The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-03
IN OLNEYv|LLE.
Was Eight Years Old Yesterday.
Is King Pin.
For SnoWbaIIing JeweIry
Returned General Mention.


olneyville Branch OF tho Providence
News Is at Heffernons News Store ID
Hartford avenue, Telephone 4o-Wast
Teutonlc lodge, Sons OF Herman, was
eight years old, yesterday, and as this
f. the strongest and one OF the most
,ovial dispositioned German organizations
in the city. they could not let the event
go by without n little celebration
AT 7:2O the members with their families
end friends 10 the number OF about 700,
gathered at Meyers assembly hall on
Hartford avenue. where concert was
given by the Singing club composed of
members Of the lodge
This was followed by dancing until l:so.
music being furnished by the Herman or
chestra The affair. which was more
like a family party. than public func-
tion, was In charge of Christopher An
derson, Ephr1am Deasen. Bernard Hirsch.
Max Hirsch and Carl Voekei.
SHOUTING OUT LOUD.
There is a loud howl going up from
some OF the residents OF the annexed dis
trict who know that should the weather
ever get any warmer that their cellars
will be flooded and that they Will be
obliged 10 use a boat or some such craft
TO get through the streets, for no at
tention has been paid by the highway
department to the catch basins.
They say that i'm the good old days.
when the tax was $40, this was done
by the officials OF the town OF Johnston,
but now they must pay s165 and be over
looked.
is KING PIN.
Frank. son OF Hoseman-. Bigney OF
Hose company No ~. on Plainfield
street. is now the king Pin" OF Sunset
avenue hill 40 far as sliding is concerned,
for his father during his spare time at
the fire station built for" him. a dandy
double runner sled. which has all OF
the appliances that could be thought of
TO make IL safe.
Frank dragged the sled TO the hill, yes
terday afternoon, and was not the least
stingy in giving any OF the younger ones
He went home happy boy last even
ride.
ing.
FOR sNowBAILING.
John Doyle. William Manneping Arthur
Parmenter. John Denehy, who live I'm the
vicinity of Bowdoin street. were arrested
at an early hour this morning on the
charge OF throwing snowballs on Sunday.
According TO the police these boys and
one who went under operation at the
Rhode Island hospital yesterday, spent
Sunday amusing themselves throwing
snowballs at pedestrians
TO CHECKER PLAYERS OF n. r.
Comrades, unlike those calls 10 war
That oft have swept New England q
land;
Which filed her peoples minds with awe
And in tho trail OF their command,
Have left q sea OF scalding tears,
a pyramid OF broken hearts
And wreckage; that despite long years
liz still ghastly view imparts.
came to call you 10 war.
Where sociabiity Is kingl
Where all the while from near and far
you'll hear the mrthsome laughter ring
A war whose harshest weapon's-chaff,
And threats are made, just as they
should
Man meets laugh as with laugh
lie says. To-day I'll trim you good"
come 10 caI you 10 that fray,
Whose arms are not the gun or sword.
Where blood doth not besmirsch the way
The battle OF the Checkerboard
Comrades. that prize on Boston's breas
should be by New Englanders worn.
Come. then, let's up and do out best
Within our lines TO have II borne.
Let's take the otu poarue from tn'
shelves,
Bring out tho books, nll UP the squares
Let's brush the cobwebs off ourselves,
And give those oidtime lines repairs.
Then, comrades, let us on that day
Boston makes grand for Washington
Aud gathered are we for the fray,
In her hotel American.
BE found within it's banquet hall
I'm numbers that viii cause surprise.
In play determined one and all.
To bring stare to Boston eyes.
To ight that when the suns gone down
Around the place tale they'll tell,
How New England has been 10 town.
Has been and gave old Boston--well,
The darndest thrashtng ever known.
And on their bosoms borne away
The pennant Boston thought her own,
Because she'd held Il many day
ERNEST WILLIAMS
Captain OF the All-New England team
1904
GENERAL MENTION.
John j. Tucker OF 27 Merino village
called at the Chaffee Street Police statio'
this morning and received from the OF
flcials his SIS chain and charm that wa
stolen from him by his nephew thre
rnoftfhe no