The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-27
MiIIbury Merchants Deny Story
That They Oppose Granting Of
Franchise to Electric Road Be-
cause it Will Hurt Their Trade
TELEGRAM YARN Is
BRANDED A FAKE
Argument Advanced That if
Street Railway ACcommo-
dationS Were Not the Best the
Population of the Town Would
Soon Decrease

Special to The Spy.
Millbury, Nov. 26.-The principal top
ic Of conversation among business men
at Millbury Centre today is the report
that has been circulated by a morning
paper, not The Spy, that the merchants
of Millbury are opposed to the pro-
posed Worcester & Providence Street
Railway passing through the town be-
cause the electric roads now in exis-
tence are running the trade.
Such well known firms of Dunton &
Winter, Elm Street; G. K. Fisher and
G. L. UFndergraves of North Main
Street, with many others equally well
known have made the statement today
that their business is good and on the
gain rather than the decrease. Thomas
a. Winter of the firm of Dunton &
Winter says no man has heard him
complain that business is not good and
he does not like the idea of being
cassed with the calamity howlers. So
far as people of Millbury going to Wor-
cester to trade is concerned the leading
merchants claim that there has never
been time when people could not get
to Worcester with perfect convenience
If they so desired, and they have al
ways done more or less trading inWor-
cester.
it was not for the trolley lines con-
Meeting Millbury with the city, there
would be a material decrease in the
population, and so long as people live
in town the merchants will derive ben
eft. 1t is also claimed, by those in a
position to know, that when the Con-
solidated line takes a few dollars out
of town the Blackstone Valley brings
enough IN to make good the deficien-
cy. That business is on the increase
in Millbury has been often stated in
The Spy, and there is no reason for re-
tracing that statement at this stage
of the game.
Wilhelm B. Stockwell. organist of
the Second Congregational Church is
making preparations for an attractive
musical program to be presented when
the noted temperance advocate, Rev
c. H. Mead of New York, speaks here
Sunday night The Congrega tiOnal
singing will be Id by Mr.. Stockwell at
the organ and Mason H. Shaw corn
etist. There will be duets by Mrs. H o.
Sutcliff, soprano, and Charles Bancroft
of Worcester, tenor with a double
quartet of mixed voices.
The funeral of Mrs. Katherine
Duggan was from st. Bridgets Church
Tuesday morning at o'clock. Rev.
P. L. Quaille officiating. The bearers
were Thomas Hill, Charles Hill, Dennis
Horigan and Robert Wiseman of WOr-
cester. Burial was in st. Bridget's
Cemetery.
There was a regular meeting of
Adah chapter, o. e. s. Tuesday night.
The Collins drug store, Elm Street,
which was sold at auction a week ago
was opened Tuesday by H c. Holden of
the Burlington Company of Worces-
ter
There will be a regular meeting of
Tyrian Royal Arch chapter A. F. and
A NJ. next Tuesday night.
Miss Alice Rice daughter of Hen
ry F. Rice of Sutton is i'll with scar
let fever. The young lady has been at
tending the Worcester High School and
it is supposed she has been exposed to
the disease while in the city
The news that was given cut in
Tuesday mornings. Worcester papers,
telling of the appointment of William
H. Pratt as Messenger to the City of
Worcester, created a favorable impress
sion in Millbury and down the valley
towns. Billie, as he was known in
the Blackstone Valley district was pop
ular with all, having a wide acquain-
tance as correspondent for The Spy.
Nothing but the best of success for Mr.
Pratt is wished by all