From The Concord Enterprise, 14 August 1901 - Maynard: Herbert Salisbury now has charge of the tramp lockup; former resident Thomas Higgins inherits $20k, town wants him to reimburse town poor farm for wife's expense; Timothy Delacour moving to Oregon; cricket team will play at Fitchburg; visitors include Misses Maud and Mary McNamara of Chicago, John Moynihan of Brockton, Joseph McManus of Marlboro, Miss Annie Glynn of Waltham, Fred Schofield of Leominster, and Miss Mamie McLean of Newton. Acton Center: George Chidley and Thomas Kelley have cycling accident; Miss Elizabeth Gallagher going to the Buffalo exposition; Miss Florence Haynes is spending the week at Nagog; visitors include Miss Bridget Punch of Philadelphia, Miss Mary Peters of Worcester, and Miss Sadie Waterkin and Clifford Harmer of Bridgeton, Me. West Acton: former resident Harry Spinney, brother of E. L. Spinney, drowned in Nova Scotia; Miss Mabel Priest of Boxboro spending some time at Provincetown; Miss May S. Flagg is enjoying the breezes at Hyannis; Mr. and Mrs. George Crampton have a son; visitors include Miss Grace Richardson of Stoneham, Miss Alice Teele of Malden, Margaret, daughter of Sumner Wright of Watertown, and Homer J. Brown, with his family, of Washington, D.C. Concord Junction: Capt. John Boardman arrived at San Francisco from Manila; Misses Reece M. Grant and Ethel G. Blossom spent Saturday in Boston; James Adams is camping at Nagog; John J. Fitzgerald received a handsome lot of brook trout sent from his brother-in-law at Norton, Vt.; Clara and Rodney Pratt are spending their vacation in Maine. Concord: John M. Keyes and son Joe sail for Halifax; Harvey Wheeler and family are at Hyannisport; Thomas Todd, jr. is gunning at Scituate, his parents return from Pigeon Cove next week; the new ice water fountain is using 300 pounds a day; George L. Dunning is in Wisconsin on a business trip, wife and daughter are at Plainfield; John Hansen has opened a shoe repairing shop on Walden street. Other news: Hartford Custard Pie Association picnic at Norway, Maine; Mrs. Elizabeth McCarthy of Boston in hospital with fractured skull inflicted by her husband, Joseph; Katie Connors of Montpelier, Vermont committed suicide in Lowell jail; Italian railway laborer Peter Filasca murdered in Charlton, Mass. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1901/AUG.html#14 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -