The Worcester spy., 1899-06-28
Graduating Exercises
of the Leicester
Academy.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING CALLED.
Two Matters of Considera.
BILE Importance Are on
the Warming.

Leicester, June 27-The programs are
out for the graduating exercises at
Leicester Academy, which will be held
on Thursday afternoon at 2.90 o'clock
in Smith hall Miss Grace L. Grout will
deliver the salutatory and Miss Mary
Trainor the valedictory. The members
of the graduating class are: Grace L.
Grout, Lucy Smith, Margaret Donovan,
Mary Trainor, Lila Doescher, Myrtle
Robinson, Ruth Grosvenor, and Hiram
L. Waite. Mr.. Waite is president of the
class and Miss Grout is secretary and
treasurer.
The commencement program will be-
gin with a song, "Village bells" by a
chorus of pupils in charge of Mrs. NJ.
E. Shrimpton. Rev. D. c. Reid of the
First Congregational church will offer
prayer, and Miss Grout will deliver her
salutatory in Latin.
Rev. A. H. Coolidge, president of the
board of trustees, will then present the
speaker of the evening, Hon. A. S. Roe
of Worcester who will address the
graduating class. Miss Corinne D. Ash
ey will then play a piano solo, Petit
Bolero," by Henri Ravina. The valedic-
tory will be delivered by Miss Mary
Trainor. of Cherry Valley.
Diplomas will then be presented by
Mr.. Coolidge as president of the trus-
tees.
Miss Mary Sweeney Of the class of
1900 will play piano solo and Hiram
L. Waite will make the presentation of
the gift to the institution given by the
class of '99. Principal A. M. P. Chase
is planning to have Col. E. S. Winslow
of the trustees receive the gift in behalf
of that body. The chorus will then sing
a selection entitled Might" and Rev.
N. Seaver, Jr, of the Unitarian church,
will pronounce the benediction.
There will be no reunion of the alumni
as in former years. This will be the first
time the event has been omitted since
the founding of the association Of Lei
cester Academy alumni in 1884. In its
stead the trustees and executive board
will give dinner in honor of the grad
uating class and teachers at the Lei
cester in the evening.
Warrants for the special town meet
ing to be held on the evening of July 3
were posted tonight. The warrant
contains three articles. The business
to be transacted will be to see what
action the town will take in regard to
adopting a town seal and to see if the
town will authorize the selectmen to
take the contract from the Massachu-
setts state highway commission for the
construction of the state highway from
its present termination near the house
of G. NJ. Bauder to the Spencer line.
Four students of the Tuskegee In
stitute at Tuskegee, Ala, Of which
Booker 7. Washington is president en-
tertained an interested audience with
a choice program of religious and plan
tation melodies this evening
The singers were Lewis S. McWil-
liams of Selma Charles E. McFarlin
of Fort Worth Texas; John A. Taylor
of Greenville, and Edw. N. Broadnax
of Montgomery. Poems written by
Paul Dunbar, styled the poet of the
colored people, were recited.
The quartet sang for Samuel May,
and c. w Warren, at their home. The
party stay in town tonight and sing in
Westboro tomorrow
Patrick Kelley, employed as a coal
shoveler at the coal yards owned by
Mrs. A. M. Brown, at GAINESVILLE, had
a foot crushed under heavy rails to-
day He was removed to the city hos
pital.
The members of a Worcester Baptist
Church will picnic in the grove at Lake
Sargent, Thursday, and the Worcester
and Suburban will run special cars.
The family of John P. Stevens are at
their home in Mannville for the sum-
mer