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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
BORDER TOWN NOTES.
A Grst of Happenings in the NEARBY Dis
trets.

Shrewsbury. Oct. S1-Arthur BfcN1or-
row of Woburn spent Sunday with his
| parents.
DR.. Mansfield of the NJ e. conference
will be in town Wednesday and conduct
the quarterly conference in the M. E.
vestry.
Fred Allen, who drives a milk cart
for Alphonse Prairie, met with a Sc
rious accident at the Gardner street
crossing, in Worcester, where the train
ran into his wagon and smashed II up
completely and injured him so that he
was taken to the city hospital, where
his wound was dressed. He was very
comfortable at the last report.
The newly-elected officers of the His
torical Society are H. A. Maynard,
president; III. j. Hascall, vice president:
George e. Stone, secretary; David Rice
treasurer; directors, D. W. Bemis, Rev.
e. A. Lathrop, Bessie Rice, together
with the officers.
Reports were read. which showed the
society to be prosperous. The new
members are r. e. Allen and wife c.
o. Green and wife, Mrs. Harlow, Miss
Helen Harlow. j. A. Dean and wife,
Fred Stone and wife, w. H. Bartlett
and wife, G. M. Boutelle and wife. Rev.
E. E. Aye, Henry Z. Cottle. Mrs. w p.
l.
Miss Florence Cutler, Fred Howe, Fred
erick Stone and wife, and Philip Stone
of Boston. The committee to arrange
program for the January meeting 10 D.
W. Bemis, Mrs. Anne Rice, III. A. May
nard.
The harvest sale melted the Congre-
gational Ladies' Society $50.
Mrs. Willis Knowlton returned from
Brooklyn. N. ", Saturday.
The Kings Daughters met Monday
afternoon.
The Halloween party given by the
Y. p. S. c. E. at the church vestry to-
night was great success, The COM
mittee in charge was Mrs. David Rice,
Misses Howe and Cutler, Lyman
Wheelock. The decorations of jack
lanterns We're very funny. and all the
games We're entered into and heartily
enjoyed.
Mrs. w. d. Pierce is having her house
newly shingled.
Wallace Maynard is having new
shingles put on his barn.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
MONEY, OR THE GIRL.
Young Assyrian Wants Either One or the
Other.

David Delore, a young Assyrian ped
Ter who lives at Sc Bloomingdale road,
called at the Waldo street station yes
terday afternoon to tell Capt. Matthews
of a love affair in which Delore was a
loser, both as girl is concerned and
from a financial standpoint.
According to his story. he wooed and
supposed he had won the affections of
a young lady in the Assyrian colony.
The young woman is known as May
Ghiz, awho is Is years old and pretty.
Her only relatives in the country are
three cousins, Joseph, Mitchell and
John Ghiz.
According to the old country custom,
the bridegroom paid John Ghiz who
seems to have been constituted the
girls guardian, the sum of 500. The
prospective bride and groom visited
the judge of probate and obtained his
consent to their union, as the girl was
under age.
Sunday afternoon he called on the
object of his affection. and arrange
ments were made for a celebration of
the wedding Monday. The cousin to
whom he paid the money agreed to
forfeit 5000 if the girl was not on hand
at the appointed hour.
Monday Delore went to claim his
bride, but was unable to locate her.
He wants the police to assist him, as
he wants either the girl or his money.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
WORK ON THE ROAD.
More Italians Arrive and Dig MerriIy or
w. & W. r. r.

oxford, Oct. 91.--About 80 more ltal-
ians arrived today Cor work on the
electric road Ten or fifteen more are
expected tomorrow. The work on the
road is being rushed and the Plains
will probably be reached by Wednes-
day. A large number of drain pipes
have arrived and viii be used for
culverts. The Italians who arrived to-
day live in the building next to Ravens
tinshop.
Rev. c. L. Johnson, who has been
conducting the evangelistic services at
the North Church Tor the last two
weeks. left today for his home at Mel
rose Highlands.
There will be a union prayer meet~
ing at the Congregational Church next
Thursday evening.
A dog belonging to John WEIGH bit
the little daughter of Alfred Giard at
Howarth's this afternoon.
The ladies of the Methodist Church
met at the parsonage this evening to
plan for the dinner at the re-dedica-
ton, Nov. 9th.
Miss Flora Pope mas returned from
visit to Worcester and Milford
Miss Emily A. King, who has been
visiting in Southbridge, has returned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Eager Of West
sutton spent The day with w. Ii. Ea-
ger and family
Rev II. II. Brown has returned from
Webster.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
AT HOPE CHURCH.
Halloween Party and Organ Recital En-
joyed BY the Pensioners.

