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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1898
Page
8
A condensed June calendar with rising sun and sunset times, moon phases, and day length. It notes yesterday and today’s weather in Boston with a generally fair pattern and a possible Saturday shower, alongside humidity and barometer readings. Northeast details include 29.85, 29.738, and 29.65 inches readings and temperatures 72, 66, 79.
The notice highlights the Fitchburg railroad Continental Limited with a request to write to J R Watson for full particulars. It also mentions Lowell Decorating Co offerings for halls flags and flagpoles, and the Lowell General Hospital training school's graduation on June 29 at 3 30 p m with public invitation. The Pawtucket Social Club installs officers with a musical and literary program following the meeting.
A city committee outlined Fourth of July events at the Fairgrounds to aid soldiers relief. The program includes trotting and pacing purses, a driving race, a three minute run, and a half mile dash with purses totaling 250. A whippet versus rider race, whippet given a 70 yard head start, is planned. Boody of Merrimack House provides posters, and the Gas Men face Water Works in tug of war. A $1000 fireworks display contract was signed, with elaborate pyrotechnics and national symbols in the finale.
Readers note a 50 cent per ton decline in coal prices across the market after a surge driven by anticipation of further increases. Flour remains steady after a prior fall, while grain prices retreat to align with wheat conditions. The report highlights a general easing in commodity prices amid uncertain market signals.
The manual training school will display its shop work and drawings Friday afternoon and evening and all day Saturday and evening in the manual training building at East Merrimack and High streets. The public is cordially invited.
Dealers praise Hood's Sarsaparilla as the leading remedy in merit and sales among competing products. They report stronger customer demand and superior perceived effectiveness.
Prescott street shop Steele's advertises the finest 2100 linen collars in latest shapes priced at 10 cents each.
Huntington High School marked graduation for the class of '98 in an Opera House ceremony stock with 2200 in attendance and 200 standing. Miss Bridget Smith delivered essays and salutatory, Judge Lawton gave the address, medals awarded to six top students, and William Brescott honored for enlisting. The event closed with a class ode and diplomas presented by the Mayor.
The school and audience sang America as the orchestra played The American Republic marking the close of the 1898 graduation ceremony.
A long enumerated list of individuals with varying spellings and initials. The material appears as a roster or signatory index possibly from a historical document, featuring names like Edgar F. Cilley, Victor A. Cutter, Henry A. Ferrin, Grant Ford, and many others. The list includes numerous women and men, some with middle initials, in a single dense sequence.
The Lowell Opera house managers plan a season of grand and comic English opera for the Andrews Opera Company. A six-performance commutation book for $2 will go on sale at 10 am at the box office. The book is transferable and can be exchanged for best seats. The company will perform Flotow’s Martha tonight by request and Balfe’s Bohemian Girl on Saturday.
Chauncey Abbott led a fishing party from Lowell returning from Lyme New Hampshire with 16 black bass caught in a few hours. The fish averaged 3 1/2 pounds each and the largest were landed by Mrs Gentry and Mrs Dodge.
The Mohair Plush company and the Zion cricket elevens will play on the South Common on Saturday at 2 30. Plush Company lineup includes R Firth captain C Averyard D Southam B Southam J Harrison F Harrison L Fielding F Birtwell J Terry J Rhodes with reserves A Stirks F Pascall. Zion elevens feature Harry Maden captain Richard Potter Ernest Chippendale Fred Potter Joseph Carruthers Bethel Knapt on Samuel Waterworth Thomas Woodcock Albert Fielding Herbert Hadley C Kershaw scorer Joseph Potter umpire Samuel Knapt on.
The full bench of the Supreme Court yesterday affirmed Judge Holmes in disallowing Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson’s 1884 will. The instrument, in Verrazano Simpson’s handwriting, would have left personal estate to him and real estate to Odona, amid claims of undue influence. The court found no clear expression of the deceased’s real intentions and upheld the probate decree disallowing probate.
Tonight at 7 o'clock the Highland Congregational Church hosts a jubilee night with a Ladies' Charitable Association supper in the vestry, the last for the season. Parish members and friends will gather in the auditorium for a brief musical program followed by a church note burning. Revs. John M. Greene D D J W Higgins and C W Huntington are expected to give congratulatory addresses.
Inspector Allen of the Lowell police sought a search warrant yesterday at Ayer Junction for the Westford residence of Margaret O'Brien. She is held in Lowell until tomorrow on charges of shoplifting.
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