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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
SPRINGFIELD AND VICINITY.
Miss Alice Chapin Kreil, daughter of
Kev and Mrs David Allen Heed, is to la
married to William Kirk Kaynor at 7.36
p. nt. on the 25th in Hope church.
Samuel McWhorter and Peter Murray
started last week on their trip across the
water. Mr McWhorter expects to return
about August 20. He will travel in Great
Britain. France and Belgium.
William H. Phillips, the veteran news
paper man and historian of men and things
in Berkshire, called on old friends in this
citv last week. He has been taking hie
quietly of late, working in his garden, and
very seldom leaving Amherst. He is tn
comfortable health and full of interest in
life and affairs.
John L. Papolo, 17, of Meriden, Ct.,
who pleaded guilty in the United States
district court at Boston last, week to a
charge of bringing two girls from Men
den to this city for immoral purposes,
was sentenced last week to four years iu
the federal prison at Atlanta. Ga. Judge
Dodge, in imposing sentence, said that
Papolo’s youth saved him from severer
punishment.
Architect B. Hammett Seabury bns
drawn for H. Goodman Waters plans for
remodeling the old lobby of the Haynes
hotel into a handsome store. The floor is
to be brought down to the level of the
Maih-street sidewalk and the interior is
to be given a marble wainscot, metal ceil
ing and tile floor. The front windows arc
to be recessed and made suitable for show
purposes.
Patrick Carmody. 66. of 400 High street.
New Britain. Ct., had his left arm severed
above the elbow when he feli under a
moving passenger train near the union
station soon after 9 o'clock Sunday night.
He was taken to the Springfield hospital
where lie was reported in a serious con
dition. Mr Carmody had been visiting
with friends in Middlefield and was re
turning home.
The work of excavating for the new
building to be erected by Olivet-Eastern
avenue church on Oak street will be be
gun some time during the present week.
A number of old buildings which were on
the site when bought have been moved
back and all is iu readiness for the work
to proceed. The committee in charge hope
to be ready for laying the corner-stone by
\ngust 1. and to have the church com
pleted by the first of next year.
The body of Andrew T. Kelly of Hart
ford, Ct., who was drowned at Watershops
pond late Friday afternoon, was recovered
* by Donald North, superintendent of the
boys' club, and members of the Young
Alen's Christian association college life
saving crew about 7 o'clock Saturday
morning. The body, attired in a bathing
suit, was found lying in about 20 feet of
water, a short distance off shore from Mr
North's camp and near No 1 target.
George Allen Coe. a graduate of the 1909
class of the International Young Men's
Christian association college, and for the I
past year educational secretary of the local
association, has been elected to the priuci- |
palship of the Hopedale grammar and pri
mary schools. He will spend the summer
at Columbia university, taking work in
psychology and pedagogy. Mr Coe taught
English at the college during his senior
year and expects to do some work toward
an M. A. degree at Clark university next
year.
The customs receipts for the month of i
May were larger than any previous month |
except February, and the total receipts ;
for the past 11 months have already grown
larger than the receipts for the fiscal year
ending June 30 last. The value of the I
imports for May was $334,098, and the
duty on them was $82,875.61. The cus- i
toms duties collected here in February ;
were $86,297.50. The receipts for the 11
months ending May 31 were $654,485.82.
while for the preceding 12 months they I
were only $632,113.97.
The hoard of aldermen at a special meet
•ug of the two city council boards Monday
night passed under suspension of the rules
an order providing for the laying out and
establishing of Jennett avenue, so-ealied,
from St James circle to Highland terrace,
in the East Springfield tract. The com
mon council gave the order one reading. I
but under the rules it had to lie over a
week before being finally passed by them. I
Both boards passed to be ordained (the
last stage) the ordinance providing for an
addition of 21 men to the tire department. ■
Herbert Myrick of the Phelps publish
ing company, with Mrs Myrick, went to I
New York Friday and sailed from
there Saturday for Germany on the steam
ship. Koenigen Louise. They will be
abroad until August and will spend some
time at Bad Nauheim at the baths. While
abroad Mr Myrick will get in touch with
German officials and make a study of co
operative methods as used by farmers in
the agricultural work in Germany. The
government suit which was set in opera
tion against Mr Myrick several months ago
for alleged violations of the post-office reg
ulations and laws has been dropped.
The report of the state free employment
bureau for May shows that the office did
the biggest month's business in its history.
The number of applications for employ
ment received was 1239. the number of
laborers applied for by employers. 843, and
the number of positions filled. 601. Just
now the demand for day laborers is very
heavy and the pay which they are able
to demand is high. $2 a day or more be
ing asked and given. The tobacco farmers
and contractors are anxious to get labor
ers. now and they are often troubled to
get them. The office supplied 25 tobacco
workers only Tuesday.
The third annual extension trip of the :
Boston chamber of commerce reached this ;
city Monday. About 40 men. represent- I
ing various firms holding membership in •
the Boston chamber of commerce and sev- ‘
eral newspaper men from that city are ;
taking part in the junket. The party left |
Boston Monday morning at 8.30 o'clock,
and after taking luncheon in Worcester I
came to this city, and Monday night were I
entertained by the Springfield board of !
trade at a smoker in the Kimball hotel I
banquet hall. The junketing party is mak- ।
ing rhe trip by automobile, ami will be on
the road until Saturday evening, reaching
many important cities and towns in the
New England states.
It was left for Springfield and vicinity
to reply to the often-quoted interrogation
of the poet, "what is so rare as a day in
June?" and the answer is "a full-fledged
frost on the morning of June 8, 1912.”
For although the frost was not of the
killing variety, and in fact did almost no
real damage, it was a dear case never
theless. Late home-coiners were aware of
an old-fashioned wintry crimp in the air
when they saw their breath in the cold,
clear atmosphere, and shivered in summer
flannels and even in light overcoais
brought out for the occasion. It was an
ideal frosty night, with a full quota of
twinkling stars, and a very bright moon
to boot.
