The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-02-03
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
Bold to Tribune Readers.


In the Probate Court this afternoon a
hearing was given on the John Field will
case.
The death of Mary Cavanaugh occurred
ut the State Asylum forl the Insane yes
terday.
Miss Queenie Hayes rendered a sleigh
ride to q number of her friends yesterday
afternoon.
Sleighing parties galore were out last
evening and the city echoed and re-echoed
with the sound OF horns.
The executive committee of Robustness
Mems Association will hold meeting at
their rooms this afternoon.
The "Knights" OF Providence have
signed the Fall River Wollen Manufac-
turers' curtailment agreement.
Rev. Father Harty of the Sacred Heart
Church gave his altar boys sleigh ride to
Roger Williams Park yesterday afternoon
The roll OF bills which stranger says he
lost near the corner OF High and Main
streets yesterday afternoon have not been
heard from by the police.
A meeting of Delaney Council, No. 81,
Knights of Columbus, will belheld this
evening. Several matters Of an important
nature will come up for consideration.
The meeting of the Pawtucket Boat
Club and Athletic Association announced d
for last evening was postponed owing to
the lack OF sufficient members to..make o
quorum.
Rev. Samuel M. Beale will deliver an ad-
dress on the "W. c. T. u. as an Auxiliary
to the Church, - at the meeting of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union this
afternoon.
The question of the distance of the
pigeon fly to be held on Decoration Day,
will be decided at meeting OF the fanciers
of this city and Central Falls, to be held
tomorrow night.
The final sitting in the duplicate whist
tournament between the members OF the
Garfield Club and the Aetna Association
will take place this evening in the rooms
OF the latter organization.
Miss Viva Dexter andlMiss Jennie Nc
Carthy will give an entertainment in the
Pawtucket Opera House on the evening Of
Feb. 10. Many well-known local amateurs
and professionals will take part.
A newspaper advertisement may be
small but effective. A rifle ball is a little
thing, but properly aimed, and with the
right kind of stuff behind 1t, it may be re-
lied upon to make deep and lasting i'm
preston.
There is too much snow on the ground
at present to make good sleighing. The
snow from the sidewalks has made high
banks on either side of the roads, and
drivers must use good judgement lest they
overturn their sleighs.
The Commissioners Of Shamrock Park
are arranging for concert and ball to be
held at the Alcazar early in the present
month. The decorations win be on an
elaborate scale and it is intended to have
the affair first-class in every respect.
Frank Jenks, an old newspaper man
formerly connected with the Providence
Journal in this city, was in town yesterday
and called on many Of his old friends.
Mr.. Jenks is now in the employ Of the
Consolidated road with headquarters at
New Haven.
A parochial mission will be held in
Grace Church, Lawrence, Mass, from Feb.
13 to Feb. q, inclusive. Services are to be
conducted and sermons delivered by Rev.
K. Walpole Warren, ID. D., of New York,
and Rev. Marion Law rector Of st. Paul's
Church of this city.
A complimentary concert to the Girl
- o,x1p Nhup u, IN
aid of the Building Fund, will be given In
Music Hall Assembly rooms on the evening
OF Feb. 15 at o'clock by the pupils Of Mr..
William II. Arnold organist and choir
master OF st. Stephens Church, Provi-
dence.
William ]. Chalk has severed his con-
nection with the firm Of Bernard Nc
Csughey q Co. and has accepted position
with jeremiah +. Leahy. Mr.. Chalk for q
number of years has had charge of the
drapery department for McCaughey q Co.,,
and will have full charge of the same de-
partment In Mr.. Leahy's new store.
Certain merchants on Main street should
pay q little more attention to their side
walks and also repair their lead pipes
which carry the water from the roof. At
one place On upper Main street yesterday
pedestrians were treated to a regular
shower bath from a sputtering, broken
pipe, and at other places little ashes or
sand would have proved an excellent safe
guard against accidents.
Quite number of people from this city
were i'm attendance at the ball given by the
Amethyst Club In What Cheer hall, Provi-
dence, last evening. The club Is composed
OF some of the popular young men OF the
Cove City, and that fact was attested by
the large number present. The dance
order comprised twenty figures, being ar
ranged I'm such a manner as to leave
nothing to be desired by the votarics oi
terpsichorean pleasure. Music was fur