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16 LOCAL INTELLIGENCE SPRINGFIELD AND VICINITY. Praise mils; bo given tn the freshman in our high school who enroloJ herself* Tuesday for a course in “Inglish. The marriage of Miss Edith Siddell Latimer, the daughter of ex-Represonta tive A. L. Latimer, and George Washing ton Hamium took place Thursday at W est Simsbury. Ct., the home of the bride. Music lovers will learn with regret that the Boston symphony orchestra will giro but one concert in this city during the coming season. The concert will be given at Court Square theater Tuesday evening, October 12. The sixth and last of the series of pop ular band concerts, made possible by gen erous public subscription, attracted the largest crowd of the series to the Court square ex tension Thurs.lay night, the music was furnished by the 2d regiment band of 28 pieces, the largest number of musicians that has played at any of the concerts. Miss Emma Ley of Long Hill street, who has been spending the last year trav eling in Europe with her mother, Mrs Martha Ley. was successfully operated upon for appendicitis a few weeks ago in Austria, where she had gone to take treat ment for rheumatism, and is now getting along as nicely as can be expected. George W. Johnson, for the past four years superintendent of the Chapman valve plant at Indian Orchard, resigned hi® position Tuesday. Mr Johnson is leaving the Chapman valve company to go into business in this city with Augustus M. Kelly, formerly foreman of the foun dry department of the Chapman valve company. Mr Johnson said last evening that his resignation was to take effect immediately. Judge and Mrs Marcus I’. Knowlton, Marcus L. and Miss Elizabeth Knowlton of State street are back from a two months’ European trip. Judge Knowlton and his family made the return trip on board the Lusitania, leaving Liverpool last Saturday and landing at New York Thurs day. this being her record trip. While abroad they visited England and Scotland and spent about three weeks among the mountains in Switzerland. Mrs C. N. Hixon and daughter. Edith, of 69 Bowdoin street arrived on Saturday by steamer from Vera Cruz, after a three months' visit with the family of Charles L. Hotchkiss, formerly of this city, who for the past 10 years has lived in City of Mex ico. Besides the high altitude and for eign scenes, they experienced an earth quake in the City of Mexico and in Cuer nabaca, with its effects upon buildings, natives and tourists, and they will never forget it. Miss Mary Gunn Simons, daughter of Mr and Mrs William C. Simons, is to be mar ried to Harold Wilkinson Hixon, in Christ church, at 3.30, on the afternoon of Satur day. the 25th. A wedding reception will be given at the bride's family home, 200 Maple street, following the ceremony. The bridal couple will make their new home at 105 Central street, where they will be ready to receive their friends after De cember 1. Both Miss Simons and Mr Hixon belong to old Springfield families and are highly thought of in society, so that there is much friendly interest in the match. Postmaster-General F. H. Hitchcock was in town Friday and he took occasion to visit the post-office and look over the plans of the new addition. He was well pleased with the progress of the work and with what is being done in the cramped quar ters at present. He spent in all 20 min utes in the building with Postmaster Louis C. Hyde. Mr Hyde had met Mr Hitch cock before but not since he became a member of the cabinet. Most of the de partment superintendents were away at dinner at the time of the visit so they missed the chance of seeing the postmas ter-general. The Springfield cops got back at their rivals from Worcester in splendid fashion on the Hampden park diamond Saturday afternoon, and paid up in part for the duo of whippings handed out by the Worcester bunch last year. The getting back process was executed, however, just in the nick of time, sort of a skin-of-the-teeth affair, and the winners had to turn every trick on the dope sheet to pull it off. The score was 6 to 5, and Springfield was lucky to corral the half-dozen end. It was a glori ous game to win, and a tough one to lose, but it’s all over now. and for that some people are happy. The P. A. Breglio construction company of this city were Thursday awarded by the Amherst water company of Amherst the contract for building a dam with core wall for a five-acre storage reservoir in that town. The local company were the lowest bidders among nine contracting companies, their figures being $28,205 for the work. The reservoir is to be built for a private corporation. There will be a V-shaped connete dam with core wall in the center. 35 feet high and about 500 feet long. Work will be started as soon as the working force and equipment can be transported to the scene of operation-. The faculty of the training school are making the final preparations for the opening of the school, which will take place the 22d. President L. L. Doggett of the school has returned from Silver Bay. N. Y„ where as president of the conference he had charge of rhe summer work of the paid secretaries. Most of the preliminary work of the opening has al ready been done and from present indi cations over 70 new men will be enroled this term. Plans are already being drawn up for the new gymnasium for the school, which is to cost in the neighborhood of $60,000. the greater portion of which has already been secured. Dr Frederick A. Cook, whose announce ment that the north pole had at last been reached by him. startled the world last week, is not unknown to Springfield people, and many remember the lecture which he delivered in the central high school on the evening of February 5, 1907. At that time he hail just returned from the ascent of Mt McKinley in Alaska, and his inter esting account of the daring feat drew a large audience. During the ascent he dis covered several unknown peaks and six glaciers. The hardships which his party endured during the preceding summer and fall while in Alaska were a good example of the training which enabled him to over come the privations and dangers of his wonderful dash to the polo. ”A hardware store with a history” is the caption given an illustrated article of over a page describing that old Springfield institution, the Homer Foot 6: Co store, in the Iron Age for August 26. The ar ticle sketches the history of the business in its several locations, and half-tones give views of the present modern and commo dious store at 139 State street. Another cut reproduces a billhead dated March 13. 