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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1916
Page
1
The column lists weekly payroll around 34000 dollars at a mill. Various residents visit relatives, attend dances, and host guests in Concord and nearby towns. Events include a senior class fair, democratic rally attendance, weddings, births, vacations, and a broad autumn scene with community notices.
Dr Hutchins owns a new Ford touring car. Frederick Winsor also shows a Ford touring car. George W Wheeler visited Bridgewater. Dr Charles Spencer spent the holiday with relatives in Chelsea. Paul W Viets of Lancaster guests in town. Mrs Thomas Feehan of Lexington guests in town. John Mann enters D Haskell employment as chauffeur. Charles C Dennison returns home after visit in Yar mouth Maine. Mr and Mrs Maxwell Espen of Englewood NJ visiting relatives. Elmer L Willard of Keene NH visiting son Raymond D Willard. Miss L Kennedy returns home from Annisquam MA. Concord Grange holds special meeting to receive new locations. B B Williams Jack Bruce and M T Carrigan attend Red Sox game in Columbus day. Frank Daley leaves O Keefe store. James Walsh succeeds. Dr and Mrs Philip Flavin return from wedding trip. to reside on Lexington road. Town residents attend Miss Angie MacRitchie and William Rodday wedding at the Junction. Acton Woman's Club notes Miss Mable Gillespie reappointed to minimum wage commission.
Village residents attended a Maynard Columbus Day barbecue while others traveled the Berkshires and Mohawk Trail. Attendees include Mr. and Mrs. Watkins and Wetherbee of Stow, Mr. and Mrs. Hall and Carlisle, Alma Durkee with J. White at Dartmouth, and families moving between Sargent house and tenement. The Fitchburg fair drew crowds as moving pictures entertained Thursday and Friday.
Local notices record residents visiting, vacationing, and hosting guests including Harry Carroll Florence King and Emma Burns. Others mention vacations from reformitory duties, new home in Highland street, illness of Jessie Brown, Maynard barbecue crowds, and a Duntiosa factory setup with extended shifts. Clifford Jones attended Waterbury representing Massachusetts at Connecticut Knights of Pythias event.
Miss Mabel Pierce and Miss Johanna Mulcahey visit Bedford while Mr and Mrs Edward Pickman stay at their Dudley road summer residence. Mrs William Wall hosts a guest from Boston for a few days. Jamaica Plain native Miss Agnes Kelley and Norwood’s Waldo Pratt visit town. Columbus Day dance attracts many from nearby towns. W C T U plans a food sale at George A Skelton store on Friday Oct 20 at 2 PM. Whittemore, formerly of town, travels through Salida, Colorado.
Equal league members plan a bazaar at the Copley Plaza hotel in Boston next month. President Miss Annie Griffin has prepared many articles and will collect contributions to support the cause, with Bedford and Concord participating in the sale and attendance hoped.
Miss Grace Isabell Dick, formerly of Dick, was a former parishioner of Dr. Garton's. Mr. and Mrs. Colp will establish their future home in Lynn.
The annual meeting of the group discussed the coming season, planned settlement work, and reviewed items about Liensac lodge. Members contributed articles toward the lodge site shower, and refreshments followed as they headed home feeling the gathering was pleasant and fruitful.
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