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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1897
Page
8
All matter must reach the office by Tuesday night to appear in the same week issue. Early receipt avoids condensation or delay of articles. News and advertising material and subscriptions may be left with T. F. Newton.
South Acton opens with same teachers as last term and new floor work in the upper school room. Numerous local moves, sales, retirements, and events are noted, including Miss Bradford and Miss Hapgood starting teaching posts, a farm auction Sept 16, band uniforms, and church services.
West Acton residents share travels, illness, and visitors to New York Connecticut and Lowell. A burglary at Miss Knowlton’s millinery shop with ribbon theft disrupts the town. Massachusetts Sixth Regiment reunion, temperance talk, and Echoes from a California convention featured. Local business ads promote stock, coffee, and children's clothing for the school term.
Quincy Fletcher visits friends in town and Mrs Edwin Fletcher hosts John Fletcher guests in town. Geo W. Poore of Waltham was in town last week. Silas Conant convalesces and hopes to be out soon. School starts Tuesday with the same teachers as last year. Mrs Fred Holmes of Eastport Maine visits Mrs F J Barker. Miss Edcyth Flagg entertains Miss Ella Johnson of Newburyport. Y P S C E members attend a Westford convention last Monday. Parlin family members from local village attend Parlin reunion at Thoreau House in Concord on Wednesday. Luther Conant Jr of Brooklyn and Mr and Mrs H W Parker of Stoneham visit Luther Conant over Labor Day. Mrs Edwin Fletcher of Lawrence visits John Fletcher. Mr Fletcher resumes duties at his store after a vacation.
Mrs Georgie Nourse visits Mr and Mrs A B Merrill on Franklin street. Ben Hammon of Somerville guests of Carl Bailey over Sunday. Mr and Mrs F W Hapgood and son spend Sunday and Monday at Green Harbor.
The Boxboro Magazine club met with William Moore on September 2. M. E. Wright was reelected president and Miss Q. A. Brown was reelected secretary and treasurer.
Petitioners led by John Sherry and thirteen others request the Middlesex County Board of Commissioners relocate and repair the road from John Whitcomb’s to John Sherry’s in Boxboro Massachusetts. The deputy sheriff presents a true copy for official viewing and action.
Miss Alice Barton visits her old home in Sudbury as Senator Parsons seeks renomination. John B. Goodnow and wife visit Kennebunk Maine. Sudbury Grangers plan the annual fair and cattle show. Mrs W H Bent and son return to Waltham from visits with relatives. Mrs Lemuel P Brown to celebrate 90th birthday in Sudbury Centre. Prof A W Morse returns from Colorado and California and visits Sudbury. Albert K Hosmer moves into the old corner store and acquires Mrs Ella S Willis estate. Methodist church opens new vestry after improvements. 217 people attend the reopening services.
An advertising notice touts Dr. King's New Discovery as a cure for coughs colds and consumption. It promises safety for all ages and adds a guarantee with free trial bottles at local drug stores in Maynard and Concord.
Middlesex Probate Court issues citation to heirs and interested parties in the estate of Michael Wallace deceased of Concord. The last will is presented by Mary A. Hayes asking for letters testamentary to be granted, with a September 28 1897 hearing in Cambridge. Notices must be published weekly for three weeks and mailed to known interested persons. Judge Charles J. McIntire presides. Assistant Register W E Rogers signs.
In a Sept report London Truth reopens the suspect death of German Navy Lieutenant Von Hahnke who drowned in July. Readings challenge the official cause, citing conflicting tales of a royal eye injury and possible suicide, while noting claims of a recovered body and planned burial in Berlin.
The U S post office department faces objections from removed postmasters claiming protection under civil service orders. E K Stull of Mount Pleasant Iowa and W R Hamilton of Warren Indiana were removed and argue for written charges and defense. The matter settles as inspectors remove incumbents and appoint successors. In Warren the office dates to 1893 and was raised to presidential rank before Hamilton was reappointed. department counts his term from appointment. Additional reports indicate Hamilton surrendered to inspector demand.
New Bedford officials vote to require G A Bobrick of Bobrick Furniture to prove his charge that local school furniture sales involved bribery. They also seek from 44 manufacturers whether New Bedford is on any black list, aiming to avoid repeating the Fall River scandal.
Lewiston Missouri reports John L Sullivan clashed with hack driver George Curtis after refusing a preordered hack. A fight followed when Sullivan swore and ordered his man to assault the hackman. Sullivan paid the hack fare plus five dollars court costs after being summoned.
Lowell, Sept 8. P J Hallinan a 37 year old tailor operating on Central Street was caught by Officer Martin Meagher setting fire to unpacked crockery crates in a rear alley near Wyman's exchange the Lowell Inn and the First Unitarian church. Within 60 yards property valued at over 1 000 000 is at stake.
A treasury letter from Alaska warns that thousands are flocking toward the Klondyke with only a small fraction likely to reach Dawson before winter. Officials predict many will perish on the trail and urge immediate stoppage of the stampede to prevent hunger and death.
At the Olympic club in the Athens arena a 15 round bout between Australia’s Young Griffo and Philadelphia’s Charley McKeever ended in a draw. Spectators favored McKeever in the late rounds after a slow start by Griffo, with McKeever dominating the final sequence.
Emma Goldman, anarchist orator, lectured from a dry goods box in Providence for a week. She was arrested last night on the charge of reveling as crowds gathered so densely the street near Market square was effectively closed. Police warned her to stop, then took her to the central station amid furious friends claiming a breach of free speech.
Cambridge Sept 8 Middlesex probate court allowed the will of Alice Barrett late of Waltham bookkeeper for Boston who killed herself and left an estate of 1400 dollars plus 2500 dollars life insurance Also allowed was the will of Alexander W Thayer of Natick who left 30000 dollars to Harvard to found the Thayer scholarship
In Jackson Mississippi on September 8 a telephone message from Dr. McCallum at Edwards denies yellow fever in or near the town. He states the Anderson family had dengue fever and are now recovered. He adds Sid Champion who died Sunday evening at Edwards had malaria.
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