The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-04-06
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: The many friends of Mr.. Benn Aims
worth, the veteran mill superintendent,
now resident of Messer street, will be
pleased to hear that he is gradually re-
covering from his late illness.
Hon. E. L. Cannon lec:ured on the
labor question in Library Hall on Sunday
evening. There was large audience
present.
Hon. George T. Brown and Henry F.
Thompson addressed the Johnston Dem
ocrats in Library Hall on Monday eve-
ming.
Manufacturers Lodge, 1. o. o. F., will
celebrate its twenty-fourth anniversary
on the evening of April 25th. The
arrangements for the proper observance
of the event is in the hands of very
competent committee and an excellent
time is in prospect for the members of
the lodge and its friends.
Mr.. John Robinson of Delaine street, is
home on a vacation from the Connecticut
Literary Institute of Suffield, Conn.,,
where he has been studying for the past
six months.
The Wallace Glee Club are preparing
| for a fine entertainment in Irons Hall on
the 18th of this month. Some excellent
musical and dramatic talent have been
secured to assist the club.
Rev. j. V. Osterhout addressed a meet
ing at the Providence Y. M. c. A. last
Sunday.
Olneyville without strike would be
like the play of Hamlet with the ghost
| left out.
Prof. j. V. w. Rich, principal of the
Messer Street Grammar School will
preach at the M. E. Church in Woon-
J socket on Sunday.
The Saranac Athletic Club has pro-
cured the summer rights to the Merino
Flats will sub-let the grounds during the
| season.
Canvassers for the Providence Direc-
tory have been in this section this week
Morris Small, the tailor, is now locate d
in Stokes Block.
Smoke Tanners "Old Grip" cigars.
| E. A. Mitchell, matchmaker and manu-
featuring jeweler, 192 Plainfeld street,
has new design in stick pins in the
shape OF Battle Axe, which he is
making for the Spring trade. They are
made in sterling silver, gold. silver
enameled and gold enameled and are
very pretty. See ad.
Mr.. Elisha Evans of Westminster
street has purchased the Ethelbert
Winsor farm in Johnston on the Geenville
road and will remove there soon.
Prof. j. K. Bucklyn of the Mystic In.
stitute was in town on Thursday and
called at the Times office.
f. C. Thornton & Co., the westmin-
ster street druggist, have acquired the
the rights of a newly discovered spring
in Johnston. The spring is situated
named the Homestead spring.
The public schools in Johnston began
the spring term on Monday.
David j. Barr Sr., the well known
blacksmith, died at his residence on
Westminster street on Tuesday. The
funeral was solemnized this morning.
The weavers of the Riverside Mills
on Monday and came out at o'clock
The two loom question is the cause of the
trouble.
Applications for liquor licenses should
be made at once to the town clerk Of
Johnston. 1t is also time to pay dog
licenses.
Read, ponder and reflect on W. e. Full
ler's advertisement.
Miss A. j. Robinson. money order clerk
at the Olneyv1lle post Office, is very sick
with pneumonia. A consultation o1
physicians was held to-day and there is
said to be very small chance for heI
recovery.
Mrs. Tompkins Fenner, a resident ot
the Pine Hill section of Johnston, died or
Monday from the effects of an attack OF
the grippe. The deceased was 66 years
of age. The funeral services were held
at her late residence yesterday at Il
o'clock and the interment took place al
Pawtucket.
A small fire and big panic caused
great excitement in the Square Tuesday
evening. An overturned lamp in Pre-
mos barber-shop in Irons block started
slight blaze about o'clock, which was
soon extinguished, but large audience
in the hall upstairs became panic-strick.
en-. Finding it impossible to reach the
street by the stairs, men, women and
children crowded down the fire escapes
in such numbers that the thousand OF
more soon found egress in this way. A
number were injured slightly in the
crush, and two women were quite badly
bruised.
Broadway Baptist Church, services
Sunday April will be as follows; Sun.
day School 11.45 q. m, preaching at
p. m. by John Evans, followed by bap.
tism. Preaching at p. m. by Evange'