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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-01
MlLLBU ~ BUDGET.
Social Success Held by the Pastimt
lub.

Millbury, Dec. 31.-fhe members of
the Pastime Club held a social dance
in Elm Hall, in Cronins block this eve
ming, and in spite of the stormy wea-
Their, it was a successful. event. The
committee in charge were: Floor dir
ector, Joseph Booth; assistant floor di-
rector, Samuel Maxwell: aids, Joseph
A. Beeso, Leon Powers, Charles White
and Henry Marley Chaffecs orchestra
OF Worcester furnished music Supper
was served by Caterer n. F. O'Con-
nor.
The funeral of Oliver Periot took
place from the Church of the Assump-
ton this morning at 8 o'clock. Requiem
nigh mass was celebrated by Rev. ].
A. Charland. The bearers were: Chas
Bebo, Alex Bebo, Dixie Bebo and Sam
uel Perrott. Burial was at the Cath
/ ole cemetery.
Peter Brown of Maple street is break
ing in as motorman IN the Millbury
division of the Worcester and Subur-
ban road.
Mrs. Frank A. Whitney. wife Of
Frank Whitney of Hose /, fell on the
slippery sidewalk Friday morning and
/
Morning Star Lodge of Odd Fellows
Millbury, have elected these officers for
the term of one year: N G., l. F..
Howe; V. c., George B. Williams; T.,
Il w. Carter; r. S., Robert Tucker;
t. s., f. w. Munroe; Trus for three
years, S. D. Waters. The officers will
be installed Tuesday
william b. StockWell VIII conduct the
! praise SERVICES . thn
tional Sunday evening.
Rev. Herbert c. Farwell will preach
! at the Unitarian church Sunday Sub
| Ject, Ownership and USE"
Prof c. H. Lincoln has returned to
/ Pennsylvania.
The Young Mems Society of the First
I Congregational Church met last eve
ming.
J The series of chalk talks on "The
cross" at the Baptist church will close
/ tomorrow evening. George r, Cleye-
! land viii be the tenor soloist.
! The public schools open Monday.
/ The quarterly union Sunday school
concert will take place one week from
| Sunday night, at the Baptist church.
Eof UXbridge.
/ regular convocation Of the Tyrian
/ r. A. Chapter will be held next Tues
day evening, Jan. 3, 1899 at 7. 30 O'Clock.
t The work is M. NJ. NJ. degree.
/ John T.. Grogait of Providence is
visiting friends in town.
! Norris Sibley, naval cadet on the
training ship Enterprise. was in town
| today visiting friends.
A number of local young women met
/ at the c. Y. M. L. A. room this eve
ming, and watched the departure of the
! old year.
Prof. Allen NJ. Hazen has been en-
gagged to look after the city Of Worces-
ter in regard to the purifying of the
sewerage before it is turned into the
| river.
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UPTON AND WEST UPTON.

Upton, Dec. 31.-The funeral of the
late Mrs. Mary E. Temple occurred this
afternoon at 1 o'clock, at her late home.
Rev. Harry G. Butler officiated. The
remains were placed in the Upton tomb
and later will be taken to East Sutton
for interment. Mr. and Mrs. Temple
moved to Upton a short time ago and
took up their abode in the east part
of the town.
The Upton Farmers Club will hold a.
meeting in their rooms in the town
hall building, at 7.45 O'Clock Monday
evening.
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r. Z. Davennort and fami1u hi

r. K. Davenport and family, who
have been visiting at Mrs. w. G..
Fays of Cottage street, have returned
to their home at Mount Holly, n. C.
large section of board fence is be-
ing erected along the lower end of
Lake LashaWay, stretching from
Moreau's blacksmith shop to a point
near the rear of AleXanders store.
Nelson e. Nichols of Main street
will read a paper on 1.-The work of the
hospital ship Bay State" at the eve
ming service Of the Unitarian chuch at
Brookfield, tomorrow.
Mrs. Annie Cole and Miss Bessie
have returned from a visit to Provi-
dence r. I.
Mrs. Plny Doane of Main street is
i'll with the grip.
The new picker house was practically
finished today, a Jew finishing touches
only being needed to make it ready
for use, A scaffolding was erected to-
day around the large chimney of Mann
q Stevens mill and the brick will be
relatd as soon as possible, the chimney
at present being in a dilapidated con
dition.
The second grade school will start
in on its next term Monday morning
Jan. 2 in order to make up the lost
time occasioned by the absence of its
teacher Miss Nina Gleason. some Tins
ago. The remainder of the schools
| will start in Jan. 3.
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NORTH BROOKFlELD.
Needs Of Additional Library Hppropria-
tion Further riscrsied

Needs of Additional Library Rppropria-
tion Further Discussed.
North Brookfield, Dec. 1.-THE arti-
Gle in yesterdays Spy has drawn at
tention to the small amount Of money
available for use at the Public library
and reading room. A town with a
building costing over forty thousand
dollars, all the latest improvements,
and with only fifteen hundred dollars
appropriated to cover all expenses, Ii
brarian, janitor coal, light books, pa
pers, etc, is behind the times New
books and magazines and papers which
are OF the greatest value to all think
ing people are being issued from day
to day, and the library should have
the benefit of them at once,
The trustees can not afford to cut
out any of the reading matter without
its being detrimental to the good
which the library is accomplishing
An idea. is present among many that
nearly all of the high school scholars
failed in their examinations at the close
of the last term. 1t is true that many
failed, but many of these failed in two
or more studies, thus bringing the to-
tai up quite high. Ills is not due to
any greatly increased standard set by
Principal Judkins, but because the pu-
pills for some unknown reason have not
grasped the fundamental principles of
the different studies.
Principal Judkins has received word
from President MendenhaN Of the w.
+. |. that he viii grant concessions to
students from North Brookfeld high
school who wish to enter the W. P. l.,
thus giving our high school advanta-
ges enjoyed only by Worcester high.
Daniel Foster of Spring street is
confined to his house with a severe at
tack of the grip.
Marion, the young daughter of HID
i Cmlds of School street. who has been
slightly improved after a dangerous
Illness, is reported as not as well to-
day.
The Appleton Club will take up the
French masters" at its next meeting
on Jan. 18th, when a very attractive
program win be presented. The
French History Club of West Brook
field and the Forrnightly Club of
Brookfield viii be present.
Whitney's San Francisco MINISTRIES
arrived here in their special car today
and gave q first-class entertainment
at town hall tonight
Mrs. e. L. Haskell who has been Wis
iting friends in Boston for some time,
has returned home
A fine new piano recently purchased
by the Woman's Relief Corps, was
placed in G. a. r. Hall today and will
be used for the first time at the install
lation on Monday night.
Miss e. A. Hurley, who has been en-
pioyed by Miss X, J. PETER for the
past three months, has returned to her
home at Thomaston Conn.
Edward Dove has resigned his posi-
son as foreman Of the stitching room
at H. II. Browns and returned to Ma
tick.
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Company K of
Sixth
BEGINS, MONDAY,
A Twenty-Days' Tour, Prior
to Mastering Out.

Southbridge, Dec. accompany KS
turlough runs out Monday, and all
members are to report that day at the
armory, and will be on duty 20 days.
at the end of which time they will
probably be mustered out of the United
States service. Roll call will be held
each morning and evening during the
20 days.
The soldiers will be fed at the armory.
The contract for feeding them has been
awarded F. G. Bonnette of this town.
The resident members of the company
VIII probably be allowed to sleep at
their homes; those not having homes
mere will sleep in the armOry. The reg
ular drills will be gone through with.
and the same discipline observed as if
the soldiers were in camp.
Privates Bird and Garceau of Com
pany K left Thursday to join the
Eighth regiment, to which they have
been transferred.
Next week, the first week of the year,
will be observed by the Evangelical
churches as a week of prayer. Services
will be held in the different churches
each evening, except Saturday Mon
day evening at the Baptist Tuesday
evening the Baptist and Congregation
alist unite at the Congregational, and
the Methodists and Evangelical Free at
the Union church Wednesday night;
at the Baptist and Methodist churches.
Thursday, same as Tuesday night, and
Friday night union meeting at the
Methodist church.
During the week past an important
real estate transfer was made, and Gid
con Gregoire, Hamilton street, purchas-
ed from J. c. F. Wheelock, admins
TRAITOR Of the John Comins estate, the
property on Hamilton street extending
from the Universalist church to the es-
tate of Mrs. Haggerty. The property
includes a large double house. a one
tenement house, and two stores Stand
ing in the advantageous locality that it
does makes the property of consider
able value.
The annual meeting of the Primary
and Junior Teachers Union was held
yesterday afternoon in the Y M. c.
A. building. The following officers for
the ensuing year were elected: Presi-
dent Mrs. Martha Cough vice presi-
dent, Mrs. C. D. Gum and Mrs. L. E.
Ammidown; secretary and treasurer,
Miss Helen A. Luther. The next meet
Ing viii be held January 8 at O'clock
All teachers and those desiring to meet
with them are invited to attend
Rev Paul Roi, a Southbridge boy,
who was ordained priest at st. Hya-
cinthe seminary, Dec. II, and celebrated
his first mass here last Sunday, is to
remain with Mgr. Brochu as assistant
curate until appointed to another place
by Bishop Thomas D. Beaver of
Springfield.
The w. C. T. U. win meet in the Y.
NJ. c. A. lecture room Tuesday at three
o'clock.
Funeral services of the late Olive A.
Ayers will be held from the home of
her sister, Mrs. Ella Chamberlain,
Chaplin street, Monday at 1.30 O'Clock.
Charles Barolet of Providence has
been visiting friends here this week
The first lecture to be given in the
course under the auspices of the French
societies will be given by Rev. FIR.
ProulX of st. Lin, P. O., Sunday, Jan.
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A servant at the hotel fell down two
nights OF stairs yesterday and dislocat-
ed her right shoulder and was badly
bruised. Dr. Daniel T. Sullivan was
Aiied IN and rendered surgical aid.
Messrs. Thomas Magill of Cottage
street and Samuel Magill of Central
street nave returned home from Balti-
more, Md, where they have been work
ing FOR the Within machine works.
MISS Lena Wood of Grafton. who has
been visiting friends in town. has re-
turned home
John c. Thompson, janitor at Keg-
WINS boarding house, has concluded his
services. LIS
The body of Mrs. Joseph Mosso. who
died suddenly Monday in Waco, Tex
Wghile attending the funeral of her bro
ther, is expected to reach WhitinsvilJe
tonight on the 1898 train. The funeral
VII take place Monday morning from
81. Patrlck's Church at 8 o'clock. Inter
me IN st. Patrick's cemetery at River
dale ~ 'ei
Robert Goodnow and Fred Lane have
returned to Bath, Me-, after yisitire
friends in town.
William Leenstra had his great toe
of his right foot badly jammed while s.
work in the Within machine works veg.
terday morning.
Robert Balmer of New Haven, Conn
is visiting friends in town.
MRS. A. M, Wood of Whitinsyille is
the guest of friends at Grafton.
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WILL BE CHANGED.
Nail Catching Contrivance at 0unapoxet
Bad Affair.


Bad Affair.
Holden, Dec 81. - Quinapoxet people
think that it is about time to change the
instrument for catching the mail. For
the second time within two weeks it failed
to work yesterday. This time it was not
as disastrous as before, but some bundles
Of papers escaped from the bag The first
time letters, packages and papers were
cut in two, the bag falling under the
straw. The machine is simply hook
driven into post, and it is too close con-
nections for the mail man to take the
outbound bag and replace it with the one
to be left during the short stop of the
train.
Door arrangement to the mail department
officials, and it will probably be changed
soon
At a business meeting of the Holden
Baptist Church Levi H Howe chairman
of committee chosen to nominate a dea-
con in place Of Deacon William Howe, re-
ported the name of James A. Holden,
which was accepted and adopted. Mr.
Howe has served as deacon Of the church
years Of age, and being somewhat feeble,
Mr.. Holden was chosen to take his place
lat communion service when he is unable
to be present.
1t was voted to write letter to Mr..
Howe, expressing the good will of the
church and their appreciation of his long
and faithful services as deacon.
The warm weather of yesterday nut a
damper on skating enthusiasts for a
while.
H. e. Savage, who has been station
agent at the Holden station of the Fitch
burg Railroad, will begin his duties Mon
day as foreman of the Garden street
freight depot Worcester,
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Court Laville, No. 49, r. of A., has
elected the following officers for the en-
SUING year: c. r., Alcide Roy; S. c.
R., Eugene Menard; T., Pierre Bouttl-
cite; f. s., Arthur st. Andre: R. S.
Joseph Roy; S. W., Alfred Lfvenseur;
j. w, Philip Potvln; S. B., Augustine
Chabotte; j. B., Alfred Boutilette; TT,
for years, Levi Rascoe; TT. for wear,
Louis Paquin; P, ]. R. Giroux, M. D,
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EAST BROOKFiELD.

East Brookfeld, Dec. 31.-Rev. ]. b.
Child has returned home from Flush
ing, N Y, where he has spent the last
week, and will conduct the services
at the Baptist church tomorrow. Mrs.
Child did not return, as she is pros
trated by an attack Of grip, at the
home of her son Edward
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DISCHARGED FROM SERVICE

Washington, Dec. 31.-First Ijart
!lorland Garter, Fifth MASSACHUSETTS,
volunteer infantry, has been honorahi.s
discharged from the volunteer armv
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SECRETARY BLISS RETURNS TIC
WASHINGTON.

Washington Dec. S1.,-Secretary Bliss
has returned to this city from New
York and resumed his duties at the in
terror department.
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of this town, and Mrs. Fred Whittemore
OF Blackstone. The funeral will take
place Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
Interment in Pine Grove cemetery.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19
Divorce Laws Denounced.

Cleveland, o., May 19.-Bishop
Leonard, in his annual address
before the Ohio Episcopalian did,
cesar convention here today, scath-
ingly denounced the divorce laws.
THE good people of the United
States are raising a great cry"
said the bishop, against the ad-
mission of a member of congress
who is a polygamist, when practi-
cal polygamy is being practiced all
over this country. Things have
come to such a pass that the
fiimsiest preteXts are made the
means of securing a divorce. A
slight quarrel or miserable lust
are alike made a means to this
end"
Bishop Leonard then went on to
say that he wanted the church laws
made so severe that a divorced
person cannot be remarked at all
by an Episcopal clergyman.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19
Wild Tribe Discovered

Vancouver, b. c., May IS
The ascent of Mount Morrison,
the highest mountain in Formosa,
has been made by X. 7. Stoepel,
an explorer of note. On the
mountain, near the summit he
discovered a tribe of human be-
ings that had never seen the face
of white man, and possibly, had
never seen a Chinaman. These
people were of ferocious aspect,
extremely ugly, thin and entirely
naked. They were skull-hunters
evidently, and existed on wild ami
mails and were not averse to hui
man flesh.
Lower down on the mountain he
discovered a wild race of Malays.
which seems to have intermingled
with the Chinese race.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19
Another Fraker Case.

Fort Scott, Kan, May 49,
Thomas O'Toole, a patent medicine
manufacturer of this city, who
was supposed to have died last
month in Texas, of smallpox. and
whose life was insured in fraternal
orders here for S., 100, is now re-
ported to be alive and under arrest
near the Mexican border, the ar
rest having been made when he
was about to cross onto Mexican
soil. An officer of one of the or
ders TODAY asked the county at
torney of Bourbon county for a
warrant for the arrest of O'Toole
for completely in an attempt to de-
fraud the orders which had insured
O'TOOle'S life.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19
Twin Girls Shot.

Middlesboro, KY, May 18.-
Mary and Jennie Gibson, aged 16,
twin daughters of George Gibson
of Sergent, were shot last night by
ex-Sheriff Combs of Letcher coun-
ty. They were at a dance when
Combs got into a dispute with two
men. Presently the girls left, and
Combs, thinking they were the
men. followed and fired at them.
Mary was slightly wounded and
Jennie was killed. Combs gave
himself up.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19
Why Lowenstein Was Slain.

Manila papers received state pos
itively that Prince Ludwig Won
Lowenstein- Wertheim- Frudenburg
who was shot by an Oregon soldier
during the fight at Malabon, was a
spy, if not in the pay, at least in
sympathy with Aguinaldo. He
had been on the staff of General
Miller, but was dismissed. On the
day of his death he hung around
the fighting line. despite frequent
warnings, and was picked off by
an American bullet. His COM
panion, who was wounded, when
delirious, confirmed the suspicious
that the Prince was friendly to
AguinaldO.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19
Earthquake Shocks.

Hartford, Conn, May 1S.-
Hartford and other places along
the Connecticut river experienced
a slight earthquake shock shortly
before Sis O'Clock tonight. Res
licences in the elevated portions of
the city were perceptibly shaken,
dishes ratified on shelves and a
rumbling noise, suggestive of a
heavy explosion, was distinctly
heard. Reports of like occurrences
come from Middletown, East
Hampton and other points along
the river, as far as Saybrook. At
Middletown and East Hampton
many people rushed from their
homes, thoroughly frightened.
The shock was not felt in any pol
tion of the state excepting towns
along the Connecticut river.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19
CLASSIFICATION OF COTTON.
Georgia Legislature Consider q Plan TO
Remedy Abuses.