A bequest of SSOOO to the Noble hos
pital at Westfield is included in the pro
visions of the will of Edward H. Pratt,
late of this city, who was formerly a
resident of Westfield. The will, which
was filed within a few days at the local
registry of probate, states that the be
quest is made in memory of the testator's
father, the late C. C. Pratt of Westfield,
and is to be known as the C. C. Pratt
fund. There is also a bequest of SSOOO to
Mrs Ida Webster Gaylord of this city,
one of S3OOO to Mrs Ada M. Kellogg of
this city, anyone of S3OOO to Miss Mary
A. Nichols m Montague. Mrs Gaylord is
also made the residuary legatee. ' Harry
B. Putnam of Westfield is named as ex
executor.
Plans for the rendering of the Kibbe
mansion on the corner of Worthington and
Federal streets into one of the most up-to
date club houses of Springfield for the use
of the Newman council. Knights of Co
lumbus. were presented by John William
Donohue, architect, at the meeting of the
council held in Harmony hall last week.
The property has not yet been bought,
but the members of the council say that
the purchase is being seriously considered,
and that if no unforeseen objections arise,
the deal will probably be consunnnatca be*
for the end of the month, for a uonsinera
tion of approximately $40,000. The coun
cil has been considering the question of
I new quarters for some time and tool that
I the Kibbe house offers an unusually ad
vantageous site for an ideal club.
The memorial exercises of the Spring
: Held veteran tiremen’s association were
held Sunday afternoon at Memorial han.
followed by decoration of the graves or
departed members of the association at
Springiield cemetery. Sunday s e.vr*
vises were of somewhat, more interest
than those of past years and they were
quite well attended. The “vets'
fortunate in securing Mayor Edward ri.
Lathrop to make the chief memorial ad
dress at the hall and the mayor gave an
excellent talk, as he always does on such
and other occasions. 'Pho veterans made a
most creditable showing, turning out in
I good numbers. The older veterans amt
some of the honorary members ot the as-
I sociation rode at the rear of the proces
sion in automobiles.
A regular meeting of the trollymen s
union was held Monday evening at cen
tral labor union hall. 1 . «L O !‘ K r
I president, was unable to attend, naming
been detained in Boston longer than he
, had expected. Representatives of the troL
I Ivmen’s union and ot the trolly otnoal.
I will meet Friday evening to consider tl c
arbitration of wages. 1 ice-1 resident . lai
tin Hennessey stated Tuesday night that
rumored offers of a new wage scale by the
trolly officials had not yet been announced
to the union. Mr O'Brien was expected
10 arrive home Tuesday, and the confer
ence with officials was to have followed
but has now been put off until Friday. At
the close of the meeting a resolution was
adopted indorsing the street ear men s
strike in Boston and pledging that body
the support of the local union in winning
the right to organize.
Nathan E. and Samuel Goldstein, the
president and treasurer respectively of
the Goldstein Bros amusement company,
proprietors of the Plaza motion-picture
house on Taylor street, announced 1-ri
dav that they are to erect a new theater
toffieknown as Broadway theater at the cor
ner of Bridge street aud the proposed Broad
way, the final plans for which have just
been completed. The proposition, they say.
is fully financed and the site for the play
house is leased for a term of 30 years.
One of the brothers said Tuesday that
the architects' plans will be ready soon
and that, as soon as they are ready, the
contract for erecting the theater will be
let so as to have the building completed,
ready for occupancy, by December 2 of
this year. The Goldstein brothers say
that the theater will be devoted to stan
dard attractions, high-class vaudeville,
motion pictures, etc. The promoters say
the project will cost $250,000.
Steps were taken at a meeting held in
the hoard of trade rooms Friday by
representatives of 15 cities and towns to
form a western New England chamber of
commerce, whose object shall be the pro
motion of agricultural, manufacturing and
commercial interests in this part of New
England. A tentative set of by-laws was
adopted and a temporary organization ef
fected. The various boards of trade, and
farmers' organizations in the territory
west of Worcester in Massachusetts and
including New Hampshire. Vermont and
Connecticut, will be asked to join the
chamber of commerce and representatives
from the different cities will meet in July
to perfect the organization. Each club or '
society is to have one member on the
board'of directors of the chamber of corn
meree. The new- organization is to deal !
with all things relating to the territory em- ]
braced by the membership, and it will not '
work for any one particular city. The i
farmers are to be asked to co-operate and ;
several speakers yesterday dwelt upon the ;
importance of getting the interest, of the
farmers in a movement of this kind.
The Moose of New England invaded
Springfield Thursday to the number of
more than 3<KD and held their second an
nual field day as the guests of City of
Homes lodge. No 668. Rain fell, but for
rain to retard a celebration in which the
eelebrators were Moose would be unheard
of. and so it proved. Moistened in vest
ments but with unchecked ardor for the
rollicking good time on which their hearts
were bent, the members of the order oc
cupied the city and made the streets re- ;
sound. "Howdy Pap” ("Pap" standing for i
“Purity, aid, progress”) was the watch- ;
word of the day. Street car conductors
used it to call attention to the necessity
of paying fares, lunchrooms used it to
hasten the hungry Moose scampering to
his forage, newsboys added it to their re
sourceful stores of opportune advertising
methods. The Moose were of both sexes
and of all ages. Many members of the
order brought their wives with them, and
the women were no less enthusiastic than
the men. They marched in the parade of
the morning, cheered on the athletes of
the afternoon, and furnished partners for
(he dances held in the afternoon and even
ing at the Imperial park pavilion. On the
whole. Springfield decided that the Moose
were as enthusiastic a herd of merrymak
ers as had occupied the local pastures for
some time. They did not celebrate in any
half-hearted fashion, but most of them
knew when to stop.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
HOLYOKE.
The Smiths Ferry residents and G. H. !
Aliyn will raise a sone of praise to the
board of water commissioners. The board I
met Monday morning and voted to ex
tend the water mains from Kenilworth cas- |
tie to the Holyoke country club building. |
This will take about 414 miles of main, i
and the board has advertised for this
amount of 6. 8 and 10-ineh pipe. The
board will lay a 10-inch main as far as
the Holyoke canoe club, and from there
for a certain distance an eight-inch main,
and will finish to the country club with a
six-inch main. The work will take all
summer, and the bids are called for the
21st. It is estimated that the expense
will be in the neighborhood of $40,000.