Halloween Party and Organ Recital En-
joyed BY the Pensioners.
A pleasant Hallowe' en- party and organ
recital was held at Hope Church last
evening, which was attended by large
and appreciative audience. The ex-
ercises opened with an address by Err
nest Maylott, chairman of the commit
tee in charge of the affair, followed by
an organ solo by Walter Merrill, in
Guiding selections from the cantata
Under the palm"
The program finished as follows:
Reading, How a man apologies"
Miss Izetta Parker; cornet solo, Miss
Eliza Smith; reading, "Papa's letter."
Miss Ethel Allison organ solo. "a
thanksgiving WISH" Mr.. Morrill, tenor
solo, IF the waters could speak as
they flow" w. II. Critchley; reading
THE crack mouthed family" Miss
Parker; cornet solo. Miss Smith; read
ing, "Katie's Thanksgiving visit" Miss
Allison; song, MY angel, my pride, :"
Harmony Quartet-W. Deacon W
Critchley, V. Critchley; organ solo, Mr.
Morrill,.
At the close of the concert ice cream
was served.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
JUST STARTED
New Engine in Chapel Mills Works Admi
rs blv


Leicester, Oct 31.-The new engine at
the Chapel mills was started for the
first time this afternoon. Steam has
been kept in the boiler for several days
and part of the machinery in the addi-
lions was connected with the shafting
in the old building and run Saturday
and today. All of the machinery is in
place, although all of the employees
who will work in the additions have not
arrived. The masonry work was COM
pleted today but quite a little carpen-
tering remains to be done. The 200
light dynamo, put in by Plummer,
Hamm & Richardson OF Worcester, will
furnish the light.
The Ladies' Sewing Circle Of the
Cherry Valley Methodist church will
go to Worcester on Tuesday and meet
at the home of Mrs. Charles Bryant of
Quincy street, who is member of
the organization. The Epworth League
will be guests of Mrs. Bryant in the
evening The ladies will meet at Mrs.
Bryant's home at O'Clock in the af-
ternoon.
The Leicester Topic Club will meet
with Mrs C. G. Stearns on Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o'clock.
1t is expected that the macadam road
bed on the fourth section of the state
highway viii be finished this week.
Miss Mary Ann Brennan of Cherry
Valley, who has had a number of hem
orrhages, is reported to be gaining.
She is attended by DR.. c. G. Stearns.
Mrs. J. Clarence Watson, Misses F.
Helen and Dorothy Watson, and
Dwight Watson, left today en- route
for Southern Pines, North Carolina.
A husking bee and barn dance, in
honor of Halloween, was held at the
residence of Alden e. Bacon on Mount
Pleasant this evening.
Miss Emma A. Mowry gave a Hal
lowe en- party to a party of friends at
her home on Main street this evening.
The usual games were enjoyed and
pleasant evening spent.
Mrs. c. B. Davidson is recovering
from an attack of tonstitis.
George Davidson is able to be out aft
ter having been confined to the house
with tonsilitis.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
trength to the belief that this was the

strength to the belief that this was the
case.
The officer was plainly disturbed at
the time and chewing nervously his
cigar gave Went to the remark, That's
what you get by using a man decent
ly." The principal exception taken by
Worcester officers to the course pur-
sued by Abbott, is that he should have
allowed his prisoner to remain at the
hotel after he had been informed that
his counsel, Col. w. A. Gile, could not
see him that night.
Just what Abbott's orders were and
the condition attending Reeds trip to
Worcester, are best told in the follow
ing interview held yesterday with
Warden Gen. Benjamin F. Bridges.
Reed said Gen. Bridges, was talk
en- to Worcester on a writ of habeas
corpus regularly made out and sent to
me in proper form He was going
there to be tried this morning, and this
was the fourth occasion on which Jas.
L, Abbott, my officer, had taken him
out for such purpose.
Il have always considered Abbott
one of my most trustworthy men. He
was the officer that was injured in the
fight with the Willis brothers at the
time of their attempted flight from the
guard room of the prison. He has been
with me some four or five years, and
came, 1 think, from Cambridge to the
service of the prison. l regard him as
a very ptucl1y officer, and thoroughly
reliable.
"He has been with Reed every time
the latter has been taken out for trial.
Reed was a model prisoner; one of the
best. He is very slick fellow 1t has
never been customary to send two men,
because one could handle the man east
ly, and Abbott. from his physique, was
amply able to take care of such a man
as Reed. even if the prisoner were dis
posed to make trouble.
Abbott and Reed left the prison in
season to take the 4 o'clock train for
Worcester from the Albany station.
Col. Giile had asked the privilege of a
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01


