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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
SPRINGFIELD AND VICINITY.
Mr and Mrs E. J. Farlett of 152 Mul
berry street, have returned from a six
months’ trip in England, France, Switzer
land and Italy.
The annual fair of the I'ark Memorial
Baptist, church opened Tuesday afternoon,
with many new features. There was a
large attendance during the afternoon and
evening, and about 200 were served at the
supper between 5.30 and 8,
City Treasurer Tifft has secured final
payment from the purchasers of the last
issue of municipal group bonds, amount
ing to $525,000. The sale of the bonds
brought a premium of $13.47(5.75 to the
city, above the face of the issue.
The will of Mrs Adelaide E. Ingraham
was filed at the registry of probate Sat
urday. After making provisions for the
paying of her funeral expenses, she be
queathed the remainder of the estate to
the Massachusetts society for the preven
tion of cruelty io animals.
A pretty wedding took place Saturday
night at 8 o'clock at (he home of Mrs I.
Hutton, 138 White street, when her sis
ter, Miss Agnes Lawson, was united in
marriage to George H. Shacfer of Bridm
port. Ct. Ilev 0. IV. Means of the White
street Baptist church performed the cere
mony.
The Delmar, one of the best modern
apartment blocks in the city, located at
the corner of Walnut and Union streets,
has been sold by F. 1.. 1 Umian to George
K. Scott of Scott's laundry. The building
is one of the best in its section, and was
sold for $52.00(1. Mr Scott buys for in
vestment, and intends to hold the building
permanently.
Miss Sophia W. Howard of School
street entertained T*r Moxom's Browning
class at its first meeting Friday morn
ing at 11 o'clock. The class was well at
tended, and enjoyed hearing llr Moxom
read several of the shorter poems of
Browning. The class will meet again
with Miss Howard for reading next Fri
day at the s-ame hour.
Joseph J. l.aValley, the artist, has re
turned from his summer haunts iu Cum
mington, Williamsburg and that region,
and has resumed his classes in painting at
his studio in the Fuller building. Vs a re
sult of numerous excursions he has made
the past season into the Berkshire hills,
some unusually fine canvases are likely to
be found in his annual exhibition of paint
ings later.
Mrs P. 1.. Cushman, formerly of Bor
nardston. quietly observed her ‘.Kith birth
day Saturday at the home of her daugh
ter, Mrs Leroy 7.. Cutler, of 27 Sargeant
street. Puring the day she received many
friends and was remembered with nu
merous gifts. Mrs Cushman retains all
of her faculties and takes active interest
iu ali current events. She is enjoying
her usual good health.
Every pew in Trinity church Tuesday
evening was comfortably crowded for the
120th organ recital given in Springfield by
Arthur H. Turner, and the first of a series
of six recitals planned for this year. The
program included 10 numbers of a varied
nature, all of which were rendered with
.the usual spirited execution of Mr Turner.
Many of the numbers provoked enthusi
astic applause.
T. F. Hickey of Hampden street was
Friday appointed a letter carrier from
(he local post-office to work under the new
free-delivery system which is to he estab
lished at Indian Orchard this week. Mr
Hickey has been for severay years with the
Metropolitan life insurance company, and
is familiar with every street and alley in
the village, which gives him a valuable
advantage over new men for the car
rier’s position.
The wedding of Miss Beulah Viefs.
daughter of Mrs Kate Feed Viets of 41
Oak Grove avenue, and Clarence Edward
Goddard, son of Mr and Mrs George E.
Goddard of Boston, took place Saturday
evening at 6 at the bride's home. The
bride graduated from the Springfield high
school in 1908 and from Miss Twicheil’s
kindergarten training school in 1910. The
groom is connected with the Paige-Detroit
motor car company.
A masquerade dance was given at the
Country club Saturday night by Mrs
Charles A. Bowles and her daughter, Miss
Dorothy Bowles, of Mulberry street. The
club rooms were prettily decorated with
many baskets of white chrysanthemums,
looped with American beauty ribbons,
against a dark background of pine
branches. All the young people came in
fancy dress costume aud wore their masks
during the early part of the evening.
Twenty years of military service ended
on Friday evening for Capt H. C. Wake
field of Co B of the 2d Massachusetts reg
iment. Capt Wakefield was retired at his
own request and will give his whole time
to his work in the Milton Bradley manu
facturing plant in this city. The vacancy
will be filled at a company election to he
held soon. First Lieut .1. L. Loomis is ill
line for the captaincy. Capt Wakefield
will be retired from the national guard
with the rank of major.
Donald Coleman. 15 years old. a fresh
man in central high school, who saved a
classmate from drowning in the Connecti
cut river in September, is a candidate for
a Carnegie medal for heroism, through
the activities of some of his friends. The
attention of the Carnegie hero fund com
mission at Pittsburg, Pa., will soon be
called to the matter, and that body will
no doubt make a thorough investigation,
with a possibility that the coveted medal
will be given to Coleman.
Another record-breaking vear of busi
ness is being reported by the Massachu
setts Mutual life insurance company, whose
issues of business for the first 19 months
of 1912 have heeti far in excess of the
issues during the same months of 1911.
The local agencies’ growth matches that
of other leading agencies. The figures
for the business are not published until
the year is complete and the whole re
port can be given, but the last monthly
bulletin is one showing most encouraging
prospects.
The intense popular interest in this
year's national election was reflected in
the printing by The Republican of an edi
tion last week Wednesday of 30.000 papers,
which were quickly taken throughout the
field served by this newspaper. No reader
needs to be told that the buyers received
large value. There is no tougher news
paper job than the collection and diges
tion of the returns from a national elec
tion. both local and general, and The Re
publican never turned out a better prod
uct than this year.
Continued prosperity of business at the
Knox automobile company’s plant is indi
cated in the October report of business,
whieh has just been completed for an
nouncement. The new orders hooked for
the mouth amounted to 8185,000, repre
senting an increase of about 40 per ceut
over the average business for a month iu
1911. During the past month 35 new cars
were sent out from the factory, as com
pared with 25 during October of last year,
and optimistic reports are given by the
officials of the compuny of the prospects
for its future.
