MAYNARD
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| John Smith of Cleveland, O., visited relatives in town early in the week. Mr. Smith travels extensively and reports business throughout the country to be booming. |
| George Siswick is seriously ill at his home. |
| James Campbell is at the Marlboro hospital, suffering from appendicitis. |
| The banns of matrimony were published at St. Bridget's church Sunday between Miss Mary J. Shea and Mr. Crowell of Boston. |
| Kenneth Damren is back from the western part of the state, where he campaigned for Roosevelt. |
| Joseph W. Foster was called to Oxford by the death of his mother [illegible] the week. |
SOUTH ACTON
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| The Acton sportsmen are home from a two weeks' camping at Fort Pond. |
| Fred Davis took a party of Grangers in his auto truck to Carlisle last week. |
| John Cahill has begun work for J. S. Moore in the market. |
| The standpipe is finished, the roof being put on last week. |
| A. V. Hall and wife of Livermore, Me., are visiting with their cousin, Walter Young, and family for a few days. |
| Sherwood West, brother of I. C. and H. P. West, left new York Tuesday on the Battleship Tennessee for Constantinople. The trip will take 17 days and the stay is for six months. |
| J. C. Putnam of Athol was in town Thursday. |
| Mrs. George Stowe of Cambridge was a Sunday visitor with Mrs. Young. |
| Madison Fairbanks was home from Rockridge for a Sunday visit. |
| Mrs. Frank Lothrop entertained her friend, Mrs. Chase of Cambridge, over Sunday. |
| Mr. and Mrs. Emory Lothrop are visiting relatives in Milford. |
| The annual roll call of the Congregational church last Thursday night was well attended, notwithstanding the big downpour of rain, besides many responses came by mail. |
| Mrs. Clark of Manchester-by-the-Sea has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. A. A. Jones. |
| Eight hydrants have been connected to the line of water pipes from Nagog to the Concord line by Concord to be rented by Acton. |
| Mrs. W. W. Gough and Merril is at Waltham, caring for her sister, who has been dangerously sick for several weeks with kidney disease. |
| The Novillo Concert Co. composed of Miss Adell M. Philbrick, soprano, Miss Carrie Eliza Fletcher, violinist, Miss Sibyl E. Bearer, reader, Miss Helen A. Pierce, pianist, has been secured by the Congregational Ladies' Social Circle to give a concert in Exchange hall Thursday, Nov. 21. |
| Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Bradish of Dorchester visited their sister, Mrs. Geo. Worster, Sunday. |
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| Dr. Howard Tuttle was over from Tewksbury for a Sunday with the home folks. |
WEST ACTON
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| Alexander Bresth has given up his work as telephone operator at the telephone exchange here. |
| Charles E. Beach of Westboro came over in his Ford auto to visit relatives Wednesday. |
| Edward Holton, who is working in Boston for the Edison Electric Co., came up home Friday night. |
| B. A. King has recently wired Chas. Twitchell's house for electric lights. |
| Thursday evening, Dec. 5, in Odd Fellows' hall the church improvement committee of the First Universalist church will present for an entertainment the Trinity male quartet of Maynard and other talent. Although Amory Maynard, the leader of this quartet, is well and favorably known in this vicinity, he has not been heard in song in this village for a number of years, but the character and quality of the work of his organization in other places is a guarantee that this concert will be one of the leading musical events of the season. |
| Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Guilford spent Sunday with their son, Geo. M. Guilford in Cambridge. |
| Miss Bertha Cram is attending the Waltham business college. |
| Fred Davis has bought the home place of his mother, Mrs. E. B. Davis and has moved into the same. |
The water pipes from the street to the houses which will take the water have all been laid in this village.
The water was turned on into the main pipes Saturday and several of the hydrants were opened up in the village. The water came with a rush. |
| Mrs. Jerry Griffin and family have moved into the tenement of Mrs. W. H. Rudolph, recently vacated by Fred Davis. |
| Rev. C. L. Pierce was at Essex, Conn., over Sunday and Rev. Mr. Brown preached at the Baptist church and gave a fine discourse from John 1:35. |
| Alonzo Joy is passing a ten days' trip down at his old home town to South
Berwick, Me., and other places. |
| Word was received here last week of the very sudden death of Mrs. Gorham Esterbrook at her home in Fall River, she being very well remembered by her many friends here. |
| The West Acton Woman's Club held a very interesting meeting Monday afternoon. Mrs. Anna Page of South Acton read a paper on “Lights on the Negro Problem,” from personal experiences, and a book review on “The Leopord's Spots,” by Thomas Dixon jr. Mrs. Page also read several negro dialect poems from Paul Lawrence Dunbar. There was also music by the club chorus. |
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