The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1896-12-14
late LOCAL News.
The DOings Of the Day in
and About the City.
Short Stories Of Minor Happen.
ings Among Our People.
Timely Topics Of General Interest TerseIy
JsId to Tribune Readers.

The public schools will close next Frida.
for the Christmas vacation.
Rev. Marion Law, rector of st. Paul.
Church, preached at st. James Church
Woonsocket, last evening.
The annual election of officers of the
local branch of the Letter Carriers Asso-
citation will be held Saturday, Dec. rs.
The annual meeting of the Pawtucket
Dispensary was held this afternoon at the
Office of f. p. Carpenter on North Main
street.
Capt Benjamin l.. Hall, Commander at
the Soldiers Home, Bristol, was in the
city Saturday afternoon. renewing ac-
quaintances.
The Hibernian Rifles will hold bazaar
next month. The committee in charge of
the arrangements for the affair are rapidly
perfecting plans.
The reception committee of the Y. M. G.
A. will tender areception to the Young
Ladies' Auxiliary at the Association rooms
next Wednesday evening.
The ceremony of Grand Rounds will
take place at Tower Post this evening and
very enjoyable time is promised the
veterans and their friends.
John q. Woolley of Chicago, psominent
in the temperance cause and who has often
been heard by Pawtucket audiences, spoke
at the Park Place Church last evening.
Mrs. Minerva A. Sanders, librarianl,of
the Free Public Library, will address the
evening grammar schools next Wsdnes.
day evening upon the subject Of "Rsad-
ing"
The Executive Committee of the Supreme
Council, Order of Alfredians, will meet
Friday evning In Providence, for the con-
sideration OF business OF an important
nature.
Arthur Baulieu, salesman at Radixin &
Cooney's, left yesterday for Quebec, hav-
ING receiv.-d telegram announcing the
sad intelligence 1t his fathers death in
that city.
The joint standing committee On ciy
property has awarded the contract 70. iuf-
nishing the steel fittings for the new safe. ',
vault to the Fenton Manufacturing Co. of 1
Jamestown, N. Y. The bid was s227s.
officer ss,muel Hudson of the police de
partment, who Is president Of the 7th
Massachusetts, Veteran Association, will
attend the winter reunion of the Associa-
tion at the American House, Boston, on
Friday next.
Rev. Henry Irving Cushman, ID. D., OF
Providence occupied the pulpit at the
Universalist Church yesterday morning,
and in the evening the pastor delivered
the second Of his series of sermons on
ssThe Three Great Men Of DID," the sub
ject being Moses.
recent advices from the headquarters OF
the National Federation of Labor are to /
the effect that the attempt to bring the |
operatives of the Southern cotton mills to |
a realizing sense Of their prerogatives is |
not to be spasmodic effort, but that the |
work Is to be carried on until the desired |
end has been accomplished.
The grand jury that went out in the
Common Pleas Court last Monday Is pro-
crossing rapidly with its work, and al
ready more than one-h half the cases have
been considered. Az the number laid be-
fore it is not large, an early report 10 as
sured, and IL 10 Expected that the Jury will
come In next Thursday morning.
Charles Luther, e4Eears Of age, called at
the Providence City Hall Saturday after
noon and registered, that he might be q
voter In 1897. HI. has voted for II Presi-
dents, and bids fair to vote four years
hence, as he is In perfect health, and daily
walks down town from Chaplin avenue, .
mile and half, to talk with the "boys."
The long and continued hand-clapping
that followed the rendering of the popular
Irish ballad, "The Green, the White and
the Gold" by Robert J. Casey at the Audi
torium last evening, was hearty manifes-
tation Of approval of the remarkable and
well trained voice Of the singer. Mr.. Casey
appeared quite modest at the ovation giraz
him.
The 3Oth annual meeting OF the Depayt-
ment Of Rhode Island, q. A. R., will b
held in woonsocket the 18th of next
month The delegates and visiting com.
rades.will be the guests of Smith Post, No
3. In the evening reception and banque
will be held at Tillinghast's parlors II
honor of the retiring commander OF tn
apartment, William K. Stone.
Rhode Islands population in the IS
years embraced between the times of tn
earliest and the latest censuses had In
creased from 7.1sl TO 3s4, ,76s. There ar
now five cities, Providence, Pawtucke
woonsocket, Newport and Central Fall
and seven towns, Warwick, Johnston
Cranston, East Providence, Cumberlan'
LINCOLN and Westerly, each OF which HI
larger population than the entire Sta
had I'm the first census.
"Dick" Hayward Of 1.-THE Benedict Hou
has introduced many new drinks TO u
patrons Of that hostelry In times past, b,
his latest, Of which the following are Il
ingredients, seems to have hit the rigl
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