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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-06
HELD AT BOSTON.
Grand Reunion of Former South
bridge Residents.
Promoters Show Hustle Acquired In
Optical Town and Surprise Them
selves-other Notes.

southbridge, Feb. 5.-A few weeks ago
four former residents Of Southbridge,
but now full fedged Bostonians, con-
ceived the idea of bringing all their old
townspeople who now make Boston their
home, together for sort of reunion,
and last evening nearly 1870 persons re-
sponded to the call and enjoyed their
first annual dinner at the United States
Hotel, Boston.
The attendance was very evenly di-
vfded between the sexes, and Messrs.
Bulfnch, Cakes, Wells and Martin, the
promoters, who had figured on about 80
persons, We're most agreeably surprised.
Prayer was offered by Rev, Frank
Mcguire. Albert w. Martin was chair
man and POSTMASTER.
Vocal and instrumental music was
contributed by Miss Nellie Dean, Miss
Beryl B. Cakes Miss Florence ]. King,
Miss Rosalie Morse, Misses Dean and
Simmons and Miss Florence P. Cakes.
Speeches were made by Mr.. George M.
Whitaker, Mr. F. H. Dean Of Hyde Park,
DR. Bulfnch Mr.. Edward Kavanaugh
and Mr. George H. Mellen.
The credit of making the first social
venture a great success is largely due to
! LIE TGCGD <Oil COillilllIlCGf Wl4lCll NO4AA
prised Mrs. James j. Cakes, DIR. G.. G..
Bulfnch, chairman. Mrs. G. G, Bulfinch,
Mr.. James j. Cakes, Mrs. Albert w.
Martin, Mr. Edwin p Wells, Mrs. Ed
win P. Wells, Mr.. Albert w. Martin,
About 40 of the young friends of Miss
Ethel NJ Tiffany called at her home
last evening laden with good things
to eat and gave that young lady one of
the biggest surprises of her life. She
nd
ceeded to entertain her guests in a
manner that made them all pass a very
happy evening.
LOCAL BOWLING.
The Y, NJ. C. A. team scored another
victory over Dresser's team in the bowl
ing contest last night in the match for
the silver trophy cup. The Y NJ G. a.
team now leads by 232 pins, and there is
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-06
COMING QUESTIONS
Paid Police and Sewer Matters
at Spencer.
Both Questions Being Considered Favor
ably by Many citizens-R Respect
Shown Mr.. Bacon.

Spencer, Feb. 5.--There is likely to be
several items of more than usual i'm
portance to be discussed at the annual
town meeting. There is a growing SEN
timent in favor of paid police force in
town that has been increased by recent
events, such as the two or three at
tempts at burglary Should there really
be a movement for a paid police in
Spencer, the first thing to be done
would be to call special town meet
ing, previous to the annual meeting, to
see If the town would vote to make the
change. 1t is understood that MAORI
~ of the present board of selectmen are
IN favor of the scheme, because they
believe that better results could be OBJ
tanned in the enforcement of the liquor
law. tsJust how to handle the matter of
the enforcement of the liquor law with
an, elected police has for a long time
been a hard problem for the selectmen
TO solve. If a system of bounties-a
given sum for each conviotion-is es-
laollshed, the officers are accused of
trying to convict innocent parties. When
the selectmen have proposed to pay
the eonstables by the hour for time
ttNa--N - WV iAiAlso "a GASES, THEY lfllll
that sometimes enormous bills have
been presented by officers who have ac-
complished nothing. With a raid police
who would be appointed by the select
men, and removed for cause, they think
better results would be obtained, and
both the police and selectmen less liza
BILE to criticism.
%he sewer question is also likely to
demand attention, as there is the sec
ton of the town east Of the summit of
Main street, as well as Linden, College
and other Streets that are yet unpro-
Vided for In order to construct a
sewer for these streets which will reach
the sewage disposal plant, the pipe will
have to be run through private proper
ty much of the distance, and it is pro-
posed to follow substantially The course
of the brook from Cherry street to Muz-
~ Meadow pond, and thepce through
Adams street. 1t is urged that for san
itary reasons this question cannot long
be delayed
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08
DISCOVERED BY A WOMAN.

