angie Knowlton
Noth Acton
Job Dufee
James Porter
Somerville
B. B
Alexina Wiley
Nat
Boxboro
Acton Centre Congregational Notes and Local Happenings
Rev Chalmers Dyke of New York supplied the pulpit on Sunday. Rev E R Tingley accepted as pastor and will begin duties Nov 1. Mrs George Dusseault visited Salem. John White is ill. Acton Grange held its meeting with candidates taking first and second degrees. George Noyes builds add to store showing venture success. A L Noyes reportedly becomes great grandfather. Dr and Mrs Shaw take extended auto trip. W C T U meets Oct 17 at 3 pm. E A Phalen attended the 40th W C T U Mass convention in Worcester as delegate. John Kingsley, formerly of Acton, now in PA, visited W H Kingsley. E A Phalen sold Snow Place to Dexter Spinney. J A Brown expanding water supply by broom work. E Z Stanley does plumbing. Aaron Foster remains housebound. Charis Smith recovering from fall.
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Chalmers Dyke
New York
Congregational Church
E. R. Tingley
Acton Congregational Church
George Dusseault
Salem
John White
Acton Grange
George Noyes
A. L. Noyes
Shaw
Otistorbush
E. A. Phalen
W. C. T. U. of Mass
Worcester
John Kingsley
Acton
Pennsylvania
W. H. Kingsley
North Acton
Snow Place
Dexter J. Spinney
J. A. Brown
E. Z. Stanley
Aaron W. Foster
Charis E. Smith
Shattuck Denies Visit At Ward Home
C. B. Shattuck of 64 Oxford Street Cambridge Massachusetts disputes a report in The Enterprise of October 2 claiming he and his wife visited Frank Wood ward. Shattuck states he is not married and requests correction to avoid public error.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise
C. S. Shattuck
Frank Woodward
Shattuck
Oxford St
Cambridge
Mass
Auctioneer Otis H Forbush To Sell At Acton Mass Farm Sale
Otis H Forbush of Acton Massachusetts will auction for David Farquhar of Lincoln Massachusetts on Saturday October 18 at 10 am. The sale includes 55 head of cattle several Holsteins 5 horses shoats 200 chickens 400 bushels winter apples 100 bushels potatoes wagons carts harnesses a gasoline sewing outfit on wheels a 2 1 2 horsepower engine for spraying farming tools and household items. The sale will be under a tent regardless of weather Braeside farms formerly the Benjamin Warren and Brown farms on the Lincoln Turnpike to Concord. On Monday October 20 the administrators of the estate of F E Chandler Medford Massachusetts will sell 60 cows horses coits buggies robes blankets milk jars pails coolers and other milk room items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otis H. Forbush
Acton
Mass
Concord
David Farquhar
Lincoln
Braeside Farms
Benjamin Warren and
Brown Farms
Lincoln Turnpike
F. E. Chandler
Medford
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