E. D. Atkins, superintendent of the
.Springfield and Eastern street railway
company, with headquarters iu Palmer,
lias resigned, his resignation to take ef
fect the 15th He will go to Seattle,
Wash. Mr Atkins went to Palmer two
years ago from the sitperintendem-y of
the Blaekstone Valley line, where he had
been for four years, succeeding Frank S.
Hunnewcll. transferred to tin Attleboro
street railway company. Mr Atkins is to
l»e succeeded by Sidney 11. Sayles of
Springfield, who lias been inspector for
some years.
The sale of the Stearns Park hotel to
Joseph A. Angers & Bro and Frank ]..
Dunlap by George E. Scots makes certain
w ithin the year the destruction "f a -cr
oud rather historic Springfield hotel, fol
lowing the tearing down of the old Massa
snit house to make wa v for a basin *ss
block. The papers in the sale of the
Stearns Park hotel were passed last week.
I the amount of the sale being announced
| as $92,000, one-half interest in the prop
erty being now held by Joseph A. Angers
! & Bro, builders, and one-half by Mr Dun
lap. The old hotel building stands on a
corner lot, having a frontage of 60 feet
on Bridge street and 102 feet on Stearns
park.
The convocation of Springfield, an or
ganization of the Protestant Episcopal
clergy of the Connecticut valley and
Berkshire county, held its annual meet
ing Tuesday in this city. The meetings
were held in the Christ church parish
house, and at 12.30 o'clock luncheon was
served at the Kimball hotel. The main
topic of discussion was the advisability of
dividing the present organization into two
convocations, one of the Connecticut
valley and one of Berkshire county. It
was decided that this would not be done
for tile present.
Coal dealers of Springfield held a confer
ence in the board of trade rooms last week
and decided upon an increase in the price
ot coal in this city to $9 a ton. This ap
plies to egg and stove sizes, which have been
selling for $8.50. To this an additional 25
cents a ton is added for carrying in the
coal. Tbeir action comes ns a result of the
shortage in supply, it is stated. Residents
of the city must have coal and the local
dealers realize that it is up to them to
meet the local demand. Even at these
high prices Springfield is fortunate, for
Boston is paying 810 a ton for coal and
Worcester is paying $9.50 a ton.
One of the pretty November weddings
took place Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock,
when Mis- Cecilia Dauforth Reed of 167
Bowles street was united in marriage with
Charles Lyell Woodward at the home of
the groom's parents on 117 Westfield
street. West Springfield. Rev George S.
Rollins of the Hope Congregational church
performed the ceremony. The couple were
the secret of their destination. After Jan
uary 1 Mr and Mrs Woodward will be
at home in the new- home which has been
built for then; at 1121 Westfield street,
aud which adjoins the home of the bride
groom's parents.
A report in favor of the defendants
on every count in the case of Alfred W
Harrington and others against John N.
Bell and others and the Palmer Mountain
tunnel company was filed last week by
Henry P. Field of Northampton, special
master in the case. The bill of complaint
by the plaintiffs, who are stockholders in
the company, alleged that the directors
named as defendants had mismanaged the
corporation and that the plaintiffs had suf
fered financially from this mismanage
ment. The master did not find that a
fraudulent plan existed among the de
fendants and that they did not wilfully
mismanage the affairs of the company or
misuse its money.
A pretty hut informal wedding took place
Thursday when Miss Eleanor Morgan Will
iams. daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard S.
Williams, and Victor Hawes Wesson, son
of Mr and Mrs Joseph H. Wesson of
Federal street were quietly married at
the home of the bride's parents in Long
meadow at 12 o'clock. Rev Augustus P.
Recoord of Unity church officiated, and
only the immediate families of the bride
and groom were present. After the cere
mony followed luncheon, and then Mr and
Mrs Wesson left on an automobile trip.
They will be at home after May 1 in their
qew home on Forest Glen road in Long
meadow.
The Lowell club of the Connecticut val
ley held its second meeting since organiza
tion in Clinton Hall hotel Tuesday even
ing. Over 25 former residents of Lowell
were present, and the constitution afid by
laws reported by a committee appointed
at a previous meeting for that purpose
were accepted by the club. The temporary
officers of the organization conducted the
meeting, and the election of permanent
officers was postponed until the next meet
ing, to be held on December 10 at a place
to he announced later. After the business
meeting a social hour was enjoved and a
buffet luncheon was served. The club is
planning to hold a large banquet for all
former citizens of Lowell in this locality
some time in January.
William J. Boardmau. general manager
of the George Batten company of Boston,
was the speaker Tuesday noon at the
second of the regular luncheons of the
Publicity club to be held this year at the
Hotel Kimball. Mr BoardmSn lias had
long experience in the advertising busi
ness and is connected with one of the most
important advertising agencies in the coun
try. He took as his subject “Linking local
advertising with national advertising." aud
gave a number of valuable and practical
hints concerning the proper way to adver
tise so as to get the best results. Before
the address I‘resident Stewart Anderson
of the club stated that Perry Walton of
Bostou would speak at the luncheon next
Tuesday on "Common assets of trade, ag
riculture and boards of trade.”
The taxation of cats was the subject of
discussion at an informal debate of the
women’s political class held in the Science
building Tuesday afternoon, which took
place as a drill in parliamentary law
rather than as an official discussion. The
sentiment of the meeting appeared to be
somewhat in favor of taxing cats on the
basis that they killed the songbirds or;
drove them away, and were generally
somewhat of a neighborhood nuisance.
It was also claimed that cats should be
licensed as family pets as well as dogs.
Some were found who felt that people
who wanted to keep a number of cats
should not be forced to license all of them,
and with a satirical treatment of the mat
ter the debate closed. No decision was
rendered.
An unusually interesting series of talks
has been provided for by the Young Men’s
Christian association in the opening of its
annual course of Sunday afternoon ad
dresses for men at the Court Square thea
ter, which began Sunday. The first talk
was given by Dr Harvey W. Wiley
this week. William J. Burns, tlie
detective, who is known for his unraveling
of the San Francisco graft cases, the dyna
mite plots in which the McNamaras were
involved, and other famous case--, will ap
pear on Sunday, flu- 17th. to til] a big
audience how the trick was turned. Fol
lowing him, Dr J. Wesley Hill, president
of the international peace forum. Will’ he in
Springfield on Sunday, the 24th, for the
meeting. These three speakers are expected
to start the course with unusual success
and a large attendance is expected each
week.