Another great discovery has been
made, and that, too, by q lady in this
country. Disease fastened its clutches
upon her and for seven years she with
stood its severest tests, but her vital or.
gans We're undermined and death seem
ed imminent. For three months she
coughed necessarily, and could not sleep.
She finally discovered way to recov-
cry, by purchasing of us bottle of
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Con
sumption, and was so much relieved
on taking first dose that she slept all
night; and with two bottles has been
absolutely cured. Her name is Mrs
Luther LtItz." Thus writes w. G..
Hamrick g. CO., of Shelby, n. G. Trial
bottles free at any drug store. Regu-
lar sizes soc. and $1.00; every bottle
guaranteed
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08
PERSONALS.

Mrs. A. NJ. McPheters left yesterday
afternoon for New York. on visit tc
her daughter. Mrs. s. NJ Inman.
MIR. l.. II. Myers, who is sick at Re,
Hospital. is reported better and it j,
thought that he will be out again soon
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Myers. who have
been here visiting relatives, left for their
home in Charleston, s. C., yesterday
afternoon.
MIR. n. j. Ridd:ck. clerk of the Cir.
cult court, has been quite sick for seve.
raj days but was reported as improving
yesterday.
Mrs. McCullers. Of Richmond. is IL
the city visiting her parents. Mr.. ans
Mrs. Jacob S. Allen, Sr. She came
attend the marriage of her brother YES
terday to Miss Shive'y.
Mr.. N. r. Broughton has returned
from Washington. where he has beer
conducting revival. The Washington
Messenger says: "He is man q
Quite number protested faith in Chris
The meeting has been greatly enjoyed
and largely attended. We hope to SCI
Mr.. Broughton here again. He has ac
complished lasting good in our midst"
Miss Mamie Clements, Of Morrisyille
left yesterday TO attend the spring ses.
sion of the Conservatory of Music al
Oberltn, Ohio. 1t is said to be one OF
the best conservatorys of music to be
found. Miss Clements graduated last
June with honors at Elon College in the
literary department, completing the
course in music at the same time. She
has good musical talent, and expects
TO make it specially.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08
CITY IN BRIEF.

CONFERENCE.-T second quarter
" conference will be held in Epwortl
Chapel Sunday night. Presiding Elder
DIR. T.. A. Yates, will be present.
MIKADO-Those who are to take
part in the fan drill and baby song ant
dance are requested to meet at the
home of Miss McPheeters, at 10 O'Clock
Saturday morning.
RESERVED SEATS.-Parties who
have purchased tickets to the Mikadc
can have them reserved to-day without
charge at w. III. King & Co.'S. The
box-sheet opens this morning.
BAR TO MEET.-The members OF
the Raleigh Bar are requested to meet
in the court room on Friday evening
at o'clock to arrange a calendar for
April term Wake Superior court.
DIED.-Yesterday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock the infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. w. Ray died at their residence. or
South Bloodworth street. The chile
was three months and six days old
EASTER SERVICE-Sun after
noon at 3 o'clock there will be a join
Easter service of the Brooklyn and Ep
worth Methodist churches. of which
Rev. IT, H.. Balm is pastor. in the Brook
lyn church. Rev. DIR. w. c. Norman
will deliver an address.
BROTHERHOOD chapter o
st. Andrews Brotherhood of the Churc,
Of the Good Shepherd elected the fol
lowing delegates Wednesday night to tin,
Interstate Convention in Henderson Ma,
18Th: Messrs r. III. Battle. i. T. Ward
w. w. Robards. A. J. Field and alter
mates Nessrs. J. G. Ball. w. T. An
drews, III. B. Greason and w. e. Eos
ter
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08

Taffeta Silk parasols. in checks,
plaids and changeable; also complete
line of plain white China and childrcn's
Parasos.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08

Synopsis of the Weather. low area
is about to disappear off the New Eng
land coast, while a similar area has made
its appearance in the northwest. The
pressure in Raleigh is slightly lower
and the temperature slightly higher.
Cool weather all over the country, eX-
cept the northwest, where it is becoming
rapidly warm. the temperature at Bis
marck having risen 20 degrees in "a
hours.
The weather is generally clear, but
Norfolk, Kansas City and a few other
places report cloudy weather.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08
Shirt Waist EXtra-FOrty
nine Cents.

