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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1901
Page
10
Middlesex County reports a December 6 gathering at Mr. and Mrs. Davy L. Darling marking twenty five years of marriage. Neighbors shared cake and coffee and gifts, with remarks on future milestones and local civic reflections.
At a regular Littleton Grange meeting last Wednesday, officers were chosen for the upcoming year led by Master Chas. F. Watts and overseer Osman Needham. Other posts include secretary Burt C. Boyd, treasurer E. B. Bigelow, gate keeper 11. O. Wing, steward Willie Burnham, chaplain Susie F. Wing, lecturer Grace Cash, Flora Mabel Parker, Ceres Grace Litchfield, Pomona Augusta Smith, lady assistant steward Hattie Smith, assistant steward Will Davis, and executive committee Geo. H. Cash.
Homer Bancroft, 24, died Friday at Lynn hospital after being run over by a car about 13 weeks earlier. His burial followed in the family lot. Walker school district closed for a three week vacation. Mrs. Martha Buck, 67, died Friday night after heart trouble. lifelong nurse known as Auntie Buck. She left behind a large family and many friends. funeral held Monday at her home conducted by Rev. Walter Rollins with multiple floral tributes.
Carlisle items report a Friday Christian Endeavor meeting on imperialism in Christianity led by W A Prescott. Ladies circles of Orthodox and Unitarian groups meet with social events, a treasurer vacancy filled by Mrs Charles Forbush, and social dances planned at Union hall to aid the furnace debt. Schools begin term with Mrs Hope Bennett and Miss Sarah Almy teaching. Mrs Caroline A Moores of Lawrence visits, and a printer’s misprints remark closes.
Rev. A Mor rill Osgood of Clinton delivered the keynote at the 14th semi annual meeting of the undenominational Ministers' union held in Concord. He urged ministers and teachers to set aside denominational lines and promote goodwill among clergy while addressing temperance issues and resistance to Sunday liquor sales debates in New York and other municipalities.
The Ladies Benevolent society announced its annual supper and sale at the church vestry this Thursday. Pine Needles prepared for a sale after a Monday meeting. Mrs. Bisbee broke her arm in Boston last week. Directors nominated committees for a Christmas festival to be approved by the Sunday school. Miss Ellen H. Hall’s term ended as president of the Women’s Relief Corps. Mrs. Richardson elected in her place. Various social events include weddings, lectures, a Universalist fair, and a Rebekah initiation.
The United Workers met amid a storm on December 34 inst and elected officers: President Mrs Bradford Clark, Vice president Mrs Adrianna F Wood, Secretary Mrs Alice F Lane, Treasurer Mrs Nellie Whittemore. Other chairs named and $25 voted to church debt. The Concord Woman's club visited Bedford December 9 for a program on Neighbors China Closets with Miss Mabel Brown from Malden performing songs. Over 100 ladies attended from Concord by electric cars. luncheon followed.
Obituaries and society notes from Groton and Pepperell recount Samuel Hemenway's death at 71, Edwin B. Leonard's passing, and Mrs Bradley's. The column covers funerals, church services, W R C officer elections, Grange meetings, local charities, school for horticulture for women at Lowthorpe, and community events including fairs and social gatherings.
Mrs Susan E Thompson widow of Capt Joseph P Thompson died December 3 at her Heald Street home after a two week illness Born 1828 in Boston she married a Salem sea captain who later retired and bought a Park Street estate She leaves a daughter Mrs Charles Poynton and two sisters living in New Orleans and Winchester Funeral services were held at the Congregational church and burial was in Park Street cemetery A social circle fundraiser for Sunbonnets is planned for December 19 at Central Hall
The December 5 meeting of the 1900 club in Billerica featured Miss Clemens presenting an Outline History of Papacy and Miss Kelton on Early Church Music with piano illustrations. A Women’s Alliance Christmas fair in the Unitarian church courtyard raised funds with many booths and festive decorations, aided by Mrs. Parker and other members.
