The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-10

w. L. 1SoSn u tHlS CITY is Stopplni
at the Hotel Lafayette, in Phiiadel
phia.
Miss Annie E. Bates is visiting he
sister. Mrs. William Blanton, at Tam
pa, Fla.
George Gebbie, representing tn,
Munyon Homeopathic Home Remed1
Company, is at the Bay State House.
Miss Miriam Witherspoon, secretar,
of the Associated Charities, is in Prov
idence today on matters in connectio,
with her work.
Fraulein Won Voigt will give a serie,
Of German talks in the city, the frs
one occurring at the residence of Gen
Rockwood Hoar-
A special meeting of the L. F. M. S
will be held at 8 o'clock tonight. al
Father Mathew Hall Business Of
special Importance.
M. M. Baker of the Engineering News
was in this city yesterday, and made
an inspection or the work now going
on in the sewer department.
The annual supper of the Ladies'
Benevolent Society of the Main Street
Baptist Church will be held Friday.
Feb 10. Supper served at o'clock.
The Cercle Francois has elected Miss
Clarissa Smith to be member of that
body. The Cercle meets this evening
with Miss Elizabeth NJ. White, 12i
Pleasant street.
The freshman class at the Tech held
its election of officers for the coming
balf-year yesterday, and chose F. w,
Gilbert president and F. C. Baxter
vice president.
A box party and dance was given in
Franklin Hail. last night, by the
friends of Frank II. Percy, for whose
benefit the entertainment was held.
The attendance was good.
A very elaborate program for the
concert of the Board of Trade Glee
Club in Association Hall tonight. has
been arranged. Among the soloists
will be Mrs. Dorothy Miller of the Old
South choir.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Adams
Square Congregational Church will
serve cold meat supper in the church
vestry, next Tuesday evening, from 6
to s. A musical and literary entertain
ment will follow
The funeral of John Anderson, who
died at the Home farm Tuesday, took
place yesterday afternoon, with serv-
ices in John Street Baptist Church. The
burial was in Hope cemetery, and Rev.
Hiram Conway ofticiated.
President William A. Rossley Of the
Carpenters Union was before the legis-
lative committee on labor, at the
state house, yesterday, advocating a
bill providing for day labor ON all pub
lie buildings.
John. infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph O'Toole, of "a Richland street,
died at the home of its parents yes
terday morning, after a brief illness
The funeral will take place from home
tomorrow afternoon.
Richard H. Mooney, principal of the
Quinsigamond school, has been secured
by the st. Johns Temperance and Lit
erary Guild as the speaker for It's
smoke talk and entertainment at the
Institute Hall, on the 18th of this
month";.
The boulevard will be in excellent
condition for fast driving today. There
was force at work all yesterday af-
ternoon, leveling the track and remov-
ing the surplus snow, and while few
teams came out there was no rapid
trotting done.
The last of Miss Penelope Burns
German talks took place yesterday at
the residence of Mrs. H. Winfield Wv
man. Carmen Sylvia" was the sub
ject of the talk The Germania We
rein rendered several German songs in
the course Of the afternoon.
The New &Ianlpshfre Club will hold
its annual meeting Tuesday, in Memo
rial Hall. Gov. Rollins of New Hamp-
shire, with one of his staff, will attend
and deliver an address. Mayor Rufus
B.. Dodge, Jr., and Samuel Powers of
Boston will also address the club.
The Ladies' Society of Emmanuel
Church win hold their monthly meet
ing Thursday afternoon. at the church,
corner of Endicott and Bigelow streets.
supper will be served by the ladies at
{ o'clock, followed by an entertain
ment
President Perky of the Dread Insti-
tute received word from Niagara Falls
yesterday that Jessie E. Hamilton of
Kansas and Minnie B. O'Neil of Mil
Waukee, Wis. would arrive in Wor-
cester this morning. The young ladies
are the executive appointees from their
respective state to scholarships at the
Dread.
The Swedish Christian Singing Asso-
citation of Greater New York, made up
of 80 male voices, will give a concert
in the Salem Square Swedish Church,
Tuesday evening, Feb. Il. The proceeds
of the concert will be donated toward
the support of the Immigrants Home
in New York.
The class in mineralogy meets at the
Natural History rooms at 4.45 this af-
ternoon. Work, magnetic. and aka
line reactions and flame coloration
The display of Worcester county winter
birds of the hawk family, now on, will
be followed in few days by that of
the smaller winter birds.
Utopia .Rebekah Lodge held a turkey
supper and entertainment in its hall, Ii
Pleasant street; last night. The pro-
gram was as follows: Piano duet,
Misses Florence Carpenter and Helen
Lawrence; song, Fred Bates; song,
Miss Minnie Gard; guitar solo, Fred
Bates; song, Miss Minnie Gard.
The annual reunion of the Amherst
alumni will take place in the State
Mutual restaurant on Thursday, Feb.
23d. at $50. o'clock. DR.. Charles A.
Peabody will preside, and speeches will
be made by many prominent alumni of
the section. DR.. Edward Hitchcock
of the board of government will repre-
sent the college.
Utopia Lodge will hold a sale and
turkey dinner week from next We'd
nesday night, in the hall at II Pleasant
street The dinner will be from u I'M
til 2 O'clock and the sale will continue
throughout the afternoon. In the eve
ming a supper will be served, which
will be followed by an entertainment.
The public is invited.
Master Allen, Peabody, assisted by
Master Frank Hoar, gave a pleasant