The deeds were passed Tuesday trans
ferring the Prescott property at the cor
ner of Chestnut and Suffolk streets to the
Holyoke council, Knights of Columbus.
This property vjas for many years the
home of the Holyoke club. The house
was built about 50 years ago and was
bought by the Parsons paper company I
and presented by them to .1. C. Parsons I
in 1866. Mr Parsons passing it on to his
grandson. The society will probably use
the house as it is for the present* and
later may enlarge it to accommodate its
large membership and will sell or lease
the building now used for the office of
superintendent of schools.
Saturday came the formal opening of
the Holyoke canoe club at the Smith Ferry
house, and with the fine weather it goes
without saying that a big crowd were on
hand to witness the tennis tournaments,
the baseball games, to enjoy the boating on
the river and meeting all one's friends
while enjoying the fine music discoursed
by Colt's band of Hartford. Ct., which
for many years has been present at these
openings. Saturday night the young people
enjoyed dancing and the season at the
canoe club may be said to have been most
auspiciously opened.
Box 719 called the fire department about
2 o’clock Monday morning to a stubborn
fire in the residence of D. L. McCorkin
dale at the corner of Lincoln and Howard
streets in the Highlands and before the
flames could be extinguished, not much
was left hut the walls of the building. Dam
age of over $5060 was estimated, the fire
being one of the worst residential fires for
a long time.
The body of Mrs Marv Young of Hamp
den street was found in the Connecticut
river near the old snw-mill about 7
Friday morning by two hoys. The woman
had been mentally unbalanced for some
time and the police had recommended
that she be taken to the hospital.
Boosters' night was celebrated at the
Holyoke board of trade Monday night, the
meeting being the last one before Septem
ber.
Dorothy, the five-years-old daughter of
School Committeeman and Mrs August
Bausch of 25 Brown avenue, was struck
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1912
and instantly killed by an electric car at
11 o'clock Thursday morning. The acci
dent took place nearly in front of the
child's home.
CHICOPEE.
The Stevens arms and tool company has
received from Ihe government n contract
for telescopic instruments for use in the
army and navy. The company recently
sent to the government samples of the in
struments it is turning out in competition
with othei arms and tool companies for
the government work, and the samples
were submitted to severe tests by the gov
ernment officials. The awarding of the con
tract to the local firm was the result of
the tests. The officials of the company were
greatly pleased with the success of their
instruments and will soon make the ship
ment. It is stated that with telescope fit
tings on rifles mid big guns that it will
be possible to do long distance shooting
with entire accuracy and that high culibered
guns for explosive shells may even be
used against aeroplanes with success by
the telescopic attachment.
Kermit Roosevelt and George Clark
were the guests of William Jameson of the
Fisk rubber company at the Oxford coun
try club Thursday night, where a number
of the members of the club gathered to
hear the colonel's son and Mr Clark tell
of their hunting experiences. Mr Jameson.
Mr Chirk and Mr Roosevelt have been
companions on a number of hunting trips
in Maine, and the evenings was in the na
ture of a reunion for them. During the
evening Mr Roosevelt talked for a short
time of his hunting trip with his father in
Africa and of some of the most famous
"kills” made by the colonel. Mr Clark
also described a few of his hunting experi
ences in Maine.
William Vickers, assistant foreman at the
Stevens-Duryea plant, and Miss Florence
Wild of East Main street were quietly
married at the home of the bride's uncle
on Wednesday last week in the presence
of the immediate relatives of the families
and a few friends. The ceremony was per
tormed by Rev D. W. Lyman of the First
Baptist church. After a wedding trip of
two weeks in New York, the couple will be
at home at Newton street, where they will
receive friends after August 15.
A new and generous gift of SIOOO from
the Dwight manufacturing company to
the building fund for the new church of
the Assumption was announced Tuesday
by the committee in charge of the fund.
The gift to the fund was made to the
committee through the local agent of ths
company, Louis A. Aumann. representing
the treasurer of the company,Ernest Lover
ing of Boston.
WEST SPRINGFIELD.
The action of the West Springfield
school board Monday evening in fail
ing to re-elect C. E. Brockway as
superintendent of the schools for the
year 1912-1913 was the cause of a
great deal of comment Tuesday. The gen
eral opinion, as expressed by several promi
nent citizens and town officials, was favor
able to the school committee's action.
While almost everyone entertains a high
regard for Mr Brockway personally and
feels that he has been thoroughly compe
tent to administer the school system of a
small town, the general opinion seems to
actord with the statement of Chairman
Arthur L. Pease of the school committee,
that a growing school system, like that of
West Springfield, needs a younger man at
its head who can grow up with it. Mr
Brockway's service of 13 years in his
present position has in many respects
been thoroughly satisfactory to the com
mittee. But it is felt that a new man.
entering the field with an unbiased attitude
in all matters of school administration,
would be better able to see the need of
changes and better able to put these
changes into effect than a man who has in
some respects become blinded to the situa
tion by his veryfamiliarity with it.
A contract for a fine new $50,000 church
edifice for the church of the Immaculate
Conception on Main street, Merrick, has
been closed by Rev John J. Mullen oi be
half of the parish with a Springfield con
tracting firm, the work to be started on the
new building the 24th. The new church
will replace the old frame structure, which
has long been inadequate for the needs of
a growing congregation and will form a
valuable addition to the architecture of
West Springfield. The new church will be
located just south of the rectory and 50
feet back from the street line, and will be
built of gray tapestry brick laid in Dutch
bund, with trimmings of gray sand-blasted
terracotta.
LONGMEADOW.
Rev Henry Lincoln Bailey in the First
church Sunday took for the text of his
helpful sermon "Put out into the deep.”
His subject was “The venture of faith.”
Mr Bailey gave notice ot his three-months’
vacation. Mr and Mrs Bailey expect to
sail July 13 and will spend the time in
European travel, reaching sew York on
their return, if all goes well, on October 13.
Lumber was brought and tne preliminary
work begun Monday for Victor Wesson's
house, which is to be built between that
of his brother, Douglas Wesson, and sis
ter, Mrs Flynt Lincoln, in .the beautiful
grove on Forest Glen road.
