The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-02-22
CRANSTON.


tuxet Baptist church will hold bean
supper on Wednesday evening, March
l, at the home of Mrs. +. p. Custom OF
Sheldon street.
The Cranston Lyceum will hold reg
ular meeting this evening, when inn
portant business will be transacted.
The regular lenten service was held
in st. AIMS church last evening and
there was good attendance. An in
structive address was delivered by the
pastor, Rev. Mr.. O'Hara.
The recent storm tore down the pail
isading on one side of the Narragansett
bridge, and parents are now consider
ably alarmed perchance any of the
little ones might walk off and be killed
whilst going to school 1t needs at
tending to at once.
AS predicted by the News some time
ago, the recent storm caused no end
of trouble TO the residents around
School street and Narragansett avenue
and those who are in the habit OF
crossing Cranston street at that point
i'm order to reach the cars. The climax
was reached during Sunday afternoon
when the water had risen so high that
il poured down School street which Is
considerably higher than Cranston
street level. The stream ran as the
first house where its course was ar
rested by a high snowbank. In short
time the water i'm the pond thus formed
covered the sidewalk and ran into the
garden towards the cellar windows,
when Il was discovered by the occu-
pants who proceeded with shovels To
DIG a course for the stream down
School street. This was robblng Peter
to pay Paul" for the stream ran di-
rectly to the next house and was again
banked up. The occupants OF No.
were obliged to turn out with shovels
and soon the water was passed on To
No. 3 and thus IL went the entire length
of the street, each man passing II TO
his neighbor About this time the
News representative who lives in this
vicinity happened along and arrning
himself with "a shovel proceeded to
Cranston street and started the stream
In the direction of the catch basin at
Rurnham avenue, which action brought
down the water at such rate that
in less than 30 minutes. people could
cross i'm overshoes. where before rub
ber boots were useless. II Is said that
the council will be asked To build "A
catch basin or some other system OF
drainage at this juncture and in the
event of their refusing. one man who
lives on the corner. says he viii pur-
chase about "a half dozen rowboats and
start ferry and boats TO let. Who
knows how soon this play may rival
Rhodes on the -Pawtuxet?
The following is the average percent
age gained by schools and pupils in
the recent examination:
Lippitt IIill-Edward Sarle, 6S: Flora
Hopkins, "a; James Shay. 10: Thomas
Notion. 81. Average for school, 70.
Spragueville.--Elle Sullivan. 81;
Edith Kirkeley So; Sadie Greenhalge,
"a. Ipa Bll m
81: Edward Tanning. Josephine
Barnes. 10; John Warburton, 20; Rich
ard Crompton Sc: Nellie Crowell, so;
Alice Hart. -: John Bigbee. 63; Ed
ward Profitt,S2; Alice Gormley,70; Mel
lie Ahern. SO: John Nixon. IS; Sadie
Hooper. SO; Mary Prior -; Eunice
Barry 81: Mamie Mccormick. 7S; Frank
Hughes. 80, Bella Crompton, 90. Aver
age, Is.
Arlington.-Aenes owens. 93 Albert
Schmidt. 20: Bertha schmidt ~; Lucy
smith. 81: Walter smith 81; Butler
Moulton. Sc: Lizzie Bennett. 6s; Mary
Kochhan 90; Chester Jones. so; Ber-
tha White. II. Average. ~.
Howard. j Bessie Webb. 40; Annie
Johnson. 60; Anna Anderson. 50; Grace
stone. 81. Average 1s
Auburn.-Martha Sandager. "a; Fred
Allen. II: Robert Robbins, GO Nellie
Steerc. a: Philip seymour So; William
Thurber. 16: Williau~-Robbins, "a; Ma
bel Goodchild. ST; Edith Goodchild. a.;
Gordon Thurber. 65; Bessie Webster.
so: charlotte Moader IS; Bertha Wade,
IS: Mabel White. 30; Fannie Thurber
SO: Isabel Streeter, 20: Ernest Hager
SO: Arthur Phillips, 16. Average. 90.
Edgcwood. -Leonora Kirwin, IL; Dor
othy Burgc, ~: Sadie Brewster. 90;
Arthur Ellington. 16. Abbie Murphy.
7s: Jessie Shurtieff. 20: Clara Pickering.
a. Average. -. Town average. a. 2-3.