1848. in the strong, clear handwriting of Homer Foot. Sr. The business was 17 years old at the time that bill was written. Tltp present genial manager of the store. Frank D. Foot, has written a little treatise on fishing tackle, which he has published in a booklet, and which is the subject of a complimentary reference in the last num ber of the Hardware Dealers' Magazine. Labor day in Springfield was hardly dif ferent from any other day in the war so far as activities are concerned, tjad it not been for the fact that the streets w re more alive with people than is usually the cas« on other days, one would not have realized that it wa» a holiday. Just son it a Saturday crowd was to tie found on toe streets during the afternon and -renins, while the morning was much like '.di other mornings. At Hampden park, in one ex tremity of the city, and at the sta li ni. nt another end. there were crowds and exci’i meut. but outside of these centers th - usual Labor day festivities were lacking. Dm featur" of the <tnj and its doings that was especially pleasing to one and all alike was the weather. The weather -nan i-ot’.d hardly have presented Springfield with a better day. The morning came jff bright and shining and cool, perhaps a little .oo i tool, but the mid-day sun cared for this fault, and everybody was happy. Miss Eva D. Tessier, proprietor of mil linery parlors at 380 Main street, was robbed in her apartments at 6 Salem street Saturday night by a masked burglar who confronted Miss Tessier just us she turned on the electric light on her return from work. After something of a scuttle, the burglar got away with about BGG. all the money Miss Tessier had with her after closing up her accounts for the week. The hold-up was typical of those that are getting to be the regular Saturday night kind, anj it is believed by the po lice that this job was done by the same man who committed the burglaries at the Swan house in the park section, at Al derman Rogers's home on Temple street, and others of that sort. Miss Tessier’s experience with the man left her in a terribly nervous state, the fright caused by the sudden meeting almost prostrating her. Three new developments were brought to light this week as regards the political situation in the sth Hampdtn district, in cluding wards 4,5, and <». The first was the announcement by Albert I*. Langtry that he will become a candidate for the republican nomination for representative from that district, if it is shown that the voters of the district desire it. The sec ond was the announcement by Aiderman William A. Dodge of his withdrawal from the same representative race, white the third is the decidedly cool attitude of numerous influential members of the re publican city committee toward Mr Dodge for the stand he has taken in the mat ter. The first two developments are genuine surprises, inasmuch as it was understood that Mr Dodge would be the man to run on the ticket with Paul I. Lombard for representative from the sth district, and that Mr Lanptry would not be a candi date. The third development naturally follows on the heels of the other two. Gov Eben S. Draper announced last week his appointment of Dr James V. W. Boyd of this city as state inspector of health, 14th district, and the appointment was confirmed by the governor’s council. Dr Boyd takes the place of Dr Herbert C. Emerson, who resigned recently, his resignation taking effect last week. Dr Boyd’s appointment comes as something of a surprise to those who had followed the contest among the three avowed can didates for the position. Dr Boyd. Dr Al len G. Rice and Dr Edward B. Hodskins. It was thought that Dr Rice had the in side track, being strongly backed. The fact that Dr Rice is conceded tn be a democrat may have made some difference in the final selection. Dr Boyd was born in New York city. January 28. 1872. He graduated from the college of physicians and surgeons of Columbia university in the class of 1894 and during the year 1895 he was interne in the Randall-island hos pital in New York city. • He came to Springfield January 1. 1896. and estab lished an office jjn Maple street, where he built up a pnmice. Two years ago he took up new quarters at 137|4 State street, where he is now practising. He is married and has two children. Dr Boyd is a mem ber of Springfield lodge of Masons, the Massachusetts medical society and the Springfield academy of medicine. HAMPDEN COUNTY. HOLYOKE. The new citizens of Holyoke who were received from Smiths Ferry will have their money’s worth in voting 'when the state election comes round, and it will mean the expenditure of car fare if the full advan tage of the poll is to be taken. For con gressman, senator, representative, council ors, etc., the Smiths Ferry resident will cast his ballot in Northampton at the state election, while for governor, lieu tenant-governor and other officers he will vote in Holyoke until the new apportion ment of districts is made, which will prob ably not, take place for the next seven years. This will not make it wholly pleas ant for the Smiths Ferry voter and will probably mean that at the. state election only part of the ticket will be voted. For tunately the number of the voters is so small that it will be in a way immaterial whether they vote or not, and the final re sult of the state election will not be affect ed whatever the residents do. The joint meeting of the aidermen and the members of thy school lioard was held Friday night, nnd contrary to general ex pectation the meeting did not adjourn in definitely but defeated the motion to ad journ after which, on the first ballot, IVilliam Reardon was elected a member of the school board to fill out the vacancy left by the death of Committeeman T. H. Sears, the vote standing 15 votes for Mr Reardon and 11 votes for Terence O'Don nell. 11 illiam Reardon, who was elector Fri day night, is an experienced man in the po sition, having served on the school board both as a member and as the chairman of the body. His service was always sat isfactory to the city, and since he retired from the office he has kept in close touch with the Holyoke schools, so that he does not come to the board without experience. The Farr alpaca company has bougnt the James J. Casey property at tiie cor ner of Race and Spring streets, where for many years Mr Casey has conducted his blacksmith and wagon-making busi ness. The price paid for the property was in the neighborhood of S6O,(XXI. It is planm-d to move tip.