The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-29
ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
Ladies of Leicester Church Read Reports
and ect.

Leicester, Dec. 28.-The annual bust
ness meeting of the Ladies' Charitable
Society was held this afternoon in the
vestry, and at 6 o'clock a reception was
given to Rev. and Mrs. D. C. Reid. The
officers of the society for the ensuing
year will be: President, Mrs. P. T. Den
ney; vice president, Mrs. David c. Reid
secretary, Mrs. Louisa Knight; treas
urer, Miss Laura H. Stone; directresses
Tor one year, Mrs. Thomas S. Snow,
Mrs.J. Q. Jordan, Mrs. j. P. Ashley; di-
rectresses for two years, Mrs. A. S.
Gonant, Mrs. Robert Gould, Mrs. David
reeves; buying committee, Mrs. Milo
Bolton and Mrs. Braman Grout.
AFTER the reception, the ladies fur
nlshed supper to all members of the
parish>who could attend. Letters of re-
gret were received from Rev. and Mrs.
a. II. Coolidge, Miss Mary Coolidge. ].
Harvey Curtis, Miss c. T. Burr Theo-
dore WoodcOck and Mrs. Merritt Vince
Ter of Worcester; Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel
Craig OF Rochdale Mrs. Emily Holman
and Mrs. S. E. Knight of Cherry VAL
icy, cyrus D. Howard, Oxford; Mrs.
w. 7. Brown of Rutland. George A.
Marsh of Waterville, Me: w. j. Denny
OF Lowell; George A. Denny of Phila-
delphia; Mrs. Flora Davis, Mrs. Kath-
crime Dutton and Mr.. and Mrs G. g.
Marsh of Leicester.
Rev. D. c. Reid gave an outline of
| his plan to make more of the annual
business meeting after the supper had
peen finished and the reports of the
| various officers read and approved. The
report OF the secretary showed the ad-
dltlon of three new members during the
year with a loss of 10 through death.
Ihe report of the treasurer. David
Bemls, showed balance of over $3.50 in
the treasury. The report of the Sunday
school showed 10 members added and
II lost by death, a net loss of seven. The
sunday school treasurer has a balance
OF $5O.96. The reports of the Y. p s
{. e., the Woman's Foreign Missionary
society and the Ladies' Charitable So
ciety showed that the organization had
done considerable work during the
year.
The roll call of members was real bv
George q. Currier, and the letters of
regret from the absent were read as
their names were called Hon. C. A.
Denny made a happy speech upon the
Past, present and future" and Mrs.
hatherlne Circuit gave short remarks
in behalf of the absent members.
Out OF town members present were:
Miss Lucy Clifford of Boston, Mrs. Lorv
>. Watson, Myron Watson, Mrs. John
Woodcock from Worcester, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. F, Palmer and Miss Edna T.
rainier of Northboro, Mrs. T. Hovey
shepard Of Winchester, Rev. Albert
| warren from Lake Benton, Mimi. An
drew Gibson and wife, Andover.
Blsco's orchestra gave several selec-
tlons during the evening. Rev. d. c.
Reld' Braman Grout and John D. Rid
dell We're chosen nominating commit
ice ice Tor the SO officers, to report next
| Wednesday night.
Peter Rice of Cherry Valley and Miss
Mary A. Trainor of Worcester were
married at St Josephs church at 3.30
o'clock this afternoon by Rev. J. r.
itedlcan. Miss Jane Trainor, a sister
OF the bride, was the bridesmaid and
John Rice a cousin of the groom, was
the best man. The bride wore LIGHT
blue thibet, trimmed with swansdoWn,
and .he bridesmaid was attried in the
same cloth, but without the trimming.
The happy couple left for a weeks
wedding trip in New York Immediately
after the ceremony Mr.. Rice is en-
gineer at the Chapel mills in Cherry
Valley, and will commence housekeep-
ing on Church street, where d reception
Will be given on their return. There
were numerous presents.
The Glover Whist Club recently sent
bouquet of cut flowers to their pres
ident, Mrs. Helen f. Pfaffman, at the
city hospital.
N. Eugene Drury has returned to
Cherry Valley from Worcester, wehe
he has been sick.
The e. M. Bond Ice Company COM
menced work cutting ice on Sargent's
pond today. The ice is about a foot
thick. and of a very good quality
John OGara commenced work cut
ting ice on Spencer pond this morn
ing, and will fill his new house on
Waite's pond after that job is done.