Stanford L. Haynes, who is laid up
with a broken leg caused by a fall from
his horse, is improving as well as can be
expected, but it will be some time before
he will be able to get out.
Miss Faye Emerson wifi graduate this
month from the Teachers’ college, which is
affiliated with Columbia college. New
York. Miss Emerson expects to be a
teacher of physical culture.
From present indications work will soon
be commenced on the Grand Trunk rail
way in the Palmer vicinity. A large barn
lias been built on the Hawley Keith farm
at Blanchardville for the accommodation
of the horses. Two carloads of machin
ery and two carloads of horses and mules
arrived last week. The first consignment
of Italians for work on the road also
reached Palmer last week. For four miles
the line runs close to the state highway,
crossing the road near the King farm, so
that the proposed work will be in full view
of passers-by on this road. The fills at
Blanchard over the Quaboag and at West
Brimfield are unusually high and will
greatly change the aspect of the country.
The 50th wedding anniversary of Mi- and
Mrs Samuel P. Mills was celebrated at
their pleasant home on School street,
East Longmeadow, Saturdav xvhen in an
informal way Mr and Mrs Mills welcomed
their friends. There were many beautiful
bouquets of cut flowers, and a large bou
quet of pinks attracted all. Roses and
sweet peas were in all the rooms, the flow
ers being the gifts of friends. A purse of
gold, the gift of the grange and towns
people, another piece of gold and several
little remembrances were displayed. Guests
from Springfield and Suffield, Ct., besides
the old residents of the town, were present.
Announcements have been received
at Agawam of the marriage of
Frank Benjamin Bodurtha to Miss
Eunice Ann McLean, daughter of Mr
and Mrs A. D. McLean of Portland, Me.,
on Monday. Mr Bodurtha was a resident
of Agawam in his boyhood and later was
employed as clerk in C. W. Hasting’s store.
He is now employed as bookkeeper for C.
T. Swett & Co. shipchandlers. Portland,
Me. Mr and Mrs Bodurtha are spending a
few days at the home of their uncle. S. S
Bodurtha. They will ba at home at 8 Kel
logg street. Portland, Me., after August. 1.
The frost of Friday and Sunday nights
■ did considerable damage about town.
' Beans, tomatoes, potatoes and other rege- ;
tables were nipped. The frost acted in a
peculiar manner, inasmuch as in some lo
calities there was no sign of a freeze,
while in other sections the frost was dead
ly. Up Blandford. Granville and Mont
gomery way the frost was a cutting one
for vegetables that had started, and grain;
vines and ferns were damaged in some ex
posed places.
George S. Miller, who has been a mem
ber of Monson academy faculty for the past
three years, being instructor of physics and
I history, has resigned his position and taken
I one as the bead of the history department
I in the Medford high school. Mr Miller has
been an important factor in many of the
school activities during his stay in Monson
aud has a large circle of friends by whom
he will be grelitly missed. Principal De
wing yesterday announced that his suc
cessor hgs not yet been appointed.
Mr and Mrs Edwin E. Honick vent
Monday to their new home, the need place'
in North Blandford. Mr and Mrs Herrick
have sold their farm in Montgomery and
their sou. W. L. Herrick, has moved from
there to their farm iu the Gore neighbor
hood.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
NORTHAMPTON.
Robert W. Lyman, register of deeds for
Hampshire county nearly 20 years and
formerly associate justice of tlie Hamp
shire district court, received from Boston
university law schools Thursday the de
gree of master of laws, having matricu
lated at the university last September.
Mr Lymnn was graduated from the Bos
ton university law school iu 1879. being a
member of Gov William E. Russell's class,
mid practiced law In Belchertown until
his appointment to the office of register of
deeds.
Maj Janies McKay of Northampton.-a
member of the state police force, is under
stood to be slated for retirement on half
pay on July 1. Maj McKay has been
stationed in this section for a number of
years and has worked on a number of im
portant cases.
AMHERST.
An informal conference of Congregation
al churches and ministers was held in the
Hope Congregational church at Amherst
Tuesday, the general subject was. "How
best can our churches minister to the
worth of our communities?" Rev S. A.
Brown of St Mark's church, Boston, acted
as moderator. The following program was
successfully carried out: —
9.20 a. ni- devotions. M. N. Greene: busi
ness: 9.35, “The oneness of the church and
the Sunday-school," C. W. Burton; 10.15.
"The social work of the church and the
young people." Rev R. F. Wheeler of Talcott
street church. Hartford. Ct.. Rev C. 1.. Miller
of Zion church. Haverhill; 11.55. "The church
at work with girls' and young ladies' organi
zations,” Rev Dr W. S. Holder of Harlem
church. New Vock eitv. N. Y.. C. A. Battle:
11.35. "The church at work with the boys' ■
and young men's clubs." Rev S. D. Turner of
Lincoln church, Brockton. .1. W. Bowers of
St John's church, Springfield; 12.20 p. m.. j
general discussion; 12.45, dinner and social I
hour.
Fred C. Kidder of Sunderland has
bought the Harrington mill site at North
Amherst for the United States envelope
sealing company of Springfield. This com
pany has recently been formed, with these |
officers: President, Carl Davis of Spring- ■
field; secretary, J. M. Fuller of Spring- '
field: treasurer, Fred C. Kidder of Sunder
land. The envelope sealing machine, in- I
vented by Mr Davis, is designed to be used I
by companies having a large mailing list,
to save hand tabor. The main office and
shop are at 33 Lyman street. Springfield,
but it is planned to build a shop for mak
ing machines in North Amherst. The site
is on Nlill river, where water-power may
be obtained. The Harrington mill was
burned a few yeats ago, and a shop which
replaces this loss and employing a number
of men will be a valuable asset to the
town.
The Amherst woman's club has pub
lished its club book for the year 1912-
1913. The book contains a list of the
new officers and chairmen of the sections
and standing committees, reports from the
clerk. Mrs Florence V. Gates; the treasur
er, Miss Susan I. Whitaker; chairman of
the literature section. Mrs Julia D. Nick
erson: the history section, Mrs Harriet
Brigham: the music section. Miss A. L.