Prices from Muno & Co. grocers J B Cover & Co flour rain D W Horne & Co coal Killpartrick ros fruit F B E Putnam 15 Prescott street fish provisions and vegetables.
Recipes for inexpensive pure candies including butter scotch, nut and walnut varieties, peppermint drops, and Everton taffy shared by Mrs Barbara Sadler. Also a hearty split pea soup with meat using bacon beef onions parsley thyme and bay leaf, simmered until peas disintegrate then strained and thickened.
Soak Irish moss in water, drain, and simmer with milk in a double boiler about thirty minutes. Melt chocolate with sugar and salt, whisk in boiling water, stir smooth, and add to the cooked milk. Add vanilla, strain into cold-water molds, chill, and serve with sugar and cream.
Clean and chop one pint of oysters, melt butter and flour, whisk in two thirds cup milk. Season with salt mustard lemon juice sauce and cayenne. Half fill scallop shells, top with buttered crumbs, bake fifteen minutes in a hot oven.
Cream butter and sugar with egg. Stir in flour and baking powder. Alternate with milk and bake. Cut into squares and serve with sliced peaches and whipped cream. A simple dessert from a vintage kitchen guide with step by step instructions and serving idea.
Soak one cup split peas overnight in cold water then drain. Add two and a half quarts cold water one half a can tomatoes half an onion one tablespoon sugar and a quarter teaspoon soda. Simmer three hours rub through. Melt butter stir in flour then into boiling soup. Season with salt and pepper and serve.
A historic recipe instructs to scald milk with butter sugar and salt add squash and yeast dissolving in the mix. Then blend with flour to form a kneadable dough let it rise until doubled shape bake like ordinary rolls.
Chop fine enough nut meats to yield one and a half cups after preparation. Separate and beat yolks with three quarters cup powdered sugar until light. Fold in flour walnuts vanilla and stiff egg whites. bake shallowly. Cool cut shapes dip in vanilla fondant, press walnut halves in centers before set.
Heat cream with butter lemon peel anchovy sauce pepper and salt. Layer oysters in a baking dish with crumbs and grated cheese. Top with half the cream, add another oyster layer, more crumbs and cheese, finish with remaining cream and crumbs. Bake quickly until brown, rest 10 minutes in warming oven, serve with celery.
Pick over and wash half a cupful of rice and pour over it one pint of boiling water. Add half a teaspoonful of salt and let it boil vigorously until the water is absorbed. Add a cupful of milk and steam the mixture over hot water until the rice is tender, adding more liquid when necessary. For the sauce beat the yolk of an egg until light and the white to a froth. Add half a cupful of sugar to the yolk and then fold in the white with half a teaspoonful of vanilla extract and one cupful of scalded milk. Mix thoroughly and serve.
Melt butter then cheese until melted. Beat three egg yolks with anchovy sauce mustard lemon juice and pepper. Stir smooth. Serve on one side toasted bread slices.
Cream butter with two cups of sugar then blend in one and a half cups of chopped seeded raisins. Beat in the yolks of four eggs. Fold in three cups flour two teaspoons baking powder a grated nutmeg and one and a half teaspoons cinnamon. Add one cup cold water and beat egg whites to stiff peaks then fold in. Bake in one or two loaves.
Pare six apples and quarter them removing cores. Fill cavities with lemon peel and a clove. Wrap each quarter in a pudding cloth, cover with rice, boil for one hour, then unwrap and grate nutmeg. Add butter and sugar to taste before serving.
Butter melts in a pan then mushrooms are cooked. A flour milk sugar and seasonings mix with beaten eggs and milk, bake in a buttered pan for about thirty minutes, then top with the mushrooms and serve immediately.
Open a box of sardines and pour off the oil into a pan to heat. Fry sardines quickly until brown, then place on buttered toast. Sprinkle with pepper and parsley, serve very hot. Add olive oil if more oil is needed during frying.
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