From The Concord Enterprise, 6 March 1901 - Maynard: Thomas Sheehan of Keene, N. H. and Timothy Sheehan of Moosup, Conn. visited; Martin Brown expects to move to West Acton; Harry Morse of Leominster is visiting his brother George; Mr. and Mrs. Starr King of Boston, were guests of Mrs. George Flood; Sidney B. Shattuck has withdrawn his candidacy for selectmen and board of health. South Acton: Miss Louise M. Foss is visiting Hyde Park; L. V. Clough back to work at post office; Misses Charlotte and Adeline Allen are out of town; Miss Edith Kallock is visiting at her home in Rockland, Me.; home of G. W. Daniels burned. Acton Center: Robert Wayne has been visiting relatives in Worcester; Mr. and Mrs. Luther Conant went to Washington to attend the inauguration of the president; former resident Edward W. Quimby won free trip to the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo; Cyrus Dole and daughter of Cambridge were in town. West Acton: A. I. Goding, A. F. Blanchard, George Parker, Israel Charlton and Miss Fannie Wetherbee have all been ill; Mrs. Helen I. Burroughs deceased; Mr. Downing of Ayer visited his sister, Mrs. Ellis Harlow. Concord: Peter B. Bycroft, the motorman who ran into Mr. Butcher in Lexington, was acquited of manslaughter; convicted forger Lester L. Melendy committed to Worcester insane asylum; Francis Byron replaced Frank Ireland at the telephone exchange; at a meeting of the Old North Bridge society, Children of the American Revolution, there was a debate between Percy and Allen Brown on the subject "Resolved that McKinley should have been elected president at the last election, and not Bryan"; Miss Rosamond Meigs, daughter of Pevereil Meigs, Herman Hall Eddy, of Santa Barbara, CA. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1901/MAR.html#6 for details of these and other stories from local news. The complete run of the Concord Enterprise is available on microfilm at the Acton Memorial Library. See http://www.actonmemoriallibrary.org for directions. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -