The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16
THE CITY.

| Orleans.
| Miss Anna P. Atkinson is the guest
of Mrs. John Legg. Claremon street.
Henry D. Swift's lecture at Plymouth
Church has been postponed to Feb. 30
Miss Carrie Lyford of Rock Island
Ill, has arrived at the Dread Insti-
tute.
Mrs. Gilbert Harrington and John
Harrington are visiting in Washington,
D. c.
The Suffrage League meets this af-
ternoon at o'clock, with Mrs. Esther
Kabley, 16 Allen street.
The Bancroft Congress met last
night at the Y. NJ. C. A. and discussed
the Nicaraguan canal question.
The Foreign Missionary Society of the
Pleasant Street Baptist Church met
yesterday afternoon at o'clock.
The men and officers of the Welcome
Mission will attend the lecture to be
given by Gen. o. o. Howard at Old
South Church tonight.
| The dummy is running half-hourly
trips to the lake, taking the place of
the electric cars, which are blocked by
the snow
The Friday Morning Club enter
tanned Mrs. Samuel Mead of Melange,
Africa, and Mrs. j. Porter Brown of
Salem, Tuesday.
| The Rain or Shine Whist Club meets
in Castle Hall, Friday evening. Sub
| stantial prizes will be awarded the sue
cessful players.
Whites Infants go to Southbridge
Friday night, to roll the second in a
series of four games with the South
bridge bowling team.
The non commissioned officers of the
Wellington Rifles met at the armory
last evening to study, in anticipation of
the coming examinations.
The regular meetings of Anchora and
Worcester lodges, /. o. O. F., were
| replaced by whist parties in their re-
spective halls last hight.
The Worcester Circuit of Epworth
Leagues will hold a public meeting in
Trinity Church, Thursday, March 2.
Exercises will begin at and 1880
The Woman's Home and Foreign
| Missionary Society of Main Street Bap-
list Church will meet this afternoon at
3 with Mrs. Ward, 16 Allen street.
| Mrs. Inez Buss- Knowles has been en-
gagged as the soprano of the First Uni
versalist Church choir for the ensuing
year, in place of Mrs. Henry +. Harris.
On Saturday evening, the 18th, Mrs.
j. H. Howell will entertain her pupils
at her home on Hollywood street A
| number of out of town guests will be
| present.
A special meeting of B Battery is
called for Friday evening at 7.30 o'clock
foi the purpose of election. Major L..
| " DuchesneY will be present and pre-
side at the meeting.
| Donald Mckay and r. John Mckay
will attend the presidential banquet in
Boston this evening, as the personal
guests of President Plunkett of the
| Home Market Club.
The current issue of the Country Cen
| tleman contains a fine half-ton like
ness of John c. Machines of this city
| the president of the American Dutch
Belted Cattle association.
| The regular weekly meeting and drill
| of Battery B was carried through last
evening under the direction of Lieuts.
Haynes, Gould and Boswell. Forty
eight men turned out for drill.
| The closing reception of Miss A. Ray
| Champlin'S dancing classes will take
place in Horticultural Hall, March q
There will also be pupils party OF
Feb. Is, in the form of masquerade.
The match scheduled at Whites al.
| leys last night, between the Babies anC
| Westboros, was postponed until some
evening next week. Three of the West.
boro men were sick and unable to roll
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of Grace M f. Church will
hold its regular monthly meeting al
the residence of Mrs. F. c. Platt, 4;
Austin street, this afternoon and eve.
ming.
The engagement is announced OF
VIM. Henry Case and Mary Wymar
Howe Mr.. Case is we'll known tc
travelling men as proprietor of the
! Central Hotel in Providence. Miss
Howe is a society belle of this city.
Bishop Lawrence of the diocese OF
Massachusetts was a guest at the
Highland Military Academy yesterday
afternoon. He gave the boys of the
school d very delightful talk at the
mess hall tea about Admiral Samp-
son.
Ernest K. Piper, a prominent young
lawyer of Boston, was in town yester-
| day in attendance upon the jury
! WdlNSu COuIl DclOtt JuuSG Alhtll, anu
| during his stay here was entertained
by Herbert O'Leary, instructor in the
Dalzell school.
At the regular meeting Of Calvary
| Commandery, Knights of Malta, last
night, the officers for the coming year
were nominated. The election will be
held at the next meeting and the
names of the successful candidates will
be announced then.
Superintendent Carroll will probably
attend the meeting Of the Massachu.
sets superintendent Association t.
| be held in Boston tomorrow. The
principal business of the meetiAg viii
be a discussion of the question OF state
aid for the schools.
Miss Anna p. Atkinson spoke las
evening at the meeting of the WON
ans Foreign Missionary Society of the
! Laurel Street M. e. Church. on some
of her experiences as a missionary t
Japan. The society gave a supper pre-
vious to the meeting.
Rev. Alexander Lewis, pastor of Pill
grim Church, will speak in Association
Hall, on Sunday afternoon, on IF no
a Christian, why not?" Mrs. Barber
of Maiden will assist on the harp and
William F. Little and the male choil
will assist in the service.
The public schools will close fol
Washington's birthday next week and
| exercises appropriate to the occasion
will be given in the high schools. This
exercises of the Classical high schoo
will begin at 1910 o'clock and in the
English high school at 11.35 o'clock
! At the regular meeting of Quinsiga.
mond Tribe, Red Men, last night, Il