The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-18
MiIIbury Citizens Feel That They
Should Receive Better Service
in Return For Money They Are
Paying
ARC LAMPS THE ONES
THAT CAUSE CRITICISM
They Are Not Always on Duty, 1t
is Said, and SeIeCtmen Are Dis
turbed - Republican Town
Committee Secures Counsel
Other MiIIbury Items

special TO The spy.
Millbury, Oct. 17.-Complaints of all
sorts are flying about town regarding
the service furnished to the town by
the Millbury Electric Light Company.
AT the meeting of the board of select
men Wednesday evening the light ques-
ton was agitated. The board as
body, DIR. Robert Booth, A H Batch
elor and A. c. Mott agreed that the
service now supplied to the town is, so
far as the arc lamp system is con-
cerned, extremely poor. The town of
Millbury appropriated at the last town
meeting in March the sum of $2613 for
street lights. OF this amount $3.50 goes
to West Millbury. The arc system
needs improvement, people say. The
town pays enough to have a decent
lighting system, yet the arc lamps at
the McGovern Bridge, at the South
Main Street crossing, at the corner of
Beach and West Main Streets, and at
certain other points are out on an aver
age of two nights a week.
The seiectmen are not at fault. They
have tried to please the people. They
are incensed at the action of the cleo
trio light company. The money the
maintained, to furnish first class
lights, and why the company does not
give them is not quite clear. The Sc
lectmen mean to sustain the rights of
the people they represent, and they will
fight to the bitter end in order to do
so. This is not the first time the
electric light company has been
censured. Probably it will not be the
last The citizens demand good
lights the entire year.
The Republican caucus question is
the talk of the town. The opposition
to the Republican Town Committee
that manifested itself at the caucus
was described in The Spy. The case,
having now been brought to the Su-
preme Court through Attorneys Burton
w. Potter and John A. Thayer of
Worcester, the Town Committee has
employed Thomas H. Sullivan as coun-
sci. Five points of law are involved
and the outcome of the case is watched
with more than ordinary interest.
Joseph A. Perault of Millbury was
arrested late Wednesday night on
warrant sworn out by the agent of the
Singer Sewing Machine Company of
Worcester. The charge is larceny of
money. Mr. Perault appeared in the
Central District Court Worcester
Thursday. He was released under $500
bonds. W. E. Horne of Millbury gave
surety for him Mr.. Perault has been
an agent for the company, and the
charge is that he has confiscated
money not his own.
H. w. Glover left Thursday for
visit to the Pan-American exposition.
Cards were received in Millbury
Thursday announcing the marriage in
New York City of DR.. Thomas ].
Cronin, formerly of Millbury, but for
the past four years of Webster, and
Miss Louise Schwegler of New York.
George w. Deviney of Millbury
acted as best man at the wedding of
Anthony F. Palmer and Miss Alice
Matthews of Worcester, which took
place in st. Peters Church, Worcester
Thursday.
Mrs. w. A Taylor of Hinsdale is
the guest of her daughter, Mrs. ]. F.
Roache.