Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-21
TO PRE- SERVE DATA.
Oraskaso Historical Society to
Meet Tuesday.
Rev. Nathaniel seaver, Jr., to Speak on
Parishes and Parsons of the
OIden Time.

Leicester, Feb. 2O,--The annual meet
ing Of the Oraskaso Historical Society
on Tuesday evening, at South Hail. with
the lecture on PARISHES and parsons
of the olden time" by Rev. Nathaniel
Seaver, promises to be very successful
The society which was reorganized at
Leicester, in March, 1897, has the names
Of is life members and 70 annual mem
bers printed in its bylaws, besides
quite a number which Joined at the
meeting last September in Smith Hall
Its object is to unite the citizens of the
/ towns which include the ancient Tow
taid district, Paxton, Auburn, Leicester
and Spencer in an effort to collect and
preserve all the historical matter be-
| longing to the same section. Hon Geo.
| j.. Hoar of Worcester and Hon. John
e. Russell of Leicester have been made
honorary members for having spoken
| before the society. At the last meeting
in September a very encouraging in
| terest was shown by those present and
good attendance is looked for Tuesday
evening The board of officers include
president at large, one vice president
/ from each town, clerk and treasurer,
and two directors from each town. The
officers will serve one year or until their
successors are duly elected.
The present incumbents who will
| probably be reelected are: President,
! Iedyard Bill PaXton clerk and trea-
surer, Mrs. A w. Harrington, Leicester;
vice presidents, Parkman T. Denny,
Leicester; DR.. e. w. Norwood, Spencer;
Frank Weatherhead, Auburn; Mrs. Geo.
| Esterbrook, Paxton; directors, Henry o.
Smith and Mrs Catherine Grout, Leices-
| ter; DR.. A. A. Benis and Miss Annie
| Ward, Spencer; William H. Harrington
and Edward p. Keep, Paxton
DISASTROUS sLEET STORM
The sleet Of Sunday worked havoc
with the electric light wires and there
were no electric lights until $50. A wire
was broken on Pleasant street and the
circuit was broken. Linesman Karl
/ Johnson hustled around and after few
minutes wet work repaired the break.
| During the afternoon the cars on the
! Worcester and Suburban were running
nearly on time, but the snow in the
evening made the rails very slippery
| and lots of time was lost climbing up the
| hills. A Rochdale man who drove up
| about o'clock reported four or t1ve
broken wires and thought Rochdale
stood a good chance of being dark to-
night. One or two telephone wires be-
tween Leicester and Cherry Valley were
broken.
| Work was pushed on the steel chimney
on the Chapel mill and workmen for the
Stewart Boiler Company commenced at
8 o'clock yesterday afternoon and only
stopped ON account of the storm this
morning. About twenty feet has been
put up, and the mill will run next week
as usual The remaining 80 feet Will be
set up next Saturday.
VARIOUS NEWS BRIEFS.
The Spy reporter was told on good au-
thority Sunday that Michael ]. Shaugh-
nessey, overseer at the Brick City
mill, would not De a candidate for Sc
llectman. This will leave no candidate
in Cherry Valley and the next selection
is curiously looked for.
Alfred B. Grout of Winchester spent
today in town.
John Brigham and Alphose Cote oi
Spencer, while driving past the Cherry
Valley post office late last night wert
run into by a two horse team whief
was coming at a good rate of speed
down the hill. Mr. Brigham was thrown
out and hurt his right arm.
The Ladies' Charitable Society viii
hold an information meeting in the yes
try at o'clock yesterday afternoon
Members may bring their own work.
AT 630 a bean supper will be served, fol-
lowed by an entertainment which com
prises many new features.
The subject Of the Wednesday eve
ming prayer meeting is temperance.