Hi Dennis, I think I've seen the CENTER surname in your postings a couple times recently ! There was a CENTER family in Arlington Heights from at least 1950 through the 1970's? The father had already passed when I met the family when we joined the "Park Ave. Church" around 1954, but I remember them talking about him having something to do with "music" in Boston ! I knew the family through the church up through the 1960's when I moved out of Arlington, and then occasionally corresponded with their daughter after that ! I don't know anything about their family-tree ! Betty (near Lowell, MA) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Ahern" <ahern@world.std.com> To: <MAMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:41 PM Subject: Concord Enterprise, 25 June 1913 > From The Concord Enterprise, 25 June 1913 - > > West Acton: Civil War veterans Alonzo Joy and his cousin, L. B. Joy, were > reunited after not having seen each other for 58 years; Mr. and Mrs. James > French have a new baby; Webster Blanchard to enter Harvard; Miss Lizzie > Robinson of Boston visited Miss Annie Blanchard; A. B. Parker and family > will attend the Gettysburg celebration; Mr. and Mrs. Otto H. Geers of Stow > have a baby girl; Miss Loretta Shattuck of Concord Junction had a fine > supper for her 14th birthday, served on dishes that were over 85 years > old; David Kinsley represented this town at the silver jubilee of Rev. > Walter J. Browne at Maynard and recalled how Fr. O'Reilly used to walk > from Maynard to say Mass. > > South Acton: Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Turner celebrated their 47th anniversary; > an Italian Maynard baker was arrested going to the Italian colony, charged > with having a lot of beer in his wagon; Madison Fairbanks has gone to > Newport for a week; Carl Center left Monday for Becket, in the Berkshires > with the Y. M. C. A. campers; Warren Jones picked and shipped 20 crates of > strawberries Monday; Horace Bacon and wife of Waltham visited with A. A. > Jones; Will Huntoon, machinist in Uncle Sam's navy, is at home for > vacation; Howard Quimby has accepted a position for the summer at Rutland, > Vermont; Miss Della Dearborn and John Snow autoed from Waltham on Sunday; > Marguerite Stevenson received a linen shower by parcel post. > > Boston: the Nahant steamer Machigonne cut in two and sunk the auxiliary > fishing schooner Priscilla in Boston Harbor. > > See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1913/JUN.html#25 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 > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - > > ______________________________

Betty <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> responded to my posting from the Concord Enterprise, 25 June 1913 to say: >I think I've seen the CENTER surname in your postings a couple times >recently ! There was a CENTER family in Arlington Heights from at >least 1950 through the 1970's? It must be very frustrating to search for a surname like CENTER or BROWN or WHITE in which all the non-surname iterations of the word pop up. For example, searching the MDX newspaper site for "center" results in 32 pages of hits, but they are almost all for things like "Arlington Center" or "Acton Center". The only surname hit is for the Carl Center who was going to camp in the Berkshires for nine weeks with the YMCA in 1913. -dja