consultation with Reed, who was his
Client before the opening of the court
ON Monday morning. 1t would have
been difficult to have granted his re-
guest by taking Reed up to Worcester
on Monday and would have entailed
sending the prisoner off on the clock
morning train. l cautioned Abbott
when he left to remain with the pris-
oher at the hotel where Col. Gile was
10 meet him and to take him imme-
diately after to the Worcester county
jail for safe keeping till the court should
come in on Monday.
State Detective p. +. Murray has
taken no steps in the matter ae it is
a case for the state prison officials to
attend to- Detective Murray consid-
ers the action of Officer Abbott in
taking the prisoner to a hotel to pass
the night an almost unheard of pro-
ceeding. He agrees with other officials
that the only thing to have done un-
der the circumstances was to have
taken Reed to jail or police station.
Inspector ]. M. Dyson of the state
force and Mr.. Murray are agreed in
the opinion that the man lost no time
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
NO SIGN
Of the Bunco
Steerer.
FLIGHT A SUCCESS,
And There Is No Clue For
the officers to Follow.

Since news of the escape of John
Reed, the prince of bunco men, was
published yesterday morning, there has
been but one theme for discussion on
the streets of Worcester and the same
thing is equally true of other cities and
towns all over New England.
Reeds whereabouts are as much I'M
known quantity at the present time as
when his disappearance was first
known. In addition to the mans dis
appearance, exceedingly pointed stories
are in the air regarding the course pur-
sued by Officer Abbott, and while that
officer may be perfectly innocent of
any wrong doing or intention of wrong
doing, public opinion is strong that
there was something rotten in connec-
ton with the matter.
On the other hand, the fact that Of
ticer Abbott has taken Reed out of
prison on several different occasions
and invariably returned with his man
without the least suspicion of an at
tempt at escape may have made the Of
ficer over-confident
A remark dropped by officer Abbott
while at the Waldo street station house
early yesterday morning would lend
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
ALL SAINTS DAY.
Special Services in All of the Catholic
Churches of the City.

Today there will be special services
in all the Catholic churches of the city.
1t is All Saints day, day set apart
by the Catholic church as day of
prayer to commemorate the memory of
the saints canonized by the church
who have not a special day set apart
for their memory. There will be masses
at the usual hours, and in the evening
there will be benediction of the blessed
sacrament. At st. Johns Church there
will be a solemn high mass at Q
O'Clock,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
PEPPERED THE WINDOWS.

Serop Garabadian, Is years old, was
arrested last night. by officer Porter
of Station /, charged with breaking
glass. Young Garabadian had an air
gun and broke several panes of glass
in a house at the corner of Arch and
Orchard streets,
The house has been unoccupied for
some time, but a family moved In yes
terday. They were sitting in the dark
when a series of missiles from the boys
gun began to make the glass rattle.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
THE HORSE WAS GREEN,
And A. L. Haven Got Bad Throw as the
Result.

A. L. Haven, of the firm of Haven
Brothers, horse dealers, was thrown
from his buggy about o'clock last
night, and badly Injured. Mr. Haven
was driving a green and refractory
horse on Foster street, when the ami
NAL bolted for the side of the road and
went on to the sidewalk in front Of
the side entrance to the United States
Hotel.
The buggy collided with a stone post
and Mr.. Haven, with a young man who
occupied the buggy with him. was
thrown out, landing on the sidewalk
Mr.. Haven was unconscious for several
minutes, thoroughly bruised and shak-
en- up. He was removed to his home,
AZ Russell street.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
PRENTICE SAYS NAY.
Various Items of News From Village Of
WhitinsvilIe.

