The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-12
WILL Be IMPOSING.
Ceremony of Dedica-
ton Of New Catho-
lie Cemetery.
BISHOP BEAVEN TO Be PRESENT.
ChiIdren's Sunday Observed
in Various Leicester
Churches.

Leicester, June 11.-A very interesting
ceremony will be the service at. the new
Catholic cemetery on Waite street on
Tuesday afternoon when the cemetery
is formally dedicated and the Celtic
cross given by Mrs. John E. Russell is
blessed. The exercises viii commence
promptly at 4 o'clock. All arrangements
are in charge of a committee from the
parish, Nessrs. e. ]. McDermott, w. A.
Bell, Patrick Butler, Michael J..-Rice,
William J. Pendergast, Dennis Con-
nell Michael J. Shaughnessey, James
A. Quinn, James L. Gallagher. Michael
Haniey and James Rice. A meeting was
held after mass today and arrange
ments perfected.
No special invitations are extended to
any one to attend the service, but every
| one is invited to witness the ceremony.
| Rt. Rev. Bishop Thomas Beaver of
| Springfield, with a large number of Wis
itinS clergymen from the Worcester
| diocese and from Boston are expected
| to be present The bishop and clergy
| will be received at the entrance to the
grounds by the children of the Sunday
| school and the parishioners in a body.
| Services will be opened by a hymn,
! 'NeXilla Regis" by the church choir in
| charge of Timothy O'Connell. Then the
! ceremony of blessing the cross will be
! performed by Rt. Rev. Bishop Bea-
ven. The choir will sing the hymn "Veni
{ Creator" and Rev. John ]. Howard OF
| st. Peters church, Worcester, will
| preach sermon on the subject The
! cross"
The exercises will close with the hymn
!
| choir in charge Of Miss Mary Leonard.
! In the evening a class of IS children will
| receive confirmation at st. Josephs
! church and Bishop Beaver will preach
| the confirmation sermon. Previous to
| the ceremony the children will march
! around the grounds. The music for the
| occasion is in charge of Organist Tim
! othy O'Connell. The teachers who have
| had charge of the children and assisted
| the pastor are Miss Mary O'Brien Miss
| Elizabeth Mcfarland, Miss Margaret
McAllister, Miss Katherine Butler and
Miss Hannah Hanley
Childran's day was celebrated at the
! First Congregational church today and
also at the Cherry Valley NJ. E. church.
At o'clock special exercises were given
! by the children in the CONGREGATIONAL
Vestry. A chorus sang several selections,
and pretty exercise entitled build
ing the ladder of life, was given by 70
young people from the primary depart
ment.
The sides of a ladder were shown
Wreathed in evergreen against a back
ground of green. Miss Ethel Stevens
and Miss Lucy R. Watson stood on
steps at the top of the ladder and wove
garlands around the sides. Six Chill
dren, Clara Steele Christian Smith,
Harold Ashley Mildred Warren~[Ibert
Waite and Roy Smith, ~rec4eSHand laid
down flowers, represeutin ~ fonda
tons Of the structure. Then, a dozen
children, Elsie Brown, Annie AlSen. Sa-
ran d. Watson, Mabel Nutting, bertha
l. Watson, Elsie McGarvey, Annie
Waite, Edna Maher, Ralph Horne, Fred
Davis, Everett Smith and Clarence
Horne, spoke, and each laid a mound
on the upright sides The children
ended by singing The ladder of life"
Mrs Edward L. Scott then gave an in
teresting report of the Sunday school
convention at Holden, and Mrs. A w.
Harrington spoke of the Home de-
partment work in the Sunday school"
Rev. Albert Warren followed with a
few timely remarks on the conven-
ton.
The children's day service, "A day Of
song and gladness," by Marion West
was presented by a chorus choir at the
merry valley church in the evening.
superintendent George Legg was in
charge of arrangements.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Cherry
valley N. r. church will have their an
nual strawberry festival on Thursday
evening, June Is, there will be an enter
tainment by members of the Epworth
league.
Inc First Congregat vestry will
also De brilliant with Strawberries on
the same evening, and the Ladies'
Charitable Society will serve a straw
berry festival