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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1898
Page
8
Forecast notes indicate rain arrived late last night with heavy showers. daytime forenoon was mostly cloudy with brief sun. Predicted cooler conditions bring frost risks for Massachusetts this weekend. Moon and sun data referenced. day length about 11 hours 5 minutes.
The Lowell Daily Courier reports taxes become due with interest starting Oct 20 and urges prompt payment to avoid costs. It notes floral tributes for Truant Officer Williams and lists local notices, including a school board candidate and various community updates from Thompson Hardware to the Tewksbury Grange meeting.
The Wigginville Young Men's Social union was formed last evening with 20 members signing the constitution. They will meet at Brookside school, offered by Deacon W. H. Wiggin. Officers elected: Kenneth McKinnon, Bernaldm Bennett, vice president avid Allan, secretary, Willard G. Parker, treasurer, Goddard Carlson and Thomas Bennett, sergeants at arms. Meetings set for Friday evenings.
Clerks of Lowell formed a permanent society at Knights of Columbus hall. Officers include J. S. Hastings president and Louis B. Sykes treasurer. The group aims to shorten working hours with clergy and labor unions' support. A reading room, entertainment, and embroidery classes are planned for winter.
The women's branch of the People's club opens November 1 at 22 and 23 Swan's Block with practical courses in dressmaking under expert supervision, plain sewing, buttonholes, embroidery, cross stitch, Battenberg, Honiton and point laces, Mexican drawn work, and millinery. The program aims to prepare students for immediate employment as milliners and tailors with several new departures planned for the season.
Rev Loren B Macdonald of First Parish Concord writes home from Porto Rico about the Sixth Regiment. He describes widespread illness among about 370 of roughly 1000 men, poor sanitary conditions and meager rations, yet he comforts soldiers with daily visits and a large religious service for about 500. He notes planned moves to healthier posts, meals provided, and his intended 30 mile journey to check on men, aided by Col Rice.
Robert G Crawford of Company M writes to his wife from St Peter's Hospital in Brooklyn describing fever and weakness with hopes to return home in about ten days. His wife previously sent four letters while he was at Montauk and he says he received only one. Frank O Malley of Company M, also recently hospitalized in New York, has returned home improving though still weak.
An alarm from box 139 reported a fire on the top floor of a three story Cross Street tenement. A lamp started a blaze in a bedroom and blankets used to extinguish them burned. chemical extinguished the fire with little trouble. A chimney blaze triggered a telephone alert to Andover Street.
A Pyramid Pile Cure advertisement claims piles can be cured without surgery or pain using suppositories. It markets the product as opium free, inexpensive, and effective for all forms, with Marshal Michigan firm offering a treatment outline and testimonials upon request.
Mrs. C. S. Farnsworth of Deucher Ohio reports severe catarrh spreading to the heart and left side, but after using Pe-ru-na within two bottles she could resume her work and regain use of her left arm, urging others not to lose hope and to try Pe-ru-na sold by all druggists.
Charles H. McIntire and two Lowell men spent two weeks at a log hut near Tufts pond twenty five miles north of Farmington in Kingfield Maine. They found deer sign and heard bears at night. A bear chased a man who used leaves and fire to make it retreat. The Kingfield area is noted for bears and foxes. a Philadelphia woman and her 13 year old son joined the party after a month’s roughing it with a guide.
O P Davis, livery stable proprietor, reports his horse and carriage found near the Yellow meetinghouse on Thursday night and left at 1107 Bridge Street. A drunken unidentified man, later found on the North Common by Officer Murphy, was the driver and known to reside on Rock Street. He had rented the rig to the man.
Chairman Mott of the L A W Racing board fines William Martin of Lowell Massachusetts thirty five dollars and suspends him from all track and road racing pending payment of the fine for actions detrimental to racing interests and failure to ride at Woodside Park Philadelphia on September 29.
Irvin Delare of 68 West street lost a finger yesterday while cutting a bolt with a circular saw when it slipped and exposed his finger. He was taken to St. John's for treatment. An advertisement claims Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder cures catarrh, with testimonials from patients across the continent. Sold by Ellingwood & Co. and C. E. Carter.
John C Burke as attorney for mortgagee advertises an absolute auction on Tuesday October 18 at the Door Sash and Blind Storage House No 4 Grand Street for a complete stock of doors windows blinds frames tar paper nails paint and hardware plus roofing materials and stock valuations. Also announces October 20 sale of 3 acres at Middlesex Village with three lots, mortgages possible, and multiple residences nearby.
Health board synopsis shows 169 deaths among 87 000 residents in September 1898 with a rate of 23.69 per 1000. Deaths by ward listed. still births 10. sex split 86 males and 83 females. Diphtheria, croup, scarlet fever, measles reported as contagious cases with counts. Salvation Army notes farewell to Adjutant and Mrs Pickering ending five months of service, final meeting October 17 with a musical program by Happy Harry and the Swedish Nightingale and the Lawrence string band.
Members of Central Baptist church of Chelmsford descended on the newly established home of Rev. C. H. Ellis on Billerica street last evening. They entered peaceably, greeted the pastor and his wife, and left substantial food supplies for the parsonage larder as a sign of their call.
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