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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1916
Page
8
Warrants posted Tuesday call Maynard citizens to a Co-Operative hall meeting on October 4 1916 to hear reports from town officers and committees and decide on erecting a new school building on the old high school site with funds to build and equip it.
The document outlines town meeting articles including issuing notes or bonds to raise funds, and seeking approval to appropriate money to clear the ruins of the old schoolhouse. It also proposes accepting $100 from Howard A. Wilson as a cemetery fund for perpetual care of the Holmes lot in Glenwood Cemetery.
The Maynard Woman's Club lists a 1916 17 season with musical teatimes dramatic recitals lectures and reader programs. Highlights include Olivia Trio Greens Stockings The Modern Child Fortune Hunter Blue Birds Negro Dialect readings and Merry Player with teacups and an annual meeting under executive board charge. George Morris of Boston visited his parents on Garfield Street.
Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos who died about 280 B.C. first proposed that the earth moves around the sun. His method of measuring lunar and solar distances was geometrically sound, though limited by crude instruments.
Edward A. Leet, 42, an inventor, pleaded guilty to extorting about 100000 dollars from lawyer Edward Lauterbach over eighteen years. Sentencing set for Oct. 3. Lauterbach said he was victimized by Leet and his wife, who claimed moral obligations and produced checks over 50000 dollars. The Leets allegedly came from Scranton, Pa., with a letter of introduction and sought help during financial hardship.
In Cambridge Middlesex probate court the will contest centers on Dr Louis P O'Donnell who allegedly received about 54000 from Mrs Emma B Bostwick before marrying him. A letter saying she would be a fool to remarry is cited as evidence while the bulk of the fortune about 150000 goes to the husband. The bride's brother nephew and two nieces contest bequests as undue influence.
French and British troops struck from three sides, capturing Combles and Thiepval as German defenses collapsed. The battles left Combles strewn with German dead, with thousands captured or killed and large booty seized while other fronts reported German setbacks and renewed activity in the Balkans and Aegean theaters.
The war office released a revised casualty list showing seventy four killed and one hundred eighty two wounded from Zeppelin raids on Saturday and Monday nights across England.
The New Hampshire Democratic state convention endorsed the national administration and praised the Adamson eight hour law. The platform calls for constitutional reforms including a convention to abolish the governor's council expand the senate and adopt initiative and referendum. John C. Hutchins urged railroad system reorganization amid Boston and Maine issues.
Levi Foran, master of the passenger steamer Bay State, declares he is a captain without a ship as the vessel wrecks on Cape Elizabeth rocks. He blames the buoy system and says his thirty two year career ends with the loss.
The Republican state committee reported 53 317 in contributions and 42 090 in expenditures for the state elections campaign. Hale and Fernald funded the drive with 2500 and 500 respectively, while congressmen from the first three districts gave 1000 each. The surplus will cover unpaid bills. A separate note mentions the Widowers and Widows Pleasure association denial for frivolous name.
A detachment of 250 Marines was drawn from the Navy Department to take part in national pugilistic matches at Jacksonville Florida. The move signals a display of Marine participation in the event hosted by naval authorities.
Edward Martini, famed as Chicago's biggest policeman, died yesterday. He weighed 431 pounds and stood 6 feet 2 inches tall. The item notes a Weather Almanac entry for Thursday with sun and moon times and high tide.
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