The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-20

PLANS UNDER WAY.
Many Residents Have Al
ready Ordered Phones.

Grafton, Oct 19.--Unless some unreal
sonable objection arises, Grafton is to
have central telephone station in the
near future. This is made certain by
a request from the New England Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company for a
permit to erect poles on Upton and
| South streets, which has been received
! by Francis e. Huckins, chairman of
| the board of selectmen Mr.. Huckins
and many others were much surprised
to know that the company had secured
enough subscribers to warrant putting
up a new line
An agent of the company was in
town some time ago. but little was said
| whether he had secured the desired
number of subscribers or not, and even
some of those who said they would
have instruments put in if line was
extended through their street were sur
| prlsed when told that they would soon
have that opportunity
The exchange will be located in John
p. McClellan's office, which is now the
only public station in town Accord
ing to the request for franchise, the tel
ephone company intends to erect the
line as soon as the necessary prelimin-
aries are gone through.
FARMERS CLUB ELECTS.
The annual meeting of the
Grafton Farmers club was held
in the court room last evening.
The following officers were elected after
the reading and accepting of the va
rious reports: President, John A.
Sweetser; vice president, Perley Cod
dardi secretary, David L. Fiske; treas
urer, Russell Tinker Librarian, David
L. Fiske; Crockery committee, James
Carney; and an executive committee
composed of the following: John E..
Mcclellan, Charles L. Pratt, A. A. Sim
mons, George B. Inches, Charles Cod
dard Cyrus r. Axtell Albert Bradish,
Willard p Knight, Charles F. Rice,
George w Peters and Charles Lingley.
The members present talked over
plans for the winter and voted to have
discussions at half the meetings of the
club, the topics being of general in
terest to the farmers, and at the al
ternate meetings to have an address
similar to those given by Messrs. Sim
mons and Usher last year. The ar
engagements were left in the hands of
the executive committee An institute
VIII be held in January or February.
BY vote of the club, the following are
to be invited to become members: Geo.
y Leayens, H. L. Leavens, John Cha
pm, Jr., John Chaplin, Sr., John l..
Bishop and William O. Burns.
Miss Alice Harrington will receive
her dancing pupils at Grange hall Sat.
urday afternoon of this week, at :
| o'clock
Lafayette day was celebrated at the
center grammar school this afternoon
MI Frederick Waterman was present
as an invited guest, who had seen La
fayette. Mr.. Waterman is now 80 years
old.
THIS PEAR is A MONSTER.
Hon. George K Nichols ex-
| hibited pear at the meet
| ing which is far ahead of anything that
has been seen in Grafton this season
1t is Sheldon pear, weighing 221b oun-
ces, and measuring 1SA inches in cir
cumference, that being the measure
ment made by The Spy man. Aside from
being a monster in size, the pear is a
perfect specimen of the Sheldon. being
well rounded out at the bud end, and
Their is hardly a flaw to be seen in its
cover. The tree on which it grew is
located a few feet from Mr. Nichols
house, and is an old one. This year il
yielded about a peck in ALL the most
of the fruit being smaller than the av-
erage, with two or three extra large
ones. Mr.. Nichols says the tree has
bore a few large specimens each year
but has never before equalled the pro-
duct on exhibition last night.
THE ELMS ARE SCARCE.
Although no agreement has yet been
made by the seleetmen and the Con-
solidated Street Railway Company rel
'ative to the elms at the foot of Worces-
ter street, it was learned from the
chairman of the board of selectmen to-
day that the track will, in all probab-
| ility, be laid outside of the row of trees
and on private land. This will necessi-
tate the purchasing of a small piece
of land belonging to Horace Warren.