The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-02
BIG TIME.
The Parade at
w ebster.
EVENING BANQUET.
Fully One Thousand Per-
sons to Be in Line.

tomorrow night, and the parade will
be probably the largest even seen in
any of southern Worcester county
towns, while the reception in Music
hall following the parade will be of
note. A banquet to follow the enter
tainment will be held at odd Fellows
hall.
The line of march will be from the
railroad station onto Main street to the
Merino stone bridge, countermarching
to South Village and return to Music
hall. A special train will arrive from
Southbridge bearing Company K and
guests at $50 O'clock, and upon it's ar
rival the parade Will form as quickly
as possible.
FREQ A. Wellington will lead the pro-
cession as chief marshal and his aids
are II. H. Brown, Gilbert Osborne and
Sidney X. Bartlett. The German band
viii follow, then the Grand Army boys
as an escort for Company X, followed
by the different organizations and the
st. Baptiste and st. Joseph's bands.
From present indications, as all the
societies in town have resolved to parti-
cipate in the parade, there Will be near
ly 1000 in the line. Any citizen can
march. The squad of newspaper men
will sport plug hats and canes.
The various committees are hard at
work today in completing the arrange
ments and all of the minor details
which are still uncertain will be per-
fected tomorrow forenoon. Citizens re-
siding along the line of march and bust
ness men in their stores, have already
commenced decorating their homes and
store windows. On Thursday evening
a similar parade and reception will be
held in Southbridge, and Webster will
assist.
Judge Bartholomew faced a quota of
hungry, weary woe begone "hoboes'
when he assumed his judicial capacity
in the local district court this fore
noon.
The picture that presented itself was
well worthy the pen of an artist. There
were all sorts of nationality. and all
sorts of good excuses, but the judge
wore his wicked eye today, and he fined
them all
Lawrence Cannon of Westerly, r. l.,
and Jerry Early of New Bedford, after
INDUCING in a half-pint of alcohol, Sun
day afternoon, had a regular ''set-to'
on the railroad station platform at
North Webster. After decorating each
others eyes, they made a great dis
turbance until officer John Sullivan
| placed them in the lookup But the
| lookup was not reached without consid-
cradle trouble for the officer, and he
was ultimately obliged to call for as
sistance. They each pleaded guilty
and were fined IS each
John Lynch of Waterbury, CT, paid a
81 fine for drunkenness The follow
ing DRINKS We're each fined SO: James
Riley of Westerly, r. l., Mike Monigan
of Northbridge, while James Burns of
Fall River, Daniel Mitchell of New
Bedford, William DAILY of ST. John, N.
B., and Thomas Kerrigan of Boston.
escorted by officers Henry J. King and
John J. Kelly and Gilbert Osborne, took
the noon train for Worcester Jail,
where they will work out their fines
Today was vigil of All Saints day,
and it was appropriately observed
among the Catholic churches in town.
Tomorrow is known as All Souls day.
Masses, both high and low, were sung
at the Sacred Heart, ST. Louis and st.
Joseph's churches by their respective
pastors.
At the Polish Church. this morning,
at 9 o'clock Rev. Watelaw Lentz cele-
brated a high mass, and this evening
at 7.S0 O'Clock vesper services will be
observed. The pastor viii preach a
sermon.
FIR. Joseph A. Legris, pastor Of the
Sacred Heart Church, said a low mass
at $50 O'Clock this morning, and at $50
high mass Tomorrow morning the
st. Jean Baptiste Band will attend the
$50 mass, and render several selections.
A large congregation was in attend
ance at both masses at the St. Louis
Church, Rev. FIR, John T. Madden Off
ciating. The service today commenced
at o'clock, and will be the same to-
morrow morning.
Resolved. that the United States
should operate and control all Of the
| railroads in the country" is the ques-
ton that will be publicly debated
Tuesday evening, Nov. 10, probably at
the high school building This is the
regular fall public debate. The speak
ers on the affirmative side of the ques-
ton are Peter A. Author, Edward
Quinn and Edwin Davis while those
that oppose are Rosie Fogerty, Flor
ence Durham and Myrtis Mcguire.
Besides the debate, which will take up
some time, a miscellaneous entertain
| ment will be furnished by the other
members of the society.
Contractor f. A. Wellington is put
ting in a set of MIGRANTS in the yard
at Chase's wooden mill, and automatic
sprinklers are being adjusted within
the factory. The system is connected
with that of Stevens linen mills
The board of selectmen have APP
pointed Oscar Shumway, e. L. Spald-
| ing, Fred H. Berger, VIM. e. Weaver,
John Colt and E. H. Hughes as election
| officers to preside at the coming No
vember election.
To guard against any accident, or in
case one does occur, six sectional in
sulators have been placed along the
| piro11if of tho alaatrin xUf1as. no on
crates the local electric road, which at
any time can cut off a portion of the
road from the complete circuit
| The quarterly meeting of the Web
| ster local union of Christian Endeavor
was held in the Baptist Church, West
! Sutton, last evening. The exercises
opened with few remarks by the
president, r. T. Larehar, of Webster.
| After a short praise service Rev. III.
| b. Williams of West Sutton read the
scripture lesson, and prayer was Of
| fered by Rev. Alexander Digit of the
| Webster Methodist Church. After an
other hymn the following officers We're
! elected for the ensuing year: Presid-
ent, H. Burdett Jones of West SUIT
! ton; vice president Mrs Chester M
! Elliott of Webster; secretary, Miss AL
| ice Hill Of Webster; treasurer. Miss
Bertha Whiting of Dudley Reports
were then heard from the different So
ceties. All reported increased interest
in the affairs of the Individual societies
and in the prayer meetings.
| The Webster Congregational Society
reported a gain of two members and
the Webster Methodist a gain of six.
The former society collected fer the
army Christian commission, while the
latter confined its missionary work to
sending fruit and flowers to the sick
and aiding the poor Of its-ow.n church.
Rev. w A. Hadley of Solthbridge
gave an address on our three watch
words--duty loyalty and fellowship"
| Rev. II. A. Blake Of the Webster