- Barlow manufactur in company to this building, so that the strin recently bought by them will be <-' -red of tenants. E. 1.. Deane and the Barlow company being the only ones now hr- on the Bigelow-street strip. Mr Deane will move mto the Magna automobile ga-age building when it is completed. The big chimney for the steam plant of the American writing paper company near the Nonotuck paper mil) will bo complet ed this week, and will be the highest chimney in Holyoke, boating the hight of the Lyman mills chimney by about 15 foot. The contract for the chimney is in the hands of the Alphonso Custodis chim ney construction company of New York. The chimney has a 30-foot brick base the remainder of the 130 feet being of radial block. The building trades councils had one of the host parades Monday that has boon soon in the city in recent years, and about 1500 tnon were in line. The sev eral unions were uniformed and the parade started and finished on time—something out of the ordinary iji Holyoke parades. The Holyoke lodge of Odd Follows held a field day at Lambert's grove at Ibnis ton ponds Monday, about 400 members with -heir families goine out to the .■ ■ at 9 Monday morning. Dinner was served at the grove, following which a list O i sports. WESTFIELD. There is much local interest in the re cent decision from the United States cir cuit court in relation to the affairs of the Hardware ami Wooden ware manufactur ing company. This company operates many plants in different sections of the country, and includes the Nolde A Hooley drum shop plant in Granville. It seems that there lias been objection to the for mer receiver, and as n result of the hear ings that have been going on for a num ber of months the old receiver is out and the new receivers are Fred W. .Crandall of New York, Addison Cudworth of Lon donderry. Vt.. nnd Martin Brown of Bos ton. The action was brought by contesting creditors, and it is said that 85 per cent of all the banks interested were back of the movements fora change. The decision was rendered by Judge Martin of the United States circuit court in New York, and is especially gratifying to the men in terested m the Noble A Cooley plant in Granville. Chester I). Stiles, principal of the Pros pect hill school, received word Tuesday that he had been elected superintendent of schools in the district comprising Deer field. Conway, Sunderland and Whately. He will begin his duties within it short time, Mr Stiles is a graduate of the Westfield high school, anti was graduated from Williams college in the class of HMM). He has taught for nearly nine years, hold ing positions in the Williamstown high school, at Bridgeport. Ct., New York city, THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1909. Plainfield, N. J., and Westfield. He has been principal of the Prospect hill school for four years. It is- understood that his salary in his new position for the first year will be SI6OO. Mr Stiles is married and has one child Lyman X. Clark. Jr., who was formerly one of the proprietors and editors of the 'l'imes and News Letter, and who has been in Nevada for nearly four years with the Sutro tunnel company, has gone back into the newspaper business. He took pos session last week of the Virginia City Chronicle under a lease and is now in control of the paper as manager ami editor. The high school reopened Tuesday with the largest enrolment in its history. The total number of students yesterday was 371 with perhaps others to be heard from. PA LMER. Sumner Blodgett, who has charge of the stale roads ill thjs section, has been busy during the past week keeping a record of the number of vehicles that passed over die roads. He stationed two men at Coo ley crossing, one to record those going it; the direction of Brimfield and one for the Palmer-Warren road. Another was sta tioned near the creamery on the Monson road and one at Auto inn on the Wilbra ham road. These men went on duty at 7 o'clock in ihe morning and remained un til !> in the evening. The record began August 22 an 1 ended August 28 at 9 p. m. During this period 396 wagons and 1018 automobiles passed over the Palmer-War ren road; 175 wagons and 111 automobiles over the Brimfield road: 457 wagons and 201 automobiles over the Monson road. Slid 364 wagons ami 1439 automobiles over the Wilbraham road. In addition there were many motorcycles and bicycles of which no record was kept. Saturday was an ideal day for the lay ing of the corner-stone of the new Congre gational church building at Palmer, and a good-sized crowd assembled under the. trees to witness the ceremony. Among those in attendance were: Mrs Mary S. Brown, the oldest member of the ehnreh; Mrs Mary L. Robinson and James Knox, who were present at the laying of the corner-stone of the old church in 1847: Mrs C. L. Gardner and Mrs O. SV. Studley of Springfield, former residents and attend ants of the old church; Mrs L. B. Warren of Hampden, and many others. The announcement that the state high way commission has granted the petition of the Palmer selectmen for a strip of state road on North Main street in Palmer was filed with the clerk of courts in this city las; week. The new macadam will be two-fifths of a mile in length, extend ing from a point in North Main street, Palmer, near the railroad station, westerly to the boundary between the towns of Palmer and Wilbraham. Jolm B. Dawson last week bought of David F. Dillon, administrator, the inter est of the late Edwin R. Pierce in the Con verse house. Mr Dawson became connect ed with the hotel 17 years ago and for the past 10 years has been in company with Mr Pierce in the bar-room end of the bus iness. He is a Palmer boy and has spent his life in Palmer. This hotel is one of the old landmarks of Palmer and is well known to the traveling public. Friscis B. Barton will leave Palmer Thursday, the 23d. for Paris, sailing on La Lorraine from New York. Mr Barton is a graduate of Palmer high school and Will iams college, and for the past two years has been teaching in Concord. He will fit himself especially for the teaching of French, making that his specialty. LONGMEADOW. The many friends of Dr and Mrs Edwin St John Ward of Diarbekir, Turkey, will be interested to hear that a cablegram has been received announcing the birth of a daughter, in Harpoot, Turkey, where they are spending the summer months. Mr and Mrs James B. Burbank left last week for a visit to the Seattle ex position and Vancouver Island, and will also take an extended trip through Can ada. Miss Edith Mason leaves home this week to take up her work as supervisor of cook ing and sewing in the schools of Lancas ter and Clinton. Saturday will go down in the annals of history as n great day for Granville, for on that day a real circus came to town, with its street parade, bands of music, menagerie, side