Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-27
COUNTY NEWS.

DIR, F. A. Bosworth has been appointed health
officer at Webster
A Sunday school convention for Worcester
district will be held in the Methodist church in
Gardner, on Wednesday, June 5th.
The Worcester county teachers association
will hold its fifteenth annual meeting in Spen-
GER on Friday and Saturday, June It'll and Sth.
The poles for the new telegraph wire between
Southbridge and Webster will be distributed in
about week, and the line in operation, prob
ably in the course of a fortnight.
Tue Baptisls of the south village in Gardner
will enlarge their church during the coming seat
son by the addition of twenty feet in length
The building will also be thoroughly repaired
The new town hall in Spencer is completed,
and will he dedicated tomorrow evening by a
promenade concert and ball The Germania
orchestra OF Boston are to furnish the music.
Rev. j. d, Fulton Of Boston is to deliver the
address in Spencer on Memorial day; F. T. Cool
idge, Esq, in Westminster; and Capt. A. A.
White in Berlin.
Some two hundred of the friends of DR.. S. f.
Lindsey, of Dudley, celebrated the twenty-frst
anniversary of his residence in town by soca-
Bile in the academy hall on Thursday evening.
There is a dog in Webster of such astonishing
sagacity that he took an envelope containing
money from his master, went to the town clerk
paid his license, and returned home with the re-
ceipt in his mouth.
MIR. and Mrs Perley Waters, of West Sutton
with small circle of their relatives, celebrated
their golden wedding at their residence on Sat-
urday. The presents were numerous and valu-
able, and the company were entertained in
most hospiabe manner.
There was a grand mass rehearsal of jubilee
music participated in by associations from Ster-
ling, Fitchburg, West Acton, Aver, Leominster,
Wncbendon, Keeue, N. H., and New Ipswich,
N. H., under the charge OF Carl Zerrahan, at
Fitchburg, on Friday.
Two men in Gardner had dispute a few
days ago as to where a lady related to them
both should be buried, the person in question
being alive and well and likely to remain so for
some time to come. A fight was the result, and
the matter was put to Il rest for the present, by
a fine of IS and costs, Imposed on one of the
beigerent parties.
Last Saturday, the Farmers Club in Shrews-
bury passed the following resolutions:
Whereas, in the death of Mr.. Jonathan Ii. Nelson
of this town, it has pleased God to remove from
midst much esteemed fellow citizen and valued
member of the Shrewsbury Farmers Club; there
fore,
Resolved, that while we the surviving members
of the club, deeply depOre our loss, extend our
tender sympathies to his afflicted and bereayed wife
and mourning friends, and bear testimony to his
uprlghtness, integrity and truthfuness, and to the
genial, social ana other excellent traits in the char
acter of Mr.. Nelson, whereby he had endeared hin-
self to many, and to us more especially as the warm
friend and bpOpfactOr 10
club OF Shrewsbury.
Resolved that copy of this resolution signed
by the committee of the club, be communicated TO
Mrs Nelson; and also, that copy of the same be
furnished for the press.