The Morris system of industrial banking
is soon to be started in Springtieid, the
organization of a bank capitalized at SIOO,-
000 being expected within a few days fol
lowing the approval of tlie system by the
directors and banking committee of the
board of trade. The system is one which
is being organized through the country by
the Fidelity corporation of America, lo
cated in Norfolk, Ya., and was devised by
A. J. Morris of that city. Us plan is to
lend money to people of small property, a
large pro]K>rtion of whom have no bank
connections, at banking rates of interest,
upon investigation of their earning power
as security and on indorsement of two
other names which are required for each
applicant . The system is aimed at elim
inating the loan sharks through the coun
try, who now get a hold on working people
needing money on call and charge them
exorbitant rates of interest.
Question of the value of file right to
vote on school questions as related to the
movement for general woman suffrage was
raised by Miss Bertha McConkey. assistant
snperintenent of schools, in a talk before
the meeting of the equal suffrage league iu
tlie Science building Monday afternoon.
Miss McConkey was inclined to doubt the
importance of the school franchise, ot
which much has been made in the discus
sions of equal suffrage. It has no direct
influence, she said, in keeping women on
the school hoards, aud did not accomplish
anything in the matter of securing equal
pay tor equal work of men and women
whicli was recently agitated in tho schools
of New York. The trouble is the right to
vote on such matters is not used con
stantly by women, except when some Hj>e
< ial issue is up in which they are particu
larly interested, and so the right loses its
: significance. The speaker was inclined to
[ feel that it might hare even done some
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1912.
thing to retard the cause of universal suf
frage in the country at large.
Dropping a letter iu a mail box is not
a matter that most people give much
thought to, as they have an idea that a
good many letters go into a box in a day.
People believe that the process is such a
simple one and few of them have much
idea (hat much tumble is caused to any-
I one by it. There i- a general idea that
! the amount of mail that accumulates as
) a result of these repeated droppings of
| letters is large, but a statement that it
J amounts to about 20 tons a month of letters
alone, and that the total amount of daily
; mail of all classes handled from a city
j like Springfield is over 17 tons, is calcu
lated to cause surprise. The records for
! the month of October at the post-office,
however, show that such is the task tljat
the Springfield office has to face and dis
pose of as a matter of course. According
to Postmaster Louis C. Hyde the record is
not an unusually big one, but simply rep
resents an ordinary month’s business.
One of the finest of the older residences
of the city, the borne of Oscar B. Ireland
on Maple court, is being torn down at
present to make space for an extensive
garden whieh is being planned to connect
with the present property on Maple street
of Henry H. Skinner, who has bought the
Ireland property and is having the house
demolished. The work of wrecking the
house, which is being done by Fuller &
l.a Vertue. is interesting, as showing the
sort of construction that was put into a
house by the builders of 30 years ago, the
house having been finished in 1883. It was
built by 8. J. Gordon for Mrs Ireland,
who was his daughter, and represents a
type of the best building of the ’Bos. The
workmanship is all of the solid sort that
was meant to stay in place, and last, not,
as the wreckers themselves say. much like
the work that is put into most modem
bouses By up-to-date builders. Much of
the paneling and other decorative wood
work about the house is hand carved, and
the wood itself is all of the finest varieties
of selected hardwood, of a quality that is
difficult to secure to-day.
The first meeting of the IVomen’s club
took place last week Wednesday in the club
room at Id o’ciock. Tributes were first
paid to tile memory of two of the late
members, one to Miss M. Louise Dun
tar by Mrs T. L. Chapman, and an
other to the same member by Mrs Ma
ria L. Owen, while a second was jxtid to
the memory of Mrs Homer Merriam by
Mrs David Allen Reed. Mrs O. W. Bul
lock. who was the delegate of the club to
the annual state federation of clubs at
Templeton last .Tune, then gave her report,
followed by the report of the biennial
meeting of (lie general federation at Ban
Francisco. The president of the club, Mrs
Lawton 8. Brooks, in her word of welcome
to the members of the club gave them help
ful advice. Mrs J. T. Herrick next enter
tained the club by pen pictures of her au
tomobile trip last summer through Africa.
She traveled quite extensively there, be
ginning at Algiers and then going south
400 miles into the desert to Gnardia. The
party returned by way of Bousaada. Aft
er this, the members listened to some se
lections by Mrs Charles D. Reid on a new
Steinway grand piano which has been pre
sented to the club since last year.
HAMFDEN COUNTY.
HOLIOKB.
The announcement was made Tuesday
afternoon that the efforts of the hotel com
mittee of the board of trade had met with
success and that definite arrangements had
been made for the erection of a large mod
ern hotel on the Pearsons lot at the cor
ner of Maple aud Suffolk streets. The
building planned will be seven stories in
hight, and will be built so that three more
stories can be added if necessary. The
construction is to be of fireproof material,
and there will be 125 rooms, each with a
bath. The Holyoke hotel company will
erect the building, and it will be under
the management of the -United hotels com
pany, which controls a long string of hotels
in many states. The directors of the Hol
yoke hotel company will be President
Frank A. Dudley of the United hotels
company, Fred W. Rockwell of Albany,
N. Y., manager of the Ten Eyck hotel of
that city, and the following Holyoke men:
Joseph A. Skinner, Joseph F. Ranger,
Timings S. Childs, Henry G. Sears, J. L.
and others. The estimated cost of the build
ing, is $400,000, of whieh it isfilanned to raise
one-half by mortgage and the other half
by issuing preferred capital stock, which
will pay o per cent for the first period of
five years and 6 per cent thereafter. The
work of drawing the plans for the building
will be taken up at once, and a prospectus
will be issued. It is expected that work
on the building will be begun iu the spring.
Congressman-elect Allen T. Treadway
was the speaker at the monthly meeting
of the board of trade Monday evening, the
subject under discussion being river navi
gation. Mr Treadway said that he was
glad to meet with the Holyoke board and
discuss the situation and that he wished
suggestions which would help in the com
ing effort to secure the navigation of the
Connecticut. He said that it would re
quire hard and steady work to’ accomplish
this and that the united support of Hol
yoke would bo necessary.
The republican caucuses were held at
Holyoke Tuesday night and brought out a
total of 574 votes, of which 207 were cast
in ward 3. where there was a lively con
test for the ward nomination for the school
hoard. Mayor White got 448 of the total
number of votes cast for renomination,
which is about the same percentage tiiat
he got a year ago, when the total num
ber of votes cast was 515. There wag no
attempt to run in another candidate,
A pretty home wedding took place Tues
day afternoon when Miss Anna E. Mer
kel. daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl Merkel
of 333 Linden street, was married to Karl
M. Coley of Lynn. The house was hand
somely decorated for the occasion with
palms, ferns and cut flowers. The cere
mony took place at 4, Rev Dr E. A. Reed
officiating.
The Bullard thread company will sell
at public auction the 21st the mill aud
mill machinery and property which they
bought in Conway a year i(go. Following
. the purchase a part of the business was
removed to Holyoke and added to the fac
tory there, and the balance of the proper
ty will now be disposed of.
WESTFIELD.
Lewis B. Aliyn. chemist of the board
of health and also at the head of the
chemistry department in the state normal
school, recently had submitted to him for
analysis by a local merchant 250 pounds
of candy. The merchant wished to sell
the particular brand of candy, but first
wished to know if the ingredients were
all right. Mr Aliyn and his students have
been engaged, for some days in the' analy
sis of. the different kinds of candy, and
of the 134 samples analyzed, only seven
came up to what is known as the “West
field standard." The adulterants included
coal-tar dye, paraffin, shellac, lampblack,
glue, talc and glucose. The merchant
who submitted the 250 pounds of candy
will not handle the goods. This is but
one illustration of the attitude of many
of the merchants who are trying to co
operate with health authorities in driv
ing out of the market inferior goods.
Cheap candy that contains harmful in
gredients ought never to lie placed with
in reach of children nor of grown peo
ple.
To only a few men and women is jt
given to live together in the married life
for 60 years, but Mr and Mrs Isaac S.
Nash of 8 Ellis street have had that privi
lege, and Monday they observed their
60th wedding anniversary. They were at
home to their friends in the afternoon
from 2 to 4 o'clock, and in the evening
from 7 to 9, a large number of people
calling to extend congratulations and host
w ishes. Included in the guests were rela
tives and members of Lyon Grand Army j
post and Lyon relief corps. Mr and Mrs
Nash belonging respectively to the cad
organizations. The original wedding oc
curred in Plainfield on November 10,
1852. and the ceremony was performed
by Rev Mr Pease, who was pHstor of the
Baptist church in that town.
. Miss Irma Bush Dyson, daughter of Mr
1 and Mrs Thomas Dvson, and Rernnrd
| Charles Wolcott, son of Mr aud Mrs
Charles H. Wolcott, were united in mar
riage at 6.30 o'clock Tuesday evening at
the home of the bride. 55 Franklin street.
Rc'- Clement E. Holmes of the Second
Congregational church officiated, and the
ceremony was witnessed by about 200
j relatives and friends of rite two families.
; Both the bride and groom have al
j ways lived in Westfield, and were edu
| l ilted in the public schools of the town.
| The bride is also a graduate of Mount
Holyoke college in the das sos 1911, and
she taught for a your in (he Belohortown
high school. Mr Wolcott holds a responsi
ble position in the Worouoeo savings bank.
Several of the deputy fish and game
commissioners have been busy of late drug
ging Southwick ponds with a big net for
adult bass which will be placed at the
new state hatchery near Palmer. A spe
cialty is to be made of raising young fish
for stocking ponds and lakes with bass,
pickerel, bullheads, perch and other {Kind
fish and the big-mouthed bass for stocking
purposes are taken from Southwick ponds.
Only a limited number are taken. The
net used is an immense affair, being about
luoo feet in length. The big bass are in
deep water and it requires much skill to
capture them.
Nearly 175 members of Mercy Warren
chapter, Daughters of the American Revo,
lutiou. wore entertained at the regular
meeting in the Westfield state fiormnl
school building Saturday afternoon. The
Westfield members were hostesses. Mrs
E. T. Hildreth, regent of the chapter, pre
sided at the molding. An entertaining
program was carried out. and a social hour
was enjoyed after the meeting, at which
refreshments were (Served. Mrs Henry 11.
Chadwick read a paper on "The passing
of old houses." and Miss Maymc Clybum
gave vocal solos that were greatly enjoyed.
Arthur Watson Lake of Waterhury. Ct..
and Miss Avis Marietta Stowe of 23 Han
cock street, Westfield, daughter of Mr and
Mrs William H. Stowe, were married at
2 p. m. Thursday at the home of the
bride in ‘lie presence of only the fatpiiies
of the contracting parties. Ilev Henry M.
Dyekman of the First Congregational
church was the officiating clergyman.
CHICOPEE.
Mayor Rivers has just six days dating
from Wednesday to reinstate Marshal
Barnes in the position which the state su
preme court has decided fs rightfully his,
or suffer the penalties of contempt of
court proceedings which have been peti
tioned for by Attorney John P. Kirby,
who has represented Marshal Barnes in
his legal fight to retain office. The peti
tion for the contempt of court proceedings
was granted by the supreme court in Bos
ton Monday afternoon at the solicitation
of Attorney Kirby, and notice of the peti
tion was served on the mayor Tuesday
afternoon. The petition notice is return
able to the supreme court in Boston Tues
day morning at 9.36 o’clock, and if Mayor
Rivers has not complied by that time with
the writ of mandamus served on him last
week Wednesday,- commanding him to
reinstate Marshal Barnes, the contempt
proceedings will be entered upon at once.
The Chicopee Fails woman's club held
the first meeting of the season in the par
lors of the Second Congregational church
Thursday afternoon. The president. Mrs
A. Melville Graves, opened the meeting
with a brief address of welcome, and
touched upou the program of the club
work for the coming year, which covers
a wide range of subjects, including litera
ture, the drama, social and economic con
ditions. a study of the textile industry
and of the topography of Chicopee. Mrs
O. W. Bullock of Springfield gave an in
teresting report of the biennial convention
of the national confederation of woman's
clubs, which she attended in Ban Fran
cisco last June, and supplemented this
with an account of her trip to Alaska. A
social hour was then enjoyed, during
which refreshments were served.
•The hoard of health of Chicopee served
notice Tuesday afternoon on the tenants
living in the six t.eupments owned by the
Ellen Canterbury Estate. on Canterbury
aveuue in Chibopee' fp wafiate the premises
within two weekir Or suffer eviction
through the operation oF.the sthte law giv
ing power to the boa'rd to remove forcibly
occupants of' huildijiSjs which the owners
refuse to maintafti jn sanitary condition.
This final action “of the hoard is a part of
a general plan to iffiproce sanitary condi
tions in the poorer quarters of the city,
aud comes only after a last effort has
been made unsuccessfully to bring about
improvements of the premises through the
Canterbury estate,‘ which is at present
managed by Thomas Naylor, almoner of
Ware.
The indorsement of the candidacy of Er
nest Dalton for the republican mayor
alty nomination has, as expected, cleared
up the situation with regard to the com
jng mayoralty contest, which now promises
almost certainly to include Mayor Rivers,
running on an independent ticket, Mr Dal
ton, republican candidate, and William
G. Dunn, democratic nominee. James E.
Higgins of tlie Falls, who has been men
tioned prominently during the past week
in connection with a possible fusion candi
dacy and also in connection with the dem
ocratic nomination, virtually withdrew his
mime from tho contest Tuesday morning.
Prospects for (he development of a splen
did boulevard along East street, connecting
Chicopee Falls with Page aveuue, East
Springfield, were outlined at a well-attend
ed meeting of the Chicopee Falls Inde
pendence day and improvement association
at the Alvord school Monday evening. The
property owners along the thoroughfare in
East Springfield have already consented to
widening the street to 65 feet, provided the
Chicopee property owners consent to a sim
ilar improvement, which the association be
lieves can be accomplished through the bet
terment act passed by the Legislature of
1902 and accepted by the city in 1911.
LO.VGMEADOW.
Mrs O. C. Pomeroy was much gratified
Saturday to receive her first letter from
her mother, Mrs C. S. Allen, written
since her arrival in Beirut, Turkey, where
she expects to spend six months with her
daughter and husband, Dr and Mrs Edwin
Si John Ward. Mrs Allen gave on inter
esting account of her long journey by land
and sea and of the health and prosperity
of all.
Miss Marjorie Fletcher who has done
splendid work iu the drawing, art and
manual training work of the Longmeadow
school, resigned last week to accept a
fine position in Hackensack,' N. J.
The women of the south part of Wil
braham have formed a neighborhood club
and have elected the following officers:
President, Mrs J. AL Pickens: vice-pres
ident, Mrs J. 1,. Rice: secretary. Miss
Grace Hayes: treasurer, Airs J. W. Duns
more: social committee. Aliss Isabel Robb,
Mrs Waltqj Bliss and Airs D. H. Eaton.
The club will meet at the home of Airs
K. .T. Pease next Wednesday.
Airs Harriet X. Griggs-passed her 83d
birthday Saturday and the event was pleas
antly observed m the home of her niece
Airs Streeter, in Brimfield, with whom
Mrs Griggs lives, A dinner party, with
immediate neighbors as guests, was given
h.v Airs Streeter Saturday evening in honor
of the 85th birthdayof her mother. Airs
Marsh, which recently occurred, and that
of Airs Griggs.
The Hamilton emery and corundum
company of Uhester are unloading a ship
ment of 500 tons of Naxos emery shipped
direct front their mines on the island of
Naxos.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
NORTHAMPTON,
The county commissioners approved two
exceptionally large claims for doer dam
ages at their meeting last week. One was
a chum of $414 from Fred I, Lord of
Amherst and the other- a claim of S2OO
from Dwight E. Clary of Williamsburg.
this week the Northampton plavers will he
seen in Henrietta < ’rossraan's success,
“Sham." “Sham” is a brilliant comedvsliow-
Ing up in a satirical manner tho sham of a
certain phase of smart life in New York.
The Northampton democratic city com
mittee held a meeting Friday evening, at
which candidates for the city election were
discussed. It was voted to indorse for the
nomination for mayor Timothy J. Collins,
who was the candidate of the party for
the same office last year.
AMHERST.
Work is well under way on the construc
tion of a new sheep barn for the animal
hußbnndv department on the south side of
the Hadley road. Previous to this time
only a few sheep have been kept by the
college, mainly for experimental purposes
in feeding. Funds have been provided
lately for the purchase of a drove of sheep
uml the construction of model quarters
for them, and all possible will he done to
further the sheep industry in the state,
which is at present fairly negligible.
Bishop Davies conducted the instala
tion of Rev Ellis Bishop as rector of
Grace Episcopal church at Amherst- Sun
day- Bishop Davies was assisted by Rev
William T. Ladd of the divinity school
of Middletown, Rev Mr Wljeeloek of
Kasthampton and Rev Mr Demaurlac of
Litchfield. Ct. A large audience was
present which completely filled the church.
A. L, Norris of Northampton was ip
charge of the music by the choir.
A very prefly wedding took place last
week at the Hatfield home of Mr and Mrs
George A. Billings, when their daughter,
Laura Ford, was united in marriage with
William Lucas Bolden. The cerrmouy
was performed by Rev Edward Tend of
Boston, uncln of the bride, assisted by
Rev trying A. Flint, the double-ring serv
ice being used. Over 200 guests were.present
from Keene, N. H.. Boston. New York. Hol
yoke and Springfield. Mrs Belden is one
of the niost popular young women of Hat
field and very active in social and church
work! Mr Belden is a member of the
firm of Belden Bros, large farmers and
tobacco packers, and represents’ the Na
tional fertilizer company. After a short
wedding trip. Mr and Mrs Belden will
he-at home January lat -their new home
iir.jtradstreet.
JerCnje E. Abbey of Enfield has entered
Stilt' in the superior court against Augusta
and Wallace Hunter to recover >2475
which he claims is due hint for 161 months’
work on a farm in the years of 1900 to
1911, at the rate of $25 a month, after de
ducting SSO which was paid him in cash.
The plaintiff alleges that ill the time sped
tied he received nothing for his work but
his hoard and the SSO.
A Very pretty home wedding -took place
last week at tlic home of Mr and Mrs
Benjamin M. Hall in the town of Hard
wick. where Miss ('. Evelyn Hall was
given in marriage by her father to An
drew J. LouX of Greenwich, the cere
mony being performed by Rev Charles B.
Williams of Greenwich, the ring service
being used.
Lord it Spencer of Dwight have finished
shipping their apples to Boston, where
they will be. kept in cold storage until
spring. They harvested 1000 barrels this
year and have 8000 trees growing and will
set out 5000 more next year.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
GREENFIELD.
The announcement is made that the
Young Men’s club is to reopen in the
near future. The committee who were
appointed to consider the matter of re
opening the club, which has been closed
since the summer, have employed B. A.
Goodyear who has been in charge of the
Water bury, Ot., Young Men's Christian
association to act as secretary, and he
will soon come to Greenfield to begin his
work. In the management of the club
there will be some changes from the con
ditions prevailing iu the past, iu that the
effort wilt only be made to provide fdr
young men over the age of 17, it not
being felt that there are sufficient space
or funds to provide for the younger boys.
The annual meeting of the Franklin
county branch of the Mount Holyoke
alumnae association was held Saturday
afternoon at the home of Mrs E. R.
Fiske in Greenfield. There were re
ports of the 75th anniversary celebra
tion at Mount Holyoke and personal re
minisences given by members of the as
sociation. At the business session the
following officers were elected: President,
Miss Harriet Russell Pease of the Green
field high school faculty: vice-president,
Miss Afarioh Atherton of tile Turners
Falls high school: secretary. Miss Ruth
Root of Deerfield: treasurer, Miss Mil
dred R. Stetson of Greenfield.
Henry O. Willard of Millets Falls was
found guilty of two violations of the game
laws by the district court Monday morn
ing. Fpon a charge of shooting a deer
unlaw fully he was fined SSO, and on a com
plaint for hunting on Sunday he was fined
810. Willard was arrested Sunday night
at his home in Millers Falls by Game
Warden Lyman E. Ruberg of Greenfield.
The Savage Bros, proprietors of Hotel,
Lathrop at South Deerfield, served an
excellent coon supper Thursday even
ing to members of the Ockington
coon club anfl invited guests. Over
100 men attended the banquet, coming
from Albany and Troy. N. Y., New Ha
ven. Ct., Hartford, Ot.. Sttimford, Ct.,
Springfield. Ohieouec. Greenfield. Conway,
aud other places. The club was organized
19 years ago in Granby, Ct. mostly by tail-,
road men of the several divisions of the
New York. New Haven and Hartford rail
road, and now has a membership of 90.
Three, years after its organization the club
met at the Valley house in South Deerfield.
The late Landlord Ockington was then
proprietor and in' his honor the club re
ceived the name it now bears. Only once
a year do the club members get together
to enjoy a social evening. William L.
Thomas of Southington, formerly of New
Haven. Ct.. has been the honored presi
dent of the club since its organization, and
was re-elected Thursday evening to serve
his 20th year. C. R. Neal was .also re
elected to continue in offices he has held
for years.
A verdict was brought in Tuesday aft
ernoon by tho jury in the case of Olinton
G. Barnard, by next friend, against the
inhabitants’, of Shelburne, the jury ffinding
for the plaintiff and assessing tho dam
ages a t $325. The verdict was precisely
tlie satne o.s that at the first trial of the
case in March before Justice Brown, and
upon the finding of the jury in the case at
the. time a new trial was allowed. The
action was against the town for tho al
leged exclusion of the plaintiff, from the
piiblic Schools. It was the- contention of
the- officers of the Shellmrne schools that
young Barnard-was denied the . right to,
attend the high schopf because .of his in
ability to keep up with his studies, it
being claimed that he was given an op
portunity to attend a lower grade and
qualify himself for work in the high
school. , ,
Farmers and hunters who have traveled
through the woods about Orange this fall
claim that there are as ninny deer as In
any past seasons, and - that itiley are like
wise just aw tame.' -It is expected - that
many will be killed in the vicinity and
many hunters are preparing to hunt them.
Many of the farmers are posting thejr
land as usual and though they claim the
animals are a nuisance they are making
every effort to save them. A herd of six •
has been seen not far from Orange during
tile past w-eek, grazing and apparently
enjoying life, as if there were nothing to
fear. A buck, which must, weigh close
to 350 pounds, is the reader of the herd.
Two women in New Salem have taken
out hunters' licenses, the first instance
of its kind in this section. Both intend
to try their luck at shooting deer.
Elmer S. Hallett and Edna AL. daugh
ter of Walter A. Shaw, were married at
the home of the bride in Aahfieid
Thursday. Rev Al. S. Buckingham of
the Ashfield Congregational church per
formed the ceremony, assisted by Rev
II F. Hallett of South Stanstead. P. Q..
father of the groom. Mr and Mrs- Hallett,
will live in the villpge in the house he
recently bought of H. Jenkins.
Lloyd Hamilton, the 16-yeara-old son of
Frank Hamilton of Conway met with a se
rious accident last week. He was driving a
pair of horses hitched to a heavy farm wagon
on the Smith Deerfield road, when in some
manner he was thrown out of the wagon,
falling between the wheels, and the heavy
hind wheel passed over his hack. He
is in a serious condition.
Rev- Arthur E. Wilson, pastor of the
Uuitnrinu church nl Northheld. read his
resignation' last Sunday, to take effect in
two weeks, he having accepted a call to a
church in Plainfield, X. J. Mr and Mrs,
Wilson came from Clinton about three
years ago, aud dUring. that time have made
many warm friends, who dislike to sec
them leave town.
One of (he prettiest home weddings of
the season was held at Whately last
week in the presence of about 200
gUests at the home of Mr and Mrs Carl
ton H. Crafts, when their daughter. Ethel
Vivian, was married to Alton Lewis San
derson, son of Mr and Mrs Francis E.
Sanderson of Williamsburg.
On account of her health Miss Kirk has
iiad to give up at Howe the enre of Mrs Bar
nard at the Unitarian parsonage. She went
Saturday to the home of her family In
Jamaica Plain. Her loss in the grange,
its lecturer, will be felt and in the Uni
tarian Sunday-school, where she was a
valuable assistant.
- The Shelburne Fail> and Coirnin street
railway company have handled an excep
tionally large quantity of apples this fall.
To date fully 28,060 barrels have been
hnnlCd from Griswoldville. Lyotixville and
CofWiin to tile Boston and Maine station
in Shclli trno Falls.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
PITTSFIELD.
An andience of 450 assembled in the
gymnasium of the Young Men’s Christian
association Sunday afternoon to listen to
an address on "Abraham Lincoln and
what tile emancipation proclamation has
rtieant to the colored race.” by William
H. Lewis of Washington. D. C.. assistant
attorney-general of the Fnited .Sufos. His
eloquent discourse held the attention of
the company for an hour and a half. Upon
its completion Mr Lewis' held an informal
reception and shook hands with several
hundred people, including Senator W.
Murray Crane, who motored in front Dal
ton especially' for the lecture. Mr Lewis
has been in Boston fog some time past and
in that city addressed an important mis
sionary congress.
Congressman-elect A. X. Treadway has
issued the following statement to the
voters: "The result of the congressional
election in this district is naturally very
gratifying to met I sincerely thank the
voters for their expression of confidence.
To have carried this district by nearly
1000 plurality in spite of the third party
candidate is a pleasing victory. There
is q special personal statisfactinn in the
indorsement from my neighbors and
friends of my native and home town. I
realize the high standard of service set
by Congressman Lawrence and assure the
citizens of my best endeavors to maintain
it.”
The jury in the case of Michael J. Kel
ly of Springfield against the New York
Central and Hudson River railroad re
turned a verdict for the plaintiff of S6OOO
Thursday afternoon, after one-half hour's
deliberations. Mr Kelly sued for SIO,OOO
for injuries sustained when a fire extin
guisher in a car fell and struck him on
the knee. He has since been in the
hands of physicians in Springfield, and
claims he is permanently injured.
Attorney Henry J. Ryan, who was de
feated by Mayor K. B. Miller last fall
in the mayoralty contest, issued a formal
statement Monday morning declaring
that he is not a candidate for the mayor
alty nomination on the democratic ticket
this fail, and thanking his loyal support
ers of last year.
The republican city committee of Pitts
field has unanimously voted to ask Ernest
O. Engstrom to be its mayoralty candi
date. Mr Engstrom has acceded to the
request, ami will undoubtedly be the party
nominee at the caucus this week.
Burglars broke into Peirson's hardware
store on North street during the darkness
of Sunday morning and made away
with hardware valued at about S3OO, as
ne»r as lias been estimated.
An. inventory 'of the estate of Daniel
A. Kimball, late of Stockbridge, has been
filed in probate court, and shows personal
property of $87,099.09 and realty of $16,-
NORTH ADAMS.
Charles Whalen spent many valuable
hours of liis time Tuesday in determining
whether or not he has trie right to ship
Christmas trees from the town of Florida
to the Pennsylvania and Maryland mar
kets. He finally found that ho could do
so in spite of the ruling regarding gypsy
and brown-tail moths, because none of
either pest had been reported from the im
mediate vicinity of where he intended to
cut trees. He has been in the business
for 20 years, and ships from five to a dozen
carloads of balsam and spruce trees an
nually, each car containing from 700 to
800 trees. He wholesales to the Penn
sylvania market, but follows his trees
shipped to Wilmington, Del., and there
disppses of them at retail. He frankly
said that he expected that within a very
few years either the gypsy moth had got
to, be eliminated or the Christmas tree
business killed.
Dr W r allaee E. Brown, seven years a
councilman and twice a candidate for
mayor df North Adams has again an
nounced his candidacy for the republican
nomination for mayor.
Miss Louise Staley Swart, daughter of
Mr and Mrs Clarence Romeyn Swart of
Glenville, X. 1., and Harry L. Farsons.
son of Mr and Mrs Elmer E. Parsons of
Lenox, were married Thursday afternoon
at 4 o'clock at 107 Union street, Schenec
tady. N. Y., the residence of Rev and
Mrs Clayton J, Potter. Rev Clayton ,1.
Potter of the First Reformed church of
Schenectady, brother-in-law of the bride,
officiated. >lrs Parsons was much in
Lenox at a time when her brother-in-law,
Rev Mr Potter, was npstor of the Con
gregational church, arid has many friends
and acquaintances there. Mr Parsons has
for a number, of years held the position
qf room clerk at . Curtis hotel and been
prominent" in Lelipx life'. Mr and Mrs
Pardons will be at home-after Decem
ber 1,
Mr and Mrs George #,'• Perkins of Lee
land Jersey City celebrated their ,50th
marriage anniversa.v Wednesday last week
and a large party df gave, them a
surprise party at .Greenock inn, where
they at#- staying for a few days. Mr and
ill's Perkips are natives of Lee, her
maiden,name being Charlotte Crocker. Ylr
Perkins is at present at trie head of or
prominently connected with many finan
cial and banking concerns in New York
city, Jersey City and elsewhere, and is one
of the many sons of Lee who have made
a name and fortune in the business world,
and of whom the town is justly proud.
Mr and Mrs Perkins- have a son, G. F.
Perkins. Jr., and two daughters, Mrs E.
W. Y. Dunn and ilrs Avery Ready.
Plans are lieing made for the dedication
of the fine new organ ill' Grace hall at
Williams college on the evening of the 21st
when an inaugural recital will be held.
The program will lie participated in by
Prof .Samuel Atkinson Baldwin of the
college of the city of New- York, Prof
William Churchill Hammond of Mount
Holyoke college. Prof Hamilton Craw ford
Macdougall of Wellesley college and Sum
ner Salter, director of music at Williams
college.
The Monument mills at Housatonie will
increase its capital stock from $50,000
to $500,000 by the issuance of 4500 shares
of new stock at a par value of SIOO. Each
holder of the stock of record October 10,
1012, will be entitled to nine shares of the
new stock for every share owned by him
in the old.
WORCESTER COUNTY.
Dr John C. Berry of Worcester lias neen
notified that the new emperor of Japan
has conferred upon him the "imperial order
| of the Sacred Treasure of the third class."
Sutemi Chinda, Japanese embassador at
Washington, in notifying Dr Berry wrote:
“My august master has conferred this or
der upon you in recognition df your etui-
nent and disinterested services during your
; .sojourn in Japan, looking to the promotion
of her material well-being, notably your
signal contribution toward the improve
incnt.of medical and sanitary organiza
tion:. Dr Berry spent 21 years in Japan
as a medical missionary of the American
hoard of commissioners for foreign mis
sions.
Business is booming in Athol and several
shops have gone on to overtime work.
Itic L. S Sturret! factory aud the Union
i twist drill shop have found it necessary
| owing to large orders to increase tin*
working time. The Starrctt shop will
work 54 hours a week instead of 40, tho
new schedule calling for Saturday after
noon work. The Twist drill company
will work several departments for a time
until 9in the evening. The two factories
together employ 11(R> or 1206 hands and
both are opon shops.
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
Ornithologists, bird protectors, repre
sentatives of biological survey and Audu
bon societies, experts on feathers and Na
ture lovers met at Cambridge Tuesday
on common ground at tile opening of the
annual congress of the American ornithol
ogists’ union. Lantern slides of strange
birds, plants, animals and people seen by
ornithologists and lectures by members of
the unibn formed an interesting part of
the program. Besides the council meet
ings, numerous social affairs have been
arranged for the visitors.
Edgar Lord, defaulting treasurer of the
New Bedford co-operative bank, and the
Acushnct co-operative hank, was sentenced
at Taunton Ajopday to from 12 to 15 years
in the state prison by Judge Dubuque in
tlie superior court. Lord pleaded guilty
to an indictment containing 42 counts,
charging embezzlement and forgery. The
total amount tiikeu from the banks was
$60,000.
Receivers were appointed at Boston last
week for the department stores con
trolled by William. S. Butler & Co. the
Gilchrist company and Everybody's store
company, it is estimated that the liabili
ties of the three concerns amount to
$1,000,606. William E. Butler, treasurer
of the three companies, committed suicide
by shooting last week.
Boston is assured of Hamburg-Amerioan
line steamers next year, as the executive
council of the commonwealth has unani
mously approved of the plan of the port
directors for canceling the lease miller
which tlic New York’ New Haven and ■
Hartford railroad controls Commonwealth
pier at Boston.
At A\ elleslev college a new rule has been
adopted by the student government . sso
ciation. Any young man who calls ui>ou
a Wellesley college girl on Sunday evening
must escort her to chapel services. Fully
200 young men obeyed it last Sunday
evening.
CONNECTICUT.
Front the sounds which are wafted up
from New Haven it might be supposed
that a first-class Donnybrook fair was in
progress and that limits of tlie old elms
were being used as shillalehs. At a hear
ing held in'the rooms of the board of al
dermen Friday evening an emphatic cit
izen is reported as having politely re
marked to Col Isaac Ullman. tlie repub
lican boss, “You will be making hygienic
ice in hell before you get my corner.” But
the fact is that New Haven is merely tak
ing up the question of laying out the ne< es
ssry approaches to the new railroad sta
tion, which the Consolidated road is about
to construct east of the present station, in
sucl: a manner,both as to meet the needs
of traffic and materially to beautify the
city. It is to he hoped that out of tho
heat, which seems -to have been rather
general, a plan will be evolved of which
New Haven will have lasting reason to he
proud.
In his Thanksgiving day proclamation,
issued Tuesday. Gov Simeon E. Baldwin,
democrat, successful in his campaign for
re-election, refers to the political campaign
and the election as follows: "The strain
to which every four years our flame of
civil government is subjected, it has met
unshaken. Never has the general course
of business throughout the United States
been less disturbed by the political con
tests incident to a presidential election,
and a majority of their citizens Contem
plate with composure the soon-coming
transfer of political power to men chosen
by a minority, under our rule which al
lows electoral colleges of the states to con
trol the choice, although they may repre
sent only a minority of the whole people.”
Mr and Mrs John Spencer of Hazard
ville Friday celebrated in a quiet way
the 50th anniversary of their marriage.
Over 150 of their friends called to con
gratulate them between the hours of 3
and 5 and 7 and 9- The house was
prettily decorated with yellow chrysathe
tnums and roses, gifts of their friends,
and they also received $l5O in gold. SSO
of which was from friends in Hazardville.
Miss Beatrice Spencer, a granddaughter
Walter S. Balch. chairman of the demo
cratic town committee of Harwinton is
still passing out Cigars because Rev B.
F. Capslmw. pastor of the Congregational
church and democratic candidate for rep
resentative was elected last week. Forty
years had elapsed since a democratic rep
resentative had been elected in Harwinton.
Fire in East C-anaan Monday destroyed
the general store and its contents of
Moore and Rogers. The building was
owned by E, S. Roberts, state treasurer
elect, and was insured as was also the
stock of goods destroyed. Feed wires of
the Berkshire power company wore
burned, leaving Norfolk in darkness.
VERMONT.
An all-night search for two small boys,
Joseph and Herbert Clark, was ended at
Brandon. Thursday, by finding of the body
of Joseph in Lake Qunmore and the un
conscious form of Herbert on the shore
nearby. The brothers strayed away and be
came lost in the woods. It was thought that
Joseph, aged five, walked into the lake
Thursday night. His brother, aged three,
went to sleep on the shore. Although suf
fering from exposure, Herbert is not in a
serious condition,
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Frank Kiduer, an insane man, shot and
fatally wounded his aged aunt. Miss Mary
Richardson, slightly injured his uncle,
Martin L. Richardson, and committed sui
cide at Alstead, last week Wednesday as
neighbors were about to overpower him.
Mr Richardson was elected to the Legisla
ture last week by the democratic party.
Kidder was released from an asylum some
time ago and had hcen living with his
father, Erastus P. Kidder.
RHODE ISLAND,
Fred E. Phillips, secretary of the New
England order of Workmen and formerly
■postmaster of Central Falls shot
and killed himself last week. An investi
gation of books as secretary of the order
has been begun by Deputy Insurance Com
missioner Felix Hebert.
BIG BEQUEST FOR HARVARD.
Dr Arthur Cnbot ot Brookline Left
#500,600 Which Will Go to the Uni
versity Upon the Death of His
Widow,
The bulk of the property of Dr Arthur
Cabot, late of Brookline, estimated at
$500,000, is to go to Harvard university
at the death of Mrs Cabot, according to
the provisions of the will filed at Dedham
Monday.
Dr Cnbot was one of the fellows of Har
vard college and deeply interested in the
medical school, which receives SIOO,fHKI
outright. An additional sum of $50,000
and numerous paintings are given to the
Boston museum of tine arts.
One by one the big ranches of Texas
are being broken up. Mrs Man Adair
has just sold a trifle of 1.000.000 acre*
near Clarendon for $19,006,600,