The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-17
OFFICE is OPEN.
Valley Men May Now
Enlist In Forty
sixth.
THEY WANT REDUCED FARES.
Millbury Men viii Petition
Suburban Road for
a Change.
THEY WANT REDUCED FARES.

Millbury, Sept. 16.-Sergt. Paul Ger
Der of Worcester was in this town to-
day and hired the old Hopkins office in
the Farnsworth building for a recruit
ing Office. Today notices were posted
about town for men to enlist in the
Forty-sixth infantry now recruiting at
South birmingham.
The branch office in this town will be
open on Wednesdays and Saturdays
from 9 o'clock in the morning until 8
o'clock in the afternoon. AS soon as the
notices were posted several young men
said they would enlist.
The registrars of voters met in their
rooms this afternoon. Only one man was
registered.
A shake up is the latest thing in the
Worcester and Suburban railroad. To-
day a notice was posted in the lobby
of the car barn that beginning tomor-
row the men on the road would be
changed around and the older men
would be given the cars with the most
time. Several of the men that are now
employed on the Bramanyille end of the
line will be shifted to the Blackstone
Valley end of the line and the same case
with the men on the valley end of the
line,
In short time it is the idea of the
men employed id the Quinsigamond
wire works TO present a petition to
President Samuel Winslow with the
idea in view of securing lower rates on
the Worcester and Suburban street rail-
way. The trouble comes from the fact
that the men employed in the wire
works get on the cars at the office of the
mills and the distance to the Millbury
line is about a half-mile and the men
are compelled to pay two fares.
Already the men are getting the petit
ton ready and as soon as it is COM
pleted they will present it to the presi-
dent of the road. The road sells tickets
at the rate of six for Is cents, but the
men desire the rate to be lowered to
less than this They desire that the road
sell weekingmen's books, and in this
way tt " can save money, but at the
present schedule they lose.
AS most of the men live in Millbury
center they pay out quite sum OF
money for car fare during month. II
the railroad company does not take no.
tice of the petition they will hand in
petition to the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad asking that COM
pany to stop one of its trains at the wire
mills and i'll this way they can get to
the Worcester and Suburban. A work.
ingman's passage book could be issued
by the Worcester and Suburban railway
and sold at rates that would suit the
employees of the wire mills.
Some of the employees of the mills
suggest that the railroad company is
sue book good only between the hours
of and in the morning and between
andr7. 80 inathe evening AT any rate,
I1 fed in chr
time to the company and the employees
viii await the answer with Impotence.
The republican caucus will be held
on Thursday evening, Sept. q, to select
officers for the ensuing year. Most of
the republicans think that last years
town committee will be reelected.
The assessors of this town met in
their rooms in the town hall this eve
ming and made such corrections and
attachments as We're necessary. Only
one abatement was made. w P. Hy-
att, formerly of the Bowden Felt
Works, has advertised his property
for sale. He intends TO go to Califor
MIA in short time.
B. f. Rice, station agent at the Bos
ton & Albany, has left for vacation
trip to Michigan.
H Truaman Van Ostrand of Pitts
burg, Penn, is the guest of his father,
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Mr. Van 0strand is a graduate Of the
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is
a. present employed at the head of a
telephone company in Pittsburg.
A marriage license was issued this
afternoon to Henry Cofskey of Wor
cester, %, and Miss Josephine Cover,
IL, of this town.
Mrs. John Nunning, for many years
resident of this town, but lately of
Pawtucket, died at her home in that
place at o'clock this morning. The
funeral arrangements have not yet
been made.
James Phisett of this town left this
afternoon for Woonsocket, where he
will be married tomorrow afternoon to
Miss Josie Boudiette.
Steamer No. 2NWent to West Millbury
this afternoon and pumped out the
well at the school house.
The leak in the pipes of the Millbury
Water Company was repaired today
by plumbers of Worcester. The water
was put on late this afternoon and the
pipe is all solid again.
There is trouble over a fence that
the Boston & Albany is building
around property al the land ewned by
the Walling heirs, more commonly
known as the 'Millbury. Land Company
AS far as could be learned this after
noon, the e. & A. are doing nothing
but what is in their power TO do, and
no suits are likely to result. AS to their
closing up the roadway of the proper
ty owners living in that vicinity, there
are two roadways and if one is closed
up the other can be used.
Now that the state road is being built
from the Millbury line to Sutton, prop
erty around the Sutton side of Lake
Singletary is likely to have a raise in
value. AS soon as the road is built sew
eral people will purchase land on the
shores of Lake Singletary and in that
vicinity for homes.
Two parties were in town this week
looking at land in that vicinity and say
they will build if the prospects are good
next season. One Of the parties was
looking for hotel site, and may build
summer hotel on the shores of Lake
Singietary next summer
When the state road is finished the
Sutton road will be one of the prettiesr
sections around, and the road being
near the lake, the inducements for
builders will be considerably increased.