The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1896-12-04
The Doings Of the Day in
and About the City.
Short Stories OF Minor Happen.
ings Among Our People.
Timely Topics Of General Interest Tersely
Told to Tribune Readers.

Providence on Monday next.
The Park Commissioners meet at the
Mayors Office at p. m. today.
Miss Bridget Fevens, aged % years, died
last evening at her home on Dexter street.
The Carpenters and Joiners Union held
. regular meeting at their rooms last
evening.
The uncontested divorces will be heard
in the Appellate Court in Providence on
Monday.
Thomas Morris and Miss Maggie Shea
won the second prize waltz, last evening
at the Bachelor Clubs fair.
The marriage intentions OF Joseph
Octave Carson and Mary j. Blais have been
filed at the City Clerks office.
The Gilt Edge Whist Club will be enter
tanned by Walter G. Hartford at his resi-
dence, Garden street, this evening.
The Bachelors Club continued their fair
at Euterpean hall last evening and many
enjoyed the dancing, which Is the prin-
cipal feature OF the fair.
The funeral of Surgeon T.ft of the 11th
Rhode Island Volunteers, was attended at
Charlton yesterday by several OF his old
comrades from this city.
Fred e. Grout, the manager Of ColwelPs
market was about town for short time
this morning. Mr.. Grout has been con-
fined to his house by illness since Sunday.
A meeting of the ladies of the G. X.
Circle of the Pawtucket Congregational
Church will be held at the residence of
Miss Hannah Darling, 2S2 Cottage street,
at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
Merchants should not forget that the
days have gone by when business men can
sit down and expect trade to hunt them
mp. Too many people are offering big in
ducements to get trade.
Many Pawtucket people are leaving for
different parts of Europe to spend the
holidays at their native homes. Local
agents for the big steamship companies
report unusually large bookings.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Young
Mems Christian Association have decided
to hold Christmas sale and entertainment
on Monday, December IA, at the residence
of Mrs. Edward A. Green, IS Cross street,
Central Falls.
Doctors Alexander A. Walters and Julius
A. Pirlot were found probas.iiyv .."iii..y of
practicing medicine without proper au-
thority in the Providence courts this
fnor,,'-~ '-~ and held over to the grand jury
under $500 bail.
Inc Salvation Army gave 80. .uan
.Ao at their hall on Broadway n--
AAs' e blizzard was conducted by Cap
,d Mrs. Griffin of the New Bedford
salvationists, and the street parade en-
I,vened by a cornetist from the same
branch Of the army,
Alexander Meiklejohn Of this city, who
is taking a postgraduate course at Cornei'
returned home yesterday. MI. MelKie-
John has been troubled with his eyes, ana
comes home for treatment and rest. he
NAV be obliged to remain from cofiHge
until after the holidays.
The case of Margaret Leach against DR..
f.. M. Lane is pending in the Sspreme
Ceurt. The plaintiff sues to recover so
much of 5000 as a jury may award, as
compensation for injuries sustained by
reason of the malpractice Of the defendant
in the treatment of her left arm.
Col. John G. Wyman, who accompanied
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery tc
Europe the past summer, has received ar
excellent photograph taken by Major
Childs while in London. Major Child
has a large collection Of views OF the dis
tinguished company taken while abroad.
The subcommittee of the Democratic
City Committee appointed to make ar
rangements for the banquet to be tendere'
to Mayor elect Davis on the evening o
Inauguration night, will hold meetin
this evening TO further the plans for th
event, which promises to be the most sue
cessful affair OF the kind ever held In I'll
city.
Yesterday workmen began excavatin
for the addition to the Sheldon buildir
made necessary by the growing busine
OF Lynd q Murphy, who will gain by u
Improvement 1000 feet OF floor space. F.
have found their quarters very crampe
their business having outgrown the spa
they occupied.
The Fall River Veteran Firemen's Ass
citation has secured a new hand engil
ssGulf Stream" She was formerly own
at Canaan, Conn, where she was, until
Gently, in active service. She is Butt
engine, with crane neck and squirrel
suction, q inch pumps, 6-inch stroke 9
A-inch air chamber. She Is well G
structed, in perfect order and In apps
ance will compare favorably with any
in the New England League.
Embodied with petition for the
tablishment OF a new highway betw
Walcott and Brook streets, which
presented at recent meeting OF the Bt
of Aldermen, was a singular request
was to the effect that the abutting ow
who intend TO deed the land to the
desire that the City Council will max
Su~xhox ;tnrrove,neuta on the street