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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
SPRINGFIELD AND VICINITY.
Edward S. Bradford. Jr., arrive.! home
Friday from a trip of several months to
Europe, partly ou business.
A jurv in the superior court Thursday
awarded $3060 to George N. Fournier of
Chicopee against the city of C hicopee for
an injury sustained by him while in the
employ of the city in the summer ot rJUS.
The marriage of Roman Albert < rune of
25 Mattoon street and Mrs Henrietta
Dewev Ashlev of 16 Warriner avenue took
place Wednesday afternoon at the home of
Rev Neil McPherson. 101 Dickinson street.
L. E. Stevens, proprietor of the St
James-avcnnc market, has made a volun
tary assignment f T the benefit of cred
itors to lawyer Charles 1.. Young. Lia
bilities are about SSOOO and assets about
$1506.
Miss Mollv Graves of Florida street and
Henrv M. Lougee of 315 King street were
married Wednesday evening last week at
the homo of the groom by Kev >amuel
Holden, pastor of the Eastern-avenue ;
church.
The city council Monday passed an
order providing for raises in the minimum
rate of wages of the city laborers engaged
in street cleaning and ashes and garbage
collection to $2.10 a day, and of all other
laborers of the street department to $2.2u
a day.
The Calhoun chib has begun rehearsals
for "Zeb Harkins' Grocery." which will
be produced at Fisk's easin” the 29th and
30th. A. O. Sanford, who has it in
charge, announces that it will be a comedy
sketch spattered with "vodville. 1 here
will be 25 participants in the entertain
ment.
Henry Hobbs is coming to Springfield
to take a position with Meekins. Pack
ard & Wheat. Mr Hobbs is or was a
great football tackle and his name h»'
figured largely in the accounts of sun
dry games that Yale has played on the
gridiron, for he was for two years a star
tackle for the blue.
The officers of the Hampton club elected
at the first meeting. November 7, are.
President. Mrs W. B. Medlicott; vice-presi
dent. Miss Frederica Lathrop: secretary.
Mrs Robert Barton: treasurer. Mrs
Charles Burt. The next meeting will le
entertained by Mrs W. S. Warriner of
Randolph street next Monday morning.
J. J. LaValley has closed his Williams
burg studio and has brought his family to
this city for their permanent home, having
also disposed of his summer place at Mt
Tekoa. He has resumed his classes at his
studio in the Fuller building and is already
planning for his usual February exhibition
of pictures.
Miss Georgia Fraser, formerly super
visor of art in the Springfield public
schools, is the author of a novel. ■'Crow
step." that is said to be making a hit in
New York. It is a story of the Revolu
tionary war and is the outgrowth of a
successful work by Miss Fraser. “The
Stone House at Gowanus,” published last
year.
It is welcome news that it has at,last
been decided to have two performances at
Court Square theater by the Boston opera
company. “Carmen” will be givici Jan
nary 19. and "Aida" February 23. Both
will have fine casts, including some of the
brightest stars of the Boston stage, and
the- performance will in all respects be
the same as in Boston.
John E, Haggerty, for three years
steward of the Country chib, has been
engaged as steward of the new Hotel Kim
ball. Mr Haggerty has made an enviable
reputation at the Country chib. Before
coining to Springfield he had been stew
ard for several exclusive clubs in Boston
and vicinity where he also managed a
general catering business.
A deed was recorded at the registry of
deeds last week for the transfer to' the
Springfield foundry company of a parcel
of land in Indian Orchard from Charles
D. Rood. The property is near the Oak
street railroad station and lies between
the Boston and Albany tracks and Oak
street. It is the intention of the com
pany to move its plant to Indian Orchard.
A sneak thief ransacked the residence of
George H. Kemater. 245 St James avenue,
Tuesday evening last week while the mem
bers of the family were away, and made
off with jewelry and other articles to the
value of perhaps SIOO. The thief probably
entered by a rear window. In his search
of the house lie threw things about reck
lessly, leaving the rooms in great dis
order.
The Economic club will hold a dinner
discussion in the Forbes & Wallace res
taurant Friday evening. The subject will
be "The monetary system of the United
States: Do we need a change?” and the
speakers will be Joseph French Johnson,
dean of the New York school of finance:
Alexander D. Noyes, financial editor of the
New York Evening Post, and Henry IL
Bowman, president of the Springfield na
tional bank.
The hunting season which opened for
gray squirrels October 15, closed Mon
day and many gunners who have been en
thusiastic squirrel hunters got out yester
day for a final crack at them. The sea
son has been a good one and many have
been bagged. Just how many hunters
have been conscientious enough to hold
themselves down to the limit of 15 squir
rels for the season it would be difficult to
say. From now on rabbits will be given
a fair share of the attention of the nim
rods.
The Springfield navigation association
presented many facts before the special
commission of the state of Connecticut,
having supervision of the locks and en
nuis. at Hartford last week, ending to
show that many improvements are needed
in the Windsor Locks canal before it will
be really navigable. The local association
asked for a hearing some time ago and the
full commission was present last week
when Herman Burgi, engineer of the
Springfield gaslight company, presented the
facts in the case for the petitioners.
The annual “donation day" of the Wes
son memorial hospital took place Satur
day, the regular hours for gifts being
from 2 o'clock until 5 in the afternoon.
Some, however, were received in the morn
ing. and the sum total of them was fully
up to that of other years. The committee
in charge of it was composed of Airs
Newton Morgan, Mrs L. W. Besse, Miss
Elizabeth Bigelow and Miss Leona May
Peirce. The gifts were mainly fruits,
jellies, books and magazines, hut quite a
large sum of money was also sent in.
Congressman Frederick 11. Gillett Tues
day made announcement of the decision of
the examining board which Saturday held
in the city council chamber the competitive
examination to choose a recipient of Con
gressman Gillett's appointment to West
Point. The examining board comprised
Samuel D. Sherwood. Charles H. Beck
with and Dr H. V. Sawin of Brimfield.
John Flebut of Amherst received the high
est grade in the examination and will re
ceive the appointment, the two alternates
being Carleton K. Smith of South Hadley
Falls, first, and Alfred Gannhl of 470
Belmont avenue, second.