Kidder: the art section, Mrs Mary E.
Hart; the honie-mgking section. Mrs
Gertrude M. A. Hardy; the social serv
ice committee. Mrs Mary Williams;
hospitality committee. Mrs Imogen Phil
lips. and the penny sayings committee.
Sirs Ellen M. Smith. The book also con
tains the calendar, of club meetings and
the program of seetion meeting for the
year. u =
Elliot Snell Hall, associate professor of
chemistry in Amherst college, has returned
from a four-months' trip abroad. He sailed
from Naples the latter part of May on
the Princess Irene nf the .North German
line. Prof Hall’s sister Mrs William L.
Cowles, will return in a few weeks.
Miss Kate Dickinson sailed from Boston
Saturday on theCanobic of the White Star
line for Naples with a party conducted by
Prof E. L. Ashley of the agricultural col
lege. to spend three months abroad in
Egypt, the Holy Land, Switzerland, Ger
many and Spain.
The strike of the paper mak
ers at the Chapin & Gould pa
per company’s mill at Huntington, has
been settled: the rag-room help went back
into the mill Tuesday on a schedule by
which they will get 22 cents a hundred
for piece work and the day workers will
receive sl.lO a day. The finishing-room
help and others who have been out go
back this week on the old schedule. The
company has taken advantage of the shut
down to make repairs that have to be
made every year.
C. H. Johnson will sail the 22d from
New York on a trip to Europe with a
party under the direction of A. B. Mor
rill, formerly of Easthampton. A. D. San
ders of Chicago will be in charge at the
savings bank during the absence of Mr
Johnson.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
GREENFIELD.
An informal dedication of the new stone
tower which is being erected on Poet's
seat, the highest point on the Rocky moun
tain park in Greenfield, was held Sunday
afternoon. The exercises were very sim
ple, and consisted only of putting the cor
ner-stone in place. The public was not in
vited, because the park commissioners were
not aware that there were to be any ex
ercises until just before they took place-
Jerome "S. Allen, formerly of Greenfield,
and now a New York architect, who drew
the plans for the tower without any
charge, was in town Sunday, and it was
for this reason that the dedication was
held. The only persons present were Mr
Allen, William F. Aiken, T. L. Corn
stock and Jeremiah Keefe of the board
of park commissioners, and a very few
friends. The tower, which is to be entirely
of stone, will cost S2OOO. The town appro
priated SISOO, the old-time Rural club,
which has disorganized, gave the balance
which was left over in their treasury, and
the Greenfield board of trade will raise
the balance.
Miss Ruth Blackinton. daughter of Mrs
John I*. Blackinton of Blackinton. and
William B. Browne of South Church street
were married Monday at high noon at
the home of the bride’s mother, the cere
monv being performed by Rev Dr T. E.
Busfield, pastor of the Congregational
I church of North Adams.
ORANGE.
A. C. Cummings, who has been principal
of Orange high school for the past eight
years has accepted the prineipalship of
Stevens high school, an endowed school
at Claremont, N.H.. at increased salary and
excellent prospects for the future. His
resignation will take effect this month
and he will begin his new duties in the
fall.
Miss Gladys Emma Wilkins, daughter of
Edgar E. Wilkins, and Roy Earl Jones of
Amsterdam. N. Y., were married last week
Wednesday night at the bride’s home, 19
BoyJston street. Rev Payson E. Pierce of
the South Congregational church officiated
at the ceremony, which was performed be
fore a bank of flowers.
The assessors have submitted some very
interesting facts regarding automobiles in
Orange. There are at present 70 machines
taxed and five more which have been
bought since the first of May. The total
assessment is $51,500, which average $733
apiece. Titis is an increase of 30 machines
over last year.
The marriage of Miss Helen C. Benton
of Great Barrington and Garrett Hardy
j Payne of Brooklyn, N. Y.. took place last
week Wednesday night at St James's Epis
i eopal church. It was a very pretty wedding
Hind Rev J. R. Lynes performed the cere
mony. After August IMr and Mrs Payne
will be at home at 653 McDonough street.
Brooklyn. N. Y. Mr Payne gradua'ed
from tVillinms college in the class of 1910.
ami is identified with his father in the
lumber business. Miss Benton graduated
from Searles high school in the class of
1906 and later attended Vassar. •
A lOth-anniversary service will be held
iu the Congregational vestry this evening
to mark the completion of 10 years of serv
ice as pastor of the Shelburne Falls church
by Kev J. A. Hawley. Supper will be
served at 7 o'clock, to which members of
the congregation are invited.
Over 50 members of the South Deer
field board of trade, with guests from
Sunderland, Whately aud Greenfield,
gathered at Hotel Lathrop Thursday night
and enjoyed an excellent banquet served
by Savage Bros, proprietors of the hotel.
The extraction of spruce oil is becoming
quite an industry in Hawley. Moran Bros
are operating a still on land of William
and Kay Clayk: Tony Porter also has
one. and employs several men at Asa
Holden’s.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
PITTSFIELD.
A deed recording the transfer of Albert
F. Tyler's north woods property to Susan
M. Aldinger of Lancaster, N. Y., has been
tiled in the register of deeds office, and is
taken to indicate that some settlement of
the suit of Tyler's one-time wife has been
reached, and Tyler may have been re
leased from jail. This is another chapter
in the history of Tyler, known as "O-be
joyfnl Tyler,” who married a second wife
while the first was living, lived close to
Nature and fed his children on raw vege
tables. He was divorced by the second
wife, and his first wife left him. Then
paying court to his first beloved, she fooled
him and he lost his children to her care.
And now it would seem that he had lost
his property in settlement of a $20,000 suit
she brought against him.
The Berkshire county university club
held its eighth annual dinner at the
Maplewood hotel last week Wednes
day evening, 150 members being pres
ent. The speakers of the evening
were ex-Senator Allen T. Treadway of
Stockbridge, and Joseph Smith of Low
ell. Mr Treadway spoke of his trip to
the Panama canal, the talk being illus
trated with lantern slides obtained from
Washington especially for the occasion.