shows and two performances afternoon and evening. Not that a circus is anything out of the ordi nary, but to have one right on the ball grounds, with the main tent covering more than the whole diamond, was an occasion to which everyone, from the smallest boy to the oldest men and women, attended Many of the boys "struck jobs” in the parade nnd with red coats, decorated with brass ornaments were proud bearers of the banners of many nations. The circus, which belongs to Al. F. Wheeler, was a good, clean performance, enjoyed by large crowds from Granville nnd nearby towns. The annual meeting of the Blandford country club was held the othet afternoon at the club-house in Blandford, the fol lowing officers being elected for the ensu ing year: president. William H. Dexter; vice-president, I. E. Whitney, secretary, William H Parks; treasurer. Dr Plumb Brown; directors. Charles Van Heusen, William G. Wheat, Henry E. Reese, W. Frank Clark and Harry G. Webster. The club now has 04 members drawn from Biandford. Westfield. Holyoke, Springfield and Hartford, and this season has been very successful. A large number were present and an elaborate luncheon was served by the entertainment committee, after the business meeting. A meeting in the interest of village im provements and the organization of an improvement society was held in East Longmeadow last week, and was well attended. O. L. Wolcott presided. The address of the evening was given by George K Munn of Easthampton, and proved very interesting. A vote of the house was taken to learn the minds of the people ns to an improvement society, and ail voted to have one. Rev T. C. Martin moved to have a committee of six. three appointed by the house, three by the chair, to plan for an organization, draw up by laws and a constitution. Miss Ruth Clark of Indian Orchard, who graduated from the Framingham normal school in June, has accepted an appointment in the Springfield schools ami will take up her work in the 4th grade of the Strickland school this week. Miss Clark is a granddaughter of Dwight Clark, the veteran principal of the Myrtle street grammar school, who Monday be gan his 29th year as principal of this school. The Agawam Congregational church will observe the 90th anniversary of its organi zation Sunday by special exercises. Rev George H. Pratt of Paxton, a former pas tor. will preach at the morning service. It is expected there will be other speakers at the Sunday-school and Christian endeavor meetings, with historical exercises in the evening. The second annual reunion of Fuller cousins was held at the home of Henry A. Paine in Belchertown Monday and a basket picnic was held. The party was transferred from Enfield to the Paine homestead in busses where a pleasant day was enjoyed. Birney G. Holcomb, chairman of the Southwick board of selectmen, has a'i noiimed his candidacy for the republican nomination for representative in the "Shoestring" district. Mr Holcomb has been a member of the board of selectmen for the last 19 years. William J. Sessions has bought of Julius Goetsche the place known at the Hiram Hendrick farm nt Hampden. Mr Sessions intends to set out a large peach orchard. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. NORTHAMPTON, The refusal of the war department to permit the Huh regiment at Fort Ethan Allen to be n feature of the annual fair nnd cattle show at Northampton this year may indicate that the army is no longer to be used for show purposes, along with the prize steers and pumpkins. But. if the same privileges are still be ing granted in the West, is there not an indefensible discrimination being practiced against the East, particularly against Mas sachusetts? Charles A. Montgomery announces that ho will be a candidate for the republican nomination for representative, and this places two candid: o< in the field, the other being Alderman Robert W. Grant of ward 6. Mr Momgomery is one of the council men from ward 4 end has been for a num her of years secretary ami treasurer of the three-county agricultural society. It is ex pected that’ tin- democrats will renominate Representative A. J. Preece. Miss Cairn- L. Phelps, daughter of Mrs Henry Phelps, and Benjamin Whitcomb of Portland. Me., son of Mr and Mrs Richard P. Whitcomb of Maple street. Northamp ton. were married Monday afternoon at the home of the bride on Main street. The ceremony was performed by Rev W. H Butler, pastor of the Edwards church, and the ring service was used. Myron C. Be iley has the contract for the erection of a bouse on Round hill for President L. Clark Seelye. who will re tire from the presidency of Smith college next year. The house will be built of brick, with granite trimmings, and wiil stand on rhe north side of Round Hill road, between the Moody house and <iie Merritt Clark house. The county commissioners at their meet ing Tuesday, ordered the'town of South Hadley to do its part toward the re-eg. tablishment of a ferry across the Con necticut. It is expected that the commis sioners of Hampden county will give simi lar directions to the city of Holyoke. I'he entering class at the high school Monday numbered about 100, making the total membership about the same as that of last year, 355. EASTHAM PTOX. Dr Clarence I. Sparks, who has just been appointed by Gov Draper medical examiner for the 2d Hampshire district to suecceed Dr Kimball of Huntington, who resigned, was born in Winsted. Ct., and was educated at Johns Hopkins university and the Baltimore medical college. He was for a year first assistant pathological lecturer in the Baltimore medical college and during that time really held the chair of the department, since the head of the department was away. Dr Sparks prac ticed a few months in Waldorf, Md., and then went to EnShampton 10 years ago, where he rapidly built up a large prac tice. A quiet home wedding took place Mon day evening at Easthampton, when Ruth Catherine Lyman, daughter of Mr and Mrs Solon Lyman, and Roland W. Green wood, wore married at the bride's home on the Florence road. Rev George H. Biir rill of the First church performing the ceremony. After a short wedding trip. Mr and Mrs Greenwood will reside in Springfield, where Mr Greenwood is em ployed at the Springfield gasworks as a draftsman. AMHERST. Herbert L. Bridgman, secretary and treasurer of the Peary Arctic exploration trip, was at his sister's house at South Amherst Monday, when he received the telegram from Peary that he had reached the north pole. Robert M. Howard of Sunderland, em ployed for many years in Amherst, has re ceived an appointment as teacher of music tn the public schools at Raleigh, N. C. J. Hooker