Whitinsville, Oct s1.-At the civil
session of the central district court at
worcester, Saturday, John D. Baird
sued Jerome " Prentice Of Whitins-
Vile to recover $S7. He alleges the de-
PENDANT owes him for plastering a
claims Baird was paid, and that his
work was poorly done
The republicans OF Northbridge will
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
ELECTION IN OHIO.
Hanna Sure That His Party viii be Veto
rious in That State.

Cleveland, o., Oct. Ex-senator NJ A.
Hanna, discussing the probable result
of the coming state election. said to-
be a falling off in the republican ma
jority iii Ohio from last years figures.
The reports from state committees are
very favorable, however, and 1 am sure
that the party will be victorious in this
state"
Senator Hanna said there was little
truth in the reports to the effect that
the national campaign would be opened
Immediately after the fall elections.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01

Dr. Bulls Cough syrup Will cure
throat and lung trouble without fail. For
grippe, influenza and deep-seated cough
or cold, it is the best remedy offered 10
the public The doses are small and a
bottle costs only 25c.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01

There was meeting last evening, in
Masonic hall, of the Montague lodge,
Masons, and after the regular business
had been transacted, period of So
liability was in order.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01
BROKE HER ARM.

Ellen Dempsey, So years old, Of Is
Endicott street, fell at her home, last
evening, breaking her right arm. She
was taken to the City Hospital, where
the fracture was reduced.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-01

prisoner to the state. When a man is
as valuable to the state as Reed was.
he would not think for moment of
letting his charge walk through the
streets without handouts, but would
have the prisoners own hands locked
together or locked to the officer in
charge.
Worcester deputies recall wildly the
appearance of Reed at the court Fri
day. Reed and officer Abbott chatted
pleasantly, and EN- route to and from
the court house the prisoner and officer
walked apart, and never did a pair of
handouts appear in sight. Worcester
county officers are always cautious
when big game Is at stake and this
freedom on Abbott's part struck them
with surprise. Abbott and Reed smoked
in the court corridor and seemed to be
mutually agreeable. So marked was
the confidence of officer Abbott that
one of the court deputies took occasion
to speak with him. He sug-
gested that he ought to exercise greater
Il was moved to do this because of
Reeds earnestness in declaring that he
was not guilty of the crime charged in
this instance and that he could prove
an alibi. but still more because Deputy
Fairbairn of Cambridge had told me
that two Of the men that claimed to
have been buncoed out of money had
been down to Cambridge to identify
Reed They had said that they could
tell him anywhere, but when Fairbairn
produced the prisoner among five or six
other men they failed to pick him out.
Two witnesses from Cambridge
would have testified in this had Reed
come to trial today. He wrote to two
others in New York to come on and
prove his alibi, but they never came.
The only stranger that visited him
within the past few days was a man
who came with another from Cam
bridge, but it is entirely unlikely that
he was a confederate in the case. Reed S
wife has been IN communication with
him, though. She has visited him, and
she went to Worcester to be at the trial.
She was at the hotel when Abbott
The Somerset reporter., 1898-07-28
Worth Considering

In an article, little lengthy and gen
eral for our columns, written by a lady
of North Arson, we take the liberty
to clip the following:
Perhaps in rural districts, where the
population is scattered over large areas,
the term neighbor has broader signif-
canoe than in the closely packed city.
Here neighbor may mean person who
lives miles away. Among such people
there is feeling of friendliness which
leads to many an act of brotherly kind
ness, and the spirit of sacrifice for an
hers good is not lacking. Perhaps
these unobstrusive deeds may be reck-
oned of greater account by the Heav-
emily Father, than the more conspicu.
Gus gifts of money donated by the
thriving merchant of large town.
This bond of goodwill and common
interest manifested by country people
may sometimes be strained too far and
become source of discomfort rather
than pleasure. 1t is no unusual thing
for an entire family, (no small thing
when you count the children) to start
betimes on fine day, and take a drive
ten miles or more to spend the day
with neighbor. This may disarrange
all the plans of the household which
they visit. The women of the family
may be obliged to spend great part of
the day in the hot kitchen. cooking
meals for the proper entertainment
of their selfinvited guests, and have
but scant time to enjoy any sociable
intercourse. While they might be hap
Ply at a suitable time to receive such a
visit, yet it is seldom that large unsol-
icited additions to the family circle are
desirable. Another time some distant
relative arrives unexpectedly, at an
inconvenient season, maybe, and re-
mains a visitor day after day, and week
after week, never intimating how long
she will stay or when she will go. And
how can one protest. 1t would bring
the virtuous Indignation of the whole
community down upon the devoted
heads of a family who openly objected
to such visitations. And yet would
not little more neighborly love sug-
gest to the visitor that consideration
for the comfort of ones friends is one
way of applying the Golden Rule?
The Somerset reporter., 1898-07-28

