The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-27
THE CITY.

The Browning class will meet this
| forenoon at the Y. w. c. A. to transact
important business.
Walter j. Desmond of Worcester has
| been reelected president of the Cath
Ollie club of Harvard university.
There will be meeting Of the Y. M.
C. A. Camera club Monday evening at
o'clock, at rooms on Elm street.
The summer residence of Thomas B.
Eaton of this city at Westchop, Mar
tha's Vineyard, was destroyed by fire
Thursday night. The loss is about
$5OOO
Announcement is made of the mar
riage in London the goth Of Amy G.
| Whitman, daughter of Jared Whitman,
formerly of this city, to Frederick
Stahl
Mrs. S. B. Capron of Boston gave a
Bible reading in the parlors of Union
church yesterday afternoon, at which
the ladies of the church as well as a
number of others were present.
Mrs. E. P. Curtis, Miss Mary Frances
| Bigelow, Mrs. Charles H. Davis and
Miss Ethel Davis left for New York
this morning, and will sail today for
Naples. They will spend several
months IN Europe.
The Women's Missionary society of
All Saints church met in the parish
! library yesterday afternoon. The mite
boxes which were distributed some
| time ago, were returned and their con-
tents turned into the mission fund.
But one applicant for enlistment pre-
scented himself at the local recruiting
office yesterday, and he failed to pass
| the requisite physical examination.
| Capt. John C. Gresham has notified the
local office that he will be in this city
as usual today.
Engine was called on a still alarm
yesterday morning to Natural History
camp at Lake Quinsigamond, to eXtin-
guiSh a fire which started in one of the
houses used in the summer time as a
residence. The blaze was extinguished
without serious damage.
The county commissioners will meet
in Worcester Wednesday afternoon, the
regular Tuesday weekly meeting being
| postponed, owing to Memorial dav. The
matter of advertising for bios on the
| grading about the new court house
will be discussed and acted upon.
At the meeting of the primary and
Junior Sunday school teachers at the
Y M. c. A building, yesterday after
noon, the lesson for next Sunday was
taught by Mrs. A. T. Biggs of South
Baptist church. At the conference.
the subject, Sunday school concerts, -
was discussed
Capt Charles T. Pratt started yes
| terday for a weeks trip among the
stock farms of central Massachusetts
Capt. Pratt is the regular correspond
ent in this section of the state for the
American Horse Breeder. The pur-
pose of his present trip is to write UP
! the stock farms he intends to visit for
the newspaper he represents.
The two ninth grades of the Winslow
street school observed Memorial day
yesterday morning. Sergt. William e.
| Barton told a collection of stories about
the Cuban campaign, and showed his
collection of views taken in Cuba.
These were thrown on to the screen by
Principal Lyfords sun lantern and
came out with especially good effect.
The concert given by the Rossini
Ladies' quartet at the Greendale Peo-
| pies church, Thursday evening, vas
| highly enjoyed. Pleasing qualities were
prominent, both in the solo singing
and in the part songs The variety of
the selections and the manner in which
| they were rendered, combined to make
the program delightful and entertain
| ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Dick of June
street with their daughters, Mrs. 2. z.
Lane and Miss Annie Dick, sailed from
| New York yesterday on the Allen and
State line for Glasgow, Scotland. Mr..
Dick will visit his uncle, James Dick,
the lti-millionaire gutta percha
manufacturer and philanthropist of
Glasgow. The party will be away from
Worcester three months and possibly
| a year.
A welcome change from the incessant
rag time" of popular negro melodies
| is Mr. Mullins dainty little plantation
cradle song, "a darktown lullaby" The
poem is by George " Hobart of Bal
timore Life" and is exceedingly quaint
and picturesque, and the music admir-
| ably fits the sentiment of the words
| Henri Wolfsohn, the celebrated concert
manager of New York, was in Stein
ert's store recently, and complimented
the song very highly.
Arthur E. Anderson of the Quinsig-
almond Boot & Shoe Company has re
ceived letter from Myron Skogberg
who went to Chicago last March. He
writes that he is doing finely. He is
tuning pianos and learning the piano
trade with the big Chicago house, tie
Hodell & Dahl Piano Company 112
Michigan avenue. He has seen AXel
FRANKIE, who also left Worcester re-
Gently to settle in Chicago. FRANKIE IS
| teaching music there.
Miss Jeanne Lea Southwick has been
offered the position of instructor in art
at Ogontz, one of the best known
schools for young women in the coun-
| try. The salary is the same that she
received for teaching in the high
| schools in Worcester At Present Miss
| Southwick is studing in Paris, her
mornings being given to work in the
Luxembourg and sketching in the
streets of Paris, while in the afternoon
she attends a class in the Whistler
/ studio