The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-13
ahead with the laying of the sewers
as voted at the recent town meeting

ahead with the laying of the sewers
as voted at the recent town meeting.
There win by a lynching in the quiet
| town Of Dudley soon IL the reports are
true that are being circulated, for-tbere
is some dark faced individual at work
in the national graft of the colored
race, that of the confiscation of chick
ems. Whoever the thief is, he, is doing
a wholesale business. He is not getting
rich by his transactions by any means,
but he is causing big commotlon
among the residents of Dudley.
Included among the list is Tax Col
lector James H. Dwyer, Joseph Column
and Michael Ryan, whose hen roosts
have been visited during the past
week. The owners of chickens are pa
tiently waiting until they can catch
the thief, and Mr.. Dwyer has got big
shotgun loaded to the muzzle with big
slugs of lead. Mr. Dwyer has lost Is
fowls; Michael Ryan Is, and Mr.. Col
lum 30 in number.
Resolved, that bicycles should not
be taxed in Webster was decided in
the negative by the students of the
high school tonight. The affirmative
speakers were the Misses Helen Bates
and Dora Gerber, while Miss Alice
Schubert and Carl King opposed them.
Others who participated in the eve
nings entertainment were: j. Gertrude
Giroux, James Buckley, John Sullivan,
Eva Hoyle, Alice Schubert, Bessie Love,
L. o. Howard, Rheinhard Berthold,
Daisy M. Rowell, Misses Carpenter and
Dasey, and Adelina Jonakowski
The railroad employees on the local
branch. of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad are worrying
over the examination that they must
take soon for their eyes. Each ana
every one will be required to read and
distinguish letter a half inch high at
distance of twenty feet. II there IS any
color blindness, it. will also mean to
look for new job.
Mrs M. A Holton, soprano sololst
of DR.. Conrads church. in Worcester,
will sing on trial at the local M. e.
Church next Sunday morning.
The scholars of the high school nave
decided to hold a picnic at the big lake
some time next month, and at meet
ing today they chose William J. Love-
Lowell Marcy, Wayne S. Surles, Muriel
Crawford and Myrtis Mcguire COM
mittee to make the necessary arrange
ments for the event. The school VIII
endeavor to get either Putnam or OK
ford to combine with them and com
pete for prizes in such races as will
occur.
]. Labowsl1i, Main street grocer. got
himself into trouble this afternoon by
his experiments. He was working on
a glass bottle, when it exploded and a
piece of the glass was Embedded in his
right hand, He had mixed acetic acid
and vinegar in a bottle, which caused
bi-carbonate of soda, and the reaction
caused in trying to escape exploded the
bottle in a thousand bits.
The shirt waist party under the aus
pices of the Ladies' Auxiliary, A. o.
H., in the opera house tonight, was a
big success from all standpoints. The
attendance was large. Caterer P. F.
Whalen served refreshments during
the evening.
Inspector R. 2. Healy of the New
England Telephone Company, who has
been in town for the past couple of
weeks, has transferred his operations
to Clinton,
The piano that was attached by Off
Ger Joseph P. Love. at the instance of
Nicholas Giles, for alleged debts, and
which was supposed to have been
owned by John P. Penhall, has been