The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-15
THE CITY.

officers for the coming year We're
nominated and the election Will take
| place Dec 2S.
The committee on claims will give
a hearing Friday evening at 100, i'll the
council chamber OF the city han.
Major Nathan Taylor and family left
! Worcester yesterday for the south,
where they viii spend the winter.
! A. A Reeds bulletin says today:
| The prime object of business is not
to make money, but to provide for the
| people.
! The Suffrage League will meet with
! Miss HenshaW, 6 Loudon avenue, this
| afternoon at o'clock. A full attend
1 ance is requested.
A private dance was given at Frank
! lin Hall, 566 Main street, by the Cres-
| cent Associates last night. The atten-
| dance was very good.
Mayor Dodge was kept busy yester-
| day receiving congratulations on his
| splendid majority. During his office
| hours there was a steady stream of
callers.
Burning SCOT in the chimney of the
old post office building on Pearl street.
was the cause Of an alarm from box L.
at 10. 30 o'clock last night There was
no damage.
! A benefit entertainment was rendered
the janitor of Labor Hall, Paul Nault,
last night, by his friends, and the eve
ming was spent in songs and instru-
mental selections.
! The ladies Of the German Lutheran
Church will hold a sale of useful and
/ fa aT-tip I at no % on
street today at $50 p. m Coffee and
cake will be served.
The board Of directors of the Cereal
Machine Company has ordered the
next quarterly dividend q IL per cent?
paid on January 3 to stockholders of
| record Dec. IS, 1898.
Miss Salia Lawson, As years old, who
| lives in South Worcester, fell down the
cellar stairs at her home, yesterday
morning, and dislocated her right
shoulder She is at the City Hos
pital.
John Mccarthy. "a years old, en-
| ployed by the Worcester Coal Company
was caught between two cars, at the
coal companys dump yesterday after
noon, and considerably bruised about
the lower part Of his body. Hewas taken
to the City Hospital, where his injuries
are not considered of serious nature
The funeral Of the late George A.
! Brown was held yesterday afternoon at
/ his late residence, 30 Salem street at
two o'clock Rev John r. futile of
Union Church OBLIGATED. There was a
| large attendance of relatives and
friends The body will be taken to
| Spencer today for burial in Pine Grove
| cemetery
The -Four Jolly Indians gave a
dance last night in Sons of Veterans
Hall, SIS Main street. During the in
! Permission, a cakeWall1 was INDUCED
| III by several of the dancers. Those in
| charge were: f. w. Cox, floor director;
| John ]. Pollard. assistant; w. F. Day
and P H. Reynolds, aids. Music was
! by Normand's Orchestra.
John E. Bradley, superintendent Of
| the Bradley Car Company, has just re-
ceiVed a letter from George H. A. Gale,
captain of the 4th United States cavaI-
ry now stationed at Manila. Captain
Gale was born, brought up and edu
Gated in Worcester, being a graduate of
the high school, class of 1875, and was
| later a student at the military academy
at West Point.
Word was received in this city yes
| terday of the death of William P.
Hastings of Portland, Me, dealer in
pianos and organs. MI. Hastings was
formerly a resident Of Worcester and
went to Portland in 1850 where he be-
gan the manufacture of organs under
the firm name of Hastings & Philbrook.
Previous to his removal to Portland he
| served one year in the common council.
| A widow survives him.
There is to be an all-day session of
the high school teachers institute on
Saturday at the English high school
| building. In the past it has been usual
to hold these institutes on school days,
but on account of the too frequent &C.
casions that already exist for closing
the schools, it has been thought best to
hold this institute on Saturday, relying
on the attractiyeness of the program to
promote the attendance.
AT the meeting of the Building Trades
Council last night almost the entire
/ evening was occupied in discussing the
proposed utilization with the National
Building Trades Council of America.
No definite decision was reached, but
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