The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-21

whole tree was hurled across the
| road. On School street near the home
! of Addison HARE, a big pine tree was
cleft in two almost from summit to
base, so intense was the weight 1t had
to bear.
| On Albert H. Spooners place on Elm
street the fury of the storm brought
big tree prone to the ground, and
the entire street was lined with
| branches. a. Daisy, who lives about
two miles east of the village. had
| fine orchard in which he took great
pride. but his pride took a fall this
morning, when he saw its condition.
Several panes of glass were broken
at the Sacred Heart school by falling
branches. Farmers who got into town
today, said that in sons cases they
had to cut off overhanging limbs III
order to force a passage for their
teams
Today. Road Commissioner Arson B.
Poland has been kept busy sending a
team around to collect the scattered
limbs and in many places he was
obliged to chop off branches that were
broken and hung over the sidewalks.
Very few small or young trees suffered
much, as they preferred to bend than
to break.
At the special town meeting in Town
Hall tonight, the number in attend
ance was small. The town needs
money to tide it over until after the
annual appropriations have been made
and on motion of John 3. Dewing, it
was voted THAT the town treasurer be
authorized to borrow a sum of money
not to exceed $4,000, under the provisions
of sections and of chapter 20 of the
public statutes, and to issue notes of
the town therefor, payable within one
year from date"
The library trustees have not yet de-
cided as to who shall succeed Mrs.
Emma lidden as librarian, and today
Miss Cooch of Cambridge was in North
Brookfield making application for the
position. She was shown over the
building by the library trustees, and
expressed herself pleased with the Ii
brary and its fixtures. Miss Cooch is
an assistant at the Harvard library,
and has had considerable experience
In the work. The trustees expect
lady from Amherst here this week to
apply for the position and examine into
the work the new librarian must do. A
decision is expected at the next meet
ing Of the trustees.
Another candidate for the Office Of
road commissioner doomed up today in
ZIG pCi sun Vi OOIlIl N1CNOy OF Bell street
to enhance the interest already conferred
on the contest for this office
Mr.. Mccoy has never been a candidate
for town office before, and his friends
have urged him to seek this one, believ-
ing him to be well qualified He has
had several years of experience on the
roads as an employee of the road com
missioner, and comes into the arena
with strong backing. His name will
be presented at the citizens caucus on
Friday night. 1t is expected that at
least three men will be in line after
this position, and a pretty contest is
certain.
Catcher William Bergen received a.
letter this morning from Manager Con-
ME Mack of the Milwaukee base ball
team onerlng the young player a place
IN the western Association Mack
whose home is in East Brookfeld. has
taken great interest in young Bergen,
who bids fair to rival his brother Mar
TN IN a few more seasons, and wants
him in the west. where he can have his
eye on him. The young man has been
considering an offer from Newport, but
told The Spy reporter today that he
thinks he will let Mack place him,
Manager Mack said he thought he
would put him with the Fort Wayne
team. Mack also wrote that he had
entirely recovered his health and gain
ed weight since he went west.
The committee on entertainment of
the st. Joseph's T. A. Society has dc.
clded to abandon the plan OF a three
night entertainment in April and pur
on drama instead. The selection has
not been made yet, but the play will
pronably be staged early in May.
II is intended to raise a fund to de-
ray expenses to the annual diocesan
field day.
Thomas Maloney, a Worcester drug
gist' arrived in North Brookheld today
to visit his parents on South Main
street, and was the bearer of a mes
sage from the mana cement of the Holy
Cross College base ball team to Clothier
?. j. Daniels of Main street Mr.. Dam
lels, who has attained an enyiable re-
putation as a base ball umpire, is
wanted by the South Worcester bows
to umpire all games at the college this
year, and Mr.. Maloney was delegated
to use his influence to secure him Mr..
Daniels says, however that much as he
would like to accept the offer, he can
not spare the time from his business.
At Delude's bowling alleys the lead
ers in the contest for prizes to be given
away on April l, are in bowling: VIII
liam Fennell with strings of 1O2, 11t
and 107; z. Dudley with strings of III
1913 and 1903; Milo Paige with strings of
9S, 90 and SO. In pool the leaders are
Timothy Murphy and Vest Kingsbury.
Today Ludger Delude, proprietor Of
the alleys, requested The Spy to print
challenge to the Winthrop bowling
team OF Worcester for two Saturday
afternoon games, one to be bowled in
Worcester and the other in North
Brookfield.
North Brookheld is isolated from the
rest of the world today as far as tele-
graph and telephone wires are con-
cerned. All wires went down last night
but the telephone wires to Spencer will
be put in shape tomorrow. 1t will
probably be tomorrow night before
connections can be made with Wor-
cester Inspector Edward Norton OF
Spencer was in North Brookfield today
looking for breaks in the wires and
spent several hours hard work getting
them ready for business again.
Manager Jess Tourtellotte of the
Union League basket ball team an
nounces the following lineup for to-
morrow nights game against Warren,
- - 'ONH H1lI. VI NdTuS, howard
ana Raymore; centre, Witt, backs,
Ormsby and Sargent. Between the
halves Physical Instructor James d.
Foster will put the junior class through
a dumbbell drill.
The body Of Andrew Mooney was
brought from West Brookfield TODAY
and inferred in st. Joseph's cemetery.
mo funeral procession found it a fierce
JOB getting over the road on account
OF the many branches that impeded
progrpSs