There Is a strong probability
that the legislature of Georgia at
its next session in October will
take up for consideration a plan
looking to the uniform classified
ton of cotton by sworn inspectors
all over the state at the points
from which the staple is shipped.
1t is the opinion of a great many
farmers of the state, factors and
commission men, that the general
depression and low price of cotton
are not entirely due, as commonly
remarked, to overproduction, but
to a lack of completion largely in
the purchase of the staple. At the
present time there is, according to
the best information, practically
no classification of cotton in the
state or in the south, certainly no
uniform classification. AS is
known, the cotton is classed by the
consumers and not by the produc-
ers, and the standard which is put
on the material by the former has
to be accepted by the latter. The
staple is shipped to foreign mar
kets and there, it is stated, boards
of arbitrators pass upon the class
of all the cotton which enters GER
tain ports.
The staple is roughly classed be-
fore it leaves the south, but the
consumers have the final say as to
the price to be paid for the raw
material.
This state of affairs, il is said,
results in the reclamation of thou
sands of dollars annually by the
consumers upon the intermediary
brokers, and inditectly, therefore,
upon the producer. The people
who at present put the class upon
the staple act independently, and
wherever the cotton falls off III
quality, according to their stand
ard, they hold the right to come
back upOn the southern houses for
the amount claimed to be short
1t is learned by the Department of
Agriculture that during the past
year, one firm in the state lost as
much as So, 900 by this process of
reclassifcatiOn The movement
toward reform in the matter of
classification arises, it is under
stood, not from the fact that the
intermediary brokers are put to a
loss, but because it acts directly
upon the producers.
The proposal to establish a uni
form classification, it is held, must
not only be final in its nature, but
it must be entered into by all or
the majority of the cotton produc-
ing states. By this means, it is
the belief of Commissioner Stevens
the arbitrary methods employed
abroad can be done away with.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19
Watson Sails for Manila.

Rear Admiral John g. Watson,
who will relieve Admiral Dewey in
command of the Asiatic squadron,
sailed for his post on the steamer
City of Peking, Tuesday. He has
retired from the command of the
Mare Island navy yard, which he
has formally turned over to Rear
Admiral Kempff, the new com
mandant, whose pennant now floats
from the receiving ship, Independ-
ence. Admiral Watson was ae-
companied by his personal staff,
Lieuts. Snowden and Marble. He
took five mechanics from Mare
Island. who will be employed at
the naval station at Cavite.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19
IS WAR OVER ?
Aspect Growing BrIRhter-ARuInsIdo
willing to Surrender

Manila, May 18.-It is authori-
lively reported that Aguinaldo has
fully decided to accept General Otis
terms, and will send commissioners
to Manila to arrange for the sur
render of the insurgent army.
General Otis has made the sur
render unconditional except that
amnesty is guaranteed to those
who had taken part in the war.
Aguinaldo has held out hoping to
make some more favorable terms,
although his advisors for some
time have favored a surrender.
AguinaldO fully understands the
terms so that there can be no quib-
bling owe: the matter. What the
Americans desire is that the Fill
pinos shall lay down their arms
and resume the civil pursuits fol
lowed prior to the war. a great
many have already done so, but
there are enough under arms tC
demoralize trade.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19

In constipation Herbine affords a
natural, healthful remedy, acting
promptly. A few small doses will
usually be found to so regulate the
excretory functions that they are
able to operate without any aid what
ever. Price so cents. City Drug
Store, w. B. Frame.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19

Purify the sewers of the body and
stimulate the digestive organs to
maintain health and strength and
energy. Prickly Ash Bitters is a
tonic for the kidneys, liver, stomach
and bowels. For sale by w. b.
Frame.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19

Don't forget the old stand when
leaving bus call. Stay with the
line that has always stayed with
you. 7. B. Cathev. Phone 81.
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whats in a name?F' The word
"bitters" does not always indicate
something harsh and disagreeable,
Prickly Ash Bitters is proof of this.
1t cleanses, strengthens and regu-
lates the system thoroughly, yet it
is so pleasant the most delicate
stomach will not object to it. Sold
by w. b. Frame.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19

Sour stomach, fullness after eat
ing, fiatulence are all caused by i'm
perfect digestion. Prickly Ash Bit
ters corrects the disorder at once
drives out badly digested food and
tones the stomach, liver and bowels.
For sale by w. B. Frame.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-19

For Whoopins Cough, Asthma,
Bronchitis, or Consumption, no
medicine equals Ballard's Horehound
Syrup. Price 25 and so cents. City
Drug Store, w. B. Frame.