The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1898-12-09
SOUTH SCITUATE.

| MIS-. COle Is aI ncI OduS nut g Nhi .
Earl Potter.
Clifton ". Steere has been enjoying Z
vacation at home.
Mr.. Langstaff was here Tuesday repair
| ing the telephones.
The Grange Will hold the annual elec'
ton of officers this evening.
Mrs. Warren Knight and baby have
been visiting week in Hope,
Miss Florence Cole is staying with her
sister, Mrs. John Tyler of Providence,
Mrs. James Cole and children are
spending several weeks in Providence.
Mrs. Gilbert Adams and Miss Elenora
Harris have been visiting in Providence.
Herbert o. Phillips and family OF Oak
land Beach, have been visiting Darius O..
Phillips.
Rev. d. L. Bennett and family Of
Washington visited at Albert Angels
one day recently.
pal church will be held Saturday after
noon, Dec. 24th.
Mrs. George T. Parker, who has been
visiting his brother at Knightsville, re-
turned home Sunday.
Carl Malmstedt, who is in Denver,
Colo, on account of i'll health, is reported
as gradually gaining and expects to re-
turn the first of June.
Make your selection now of Christmas
presents at Angelrs, the jeweller. He
we will lay them one side for you by
leaving small deposit on them.
DR.. Barden of Apponaug was thrown
out of his sleigh near Charles Wilbur's
last Friday. But little damage, except
breaking a few medicine bottles.
1t is thought that Mrs. Frank Phillips
has the finest collection of Chrysanthe-
NUNS of any one around here. She has
a large variety and they are very pretty.
After the fall term closed Miss Annie
Jacques resigned her position as teacher
Of the Richmond school. Since leaving
Normal School she was continuously in
the Scituate schools, until now she is en-
loving a rest from school work.
Mr.. Levi Hicks is slowly rallying from
the very critical condition in which he
has been so long. Though not well
enough to go out he is able to go about
the house little with the aid of crutches.
Scituate has long felt the need of rail-
road, as there is but one station in the
town and that is at the terminus of the
road which runs into Scituate but short
distance and does not pass through the
town. The lack of proper travelling fa-
cilities seems t6 be the that which retards
the progress which might be made. But
comparing the present with past times we
find our town greatly advanced.
Scituate became a town in the year
1870, before that it was a part OF Provi-
dence.
Tohn Mathewson has the credit for
building the first white mans house in
this section, it being near Lake Mos
wansicut At that time Boston was the
nearest trading town and the journey had
to be n made on foot. That was more than
two hundred years ago.
Today there are a large number of
mills, shops and other manufactures,
stores, offices, farming, numbering and
various other industries.
During the hard times when so many
were thrown out OF employment in near
all sections, the mills OF the JOslin Manu-
fs curing Company run full time, and
since then have run night and day some
OF the time. If the town could prosper as
it has without railroad facilities, it must
be evident to all that with them it would
take its place in the front ranks with the
manufacturing and sgricultu-
raj towns in the state.
1t is a wonder to most people that the
electric road has not been put through
here before this time, and especially to
those who take trolley trips into other
places, for Scituate is much mole thick
ly settled, and its industries far in advance
of some OF the localities where the cars
seem to run with great success. For in
stance, there are no long stretches Of
woods, such as are found between Provi-
dence and Taunton; and on the Island Of
Rhode Island, where are the mills and
other places of business compared with
those Of Scitnata hut the conductors on