Russell of Southampton, who was 90 years old last April, is planning a trip to California., mak ing the journey alone. His health is good and within a year he rode a bi cycle to Westfield. Since people have be gun to talk about him ns being an old man, he was seen tn place his hand upon a fence and leap over as sprightly as a much younger man could do. He has a grandson in California, where he is going, and he will undoubtedly spend the winter there with him. He has spent two win ters in California previously. At a meeting of the Hadley citizens on Wednesday last week it w as voted to ; accept the gift of a town clock to the First Church, nnd the clerk was 1 authorized to send thanks to the giver. William Baker of Lawrenceville, N. J. It was also voted to place a suitable inscription stating that it was given in memory of Charlotte Rey nolds Baker. The parish committee, con sisting of William Phillips, Earl Randall am] L. W. West, together with F. S. Rey nolds and Dr F. H. Smith, were appoint ed a committee to instal the clock. The descendants of Samuel A. Clark, whose homestead was in Hawley, held their annual reunion at the Woman's Christian temperance union hall in Will iamsburg on Monday. There were about 75 present, coming from Northampton, Williamsburg. Hawley. Ashfield. Buck land. Three Oaks, Mich., and San An tonio. Tex. Statistics for the week have been kept as to the number of vehicles on the state road on Depot hill. Belchertown, and have resulted ns follows: August 22. 15(1; 23, 254; 24, 196; 25. 24(1; 26, loll; 27. 185; 28, 271. This includes vehicles of all descriptions, including automobiles. Lyle Guy Mambert has announced his candidacy for the nomination for repre sentative from the 2d Hampshire district. Edward A. Allen, who has been an nounced as a candidate for the nomination, now formalin announces that he has with drawn from the contest. Mrs Nelson Dwight has sold her resi dence on Pleasant street Ware, formerly owned by Elizabeth Sturtevant, to Rev O. J. Fairfield, who will occupy as soon as Mrs Dwight can move. Miss Adilene M. Tirrell of West Cnm mington will go this week to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to teach in a women's college. Miss Tirrell has been a successful teacher in Tnskegee for seven years. Miss Katharine McDowell Rice, who has acted as librarian of the Worthington library for 25 years, has sent her resigna tion to Charles E. Clark, president of the library. FRANKLIN COUNTY. GREENFIELD. The will of Lydia Hall Miles, late of Ashfield, has been filed for probate. John M. Sears of Ashfield is named executor. Those bequests are made: George L. Miles, $1900; Marietta M. Fisk, $500; Ellen M. Abbey, SISOO and such house hold furnishings as she may desire; Fanny L. Abbey. $1000; Henry A. Howes. $200; to his daughters, Carrie E. Jenkins, Bertha A. Hones and Edna S. Tatro, SIOO each: Sereno E. Howes, $300; Grace E. Hall. $500; Clara A. Hall. Julimi O. Hall. Alice S. Guilford. Lucy M. Barrus. SSOO each: Robert C. and Snrnh L. Hall, SSOO each; town of Ashfield for perpetiml core of cemetery lots. $300; Ellen M. Abbey and Jultnu O. Hnll, the residue. The annual field day of the Springfield diocesan union of total abstinence soci eties Monday at Greenfield was favored with the best of weather. The rain the day before had laid the dust and cooled the air. sn the conditions Monday were ideal for marching nnd the field and ath letic snorts on Franklin park. Not siuce the celebration of the sesquicentennial of the town in .the summer of 1903 has Greenfield seen so large a throng of visit ors ns appeared Monday. The buildings in the business section of the town were deeorated for the occasion, the custom ary bunting and stars and stripes ar ranged in the usual manner. There wns a good volume of business in the district inurt Tuesday morning. Bello Brown and her son. James, who are implt rated in slick confidence games in many places, including Greenfieril and Chico pee. were before (the court, charged with larceny. Mrs Brown was given a year in th<- house of correction, and the boy was sent to the Concord reformatory. E. W. Brown, the husband nnd father, la de tained at Hartford, Ct., wnere he ..as ar rested last week. Deeds have been passed for the transfer of the Ames place on Federal and Ames streets from William A. Ames to Frauklin A. Pond, whose option acquired last fall expired last week. The Ames house, an old landmark in the village, is to be re moved to the rear of the Jot on Ames street to make way for a business block. Dea E. P. Smend of Charlemont lias sold his farm to James D. Avery of Buckland, who will clear off the timber, and hns bought a farm near Montague Center, to which he will move about the Ist of No vember. Dr and Mrs Andrew Everett Willis of Shelburne Falls, who were married at Brattleboro. Vt.. 50 years ago to-day by Rev Mr Clark of the Unitarian ehurch of that town, quietly observed the anni versary Saturday afternoon mid evening when they received their friends from 2 to 5 and from 7 to 9. many calling io ex tend their congratulations and best wishes for the future. The celebration was quiet and informal. Their son. L--o E. Willis, of New York and wife, Mr and Mrs David E. Torry and Martin O. Smith of Brook lyn, N. Y., the latter the son of the late Dr Horace Smith of Colrain. an old-time physician, wore with them. BERKSHIRE COUNTY. PITTSFIELD. An ascension was made in the balloon Pittsfield Heart of the Berkshire® at 11.17 o'clock Monday morning from Aero park. The pilot was Charles Walsh of Mount Vernon. X. Y., and the passengers. Su perintendent IL C. Crafts of the Pittsfield gas company and his brother-in-law. Henry A. Roberts Northampton. No an nouncetorar of plans for the flight had been made, so there were very few people- at the field to see the flight. There was no hitch in the preparations, and the getaway was made with nine bags of ba'last. A light breeze was blowing and this carried the balloon in a southeasterly directiau over the mountains which skirt toe edge of the eity. Before 12 o'clock they had passed over Becket and were then taking a more southerly course. The balloon landed on the Booth farm on Dewey street in West Springfield about 2 o'e'oi k Mrs Frances R. Hammond, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs William H. Cooley, is to wed at Lucerne, Switz., this month Stanislav du Besse, mi Italian attorney. This will be the fourth marriage of Mrs Hammond. She is the last of her family, her mother having died some over a year ago. While in Rome four years ago with her mother. Mrs Hammond met Mr du Besse, but did not become engaged tn him until her latest trip to Europe. She is now in the Alps. The couple will live in France. Before going abroad several months ago Mrs Hammond disposed of ad her property interests in Pittsfield. Dedication exercises were held Sunday evening at the Elm-street mission, and a large number were present. The First Baptist church recentlv bought a tract of land, with a small building thereon, at the corner of Elm and Pollock streets, and it was to observe the acquisition of this property that the dedication was held. Rev C. P. MacGregor of the First Bap tist church gave the principal address of the evening, outlining the history of the First Baptist church's growth mid tlie need for a church in the Elm-street sec tion of the city. Mrs Eliza Flynn of Pilttsfield has brought suit against the Pittsfield street railway company to recover SIO,OOO for injuries alleged to have been sustained in alighting from a car near Westminster street on June 28. Mrs Florence E. Wood ruff also has entered suit against the same company to recover $12,000 for the death of her husband. Dr Morgan L. Woodruff, who was killed in a trolly accident on Wahconah street on the evening of Feb ruary 11. Arrangements are being completed for the reception to Gov Draper at the Hotel Wendell from 9.30 to 10 o'clock this morning. The governor will arrive about 9.30 o'clock from Stockbridge, on route to North Adams to attend the old home week exercises. In Stockbridge the chief executive with the lieutenant-gov ernor and members of the staff will be the guests of Senator Treadway. While in Pittsfield Tuesday to attend a meeting of the board of which he is a member. County Commissioner Henry D. Sisson of Mill River authorized the state ment that he was in the commissioner con test to stay. He said that his health was never better, that he had received many words of encouragement, and he intended to fight the battle to a finish. Mrs E. A. Tompkins is to be the matron of the new state sanitarium for the treat ment of tuberculosis at Westfield, and will enter upon her duties January 1. Before her marriage Mrs Tompkins was Miss Mary L. Siddall, and for three months some five years ago she was acting matron of the state sanatorium at Rutland. The Park dub last week, by a vote of 72 yeas to 6.5 nays, went on record in favor of accepting the proposition of the n eiidell hotel company to lease the top floor of the present hotel building for a period of 15 years. On this question the majority vote prevailed. Deputy Sheriff E, N. Wood of Lanes boro has announced his candidacy for the nomination for representative on the re publican ticket in the 3d Berkshire dis trict, which consists of ward 1 of Pitts field. Lanesboro, Dalton, Hancock and Williamstown. The annual reunion of the Foote family was held nt Pontoosuc bike Friday Dinner was served, after which the young er members of the family carried out a program of sports. Mrs George Noble read a paper on the descendants of the Foote family that contained much of interest. The enrolment at the Pittsfield high school_ Tuesday, the first day of school, was 470 pupils, as against 423 on the first day of school last year. NORTH ADAMS. By way of marking the second anni versary of his first experience in balloon ing, N. H. Arnold of North Adams pilot ed the balloon New York in an ascension front the city Friday morning, the getaway being at 4.15 and the landing at 8.55 o'clock in North Easton. The pas sengers with Pilot Arnold were Clifford B. Harmon of New York city, who, with A. Holland Forbes, is joint owner of the balloon, Mrs Thomas Hastings and Mr and Mrs Walter E. Maynard, all of New- York city. The big balloon rose without a hitch of any kind and the course taken was in a southeasterly direction. Mem bers of the party which Mr Arnold piloted are all high in the society life of New York city. Mrs Hastings is n daughter of E. C. Benedict and n sister-in-law of C. B. Harmon. She is president of the Four in-Hand club and a noted whip. Mrs Maynard is the daughter of Brayton Ives, a banker. Her husband is a capitalist. The balloon landed at North Easton, 110 miles from North Adams. Fully 2000 persons, including, many of the visitors to the old home week, among the number being many who had never be fore seen such an act, w ere at Aero park Tuesday afteemam to witness.- the flight of the North Adama No 1. The getaway' was at 2.45 o'clock and was indeed the most peaceful that was over witnessed in North Adams. With Pilot N. H. Arnold on the tri|i were ('lmries Gatslick ami "Boli” Cook, ehanffenr for Mai W. .1. Pardee, who drew one of the trip tickets. The landing was on a farm in the town of Howe, after the party had been in the air for 55 minutes. The dedicatory dnhce of the Greylock mills weave shed was hold Tuesday even ing with 4000 people in attendance. The music was by the Governor's foot guard band of Hartford, C. of 25 pieces, with W. G. Ryan of Springfield as prompter. Herbert B. Clark, a well-known young business man of North Adams, and a son of H. W. Clark, announeei Tuesday that he was a candidate for thehnnyoralty nom ination, it being his intention to make the fight on the license question. LKK. The consensus of reports gives rise to the story that there is a whole hear family’ residing in the “out-east" woods. Tester- day a bear got into Thomas Houston's pasture and caused quite a commotion among the cattle. He is described as a large black fellow; larger than the one seen by Louis Barlow. Samuel Griffin and others. If this is correct, there is a large and n medium-sized bear and two cubs in the neighborhood. Old rifles are being cleaned up and there will be a genuine bear hunt in the near future, with a good prospect of boar. To the north and east of this section there is an unfrequented wilderness and each year come reports of bear and bear tracks seen there. Deer mill wildcats are rapidly increasing in the section. Dr E. G. Rowland, formerly of Lee. and recently located in Connecticut, has moved to Evarts. Ky.. where lie is to preach in the church, bo principal of the high school, superintendent of schools, and will be the only practicing physician within a radius of 10 miles. Mi»s Vera E.. daughter of Mr and Mrs W. C. Baldwin, was married Saturday afternoon rd ueorge D. Knox of Lee, son of Mr and Mrs John Knox of Englewood. N. J., at the home of the bride’s parents, by Rev John Barstow of the Congrega tional church. LENOX. Curtis hotel at Lenox cared for more guests Saturday night and Sun day than at one time in its his tory of over 56 years. Over 269 guests were roomed and fed. Beside the capacity of the hotel 11 