The wedding of Miss Alice M. Colman
oUI7 Spring street and Irving S. Pulcifer
0t49 Holyoke street took place in Holyoke
Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock nt' the
home of the bride’s sister. Mrs Albert F.
Pierce. 30 Hitchcock street, in the pres
ence of the immediate relatives of the bride
and groom. Rev Dr Newton M. Hall per
formed the ceremony, using the double-ring
service. Before her marriage Miss
Colman was connected with the In
Htitution for Savings mid Mr Pul
cifer has been with the Springfield safe
deposit and trust company for more thnu
20 years. He is a member of the school
committee.
E. P. Swetland of Portland. Or., for
merly a well-known resident of Springfield,
Monday paid II visit to the municipal
building to renew Acquaintance with <Kty
Clerk E. A. Newell and other city officials
whom he knew many years ago. Mr Swet
hind conducted u confectionery and cater-
I inc business on Main street for several
years prior to his departure for Portland
in 1885. Ho started in the same btisinoss
in the western city anti has been very suc
i cessfnl. 11 is catering business is one of
the largest of its kind in the Northwest
and his home-made New England pies are
famous al! over the Pa ri tie coast. Mr ard
Mrs Swetland are the guests of Irving A.
Quimby of Pearl street.
Charles L. Simons of 6G School street,
the man who found the famous Spencer
locket in his Hower garden during the
period of the Spencer depredations last
year, has put in his claim for the reward
offered for information which would lead
to the apprehension and conviction of the
murderer of Miss Martha B. Blackstone.
Citv Solicitor Doherty has the matter now
in hand, and the proper disposition of the
claim will be made soon. It may come be
fore the board on claims or the finance
committee, although no move in either di
rection has as yet been made. A prior
claim was some time ago put in by Mrs
Edgar C. Pierce, who identified the pic
tures con tained in the locket.
The Japanese fair given by the
women’s society of St Paul's Uni
versalist church closed its triumphant
career late Friday evening, and will
go down in the annals of the so
ciety ns one of the most unqualified suc
cesses ever managed by that expert organ
ization. One of the most attractive and
profitable features of both evenings was
the entertainment given in one of the ante
rooms off the hall. The room was richly
draped in oriental hangings with parasols
and lighted lanterns in abundance. Here
ou a little stage a company of Japanese
maidens danced and posed for an ever
changing audience. Mrs Lester D. Ball
had entire charge of the entertainment and
the company she had drilled did her
credit.
The city realized $22,825 last week
Wednesday from the auction sale of land
bordering the North-street extension during
what is considered by experts one of the
most phenomenal sales in the city in many
years. So active was the bidding that ’
many buyers paid from two to three times
what the parcels were considered worth
at a fair valuation. Last week’s sale will
bring the total received by the city for
land and buildings after the street has
been put through • ^proximately $30,000,
and the city is coming out of the deal much
letter than was at first expected. The
city council appropriated S2OUOOO for the
extension originally, and not quite all of
this will be required for the work. The
$30,000 received by the salps of property
not needed for the extension will reduce
the expense to about $130,000.
The tower of the municipal group on
Court street in this citl is to be 300 feet
high instead of 275, as first planned
by the architects, Pell & Corbett
of New York. This decision was
made Tuesday by the municipal build
ing commission at a meeting at
which various other routine matters were
discussed. Chairman (Jeorge Dwight Pratt
said that the vote of the commissioners
was unanimous and that all the members
were present except one. and he was in
favor of the proposed change. The cost
of the raising of the tower the extra 25
feet will be about SII,OOO, but Mr Pratt
said that the commission has funds enough
to accomplish it without calling on the
city council for more funds for construc
tion. The tower, elevated to 300 feet, will
undoubtedly overtop all other structures
in the city, even the armory tower on the
Hill, and tin? commissioners and the archi
tects all feel that architecturally it will be
so greatly improved as to warrant the ex
pense.
The directors of the Springfield board of
trade voted Tuesday night to have a
committee appointed by' the president
to co-operate with the Connecticut
Valley historical society in arrang
ing a celebration of rhe 175th an
niversary of the founding of Spring
field. The historical society took up
the matter at a meeting on October 25.
and voted to have the proposal for a cel
ebration brought before the board of trade
and the city government. The celebration
will take place in Muy, if the.plan is ma
terialized. Another decision of the
directors was to renew the prize
essay offer for pupils of the two
high schools on the same conditions
as those of the previous contest. The
board will give two prizes of sls. one l >
each high school, for the best essay on
some Springfield subject. The contest of
last year had good results, and the con
tinuance of the offer will be agreeable to
the school department.
Tuesday was an exciting day for the
residents at the Home of the Friendless
on William street, being the occasion o£
the sale for which they have been prepar
ing for over a year. The goodly assort
ment of plain and fancy articles, made
for the most part by the inmates of the
home themselves, were spread out attrac
tively in the rooms on the first floor and
the large number of people who attended
the sale made inroads into the seemingly
inexhaustible supply. This is only the sec
ond fair that has been held at the home,
the first one taking place three years ago.
but the project has proved so successful
that the plan of holding one annually is
under consideration. Through the or
ganization many people who come to the
city penniless and friendless are cared for
and put in the way of good employment.
Miss E. B. Epstein is the sympathetic ami
efficient superintendent of the home on
William street. She has served the home
for 15 years ami her assistant, Mrs J. C.
Carpenter, has been connected with it for
II years. Mrs J. H. Carmichael is presi
dent of the cornoration.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
HOLYOKE.
The Mount Tom realty trust has been
formed to take over the property ou which
the Mount Toni golf club’s course is lo
cated in Holyoke. The trustees named in
the declaration of trust tiled at the reg
istry of deeds in Springfield Friday
are all members of the club. They are
Frank B. Towne. F. F. Partridge. Sam
uel Raynolds. Howard F. Metcalf and
J. Lewis Wyckoff, all of Holyoke. It is
the purpose of the trustees to buy the
old Hastings and John C. Thorpe farms,
containing about 156 acres of land, lying
between Northampton street and Mt
Tom. The golf elub has leased a portion
of this property for its golf course in the
past. It is the Intention to sell the un
used portion of the land fronting on
Northampton street, and it is hoped that
the hind can be made to pay for itself
in this way.
