The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-02-15
late LOCAL NEWS
The DOings Of the Day In
and About the City.
Short Stories Of Minor Happen.
ings Among Our People.
Tine6 Topics Of 0enenl Interest TerseIy
Told to Tribune Readers.

Warren Hames of this city was today
granted an Increase of pension.
In the District Court this morning
James Hogan was discharged and the case
was discontinued.
The Warren z. Smith non-support case
was again adjourned until Tuesday in the
District Court this morning,
Stanley Yerkes, who was one OF the
Pawtucket ball team during the past sea-
SON, has signed with Scranton.
Miss Deborah Knox spoke at the Cum
berland Hill Baptist Church yesterday.
Meetings will be held every evening this
week under her supervision.
The marriage intentions OF Edward
Halmes and Jane Alice Smith, Eugene
lAmeray and Annie Mccarthy of Central
Falls, have been filed with the City Clerk.
Miss ressie Lynd, the Dexter street
milliner, left this morning for New York
to make selections in the latest styles of
spring millinery. She will be absent 10
days.
The thirty-third anniversary Of Eureka
Lodge will be observed Thursday evening
in Music Hall Assembly rooms. An en-
tertainment will be given from to 10 to
be followed by dancing.
A special meeting of st. Mary's Tenn
perance Society will be held this evening
for the purpose of taking appropriate
action on the death of John A. O'Connor,
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Rev. j. Leech Porter is spending q few
days the guest of Rev. and Mrs, Charles
q. Gilliat Of Newport. Rev. Mr.. Porter
viii leave the latter part of the week for
Whitehall, N. Y, to assume his new pas
torate In that city.
This morning an electric car on the View
struck some ones pet cat and passed on,
leaving the dead animal on the track. The
police department were notified, and they
in turn notified the Street Railway Com
pany, who promised to remove the corpse.
A memorial to the Grand Lodge was pre-
sented at its recent session and referred to
. special committee to report at the next
session, suggesting the establishment of
one or more free beds at the Rhode Island
hospitals for the uses of the order In this
State.
One of the remarkable facts of the age Is
that there are scores of people who in
dulge in a gymnastic curriculum for the
strengthening of their muscles who have
not yet attained . sufficient degree of vigor
to be able to saw their own wood or shovel
4 he apoxr from their aidewalka
B. s. Lake of the Rental Guide OF Provi-
dence, E. A. Noyes of the Rhode Island
Pendulum and j. Z. Gobeille Of the st.
Jean Baptiste of Central Falls will repre-
sent the Southern Rhode Island Press
Club at the convention OF the National
Editorial Association at Galveston, Texas,
on the 18th and 18th Of this month.
The much disputed case of Oliver
Bachand against Aglai Martell has been
set down for trial in the Woonsocket Dis
trict Court on Feb. 26. Judge Choquet at
the hearing Saturday quoted from recent
decision of the Supreme Court where a
person who has been defaulted may have
the case reopened and be given a reason
able time to file an affidavit of defence.
Rev. M. d. Kneeland, d. D., Secretary Of
the New England Sabbath Protective
League, is visiting the different Sabbath
schools in this neighborhood. Yesterday
morning he spoke at the Broad Street Bap-
list Church, and his discourse was highly
interesting. In the afternoon he was at
the rooms of the YIN. c. A. and spoke at
the mems meeting. In the evening he
visited Park Place Church.
1t won't exactly be a Bradley Martin
affair, but the high-toned residents Of
Providence and this city, who are Of Celtic
origin, are to indulge in a subscription
ball, about the 25th inst. Spink's Assem-
bly, rooms have been engaged and in the
ball room will be seen stunning array OF
costumes, many Of which have been
specially ordered for this occasion. The
promoters intend this ball to eclipse any