Turner's Public Spirit, April, 1905

April 22, 1905

Boston & Maine R. R.[1]

Winter Arrangement.  In effect October 10, 1904 …

Southern Division

For Graniteville, Lowell and Boston: 6:55, 8:19 a.m., 12:50, 6:30 p.m.  Sundays: 8:15 a.m.

Returning, leave Lowell: 7:07 a.m., 11:35, 4:01, 5:42 p.m.  Sundays: 3:15 p.m. …

Graniteville.  Items.  The M.C.O.F. will give a grand social dance in Healey’s hall, Graniteville, Saturday evening, April 29.  Music by Kitridge’s singing orchestra of Lowell.

There will be an auction sale of household goods at the residence of Joe Wall, Graniteville, Saturday afternoon, April 22, at 1:30.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Board of Railroad Commissioners

Boston, April 13, 1905

On the Petition of the Leominster, Shirley and Ayer Street Railway Company and the Fitchburg and Leominster Street Railway Company for approval of terms of agreement of purchase of the property and franchise of the former company by the latter, and for authority for an increase in the capital stock of the Fitchburg and Leominster Street Railway Company by the amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), the Board will give a hearing to the parties in interest at its office, No. 20 Beacon Street, Boston, on Tuesday, the twenty-fifth day of April, instant, at ten-thirty o’clock in the forenoon.

And the petitioner is required to give notice of said hearing by publication hereof twice prior to said date in the Fitchburg Sentinel, a newspaper printed in Fitchburg, and once in Turner’s Public Spirit, a newspaper printed in Ayer, to serve a copy hereof on the City of Fitchburg and the towns of Leominster, Lunenburg, Shirley, Ayer and Harvard, and to make return of service at the time of hearing.

Per order of the Board,

(Signed) Charles E. Mann, Clerk

[1] This Boston & Maine train schedule appears regularly throughout the Turner’s Public Spirit issues in 1905.

April 29, 1905

Ayer

News Items.  The Westford high were defeated last Saturday afternoon by the Ayer high, played on their grounds, by a score of 8 to 5.

District Court.  Mabel Valenstein, Gladys DeBank and Ethel M. Hayes were arrested in Ayer, charged with the larceny of a good many small articles from the daughters of Margaret Wilson of Westford, where they stopped, and were part of a colored jubilee troupe that gave a concert in that town.  They were tried April 22, found guilty and were discharged after paying costs of prosecution, taxed at $4.15 each.

[1] This Boston & Maine train schedule appears regularly throughout the Turner’s Public Spirit issues in 1905.