The negotiations for the C. IL Heywood
property have been completed and Attor
ney A. L. Green has bought the tract.
Landscape gardeners have already been
set at work ami later Mr Green will erect
a residence. The land comprises about 50
acres on the westerly side of Northampton
street between the land of the Austin
Street heirs and the land owned by Dr
Hastings, and when the work is finished
will be one of the prettiest places on the
street. T. J. Morrow, who has bought
Hie Thorpe property on the other side of
Northampton street, has not fully <|e<ided
whether lie will build in the spring or a
year from next spring.
The expected happened Monday after
noon when a petition was filed with rhe
board of he.iltli asking that the nuisance
caused by the Abbott fertilizer works ut
Smiths Ferry be abated. The petition will
be considerml nt the regular meeting of
the hoard of health, mid it is probable
that n time for a hearing will be set in the
near future. The direct cause of the com
plaint is due to the opening of the new
tract adjoining. People who have bought
lots on the new tract object to the present
conditions.
WESTFIELD.
Sunnyside ranch, the big farm that has
been conducted for some years just over
the line from Westfield in Southwick, by
members of the Urniie family, is to be dis
posed of by the administrators of the
Janies A. Crane estate. Robert B. Crane
established the ranch, which now consists
of fully 700 acres, and lie caused to be
erected on a sightly spot some unusually
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1910.
well equipped burns mid other farm build
ings. Ho took great interest in developing
the property ami improving the bind. mid
he successfully raised sheep, hogs, poul
try and cattle. Upon his death the farm
was carried on under the direction of the
I late James A. Crane. The heirs of the
latter do not erne to have the responsi
bility of carrying on the big farm, and the
property will be offered for sale.
A new industry has been secured fur
Westfield, and it will be located on the
north side of the river next to the Boston
ami Albany railroad. The company has
liought two acres of la nil from the Moseley
estate, abutting on the railroad property,
and will build a plant there. Ground will
be broken soon for a foundry building, and
later a machine shop will be erected. The
name of the new concern is not made
public at this time.
About 75 relatives and friends of the
two families were present at the marriage
Tuesday afternoon of Pearl Leslie Mal
lory of Westfield and Harry Edwin John
son of Feeding Hills. The wedding took
place at 4 at the home of the bride's
uncle. William IL Noble, 23 Pearl street.
The officiating clergyman was Rev D. B.
Aldrich, pastor of the Methodist church in
Mittineague.
K. A. Dearden, who has been conducting
a farm for a number of years on City
View boulevard in th? southwest section
of the town, has sold his place to a Brock
ton man. Mr and Mrs Dearden are mov
ing this week to 97 Court street, where
they will make their home. Mr Dearden's
farming experience proved to be very bene
ficial to his health.
About -?9000 has been pledged toward
the Tekoa country club, but it is still un
decided where the club-house and grounds
will be located. There are a number of
good sites available. The club has been
incorporated with a capital of SIO,OOO.
There is no question but what the full
amount will be subscribed.
LONGMEADOW.
F. C. Brinkerhoff, real estate broker,
bought Friday for Mrs Henrietta Born
of New York city a tract ot' land com
prising 63% acres iu Longmeadow from
Mrs Hannah B. Fisher of Westfield. Mrs
Fisher was the daughter of Sylvester Bliss
of Longmeadow and inherited the prop
erty from him. It faces Forest Glen road
and adjoins the residences of Douglas Wes
son and Flynt Lincoln ami runs about
2000 feet on the line of Forest park. It
also has a frontage of about 506 feet on
Laurel street and 900 feet on Converse
street. The price paid was about $25.-
000. Mrs Born expects to build a hand
some colonial residence facing Forest park
on the brow of the hill near Forest Glen
road. Mr Barney and the park commis
sioners have for some time desired a drive
way on the brow of the hill, continuing
Forest Glen road.-skirting the ravines and
running the length of Forest park. It is
possible that Mrs Born may consent to
open such a road and. retaining as much
of this property as she desires for her
own use. cut into lots the balance facing
Forest park to be sold to restricted buy
ers.
Considerable surprise was expressed
Tuesday that the census report gives the
population of Longmeadow as only 10S4.
a gain of only 120 since the census was
taken in 1905. Many new families have
moved to Longmeadow, but the families
are not as large as in our grandfathers’
day.
Longmeadow is sending an unusual num
ber of pupils to the Springfield schools
this year. There are 26 from Longmeadow
in the Springfield high, technical and com
mercial high schools: also Longmeadow
pupils at the Elms, the Mac Duffie school
and the parochial school.
ntSSEIL
Mrs W. S. Lincoln Monday shipped
her household goods to Atlanta. Ga.,
where she expects to make her home, her
husband being engaged in business in that
vicinity. Mrs Lincoln and family will re
main in town for a few days.
Mrs Minnie White has been appointed
librarian of the public library, to succeed
Mrs E. D. Parks, who resigned. Airs
Parks is recovering from her recent ill
ness and is able to be about the house.
A special town-meeting was held
at Wales last week in connection
with the state election, and at that
time the citizens were given ample
opportunity to learn the causes which
brought about the resignation of Ozro P.
Royce, who had been treasurer of the town
for some time. Several weeks ago a petition
was circulated and generally signed, asking
the selectmen, of whom Mr Royce is one, to
make public the circumstances which at
tended a recent investigation of the town
books. At the town-meeting Tuesday Mr
Royce made a statement in which he said
that errors had been found in his accounts
by the auditors who were employed to go
over his books. He said that he bad made
good all of the shortage and also had paid
for the audit and other expenses that came
in connection with the investigation. An op
portunity was then given any of the citizens
to ask Mr Royce questions concerning this
case, but no one spoke, and consequently
no action was taken in the matter. It was
voted at the meeting to increase the pay of
the town treasurer from S2O to SSO, but
now there is some question as to the legality
of this vote, because it would require an
amendment to the town by-laws, and this, it
is believed, cannot be done except at the
annual meeting in the spring. L. H. Thomp
son, who was Mr Royce's predecessor as
town treasurer, has been appointed to the
office again.
