The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-25
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Webster Man
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The Rule Among Crowd of
Webster Shoppers.

Webster, Dec. 24.-Louis Bean of OK
ford pleaded guilty and waived exam
ination before Judge Bartholomew this
morning on a charge of false state
ment. He hired team from Thomas
Mara of North Oxford, August 10, 1898,
and drove it considerably farther than
he hired it for. The Judge fined him
$40, but the young man appealed the
case to the grand jury in Worcester,
the date being fixed ON the first Mon
day in January. His bonds were fixed
at 5000.
Patrick Moore, an old offender and
ex-soldier, came before the court again
on the usual charge drunkenness. AS
Moore is soon to return to the soldiers
home in Maine, his honor placed him
under Probation Officer e. B. Wake
fields care until that time.
Xmas is going to be celebrated in
town on an unusually large scale.
Monday there will be all kinds of cele-
brations, Xmas tree gatherings, ETC.,
and Sunday all the churches will OBJ
serve the day appropriately with spe-
cial singing and preaching.
Although nearly every one is clam
oring hard times, scarcity of money,
ETC., the stores are doing a better bust
ness this year than last, and last
night and today there has been a con-
tinuous throng going UP and down
Main street, looking at the prettily
decorated show windows, and purchas-
ing whenever their eyes got caught on
pretty article. More people were out
tonight than has been in evidence for
many months, and the stores were
fairly damned with an anxious crowd
hustling this and that way.
Postmaster VIM. I. Marble and his
able corps of clerks were probably the
hardest working men. From early this
morning until the office suspended bus
mess at o'clock tonight, they were
kept on the jump waiting on one and
another. More than three thousand
people called at the general delivery
office alone and nearly that number be-
sides received presents and mail
through the office. Last night the
packages commenced coming in so fast
that Postmaster Marble ordered a cou-
pie of tables temporarily built to hold
the presents.
Agent Wood at the Adams express
office had all he could do, and drivers
of the delivery wagons were pushed
hard to fulfill their duties, and late to-
night succeeded in delivering all the
packages. Webster merchants say
that this year has been a profitable
Christmas.
A special car went over the new ex-
tension to North Webster this forenoon
and a general inspection was made of
the road Everything was found salts
factory. In the party, besides the press
representatives, We're Selectmen Maui
pro,
Bartlett, Directors John Flint, E. N.
Bigelow, John J. Love- Lyman r. Eddy,
Cyprien Dandurand and Hon. Charles
Haggerty, superintendent w. H. Foss
of the road and Michael Schofield, sup
erintendent of the water works.
The engagement is announced of
James T. Stanley, the popular proprie-
tor of Hotel Dewitt, and Miss Agnes
will take place at the st. Johns Church.
Worcester, at . o'clock, Tuesday fore
noon, January 10.
Misses Mary sellig and Alberta
Matthew are in Providence for a week.
Fifty head of cattle will be sold at
public auction at the Line house next
Thursday.
Charles B. Adams visited in Wor-
cester today.
Mrs, Thomas Kelley of Quinebaug
visited in town today.
MISS May Carter of Barre, who has
been visiting Mrs. Feno ]. Sinclair at
the Joslin house, returned today.
At the D. L. K. hall an Xmas tree
gathering will be held in the afternoon,
followed by dance.
Capt. William H. Longdon of the
Putnam police force was in town today
on a stolen team escapade.
All the passenger trains were DELAYED
several minutes tonight on account of
the tremendous traffic.
The Chrysanthemum Club will hold a
social in the c. T. A. hall, Monday
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