cottages round about Lenox were filled with hotel guests. This number did not include the chauffeurs and servants who accompanied the tour ists. Hotel Aspinwall was filled to its capacity and a brilliant dance took place there Saturday night. Miss Kate Cary, a prominent Lenox horsewoman, has arranged a coaching pa rade for the 16th. The four-in-hands in Lenox will meet that afternoon and be reviewed at the Curtis hotel. The will of Frank Q. Barstow of East Orange. N. J., the Standard oil director, who died on a New York Central train near Utica on. August 19, wns filed for probate at Newark. N. J., last week Va rious relatives are left cash bequests ranging from S2OOO to $20,000. The tes tator’s son, S. Buhrcr Barstow of Barre, receives S4BOO a year, the income of a trust fund created by the will. This fund with other funds, amounting to over $1,000,000, are at the death of the bene ficiary to be divided between the widow and the testator's other son, William A. Barstow of South Orange. N. .1. They are also left the residue of the big estate. The English department of Williams college has appointed Mr Rogers, a grad uate of Harvard in 1907. as instructor in freshman and sophomore English. Mr Rogers received the degree of M. A. for work in English last year, and comes to Williams highly recommended. The many friends at Orange of Miss Agnes Burnham of Old Town, Me., who was for several years a member of the high school faculty, congratulate her on her marriage to John M. Townshend of Braintree, who is a member of the Thayer academy faculty, Mrs H. B. De Wolf has sold her place near the Northfield hotel to Miss Annu Day, who takas possession October 1. WORCESTER COUNTY. Alfred Burgess, 21 or 22, was instantly killed late Thursday night at his room in the Raymond Quinton house on Lee street, off Crescent street Athol, by the dis charge of a 32-caliber revolver. Whether the act was an intentional suicide or a case of "didn't know it was loaded'’ was nt first not definitely decided, but after inves tigation by the medical examiner, Dr James Oliver, an opinion was rendered substantiating the accident theory. Mrs Myra A. Bemis has sold her farm of 300 acres in Barre to William H. Blais dell of Barton Landing, Vt. EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS, Two brothers were drowned when a canoe overturned ip the Merrimac river at Amesbury Sunday, while their elderly father nearly lost his life as he struggled in the water attempting to hold them tip. A third sou. awakened suddenly from his sleep, paddled frantically to their assist ance with a board in a clumsy rowboat and saved the father’s life. The two broth ers drowned were Dr Felix Miller, 30. of Peabody, a dentist, and Otto W. Miller, 37, superintendent of the Pleasant Valley thermometer factory of Amesbury. The father is William Miller. 60, proprietor of the thermometer factory. Lewis Miller, 25, a college student, was the third son, who went to the rescue. CONNECTICUT. The Fitch mill on East Main street Rockville, recently bought of the J. J. Regan manufacturing company by Belding Bros & Co, has been sold by the latter company to Edmond Corcoran of Philadelphia, for merly of Rockville. The purchase means another high-class woolen mill for Rockville. Mr Corcoran was some 15 years ago manager of the Hockanum mills, and later was manager of mills for the Ameri ca-n woolen company in Pittsfield and other places. For the past few years he has had charge of a large mill in Philadelphia and is known as one of the successful woolen manufacturers of the country. He will equip the Rockville mill With the lat est improved machinery, and will set up 80 looms nt the start. The new mill will employ about 150 hands. The body of William Smith, 48, a wdl known hunter of Haddam Neck, was found floating in the Connecticut river Monday morning near that pl Ace and weighted down with a heavy stone and tied from head to foot with ropes. His skull was crushed in near the back of the right ear. Mr Smith had been missing since August 30, being last seen with his brother. Henry. Both Henry and tne murdered man were badly intoxicated when last seen together, and were firing off their revolvers in wild West fashion. Henry is suspected of the murder and has fled. The Winsted braid manufacturing com pany will soon be organized with a captal stock of $50,000. 'Hie prime movers in the new concern, which expects to begin operations January 1. employing 1(H) hands, are William Haise and Robert E. Murrey of Ansonia, who have just bought the manufacturing plant of the Kellogg & Wakefield manufacturing company on Luke street, where the new industry will be located. Prof F. IV. Nicolson, secretary of the faculty at Wesleyan university, annotates that present indications point to an en tering class this fall of about 125 men. All the rooms in now North college have been engaged and most of those in Ob servatory hall. The 14th Connecticut regiment will hold its animal meeting at Rockville Friday, the 17th. in Grand Army hall at 11 a. ni. Dinner will he served at 1 o'clock by the woman’s relief corps. VERMONT. The home of Mr and Mrs Arthur Put natn at 54 Canal street, Brattleboro, Vt., was the scene of a very pretty wedding Monday morning when their older daughter, Florence Grace Pntnnm. and Richard C. Averill, only son of Mr and Mrs (Jeorge C. Averill, were united in marriage by Rev Roy M. Houghton, pastor of tiie Center Congregational church. Mr and Mrs Averill have been lifelong acquaintances, having attended school together, and both were graduated in the class of 1903 at the Brattleboro high school. Both arc very popular nnd have a wide circle of ac quaintance. Mr Averill is n clerk in the Vermont national bank, of which his father. George U. Averill, is president. Mrs Averill for several years has been the teacher nt the Chnse-strcet primary school. They will make their home, after a two-weeks' trip, on Main street with his parents. Now it is Burlington that is seeking tn secure nn adequate union railroad sta tion, and there lias been a conference be tween the managers of the railroads con cerned and the local people. Nothing was accomplished beyond a general talk about the needs of the situation and possible ways of meeting them. Burlington hits a good case, and her people will best serve themselves by pushing it firmly and insist- I ing upon action that will be adequate for the future. The Free Press is justified in declaring that no temporary makeshift ought to be accepted. , Hayes Bigelow has this week issued an ; attractive leaflet, showing the schedules at which time his boats leave Brattleboro for Putney and South Vernon. Comiecticnt River lake seems to have won its way into the hearts of Brattleboro sportsmen, and it is largely patronized daily. Theater going parties from Hinsdale and South ' Vernon find it convenient to come tip on • the boat and return at their pleasure after the plays. Robert ('. Bacon hns the honor of owning the fastest motor launch on the lake. Business nt the Brattleboro factory of the Snowflake canning company began in earnest Friday. It is expected as the sea son is late, if good weather prevails, be tween 700.000 and 800.000 cans will be put up in the next to weeks, which output will be about as usual. The actual acre age of corn in the vicinity of Brattle boro this year is about 400 acres, being slightly under that of last year. HEW HAMPSHIRE. James Bellows McGregor celebrated his 108th birthday at his home. "The Maples." in North Newport Monday. Mi- McGreg or ivas born within a mile of where he now lives on Sunday. September 6. 