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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1907
Page
4
Published each Wednesday by The Enterprise Company with H F Wilder as manager. Entered as second class matter August 25, 1903 at Marlboro Post Office under the 1879 act. Subscriptions one dollar yearly, three cents single copies, six cents six months, three dollars for three months, all in advance. Office at 161 Main Street Marlboro Mass.
The Concord Lyceum board led by Robert E. Goodwin and Philip Harvey unveils the 79th season. It opens November 6 with The Private Secretary by William Gillette staged by Criterion club under Walter H. Dugan, followed by Hoffman quartet concert November 13 with soprano Mrs. Rice.
Middlesex School beats Roxbury Latin 16 to 0 in a Saturday afternoon game. Key plays include Godfrey’s two touchdowns and a strong line backing, with Billings converting the extra point. Umpire Wendell, Referee Galbraith, and field judge Winsor officiated the 20 and 15 minute periods.
Rates list for local newspaper advertising. One inch and one week price, Tic ad cost per week, additional 25 cents for extra inches. Special yearly advertiser rates apply. Business notices in local columns priced at ten cents per line per insertion.
George F Knowles visits daughter Grace at Amherst and Miss Josephine Marrsng cares for Mrs B Symonds. Christian Science lecture draws attendees despite storm. Mrs B F Howe undergoes successful operation at Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital. Harvest concert at Union church sparsely attended due to weather. plans for enlarging the church shown by B F W Russell. Corinthian Lodge A F and A M elect officers for the year: Master Benjamin Derby Jr senior warden Harry A Douglass junior warden Charles S Towne treasurer H L Richardson secretary Wayne W Blosgom.
The Concord Junction Woman's Club announces its 1907 1908 season program featuring lectures recitals and talks on history science travel and daily life. Highlighted speakers include Celia Thaxter P H Bullock Henry B Blackwell Miss Lowella V Shattuck Mrs May Knight Southwell Rev M J Scanlan Mrs Ellen Thompson Mrs Anna C Fall Janet McKenzie Hill Mrs Julia Einsmer and Christabel W Kidder with dates from November through April culminating in the annual meeting.
Ford all wood weather strips offer similar performance at lower price. Save one half your coal hills by dropping a postal to B. W. Blossom at Cortcord Junction.
Rear Admiral Thomas C. Selfridge U S N retired married Miss Gertrude Wilds of Jamestown Rhode Island at the Hotel Abbotsford in Boston. Witnesses were the bride’s relatives and the four sons of the admiral. Mrs Selfridge is 60. he is 72. They left for a honeymoon immediately after the ceremony.
In Dedham Saturday the Dedham High team defeated Oncom High by a score of 17 to 4. Meanwhile Master Thomas Popkins is confined at home with pneumonia on Grant Street. Mr and Mrs Benjamin W Brown are away on a weeklong trip to New York and New Jersey. Mrs C H Towle and her daughter Miss Helen visited relatives on Bellingham Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Charles O Putnam marked their tenth wedding anniversary with a surprise party at 68 Elm Street Marlboro Saturday evening Friends filled the parlor and presented agate tin and silver ware plus nickel aluminum and tin ware gifts from relatives and neighbors Attendees included Lorren Arnold Frances Arnold Phelps Marion Phelps Mrs M B Oliver Abbie Babcock Clarence Vinals and others with refreshments of ice cream and cake and a singalong on a graphophone
More than 300 people attended the third social dance of the season under Co F, 6th Regiment, at the state armory on Lincoln Street. About 150 Fapucks joined from nearby towns as Union orchestra played six pieces and audiences cheered encores. The next dance, October 26, will feature Harry Brignam's orchestra.
Funeral services for Mrs Ellen Ahearn were held at the Immaculate Conception Church Milford after leaving her Newton Street home. Rev J P Sullivan conducted devotions and interment followed at St Marys Cemetery Milford with bearers P F Connors Matthew Gledhill John Murphy Ashland John F Griffin Worcester E J Foley and John Connors.
Joseph Connolly, chauffeur for Cy rus Chapin of Lincoln, was arraigned in Concord district court on three counts. He allegedly drove at 40 miles per hour on Sept 27 from Lexington street to Bedford street, ignored officers Sullivan and Craig who ordered him to stop, and was fined $25 for reckless driving, $15 for refusing to stop, and $10 for speeding around a corner. He paid.
A jumble of visitors and local notices lists Jander Banks and many others visiting Concord friends from New York. It mentions a Maynard address offering mandolin lessons, lost dogs with rewards, and an auction of new and secondhand furniture plus antique pieces at Thos Hutchinson’s shop in Concord Junction with electric cars passing by.
George McGee Jr. Kirby employed in Diamond F factory leather room caught his hand in a rolling machine Wednesday afternoon injuring three fingers of his right hand. He was taken to Marlboro hospital where it was necessary to amputate one finger. He was later returned home.
Edward Skelly reports cranberry harvest in Wareham district is smaller than in prior years due to last season's drought killing young blossoms. The crop is now at peak with a large force of Portuguese workers in the bogs surrounding Wareham.
A brother of Senator J. H. Vahey of Watertown, Thomas H. Vahey, took part in the mock trial Friday night. He is well known in Marlboro, where he was formerly a frequent visitor, and is associated with his brother in the law business.
John W. Whalen of Concord Junction wed Miss Margaret Louise Wallace daughter of Mrs Catherine Wallace at St Bernard’s church on Wednesday at 4 PM. Bride wore white silk muslin lace and yellow bouquet. Nora Elizabeth Wallace served as maid of honor with blue silk muslin. Patrick Muldoon was best man, ushers Thomas Carroll Jr Thomas King Thomas Connell James Fallon. Fr M E Twomey officiated. Miss Catherine A Gleason directed. Reception at bride’s mother’s Grant St home followed. couple left for a 10 day New York tour and will live in Concord Junction. Miss Mabel G Jellison of Winthrop visited town Sunday.
The Concord Woman's Club hosts a Monday lecture by Mr Forbush a noted ornithologist on Birds. Members may bring children to attend and be cared for during the talk. The prior lecture by Dr Eastman is cited as influential.
Charles S. Richardson captured the medal handicap title at Concord Golf Club Friday after the one club match was canceled and replaced by a full handicap medal competition on the links.
The State W C T U is in session at Salem this week from Tuesday to Thursday. Mrs Rolfe and several Concord Union members will attend. Reports from the session will be given at the next meeting on Wednesday November 6 with Mrs Rolfe present.
L David promises to pay double any dealer offer for feather beds and buys old fashioned furniture for cash. Send orders for prompt payment. address generically listed as Marlboro, Massachusetts.
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