Mr Smith is a witty after-dinner speaker
and enlivened the evening with his talk.
In the absence of Judge E. T. Slocum,
president of the club, who is abroad. Law
yer John Barker presided at the post
prandial exercises. Music was furnished
in part by a double quartet of undergradu
ates.
The marriage of Miss Florence Colt
Dutton, daughter of Frank W. Dutton, to
Henry Day Brigham took place at the
home of the bride's father at 81 Housa
tonic street, Pittsfield. Tuesday evening and
was oqp of the most noteworthy society
events of the year. Rev James E. Gregg,
pastor of the First Congregational church,
officiated, the single-ring service being
used. Mr and Mrs Brigham are on a wed
ding trip, and will be at home after Sep
tember 1 at 78 Bartlett avenue, the old
Judge Barker homestead.
The home office of the national anti
tipping association is to be located in
Pittsfield, with E. T. Flanagan in charge.
Mr Flanagan and James Deviny of Pitts
field and Samuel D. Aulls of Elmira. N.
Y., and Ephraim Aulls of Bradford, N.
Y.. are the incorporators of the associa
tion which has received its charter. It
is hoped to have branches all over the
country within a short time, to make the
organized protest against tipping a na
tional one.
General Manager Richmond of the Berk
shire street railway company and the ex
ecutive committee of the local trollymen's
union conferred Friday and it was an
nounced after the meeting that every
thing was ‘‘bright and rosy." The com
pany has accepted many sections of the
working agreement, asked by the union, and
has taken the others under advisement
Blair G. Persons was re-elected superin
tendent of the public schools of Pittsfield
at a meeting of the school committee last
week, at a salary of S2BOO a year, an
increase of S3OO. A. E. Pratt was re
elected principal of the high school at a
salary or $2300 a year, an increase of S3OO.
Miss Myrtle Gladys Emerick, daughter
of Mr and Mrs George Emerick of Oak
street, Florence, and Walter Phelps Cros
by, Jr., of Holyoke were married last week
at the. home of the bride by Rev J. P.
West.
NORTH ADAMS.
Edward R. Tinker, the man who is cred
ited with the responsibility of having ar
ranged the details that resulted in the
nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the
presidency, said last week that he con
sidered it certain that President Taft
would be nominated at the Chicago con
vention "unless 'they’ buy up the southern
delegates.” He added that he did not
consider this likely as the delegates from
the South this year are of unusual caliber.
He would not attempt to predict anything
regarding the number of bailors, but lie
can see no hope for "Teddy” for the nom
ination. Mr Tinker, who was known in
civil war days as the “boss” in Western
Massachusetts, returned Thursday night to
North Adams from Washington for the
summer. ...
Mrs James C. Turner, wife of the miss
ing cashier of the North Adams gaslight
company and an official in the North Ad
ams council of Royal Arcanum, who dis
appeared mysteriously from North Adams
on March 26, appeared in North Adams
Friday and swore out a warrant for the
arrest’ of her husband on a charge of non
support and desertion. Mrs Turner, whose
appearance in North Adams was unexpect
ed, declares that she has had no knowledge
of his whereabouts since he deserted her
and their children. She has been living
with her parents at Monckton, N. 8., but
is planning to make her home for the im
mediate future in Lowell with other rela
tives.
The Advent Baptist church voted last
week to buy the vacant lot at die
corner of River street and Freeman avenue
and to erect a church edifice thereon. It
is planned to erect a wooden structure at
an expense of about S3OOO.
OTIS.
The Otis selectmen visited Kingsley hill
Monday, which is a steep grade 'between
Otis and Chester, to see what can be done
to building around it, a project which has
been discussed at several of the annual
. town-meetings. Tuesday of the past week,
I as Mr Fletcher of the East district, ac
companied by his wife and mother, was
I descending the hill, a portion of the har
i ness broke and the horse ran, struck a shed
at the foot of a hill with such force as
to break its neck. This was a reminder
that it is a dangerous grade.
Mrs Lotiiza Webb of Otis, wid
ow of Milo Webb, observed her
98th birthday Sunday. Mrs Webb
is the town's oldest citizen. Her
sight and heariug are impaired, nut her
mind is very keen and her health good. She
was the recipient of a shower of post
cards, and the reading of the congratula
l torr messages greatly delighted her.
One of the largest turtles ever captured
! in Otis was caught by Charles E. Hay
-1 den last week. It weighed 47 pounds.
Landlord Strickland bought it. and turtle
' soup was one of the courses served at
) Day's hotel Sunday.
BECKET.
Charles Broadhurst was painfully in
jured Sunday afternoon by the explosion
I of a dynamite cap or something similar
which he was carrying in his jaicket. While
at piny with his father he struck his
hip and the explosive went off. cutting a
jagged gash in his hip and in the small
finger of his right hand. Dr Thomas
Dearborn attended and hopes to avoid
any serious consequences.
jereminh H. Driscoll of Springfield has
bought of Ernest D. Bugbee his Becket
I summer home. “Seven Acres,” and with
l his family went to Becket on Saturday
' for the summer.
George H. Graham ami Dr George W.
Fluid of the Massachusefts state fish and
game commission were in lamox on Sat
urday aud Sunday, and while there looked
over October mountain, the large estate
ot the late William C. Whitney of New
York. The estate is a famous game pre
serve, and since it is to be disposed of by
the heirs the commission very much de
sires the state to secure it in some way
or other. The Whitney preserve would
make an invaluable addition to the game
preserves which the state already controls.
It has an area of about 14,000 acres and
contains many sorts of animals, including
elk." bear, many deer, and game birds.
A large herd of buffalo, which was for
merly on the preserve, has recently been
sent to Oklahoma. The commission has
not yet taken any stops toward securing
the property, but will actively endeavor
to find n way for acquiring it.
Seventy-six men tramped front Stock
bridge over the Burgoyne trail to South
Lee with ex-Senator Allen T. Treadwa;
Saturday, and this company, enlarged by
a score or more, dined with him under the
big oak on Laurel hill, Stockbridge. There
were 25 members of the I^e hiking club,
about the same number of the combined
Dope and Gridiron clubs, and the rest were
guests of these organizations, quite a few
of them being men of state-wide reputation.
