Shoe and Furnishings Store Ad Highlights Low Prices
Men and women shoes for all ages offered with low prices. Repair service emphasized. Also features line of men and women furnishings. Legal stamps provided with every purchase.
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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1908
Page
4
Men and women shoes for all ages offered with low prices. Repair service emphasized. Also features line of men and women furnishings. Legal stamps provided with every purchase.
Advertising deadlines and subscription rates for the Winthrop Sun and Visitor printed in Boston Massachusetts. Rates listed include one news item two dollars, six months one dollar, three months fifty cents. Publication details note postal matter class and editors' names with contact information.
The Board of Registrars of Voters schedules correction sessions at Town Hall Shirley St School House and Town Hall on October 14 20 and 24 with registration closing after October 24. Naturalized citizens must present papers for examination before registration. Voters please notify the chairman of current residence details.
An anonymous reader signing as taxpayer applauds town officials for fine sidewalks, especially those near railroad stations. The Winthrop Sun endorses the appreciation and supports continued work as a solid town investment.
The Sun and Visitor notes a committee raised funds for Chelsea fire sufferers with a creditable total, though contributors names were not published. Readers hope for plans to rebuild the burned hotels before the next beach season and for property owners to secure hotel facilities.
The town meeting next week is described as of extreme importance for Winthrop residents and organizers expect a strong voter turnout. The piece notes town meetings are popular and local residents are attentive to community matters.
The Winthrop channel is being dredged under Massachusetts Harbor and Land Commissioners after a $5000 appropriation. Promoters object to widening rather than creating an anchorage basin as the law specifies, and locals expect a January petition to seek more funding to restore the original purpose. Representative Whitney pressed the commission, but plans remain unchanged.
The trial of Cardenio F. King formerly of Winthrop for 31 larceny counts involving $29,000 is scheduled for December 7 after a conference in the courthouse lobby among Chief Justice Aiken Acting District Attorney Dwyer and King's counsel H F Baker.
Civil War veterans in Winthrop rejoice as a well known town resident presents them with handsome badges. Each badge features a reproduction of the first schoolhouse and the town's first church, highlighting local history.
Details from the Standard list extensive insurance on Crest Hall, Ocean View Hotel, Flynn House Annex, residences and contents, totaling $92,000. A second note recalls town meetings and water-improvement efforts before the blaze, urging attendance and rail freight improvements amid merged lines and aging equipment.
The three day celebration recalls St Johns Lodge first Masonic society in the U S with a diploma issued to Josiah Sturgis of Boston in 1839 now in Frost Public Librarys historical room Captain Sturgis was a commander of the U S Revenue Cutter Hamilton and brother of the late Charles R Sturgis and several Tewksbury and Pratt relatives from Winthrop. Arthur C Moore of Southbridge named Republican county commissioner candidate is remembered as a Winthrop Beach summer resident living in a cottage on Tewksbury street as a civil engineer. Everett Highs Principal Wilbur J Rockwood spent summer days at Winthrop Beach and now owns property there.
Notice notes a town meeting to decide on pursuing a steam fire engine purchase and to refer a citizen question to the Railroad Commission. It outlines proposals for a separate Narrow Gauge line, grade crossing removal, electric traction, open cars, express service, transfer agreements with Boston Elevated lines, and tunnel connections. The article records citizen involvement and a request for broad citizen input.
The Winthrop distributing committee reports total donations of 1728 dollars. Expended in individual relief 914.89 dollars. Balance 813.11 dollars transferred to the Chelsea general relief committee. Signatures include Charles P. Pike J E Davison secretary Timothy J. Mahaney David Benshimol Joseph A. Barry committee Harry W. Aiken treasurer.
The latest Blue Book with acts and resolves is released with Whitney allotted twenty volumes and a new $1.05 price per copy. The governor receives only one copy under the new law, reducing copies for many at the State House.
Local residents travel for visits to Sebaco Lake Me Chatham and New York while others plan stays in Winthrop and Portland. Socials include concerts at the New Winthrop Hotel and a Servia Club meeting with officers elected for winter activities.
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