The Worcester spy., 1899-07-25


thing to do with the badly mixed con-
dition in which the police found him.
The contract for feeding the soldiers
of Co. Is in camp has been given to Ca
terer Sophus Hanson. Mr.. Hanson will
do the job for SLIPS day per man. He
has prepared a bill of fare which pleases
Capt. Peter j. Cannon ard tickles the
boys way down to their heels. The
menu will be changed every day in the
week, but the bill of fare for Sunday,
Aug. 6, is regarded as representative of
what the provender will be. This is:
Breakfast, oat meal and milk, pork
chops and sirloin steak, baked potatoes,
doughnuts and cheese, white and gra-
nam bread, tea, coffee and milk, catsup
and other condiments.
There will be roast turkey with dress
ing for Sunday dinner, real native tur-
key. There will be currant iellv to go
with it. Baked bluefsh, radishes,
boiled Bermuda onions, spinach,
beans and potatoes natural will be
provided. Mashed potatoes, mince, ap-
pie and cranberry pie, with vanilla and
chocolate ice cream and milk, tea and
coffee will make up the balance of the
meal.
Steak, cold meats, fried and baked DO
tatoes, blueberry sauce, with the usual
Cannon said today that the boys are en-
tering into the preparations for camp
with unusual interest. He will take al
most the entire company with him
when the order to proceed to camp ar
rives
The Frappee Club entertained party
of visitors from Sterling camp ground
this afternoon. The visitors were Mr.,
and Mrs. P H. Denton of Hartford.
with Paul Guy Denton and Miss Louise
Danforth of Boston, Miss Marion Lala
Stules of Somerville and Miss Sibley Of
Hartford
The new equipment for Co. X was
distributed to the men at the armory
this evening.
The Spy was the first paper to call
the attention of the authorities to the
fact that the elm tree beetle was after
some of the handsome elms that make
the streets of Clinton beautiful. Tree
Warden Frank P. Sawyer has decided
to make fight against the pests. He
will go to Springfield and investigate
the manner of fighting the beetle that
prevails there. Unless the pest, is less
sturdy in character here, than it has
proved in other sections Of the country,
Mr.. Sawyer has a long, uphill fight be-
fore him, which will perhaps have for
its termination the destruction of many
OF the trees.
The death of Ingersoll has caused the
Ingersoll literature to be taken out from
the libraries and down from the shelves
where dust has been gathering on it.
Everybody who owns any Of the writ
ings of the great agnostic is, IN cases
out of 10, trying to refresh his memory
as to Ingersolrs ideas enough to make
up his mind If he is somewhere or in a
hottar place. DR.. James Boyd Brady's
damnation of Ingersoll was read in The
Spy by great many people. Some ap-
prov "a of all DR.. Brady said. But one
man said that DR.. Brady's imaginary
burning of Ingersoll was very like the
real burning of John Huss.
Miss Nellie Ford of Lowell is visiting
at the home Of Miss Nellie Finnerty IN
Parker street.
Michael j. O'Toole of the class of '99,
Holy Cross college. has accepted a po-
sition with the Metropolitan water
board
Miss Sarah Cannon of Front street
contemplates taking a two weeks va
cation at Nantasket Beach.
F'awn Circle No. 393, Companions of
the Forest, held a reception and ban
quet at their hall in Tyler's block to-
night.
Miss Mabel Wetherbee of Aver is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. Arthur Fowler, of
East street
Miss Della Tracy and Margaret Gar
vey visited friends in Worcester Sum
day.