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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1898
Page
8
All material must reach the office by Tuesday night to be included in the current issue. Earlier receipts prevent condensation or delay of articles. News, advertising matter and subscriptions may be left with T. F. Newton.
Miss Josie Turner visits Baldwinsville as James Whitney heads to Oneonta for studies. Harvest concert at Congregational church next Sunday evening followed by a November 3 oyster supper. Rev. W. R. Buxton returns from New York. Mrs. Stearns back from Onset. Dusseault preaches from Ephesians to a large crowd. Over 100 attend Y. P. C. U. entertainment. church officers elected at annual meeting. Universalist services feature lessons on Our Church and Our Sunday School with Rev. Dusseault discussing the nation’s future.
Local notes report visits from Miss Cora Barnes of Norwich and Edward Lyons of Pawtucket. Isaac C. McLean and pupils staged a sparring exhibition at Underwood building. Doric lodge plans a special communication and officer installation. Hudson schools closed for Marlboro institute. Several choir changes and religious talks planned at Temple hall. Master Earl Stratton celebrated his fifth birthday. A New England Home show drew a modest audience. Adaline Decelle ran away from Grove street foster home amid claims of disobedience. John McDonald, famed boy tenor, sang at Marlboro theatre and joined the Frankie Carpenter Company for Newport engagements.
Fall and winter styles showcased at Miss Tuttles millinery parlors with a choice line of hats. Clothing made to order and repairs, cleaning and pressing neatly done by James McGreen the tailor at moderate prices.
First Universalist church South Acton Mass Rev W F Dusseault pastor Morning services 10 39 Sunday school 11 45 Y P C U meeting at 7 30 p m Pews are free to all Congregational church Rev W R Buxton pastor preaching service at 10 30 a m 3 Sunday school 11 45 a m Pub c E 6 10 p m praise and preaching service 7 00 p m prayer meeting Tuesday 7 30 p m
A sales pitch promotes nursery stock for next spring from Chase Bros. of Rochester NY via agent E Faulkner Conart of South Acton MA, claiming the Rochester nursery as among New England's best.
Classified notice offers a white driving horse with harness and rubber tired Goddard buggy. To apply, contact H Bird at Box 111 Soncton Mass.
Mrs S M Day visits Florence Day, Henry Brown family to occupy the store tenement, Leach children improve from illness. A church oyster supper was well attended, an auction sale by Otis H Forbush lists cattle, tools, and farm stock across Lincoln Nobscot Carlisle including dates October 28 to 31.
A 3000 foot Sudbury state highway section contract was signed last Saturday. White & Gaffey of Medford, a firm with Mass highway commission experience in Plymouth County, won after a six-bid process. Construction starts within 15 days of signing.
Miss Caroline Hamilton Pier married John Henry Roemer in Milwaukee in a ceremony conducted by the bride’s mother a court commissioner. The bride and groom are lawyers, with the sisters as bridesmaids. The Pier family includes several generations of lawyers with the father Colonel Pier deceased in 1896.
Local notices report Mrs Louise Lewis visiting Fred Goding's while Mrs Lilla Willis and daughters take rooms with Jas Jewett's. A harvest concert is scheduled for next Sunday evening at the Universalist church.
William Rodway 25 died in a Brooklyn hospital after fever contracted in camp while serving with Company C Ninth Regiment. His body returned for funeral at the Universalist church with Rev. Wm. Dusseault officiating and a military and railway-life tribute. Burial at Mt Hope with military honors, flags half mast, business suspended.
A poetic notice appeals to a future possessor of a double white Japonica, praising its pleasure and promise. It references loving care, the flower’s emblem of purity, and buds unfolding to full bloom as a cherished reminder from its former owner.
The Rodway family expresses gratitude to friends for sympathy and help after a bereavement. They thank the B. E.R. BR. Co., G A. R., U. R. C., and the Winona Rebekah lodge for their kindness and assistance.
Auction style notice lists a pew express wagon a second hand democrat wagon two second hand pungs and two sleighs offered by S A Guilford with no additional details or terms provided.
West Acton locals are invited to repair rubbers and overshoes at J. Carter near Tuttle's store Loncton. Mrs Parker's millinery rooms show fall and winter styles with latest novelties. Miss Armstrong's sells children caps hats and hosiery. Mrs Stella Teele operates millinery from home welcoming former customers. New fall millinery and walking hats arrive at Miss Armstrong's.
A probate court in Cambridge Middlesex is told Edwin J. Watson petitions for letters of administration with the will annexed to William R. Hall Maynard without bond. The court sets November 1 1898 9 a.m. to show cause and requires three weekly notices in Maynard Enterprise and delivery of copies to interested parties seven days before court. Witness Judge Charles J McIntire. Register H Fousom.
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