We have arranged one table of shirt
waists. sizes 81 to 3S, mostly 81. They
are made of Madras, Lawns, Percals
and some White Dimities. I he values
are 70. So and 81, but will DC closed IT
one price
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08

A little boy asked for a bottle OF "get
up in the morning as fast as you can, .
the druggist recognized household
name for .'DeWitt's Little Early
Risers," and gave him bottle Of those
famous little pills for constipation, sick
headache, liver and stomach troubles.
Heartt & Heart.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08
BUCKLEN'S ARNIOA SALvE

The best salve in the world for cuts.
bruises sores, ulcers, salt rheum. fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin erupions. and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. II
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price % cents peg
box. For sale by all druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08
TARHEEL APPOINTMENTS.
Mr.. Denney is Appointed Engineer ant
Mr.. Whitfield, Assistant Inspector.

Washington, d. c., April 7.-(Special.,
appointments in North Carolina have
been made as follows: George w. Den
ny, engineer Drummond ShOal light
vessel, and Levy II. Whitfield, assistant
inspector of dredging at Port Royal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08
Fetching Ribbons.

An attraction for to-day is an ail-silk
Taffeta Ribbon, Az inches wide, in all
the choicest of the pretty colprs. for
dress trimming, millinery, sasbes ana
neckwear,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08
THE WEATHER IU-UAY.

For North Carolina: Fair weather:
northerly winds.
Local forecast for Raleigh and vicinity
to O'Clock tonight: Fair weather.
Local data for Raleigh: Maximum
temperature, SO: minimum temperature
"a: mean, A; rainfall, @ inches.
The following table gives data at Sc
lected stations at 8 o'clock p. m. yes
low
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08
GONE HOME FOR EASTER.

Quite a number of st. Mary's girls
left yesterday for their homes to spend
Easter. Others will go to-day.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08

Nothing cures aches and pains as
quick as Goose Grease Liniment. Guar
anteed by all druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-08
NEW ADvER TlSEMENTS.

w. f. JONES-New Easter Novelties.
w. z. RATCHELOR-Valu City
Property for Sale.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20

reokoned as we'll as the cost of keeping
their people in subsection or of governing
them. Being at long distance from this
country and completely surrounded by
water should war break out with a strong
forei IN power it would be practically i'm
possible to transport to them. with the
possible exception of Porto Rico, either
troops or munitions of war, unless we
had very large navy. For that reason
troops enough must be Kept in them not
only to pres erye order but TO meet the
contingency Of an attack by a strong
European power-a contingency which
will not be very remote when we have be-
come world power, and become entan-
glea as we inevitably shall, in foreign
rivalries and quarrels. Furthermore In
preparation for such a contingency
Hawaii and Porto Rico and all the prin-
Opal islands of the Philippines group
must be strongly fortified. Bat that is
not all. We must have a navy big enough
to protect our extensive home sea coast,
and be able at the same time to break
any blockade chat nation with which
we may be at war may establish around
the great ports of our colonial possessions.
When we become world power appro-
priations for the defen g of our colonies
will cut pretty large figure in our an
nual budget.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20
A LIMERICK WILL CASE.

Biddeford. Decem Der l9.-J. W. Small
of Saco. oo-executor of the will of Joseph
Holland Of Limerick, has petitioned the
probate court for the removal of j. w.
Holland of Byfeld, Mass, the other ex-
eoutor, because he has not filed a $4,000
bond as required and because of methods
which he opposes insists ara contrary to
the intent and provisions of the will. He
expects an answer in few days. The
property is the wooden manufacturing
plant of the late Mr.. Holland at Holland
Vile in Limerick, together with land aud
other property of various natures, in.
ventoried over 10000. j. W. Holland has
gone contrary to agreement. Mr.. Small
says, and he has waited two years for
him to qualify as executor. The property
has been advertised for sale for several
weeks but on each date set Mr.. Small
says he has failed to come qualified to do
business. Mr.. Small has adjourned the
proposed sale indefinitely till MIR. Hol'
lands case is settled.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20

When Dewey was ordered to destroy the
Spanish fleet in the Pacific neither the
administration nor anybody else dreamsd
of establishing permanent Am erican SOW
ereignty in the Philippines. When the
protocol was signed such a policy had
dawned upon the administration, but it
was far from being accepted and approved.
It was the supposed discovery of a popular
voice for the perm anent acquisition OF
the islands that finally led the admins
tration to iustrua 5ae commissioners to
demand their unconditional surrender
TO the United States. The policy adopted
IN regard to the Philippines cannot
properly be called President McKinley's
policy. There is plenty of evidence that
1t was never really to his liking and is
not now. He has yielded his own ideas to
what he believes to be popular de-
mand
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20
COMPLIMENT FOR PORTLAND MAN
New York World


