The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-07
LOCAL NEWS

Many trees have been planted this week
in the annexed section.
Max Goldman was in New York this
week oil business trip.
Howard Carpenter of Whittier Avenue
is confined to his home by illness.
A regular meeting of the Sunset Club
will he held next Monday evening.
Hope Council, X. OF c., held barn
dance in Library Hall, Tuesday evening
Manufacturers Lodge, !. o. o. f., held
we'll attended meeting Tuesday evening.
Miss Dora Sheldon and Miss Annie Aus
tin spent several days this week in Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. John p. Sawyer returned
this week from winter spent in Florida.
Mrs. NJ. p. Bates of Messer street has
been entertaining Mrs. ] IL. Rockwell this
week,
A new sky light has been placed in
Roughan's Ping Pong Studio, Stokes
Block.
Rev. +. X. Hunt of the Tabernacle
Church preached last Sunday morning on
"I Will".
Rev. A. q. Singsens subject at the Bell
Street Chapel last Sunday was "The Great
est COMMANDMENT.
Ralph Colwell, of the Colwell Worsted
Company, has taken cottage at Silver
Spring for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Atkinson and Miss Ruth
Atkinson of SO Amsterdam street are visit
ing relatives in England.
Court Good Hope, |. o. F., will hold a
May Basket party i'll What Cheer Hall on
Friday evening, May 2Ist.
Rev. f. /. Collins subject last Sunday
evening at the church OF the Messiah was
"At the Well Of Samaria."
lanes Taberner of the ID b. G. Com
pany sails for England this week, where he
will remain several months.
Charles Phillips, formerly OF this place,
has lately accepted a position with the N
Y. N. II. & II X. X. Company.
John O'Connell has secured location
on Stokes street for sewing room Tor the
Peacedale Manufacturing Company.
Mr.. and Mrs W.T.. Sanford of Portland,
Me were the recent guests of Captain and
Mrs. L. c. Leavitt Of Dorchester avenue.
Henry Cobb and c. N. Carpenter, well
known conductors in the X. |. Company's
employ, are enjoying short leaves of alb
sence.
Nathan NJ. Wright, Of the annex, mem-
Der of Manufacturers Lodge, l. o. o. f.,
has been elected deputy grand master of
the grand lodge of the state.
Harry Evans, an engineer at the Atlantic
Wills, was married on Saturday to young
lady belonging in Connecticut. His many
Olneyville friends wish them much happi-
ness.
The recent series of whists held for the
benefit of the book fund OF the Olneyvile
Free Library netted nearly Sroo. The sue
cess of these meetings were due to the ei-
forts of Mr.. and Mrs. John McGlipchey.
The following persons have recently
purchased REQ Touring cars from the
Rhode Island Agency of William Hughes
Company: William Tinkham, Broadway;
Fred Liddle, Westminster street and Sena-
tor Sumner Mowry OF South Kingston.
The funeral Of Howard Weeks Lombard
was held on Saturday forenoon at his late
home OH Terrace avenue. Mr. Weeks
was the young man who committed suicide
on Thursday Of last week. The body was
taken to Boston, cremated and burial was
at the Forest Hill Cemetery in that city.
DR.. Jay Perkins will give his illustrated
lecture on Tuberculosis: "Irs Cause, Pre-
vention and Cure at Library Hall nex'
Tuesday evening. The lecture which is
free will be under the auspices OF the
Olneyvile Business Mems Association.
The so.called "billboard" act was pass
ed by the House Friday afternoon un-
animously, there being no discussion upon
the measure when it came up from the cal
endar. The act authorizes city and town
councils TO regulate by ordinance outside
advertising.
The retail price Of coal in Providence Is
fifty cents ton less now than il has been
since last fall. The prevailing price Tor
all sizes Of white ash coal in that city will
be 1918 per ton. Lehigh coal will be fifty
cents higher than the rates on the white
ash, while pea coal will retail for IS z5.
Casesrets Ioc, Father Johns Medicine
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