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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1904
Page
4
The page lists publication details for The Marlboro Enterprise including office on Main Street Marlboro Massachusetts and advertising rate card with per inch charges and yearly notices. The issue date is Wednesday September 14 1904.
A Maynard concert drew a smaller crowd than usual with Alfred Richardson singing Always in the Way and receiving several encores. The town records total public school enrollment at 762 and notes Annie Pettigrew at Annis. Separately a Finnish meat dealer narrowly avoided a collision with an 8.05 train at Main crossing, and John Kelley warned him too late. Poll taxes become past due. notices and summons may be issued if unpaid by September 17 with further action by October 1, including a 3.00 tax and 0.20 summons fee. The collector will hold office hours on specified dates in September for payment and mail remittances require a return receipt stamp.
The Clinton fair remains a premier yearly attraction with cattle sheds exhibition halls and top offerings. Daily vaudeville and an excellent speed program headline a solid day of pleasure. Old New England hand tubs compete while special excursion rates attract visitors.
Sudbury residents read of Lawrence Flood visiting Roslindale and Rev Allen J Hall returning from New York after his sister's funeral. Sudbury plans a new free rural delivery route linked to South Sudbury post office likely starting within two months. In schools Miss Sarah M Lovell of Wayland becomes assistant in the high school replacing Florence L Sherman who moves to Stoneham. Howard Mason, the district music instructor, is in California and will return late in the month.
Sympathy pours for Mr and Mrs James Tulis after the death of their 10 year old daughter Mabel Alice Avery. Illness during vacation in Holliston led to appendectomy at Framingham hospital on Sept 4. She died Sunday morning and funeral was held at Memorial church with Rev Bilbridge C Whiting officiating at Wadsworth cemetery.
Miss Lena Libby returns from Onset and Mrs I P L Bouyer from Canada. Lilla Kelley comes back from Saratoga vacation. Arthur Courtemanche resumes studies at Holy Cross college. Frank Noel and family visit from Brockton. Lewis Claflin attends Bryant & Stratton Boston. Rebekahs netted 60.55 at lemonade booth. John O Toole resumes duties at Deerfoot farm dairy. Lee Hammond ends service at Burdett Barnard. High school enrollment stands at 327, up from last year. J F Boynton returns from Gloucester vacation. Conductor Edward Stone takes vacation from duties. Emma Davis returns from three weeks in Washington NH. Donia Favreau heads to Manchester NH for St Anselm college. Margie Baker leaves for Fairhaven to teach.
The body of John J Bradley of Cambridge was identified Friday by his brother Dennis and sister, at T H Brown undertakers. His parents had just arrived from Ireland and attended a Cambridge home reception when the telegram of his death arrived, the sister noting his use of an assumed name. Dennis Bradley fainted upon viewing the corpse.
Patrick Curran a 50 year old stone mason on the new Main Street bridge fell dead at the Robinson Larkin yard from a cerebral hemorrhage. He collapsed near lumber piles after staggering and was pronounced dead by doctors at the scene and Medical Examiner Hoitt. Curran leaves a widow a daughter and a brother.
Company M of the 6th Massachusetts Infantry arrived home from the south Monday morning at 4 a.m. The tired but happy soldiers headed to their homes for rest, recalling the long journey with few stops until Boston. They left Hudson amid talk of the good times and hard work awaiting them.
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