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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1909
Page
8
The Marlboro Enterprise advertises subscription costs 1 per year and single copies at 3 cents, with six months for 50 cents and three months for 25 cents. It lists office at 151 Main Street Marlboro Massachusetts and advertising rates of 75 cents per inch weekly plus 26 cents per additional inch, with local notices 10 cents per line.
Acton town items report Claude Cochran trading in Maine this week and several visits between residents from Worcester Bethel Gaysville and Lawrence last week. Church groups meet soon with efforts to reorganize the King’s Daughters and Universalist societies and a big Tuskegee talk at the Congregational church.
Ozro Titus and Martha Chapman celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a simple reception. About 60 guests, including relatives from Vermont and Leominster, attended at their home with evergreen decorations, a Boston orchestra, and a singing of Silver Threads Among the Gold. They were married October 14, 1859 in Windsor Vermont and have five children, two surviving, plus two grandchildren. The event included gifts totaling $80 in gold and well wishes for a diamond jubilee in 25 years.
Mrs. Percy and Madge visit friends in Newport Vermont. Mrs N H Tenney returns home from an auto trip to New Hampshire. Engineer Harry Gibbs moves into the Turner cottage on School Street, recently vacated by F H Willard.
I thank friends for kind remembrance and many beautiful souvenir cards received on the anniversary of my 50th birthday. Elizabeth B Joines South Acton October 14 1909.
Blancoard and Gould move their mill onto Spofford Robbins lot and expect to stay several weeks. Jurors Chas I Miller and Lyman Taylor from Lowell are excused until November 3 to resume the Lowell session. A balloon pass is noted as the year’s lowest sighting. Unclaimed post office letters list several names. A party heads for Washington and southern points. Lake Nagog Inn closes after a successful season as summer camps wind down.
Mrs Shattuck entertains during the week while Mrs John Watkins visits Chas Rodway West Somerville. Mrs L C Rhodes of New York spends the week at E Hi Halls. Edward Holton begins work on signals between South Acton and Roberts for the B and M railroad. Delegates W H Teele E L Hail and G W Burroughs to Baptist State Convention in Worcester next week. Women’s Relief Corps annual inspection conducted by Mrs Miller of Ashland. Collation served. District Deputy Mrs Raymond installs Mrs John Watkins as vice grand of Winona Rebekah lodge, replacing Mrs Alice Perkins.
Visitors and hometown events fill Acton Centre with family visits church news and community notes. Rev F P Wood escapes a buggy mishap near the train. Middlesex Hunt members parade in ornate costumes on the common. barge plans for Groton conference and a dress rehearsal of The Toy Makers entertain locals. the library receives a universal history gift. the annual Ladies Church Aid fair and Luther Conant speech mark a active week in town.
At a Grange meeting, many candidates were voted on while attendance lagged due to guests attending the Pomona Grange installation in Waltham. A special meeting initiated 18 candidates into first and second degrees, with third and fourth to be conferred Oct. 26 and the next Pomona meeting in Acton offering a fifth degree.
Otis H. Forbush of Acton Mass announces a three day sale in Billerica featuring a vast collection of old fashioned furniture antiques relics and curios from a retired sea captain estate. The sale aims to settle the estate and follows sales in Sudbury and West Acton with posters giving full details. A second sale on Monday November 8 at 1 pm will auction 80 shouts hogs 500 hens and pullets engines incubators and farm tools for Medfield hennery farm proprietor A M Munro.
Benson B. of East Orange visits Littleton relatives while Mary Foley recalls illness. A Jungle party and wedding plans featuring Ellen May Houghton and Carl Austin Dodge mark October activities. Jeremiah Condon, known as Jim Conway, was found dead on a track near Mt. Calvary after a Monday night presumed incident. Martha Kimball and the Unitarian Woman’s Alliance plan events including a Friday food sale. Rev H B Drew hosts a nutting party with an oyster supper for his youth group.
A seven room cottage in West Acton is offered for sale on easy terms with a small down payment or available to rent. Address Alfred L. Brown West Acton Mass box 100. Also mention of a Smoke Shop box of cigars for friends.
Local ad promotes a tobacconist in Maynard offering cigars cigarettes and tobacco. The short notice urges residents to visit for a quality smoke and related products.
United States Department of Agriculture scientists test molasses lime and oil mix on Newton Massachusetts Summit street. The treated 2 to 3 inch binding layer resists winter, stops horse skid and automobile wear, reduces dirt, and may cost less than street watering.
Auction set for Tuesday October 26 1909 at 10 a m lists ten horses one pony two fast pacers Major P and Gerald B both with 216% records from Cambridge Mass and Metropolitan Driving Club. Also includes a gray gelding a black Shetland pony a black mare and numerous buggies wagons harnesses and related gear with a note stock overload and sale regardless of cost. Public lunch served and profits aimed at clearing stock.
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