Bedford Old Oak Remembers Concord Fight Evidence
The Bedford town piece recalls the 1775 Concord fight and the rally under the ancient oak at the center of the village near Concord Road and The Great North Road. It notes a bronze tablet added in 1906 and mentions Oliver J. Lane with a family musket from the era. Also records the wedding of Alfred James Walters and Marie Mae McCausland and frost reports from outlying districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord Road
Great North Road
Napoleon
Britain
Bedford
Concord
Abram English Brown
Oliver J. Lane
Alfred James Walters
Marie Mae McCausland
Beachmont
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Walters
E.hamblen
E.,.m. Mills
Abbott Webber
G. Arthur Skelton
M. F. Manning
Emma J
Natick and surrounding towns district news roundup
Miss Julia Mahan has passed civil service with top marks for a teaching post in Natick public schools. Natick considers repairing engine 1 with a substitute engine paid at $1 daily. engine 2 may move to station 1 for economy. Bolton notes Joseph Whitcomb’s memories of youth. Lancaster dedicates a 100th birthday town hall gift with 600 attendees. Winchendon rescue by M. H. Sawyer saves two drowning men. Leominster Grace Scannell to wed Ralph Dixon in Boise City Idaho. Gardner inmates dig wells. Hopkinton ill with appendicitis.
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Natick
Julia Mahan
Henry Wilson
Nack
Framing~normal School
South Natick
Durants
Bolton
Joseph Whitcomb
J. Whitcomb
Lancaster Mills
Clinton
Lancaster
Chest Hurst
Grace F. Scannell
Leominster
Boise City
Ida
Ralph A. Dixon
Scannell
Ancient Communion Set Found in Princeton Church
The first communion set of the Congregational church was found last Saturday by Miss Mary H. Gregory in a clo set under the organ. Donated by Lieut. Gov. Moses Gill on Sept. 9, 1767, the pewter 10-piece service includes tankards goblets plates and a baptismal font. The inscription notes the gift to the church on the ordination day of Rev. Timothy Fuller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Mary H. Gregory
Moses Gill
Princeton
Timothy Fuller
Ye Church
Prince Town
Timothy, Fuller
Boylston
Worcester Road
Warren School 16th Annual Reunion Held at Lake Boon
The Warren school association held its 16th annual reunion at Capt. T. B. Jackson’s Pinepoint, Lake Boon. About 75 former teachers and pupils attended. Officers elected include Miss Lucie D. Welsh president and David Goodale vice president. Numerous ex-teachers and registered attendees listed with many from Hudson Marlboro and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlboro
Ephraim D. Howe
Gardner
H. E. Whitmore
Leominster
Julia Porter Brigham
Vienna
Calif
Susan Howe Bryant
Santa Rosa
Elizabeth G. Witherbee
Emily ‘Whitmore
South Boston
Nannie Bullard
West Medway
Josiah 8. Welsh
Abraham H. Stowe
Frank T. Meagher
Fred A. Lewis
Henrietta Brigham
Theodore Temple
Emily Whitmore
Nannie B. Bullard
Mary #. Smith
David Goodale
T. E. Jackson
Carrie Goodale
A. H. Stowe
Elvira J. Stowe
Charles T. Vinal
Fred O. Welsh
Harriett I. Alexander
Elizabeth W. Witherbee
Marion Mann
Warren H. Howe
Leroy G. Jackson
T. Edwin Jackson
Capt
T. B. Jackson
Carrie M. Stowe
Ruth Gale
Myra Barnard
Hattie Babcock
C. A
Kentucky Tobacco War Fears Renewed Open Night Rides
The piece describes Kentucky tobacco growers facing reduced Burley crops and an impending pool price of fifteen cents a pound. It notes Governor Wilson and the Burley and Equity societies seeking lawful solutions amid threatened Night-Riders and militia guards, with state troops ready to act and juries and cells awaiting future lawlessness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equity
Burley and Equity Societies
Hill-Billies
Planters’ Protective Association
Kentucky
Wilson
Willson
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Wilder
Florence
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Florence Co
New England
Florence Florence
Central Oil and
GAS Stove CO
Gardner, Mass
Vicinity News
Lancaster Town Hall
Nathaniel
John E., Bayard
Eugene V. Thayer
Nathaniel Thayer
Herbert Parker
Scott
Winchendon
M. H. Sawyer
Tibbets
Napoleon Smith
Yer
Maurice Adams
State Colony For the
Charles E. ‘Thompson
Hopedale
Howard W. Bracken
Draper
Maynard, Mass
Lerer
Samuel Lerer
Julius Gruber
Maurice
Ticwalter
Main Street
Maynard Fruit Company
John ‘Peters
Maynard’s Block
Main St
Maynard
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Fall River Line
Metropolitan Steamship Line
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Lake Boon
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