The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-17
FLEEING NORTHWARD.
New Englanders Seeking
Health and Recreation
in the Provinces.

ting SO lar away from nome. A mat
ter Of Is hours between Yarmouth and
Boston, few more to Halifax or st.
John, N. b., and there you area mere
ferry trip. Worcester agents are CIV
ing excursion rates. this will probably
Increase the volume CT travel that has
already assumed unprecedented pro-
portions, but transportation facilities
have so increased that travel over sea
and land is not only comfortable, Tut
luxurious even-10 boats to Yarmouth
| weekly, as many to St. John, and half
these numbers to Halifax ought to pro-
! vide room for all lucky enough to look
that way for rest and pleasure.
Seven New York physicians spent the
! greater part of last summer at the
i Grand Hotel Yarmouth
The mean temperature at Yarmouth
for the month of June was So degrees,
lslightly above the average, and the
same as last year. The highest read
ing (69 degrees) occurred on the Sd,
and the lowest $50 degrees 7 tenths)
on the 18th, being degrees 8 tenths
above the minimum of SO.
! Silas Margeson of -Kentville- celebrat-
led his 99th birthday on June l6. on
the above date he walked into T. w.
Cox's blacksmith shop, and after the
usual greeting said: This is my 99th
birthday "Good! said the genial
artisan. Come over here and blow
/ the bellows while l shoe this horse"
The venerable old man accepted the in
lvitation and worked the bellows, with
out much exertion, while the equine
was shod all round, and Mr.. Cox says
Mr.. Margeson knows how to blow. The
Iold gentleman was a blacksmith him.
self in his younger days. Mr.. Marge-
son has not been obliged to use glasses
and can read without difficulty
/ Work on the breakwater at Port La
Tour is progressing rapidly with the
result that a solid stone structure is
built 225 feet in length (measuring
from low water) and rs feet in width
at the top. 1t is the intention to ex-
tend the work several hundred feet,
converting the later part into a con-
venient wharf and landing place.
! The largest gathering of Nova SEQ
tia militia men ever held in the mari
time province, will assemble at Camp
Aldershot on Tuesday, Sept. -, for 10
days drill. The following battalions
compose the brigade: 6S Kings county
infantry, Lieut.-Col. Belcher, Z COM
i panies; 60 Annapolis Battalion infan-
try, Lieut. Col. Shaffner, 10 companies;
~ Lunenburg Battalion infantry, Maj
Grihiths, companies; rs Colchester
Hants and Plctou Battalion infantry
Lieut.-Col. Lawrence, companies SO
infantry, t.
Il Col. William OXley, companies; cav
airy, Kings county hussars; So Halifax
Battalion rifles, Col Crane. compa-
MES; 90 Halifax Princess Louise flu
slleers, Lieut.-Col. Weston compa-
MES The Halifax battalions will be in
for the last two days. About $500 in all
will compose the camp.
The following episode took place in
Yarmouth last week. The mayor was in
the corridor when Griffin approached
him and complained that he had been
made public exhibition of at the coun-
Gil meeting by the mayor He claimed
he had perfect right to go to Halifax
as he aic. The mayor denied having
made any exhibition of him, appealing
to Councillor Augustus Cam for cor
roboration. Cam said they, might as
; well dispense with chief If he could
leave town whenever he wished 1t is
alleged Griffin exclaimed; ''Tll dispense
with you, and struck the councillor a
violent blow in the face. Cam was
taken completely by surprise, but he
was formerly a ship master and a bit
OF an athlete as well. In the twinkling
Of an eye he had knocked Griffin down
and was on top of him and holding him
by the throat. Griffin was arrested and
fined for assault. He resigned his posi-
ton as chief of police
Fritz Creighton and Miss Libby Bin
| gay were married on the 9th by Rev.
r. D. Bambrick, at Holy Trinity
| church, Yarmouth. A full choir was in
| attendance and r. G. Allison rendered
Mendelssohn's wedding march as the
| bride entered the church on the arm of
her father. ]. Wentworth Bingay, O.
| G. The brides youngest sister, Doris,
| acted as maid of honor
| Isaac. Penney, South Side, Cape Is
land, has just completed the thirty
fourth dory built by him during the
present season. Since beginning that
kind of work three years ago he has
| turned out ia Of these boats.
| The steamers Yarmouth and Boston
are taking lots of strawberries to Bos-
| ton each trip.
| The Prince George took $50 crates of
Strawberries to Boston on Monday af-
ternoon. The greater part of the ship
ment came from stations along the
| line of railway.
Three thousand candidates have
taken the provincial examinations for
teachers licenses this week. Would
| that people were as ready to learn as
they are to teach.
| Miss Mumford, who has been teach
| ing at Hortonville, and Miss A. Bur-
CESS are going to Honolulu Sandwich
Islands, as teachers at $50 a month.
Shad seines are catching a fine lot
of fish this season.
The grass on the Grand Pre- will
| be rs per cent less than the crop of
last year. The apple crop VIII also be
| In about the same rates. Root crops
are doing splendidly, and the potato
crop will be quarter at least larger
in area and more than that greater in
| quantity.
The appointment of H. L. Chapman,
the Nova Scotia agent of the Plant
Steamship Company, to the position of
superintendent of the line will give I'M
iversal satisfaction throughout the
provinces. Headquarters at Halifax.
Harold Borden, son of Hon. DR.. Bor-
den, has been made captain of the
Kings Canadian Hussars squadron.
Mrs. Borden, wife Of the Hon. DR.. Bor-
den and Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Borden's
mother, have returned from their win
ter in Washington, and are at their re-
sidence in Canning.
The Whitney project in Sydney Is as
sured. Two gentlemen of great expert
ence and capital are now in England |
and Scotland completing arrangements |
for the starting Of the second iron and |
steel industry in North Sydney.
l.. r. Fairn of Bridgetown Is becom-
ing a very popular architect in this
province. He has drawn the plans of
nearly all the prominent buildings that
have been built of late, and many that
are about to be erected.
Burns Pierce. the Shelburne county
wonder, won the 24-hour bicycle race
at the Waltham, Mass, track on Wed
nesday of last week, leading Dutch
Waller by 50 miles.
A number of gold returns were filed
at the mines Office last week from Sher-
brooke. The results shown follow:
Tons. ozs. dwt
Blue Nose G. M. Co... 1850 336
Crows Nest g. NJ: Co....1l5o 40 s.