Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-22
LEICESTER.


w. C. T. U. ANNUAL MEETING.
The 21st annual meeting of the w. C. T.
U. was held in the First Congregational
Church Friday. Mrs. Ruth B. Baker,
state corresponding secretary, spoke
briefly. An engraving of the temperance
temple was presented by Mrs. Harrington
and accepted by the secretary. The fol-
lowing delegates were appointed for the
county convention at Spencer, Jan. 2S:
Ida Warren, Flora Davis, Katherine Full
Ter. Mary Gould. Ada Bigelow, N. Seaver,
D. c. Reid, Katherine Grout,. Clara Bry-
ant, Ellen Snow, Mrs. David Bemis, Mary
Williams, Misses. Sarah Young, Bertha
Smith, Alice Guilds, Adeline May. The
following officers were elected for the
coming year: President. Mrs. Myra Tay-
Mrs. Katharine Grout Mrs. Margaret Lo-
gan, Mrs. Mary White, Miss Sarah
Young; secretary, Mrs. Katharine, f.
Fuller; treasurer. Mrs. Mary. S. Jordan
superintendent of departments, scientific
temperance instruction. Miss Adeline May,
Mrs. Kate e. Grout, Mrs. Agnes Cutting,
Mrs. Margaret Logan; literature, Mrs:
Myra Taylor; social purity ana mothers
Reid; L. T. l.. and mercy, Mrs. Flora w.
Davis, Miss Mary Ashworth; franchise,
Mrs 4. w. Harrington, Mrs, s. a. Wat
son; flower mission, Mrs. M. A. Howard,
Miss Sarah Young; coffee for tiremen,
Mrs. Mary Could S. S. work, Mrs. EN-
ma Warren; narcotics, Mrs Katherine Eat! 4rl
tha Smith; evangelistic, Mrs. Maydana
Marsh; press work, Mrs. Sarah A. Wat
son; entertainment, one year, Mrs. Stella
Robinson, Mrs. George Munroe, Mrs: Clara
Bryant; two years, Mrs. Mary Williams,
Mrs. Emma Warren, Miss Carrie Crane.
A NEW FIRE WHISTLE.
An electro-mechan!cal whistle, to give
this, fire alarm at the power station will be
put in by the fire department as soon as
possible. The machine arrived Friday
night from the Gamewell Fire Alarm Tel
egraph Company of New York. Seven
different signals will be given. Each sig.
nal will be repeated four times, and it will
sound for three minutes. The town has
been divided into fve districts, and the
signals have been arranged as follows:
No school s; Leicester east, from Grove
street to Waite street, 16; Leicester west,
Grove street to Spencer line %; Cherry
Valley. "a; Lakeside and Mannville, 49,;
Rochdale and Greenville, So; out of town,
81. The new system, m, viii go INTO @ erect
be a trial Of the whistle every morning at
a. m. as usual.
SICK HORSE SHOT.
A horse in a delivery wagon of F. e.
Dowd's grocery was taken with the colic
Friday noon in front of the blacksmith
shop in Cherry Valley, and had to be
shot.
HEN THIEVES AT WORK.
Andrew O'Connell lost a number Of hens
early Friday morning by thieves. The
men were chased some distance. but es-
capped.
Friends of Miss Matte Holden of VAL
ley Falls surprised her last night and pre-
sented to her gold ring.
Thomas Olney, with two friends from
fiuI7i oh fto
at Turkey Hill pond, Wednesday, and
caught a string Of II pickerel that weighed
81 pounds.
The topic on which the pastor will
speak at the Unitarian Church Sunday
vial be. "Is it lawful to give tribute unto
Caesar?"
Sunday morning Rev. T. C. Martin will
speak upon 1.-THE law of liberty by which
we shall be judged" Instead of a SER
mon the pastor will read a story entitled
Unconditional surrender" at 7.3G