The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-30
BUSINESS is GOOD.
Spencer Has Pros
poets of a Busy
Winter.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FAIR.
Liberal Prizes Offered in
the Trotting Events
This Year.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FAIR.

lulS L ear.
Spencer, Aug. 29.-Work in the NAM
moth boot and shoe shops in Spencer is
becoming slack, and already the boot
cutters have been put on nine hours
per day A notice was posted in the cut
ting room to the effect that beginning
Monday, Aug. rs, the cutters would go
on nine hours per day instead of 10, as
has been the custom throughout the
summer
Today the reporter for The Spy asked
a cutter in the l. Prouty & Co.'S mann
moth shop if he thought the seasons
run of work had been as good as the
previous years. The cutter said. Eyes,
consider this years work the best
year that we have had for five years.
me work has been of a good grade and
taxing 1t all together it is the best
year work l have put in for quite a
while. Other cutters seen by the re-
porter We're of the same opinion.
Inc boot department of the shop is
the department that is Stacking up now.
Where 800 cases of boots We're former
~ put through in the big shop alone
per day, now $50 or 200 cases per day is
the average
In the shops of E. Jones & Co. the
snoe department is improving daily.
This is also true in the 7 Poutv e Co =
snoe department. Immense orders for
SHOES nave arrived and everything
points to busy winter in the shoe de-
partment. This department has had
the pest run of shoes this past year of
any year since the new company was
formed. "'''
The reporter for The Spy paid a visit
70 the shoe shop Of Emory Sibley, Here
II was found that shoes were
unusually brisk this year and every-
thlhS indicated busy winters work.
Great preparations are being made
by the Farmers and Mechanics Agri-
cultural Society for the fair to he held
IN spencer at Myrick Park, Sept. q and
~ Secretary Fl. H. Capen has for
Warded entry blanks to all the well
known horsemen in the state, and a, fine
llst OF trotting and pacing may be as
sured. The exhibits will be shown in
the hau, as in former years, and this
part OF the fair has always been a
pleasing addition to the Spencer people
that attend the fair year after year,
Eight hundred dollars have been Of
tered in prizes by the association in the
trottmg and pacing races. The races
are to be governed by the National
Racing Association rules.
E. Harris Rowland, president of the
association, and H. II. Capen, secretary
or the association, are leaving nothing
undone 70 make the fair success. The
public schools will close for the occa-
sion, and all business will be SUSPENDED
on one day of the fair. The fair is the
one thing in the whole year that all
Spencer turns out for. Last year the
falr had to be stopped on the last day
and postponed to the next, but on the
day to which the fair was postponed
rain stopped the proceedings.
At the meeting of the democratic
town committee held last night it was
voted to hold the democratic caucus on
Sept IA or Is. The caucus will be held
for the purpose of selecting candidates
for the general court and delegates to
the state, councillor, county, senatorial
and representative conventions The
dates, Sept. IA or 49, are fixed by law,
and must be held as the dates for the
caucus.
Laphare Deslaurier, George Potion
and Alphonse Gaginer started today to
enlist in Uncle Sans army in New
York for service in the Philippines.
The cogs in the main gear at the No.
wire mill broke today, causing a sus-
pension of operations
Alphonse Wedge has sold out his
lunch room in the Arseneault block,
Mechanic street, to Alec Bouley,
The BARRIERS and bakers appreciate a
good thing when they see it. Tonight
they presented Ed Mcguire a pair of
INK cum buttons and a scarf pin as a
| token of the fair way In which Mr.. Ma
gutrc umpired the game of ball between
the two teams. A. Kasky made the
presentation speech.
George F'lagg was arrested by Officers
George F. McKenna and Adelard Fleu-
| ~ today for being drunk This is
Flagg's second offense in as many
| weeks Justice A. w. Curtis sentenced
| Flagg for eight months, but Flagg ap-
! pealed, and was put under $500 bonds.
which he was unable to obtain.
| At meeting of the D. P. H. S. Al
umm Association i'm the High school
nall, the following officers were chosen
| for the ensuing year: President. Frank
| A. Drury; president, Rev. Charles
| T.. Sumner; secretary and treasurer.
| Charles w. Estes, Jr. The executive
| committee chosen are Linus H. Bacon.
| Miss Mary Achim, Jarvis Dunton and
| Miss Laura Woodbury..
| Alphonse Wedge is to clerk for T.
| mcnamara q Co.
Henry Gammond of Holyoke is the
guest of William Courtamanche of
! Church street
| NJ. j. Abbott, foreman of the cutting
| over room in the l. Prouty & Co.'s shop.
IS confined to his home by an attack of
! tonsilitis
| An electric light has been put up on
! Linden street.
Miss Della o'connor has returned
from visit to Millbury.
P. Cassidy is repairing the Windsor
| house.
Today A. w. Curtis, trustee of the
| Sugden block, received sample lock
! box from the McLane company of New
port, N. H. The box is of a new style
and its workings were explained to The
| Spy reporter this evening. Instead of
a key being used to unlock the box, a
| combination is placed on the front of
| the box, by which ii is unlocked. The
| front of the proposed box is of brass
| with a glass piece through which the
! interior of the box can be seen. The
box is an innovation In Spencer and
was curiously examined by every one
| that saw it.
A letter was received today from
| Second Lieut.. e. Ray Stone of the
Fourth infantry, u. S. A., now sta
| toned at Limas, doing guard duty. The
| letter started from Manila, July "a and
! reached Spencer Aug. 30. Lieut. Stone
writes that he is WELL happy and has
not lost any of his courage.
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