Bedford News Briefs Highlight Local Events and Meetings
Fire department suppresses a South Bedford brush fire with minimal damage to old brush. The town hosts the Independent Four dance and anticipates the Jolly Six annual dance next Wednesday. The Sth annual Grange fair adds a stock parade and features Miss Hopkins of Amherst College. Notable visits include Joseph M. Hodgdon and relatives from Concord. Political notes cover the Republican state convention in Worcester with Bedford delegates.
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South Bedford
Independent Four
Jolly Six
Creighton
Hopkins
Amherst College
Joseph M. Hodgdon
Concord
N. H
Ethel Peterson
Waltham Business College
Trinitarian Congregational Church
Geo. W. Morrow
Geo. W. Thompson
D. C. Torrey
Geo. Piper
James Sallaway
Worcester
Bedford
Fred H. Clark
John C. P. Riese
Henry M. Parker
5Th
Rep. Pfeiffer, Jr
Louis Pfeiffer
United Workers Society
Converse Torrey
Williamstown
David C. Torrey
Concord High School
William Torrey
Andover Academy
Triumph Lodge
Frank .E. Williams
George W. Penniman
Primaries Report Shows Large Proportionate Vote
The primaries yield a total 184 ballots with 168 Republican 15 Democratic and Progressive votes. McCall leads governor race with 109, Cushing tops for lieutenant governor with 146 and Rogers for congressman 120. Democratic committee faces tie for fifth seat among Henderson Bowers English Sullivan. four elected pick the fifth. The committee will select the federal appointment in Bedford as voter rolls exceed 300.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Samuel W. McCall
Grafton D. Cushing
John Jacob Rogers
Immanuel Pfeiffer Jr
Charles A. Kimball
Republican Town Committee
Louis Pfeiffer
Sherman G. Rich
Charles W. Blake
Uncle Sam
Bedford
Train Kills Bedford Man at Summer Street Crossing
James W. Spreadby of Bedford was killed instantly when a B and M train traveling about 50 miles an hour struck his car at the Summer street crossing in North Lexington. The crossing is noted as highly dangerous due to obstructed visibility from sand embankment and trees and the lack of gates or signals. Local officials are urged to take action to address the hazard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Spreadby
Summer St
James W. Spreadby
Bedford
Mr. Spreadby
Lexington
Bedford veteran dies in tragedy at age seventy five
The body of Mr Spreadby was taken to his sister Mrs Hi Stark's home before funeral services at Trinitarian Congregational church. Rev David C Torrey officiated with interment at Shawsheen cemetery. Bearers included George A Skelton Henry D Lyons Clifford J Day and others. A Civil War veteran born in Colebrook New Hampshire he lived in Bedford for twenty years and South Bedford for ten years. He left two sons in Boston and his death deeply mourned by many friends.
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Hi. Stark
Trinitarian Congregational Church
Golock
David C. Torrey
Shawsheen Cemetery
George A. Skelton
Henry D. Lyons
Young
Chas
Dp. Phillips
George W. Davis
Spreadby
Colebrook
N. 1
Boston
Richmond
Bedford
South
Bedford Civic club and Lexington Minute Men form committee
At a special union meeting in Bedford and Lexington, a committee was appointed to place a replica Bedford flag in the State House hall of flags. The lineup includes Rep. Immanuel Pfeiffer Jr., Nathan Daniels, Judge Loomis, Chas. W. Jenks, Major Geo. F. Reed and others. The gathering featured remarks by Pfeiffer Jenks Loomis Reed White and Rev Torrey.
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Bedford Civic Club
Lexington Minute Men
Bedford
State House
Folowing
Immanuel Pfeiffer
Nathan H. Daniels
Fliha G. Loomis
Nathaniel Page
Concord
Chas. W. Jenks
Bedford Historical Society
George J. Blinn
Bedford Library
Louis Pfeiffer
Civic Club
George H. Sweetnam
Bedford Crmnge
Geo. F. Reed
Fred FP. Cook
C. Co
Irving L. Hodgdon
Abbott R. Webber
Sherman
Man Injured After Attempting To Catch Car
S A Anthony of Main Street sustained serious injuries in a Wednesday evening accident. He ran into an approaching automobile while attempting to catch a car and was knocked unconscious. He was taken to the Deaconess hospital in critical condition. Capt Irving Waite was the driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. A. Anthony
Main St
Anthony
Deaconess Hospital
Mortgagee's Sale of Concord Property on Bedford Court
Public auction on Saturday October 24 at four PM for a parcel near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Concord Middlesex Massachusetts. The lot measures about one fourth acre with buildings, bounded by Kelly Heywood Dowd and Bedford Court, and is subject to an $800 mortgage. Location and deed details trace to a 1906 mortgage from Annie T Dempsey to George E Walcott and Ralph Holder.
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Annie T. Dempsey
George E. Walcott
Ralph Holder
Middlesex South District
Sleepy Hollow
Bedford Court
Concord
County of Middlesex
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
J. & M. Kelly
Kelly
George Heywood
Heywood
F. Dowd
Dowd
Mortgaree
Timothy Murphy Appointed Administrator of Murphy Estate
Notice that Timothy Murphy of Maynard Massachusetts has been appointed administrator of the estate of Caroline Murphy late of Maynard Middlesex deceased in probate intestate. He has given bond and all creditors must exhibit claims and debtors pay to the administrator. September 17 1914.
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Caroline Murphy
Maynard
County of
Middlesex
Timothy Murphy
Adm
Probate notices for two Massachusetts estates
Middlesex and Worcester County probate notices announce that James M. Russell seeks letters testamentary for John Wall of Maynard and L. Cora Brown seeks letters testamentary for Benjamin W. Brown of Concord. Each cites appearances in Cambridge and Concord courts, with required public notices and deadlines in 1914.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
Benjamin
W. Brown
Concord
L. Cora Brown
Cambridge
Concord Enterprise
Charles J. Mcclntire
Esquire
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Charles J. McIntire
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Ira T. Moore
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