The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-02-09
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
Told to Tribune Readers.
School Committee tonight.

Probate will be held tomorrow afternoon
at 4 o'clock.
An official visit will be paid to Narragan-
sett Lodge by the grand officers on Satur-
day evening next.
Frank Affiick, chairman of the Demo-
cratic City Committee, is confined to his
home on Lawn avenue.
Mrs. William L. Perkins, well-known
resident of Pleasant View died at her resi-
dence yesterday aged "a years.
The delegates from Tower Post to the
Department Encampment left this city for
Woonsocket at 9:20 this morning.
Mrs. Ella Woodward of Norton, Mass,
who has been visiting relatives in this city
the past week, has returned home.
The regular meeting of the School Com
mittee is to be held this evening and in
teresting developments are anticipated.
The members of the Pawtucket Cycling
Club will entertain their lady friends this
evening and pleasant time is anticipated.
The third social of the Tourist Club Of
st. Mary's T. A. and B. Society will be
held in Temperance Hall, East avenue, on
Friday evening.
"The Chimes of Normandy" will be pre-
sented under the auspices of the Ladies'
Aid Society of the Sacred Heart Church at
the Opera House next month.
The last of the series of select dancing
parties to be given by the A. o. T.'s before
Lent will take place at Music Hall Assem-
bly, rooms on Friday evenings.
The festival of the primary and inter-
mediate departments of the Park Place
Sunday school, which was postponed, will
be held in the lecture room on Friday eve-
ming.
William A. Forbes, for fourteen years a
resident of North Attleboro, has accepted
the position as head gardener for F. c.
Sayles, on East avenue. He will begin his
duties Wednesday of this week.
Rev. Almon Gunnison, ID. d., lectured
at the Church of Our Father last evening,
1t being the second of series of stereop-
ticon lectures. The lecture covered north
ern Italy to the Riviera and was much en-
joyed.
.
Association will take place this evening at
9:15 in the Kinyon block. The election of
officers will take place, and the meeting
will be followed by an entertainment and
collation..
The Kearney Light Infantry opened the
winter shooting practice last evening at
the range in the State Armory on Ex-
cl,o,.o o. A. 4 L..
structor and some remarkably good shoot
ing was done.
Medical Examiner French has decided
that in the case of the sudden death OF
Mrs. Abraham Pennington, who was
found dead in her bed at her home in the
rear of No. so Grotto avenue yesterday was
due to apoplexy.
''The First Settlers of Pawtucket, with
brief survey of the Growth and Evolution
of the Community" is the subject of
paper to be read this evening by Rober
Grievc of this city before the Rhode Islans
Historical Society.
Arrangements are about perfected TO
the entertainment to BE- held at the Au
ditorium on Feb. % by the letter carriers
The artists secured to take part are o
known ability and most successful even
will doubtless be the result.
Dan Coogan, catcher OF the Providenc
baseball team, has been engaged to coacl
the University of Virginia team, and h,
will go South to assume the position Oh
Feb. Is. Billy Mellor, formerly OF tn,
Brown team, is one OF the men on tn,
Virginia team.
The jury in the case OF James O'Donnel
against the Pawtucket Street Railwa,
Company for $4,000 damages for injurie.
received May 10 through the alleged neg.
hgence OF the agents and servants of tn,
corporation, came to this city yesterday Il
view the scene OF the accident, which wa,
on Lonsdale avenue at the intersection o
Kendall street.
This evening at the Auditorium occurs
the annual assembly of the To Kalon Club
The different departments OF the assembly
have been placed i'm charge OF the bee,
artists Of the several lines and with Reeves
Orchestra for music, Tillinghast to cate,
and the bright and artistic decorations o.
Nisbet to feast the eye the affair canno
but be the crowning event of the season.
This evening at the rooms OF the Y. M
G. A. the people OF Pawtucket will hav
an opportunity Of seeing and examining
the McTammany voting machine, and it
advantages will probably be made apparen,
There have been well-grounded objection
throughout ths State to voting machine
and they were based upon a device ex
hibited a year or two ago which was en-
tireiy different from the McTamman
mechanism. The latter device was give
an exhaustive test by all the Supren
Court judges, and all save one, Mr.. Justic
Rogers, agreed that it answered all the r,
quirements of the law for a secret ballot.
The vigor Of youth given to the aged an