Miss Caroline Fenwick Stanger, daugh
ter of Mr and Mrs Gustave A. Stanger,
and Rev Francis Sedgwick Child were
married Monday noon in the First
Congregational church at East Brim
field. Rev F. S. Brewer, pastor of
the Congregational church of Palmer,
officiated. The church of which the
groom is pastor was recently organ
ized, while on the same occasion the nastor
was ordained and installed, and this is
the first marriage ceremony neld there.
The bride held the office of treasurer of
the church, and is also an active member
of the Christian endeavor society.
The census figures for Ludlow have been
published and give the population of the
town as 4948. The census in 1900 was
3536, making an increase of 1412 or near
ly 46 per cent. It was confidently ex
pected that the population would reach
5000. As it is, the town is within 52
>f that number. But as the census was
taken about six months ago the town is
now probably over the 5600 mark and all
the state laws applying to towns having
over 5000 population will now probably
apply to Ludlow.
Miss Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of Mr
and Mrs George Stuart of 19 Bell street,
and Harold E. Shaw of 15 Bell streel,
Chicopee, were married Thursday after
noon in the home of the bride. Rev C. J.
Flanders of Hartford. Ct., officiated, as
sisted by Rev Charles Burdette, acting
pastor of the Central Baptist church. The
couple being present. After n short wed
ding trip the bridal couple will make their
home in Los Angeles. Cnl.
Announcement has been received nt
Agnwaiu last week of the marriage of
Charles Wood Brown and Miss Sara Eliza
Taylor, daughter of Mr and Mrs George
11. Taylor of Feeding Hills. Mr Brown
is the son of Mr and Mrs A. IL Broun of
Feeding Hills, and has recently bought the
farm belonging to the estate ot' the late
John Hubbard in Agawam. They will be
nt home to their friends after January 1.
The Hudson and Chester granite com
pany Saturday competed a shipment ot
25,000 paving blocks for New York city.
This shipment probably is the last that
will be made this fall, and doses u sea
son in which the company have shipped
nearly 1.000.000 blocks in addition to their
regular monutncntnl work, which has been
more extensive than hi previous years.
A home wedding of interest took place
Monday nt the residence of Mr and Mrs
Frank C. Park on Washington street.
Monson, when their daughter. Miss Alice
E., mid J. L Sweiger of Sprintield were
united in marriage. Rev Abram Conklin
of the Universulist church performed the
ceremony, the single-ring service being
used. .
A wedding of interest look place last
week at the home of Mr and Mrs George
H. Taylor in Femling Hills, when their
daughter. Sara Eliza, was united ill mar
riage with <'lmries W. Browu. sou of Mr
and Mrs Albert H. Brown. Kev Walter
Rice was the officiating clergyman, the
single-ring service ebing used.
D. 11. Davis i.f East Longmeadow, for
merly of Springfield. Ims accepted a civil
service position in the department of justice
at Atlanta. Ga., and will take the position
immediately. Mrs Davis will follow in a
short time, and thev will make their home
in Atlanta.
Leroy Bartlett of Russell street. Mer
rick. a fireman employed on the Boston
mid Albany railroad, was struck by the
"Twentieth-century limited" nt Pittsfield
Junction Friday morning and possibly
fatally injured.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
NORTHAMPTON.
A company for the nmnufaeture of paper
bottles, io be known as the New England
Purity paper bottle company, has lieen or
ganized in Northauiptou. and will manu
facture its produet at the factory of the
Kingsbury box company. The capital stock
is $50,000. and the officers are the follow
ing: President. F. N. Look: treasurer, A.
L. Kingsbury; clerk. C. H. Phase: direc
tors. the officers am! L. 1.. Campbell, W.
M. King. J. A. Ross. G. R. Spear, all of
Northampton, and George D. Baker of
Springfield.
Miss Emma J. Cole has resigned the
position of matron of the Lathrop home
for aged women, and will spend the win
ter in Florida. Miss Jennie Childs, who
lias been a nurse at the home, will accom
pany her. Mrs Josephine Ayres of Bos
ton has been appointed matron.
WARE. .
The woolen mill of C. A. Stevens & Co
is to reopen this week after a shut down
of n little over four months. The
number of hands employed is 250
and as some who worked in the mill
before July 1, when it closed, have se
cured positions elsewhere, the opening will
give employment to many hands now un
employed. besides those who have been
waiting to return to their former places.
The population for the town by the_re
cent census has been announced as 8774.
This is an increase of only 180 over the
state census of 1905, and ot' 511 over
the census of 1900, when the total was
8263. The per cent of increase was only
4 per cent from 1900 to 1905, 2 per cent
from 1905 to 1910, and 6 per cent for
the 10 years.
* AMHERST.
The annual meeting of the Amherst In
dian association was held Friday after
noon with Miss Maud Magill. The fol
lowing officers were elected: President,
Mrs Anson D. Morse; vice-presidents, the
wives of the ministers of the town: sec
retary and treasurer. Miss Maud Magill.
Mrs Rideout read a paper describing the
work of the association during the past
20 years of its existence. Mrs Charles
A. Eastman described the work of the
Indian association among the various tribes.
The history section of the woman's club
met Monday afternoon with Mrs Dora
B. Fearing and took up the subject of the
early history of Ohio.
EASTHAM PTON.
The official figures of the Easthanipton
census are announced at 8524. The popu
lation of the town in 1905 was 6808,and in
1900 it was 5603. These figures show a
gain of 25 per cent in. the last five years,
and 52 per cent in the last 10 years.
Dr J. H. Sawyer, principal of Willis
ton seminary, will take a rest of three
months for the benefit of his health,
which has not been good since his recent
illness with a severe cold.
Mr and Mrs Anthony Douglas Tuesday
Celebrated the 50th anniversary of their
marriage at their Imine on Main street,
Hatfield. They were happily surprised at
dinner by their children and other members
of the family- In the afternoon they held
a reception, at which about 50 were pres
ent, refreshments being served. Rev J.
