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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -