The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-26
PAWTUXET VALLEY.
Successful Minstrel Show at Tn orn-
toms Opera House.
Funeral Of Mrs. Budlong- Bicyclists
Come TO Grief.

One Of the most successful minstrel en-
tertainments ever given by local talent
in the valley was held In Thornton's
Opera House last evening by the Paw
tuxet Valley Minstrels for tho benefit of
Gibson Council. Knights of Columbus OF
Arctic Centre. The affair was under the
management of James II. McNeilis and
reflected great credit on the participants
lie program was quite elaborate and was
divided Into two parts, the iirst half con-
Slsting of an opening chorus, a Hot Tim;
In the Old Gown, company; song and
chorus, Golden Days, Miss Rose McNulty,
song ana chorus, When the Bloom is on
sho Clover, Thomas Mcmahon; coon song
tanee and chorus, My Gals High Born
Lady, Thomas Frazer; song and chorus,
Time Will Tell Miss Mamie Fallon; par
ody on Only Me. song and chorus; James
J.. MoNeilus; song and chorus, just Ono
Year ago Tonight, Miss Lizzie Donohue;
song ana. chorus, Dora Lelne, John +.
Kelley; song, dance and cnorus, Honey
Does You Love Your Man, Mrs. Daniel
Gallagher; song and chorus, Old Ken
tucky Home, Miss Ammo \. Carroll;
song, dance and chorus, John Fallon.
Thomas Frazer. Miss Mamie Davis and
Mrs Daniel Gallagher, Eli Green's Cako
Walk.
The second part consisted of Jig and
reel dancing by j. II. Ward Mid the Odor
Of the Lilies, quartet and dance, Misses
Carroll and St. John and Mrssrs. Fallon
and Hughes; Old Black Joe, ladies quar-
tet, Misses Hughes, Duffy, Annie \. Car
roll and Coogan; Old rolks in the Twi-
light, mixed quartet, Miss Mamie FallOn
and Messrs. McAlahon, Duffy and Turner
duet and dance, Travelling Back 20
Georgia. Misses Annie A. and Annie y.
Carroll; The Whistling Coon, Philip j.
Iierney; mandolin solo, Henry Lefebvrei
Reuben and Cynthia, aboriginal sketch
by d. l.. McNeilis and Edward NJ Bailer
in which many of the local questions OF
the day received considerable Jollying ana
the Warwick police force was accorded the
distinction OF being the slowest force on
earth. Those who took part III the enter
tainment were Charles Ellis, John A.
Kelly, Frank Emerson, James Cummis.
key, Philip j. Tierney, John Powers,
Frank Duly, Edward Turner, Daniel
Gallagher, Miss Kate Hughes Miss Mary
Cooney, Miss Minnie &. Duffy. Miss Liz
zie Donahuc, Miss Minnie Perkins Miss
Annie T.. Fitzsimmons, Miss Annie A.
Carroll, Miss Agnes Coogan, Miss Mamie
tallon, Miss Rose McNulty, Miss Nellie
ST John. John Fallon, Miss Mary Davis,
Thomas Fraser, Mrs. Daniel Gallagher,
James Il. McNeilis Miss Kate Bagley,
Edward Duffy Miss Mamie Kernen,
Thomas Mcmahon and Edward NJ. Bailey.
The guild of 1t. Andrews church met
mt the residence OF Superintendent Latham
at Lippitt last evening.
The funeral of Mrs. James Budlong,
who died at her home in Arkwright We'd
nesday morning, was solemnized from
the old Arkwrignt schoolhouse on Main
street this afternoon, Rev. Benjamin Cot
trell of the Tabernacle church at Fiske-
Vile officiating The interment was In
Greenwood cemetery on Phenix bill.
Maid Marion Circle, G. of E., met in
Foresters hall at Clyde last evening
Two bicyclists George Adams and Cor
mack Mckenzie, of Providence, who We're
riding "A tandem bicycle came TO grief
between Westcott and Natick last evening
by the breaking Of the frame of their
wheel. Both men were thrown oil, but
escaped serious injury The broken ma
chine was pushed To Natick and taken on
the train to Providence.
Mrs. George Farnum Of Egg Harbor,
Morse, ut Arctic.
The Columbian Whist Club will hold
its last meeting this season at the resi-
dence of Manager Gee, at Arkwright, TO-
morrow evening.
Captain Charles Arnold of the schooner
Witch Hazel is visiting his family at
Apponaug
The old company boarding house at
Apponaug is TO be torn down TO make
room for n new Office for tho print works
Contractor Mcmahon has commenced
the work of removing the large house be-
longing To ;. III. Greene a. Sons which
stands in the limo of the new extension OF
Clyde street The house will be removed
to position on "Sugar Hill on the
opposite side of the railroad track.
Arthur Eddy who has been Ill at his
home i'm Phenix is convalescing.
The wedding bells are soon To be ring
inc in phpnix and one of tho prominent
business men is soon to become a bene-
dict.
james Coyle of Clyde has purchased the
McNally estate at Phenix.
Franklin Joslin of Kings Bridge, y. T.,
is the guest of his brother at Washington.
Andrew Dennigan has accepted posi-
tion as machine printer at the Clyde print