The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-17
LEICESTER.
Large Whist Party at The Leicester
Town Notes.


Leicester, Aug. 16.-The following
carried off the prizes at the fourth MD
summer nights whist party at the Lei
cester last evening: Mrs. F. H. Gift
ford, first ladies' prize, sachet toilet
box; Mrs. Augustus Ninott, second,
souvenir spoon; Mrs. ]. Sidney Whit
temore, third; Mrs E. G. Chase, boo
by price Edwin L. Watson, first gen
tleman's prize, silver backed hat brush;
J. Howard Stevens, second, fancy
hask; J. Sidney Whittemore, third, mo-
10000 card case; BOBBY prize, DR.. j. H.
stuart Eight tables were filled.
The players were J. Sidney WHITE
more and wife, Billings Mann and wife,
Edwin L. Watson and wife; DR.. F. H.
Clifford and wife, Augustus Minott and
wife. John p. Ashley and wife, Albert
=. Booth and wife. Mrs Fanny Morse,
Mrs. S. r. Haven, w. f. Pick, Miss e.
n. Desmazes, Miss Emma +. Allen,
DR.. ]. H. Stuart, Miss N. Olive knight,
A. b, Estabrook, Nathan C. South
wick. Miss Sara Southwick, Walter @.
Watson, Mrs. H. L. Watson, ]. How
ard Stevens, Miss Emma Mann, Mrs
e. G. Chase, Robert S. Olney, Miss
Catherine Olney, DR.. c. G. Stearns.
The w. c. T. U. will meet with Mrs
Grout Friday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
and the topic of discussion will be
The duty of young people in temper
ance work" Tea will be served at $50
and in the evening there will be an
entertainment to which all young peo-
pie are invited. Miss Margaret Tyler
of Boston will give an address in the
interest Of the Willard Y settlement.
julius Rivers, manager of the Cherry
Valley ball nine, would like to arrange
games with any strong county team,
such as the teams from Rochdale,
North Brookfeld, Spencer, West War
rem, Jeffersonville and Barre.
Emmett ]. Shaughnessey Of Cherry
Valley has been appointed by the school
committee to take the census of school
children, in the town of Leicester, be-
tween the ages of and Is. He COM
menced work today. The census of 1896
showed total of 565 school children in
Leicester.
Recent arrivals at the Leicester, who
contemplate staying until the end Of
the season. are: Mrs. b. d. Haskell,
Miss A. M. Quinn and Miss Freda M.
Haskell, Cambridge; Mrs. D. F. Eel
lows, Miss Frances Fellows, West
Brentworth, N. H.
George NJ. Hovey and wife returned
Today from a two weeks stay in the
vicinity Of Lake Champlain.
John w. Snow lost a valuable driving
horse this week under peculiar circum-
stances. The black horse Doctor
bought a short time ago from DIR. C.
G. Stearns, went lame, and was turned
out to pasture last week on the old
Piper farm. The animal was found
holding foreleg a short time after it
was turned out, and it was seen that
the bone was broken at the ankle The
horse had to be shot and the break was
examined. 1t was found that a split in
the ankle bone caused the original
lameness, and that a second split had
been made at right angles to the first.
Mrs. F. E. Trask, Mrs. H. E. Sar-
gent and Miss Evelyn Sargent re-
turned today from stay at the Pax
ton inn.
Local base ball cranks want to see a
game between mines picked from en-
ployes at the Central card clothing tac-
tory and J.. P. Ashey's tinkers. Alfred
Baker, formerly quite twirler, has re-
Gently gone to work in the factory, and
with j. s.. Whittemore,@ who formerly
caught for the Leicester team, a good
battery could be had, John Gilchrist
employed by Ashley has done some
work in the box and William Woods
Jr., has done backstop work