Again bill has been introduced at
Albany providing, with few excep-
tions, that wild birds shall not be kill
ed. Also no person is to expose for sale
or have in his or her possession or wear
the wings, feathers or plumage of said
bird, the fine for violation of which
will be $25.
Although the masculine pronoun is
allowed in the wording of the bill, it is
a blow aimed directly at the feminine
heart and vanity, both closely linked.
The Audubon society has gained sym
pathizers among the men, it seems, in
its crusade against wearing bird trim
mings on headgear.
To the women who have voluntarily
renowned this worldly vanity the pass
ing of the bill would mean nothing, I'M
less it might be a pleasant sensation of
victory gained. But to the average
woman, whose heart sinks to the toes of
her dainty boots at the mere thought, it
would denote real calamity. 1t is a
known fact among authorities i'll mil
linery that nothing gives such an air of
style to Il hat as "a bird or wings.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-07-28

1t is with what appears to be genuine
regret that the men regard our ascot
ties. "Oh, if women only dressed their
necks in the simple fashions of their
grandmothers |" one of them murmured
the other day. "These great neckties,
like so MANY huge plasters which la
dies wear nowadays are unwomanly. "
But they are smart. Dress our necks
as our grandmothers did The woman
who did it would attract crowd Our
grandmothers had no standing collars
whatever upon their dresses. They wore
little narrow white embroidered pieces
fatty about tops of collarless waists.
These white strips were fastened III
front with huge cameo pin.
Every woman now has n high collar
concealing her throat, except with even
ing full dress. Let woman step upon
Broadway with her neck low like her
simple grandmother's and the prone
naders would think they saw burlesque
actress. New York Press.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-07-28

The ambitious students at Smith are
in large majority. They are of two
classes and between the two gulf is
set. The members of the one known as
"grinds" OF digs have hunger for
facts as intense as Ia miser's for gold.
Their delight is in acquisition, and
whether they work individually or
gregariously notebooks flank them on
every side. They pack their brains As
they would dress suit case, and the
future they view only as an opportuni
ty of gathering yet more degrees. They
have their reward but the student who
gets her knowledge by using it is the
peculiar JOY Of the college She regards
her notebook as point of departure,
also conventional pleasures. Groups Of
such girls are the direct cause of the
originality, freshness and healthfulness
of undergraduate amusements. Alice
Katharine Fallows i'll Scribner's.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-07-28

A novelty in wicker furniture is a
wide chair or narrow settle, as you elect
to describe it,
1t has very high back and is evil
IDENTIFY modelled after the high English
draft chairs that are popular in many
drawing rooms.
The new standings of wicker furniture
combine almost every tint known, with,
however, the sealing wax red and the
forest green still much in evidence.
The durability and cleanliness of the
wicker furniture is adding markedly to
its use as all around service, while the
possibility of relieving it with pillows
and cushions brings it within the limit
of upholstered comfort.
The Somerset reporter., 1898-07-28

ence. Itrelieves the condition that pro-
duces SO much discomfort and robs men,
situation of it's terrors. Here is proof:
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-IIow can l
thank you enough for what you have
done for me2 When wrote to you |
was suffering untold pain at time of
menstruation; was nervous, lad head
ache all the time. no appetite, that tired
feeling, and did not care for anything.
/ have taken three bottles of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, one
of Blood Purifier, two boxes of Live r
Pills, and to-day l am well person.
would like to have those who suffer
know that am one Of the many who
have been cured of female complaints
by your wonderful medicine and advice
Miss JENNIE r. MILES. Leon, Wis.
Ifyou are suffering in this way, write
as Miss Miles did to Mrs. Pinkham at
Lynn, Mass, for the advice which she
offers free of charge to all women.