W. Lane, who married them at the bouse
of Mrs Ferguson ou Thursday, Novem
ber 15. 1860. at 3.45 p. in., was present
Tuesday. That was his first marriage
ceremony. Mr and Mrs Douglas received
a shower of post cards from their many
friends. The ladies’ benevolent society,
of which Mrs Douglas is a member, gave
them several pieces of silver. There were
cut glass, silver, china and linen from
friends and neighbors, and several gold
pieces from members of the family.
Friends were present from Springfield,
Southampton, Northampton and Leeds.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
GREENFIELD.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Moore of 31 Frank
lin street will leave for Pasadena, Cal.,
on Tuesday, the 22d. where they will make
their home. Mr Moore has been ekek at
the Mansion house for more than 25 years.
He is a member of Republican lodge of
Masons of Greenfield, ard has a la'ge
circle of friends both among his fellow
townsmen and among the tegular guests
at the Mansion house. lie is a collector of
stamps, coins, autographs, cartoons and
minerals on a large scale, ranking among
the foremost collectors in Western Massa
chusetts in the variety and extent of his
collections. Mrs Moore lias been an active
worker in St James parish. Both will be
missed by their many friends. Mr and
Mrs Moore have always lived in Greenfield
until last winter, when they spent some
time in California. It was on this trip
that they bought a house at Pasadena,
where they will make their future home.
Mr Moore's Franklin-street residence will
be closed until sold.
Charles C. Rogers and his wife. Susan
Dewey Rogers, were the recipients dur
ing two days last week of the congratu
lations of their host of friends on the
occasion of their golden wedding anni
versary. A reception was held at the
Kogers home on Conway street between
the hours of 2 and 6 on Saturday at which
Mr and Mrs Rogers, standing in the par
lot, received the good wishes of their many
friends. A fruit wedding cake, made by
Mrs B. N. Rogers of Colrain, wife of
Mr and Mrs Rogers's youniM'st son, was
served with fruit punch to the guests in
the dining-room. Friends continued to
call during the day Sunday bringing
congratulations and expressions of good
will.
Mr anil Mrs Charles Clifford Rogers of
Greenfield- celebrated Saturday and Sun
day the 56|h anniiersary of their mar
riage, which came on ’ Monday. Mr
and Mrs Kogers are a Franklin county
couple, having spent all their lives in the
county, and having many friends in the va
rious towns. Mr Rogers is a native of
Ashfield, where he was born September
7. 1832. the son of Elias ami Sarah Rog
ers and grandson of Moses Rogers, one
of the first settlers of Hawley.
Dr and Mrs L. A. New-toa will leave
Greenfield for Seattle. Wash., on Decem
ber 4. with a view to making that their
permanent residence. Dr Newton Ims ac
cepted a position with the Impire life
insurance company of Seattle. Dr Newton
Ims been president of the local sportsman's
dub. president of the doctors’ duh, chair
man of the hoard of health, and js at
present vice-president of the .""rankiln dis
trict medical society.
A. W Weeks Ims resigned bis position
as manager of the Hotel Weldon, Hl) d w i||
he succeeded by Howard M. Mont, who
for the past eight years has been assistant
manager of the well-known Unit is hotel nt
Lenox. Mr Weeks left Greenfield Friday.
•n ,n ! ake a month’s vacation, and
will thereafter he connected with a hotel
in I'loricln. Mr Mont conies to the Weldon
highly recommended.
The residence of the late Charles J. Day
on Gminell Ntreet wag wold at public auc
tion yesterday afternoon by Adam Wolf-
skin. The property was bought by Charles
H. Keith for $5150.
OH A NGE.
Tree Warden F. M. Jcnuison during the
past week has found 146 nests of the
brown-tail moths about town, and the sit
; nation as far ns this pest is concerned
looks serious. The people in Orange have
I not been eliciting the help ot' the tree
warden, as they have been warned to do.
ami in many lots where imlivulimls have
claimed to have found no evidence of the
moth Mr Jemiison has succeeded in find
ing them. A large' bottle of the insects
and nests Ims been ’dneed in the show
window of C. C. Cook’s drug store, in
order that people may know the appear
ance. It is expected that the state inspec
tors will soon be in Orange to look over
the situation.
J. B. Hougn, who for several years was
superintendent of the Heywood chair shop
in Erving and resigned a few weeks ago,
loft last Friday for Marietta. Ga., where
he has accepted a position as superin
tendent of a chair factory. His family will
remain in Orange for the present.
COLRAIN.
The continuous night and day work at
the Cary mills. Colrain. bids fair to con
tinue. The storage place for eider ap
ples is well filled, and some 2590 or
more bushels are piled in a huge heap in
an adjoining lot. Some 5000 bushels of
apples were hauled to the mills in four
days last week, and still thev come along.
A conservative estimate of the number
of barrels of apples sent to market from
Colrain thus far this fall is 20.000. Many
farmers are still shipping the product
of their orchards and the total number
of barrels of good winter apples grown in
Colrain this year may safely be called
25,000—a record year.
William E. Warren of North Main street
surprised the people of South Deerfield by
being married in Northampton last week
to Miss Della Abbie Buck of South Deer
field. but formerly of Cavendish, Vt., Rev
John B. Carruthers of South Deerfield
performing the ceremony. Miss Buck,
who is 18 years of age. had been
housekeeper several months for Mr War
ren. who is 64 years of age.
F. M. Lyman, who recently removed
from Millers Falls to Granby, sold last
week at public auction his market buildings,
consisting of market, ice-house and barn,
now occupied by Alfred Eddy for a meat
market, to C. A. Andrews. It is impos
sible to state at this time what changes, if
any. this sale will make regarding the
occupancy of the market.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
PITTSFIELD.
The Onota-street school building com
mittee is to recommend to the school com
mittee that the new school building to be
erected on Onotu street be named John
C. West. Mr West served as selectman
for 20 years, a part of his term coming
during the civil war. He at that time
conducted a general store and during the
war furnished the necessaries of life to
many of the families of the soldiers who
were at the front. He owned at one time
much of the land in the vicinity of w’here
the new building is to be erected and
gave the present site of the Briggs school
to the city as a gift. He has been dead
a mimber of years.
