CONCORD
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The new schooner, George E. Walcott, sailed from Bath Dec. 5th on her first passage for New York.
Among last week's arrivals are Miss Jessie McDermott of New York, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Adams of Boston.
An exhibition and sale of handsomely decorated china was held at the residence of Miss Mary Wheeler last Saturday afternoon
Dr. A. P. Putnam was a guest of the Mass. Reform Club at its annual meeting and dinner at Young's hotel last Saturday evening.
Be sure and read the Christmas advertisement of N. S. Daniels. Then give him a call and you will find a large variety of goods in his line.
The many friends of Miss Anna McClure, for so long a resident of this town, will be pained to hear of her death, which occurred Saturday last, at the residence of her sister in Quincy, Ill.
The attention of the ladies is called to the advertisement of Miss E. A. Buck, where they will find the largest variety of holiday novelties they have ever seen at her store.
Gardiner Tufts, superintendent of the Mass. Reformatory, addressed the members of the B. Y. M. Christian Union at the vesper service in Union hall last Sunday. His subject was “Prisoners; what are they?”
Dr. and Mrs. Emerson give a reception to Miss McDermott if Washington, on Thursday evening of this week. Miss McDermott is the young lady who has recently become engaged to Mr. Charles Walcott.
Lewis Flint has been appointed special agent of the Census Bureau, for the collection of statistics of manufacturers of this town. He will make “General Schedule No. 3 Manufacturers” the basis of his investigations.
Monday afternoon a horse driven by Mr. Burbank, of West Concord, started to run with him. He was unable owing to the horse being smooth, to stop him, so he turned him into the fence at the Hastings place. Damage, a broken shaft and one length of fence totally smashed.
The Monument St. club, with other friends, called on Mrs. Nathan Barrett last Thursday afternoon, it being her seventy-fourth birthday. Mr. George Bartlett read a poem, several songs were sung and a beautiful bouquet of seventy-four pinks was presented Mrs. Barrett. She expressed her pleasure and surprise very gracefully in a few well chosen words. It was an occasion of great enjoyment to all present.
At last the body of Mr. Timothy Sheehan has been found. For a number of days past Mr. Thomas Magurn had noticed an object in the river in rear of Mr. Hudson's grounds. He reported to selectman Walcott what he had seen and notified chief of police Sanford, who with officer Craig, went to the place Friday forenoon. They procured a boat and went out to where the object was and found that it was the body of a man. They removed it to the shore to wait the arrival of medical examiner
Titcomb.¹ In the mean time word had been sent to the family that the body of a man had been found and that someone was wanted that could identify Mr. Sheehan. His son returned with the officer and at once identified the body as being that of his father.
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| Letters advertised in the Concord post office Dec. 10th: Bergite Amunsen, Dr. Childs, Lewis E. Cook, L. W. Dean, Irving Emerson, Stephen Flanigan, Noyes B. Herrick, W. L. Hines, John Hackett, C. A. Livermore, Yon Moy Ling, Phil McGuire, Geo. W. Parker, W. J. Pentland, Concord Plaiting Co., J. C. Smith, R. Sydney Smith, Wright Ross & Co., W. M. Wheeler, Mrs. Mary Bleachley, Miss Mabel Brigham, Mrs. Pat. Crowley, Miss Kate Fee, Mrs. Mary Kines, Mrs. P. McCarthy, Mrs. Nellie Morris, Miss M. Moynihan, Miss Ellen McCarthy, Mrs. Jennie Nagle, Mrs. Nannie Smith, Miss Mary E. Tarble, Miss Barbia Wallace, Miss Clara H. Webster, Miss E. S. White.
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WARNERVILLE
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The W. L. & S. C. meets this week with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Chaplin.
Miss Eva Bullock has been at Nantasket for a few days.
Instructor Roberts of the chair shop has moved into the house vacated by Officer Payson.
Col. Gardiner Tufts delivered an address on Sunday evening before the Young Men's Christian Association in Boston.
The body of Timothy Sheehan has at last been found after more than four weeks searching. The Sudbury river has given up its burden and Mr. Sheehan's family can be satisfied that the husband and father is at last at rest. [see also 19 December 1890.]
Miss Hattie E. Bordman and Mrs. Lena Ballou were present at a musicale given in Hovey hall, Waltham, on Wednesday evening, by Walter Starbuck, assisted by W. B. Robinson. Miss Bordman assisted as accompanist.
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Qua spent Saturday evening with them at their new home on the Concord road. The evening was happily passed with games and music and the forty present united in congratulating Mr. Qua upon the completion of so pretty a home.
Instructor Burbank of the shoe department met with a serious accident while driving near Concord Monday. His horse and sleigh arrived home unoccupied. In the meantime he had been found unconscious beside the road. He was taken home and found to have sustained serious injuries about the face and head.
The Ladies' Union will hold a fair at the hall Thursday and Friday evenings of next week, Dec. 18 and 19. There will be a variety of useful and fancy articles for sale, ice cream and cakes and home-made candy. For entertainment there will be an art gallery and songs and readings. The admission will be very small and it is hoped there may be a very large attendance to help on the church work. |
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