The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-19
THE CITY.

Bemis & Co.'S shoe store will be closed
all day today.
Frank L. Hildreth will be train caller
at Union station in the future.
There will not be a session of the
central district court this morning ow-
ing to Patriots day.
The Suffrage League meets with Miss
Edith G. Kinney, Westminster street,
tomorrow afternoon.
Fidgely lodge, 112. 1. o. o. F., last
evening decided to give a dance and
supper Tuesday night in G. A. r. hall.
The Beverly Social Club gave well
attended dance in Horticultural hall
last night. Dancing was kept up till
O'Clock.
Annual meeting of the governors of
the Cuinsgemon International Regat-
ia at Board of Trade rooms at o'clock
this evening.
AT the fair in Good samaritan's hall
by the members of the Zion M. e.
church last evening, about 200 people
were present.
Miss Martha f. Goddard spoke yes
terday afternoon at the National His
y
the plant World.'
Miss Calliope C. S. Vaitses will speak
at the service at Piedmont church this
evening, on her work among the Greeks
of Massachusetts.
William D. Rifenburg, foreman of car
inspectors on the local division of the
Fitchburg railroad, went to Holden
yesterday to repair freight car stalled
near the station there.
ALL city hall offices, with the excep-
ton of the license commissioners,
which will be open part Of the day at
least, will be closed today, and heads
of departments and clerks allowed a
days vacation.
Worcester Conclave, knights of
Sherwood Forest, went to Lowell yes
terday and will take part in the Lex
ington carnival to be held in that city
today. Commander P. j. Judge will
have Is members in line.
An alarm from box 2S2, at the corr
ner of Ward and South Ward streets,
yesterday morning, was for a blaze in
went out before the department ar
rived. There was no damage.
Worcester grange gave the last
HGlSuDDE ulSIlI lndl VIII DEODdDly
be neld in Agricultural hall, last even
ing for the Grafton and Millbury
oranges. About 60 were present. Sup
per was served in the banquet hall at
O'Clock.
The L. w. of A. NJ. next meeting will
be held at the home of Mrs. Ella
Brooks, corner Grove street and Nelson
place, May LIST. The society will sew
for the Greendale Orphanage. 1t will
be an all-day meeting, with literary
exercises in the afternoon.
Worcester Veteran Firemen's Asso-
citation will take its first practice of the
season at o'clock this afternoon at
Salisbury pond. The vets will use their
tub, Gen. Putnam. After their prac-
tice, refreshments will be served at
their house on Exchange street.
About $50 o'clock yesterday morning,
Francis Haynes of Orient street was
struck and knocked down on Park ave-
nue., in front of Rice & Hutchins' shop,
by Michael Abode, who was mounted
on a bicycle. Haynes was badly shak-
en- up and was taken to his home.
st. Thomas Aquinas Reading Circle
met in the school building of the Notre
Dame, on Vernon street, last evening.
Miss H. L. Murphy presided. There
were IeduiuSS ny MISS IN. L. DOnONdH,
entitled Second great picture of the
world" and Miss Almira Mannix on
Keats, the poet"
At Piedmont Church, last night,
through the kindness of S. T. Thayer,
who has just returned from a trip to
the sugar bush of Vermont, a sugar.
ng-off exhibition was given. A graph
ophone concert was given while the
syrup boiled. The proceeds went to
the Missionary Society
The 4.38 o'clock train yesterday after
noon from New York had two extra
cars containing Groton school boys re-
turning from their Easter vacation
The cars were switched to the Boston
and Maine track, and were attached
to the regular 455 train. There were
about 100 boys in the party.
Mrs. Catherine Gilchrist, an old res
ident of this city, died at her home, 34S
Cambridge street, yesterday morning.
Mrs. Gilchrist had lived in Worcester
for over 50 years, and had been a res
ident of South Worcester for over 40
years. Mrs. Gilchrist was a benefactor
of Sacred Heart Church and one of the
oldest attendants there. She was also
member of the Married Ladies' So
dality, connected with Sacred Heart
Church. The funeral will take place
tomorrow morning, with a solemn re-
QUEEN high mass at Sacred Heart
Church at o'clock.