The Electric manufacturing company of
I’ittsfieid has been incorporated under the
laws of this state and is capitalized at
$50,000. The object of the company is to
manufacture a device for electrifying a
stream of water and is adapted for physi
cians' offices and hospitals. It is proposed
to start the plant in Pittsfield. The oricers
of the corporation are: President. George
W. Euker: treasurer. John F. McDonald;
clerk, Ambrose Clogher: directors, George
W. Euker. John F. McDonald and Am
brose Clogher.
The new rooms of the young women's
home association in the buildings on the
corner of South street and Bank row were
dedicated Tuesday night. The rooms are to
be the homes of the working girls’ club and
the business women’s club, and were given
for their use by a man whose identity has
not been made public. The program last
night consisted of several addresses and
music.
Walter L. Mercer, the proprietor of the
Kenney hotel, is a benedict, and has been
one for more than a month, but his friends
have unearthed his secret. On October 6
he was married at Boston to Miss Lina H.
Dewey, who is now living with her hus
band at the hotel.
The revised returns of the vote cast for
governor show that Draper carried Pitts
field by only nine votes. From the figures
given out on election night it was thought
that he carried the city by 79.
BECKET.
The closing of the Rockdale mills in the
vicinity <>f Housatonic means that the
plant will within a short time pass into
new hands. The mills have been in the
Barnes family for the past 50 years or
more, and up to within a short time ago
were operated successfully. The principal
output of the mills has been buckwheat
flour, and Irwin Barnes, who owns the
property, has been placing on the market
a prepared self-raising buckwheat flour
which has found a ready sale, and he
seemed to have all the orders he could
possibly supply. The mill was first opened
by Sanford Platt, a grandfather of Charles
I’latt of Great Barrington. He went to
that section from Waterbury, Ct., and,
although the section was a wilderness, he
decided upon the location on account nf
the fine water supply. Sanford Platt had
the original patent for the buckwheat Hour,
which has constantly been made at the
mills. In the course of time Erwin
Barnes became the owner of the property,
and for many years has operated the mills.
Thore is a great demand for the flour, ami
it is probable that the mills will not be
idle long.
Becket people, as well as the large number
of summer residents and visitors, will be
well pleased to learn that a new railroad
station is assured. The contract for build
ing. filling and grading has been awarded
to Marcellus & Ballard of Oneida, N. Y„
and S. D. Moore, who has taken W. G.
Morse's cotlage for the winter, will be in
charge as inspector for the railroad com
pany. The new building will be of wood,
sides covered with shingles, and will lie 62
feet by 35 foot. There will be but one wait
ing-room and there will be rooms for ticket
office, telegraph office mid baggage-room ami
toilets. The new building will bo situated
directly opposite the Hoey house.
To John L. Wheeler belongs the distinc
tion of enjoying the first sleighride of the
season in Becket. The few inches of snow
that cover'd the ground on Thursday even
ing was sufficient for fair sleighing.
Lawrence E. Stone has sold his farm to
Frnnk Hicock of Lenox, who will take pos
session at once. Mr Stone will move into
the Murtough place ifi rhe village.
LENOX.
Curtis & Delafield have sold the club
cottage on Walker street to Harley J.
Procter of New York. At a special meet
ing of the club this week the offer for the
property was presented by Mr Delntiekl.
| mid the club voted to sell. The property
I is next west of the Lenox club mid Ims
a considerable frontage on Walker street
and a handsome cottage and barns. J’he.
. properly_ was acquired by the Lenox cl ib
about 25 years ago of George A. Peck,
and part of the hind was converted into
। tennis courts. Tenuis at the time whs
■ nt the bight of popularity in Lenox, and
I one or more of the United States cham
] pionships hud been played nt the Lenox
elub. For the house and land the Lenox
| club pnid Mr Pock about $35,000, The
I house wus remodeled, and has been leased
about every season since to fnshionahle
tenants. Airs Charles Carroll Jackson has
been ।he lessee of the property for the
last three yenra. It was said in Lenox
Tuesday flint the property was sold for
about $20,000. Mr Procter formerly livod
during the summer in Winiamstowii, where
he hull a villa and farm. His property
was sold, one of the WHlinmH college
fraternities buying the house for a frater-
nity house. It is understood that Mr
Procter will make extensive changes in
the property.
Landlord Curtis of Lenox will fill the va
cancy caused by the departure of Howard
M. Moat to Greenfield by placing his son,
Otis Curtis, and his nephew, Roswell M.
Curtis, in the offices of the hotel. Otis
Curtis, who recently graduated from the
Gunnery school in Washington. Ct., will
become acting steward of the hotel. He
has been assisting in this position
for some months. K. M. Curtis
will co-operate with Clerk Hairy Parsons
ai the desk. Mr Curtis intends that these
young men shall be<ome familiar with
the management of the hotel and they
will relieve him. in future, of some of
the exacting duties of the conduct of the
house. This arrangement is also indicative
that the hotel property will descend to
the third generation of the Curtis family
un<l will retain the name and notable
traditions.
The senatorial contest in the Worces
ter-Hampden district developed such a
surprising closeness that early indications
kept the result in doubt. An error in the
figures for Warren gave the first an
nouncement to Michael T. Kane of Lud
low. the democrat, but subsequent revi
sion showed that Walter B. Mellen of
Brookfield hud the narrow margin of 84
votes according to unofficial count.
North adams.
Changes in the officials of the Hoosac cot
ton mills, formerly the Beaver and Eclipse
mills of the Arnold print works, now owned
by a new concern, of which William AI.
Butler of Boston is the head, were an
nounced Friday. The new superintendent
will be William K. Greer of North Adams,
who for some years has been the assistant
to Hervey Burnham, who is to retire from
the mill supenntendency. Robert W. Pren
tice of North Adams, who has been in
charge of the mill office for some time, is
named as the treasurer of the mills. The
other officers of the plant have been an
nounced previously, with the exception of
W. E. Benner, who is to act as selling
agent in New York.
