The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-30
.FALVEY IN COURT.
Held in $1,000 for His
Appearance Before
Grand Jury.
AN OLD-TIME WATER WHEEL.
Spencer Business the Best
for Many Years Notes
-sv About Town. 7f.
AN OLD-TIME WATER WHEEL.

VINO was caught by Officers Graveleine
" ana Bryant Friday morning, in the act
OF stealing shoes from the shoe shop
OF Emory sibley, had hearing be-
lore Frlals S;:sstice A. w. Curtis this
morning at SIS O'Clock re .e's
Falvey pleaded not guilty and was
held for the grand jury in August I'M
der. $1,000 bail. Emory sibley, owner of
the. shop from which the SHOES were
stolen, testified that at the time of Fall
Vey's arrest. Falvey had on a pair of
shoes that had been stolen from the
shop some time previous.
MI. Sibley identified the shoes by his
private mark, which he showed to JUS
us Curtis H. N, Carter testified thar
JUST before the shot was fired, he saw
ahother hgure prowling around the
eloH dressed in black with a white
straw hat, and that when the arrest
was made this figure disappeared
Fatroimen Pierre Graveleine and Ed
ward II. Bryant testified regarding The
arrest, and to the manner in which
Jhey discovered Falvey in the shop.
Jere K, Kane Of the law firm of Hag-
gerty d Kane, appeared for the de-
PENDANT.
= The police have been hard at work
nlght and day since the burglary in
tracing up Falveys accomplice. The
ponce and The Spy reporter are the
only ones that know who the suspected
person is, but in consideration of the
licity. Il
When last seen, -Falvey and accom-
pltce We're together at 1890 O clock Fri
day morning. Today the accomplce
could not be found in Spencer. He did
not go to work today or yesterday, and
u Is the general verdict that he has
skipped the town. The police have a
warrant out for his arrest.
The local reporter for The Spy paid
a visit to the old historic Red mill on
Valley street today, and found that the
old water wheel is one of the Oldest
and largest wheels in the state The
wheel is one of wooden type that
We're so common ms and so years ago.
The wheel was placed in it's present
position in 1861 at a cost of $1,000. The
wheel itself is 80 feet in diameter and
has buckets seven feet long and two
feet deep The axle of the wheel meas
ures two feet, two inches in diameter,
and is bound by iron to keep the wood
en- pieces together.
The pit in which the wheel sets has
depth of 20 feet. The capacity of the
wheel, if water could be obtained |
would be about so horse power, but
with the amount of water that it isl
possible to get. the wheel has only al
capacity of 10 or Is horse power.
The wheel is built entirely of wood
and stands firm and sound after its IS
long years of hard service, and is one
'of the many curiosities in Spencer.
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Since the Main Street clerks issued a
challenge to play for a turkey supper
at the annual game of ball between
the Main street clerks and Chestnut |
and Mechanic streets bundle makers, |
nothing has been heard from the Me- |
chanic and Chestnut streets Accord |
ingly, the reporter for The Spy called |
upon Manager Fred Gendreau today, |
and, in conversation with The Spy re-
porter, Mr.. Gendreau said: you may |
say through the columns of The Spy, |
that we read the article which appeared |
in your paper, but have been waiting |
patiently for the representatives of
the Main street clerks to come over
and see us concerning arrangements |
for the supper. AS yet we have not
seen any representative of our brother
clerks, and are waiting patiently Tor
some one of them to put in an APP |
pearanee Now, if the Main streets
sincerely wish to play for a turkey |
supper at the Waldo hotel, we are
ready and willing to play them for
such a feast, and we will meet them |
any night next week to arrange mat |
-Sers.e Mr. Gendreau also added: "You !,
may say through The Spy that what
! say will stand for every member. of
the team"
The two clerk teams have been
praeticing every opportunity they could
set and the game promises to be one
Of the best contested of the season.
Business outlooks are unusually |
bright this year in Spencer. The big
concern of /. fProuty & Co. was never
having better work and more of it than |
at the present time. While the boot de- |
partment is not running to its full ca
@Acity, the shoe department is having |
$ne of its busiest seasons. The boot
and shoe factory of e. Jones & Co. is |
perhaps the busiest concern in town;
a full force Of help are at work, and
more boots are being turned out in E. |
Jones & Co.'S this year than ever be- |
fore The firm has more employed this |
year than it has had for many years, |
and everything points to good win |
ter's run of work. At Emory Sibley's |
shoe shop work is not rushing as much
as at the other factories, but more |
work is being turned out there than
usual. This shop makes the finest shoes
an town, ana the summer is always the
dull season for shoes.
At the wooden mills on Valley street |
everything Is booming. The satinet mill |
of A. L. Taft is being rushed with or !
a~6ers, and is running to it's full capacity |
$4,000 yards of satinets being turned
out weekly A little lower down the
same street$he mill of Beebe Weber
e. CO. Of Holyoke, under the supervision
Of Superintendent Simon Taylor, is
rushed as it was never rushed before |
The carding and spinning departments
are forced to run nights until 8 o'clock
to keep up with the orders. Beebe, |
Weber G. Co. have been a great help
to this section Of the town since their
appearance in Spencer two years and
a half ago, and have greatly enlivened
that section known as 1.-THE Flat"
The Massasoit Knitting Company,
under the mana cement of Roswell o.
Holden, is rushing to its full capacity,
and everything points to busy season.
The underwear factory of Green's,
situated in the old Green boot shop, is
being kept busy with it's many orders,
and the 100 girls employed there look
forward to good winters work. The
Nipmuck Paper Box Company is also
one of the industries that are doing well
in Spencer. The paper box concern of
Sargent's on Wall street and the heel
shop of Alton Barr g. Son are also in
dustries that are booming in Spencer
Now that the Ne Plus Ultra Yeast
Company is an assured success and
work has begun upon preparing place
for Its occupancy, Spencer seems to be
on the right road to a good business.
A party of Spencer young men, con-
fBiting Of Aldersic PerreauN, Gideon
Maurant and Fhlic Haunlki, start FOR
zfProvidence tonight to be gone over sun