The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-29
1t Pays Well and the Town Hall
May Be Used For the Games if
Spencer Gets Admitted to the
League
A NEW INDUSTRY
MAY COME TO TOWN
Rural Delivery Expected in Spen-
Ger in a Few Months Owing to
the Good Work of Congress-
man Thayer and Harry S.
Tripp

| Special to The Spy.
| Spencer. Dec, 2S.-Tf the Town Hall can
! be secured for basketball purposes the
| probabilities are that Spencer will be
represented in the Massachusetts Basket
ball Leagues William Carey of Spencer
| has applied for admission to the league,
and from all indications he win be ac-
| cepted az the manager of the Spencer
! team. When the league was formed this
season Spencer received an invitation to
| join, but at that time the Town Hall
| could not be hired, and most of the
townspeople thought that the game would
not be supported in Spencer Since then
it has developed that basketball in Spen-
! Ger is a paying game, and furthermore
| that the Town Hall may be secured on
| certain conditions.
At present all basketball games are
being played in Mechanics Hall, but that
| place is far too small.
| At a meeting of the league today the
! Woonsocket team was dropped from the
| league, and the Spencer team may be the
organization that will fill its place.
Spencer does not claim to be as fast a
sporting town as Woonsocket, but with
Mr.. Carey at the head of the organiZa-
ton and maintaining of a basketball
team in Spencer, no one doubts that it
will be well supported.
The property in Spencer known as the
Red Mill and which has been idle for
some time, and has been known as the
home of one of Spencer's lost indus tries,
will soon be occupied if the efforts of the
Spencer Board of Trade are successful.
For some time the Board of Trade has
been trying to find an occupant for the
wooden business that formerly thrived
| there. Last Thursday H. C. Leavitt of
New Boston, Ct, visited Spencer, in
company with James Mccain, a former
foreman of the mill when it was owned
and run by Newton Darling of Worces-
ter These men looked over the prop
erty, and Mr.. Mccain, after making an
examination of the property, declared
that everything connected with the fac
| tory was in good condition and ready to
| start If the business were bought.
short time ago the Spencer Board of
| Trade thought that they had pTOspec-
| tive purchaser of the property, and at
| that time it was said that the wooden
| business would be resumed at the 'Red
! Mill" within month. The man that
| was looking at the property, however,
was not satisfied with the town, and,
| leaving Spencer, he stated that he would
notify the Board of Trade of his inten-
lions in a short time if he intended to
buy the property. Since that time the
| Spencer Board of Trade has heard moth
ing from him. Frederick S. Pratt of
| Worcester Is the owner of the property,
!
Leavitt visited the mill. Mr.. Pratt wants
to sell the property, and if Mr. Leavitt
| decides to locate in Spencer he will find
| that the Red Mill" property can be
| bought very cheap
in a few months Spencer will proba-
| bly, have rural mail delivery system.
| Harry S. Trip. postmaster, has succeed
| ed in getting the petition for free de
| livery system before the post office au-
thorities, and probably by spring the new
| order of things will be in operation. Con-
| gresham John R. Thayer has been very
instrumental in helping the town of Spen-
/ Ger to a free delivery system so far and
| it is expected that when the agent of the
post office department visits Spencer he
will be convinced that Spencer is worthy
Of rural delivery system.
AT a meeting Of the directors of the
I Spencer National Bank on Thursday
Charles w Estes, Jr, was promoted to
the position of assistant cashier. He will
now occupy the position formerly held by
F. A Drury. who has accepted a posi-
ton with Winslow 81 Co, bankers, Of
Worcester. Mr. Everett Morse will take
the position of teller made vacant by the
promotion of Mr.. Estes.
Miss Annie Kimball has resigned her
position with the Star lunch.
The w c. T. L. will meet IN their
rooms at the Bank block Jan. at 8
o'clock.
The Monday Club will meet Dec. 80
with Mrs J. r. Kane A very important
paper will be read.
The Spencer basketball team will
play the Huguenots of Oxford in Me-
chanics Hall New Years eve.
Hall New Years eve
Frank NJ. Chapman, who was to de- |
liver his lecture, "Our Birds and Their |
Haunts," last month, as the third number |
in the Mems League lecture course, which |
was postponed on account of his Illness |
will deliver the lecture Jan. IA.