The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-15
John W. Boardman of RoChdaIe,
Republican Candidate for Rep
resentative in Sixth Worcester
District a Warm Favorite
R0CHDALE DEMOCRATS
WILL VOTE FOR HIM
They Favored Richard 0Iney End
of Leicester but When Spencer
Man. Was Nominated by Their
Party They Turned to Support
a Local Favorite
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Special to The Spy,
Rochdale, Oct. 14-Great interest is
centered in the race for honors in this
representative district. and. as result
of the Democratic convention held at
Leicester Oct. 10, heavier vote for
the Republican candidate is expected.
The Republicans held their convention
the day previous and chose their NOM
inee, and the Democrats who. all the
while, had Richard Olney, End, picked
as their leader, and who no doubt
would have polled a good vote, were
the victims of political joke, played
on them by the Spencer delegates, and
Eugene Marchessault was given the
nomination, there being six of his del
egates present while Mr.. Olney had
only five.
The Democrats of this town do not
feel as though such a move was a good
one, as their man had promised to
withdraw from the race and support
the Democratic candidate. Now the
Democrats are to support the regular
nominee of the Republican convention,
John w. Boardman, and he seems as
sured of a vote sufficient to defeat his
opponent.
Mr.. Boardman is a sturdy represent
alive of his party and of this little
hamlet where he resides, and his record
as a citizen and a business man has
been more than commensurate with
that of the village. He came here with
his parents, John and Alice Boardman,
at the early age of three years, and
took his place, when the proper time
arrived, with the other children of the
village at the public schools. Later he
finished his education at Worcester
Academy. Completing his course there
he accepted a position in Dale Bros.
Rochdale mills.
A longing for something better and
a desire for advancement which has
always been his characteristic, placed
him later in a smithy at Providence,
where he put in three years as an ap-
prentice at the hammer and anvil and
u months at the journeyman's bench.
During the centennial year of rs he
returned to Rochdale and went into
partnership with hissbrother, James E.
Boardman. in the grocery business,
which business continues prosperous to
this day. Their first opening was
made in the building near the hotel,
now occupied by Charles r. White, the
local butcher. but later found its way
to the present A. B. Kennedy building.
Here they remained a few years when
they were obliged to move again, as
the business kept increasing and out
grew its quarters. They set to work
and erected their present quarters.
The two brothers started out to do
business with little or no capital, and
have made money, always putting it
to good use as fast as gained. They
have been doing a very successful
stove and furnace and repairing bus
mess at rs Pleasant Street. Worcester,
for the past nine years, and their evil
dent success is certainly great credit
TO them,
John w. Boardman married Emma
F. Green of Valley Falls. r. l., and a
family of six bright children, three boys
and three girls. has resulted from the
union. The children are: Herbert T.
head bookkeeper at the Boston & AL
bany freight office, and a graduate of
Humans Business College; Addie F.,
a graduate of the ninth grade; Ger
trude a senior in the English High
School: Alice. in her third year at the
same institution; Willie, freshman at
Leicester Academy: and Chester who
attends the village school.
Mr.. Boardman held the Office Of Sc
lectman for FIVE years. being elected the
first time in "a. and the board at that
time has the credit Of getting more
state road for the town than any other
board in the county. an evidence Of its
push and energy. He has been chair
man Of the board of overseers. and is
at present assistant commissioner and
a member Of Worcester Lodge of Odd
Fellows for is years, and a member OF
the Rochdale Court. F. OF A, since its
organization.
The nominee is in the prime of life
As years Of age. and has been a stauneh
Republican since he cast his first bal
lot and showed his political prefer
ence by carrying a torch in the Hayes
campaign, before he reached his ma
forffy