The annual meeting of the North Adams
country club, held at the Wellington hotel
Monday evening, resulted in the election of
A. W. Chippendale as secretary and Frank
G. Lewis as treasurer; directors for three
years, A. IL Barber, W. S. Gallup and
John H. Waterhouse. The directors later
will meet to elect a president and vice
president. It was voted to increase the cap
ital stock of the club from SIO,OOO to
$50,000.
W. J. Crowe, for the past 20 years in
the employ of the Arnold print works, has
resigned his position as inspector of cot
ton and accepted a similar position with
the Hoosac manufacturing company of
North Adams, which recently bought the
eotton mills in North Adams owned by
the Arnold print works.
ADAMS.
There is general satisfaction in Adams
over the result of the election. The only
disappointment is to friends of Thomas F.
Cassidy, who failed to be elected lieuten
ant-governor. He was aware that this
state had never elected a democratic lieu
tenant-governor and was less disappointed
than his host of friends. Adams stood
loyally by her native son. Congressman
Lawrence, and by her other native son, G.
B. Adams, for county commissioner. Ad
ams was more loyal than North Adams to
Lawrence. The labor men are greatly
pleased over the election of Mack for sen
ator. To the mule spinners of Adams,
principally, is due the credit for his elec
tion.
The announcement that comes from the
census bureau that Adams’s population
has gone over the 13.000 mark came as
no surprise Saturday. It was expected,
and, while there are many who looked for
the figures to be larger, they accept the
verdict and are satisfied that it shows
progression ns against retrogression for
some large cities. The growth is not spas
modic, but is steady.
HINSDALE.
The Hinsdale Congregational church at
the Thursday-evening prayer-meeting re
ceived James Hosmer’s resignation of the
office of clerk of the church, the resigna
tion to take effect December 31. Mr Hos
mer has held the office for nearly 28 years
and for a longer period than any other
clerk in the history of the church. Mr
Hosmer gave as his reason his growing
difficulty in hearing. Should his intentions
be carried out, the church will lose a most
efficient officer.
George J. Crossman has sold his farm of
100 acres of land in Hinsdale
together with the farm-house and
two carriages, situated near Ash
mere reservoir, to Charles E. Lockwood
of Plainfield, N. J. Mr Lockwood buys
for a home and will take possession a lit
tle later. Mr and Mrs Crossman think
they will move back to New York, as Mr
Crossman’s business interests are there.
WILLIAMSTOWN AND COLLEGE.
The balloon ascension of the Williams
aeronautical society, planned for Satur
day in Williamstown, will take place
from Aero nark in North Adams because
of the inability of the Williamstown gas
company to supply the gas in Williams
town. The society has secured Prof
David Todd of Amherst, who has made
several ascensions, to lecture before the
club in December and the society has
challenged the Amherst club for a balloon
race to take place next spring, the start
being made from Pittsfield. If the match
is arranged it will be the first intercol
legiate contest of the kind in the coun
try.
Alexander Sedgwick made an excellent
run for representative in the Bth district
last week and instead of losing his own
town, ns was stated last week, he made the
best run of any candidate in Stockbridge,
receiving 217 rotes to 148 for Palmer. Sen
ator Treadway had only 209 and Gov Dra
per had 200; so Mr Sedgwick’s popularity
among his townsmen was amply demon
strated. Mr Sedgwick also carried Great
Barrington by three votes.
County Commissioner Henry D. Sisson
had the bone in bis heel broken Friday
at his mill in Mill River. He caught his
foot under the carriage of the saw, and
was unable to remove it until the damage
was done. His men carried him to his
house, and Dr R. C. Sellew was sent for.
The doctor says Mr Sisson will have to
have his foot kept in n plaster cast for
some time.
J. Andrew Cleghorn, a well-known
young man of North Adams, has gone
into the manufacturing business, his spe
cialty being brushes of all kinds and
qualities. The first product of his plant
at Lee was completed last evening. He has
secured u part of tilloid Barber plant on
Union street and expects within a short
time to have a large force of men at
work.
William Hall Walker has added to his
large estate, "Brookside,” in Great Bar
rington by the purchase of 120 acres from
E. F. Searles. This land includes the
Leavitt ball field, used for that purpose
for the past 50 years or more.
WORCESTER COUNTY.
The population of North Brookfield as
announced Monday is 3075. This is a
fulling off of 1512 since 1900, but the sit
uation is not so depressing as it seems.
The town lost its great industry just a
year or two ago after the census of l(MX),
and when the census of 1905 was taken
the population was only 2617, a falling
otf of 1970, about 13 per cent. Between
I 1905 and 1910 the town gained 458, or
I about 17 per cent. No other town adjoin-
I ing it gained anything; on the contrary,
all lost. Silencer. 381, or more than 5
yer cent. Brookfield lost 184, or nearly 8
per cent. West Brookfield lost 57. or 5
per cent, mid New Braintree 13. or nearly
3 tier cent. So that North Brookfield,
while showing the greatest loss iu the 10
years has since 190,> been growing again,
and the others have fallen off. Out of the
59 towns in Worcester county 28 show a
fulling off.
During n chimney fire nt the home of
Rev Charles G. Fogg, the Congregational
minister at Royalston. Hie other night,
in the excitement attending it. Mr Fogg's
father-in-law. Mr Burnham, had n strike
of apoplexy. It is the second he lias had,
the first occurring some few years ago,
and it is feared the shock will be serious,
as Mr Burnhum is about 75 years old. The
tire did only about sl<H) worth of damage,
which was chiefly from the tiremen cut
ting into the building to get at the blaze.
The figures of Athol population given
oiit on Sunday. 5536. were pleasing to
KAthol peonle mid siiows a good, healthy
growth. The gain is n little over 17 per
cent, and shows that with any reason
able growth the town will pass the 10.-
600 mark in another five years and pos
sibly sooner if certain factories develop
as rapidly as expected.
The farm buildings of John H. Phipps,
n half-mile west of New Braintree village,
were' totally destroyed by fire Tuesday
morning at 4 o'clock. They included a
barn, carnage house, tool house, sheds
and the dwelling house. The total loss
is placed at SIO,OOO. insured for SSOOO.
