From The Concord Enterprise, 4 September 1901 - South Acton: Parker Gates had his wheel [bicycle] stolen; Alec Nagle returned home from Mass. General after having his leg amputated at the hip; 4-year-old Homer G. Stone drowned in the shoddy mill pond, his aunt, Miss Lillis McGuire, drowned attempting rescue; West Acton: Israel Charlton and son returned from Nova Scotia; visitors from Stoneham include Irving Childs and wife, Miss Irma Childs and Walter Keene, Mrs. Geo. W. Hunt and Miss Grace Richardson, Arthur, Ralph and Ernest Patch; C. H. Mead's store has on display eight 20-ounce apples grown by Walter O. Holden. Maynard: Misses Celia Moynihan, May Thompson and Jeremiah Moynihan of Cambridge were recent guests of Miss Mary J. Munroe; August Koske, Andrew Anderson and John Murphy were fined $8 apiece by Judge Keyes for disturbing the peace; the Maynard cricket team was defeated by an all star team picked from the North Billerica and U. S. Bunting teams. Concord Junction: Hon. John F. Fitzgerald and family, and Mrs. Mary Harmon returned last week from Old Orchard; Mrs. Mary Marrion has removed to Concord; Miss Blanche Thayer, of Boston, who was a passenger on the wreck of the Halifax off Minot Light, is visiting friends on the Barrett Mill road. Concord: E. J. Bartlett and William Bartlett took a trip to the Isle of Shoals and York Beach; Miss Susie Emmott is at home; Miss Angie Tarbell has gone to Wellfleet as a teacher; Italians are blamed for the prevalence of malaria in Concord in '98 and '99. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1901/SEP.html#4 for details of these and other stories. The complete run of The Concord Enterprise is available on microfilm at the Acton Memorial Library. See http://actonmemoriallibrary.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -