Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-11

Mr.. Smith said that it would take q.
good part of the night to vote for each
man separately. MIR King said that he,
for one, wanted to get home this even
ing sometime, and thought that all
three selectnen should be voted for to-
gether. During the meeting, Mr.. King
moved that the hat be passed around
for the purpose of defraying the eX-
penses of the caucus, and as a result,
money enough was secured for the pur-
pose. The tellers appointed were S. King,
c. c. Longley and Robert Molt. Thomas
Dowd was chosen check clerk 1t was
moved that one ballot be passed by the
secretary for I. n Goddard and Henry
T. Maxwell as town clerk and treasurer.
1t was also moved by Mr.. Hull that one
ballot also be passed by the secretary
for Irving B. Sayles as trustee OF town
library. Mr. King moved that the
polls be closed after the allotted time of
80 minutes. The names Of r. II. Green
wood and Charles A. Whitney We're
mentioned as tax collector.
The caucus was a lively one from start
to finish, and every voter present
seemed greatly interested in one candi.
date or another. The following are the
names of the candidates chosen. Select.
men, Samuel Hull, Robert Booth and
! Hudson Hakes; auditor, Augustus Neu-
deck; tax collector, Charles A. Whitney
| overseers of the poor, Henry E. Newell
| Henry w. Carter, w. H. Stockwell; as
| SCISSORS, Augustus Molt, c. Fred Holman
H. Davidson school committee, D. E.
March g years.; trustee of town library,
J. r. Lincoln; trustee of cemetery,
Henry c. Thompson; board of health,
James H. Ferguson G years.; con-
stables, A. B. Slocomb, G. A. Smith, John
s. Rich, Thomas d. Brown, G. Humes,
H. B. Glover. Ira Goddard for town
clerk and H. r. Maxwell for treasurer.
Mr. Greenwood claimed that he was
thrown down" lie received 80 votes
and G. A. Whitney received So.
Mr.. Coffin then moved that the town
committee be instructed to bring in q
list of all candidates to be acted upon
at the next caucus.
Mr.. Moore received 4 votes for select
man This is the second year that DIR.
Booth a life democrat, has been in
dorsed by the republicans.
The good people OF Woodbury. village
are looking forward to good times again,
as the mill of G. T. A1drich, which was
burned some time ago, has been rebuilt
and is fitted up with eprinklers. The
mill is the only industry the people of
the village have to depend upon. The
mill employs a good number Of hands,
both male and female.
Miss Ida Jacques, an employee of the
Cords mill, met with a painful accident
yesterday She in some way came in
contact with an iron beam, and re-
ceived an ugly cash over her eye. The
wound was dressed by some of her
friends.
Maurice Riordan, a former resident Of
this town, but now of Weston, was the
guest Of friends in Millbury today.
Fred Deane is able to be out of doors
again.
A handsome picture of the Millbury
basket ball team was placed i'll the store
window of James H. Ferguson last eve
ming.
The next meeting of the Foresters,
Thursday evening, will be a summons
meeting, for the purpose OF electing del
egates to the grand court, which is to
be held in Brockton in May Millbury
Court will send two delegates.
Alonzo Vinton and wife, formerly of
this town and now Of Spencer, are the
guests of friends in town.
The democratic caucus will be held to-
morrow evening, and large crowd is
expected, as some lively things may
occur.
A lecture on the Indians cf this To-
cality will be given in Union chapel,
West Millbury, Friday evening, by
John C. Crane.
Contractor Bachelor has completed
his repairs on the house Of William
Murphy.
Henry Miscall of Providence was in
town today.
Agnes letter has gone to Canada.
Considerable talk has been going on
of late between James Trilligan and
Frank McLeon, as to which is the bet
ter checker player, and when they met
this evening, they both agreed to play
a match game for ten dollars. They are
both good players, and whoever wins
will have to hustle.
1t was expected that the engineers
who paid a visit to the cotton mills,
yesterday, would visit the Cords mills
today but such was not the case.
The scholars of the high school made
their first appearance on the school dia-
mond and a lively game Of ban was
played today.