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
Harold B. Faxen, who, while teller in
1,103, abstracted $7300 from the People's
national bank of Roxbury and who was
arrested last month in Goldfield, Nev.,
pleaded guilty of the charge Tuesday and
was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment
in the jail at Greenfield. Faxen told Judge
Dodge in the United States district court
at Boston Tuesday that he lost the
money in speculation, and that after his
disappearance following the disclosure he
served four years under an assumed name
m tiie marine corps, and was for several
months stationed at the Charlestown navy*
yard within three miles of the bank.
The leasing of the largest wool house in
the country—if not in the world—by a num
ber of Boston firms, was announced last
week. The big house, which will have
a capacity of 100,900.000 pounds, will be
situation in South Boston, in a compara
tively new business section of the city, and
close to both steamship and railroad lines.
It will be rebuilt to meet the demands of
the lessees, and, it is said, will be capable
of housing one-third of the entire wool
clip of the country. About 80 per eent of
the wool sold in the United States is mar
keted in Boston.
Boston is more and more enthusing over
what is regarded as the immediate and
general electrification of railroads through
out the suburban district. Still there is
the fact, which might be supposed to have
a dampening effect, that the cost of the
proceeding for the three companies in
volved is estimated to be over $39,000,000
—an expenditure which would operate to
bring little or no increase in business and
revenue. The work, nevertheless, will ba
done in time, and a beginning will be made
very soon.
A pageant depicting scenes “From cave
life to city life.” was presented under the
auspices of the “Boston 1915 movement”
in the Boston Arena Thursday night. Over
1200 participated in the exhibition, in
cluding many of the school children of
the city. A band of 30 Iroquois Indians
who came from Lake Chautauqua, where
they have been presenting the poem,
“Hiawatha.” lent a realistic effect to the
scenes representing the early American
period.
Only 25 put of 76 would-be dentists were
successful in passing the state board ex
amination. which was held October 25, 26,
27 and 28- This result was determined
Tuesday by the state board of registra
tion in dentistry at a meeting held in Bos
ton Tuesday for the purpose.
CONNECTICUT.
The dwelling house of Edward Welch
was totally destroyed by tire Sunday night
at about 11 o’clock. The only person in
the house at the time was a brother of Mr
Welch, John Welch, who had barely time
to get out of the house after the fire was
discovered. The house was situated on
the South road about half a mile from
the village. Fortunately the night was
still, and the buildings near by did not
take fire. Mr and Mrs Welch were in
Boston at the time of the fire.
Congressman-at-large. John Q. Tilson
of New Haven, elected at last week's elec
tion to succeed himself, was married Thurs
day night to Miss Marguerite Field North,
daughter of Mr and Mrs George P. North
of New Haven. The ceremony was per
formed in St Paul’s church by Rev
James De Wolf Perry, Jr., bishop-elect
of Rhode Island, assisted by Rev Anson
Phelps Stokes. Jr., secretary of Yale uni
versity, of which .Mr Tilson is a grad
uate.
Mayor George Forster of Rockville,
democratic candidate for sheriff of Tol
land county, defeated his republican op
ponent, Sheriff William B. Sprague of
Andover, by a lead of 311. Mayor Fors
ter carried five out of the 13 towns, but
the lead was sufficient to overcome the
smaller republican strongholds. Each man
received the support of his home town.
Mr Forster also carried Tolland, Elling
ton. Mansfield and Stafford.
Announcement was made last week
Wednesday by the Hartford Post that
through negotiations just completed the
ownership of the Hartford Evening and
Sunday Post has been acquired by an
association of Hartford business men.
the president of the association being
Henry JlcManus, with J. E. Dennis con
tinuing as treasurer and general man
ager.
The will of Philip Corbin, late president
of the American hardware corporation,
tiled for probate at New Britain last week,
disposes of an estate estimated at
between $1,700,000 and $2,000,000. There
are no public bequests, the division of the
estate being among relatives.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The vestry of the Congregational church
at Winchester, N. IL, was decorated and a
reception tendered to Mr and Mrs Granville
Wardwell Friday on the occasion of the
50th anniversary of their marriage, by the
ladies’ benevolent, society, of which Mrs
Wardwell was president for 10 years.
Strenuous historic episodes come to
mind in view of the 50th anniver
sary of Granville Wardwell’s marriage with
Ellen M. Jewett, oldest of eight children
of the late Capt Dwight Jewett of Sugar
Loaf mountain fame. Mr Wardwell’s an
cestry was noted. He was born in 1537,
and descended from Thomas Wardwell, who
immigrated to Boston when the Hub was
but three years settled. This ancestor wits
a famous patriot, four of his sons serving
in the Continental army. Another son was
executed in 1692. a victim of the horrible
Salem witchcraft.
Deputy Warden Frank R. Bailey of
the state-prison in Concord. N. H., was
seriously wounded and Dr Ralph E. Gal-
Hnger, the prison physician and son of
United States Senator Jacob H. Gallinger,
was cut in the wrist by a man known only
as John Doe who is serving a life term
for murder. The prisoner camo on the
two men from behind and stallbed them
with a knife.
RHODE ISLAND.
Judge Lebaron B. Colt of the United
States circuit court of appeals at Provi
dence consented Monday to have hi*
name presented to the Legislature as a
candidate for United States senator to sue
seed Nelson W. Aldrich. The announce
ment mnkes-two avowed republican candi
dates for the office in the field, Henry F.
Lippitt, a wealthy textile manufacturer of
Providence, who is popularly supposed to
be Senator Aldrich's choice, having an
nounced his candidacy last Friday. The
democratic assemblymen are pledged to sup
port Judge Arthur L. Brown of the United
States circuit court. Judge Colt is a
brother of Col Samuel P. Colt, presideut
of the United States rubber company.
The will of Mrs Julia Ward Itowe, who
died at Middletown October 17, was ad
mitted to probate in the Portsmouth court
Monday. There were no public bequests.
All of tile ixTSonal estate was willed to
two grandchildren and the real estate to
Mis Howe's four children. George H.
RichardH. n son-in-hiw, is named ns ex
rcuj2£,. I'' 11 WH » executed in Boston
in 1807 and the value of the estate is not
given.