The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-24
THE CITY.

There will be a meeting of the L. C.
B. A. this evening in st. Johns hall,
Temple street, az o'clock.
Prof. j. w. Churchill OF Andover &C.
cupied the pulpit of Piedmont church
at both morning and evening services
yesterday.
Good Will Lodge, Odd Ladies. will
picnic at North Grafton Wednesday.
Special cars will leave the city hall at
10 o'clock a. m.
Worcester Circle, Companion of the
Forest. will 90 to Clinton by special
electric car tonight to attend the in
stallation of officers of Fawn Circle.
Waldo H. Lewis gave report of his
visit to the Christian Endeavor con-
vention in Detroit at the prayer meet
ing of the Old South church last eve
ming.
The New England Laundrymen's as
ISOLATION will hold their annual outing
at the house Of the South Worcester
An3l.ng association, today. A business
meeting will be held during the day.
A delegation from the w. c. t. U. will
attend the New England Chautauaua
Sunday school assembly at Montwait,
South Fremingharl, today. Many of
the delegation will make the journey
by trolley.
The young peoples societies connect
ed with the Baptist, Methodist and
Quinsigamond, and in the city, held
an open air meeting on Belmont hill
yesterday afternoon at $50.
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city will be ordained by Ri. Rev. Bishop
Thomas D. Beavcn at Springfield, We'd
nesday morning. The ceremony will
take place at o'clock and will be at
tended by many people from this city.
The annual retreat of the priests of
the Springfield diocese closed at Holy
Cross College yesterday and all of the
priests returned to their parishes. To-
morrow the priests at the college will
begin their retreat for week, and it
is expected that there will be many
present from other Catholic colleges.
Maurice Steiner of Sweden, spoke at
the I. o. G. T. camp at Natural His
tory park at Lake Quinsigamond yes
terday afternoon at $50 o'clock. Mr..
Steiner gave an account of his recent
trip to the worlds supreme meetings
of the Independent Order of Good Tenn
plars held at Toronto.
Division 36, A. o. H, met yesterday
afternoon and voted to Join the build
ing corporation. The following COM
mittee was appointed to arrange for a
dance to be held this winter President
James Noonan, w. L. Murphy, M. j.
Moriarty, Maurice Kane, Patrick Flynn,
John Duke and P. ] Flynn.
A. N. Largely, employed at the Star
foundry reported to the police yester-
day the loss of Monarch Defiance BIZ
cycle, numbered 2O6, 4s0, with % inch,
black enameled frame and upturned
handlebars. The bicycle was stolen
yesterday morning between 8 and 9
o'clock.
Flora lodge, Vasa order, picnicked at
Jewett's farm yesterday. More than
200 attended, and enjoyed a pleasant
outing. A feature of the outing was
the serving of a sill Vexa Dinner was
served by the ladies. The committee
in charge of the picnic was Mrs. Ida
Nord, Mrs. Minnie Anderson, Misses
Magma Williamson, Emma Magnuson
and Frida Sundstrom.
The Macabees held a Zionistic meet
| ing last evening at their quarters, So
Green street, and appropriated 5000 to
be sent to Vienna, Austria, as payment
of their annual dues to the Information
al Zion society 1t was also agreed to
appropriate money to make a second
payment on the shares already pur-
chased in the London colonial scheme.
The money will be forwarded to Lon
don, where the headquarters are.
The Gemilus Hebrew Society held a
picnic at the Stone watering trough
on the Millbury road yesterday. Spe-
cial cars on the Worcester and Subur-
ban road brought down about 300 who
| enjoyed a good time until o'clock in
the evening. The object of the society
is to befriend Hebrews who are in des-
titute circumstances, and about SIS was
cleared at the picnic. A dinner was
served at the grounds about O'Clock
to more than 300.
Members OF the South Worcester
Homing Pigeon club held a pigeon fly
yesterday, and some good sport re-
suited. A. E. Clampard of 10 Francis
street flew two birds, John ingalls, one
and Joseph French one. The morning
fly was held from Marlboro to this city.
and the birds were let go by Daniel f.
O'Neil. ingalls, bird won in the morn
/ ing, covering the distance from MARI
boro to this city in 10 minutes and %
seconds. The afternoon fly was from
Spencer, and the birds were let 20 by
O'Neil. This time the bird belonging
to French got over the distance in %
minutes 20 seconds.