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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1894
Page
8
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South Acton items mention the arrival of a baby girl Caroline Louise and a busy village with sermons on Signs of the Times and The Church and Good Citizenship. Reports cover band practice, dramatic preparations, post office notices, a local court case, and a busy town meeting with fire alarms, marriages, heating contracts, and school association events.
Concord Junction reports show quiet voter tone with upcoming rallies. Local items include road repairs, church notes, auctions, football vs Lexington, and social updates on residents and travelers.
Tuttle Jones and Wetherbee of South Acton Massachusetts seek at once a young man with two or three years in the grocery business to drive a village route. Only applicants with the best character and habits need apply.
Congregational church led by Rev. W R Bux ton holds services and classes with a 10 30 a m sermon and 7 p m preaching. Universalist church led by Rev H W Smith offers 10 30 a m sermon and 7 30 p m Y P C A service. Five building lots for sale in West Acton with stone for foundation. Ross I Wells offers piano and organ instruction in Marlboro.
The October acquisitions include diverse volumes across authors and topics. New titles encompass Baedeker guides, Balzac, Bartlett Shakespeare concordance, Cobbe Life of Frances Power Cobbe, Curzon Problems of the East, Egypt Atlas, and works by Boswell, Trollope, and Cavendish among others.
Citizens gathered Saturday evening to authorize town road commissioners to contract with state highway authorities for a state highway in Concord from Lincoln line to Merriam's corner. B W Brown chaired as moderator. The measure passed unanimously leaving price to the commissioners discretion. The road has been surveyed and work may begin soon, promising a fine Lincoln line to Acton line stretch.
The column records Gibson opening a Friday night dancing school. Mrs. Carter stays at Ashland in Mr. Carter's Maine and New Brunswick absence. Tickets for a Hoosac tunnel excursion sold at the station. A Sudbury family member living with O H Moore is 99. Chipman had never attended a town meeting until recently. Eighty eight residents listed last week were aged 65 plus, not 60. Hudson and Marlboro populations face electoral mixing via an electric road. Murphy Bros new Clinton stable praised as best around. T A Sharon launched a new popcorn phonograph wagon. now at Leominster under H Francis. Alex Sharon the builder. Mr and Mrs F Hosmer left Nantucket for Savannah and southern Georgia for winter. T S Carter and Geo L Day on a ten day tour through northeastern Maine and into New Brunswick. origin Woodstock N B at wilderness start. D W Stratton's residence painting by Wm L Osgood. interior work by Chesley Ray. Holden & Robinson supplied the hardware.
The American Missionary Association opened its 48th annual meeting in Lowell with over 400 delegates. President Merrill E. Gates presided. Rev. H. A. Hayden elected permanent secretary. business committee named. city officials welcomed the gathering. Financials show total receipts of 340,469.80 and debt of 45,028.11, with total indebtedness 406,830.77. Reports highlight 42 common and 86 normal rural schools, 27 universities, Fiske College with 450 pupils, and Alaska missionary losses offset by improvements. meeting continues with services and communion scheduled.
Dr Nelson, arriving on the Kingston steamer, predicts England will demand seven million dollars in indemnity from Nicaragua over Mosquito Territory issues. He notes Nicaragua ignores the Managua treaty and rumor says England may relocate Mosquitos to British Honduras.
Fall River executive committee of the Weavers association orders secretary to request a conference with the Manufacturers' association. Resolutions condemn the manufacturers' compromise with the Spinners union as a betrayal of welfare for 95 percent of local operatives who cannot surrender their rights without a fight.
Burravo Oct 24 Callahan Sanders Kennedy and Murphy set a mile record for the quadruple. They completed the mile in 1 4 1 4 5 with a second quarter of 22 1 6 seconds, the fastest quarter ever recorded by any person, vehicle, or animal since time began.
The Concord Lyceum announces a sequence of Wednesday events from November 7, 1894, through January 23, including dramatic farces by the Concord Dramatic Club, lectures by George F. Hoar and John DeWitt Miller, and a series of instrumental and vocal concerts with performers such as Priscilla White, Julia King, and Henry G. Spaulding. All programs start at 7.45 p.m.
In Portland on October 24, Fish Warden Barbour confiscated several thousand lobsters for being undersized and released them. Lobster men contend many seized lobsters are within regular lengths, while the warden warns that illegal harvesting is depleting coastwise stocks.
The Cleveland party including the president and family Mrs Perrine and Miss Rose Cleveland were met at the station by E C Benedict and driven to his country seat. The party left early today for New York.
A. DC Buckenberg telegraphed F. H. Richter that the Pittsburg organization has decided to withdraw from the new baseball association. Pittsburg was viewed as the stronghold of the group.
Receiver Aubrey sold assets of the First National Bank of Norrih, Colo, valued at 18,998 for 1000. Only 10 percent was paid to depositors in dividends, and they will realize very little more.
Vienna dispatch reports composer Johann Strauss is bedridden with a cold contracted during his 50th anniversary jubilee festivities as he marks five decades in music.
Two escaped prisoners, Frank Murray and James Bartlett, accused of wrecking a Santa Fe train and looting stores, were captured in Salt Lake City after their Denver escape.
General William Booth spoke on Darkest England and the Way Out at Carnegie Music Hall in New York last night Chauncey Depew presided.
Berlin October 24 reports that most opposition papers concede Chancellor von Caprivi has secured broad support amid the present political crisis.
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