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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1895
Page
5
Local notes recount community events and obits including Thos. Phelps visiting old neighbors and Todd family gathering in Syracuse. A youth funds case ends with rest theft recovered, eight dollars spent, rest returned. A memorial honors a woman of faith, patience, and love for children, praising her Bible devotion and hope of reunion.
Mrs Tone Igee age 49 died from a head injury after being thrown from an open carriage near her home when the horse shied. Funeral services at her home Sunday were well attended with Rev. Geo A Tewksbury officiating. Survived by husband and five children.
The annual fall entertainment of the Woman's Parish Association of the Unitarian church drew a large fashionable audience in the town hall Friday. Miss Bebe Davidson led the fancy dances with stage decorations of autumn. Dancers included Philip Jott as a page and Butterflies led by Mrs. Gage on piano, with Olive Gage, Jennie Richardson, Mamie Murray, Ethel Hoyle, Meriam Barrett, Emily Sohier, and Sallie Bartlett. Spanish dance featured Ruth Parker, Alice Gage, Margaret Blanchard, Helen Blanchard, Jeanne Keeler, Mary James, Belle Davidson, and Mary D. Brooks. Old time minuet showcased Alice Gage, Sheppie Barrett, Lucy Richardson, Emily Sohier, with Walter Sohier, George Smith, Charles Gage, Nathaniel How. Greek dance crowned the program with Helen Blanchard as queen and Susie Emmet, Louise Garland, Marie Howard, Dorothy Reynolds, Ruth Batchelder, Mabel Gillespie, May Bartlett, Edith Eaton. Refreshments followed and Marlboro orchestra provided music for dancing.
Mrs. Henrietta M. French died in Concord on the eighth of this month at age 76. A native of Henniker New Hampshire she was the daughter of Elias and Sally Hilton Gould and the great granddaughter of Captain Jonathan Prescott who led a company at Louisburg where he died. She outlived all her siblings and was known for her unusually sympathetic nature and keen concern for humanity.
Races held on Wednesday and Thursday under the Bernard Athletic association drew a large crowd to the fair grounds. Entries were numerous with high quality horses from neighboring cities and towns.
The Concord Lyceum announces its sixty seventh season starting November 20 with a varied lineup of concerts and lectures on Wednesday evenings. Highlights include Albion quartet and Miss John King, readings by Professor R L Gumnock, an Australia lecture by W Hinton White, Royal Hand Bellringers instrumental concert, seventeenth century music by Thomas W Surette, Beethoven club performances with Mrs H L Chase, a Our Country's Possibilities and Perils talk by De Witt Miller, and Rogers trio readings. The Concord Dramatic club will end the course with theatricals.
The following figures cover the week ending 7 p.m. Oct 21 1895. Maximum temp 68, minimum 26, weekly range 42, weekly mean 42.6. Total precipitation 0.04 inches. Observer Free A Tower reports. Oct 19 26 Octear.
Advertised remedy for elderly patients signals Electric Bitters as a non intoxicating tonic. It claims to regulate bowels and kidneys, aid digestion, and strengthen body organs. Sold for fifty cents at local Massachusetts druggists.
Among the churches Unitarian Morning service 10 45 a m Sunday school 12 m Protestant Episcopal Church services 10 45 a m morning prayer say and sermon 12 m Sunday school 7 30 p m evening prayer All seats free Sainitarian Congregational Rev Geo A Tewksbury pastor Meeting P Ss Cc E 6 30 M Prayer meeting Friday evening at 7 30 Scandinavian M E Church Rev J P Anderson pastor Services Sundays at 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m Class meeting Friday 7 45 p m
Local notices list rentals and sales in Concord Massachusetts. Advertisements include household repairs furniture upholstery feed and millinery, farm goods, farm implements, carriage mats, cream separator, medicines and horse cures. Several addresses and contacts are shown for purchasing renting and inquiries.
A Boston Traveler dispatch recalls a Cincinnati to Louisville trip where a man lights his pipe in a smoking car, a young woman snatches it, and a pug snatches the pipe away, leaving tense silence as the train arrives in Louisville with the pipe still clenched by the dog.
Bernard Athletic association eleven defeats the Charlesgates of Boston 16 to 0 at the Fair Grounds. Touchdowns credited to Connors three and B Loughlin one. Umpire Turner and Referee J Stuart. Two 30 minute halves. Also notices two cure stories for Dr King’s New Discovery with local stockists listed.
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