The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-20
NEWS I'M AND ABOUT /.
THESE PLANTATIONS
PAWTUxET VALLEY.

The work Of crushing the stone for
macadamizing the main street from the
| Cranston line to the end of the sample
| half mile at Riverpoint was commenced
! yesterday.
Considerable unfavorable comment
has been caused by the selection OF
new teachers i'm the public schools, the
vacancies in nearly every instance De-
ing filled by teachers from other parts
of the state and from Massachusetts,
and Connecticut, with the result that
on the opening OF the fall term next
month many experienced teachers VINO
hold state certificates and many grad
yates of the state normal school, VINO
have spent the past five years prepar-
ing themselves for positions which they
expected 10 obtain in schools In the
neighborhood of their homes, find them
selves relegated to second place in Ia
vor of teachers from other places. In
many cases this action on the part OF
the trustees is resented by the taxpay-
ers, who have, at considerable personal
sacrifice. educated their daughters as
teachers in expectation of their being
able to secure positions in the local
schools, and IL Is probable that the Ill
feeling engendered by the recent ap-
continents will result in change In
the trustees in several districts at the
annual elections.
The tax assessors of the Phenix fire
district have completed their work. and
their report shows that the BIG persons
assessed represent a total valuation OF
| 81, ,317, 200. In the readJustment OF the
| assessments the valuation OF the prop
erty of the Harris company was re,
| duced $50, ,000 as the owners convinced
| the assessors that in past years they
| had been overtaxed.
Rev. II. III. Wolfenden of st. Barna-
| ba's church at Apponaug Is spending
| his Vacation In North Adams, Mass.
| The services at the church tomorrow
| will be conducted by Rev. l.. M. HARDY
| of st. Philips church, Crompton
| The rails for the electric railroad
| which is to connect the valley villages
| with Providence have been laid as far
| as the bridge over the New England
| railroad, between the "Gorton Arnold
| stand" and Natick, and the work Is
| being pushed forward as rapidly as
possible. but as the road approaches
| completion some Of the business men
| i'm the valley who were at first greatiy
| pleased with the prospect or trohey
| connection with the villages OF Natick
| and Pontiac. and expected large IN
| crease in their business from the pat
| ronage of the residents OF these two
| villages, are commencing to lose con-
| siderable of their enthusiasm, and are
| asking themselves whether or not the
| opening OF the road between the valley
| and Providence will not have the same
| effect on the business OF the valley that
| the completion of the Pawtuxet Valley
| road had on business in Phenix, when
| many who had always patronized the
| local stores were attracted TO Provi-
| dence by the easy means of transporta-
| tion and the larger stock and lower
| prices of the city merchants, with the
| result that the business of the local
| storekeepers suffered severely. and the
| residents date the decline OF the village
from the opening Of the railroad.
| George Brown Is seriously Ill with
| typhoid fever at the residence OF AL
| dredge Brown near Summit.
| The funeral of Mrs. Cordelia Brochu,
| wife OF Joseph Brochu, who died at her
home in Scituate Thursday, was SOL
| emnized from st. Johns church at Arc
| tic Centre this morning, Rev. Father
| Bourgeois officiating. The interment
was in st. Joseph's cemetery at River
| point.
Proprietor Mcmahon of the Clyde Ho-
| tel lost a valuable driving horse by
| collie last night.
A number OF boys who were walking
on the track OF the Pawtuxet Valley
/, railroad, near Pontiac. yesterday after
noon. picked up a signal torpedo. which
| had probably been dropped by some Of
| the trainmen, and placing 1t on the
| rail, hammered II with a stone to see IL
| IL would explode. They succeeded be-
| yond their expectations. and one of
| them, named Johnson. was knocked
| down and had his face and arm badly
| cut and burned by the explosion.