Selected and transcribed by Dennis Ahern
Editor’s Note: The seventh in our Friday series examining the news about Bedford that was published in the Concord Enterprise 100 years ago this week; to contact the author, please email [email protected]
BEDFORD NEWS IN BRIEF
- Motorman Harry Cook left this week for Perry, Me., where he will spend his annual vacation.
- Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Walker and son Floyd motored to Provincetown on Thursday and returned Saturday.
- Mrs. Emory Walker returned Saturday after an extended vacation spent with relatives at Palmer.
- George Hart, Gavin Taylor, John W. Flood, and Andrew Hartwell spent Tuesday smelt fishing at Stony Beach, Nantasket.
- Misses Jesse McGregor and Alice Knowlton of Boston were guests for a few days of the week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Trees, Randell Rd.
- Miss Concettina Albani spent the weekend with relatives and friends in Wakefield.
- Private Henry Clare Isnor has been reported deaf from the explosion of a big gun.
- 2nd Lieut. Samuel Loomis, who is stationed at Fort Strong, was a recent visitor in town.
- Gerald Munroe, the American express agent here, is suffering from an attack of Spanish influenza.
- Private Francis J. Kelley, of the State college in Kingston, R. I., was the guest of relatives on Concord Rd. Sunday.
- The board of registrars met in the town hall Friday to assist the men in the recent draft in filling out their questionnaires.
- A number here attended the home garden exhibit of the Lexington school children in the Lexington town hall Saturday afternoon.
- The greater part of the townspeople attended the reception tendered to the new principal of the Bedford grammar school and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, which was held under the auspices of the Parent-Teachers’ association in the Assembly hall of the schoolhouse Thursday evening.
- One Charlestown man is thankful for the present Harvest Moon. Joseph E. Donovan, who is going to have to stay away from his winter home late into the fall to harvest crops on his farm in Bedford. “Joe” is working nights just now getting in his squashes.
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