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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1901
Page
7
The stock market remained firm through two hours of trading with strong notes in Amalgamated Tamarack and Parrott. Copper Range advanced from 75 to 78 percent as Haven Stout noted that recent bank and brokerage troubles did not trigger a broad selloff.
Vice Chancellor Stevenson in Jersey City vacated the temporary restraining order against the Ecuador Department company part of a suit over $5,000,000 in gold bonds. He dismissed the permanent injunction bid. The United States Mortgage, Loan and Trust Co plans to issue the bonds to fund a Bucador to Guayaquil railroad.
Announcement from New York on June 28 details changes in American Tobacco and American Cigar company officers. J B Cobb becomes president of American Cigar, Percival Hill moves to first vice president of American Tobacco, R L Patterson becomes third vice president, and Charles H Strotz is elected secretary.
In Wilmington the M E church hosted a seventh sociable with seven cent admission, seven program numbers, and a net of seven dollars and six cents. The high school class of 1901 graduation at Congregational church featured a full program led by Mr. Francis Hamlen with multiple speakers, music, and diplomas. The class reception occurred Friday and a town hall assembly followed. Notices include visits to Hartford by Mrs. Norman Purves, Henry L. Sheldon’s business trip to Leeds, Rev. Rollins’s pulpit exchange, Carrie F. Buck’s return from Sea Cliff, and families at Silver Lake summer homes amid ongoing illness recovery.
West Acton notes funeral services for Brooks Wheeler conducted by Rev. B Copping and Rev. G Easterbrook. Local residents attended baptist church events, graduations, and visits to relatives in New Hampshire Vermont and Hyde Park. Prominent figures include Miss Jane Reed and Wendell Davis with Hapgood family ties and Universalist church activities.
The Christian Endeavor society outlines a subject titled What ever with the line I will strive to do whatever he would like to have me do led by Mrs. W. G. Lane. Edwin H. Blake and family are at the Concord for the summer. Blake works as a clerk in the grocery store.
The first public show of drawings by Bedford school children took place Friday afternoon at the town hall under Miss Hill of Billerica. The exhibit included character and nature studies, original designs, color work, and sewing from primary grades, with a concert by the schools in the evening. Proceeds reached $40 and the event impressed attendees, prompting hopes for a permanent drawing teacher.
East Pepperell lists the Pepperell High School graduation program for Wednesday June 26 at Prescott Hall with acts from students and guests including Nellie M Attridge Jasper E Sawyer and Marion G Err ington plus music by the Har ry E Brigham orchestra A farewell reception to Mrs C M Sawyer and daughters is noted as they plan a move to Colorado A public installation of United Order of the Golden Cross officers is scheduled for July 15 with listed officers Rev H W Smith lectured in Nassau and Miss Elizabeth Briggs receives update after appendicitis surgery.
A speaker was announced to address a large audience next Sunday in Worcester and will lecture on successive evenings Monday through Wednesday in Manchester. Rev Charles F Dole of Jamaica Plain to speak next Sunday in Lawrence hall at 3 pm on What Business Is For. East Village Social club met Tuesday 25th with Mrs Charles Chapman asking each member share a favorite quotation from an author or hymn.
Graniteville shifts next Sunday sermon as Rev Nicklin ill causes cancellation of his Westford preach. Rev Hardy of Ashburnham will fill Graniteville pulpit in his stead during the illness period.
The Prichard school senior reception by the P F S association was held in their hall Friday evening as public schools held their last session. Phillips academy began commencement week with a sermon by Rev Nehemiah Boynton and a farewell Society of Inquiry meeting. An evening entertainment by musical and dramatic clubs followed in the town hall. Class day featured a large audience in Academy hall with an orchestra. The class history was by W C Matthews, the class poem by C T Ryder, statistics by L B Sheldon, oration by A J Derbyshire, and the prophecy by H W Welch. Ivy exercises included passing the spade to 02 with remarks by C S Fallows and H B Perrin, followed by the ivy song. Prof Ryder preached Sunday in the Seminary church and in West Parish Rev Walter Rollins preached in exchange with Mr Andrews.
William Adams aged 74 died at his home on Runels Place this morning. He is survived by a son and four daughters.
The late Blanche Clarke was forwarded to St. Aimee, Canada for burial Thursday evening by undertaker Albert. Nazaire Forrest’s funeral was held yesterday from his residence at 144 High Street with a requiem mass at St. Joseph's Church. Rev Fr Boissonnault officiated, the choir directed by H. A. Racicot sang Gregorian chants. Out of town guests included Mrs. M. Cayer, Miss Ozine Forrest of Taunton Massachusetts, M. Archambault of Cohoes New York, and Gaspard Jalbert of Worcester. Bearers were Joseph Gaspard Napoleon Jalbert Camille Roussin Alfred Leblanc and Louis Cayer. Burial occurred at the French Catholic cemetery with Fr Boissonnault at the grave. Undertaker Archambault assisted.
Obituaries note the deaths and ages of Thomas Clarke aged 75 and Christopher Coffey aged 48, with additional infant deaths John Grise Marie Gilbert and a infant daughter of Henry and Emily Dubois all recorded in the city. An obituary line also lists William Adams aged 74 with residence at Runels place. The text includes an advertisement for Cham berlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets touting liver restoration and vitality for 25 cents.
A Norwich Gazette notice offers a wholesale and retail range of portrait frames underscoring value and assortment. It invites customers to view stock and compare prices before purchase, claiming the widest and cheapest options from Meam Srance at Cor John and Merrimack Streets. The piece also notes a large Australian incubator in Batary near Sydney housing over 11 thousand ducks or 14 thousand hens eggs and mentions the malaprecurus, a fish eight inches long, capable of generating 200 volts in under a thousandth of a second.
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