Middlesex County Newspaper Abstracts
The Concord Enterprise, 2 August 1900
AN OLD SOLDIER PASSED AWAY.
   After a long illness Nathaniel M. Allen passed away Monday at 5.40 p.m., at the age of 60 years.
   Mr. Allen had been a resident of this town for 16 years and during the entire period has followed the business of watchmaker, his stand being the office of the hay scales in the square.
   He was a native of Boston¹ and in '61 enlisted from that city in the 1st. Mass. Regt., serving for three years, and acquired the record of a brave and excellent soldier. 
   He was a member of the 1st Regt. Association and at its 38th anniversary which was held May 25, 1899, in Boston, he was awarded a medal of honor from Congress, Gov. Wolcott presenting it, for bravery at the battle of Gettysburg. The occasion was one which will be recalled by the members of that association with sadness, for at its next annual gathering “old Nat,” as he was called by them, was prevented from meeting with them by reason of the sickness which resulted in his death.
   He had been in failing health for the past year but attended to his business until May 13, when, by reason of weakness, he became unable to pursue it and since that time gradually failed until the end came.
   He was a good citizen, a warm and genial friend, and was always ready to help a needy brother, his charity being done, as those who best knew him can testify, in a quiet and unostentatious way. In his home he was greatly beloved as the elder brother and will be sorely missed.
   He was a member of Post 138 of West Acton and at their last annual meeting was unanimously elected commander, but feeling that, because of his health, he could not attend faithfully to the duties of the office, he declined the honor.
   He had a host of warm friends throughout the town. He leaves one brother and sister, residents of Lawrence, and two sisters with whom he resided in this village.
   Funeral is to be held at Congregational church, Thursday, Aug. 2, at 2 p.m.; prayers at home at 1.30. Burial at Woodlawn cemetery.
ACTON CENTER.
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   Administrator's sale by auction in East Acton Mass to settle the estate of Miss E. Bertha Hosmer, late of Acton, deceased. To be sold on Saturday, Aug. 11, 1900, at 1 p.m., at her late residence all the household goods belonging to the estate such as chamber pots, beds and bedding, chairs, tables, carpets, clocks, mirrors, stoves, pictures, lamps, crockery, glass, tin and wooden ware; together with garden tools, wood saws, chopping axes, etc. Henry M. Smith, Admr., Acton Mass. Otis H. Forbush, Auctioneer.
BASE BALL.
   A fine game of base ball was played between the married and single men last week on the grounds back of Warren Jones' place. The game was hotly contested and played in remarkably quick time for amateurs. The score was 5 to 1 in favor of the single men. This week Saturday they are to play another game and the married men feel confident they can turn the tables.
SOUTH ACTON.
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   Alfred Benson has resumed his labors at A. C. Piper's. 
   Isaiah Leach is to tend the crossing gates near the depot. 
   Ethel and Margaret Quimby are visiting with friends in Boscowen, N. H.
   Lizzie Brown has been spending several days with friends in Lexington.
   Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Pratt and son were visiting at John Temple's, the past week.
   Albert Clark started for Maine Monday night where he is to spend two weeks' vacation.
   The families of Mr. Fairbanks and Mr. Newton returned from their vacation Tuesday evening.
   Mr. Otis received an injury to one of his fingers by a plank falling on it at the piano stool shop last week.
   Alfred Hanks who has been tending the gates near the depot has secured a position as fireman on the railroad.
   Miss Charlotte Allen had the misfortune to sprain her ankle Saturday by falling on the cellar stairs at her home.
   Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith of Maynard st. were the recipients of a pleasant surprise on Saturday evening, when several of the former's shop mates called on him and presented him with a parlor chair.
   The lawn party which was to have been held at the school house grounds last Thursday evening and was postponed on account of the rain is to be held Thursday evening Aug. 2 at Piper's Corner. If stormy it will occur the next fair evening.
WEST ACTON.
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   Fred W. Green spent Sunday at Nantasket beach.
   Mrs. M. E. Badger has gone to Pepperell for a few weeks.
   Mrs. Herbert E. Preston of Bangor, Me., is visiting Mrs. W. H. Lawrence.
   Mrs. J. T. Bruce spent Sunday in Tewksbury with her sister, Mrs. Foster.
   Herbert E. Mead and family have returned to West Acton to reside permanently.
   Mrs. George F. Clark has been entertaining a niece, Miss Emily Clark of Boston.
   Prof. and Mrs. Raymond Dodge of Middletown, Conn., are at the home of George S. Dodge.
   The death of Mrs. Granville Whitcomb for many years a resident of Boxboro, occurred at her home in Fitchburg on Sunday, July 29. Burial at West Acton on Tuesday afternoon.
   The Universalist church will be closed during the month of August. The annual picnic of the society will be held at Fort pond, on Friday, Aug. 3. A cordial invitation is extended to all.
   Mrs. Cora Hosmer Flagg, eldest daughter of John E. Hosmer, of Ayer, died of cancer, July 23, at her home in Boston. Mrs. Flagg was a native of West Acton and a very highly educated and admirable woman. She was graduated from Wellesly college, after which she studied medicine and was a successful and skillful physician.