No one has ever seriously questioned
Speaker Reeds reputation as the best
man at repartee in the House. But the
fact is if it were not for the prompter
who sits at thu Speakers right every
hour of the session, the Speaker would
not be able at all times to maintain his
reputation. The Speaker can hold his
own and some one else's too in any pas.
sage-at- words, but with the assistance of
his clerk, who is walking encyclopaedia
of parliamentary law and procedure, he is
impregnably intrenohed. The Speaker S
clerk, who has been fixture in the House
for many years, is paid to do precisely
what he does--prompt the Speaker. And
an acknowledgements" he is, too.
When Jerry Simpson and Ham Lewis
and other of Mr. Reeds assailants throw
a bonn bshell at the Speakers rostrum It
is always hurled back with redoubled
force. If the Speaker is not ready with
an attack that will make Ham or Jerry
"hunt tall timbsr'' the clerk hastily, but
SO slyly that only the close observer sees,
passes up the necessary twelve or fourteen
inch shell for The Speaker to fire. The
discharge loses none of It's effect for the
mcmentary delay.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20

If the Paris treaty in its present form is
ratified we shall have on our hands the
Philippine islands, Hawaii, and Porto
Rico Henoeforth they will be a part
of our dominion. whether they be an
uexed AS territories or treated as dependent
colonies, and it will be as incumbent upon
rs to defend them against attack and
seizure by a foreign power as if
they were contiguous to our present terri
tory, for to lose them in war with a
foreign power would be as much of a
humiliation as to lose Florida. In any
estimate of the cost OF owning these is
lands, the cost of defending them is to be
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20

1t is said the Mexican government will
invite the Spanish soldiers who are soon
10 leave Cuba, to settle in Mexico, offer
ing as inducement to furnish them land
and farming tools to be paid for in in
stallments
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20

Ex-senator Edmunds thinks that poly
gamy must sooner or later be forbidden
by constitutional amendment as slav-
cry was, If we want to get rid of it. Utah
promised to forbid 1t, and did insher con-
stitution, but while she observes the letter
of the promise. she breaks its spirit by
sending a man with two or three wives
to represent her in the National house.
Evidently the prohibition of polygamy
will become dead letter, if it has not
already.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20
SCARLET FEVER AT LIVERMORE
FALLS

Livermore Falls, December 19.-Dur-
ing the last few days several cases OF
scarlet fever have developed in this town
and much anxiety prevails as the disease
is spreading. Every precautionary meas
ure is being used, the victims being
placed under quarantine, and the village
schools ordered closed for two weeks.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20

1t would be strange thing for the Leg
islalure to unite two towns as rig as
Portland and South Portland without
first asoertaining the opinions of ma
Jority CT tbs residents OF both of them. 1t
would be an unwise thing. too. We pre-
dict the legislature won't do any such
fhinr
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20

Senator Gray. one of the American CON-
Inissiopezs. is said to condemn the para
graph of the treaty concerning the Philip
pines. He viii vote for the ratification
II The treaty as whole, however, and
tlen propose either to return the Philip
pines to spain or to declare them free ard
independent.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20

Gen. Merritg says what q military gov
ernor OF tbs Philippines should do is ''to
make the fairest possible changes, respect
the habits, methods of thought and re-
isxion of The people and give than an
aSsolutely honest government = Good
advice, undoubtedly, if we are going to
hid the islands, but very difficult we
Imagine, TO follow.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20

Rear Admiral Dewey expresses the
opinion that the Filipaos are better fitted
for independence than the Cubans. We
are going to give it to the latter, why not
then to the former?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20
DEATH OF DIR. PATTON OF SHOW
HEGAN.

a skowhegan, December 19--Dr. S. A.
Patton died at his home here today as the
result of paralytic shock received Sat
urday He was 70 years old and was
graduated from Harvard Medical school
class of '4s and began practice in Monson
in 1850. He was twice elected to the
Maine Senate.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20

The Kennebeo journal says the Augusta
newspaper correspondents are unanimous
in disclsiming responsibility for the Bos-
ION Herald's story that there would be
opposition to the reelection of Senator
F3aIa
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-12-20

When President Mckinley says we
have no home problems to solve, it looks
to US as if he was altogether too optimis-
tic. His Own message revealed one of a
good deal of Importance, namely, the
currency problem. Then there is the
problem of making our revenues equal
our expenditures which looks rs if it
might prove somewhat knotty one.