Society Notes.
The following papers and addresses have been given before the Medford Historical Society during the season of 1903-4.October 19.—‘Mrs. Rowson and Her School.’1 Miss Mary E. Sargent.
November 16.—‘The Development of a New England Town.’ Charles M. Ludden, Esq.
December 21.—‘The Spark that Kindled the Revolution.’ Charles G. Chick, Esq., president of Hyde Park Historical Society.
January 18.—‘Some Old Medford Houses and Estates.’2 Illustrated. Mr. John H. Hooper.
February 15.—‘Old-Time Furniture.’ Illustrated. Mr. H. M. Begien.
March 21.—(Annual Meeting.) ‘The Old South Historical Society.’ Miss Katherine H. Stone.
April 18.—‘Meeting-House Brook and the Second Meeting-House.’ Illustrated. Mr. F. H. C. Woolley.
May 16.—‘West Medford in 1870.’ Mr. Moses W. Mann.
Saturday evening course.
December 5.—‘Ancient and Modern Middlesex.’ Hon. Levi S. Gould, of Melrose.February 6.—‘The Trial of Rebecca Nourse from its legal and historical standpoints.’ Marshall P. Thompson, Esq., of Boston.
March 5.—‘West Medford, 1855 to 1860.’ Mr. Arthur G. Smith, of Malden.
April 2.—‘Scotch Poetry.’ Mrs. W. K. Watkins, of Malden.
May 7.—‘The Ancient Warfare between Fire and Ice in Medford.’ Mr. W. S. Beekman. [p. 73]
