The Worcester spy., 1899-08-12
Spencer Cannot At
ford One Despite
Vote of Town.
SO NEW POLES COST TOO MUCH.
The Holy Rosary Society
Is Planning For
Foot Ball.

have a fire alarm system, and to have
it put in at the earliest period possible.
Agents of different companies have
been in town from time to time, trying
to secure the contract for putting in
The fire alarm system, but nothing def
mite has been done.
At their regular meeting, the select
men appointed T. H. Clark, superin-
tendent of the Spencer Gas Company,
md George GenZel, expert linesman of
the Worcester and Suburban Street
ailway, to go around the town and
ind out as nearly as possible in what
ondition the telegraph, telephone and
alectric light poles were in, and whether
[ would be necessary to put in new
poles or not. The two men went around
and made careful survey of all the
poles in the town.
AT special meeting of the select
men this morning, they reported that
if the fire alarm system was to be put
in as it should be- the town would need
to put up 80 new poles at the lowest
estimate. To do this the selectmen
would have to put the town to an ad-
ditional expense and as the seleetmen
say the town cannot afford the extra
expenditure, in all probability the
new fire alarm system will have to be
dropped for this year at least, and the
town will nave to rely upon its anti
quated form of either blowing the whis-
tie at E. E. Stone & Co.'s shop, or the
gas companys whistle.
The house of w. H. Fisher, on Chest
nut street, in which child of nine
years old is sick with scarlet fever, has
not been placarded by the board of
health, and the people in that district
are wondering at the tardiness of the
town officials in tacking up the red
card. The members of the family at
tend their work every day as if no
contagious disease was anywhere near
One of the family is employed in A.
L. Taft's satinet mill w. H. Fisher
the father of the afflicted child, is en-
ployed in Wire Village, and attends to
his work every day. A sister of the
| patient is employed in the box shop.
| She also attends to work every day. The
| people in the vicinity of the Fisher
house are 10th to make any complaint,
| but at the same time they have hard
| things to say about the board of
| health, and are wondering why the
| house isn't placarded.
The BARRIERS and bakers had a meeting
| last night in the barber shop of Joseph
Richards on Mechanic street, relative
| to the base ball game to be played be-
tween the mustache twirlers and the
| egg breakers. The BARRIERS objected
| to the playing of Arthur Girouard on
the bakers team, claiming that he
| wasn't a baker The date of the game
has been fixed for Aug. 28. The two
| teams will meet again to choose an
| umpire.
| Spencer promises to be a hot foot
ball town this fall. Already arrange
| ments are being made by the Holy Ro-
sary G.. T. A. Society to put a strong
eleven in the field. In the society are
some of the best foot ball men that
ever kicked the pigskin in Spencer.
Among those that will probably be on
the team is John F. Dillon, who was
a member of the 49, "a and '95 foot
ball eleyens of the David Prouty high
school. Dillon is hard player. Thos.
Calvin. right guard on the '9S foot ball
eleven of the D. p. H. s.. is also an
other likely player. Calvin played the
best game Of any one in the line last
year, and was considered the best line
breaker the school ever had. Henry
H. Lee, the stalwart right end of the
98 championship eleven of the D. P
H. s., is also down to play. Lee was
the terror of every eleven the high
school team went up against last year:
it has been said that no one ever got
around Lees end for a gain. Joseph
Dermody, captain of the high school
back in the town, and is to play with
the G. S. A. eleven if possible, but it
is doubtful as he is captain of the high
school eleven, and will be obliged to
play with the school team.
Thomas Derby, formerly left tackle
of the Childs business college eleven,
is down for place, and may be de-
pended upon to play a good game. Ar
thur McKenna, who formerly played
left end on the high school eleven, is
to play and is one of the best players
on the proposed eleven. Taking the
team all together, it promises to be a
crack-a-jack.
In conversation with The Spy man,
today, ex-Manager Dillon Of the base
ball team said: 1--WE intend to put an
eleven on the gridiron that will take
no back water from any eleven in the
county. The eleven will average
about 1856 or 100 pounds, and will be al
crack-a-jack. In all probability, Dill
lon will captain the eleven and it will
be managed by Thomas F. Meehan, who
has had experience in managing track
and base ball teams.
Miss Rosa LIE Vogue of Hartford is
in town.
Miss Della Gauthier of Worcester is
the guest of Mrs. Lord, on Macdonald
street.
Miss Mary Champigny of Worcester
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Della
Beaudoin.
Members of the Holy Rosary C. T.
A. Society are eager to play base ball
with the st. joseph C. T. A. Society
of North Brookfield. The base bail
committee of the Spencer society, con-
sisting of Thomas F. Meehan, James
A. Quinn and John F. Dillon, are very
anxious to arrange the game If possi-
BILE. Thomas F. Meehan, ex-manager of
the c. T. A. base ball team, said today:
"The North Brookfield society gave us
a good beating on the track, Memorial
day, but we are sure that we can push
out base ball team from our society
that will wallop the life out Of the
North Brookfeld c. T. A. Society'sl
team
The whole society expresses the sen
timents Of Mr. Meehan, and is willing
to stand back of the team. Some Of
those who will play are: Edmund
Birds Martin O'Connor, John Dun
ming, Raoul Barribeault, Henry Mayo,
Thomas White, John Dillon, Arthur
McKenna and others that are not vet
picked out. The team would be a
strong one, and would meet with the
full support of the society
William Bacon and Harold Carpen-
ter campers at South pond, Podunk,
came to town tonight, the happy pos
SCISSOR Of black bass weighing four
pounds, one ounce, when dressed, and
two large pickerel weighing about two
pounds. These are the largest native
fish seen In Spencer this year.