1801. He is one of the oldest living Americans, and it is believed that he is the oldest Mason in tlie world, having joined the order in 1827. making him a member of 82 years’ standing. Mt Vernon Masonic -lodge of Newport pays him a visitation on his birth day each vean Mr McGregor held a re ception Monday, at which hundreds of persons living near North Newport were present. RHODE ISLAND. The prohibition party of Rhode Island held its state convention at trovidence Monday and nominated a ticket for state officers. IVilhs IL White of Providence was nominated for governor. GARDEN CONTEST NEARING END. Many Springfield Yards Are Now In Their Most Attractive Stale. Nearly all of the interest of those who are competing for The Republican’s gar den prizes now centers in the probable awards. The days of laboring for the success and improvement of the gardens • and yards have now gone by and the final decision of the judges is about all that re mains to come. But there is a deeper-lying purpose of the contest than the prizes; it is the resulting improvement to the gen eral appearance of the streets of tlie city that must come when every front yard is given careful attention .-11111'is skilfully de veloped to tile fullest possibilities of at tractiveness. Those who have labored on their gardens this summer and have met with many discouragements from too much sun, have contributed something definite to to improvement of the city, whether or not they nave been able to win the approval of tlie judges of the yards and gardens. Every man who improves the appearance of his house mid yard, enhances the value of the property and of the neighborhood. Landlords could well nfford to supply ex tra water for lawns and gardens free to the tenant who will develop the place, for the development is in the last analysis an asset to the owner of the property. Many of the gardens are now at their hight and are well worth visiting. The foliage plants, cannas, castor plants and many others that require all summer to mature are now at their greatest perfec tion and will remain so until the first sherp frosts. Many gardens that seemed to have suffered beyond repair from the drouth in July, especially those that hnve late flowering vines anil shrubs, show a great improvement and have lost all trace of their withering. MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTSELECT. They Look the Town ol Plymouth Over nnd Hold Business Session. For the closing day of the fifth triennial congress nf the general society of May flower descendants the program Tuesday at Plymouth, was a short and simple one. The delegates met in the morning for a so cial session, and to dispose of any busi ness which might have remained over to be transacted. Several snort addressee were made. In the afternoon the visitors devoted their time to visiting tire many in teresting places in this historic town. Tues night officers were elected as follows: Gov ernor-general, Holland Davis of New York; treasurer-general, James Mauren Rhoades of Pennsylvania; elder-general. Rev Dr John Lewis Ewell of District of Columbia: captain-general, Myles Standish of Massachusetts; surgeon-general, Abiel Ward of Connecticut: deputy governor general New York, Richard Henry Green; Connecticut. Walter C. Faxon; Massachu setts, Asa P. French: Pennsylvania, J. Granville Leach; Illinois, Frederick Mor gan Steel; District of Columbia, Solomon F. Faunce; New Jersey, Leander N. Lov ell; assistant generals, John P. Tilder of New York. George C. Mason of Pennsyl vania, William Waldo Hyde of Connecti cut, William L. Marsh of District of Co lumbia, Edwin F. Crandon of Massachu setts, and Herbert Jenney of Ohio. A SOUTHWICK MURDER. Michael Bahnn Admits Killing: a Com panion. Devepolments came rapidly last week in the Southwick murder mystery, when the murdered man was identi fied as Frank Bellvue of Fall River, and Michael Bahan, who has been held on sus picion, confessed to State Police Officers Bligh nnd McKay at Westfield that he wns responsible for Bellvue's death. The body of the murdered man was identified by two Springfield men, Arsene Godin and Louis Betram, barbers, ns Frank Bellrue of Fall River. They said that he was a plumber and steamtitter and had been employed recently in Springfield, and they had seen him at the Globe hotel. Bahnu has been in the employ of Murrin & Kir wan. cigar manufacturers. Westfield, for 10 weeks. He is a native of New York state, hailing from Birmingham, and is 53 years old. He has been a cigarmaker for 40 years, and admits being an occa sional drinker. He has retained Lawyer R. J. Morrissey to represent uhn. He was arraigned for murder in the district court at Westfield last week nnd a bearing of the case will be given Friday. IVhat is believed to be the record potato train ever handled in the East was pulled into northern Maine Junction. The train was made up of 75 cars of potatoes picked up at different points on the Bangor and Aroostook. The train contained 38.000 bushels, north from $28,000 to $30,000. Clothing ought to he made with the soft ancient Egyptian or modern Chinese but tons. Maybe removable ones are better still. If it were not for buttons most laundering could be done by machinery.— New York Press. DIED. ' lu this city 3d, Ecxtcu CxrHiniXß, 80, widow of Ansel A. Kanklu. In this city Ith. Bkxjamin n. Asnrasos. 50. In this city 4th, Wii.uau H. Epoab. 78. In this city, st the home of her son in law. George W. Tapley, Bbtsbv D., 01, widow <>f Francis Sheffield of I’awentnck, Ut. At Chicopee Falls sth, Amelia Sovt* wobth, widow of I.vmnn Blood. At Holyoke 2d. MAST WaTBRS. JR. At South Hadley 2d, Wiuus B. BuolkwaY S 3.