The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-28
PAWTUxET VALLEY.

The "rummage sale under the au-
spices of the Phenix w. C. T. u. closed
Saturday night. 1t is estimated that more
than six hundred persons visited the
rooms during the three days sale. Some
of the articles contributed to the sale
were nearly IL not quite hundred years
old and in a state OF remarkable preser-
walton. Andirons. shovels and tongs and
brass and copper warming pans were
contributed that dated back to colonial
days and woolen blankets, sheets and bed
spreads, hand woven by the great-great
grandmothers of the contributors were
given and sold at moderate prices.
These wooden fabrics had laid I'm chests
undisturbed for more than half GEN.
tury and seemed hardly worn. A large
amount was undoubtedly received from
the sales.
The social given by the Centreville Ju-
nior league on Saturday evening in the
church parors was well attended and
gave general satisfaction. The interest
manifested i'm the young peoples societies
i'm the valley by those older In life Is
step I'm the right direction.
In Riverpoint a Portuguese woman.
while working about her stove Saturday
overturned a kettle OF boiling water upon
ner feet and ankles scaldng herself very
badly. Her burns which were dressed
by the attendant physician are pronounce
ed serious.
Daniel Gerant. young man. while
practicing gymnastics in Textile hall,
Riverpoint, fell on chair and broke his
collar bone. He was taken TO
his home where the attendant physi-
clan reduced the fracture.
Twenty cases of grip, two OF typhoid
fever. several cases of mumps, and num-
berless cases OF colds. have raised the
question, whether or not the village OF
Apponaug may be considered the hospital
of the valley.
Last week the ice dealers of the valley
not only filed their icehouses, but some
of them have erected new icehouses and
are now engaged I'm filling them also.
People OF the valley are wondering
whether the % game cocks captured by
the raid on the cock fight and sold by the
agent OF the anti-cruelty society alive
(some OF them bringing nearly dollar a
pound Will find their way TO the pit or
the pot Perhaps tho flesh would have
proved too samey II dressed.
4 paid police seems 10 be now demand
ed 10y the populous valley villages. -Four
burelaries and attempts at burglary, one
highway robbery, two incendiary fires In
one Week lcdu ptOpt< W dSh lOf plONcC-
tion.
Mr. William Ash Of Pawtuxet who be-
came suddenly insane Friday night. has
been committed Co the state hospital Re-
Igious mania Is the form of his disease.
1ne electric lights throughout the
streets % the valley during tho past
week have been but little better than
glow worms.
The public schools of Natick closed q
very successful term last Friday. The at
tendance during the term was unusually
large
The many friends OF Rev. T.. A. Pope. a
former pastor OF the Baptist church In
Phenix, and y brother OF Col. Albert Pope
of bicvcle fame. viii be panied 10 learn
of his serious illness In California. where
he had gone for health
The evening school at Pontiac has lust
closed a successful term OF forty nights.
and y free sewing society has Just been
csta tablshod with competent instructors
tina. will meet each Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. Ginueli an insurance agent died az
his residence IN fIppitt yesterday very
suddenly. being taken at 10 a. m. and
dying at J2m OF heart fsilur-