The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-08


Common rumor has it that there is a
drug store not mere than a short dis
lance from the centre of the city which
runs a little game in the back room"
week days and sells beer by the bottle
on Sunday thus providing amusement
for sporty young men, and satisfaction
tells me that the proprietor would
drop dead if anybody went into that
store and asked for drugs.
A recital of familiar songs will be Civ
en- at the South Unitarian Church Fri
day night at o'clock These artists
will take part Charles E. Mayhem,
baritone Mrs. Ada c. Harrington, So
prano Regis J. Cloutier violinist; Mrs.
Helen G. Bassett and Homer E Will
liams, accompanies. Tickets will be
for sale at Stenerts and Davis & Ban
ister's
A subscription dancing party will be
held in Colonial Hall Friday Dec. 81.
The patronesses are Mrs. HalIeck Bart
lett, Mrs. Lincoln N. Kinnicutt, Mrs.
Edwin Brown, Mrs Waldo Lincoln,
Mrs. John C. Dewey and Mrs. P. w.
Moen.
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Mrs. George B. Witter will give
dancing party Monday evening, Dec. 80,
for Miss Mary Flint.
Mrs. Edward Winslow Lincoln an
nounces the engagement of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Marian Lincoln-Bogert, to
Marsden j. Perry Of Providence, R. l.
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Mrs. Sidney A. Reeve, 13A Tirrel
Street, entertained the wives of the
professors at Worcester Polytechnic
Institute at a tea yesterday afternoon
given in homer of Mrs. Engler, wife of
President Edmund A. Engler.
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Miss Alice Ward. So Cedar Street,
gave tea yesterday afternoon for the
West Side debuntantes, Miss Flint,
Miss Green and Miss Pratt.
The opening of the North End Branch
of the Y w. C. A. will be Tuesday af-
ternoon and evening from to $50
o'clock at its rooms, IS Main Street.
The first lunches will be served Wed
nesday noon from II to 2 O'clock A
meeting of the City Extension Com
mittee, hereafter to be called the North
End Branch Committee, was held yes
terday afternoon at the Y. w. G. A.
Mrs George d. Davis presided. The
committee was divided into sub-Com-
mittees with chairmen as follows: Ad-
vertising, Mrs. J. Byron Colvin; home
committee, Mrs Anna Howe: enter
tainment committee, Miss Cora l..
Greene.
The North End Branch will be open
every night until $50 o'clock. 1t will
be under the supervision Of Mrs. Clara
e. Hopkins. The front room has been
fitted up as a reading room, with pa
pers, books and magazines.
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The Browning Glass of the Womans
Club met yesterday afternoon at the
Glass Room at the Y. w c. A. for a
study session. 1t will meet again next
Saturday.
| Preparations for the Christmas ba-
Ear at All Souls Church have been
well made and everything will be in
readiness for the two days entertain
ment. fair and sale to be held Thurs
day and Friday.
The fancy table will feature a hand
some lot of sofa cushions, designed by
an artist Of note and representing on
the embroidered cover public buildings
of Worcester and other cities. The gem
eral committee in charge of the fair is:
Mrs. L. NJ. Gilchrist, chairman; Asa
Goddard. treasurer; Mrs. b. r. Marsh
secretary. Mrs. C. F. Marsh president
of the Ladies Aid Society, will eXer-
else general supervision during the
fair.
The fancy table will be In charge Of
Mrs. NJ. H. Harris, assisted by the fol-
lowing: On the first night, Misses Min
ME Munson, Alma Kingston, Maude
Moore, Cora Hall, Minnie Upham, Le-
ma Fowler. Harriet Cotter, Mabel
Longley, Marion Hunt; on the second
night, Misses Bertha Cady, Josephine
Kerr. Hattie Hall, Nina Blaney, Lena
Ball. Mabel Taft
The committee in charge of decorat-
ing the supper table is: Misses Flora
Dakin, Irene Hall, Laura Kingston,
Jessie Marsh, Clara Meggett.
The domestic booth will be looked
after by Mrs. F. NJ. Dakin, chairman;
Mrs George Kingston Mrs. T. T.
Booth. Mrs. George E. Fiske, Mrs. E.
F. Beede.
There will be a children's table, in
charge of Mrs. Joseph Ridley, Jr,,
chairman: Mrs. C. A. Boyden, Mrs. F.
E. Atwood
Flowers will be sold by Miss Jessie
| Sproul Mrs. w. A. Lewis, Miss Flor
ence Jenkins Miss Florence Harring-
ton. Miss Martha Roy.
The candy table is to be managed by
Mrs. C. F. Marsh, Mrs. J. C. Greene,
Mrs. Harry Marsh.
Mrs. E. F. Fletcher, Mrs. W. Carey,
Mrs E. f. Wood, Mrs. Blake and Miss
Nettie Guilty will reveal the mysteries
of their table for a small amount of
money, Misses Sadie Spared and Ger
trude Roy will dispense lemonade and
Mrs A. T. Matthews with Misses Clara
| Matthews, LOttie Matthews and Mrs
W. L. Spaulding are to have charge of
the ice-cream department.
The supper committee is: Mrs. c. I.
Hooker. Mrs. G. L. Kibby, Mrs. J. ].
Upham and Mrs. c. J. Holden.
There will be an entertainment each
night. A pantomime, "The Mistletoe
Bough," is now undergoing rehearsal.
The entertainment committee is Wal
ter Morgan, H. H. Chabot, Mrs. NJ. H
Ingraham, Mrs. Anna Allen, Miss Lila
l. Allen.
The Social Aid Society Of the church
will meet at 1 o'clock tomorrow af-
ternoon to work for the fair.
Col. z. B. Glasgow entertained the
German EVenlng CluD bTluay nlgnL at
the Worcester Club. The society is
now entering upon its seventh winter
and numbers, besides it's former mem
bers, President Katrina Won Vogt,
James Green. DR.. and Mrs. Walter
Jennings, DR.. and Mrs. Duff, DR..
Adolph Myer. Col. Glasgow, Prof. G. H.
Haynes, Miss Jessie Tyler, Miss Eliza
beth White and Miss Mary Liscom,
! two new members, DR.. Schorer and
| Dr. Dunlap.
The greater part of the evening was
spent in finishing Schiiler's Der Neffe
ais Onkel," after which refreshments