The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-08
St. Jean Baptiste Of
Spencer Adopt
This Law.
GRASS WIDOWS ALSO
Divorced Husbands Cannot
Will Death Benefits
To Any Others.

Spencer, May IA long and exciting
meeting was held by the members of the
st. Jean Baptiste society this afternoon
in the church hall. 1t was a special
meeting called by the president, to set
tie the old question whether the So
ciety would pay the heirs Of a suicide
| the usual amount of money that is CIV
en- to the heirs of one of their members
who dies from natural and extraordin
airy causes.
This bylaw has caused more trouble
to the society than all the rest Of the
constitution combined. Law suits arise
on its account and arguments Of a
heated nature continually come to the
front.
In the present constitution the article
reads that no money shall be paid to
the lawful heirs of any member COM
hitting suicide.
But this was all done away with this
afternoon, the members voting to pay
| the usual amount to the heirs of any
member who commits suicide. Only
one man spoke against the adoption of
gued a long time but did not succeed in
changing many of the members.
The letter received from Bartlett An
derson, a lawyer, in Boston, relating to
the law suit that the widow of Charles
Demers, who killed himself, threatens
the society with, raised much discus
sion. No definite plans were adopted
| by the society, but the officers stated to
The Spy man that if it was brought to
court they would fight it to the end.
Another important change made was
| that the divorced wife of a member
should receive the customary sum of
money in case of the death Of her di-
vorced husband. Before the bylaw
read that a divorced member should
have the privilege of making a will and
leaving the money to any of his lawful
heirs.
1t was also voted to accept the new
constitution beginning July l, when the
election of officers will take place.
The members of the Holy Rosary c.
i I. A. track team have made great
progress during the last week. The
team contains some of the best known
athletes in Spencer. Samuel Wright,
who is training the high school team,
is giving them all the assistance in his
power. Some of the candidates who
are trying for the team are: Capt John
F. Dillon, Martin w. Eagleton, Patrick
]. Donovan, Eric A. Richard, Joseph
| Dermody, Henry H. Lee, Peter Null
hall. Daniel Coffey, Charles O'Gara,
John o'Gara, Joseph Achim and Will
| liam ]. Dwyer.
OF this number, Capt. Dillon and John
| O'Gara are the most prominent candi-
dates. Dillon has been connected with
athletics for the past five years, and is
one of the best athletes in Spencer. He
/ ,Ie+ nolr
team of Worcester. His stronghold is
in the jumps He can do twenty feet
or better in the broad jump, forty-two
feet in the hop, step and jump, five
feet four inches in the high jump, and
over nine feet in the pole vault. He
| is also a fast Splinter.
John O'Gara is now member of
Brown university track team. He is
one of the fastest high hurdlers in the
college. He was a member of the
Spencer high school for four years Be
sides being a hurdler of note, he is also
a fast long-distance runner.
Donovan. the fast quarter and half
miller is one Of the best athletes in the
I town. He has done quarter in 52
seconds and half in two minutes and
eight seconds. A ball game will be
also be played between the two teams.
The events will be the 40yard dash,
100-yard dash, 22O-yard dash, quarter
mile, one-half mile, broad jump, hop,
step and jump, high jump, pole vault,
shot put, hurdles, and will end up with
| a relay race between the two societies.
Dr. Marc Fontaine, one Of the board
of overseers of poor, was in Brooktield
! yesterday to make arrangements with
that towns overseers of the poor as to
what would be done with the Grenier
family. The family is about four
1,-I Nd ffad
of the tenement wishes them to be re-
moved. The youngest member of the
family is slowly dying with an ulcer
| that is eating away the right eye. DR..
| Fontaine wishes the child to be re-
moved to the hospital, but the grand
mother, who is taking care Of the child
| rem, objects to this. The doctor ex-
poets to hear from the Brookfield par
/ ties tomorrow and the chances are that
the child will be removed to the hos
pital.
Chief Draper of the police force in
tends to keep small and large boys off
Myrick trotting park, Sundays. Today
while the chief was at home, he saw
a large crowd of boys playing on the
track. He quickly hitched up his team
and secured Officer Bryant and both
drove to the park. The boys saw them
coming and ran away without cere-
mony.
Alphonse Gouin opened up his new
lunch room in Arseneault's block to-
day.
Rev. Lewis T. Reed of New Haven
| occupied the pulpit today at the First
Congregational Church He delivered
an interesting sermon.
| The usual services were held at the
Holy Rosary Catholic Church. The
pastor Rev. FIR. Dolan, delivered an
able sermon
Misses Nellie Sullivan, Abbie O'Brien,
Mary O'Brien and Anna Gaffney of
| North Brookfield were the guests of
! NE. l.a.trLlla Bonner tnaaE