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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1900
Page
5
A Lowell area gathering detailed installations of officers across multiple fraternal groups for the year. Key positions filled include presidents, vice presidents, secretaries, treasurers, and trustees from varied lodges and circles. Several events planned include banquets and dances to support the convention committee.
A large meeting of delegates from Building Laborers Bricklayers Plumbers Carpenters Iron Moulders and Steam Fitters established a temporary Building Trades council. Ambrose Madden chaired Andrew Shannon was named chairman D A McFadyen secretary. Jan 19 sets date for a permanent body with a constitution.
The Carders' and Pickers' union occupies quarters in the old Odd Fellows building with many valuable books and documents. Congressman Knox presented a large map of the United States and congressional papers. A debate on "Who is the greatest general" will be held next Sunday night, with public invitation.
The Massachusetts district LO. O. F. M. A. will establish a new Cambridge lodge for Odd Ladies on Friday January 12. The royal purple or past grand’s degree will be conferred in Holyoke Saturday January 6 with a banquet for Grand Master Thomas Roe. The degree also will be given in Manchester Unity hall Lowell on Saturday January 13. Many candidates from surrounding towns are anticipated.
The article describes a five cent weekly fee to borrow popular current books and magazines via a Collection of duplicates in St. Louis and Brooklyn libraries. Copies are bought to meet demand, then become library property, creating a cooperative, time‑limited book club that relieves pressure on new titles.
Special clearance sale begins today with new daily lots in the bargain department. The Sun and News advertise the daily offerings for today and Monday. Dealers urge customers to visit daily to find cheap bargains as stock depletes.
The Dean of the Royal Chapel in Dublin testified in an injunction case against a drinking house. When pressed about his presence there he admitted visiting and taking a chair and notes, provoking the clever retort referencing himself and the temperance society president.
A dull session with several stocks ending fractionally weaker. Sugar opened at 131 percent, ranged to 129, then averaged 130. Tobacco rose 1, fell 2, and closed near open. Steel Wire rose briefly above 47, Federal Steel peaked at 52.44. Met. St. Ry. and BRT slipped slightly. Erie Telephone up to 107, Michigan at 100. Mining quiet. bank figures show increases across loans, deposits, and circulation. London markets weak. Er ie Telegraph to offer treasury stock rights. Plans for Mohawk extension from Houghton advance. Union Pacific dividend debate looms at January board meeting with mixed opinions on cash vs stock bonuses.
The New York market roundup from Bright Sears & Co covers current price movements and notable shifts in stocks and commodities. Insights focus on key sectors and the latest trading patterns observed in the day’s sessions.
A fragment lists several mills including Hamilton Mfg Co Ex Div Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co Manchester mills and Nashua Mfg Co with percentages and figures. The text also includes an endorsement of Chamberlain s Cough Remedy as a preventive and cure for croup with a testimonial from M W Fisher of Liberty West Virginia plus note that the remedy is sold by all druggists.
The Civil War veteran Samuel F Putney is seriously ill at his home in Middesex County. The season's first snow on New Year's Day has made sleighing very good. Mrs Clara Littlefield of Fitchburg and her granddaughter Clara Belle Coffin of Berwick Maine visited Mrs Walker, returning Wednesday with Miss Belle Walker accompanying them.
Schools reopened this week after the holidays. Several local youths attended the New Year’s bar in Westford Monday evening. Mrs. Carrie Morton of Hartford is visiting relatives here. Leo King returned to Holy Cross College after holidays at home. Gertrude White of Lowell stayed with her aunt Mrs. E. Spin. Frank Rose and children of Belmont visited Mrs. Rose’s mother. Hugh Daley and children spent holidays in Leominster with Mrs. Daley’s parents.
Harlan Richardson returns from Amherst for holidays. Eighteen patrons attend the Borough Grange meeting at Stow amid a misprint in county notes. One brother on a wedding tour noted. Miss M B Nelson visits Worcester. Miss M L Dodge resumes school Monday Jan 1. Mrs Taylor declined in health after a hip fracture.
Littleton Common reports a memorable Sunday as Rev Arthur St James from Worcester preached. The event, a Christmas gift from Mrs Sarah Parker, drew praise for its inspiring sermon. Scarlet fever appears in Keefer Piper family. Miss Gertrude Palmer visits aunt Mrs Hiram Brown. Grange to install officers Wednesday. John and Mrs John Hinton welcome a son.
Several hundred attended at the town hall Thursday night for a Temple Quartette Concert company performance with a reader under the Men s League of the Second Congregational church. The event drew one of the period s best attended gatherings.
Town notices describe a vestry meeting for fair planning, a Christmas visit by Miss Staples, a new piano purchase, Amherst student Gifford Vance vacationing at home, and a library gift from D. B. Updike. Grange officers were installed with visitors from nearby towns. Debates will cover bird protection laws and wayside trees, and a bachelor and maid entertainment titled Why We Never Married is planned.
In Pepperell Mr William Bennett of Townsend street shot a hawk 3 feet 7 inches from tip to tip, and also tamed a smaller hawk and a large grey squirrel on Christmas day. The Orthodox church Ladies Circle elected officers for 1900 led by President Mrs James A Butterfield and Secretary Mrs C H Peck. The Unitarian circle met January 4 with a parish supper. Rev A C White preached last Sunday. Next Sunday Rev Mr Smith, Tufts graduate and recent Toronto resident, will occupy the pul pit.
The Prudence Wright chapter of the D A R held its second annual meeting in the town house music room. Miss Mary L. P. Shattuck was named regent with W F Heald vice regent and N W Appleton registrar. The board includes H B Shattuck recording secretary Marshall Merriam corresponding secretary Alfred Boynton treasurer W B Page historian and M E Swasey chaplain. The chapter has nearly doubled since 1898 charter day and reports 281.82 received and 182.54 cash on hand. Members voted to send regent to the continental Congress in Washington on Feb 22 with alternates Henry Tarbell T S Hittinger and N W Appleton. The cemetery committee cataloged 456 stones dating to 1850 and a photo album was donated for historical images. New Year snow dampened sleighing though the ground is hard, and temperatures near zero continued.
In West Chelmsford the audience backed subsidies for American shipping by 5 to 4, while votes favored the affirmative 16 to 8 on the merits. Rev. L. H. Buckshorn spoke on travels abroad, and future plans include a Jan 17 joint debate with North Chelmsford at Marshall's hall.
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