One of the prettiest church weddings in
South Lee for many years took place at
the church of the Good Shepherd Inst
week Wednesday afternoon, when Miss
Annie L. Risley of that village was mar
ried to Arthur L. Packard of Dalton.
WORCESTER COUNTY.
The strike situation at the Lancaster
mills in Clinton Monday was marked by
the return to work of additional weavers,
the company claiming that 100 more looms
were running than on Saturday. There
were fewer pickets doing duty about the
mill. About 300 weavers struck last
month for a flat wage increase of 10 per
cent and other concessions.
Announcements have been received in
Gilbertville of the marriage of Miss Har
riet Statyra Crafts to Walter W. Holt, at
the home of her parents, Mr and Mrs A.
W. Crafts, Jr., in Ashfield. Mr Holt is
the assistant superintendent of the George
H. Gilbert manufacturing company's mills.
Mrs Holt was a former school teacher in
town.
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
Arthur W. Shaw was found guilty of
the larceny of about $19,000 from two
Maine shoe manufacturing firms by a jury
in the superior court at Boston Tuesday.
A verdict of guilty of receiving the money
was returned against Mrs Georgia M. Stu
art of Boston. Sentence will be pronounced
later. Shaw was president and treasurer
of the A. W. Shaw boot and shoe corpora
tion of Boston and Freeport, Me., and was
also connected with the Cumberland boot
and shoe company of Freeport. Last win
ter he disappeared, and receivers were ap
pointed for tlie Shaw corporation. He was
arrested in Los Angeles, Cal. Shaw has
a wife and family in Freeport.
The summer home of the Siamese lega
tion at East Gloucester was destroyed by
fire Friday, with a loss of $20,000. The
attaches succeeded in saving nearly every
thing on the first floor, but everything else
was destroyed. The house was the prop
erty of Rev J. H. Williamson of Cleveland.
Dr Harvey W. Wiley, former chief of
the United States bureau of chemistry at
Washington, last week declined the city of
Boston’s offer to become chairman of its
board of health. He made known his de
cision in a letter to Representative Will
iam F. Murray of Massachusetts.
CONNECTICUT.
Dr Edward F. Parsons, the veteran
physician of Thompsonville, had a paralytic
shock Sunday afternoon at his home on
Pearl street which affected his whole left
side and rendered him helpless. Dr Thomas
G. Alcorn, who is in attendance, says that
his condition is critical, as is to be ex
pected of a man of his age. Dr Parsons at
tended the services in the First Presbyteri
an church Sunday morning and was
preparing to attend the afternoon service
when he was stricken. The doctor is about
78 years old and has been a practicing
physician in the vicinity for more than
50 years. It is a coincidence that his first
patient in Thompsonville was in the fam
ily of Dr Alcorn, Dr Parsons having been
called in on his way from the station on
his first arrival in Thompsonville. During
the past few years he practiced his pro
fession but little.
No disturbance of any kind marked re
sumption of work Monday morning at
the mills of the Russell manufacturing
company in Middletown, Ct., where about
300 employes are on strike for higher
w’ages and adjustment of certain
working conditions. Troop A of
the Connecticut national guard of
New Haven and the squad of 15
Hartford policemen who have been guard
ing the milt property, left for their homes
Monday. The Russell company has made
no answer to the modified demands of the
strikers and the impression prevails that
the strikers will not be taken back to work.
Sheriff Thompson and his deputies will re
main at the mill for several days to guard
against possible outbreaks.
Sixty-seven waiters employed at the
Hotel Taft in New Haven, Ct., went on
a strike at the supper hour Monday night
because the management had not acceded
to their demands for certain improve
ments in working conditions. The action
of the waiters was anticipated, and the
management had in waiting 70 Yale stu
dents, who had volunteered their serv
ices. Some of the students are sons of
wealthy men. and many are socially
prominent in college life. The hotel man
agement was not embarrassed by the
walk-out. The striking waiters do not
complain of their wages, but allege that
thev are served with inferior food and
that their quarters are poor.
Prof and Mrs William Lyon Phelps of
New Haven, who went to Europe last
July, returned Monday on the steamer
George Washington, after almost a year’s
travel in Great Britain, France, Russia,
Italy and Germany. Prof Phelps had in
tended rounding out his sabbatical year
to September, but hastened home in order
to be present at the 25th reunion of the
class of 1887 at Yale.
The safe in the Stratford post-office was
blown with dynamite Tuesday and about
SISOO in stamps was taken. Only the out
er compartment of the safe was forced
open, the inner section, containing money
and additional stamps, withstanding the
force of the explosive. There is no clew .
Postmaster William E. Bristol discovered
the robbery when he opened the office.
VERMONT.
The jury which has been hearing in the
United States court at Newfane the dam
age suit against the Boston and Maine
railroad, resulting from the accident at.
Dummerston Station in which J. Arms
| Miller of that town was killed about two
■ years ago. brought in a verdict for the plain
: tiff last week to recover $7500, after being
out two hours and a half. The trial con
sumed bnly three days. C. C. Fitts and
, H. E. Whitney of Brattleboro appeared
1 for the plaintiff and W. B. C. Stickney
I of Bethel and George A. Weston of Bel
lows Falls for the defendant.
MAINE.
On a charge of murder, Rev Charles
I Emelins, a Lutheran minister, was ar
rested at New Sweden last week. He
is accused of having killed August
Jacobson on June 12. 1911. The authori
ties at. tlte time pronounced Jacobson’s
death a case of suicide, but representa
tives of the attorney-general’s office main
tained that he had been murdered.
Rev Mr Emelins pleaded guilty when
arraigned in the trial justice’s court at
Presque Isle Saturday.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Josiah E. Fernald of Concord, N. IL,
Inst week was appointed bv the probate
court us administrator with the will an
nexed of the estate of Mrs Mary Baker
G. Eddy, founder of the Christian science
। .hurch. He succeeds Henry M. Baker of
Bow. who died last week. Mr Fernald
tiled a bond for $1,500,000.
A FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT.
TWO MEN INSTANTLY KILLED
On Dalton Road at Pittsfield P. Max
Thurlow and W. F. Holske of Bat
ton Arrested, Clinitred With Man
slantrhter.
Joseph Doucet of Adams and Andrew
Leonard of Hartford, Ct., were instantly
killed when struck by an automobile at 1.30
o'clock Sunday morning on the Dalton
road near Allen farm iu Pittsfield, and
John S. Callahan and Fred Godette were
injured, but not seriously, when the auto
mobile turned turtle at the side of the road.
The two men who are dead and Callahan
were walking from Pittsfield to Coltsville
over the Dalton road, having left Pittsfield
after 11 o'clock, when the last car leaves
going toward Dalton. The automobile,
which was driven by P. Max Thurlow of
Brookline, was going from Pittsfield to
ward Dalton and struck the men from the
rear. Callanan was thrown to one side of
the road and Doucet and Leonard xvere
killed instantly, Doucet's neck being broken
and Leonard's back also. Fred Godette. 14,
is at the House of Mercy suffering with a
sprained ankle and body bruises, and Cal
lahan is also at the House of Mercy.
P. Max Thurlow. William F. Holske
and James C. Evans were arraigned in
district court atPittsfield Monday, Thurlow
and Holske charged with manslaughter
and Evans with drunkenness. They all
waived the reading of the complaints and
pleaded not guilty. Those charged with
manslaughter were held in S2OOO bail,
wliich they secured. Evans is in
SSOO bail, which he secured. All
cases were continued until the 18th.
The complaints charge Thurlow and
Holske with gross negligence in the opera
tion of the automobile which killed Du
quette and Leonard. Attorney Michael L.
Eisner defended Thurlow" and Holske, and
would make no statement regarding the
eases. Fred Godette suffered considerably
at the hospital Monday, but no X-ray
photograph of his ankle has been taken
to ascertain as to a possible fracture.
James J. Callahan, one of the men struck
by the automobile, also suffers considerable
pain from his bruises, but unless internal
injuries develop he will recover. The body
of Joseph A. Duquette was sent to Ad
ams Monday morning, his widow having
visited Pittsfield and identified her hus
band.
.Holske Tuesday told his story of the
accident for the first time since it hap
pened. He gave credit to his partner,
Thurlow, for his bravery in ditching the
machine, and said that the three men In
the road, two of whom were killed, jumped
In front of the machine instead of away
from it. He stated that after extricating
themselves from the wreckage the men
went back and found Callahan walking in
the middle of the road, and that Callanan
apologized for the accident. Holske says
that his party were following Knight and
Burbank. He also says that Evans, one
of his party, went to the Allen farm and
notified the hospital and police of the oc
currence.
State Inspector to Investigate.
Maj A. F. Foote of Holyoke, inspector
for the state highway commission, arrived
In Pittsfield Sunday night, and will conduct
an investigation of the accident. He will
remain in Pittsfield a few days. The po
lice have taken charge of the wrecked au
tomobile.
AUTO ACCIDENT AT CHESTER.
Two Women Are Injured—Machine
Flanges Over Bank.
A serious automobile accident occurred
at Chester at about 10 o’clock Tuesday
morning when a Buick roadster. Owned by
Frank Curtis and driven by his wife, ac
companied by Miss Sophia Pieti, plunged
down a steep, rocky embankment a mile
and a half below the village. The party
was trying to make a turn from the main
road across what is known as the little
red bridge. Mr Curtis is a lumber dealer
and has a number of lumbermen employed
on the mountain at Chester, which is
only accessible by crossing the bridge and
it was to carry dinner to these men that
the women were making the run. The
turn was made too quickly and the car
ran over the embankment just before
reaching the bridge. The fall was about
15 feet, and when the car had descended
about half-wav down it struck a boulder
and turned completely over, pinning the
two women under it. Both were rendered
unconscious and remained so for an hour
or more before they were discovered. An
automobiling party from Stockbridge, who
were running slowly, noticed the fresh
tracks of the roadster in the sand over the
bank. The chauffeur stopped and went
to the edge of the bank and as there was
no one in sight returned to his car, when
the women in the car insisted that he go
down and see if there was any one under
it. He found the two women and by this
time several other automobiles had arrived
and stopped. One man with a racer was
started for Chester for medical aid and
the men in the other cars pried up the
Buick so that the women could be taken
out.
Mrs Curtis soon regained consciousness
after the arrival of Dr Howard A. Lan
pher. Miss Pieti was much more seri
ously injured and could not be revived.
Several of the assembled automobilists
kindly offered their cars to the doctor to
take her to a hospital and she was taken
in one of them to the Noble hospital in
Westfield, accompanied by Dr Lanpher. At
the hospital she regained consciousness
about 2 o'clock. It was at that time im
possible to ascertain the full nature or
extent of her injuries, a large number of
automobiles had passed the spot where the
women lay unconscious under the car
without noticing them, as the car was
wholly out of sight of those passing and
naturally would not be noticed, the driv
er of the Stockbridge party was moving
very slowly, as they were riding purely for
pleasure. Mrs Curtis suffered from an
abrasion on the back of her neck and her
right shoulder and arm were badly bruised.
Miss Pieti had no external injuries other
than that produced by gasoline, her
clothing being saturated by gasoline from
her throat to her waist. As no air could
reach her, that portion of her body was
blistered. She undoubtedly inhaled the
fumes of the gasoline for fully an hour
before being found.
Fatal Auto Accident at Vermont.
A. frightful automobile accident took
place last week Wednesday afternoon
at Groen River. Vt., a small hamlet
about eight miles from Brattleboro, in
the town of Guilford, which resulted in
the almost instant death of Elisha E.
Gates, a farmer and manufacturer of
that place. It is understood that Mr
Gates, who is about Bo years old. was
driving a blind horse with a companion.
Willard Sherman. They were near the
covered bridge in that place, about a
quarter of a mile from Mr Gates's home,
when their horse was frightened by an
automobile. The animal shied and sprang
so that Mr Gates was thrown out on
his head and neck. His skull was badly
fractured, and his back aud legs broken.