The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-01-19
'IaIy

Rev. Anthony Hardy of East Provi-
dOnce, officiated at the church of the Mes
siah on Sunday.
A meeting of the Olueyville Business
Mems Association will be held next Tues
day evening.
Woonasquatucket Encampment l. O.
o. F., at its meeting Monday evening.
initiated two candidates. Thirteen more
will be taken in at the next regular
meeting.
Charles Battels has made application
to the Johnston town council for license
for the Samuel Scranton place, near
Thornton.
Everett Nicholas, of Johnston, has en-
tered the employ of the Union Traction
Company.
Ellis Il Co. will open store for paints
oils and glass near Westminster street
bridge. about February.
A. j. Smith, meat cutter for NJ. A.
Mowry, has recovered from his recent
Illness.
The funeral services of the late Henry
g. Hitler took place at the church of the
Messiah on Wednesday afternoon.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of William L. Whipple in another
column tOl let." The location
is excellent. They are fitted with modern
improvements. and is just the place for
professional men.
Governor Brown has issued an order
pertaining to future examinations for
commissions in the militia. Hereafter
those who come before the examining
board must appear in undress uniform,
and can be examined for but one grade
at time.
1t is stated that in about three week
the white Line of horse cars will be dis
continued as far as this section goes, and
will he run by electricity from the foot of
College street, up Westminster, through
Mathewson, down Weybosset to the cable
at College street again.
The following officers of Woonasuua-
tucket Encampment were installed on
Monday evening: Chief Patriarch, Thorn
as Walch; Senior Warden, William j.
Charlesworth; Junior Warden, Harry
Dsw; Recording Scribe, John E. Bowen;
Financial Scribe, Edwin Hirst; Treas
urer. Cyril Carpenter.
The Tabernacle Sunday-school elected
the following officers on Monday evening:
Superintendant - George w. Amison;
Assistant, Peter Robertson; Secretary
James Allanson; Treasurer, ,Titus Glib
son; Chorister. James Morris; Organist, :,
Edna Brundrett; Librarian, Charles
Ludden.
D. D. G. R., Millen s. Greene. accom-
panied by Henry NJ. Stillman, Secretary
of Granite Council, will visit Olneyville
Council, No. 1880, Tuesday evening, to
install the officers thereof. Grand Re-
gent Thomas P. Peckham, of Newport,
Will also be present.-W Westerly Tribune.
which was burned Friday night, is mass
of ruins. Practically nothing besides the
cOmpany's books and small machine
was saved. Seventy-ive thousand pounds
of wool were put in recently. $4,000
pounds being stored last Thursday. On
the latter there was no insurance. All
this was destroyed. The loss is .esti-
mated at S3O0,000. Insurance 1887 900.
Savings bank officials In Providence
report that Withdrawals of deposits are
becoming fewer and that better feeling
is evident among depositors.
The closing exercises of the forty-ffth
term of the Rhode State Normal School
will be held at the institution on Benefit
street. Thursday aud Friday, Jan. Is
and 10.
Postmaster Henry L. Dempsey of Still
water, was in Olneyville, Wednesday, and
called at the TINES office.
Legal holidays in Rhode Island are
Washington's Birthday. Feb. %; De-
coration day. May 50; Fourth of July;
Labor day, lst Monday in September;
Thanksgiving; Christmas.
Tickets for the American Band charity
concert can be obtained at w. A. III.
Grants coal office.
The Providence Common Council has
voted to put the unemployed at work
grading streets.