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The Concord Enterprise, 9 August 1900
WEST ACTON.
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   Fred Holbrook is enjoying his vacation camping at the pond.
   Dr. Tasker has been having some repairs made to his residence.
   Miss M. W. Folsom has gone up country on a two weeks' vacation.
   Simeon Webster has gone to Pittsfield N. H. on his annual vacation.
   Miss Hattie M. Whitcomb has gone to South Lancaster for two weeks.
   Miss Ethel Bruce of Groton is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. J. S. Bruce.
   A baby daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gough, Monday August 6.
   Mr. and Mrs. Edward Casey welcomed an 8 1-2 pound baby son Tuesday, July 31.
   Mrs. W. A. Armstrong and sons of Hyde Park are guests of Mrs. Emeline Hall.
   C. B. Stone's family returned Monday from a two weeks' outing at Salem Willows.
   Mrs. J. E. Richardson and daughter Katherine have returned from New Hampshire.
   James Hussey of Medford was a recent guest of Geo. A. Conant at his farm near Fort Pond.
   Mrs. Walter Mead and Mrs. C. H. Mead have gone to Portland, Me. to be about a week.
   Dr. Tasker was called to Mrs. Alonzo Tuttle Sunday morning, she having been taken suddenly ill.
   Mrs. Sarah Rodway has been granted a pension, her son William Rodway having died from disease contracted in Cuba.
   Failing to meet the requirements of the law as prescribed by the judge of the district court at Concord, Lyman Holbrook has been sentenced to the reformatory indefinitely. [See also 26 July 1900.]
MAYNARD.
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   The American powder mills are shut down for three weeks.
   Miss Beatrice Sunderland is visiting her cousins in Haverhill for two weeks,
   James Higgins and family are enjoying a vacation in camp at Boons pond.
   Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Haynes drove to Leominster on Tuesday for a few days' outing.
   Mrs. Dennis Sheehan is visiting her sister Mrs. James Handley at her home in Concord.
   Mrs. Joseph Smith and family are visiting Mrs. Smith's mother, Mrs. Julia Nagle, on Main st.
   Mrs. Jennie Murphy and daughter Alice are spending a few weeks' vacation with friends at Winthrop.
   Miss Grace Litchfield of Chelmsford Centre is being entertained at the home of her brother W. F. Litchfield.
   Neil Currie has gone to Augusta, Me., for a two weeks' visit and Rob't Farquahar is in charge of Mr. Currie's store.
   J. Desmond, proprietor of the Maynard House, was before the district court at Concord Monday morning, on complaint of the selectmen of Concord for the illegal transportation of liquor through that town. He was fined $100 and appealed.
   Mrs. Dennis Coughlan is visiting friends in Cambridge.
SUDBURY
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   Mrs. Luman F. Parmenter, son and daughter are spending a few days at Brant Rock.
   Walter Brackett is enjoying a week's vacation at Brant Rock, where many Sudbury people have visited at different times.
   The buildings on the estate of the late Martin Goodnow are receiving a new coat of paint. A. G. Priestly of Saxonville is doing the job.
   People who noticed the coolness of the atmosphere last Friday night, remember that on Aug. 6, 1899, there was a frost in some portions of Sudbury.
   Postmaster Lawrence Flood of North Sudbury visited the Metropolitan water works basins in Clinton and vicinity early in the week in company with Section Master F. H. Hadley.
   The business of manufacturing apple barrels which began in 1898, has been transferred to Lunenburg and the stock on hand, consisting of hoops, heads and staves, was shipped to that point the present week. Five thousand barrels were made in Sudbury and sold to apple raisers.
   Duluth, Aug. 8.—In a letter to P. M. Ringdahl, chairman, and the members of the committee of notification of candidate for vice president of the People's party, Charles A. Towne has declined the nomination tendered him by the Populist national convention at Sioux Falls. The letter is of considerable length and sets forth fully Mr. Towne's views in regard to the nomination.
   It is believed the Populist committee, empowered to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Towne's withdrawal, will immediately endorse Adlai E. Stevenson for vice president, on the ticket with W. J. Bryan. . . . 
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The Arlington Advocate, 10 August 1900

Mrs. Frank Ahern, Mrs. James Fermoyle, Mrs. William Fermoyle, Mrs. C. L. Dodge, together with their families, are summering at Dodge Cottage, Greenfield, N.H.
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The Arlington Advocate, 17 August 1900

POLICE COURT
In spite of prominent notices, frequent warnings and occasional arrests, people will persist in riding bicycles on the sidewalks, and the law has to be enforced. James McDonald and Philip M. Edwards, employed by the Cambridge Ice Company were caught and arrested, and each was fined five dollars in the Municipal Court, at Cambridge, the first of the week.
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Footnotes:
1 — Although born in Boston, his parents and older siblings were from Acton, his father having having moved the family to Boston when he took a job as a policeman there.

1900 Newspaper Abstracts
Middlesex County Massachusetts

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