The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-15
SPECIAL TOWN WARRANT.
Leicester Meeting Will Be Held Next
Week.

Leicester, April 1.-THE warrant for
the special town meeting to be held on
Saturday evening, April %, will be
posted tomorrow. The articles which
are of Importance are as follows
To see if the town will raise and APP
propriate any sum of money sufficient
to purchase fire proof safe for the re-
cords of the board of assessors, or take
any action thereon.
To see If the town will vote to fund
the indebtedness of the town, outstand-
ing March g. 1899, and authorize the
treasurer, under the direction of the
selectmen, to issue notes therefor, as
provided in chapter 20 of public statues,
or take any other action.
To see if the town will vote to raise
and appropriate any sum of money for
the purpose of making repairs at the
almshouse, or take any action there
on.
Patrick J. Hanlon, employed at the
Olney wooden mill, had a narrow es-
cape from drowning yesterday morn
| ing. He went to Waites pond to raise
the flash board at the dam, with M. j.
! Shaughnessey of the Brick City mill.
! The board slipped from his grasp and
he stepped on a cake of ice in an en-
deavor to reach it. The ice tilted and
he sank into the water He grasped
another cake of ice but went down
again, and was nearly drowned when
Mr. Shaughnessey pulled him out.
Sealed proposals for regarding and
surfacing 1900 feet in length of White
street will be received until Saturday,
April %, at 2.90 p. m, when they will be
| publicly opened and read at the office
Of IA szalpRtronn n annpnX Inn fa l.
| innate of the work required allows for
1900 cubic yards of earth excavation, 456
cubic yards gravel, culvert (completet
26 cubic yards, railing 800 linear feet,
rock excavation 10 cubic yards.
The selectmen will grant a public
hearing on A. f. Booths application
for a druggists sixth class license on
Saturday, April %, at 2 o'clock.
Conductors and motormen of the
Worcester and Suburban will be re-
quired to pass an eye and ear eXamina-
ton. Today Motorman Peter ]. BOul-
ger and Conductor James ]. McLaugh-
| lin, Jr., went to Worcester and had
| their faculties tested.
Next Sunday will be Home Mission
airy Day at the First Congregational
church. Rev. w. G.. Puddefoot, east
| ern field secretary of the Congregation
| al Fl. M. s., will speak in the morning
LIOiH the SuDJCCL j ne spiritual NtlSuS
worldly harvest" The Y. P. S. C. f.
will be conducted by Stephen Tarleton
on the subject THE eternal morning
and the modern missions" In the
evening Rev. Mr.. Puddefoot will give a
stereopticon lecture on the subject
From wilderness to civilization"
Rev. VIII c. Hartinger will preach at
the Sanderson M. 2. church on Sun
day morning, and Rev. C. Wesley
Burns will speak for the last time at
Leicester in the evening.
There will be no services at the Cher
ry Valley Methodist church on Sunday
on account of the conference at Bos-
ton.
Rev. Lyman Greenman of Grafton
will preach at the Unitarian church on
Sunday
Another set was started at the Brick
City mill today.
The w. c. T. L. met with Mrs. Kath-
crime F. Fuller of Cherry Valley this
afternoon. Mrs. d. c. Reid read selec-
TONS, illustrating Government com
plcity in the liquor traffic"