Selected and transcribed by Dennis Ahern
Editor’s Note: The ninth 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
- No church services were held in any of the churches here Sunday, owing to the prevailing epidemic of influenza.
- The schools will not reopen until Monday, Oct. 14.
- Gerald Munroe, the American express agent, is slowly convalescing from his recent illness.
- Miss Edna Tubman of East Milton spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. John Bowers of Hartford Street.
- Buy Liberty Bonds of the Fourth issue now and help Bedford over the top and bring the Bedford boys home more quickly.
- Francis Peabody Magoun of Cambridge, for many years a resident of this town, was a beneficiary under the will of the late Frank E. Peabody, who died a few weeks ago. Mr. Magoun is the recipient of $25,000 under the terms of the will.
BEDFORD BOY HONORED
A Bedford boy, formerly of Co. I of the historic 6th Regiment of Concord, has been honored in France, in a letter written Sept. 1, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sullivan of Springs Road, Fred writes that he has recovered from the wound in his head received while going “over the top” in the big drive on the Marne in July, and is now well and feeling fine after five weeks in the hospital.
He has been appointed an instructor in the 3rd Provo Replacement Co., near Bordeaux. Fred says that the camp is in a pretty town on the side of a hill and the hens and ducks and cattle were running around the Main Street.
He writes that he was near Paris twice, but could not go into the city. Sergt. Sullivan wears one wound stripe and on the 4th of October received two service stripes for one year’s service overseas, having left Camp Bartlett, Westfield, on Oct. 4, 1917, with Co. D of the now famous 104th.
POTATO RESEMBLES KAISER
Henry H. Qua of this town thinks he has captured the Kaiser the other day in his potato field on Springs Road. In turning out the tubers he found one monster snuggled away deep in the soil and upon unearthing it proved to be two potatoes so formed as to look like the Kaiser. A small potato is joined by the neck to a larger one in such shape that the small one has the appearance of the Kaiser’s elongated box-like head, set by a sturdy neck on a pair of over-developed shoulders. It is a freak sure enough, and the more one looks at it and thinks about it a resemblance of the bust of the Kaiser may be easily seen.
WOMEN CHAINED TO GUNS
Germans Force Them to Fight Against Their Will, Says Hospital Man
Pittsburgh, Pa.—That German women have been chained to machine guns and made to fight against their will is the testimony of John H. Newell of the field hospital corps who followed the American soldiers in the Aisne-Marne salient.
“A number of the boys came into headquarters today,” he writes, “telling how badly some of their comrades felt when they found after charging and capturing a number of machine guns they discovered that they had shot German women who had been chained to the guns and had to fight.”
Washing and Ironing
Work done at home. Mrs. Christian Knudsen, South st., Bedford
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