The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-30

ton Depot has increased rapidly
OF late, and many other circumstances
/ indicate the wisdom of connecting the
two points with an electric road.
+ From the amount of cheap talk that
Is just now passing between South
bridge and Webster on base ball mat
ters, the public has been led to believe
that open war RACES between the man
agements and teams of the two towns.
Rumor also, has it that the South
bridge team has disbanded, and no
more games will be played this year.
The Spy man, who. enjoys the conf
dence OF the management both teams.
was informed last evening that the re-
lations existing between the two teams
were perfectly friendly, and everything
that had thus far occurred was as am
liable as could be wished. Further
more, the statements that Southbridge
was without a ball team, and that the
remaining Webster Southbridge games
would not be played, is without foun-
dation. Southbridge will play Webster
next Saturday in Southbridge, and
there are now pending negotiations for
several more games to be played be-
fore the season is ended.
AL e. Hughes resumes labors in the
office of the American Optical Com
pany Monday after an outing down
the Providence river.
~
traction at Fair View park next week.
John Boyden- returned today from a
two weeks vacation, which has been
chiefly spent at his home in Wood
stock, CT $50
Miss Katherine Brockway of Arling-
ton is the guest-of Peter P. Clarke.
Rev. George w. Penniman and fami-
summer at the Bullock farm in Stur-
bridge.
Mrs. julius S. Dresser is at the st.
Vincent hospital. Worcester, undergo
ing treatment for appendicitis.
The .Universalist church will be
closed until the first Sunday in Sep
TENDER.
At the commencement of next term,
the Southbridge high school will have
two sessions a day, instead of one, as
formerly, commencing at $50 a. m. to
II M, and from l p. m. until 3 p. M.
The change is made by the school COM
mittee, who think it will prove more
beneficial than the old system.
Miss Blanche Wheeler is enjoying the
sea breezes of Gloucester for couple
of weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Searles are en-
PERTAINING Miss Lucy Brown of Salem
The young ladies employed in the
eyeglass department of the American
Optical Company works will hold a
picnic at Lake Tantonsque, Monday.
The party will include about 30 who
will be carried to and from the lake
in barges. Miss Isabel Lamoureux,
Miss Mary Hayes and Miss Della Green
have charge of the arrangements.
The motormen and conductors on the
Southbridge and Fiskdale electrics will
hold q clambake Sunday afternoon at
Holland pond.
The residents on Chaplin and Dresser
streets are greatly annoyed evenings
by the racket of an0ld wornout merry
go-round" Which has just been. set up
in Goddard's court.
Michael Ryan, the genial clerk in N.
7. Hurlbuts clothing store, started this
morning for a trip through Canada,
and will be gone a couple of weeks.
Miss Carrie Gleason of New York has
been visiting her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Julius Gleason, the past week.
Mark Sharpe returned Thursday on
the steamer New England from a trip
to England, having been gone about
two months.
The Southbridge Veteran Firemen's
Association will hold a meeting Friday
night, to consider the acceptance of the
invitation lately extended by the Web
ster fire department to participate in
the muster In Webster Sept l.