The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-01

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Secretary Arthur w. Walls of Wor
cester Sportsmens Club attended the
shoot of the Leominster Gun Club yes
terday. He will shoot at Providence
| Tuesday.
Hon. Howard K. Sanderson of Lynn.
son of the Rev. Alonzo Sanderson of
this city, was commencement speaker
at the graduating exercises of the Lynn
nigh school last Wednesday.
Humans Business college, which
has been located for the past eight
| years on the sixth floor of the Chase
| building, will have new quarters next
year in the bank building on Foster
| street.
| The young women of ST. Anne's So
| clety and their friends who assisted at
| their festival in Mechanics hall, May 20,
| enjoyed a trolley ride to Clinton last
evening A social and dance was held
in Clinton town hall.
| Oliver tWheelock, we'll known and
lgenerally respected among business
men of the city, died yesterday morn,
ing after short illness. Funeral ser
vices will be held at F. A. Caswell &
/ Co.'S undertaking rooms Sunday after
| noon at 4 o'clock.
The Daughters of Liberty Fidelity
Council, held Il lawn party at the home
of G. F. Whey at IS Bancroft street
last evening. The committee in charge
were Mrs. F. F. Whey, Mrs. Ella Dart,
Mrs. Georgia Young, Mrs. Susie Hunt
! and Mrs. Addie Whittemore.
Rev. George w. Kent of South Unita-
rian Church has consented, at the re-
| quest of friends, to pilot party of
sightseers on days outing among
| places of historic interest in Concord
| and vicinity. There will be a, meeting
| of all interested at South Unitarian
| Church this evening, at las o'clock.
Mrs. Mary C. Mind, one of the most
prominent workers in the country, will
deliver an address at Trinity Church,
Sunday afternoon, at 4 o'clock. The
| occasion will be made a union mission
| airy rally, and delegations will be pres
| ent from surrounding towns. A spe-
cial musical program will be provided.
A union patriotic temperance meeting
| will be held at Coral street Methodist
church Sunday evening. Union Hill and
Commonwealth divisions, S. of T., the
| Womens Christian Temperance Union
| and the Church of the Covenant will
funite. The services will begin at
o'clock and there will be excellent
speaking.
Rev. George w Kent. of the South
Unitarian church, who delivered his IL
i Illustrated lecture on historic Concord
at several churches last winter, has
kindly consented to pilot a party to
! that famous old town for days out
ing. All interested will attend a meet
ing at the South Unitarian church to-
night at s7.45 p. m.
/ Troniioists 1,.ihe T n r NJ mot in
Rem Mems hail. Day building, last even
ing and elected the following officers:
p, L. E. johnson, ST., H. C.. Stoddard;
S. S., e. B. Thompson; @. s., G. H. At
wood; representatives list, C. Milford
j I'd, w. Morrine; Sd, W.. Gray; 4th L
4 Newman. After the meeting, refresh
mems were served.
In future the dome of the city hall
will be busted by compressed sir. The
experiments tried by Francis I. Bar
rott, engineer of the building, some
time ago, were so successful that a
compressor ard tank have been bought
and set up in the basement of the
building. The machine was tried for
the first time yesterday, and gave ex-
cellent satisfaction.
+ George j. Wilmot, the moving con-
tractor, has an odd relic which he
J picked up recently. 1t is pipe bowl
cut out of laurel root and was evil
!. IDENTIFY made by some soldier in the
civil war Carved on it are the names
: of Malvern Hill, Fair Oaks Fredericls-
burg, White Oak Swamp, Antietam,
Balls Bluff, Williamsburg, Fifteenth
Mass. regiment. and G. B. Mcclellan.
Walter H. Corveir of Southboro was
the only applicant to pass the physical
examination at the local recruiting Of
fee yesterday. He has seen service in
the Porto Rican campaign with Com
pany H of the Sixth Massachusetts vol
unteers. Sergt. Paul Gerber went TO
Marlboro yesterday to get the sigma
ture of the parents of Frank Collier of
that place who enlisted here few days
ago. Collier is minor. He has seen
service with the Sixth regiment.
! I. p. Abbott one of the socialist la
, Dor party's best orators, had an audi
, ence of 200 in the Green Street freight
yard, last evening. His address was on
Trusts" and all previous records for
handing out pointers were smashed.
Mr.. Abbott commended the action of
I Alderman Wall in introducing an order
! in the board of aldermen, Thursday
evening that the city solicitor be asked
J whether the city could legally purchase
the Consolidated street railway or not.