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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
SPRINGFIELD AND VICINITY.
Miss Anne Beatrice McCullough, daugh
ter of John McCullough of New Bedford
and Dr Clarence Edward Burt, who has
many Springfield friends, were married
last, week Wednesday afternoon in that
city.
Daniel C. Gill, formerly of Hinsdale and
Springfield, now a resident of Cheyenne,
Wv.. has been elected state senator. There
is some talk of his being a candidate sot
United States senator against Senator
Francis E. Warren, who was a Hins
dale man.
The first of the Springfield assemblies
was held at Hotel Kimball Friday even
ing and 150 memliers gathered for the
dancing which lasted from about 9 to 2
o'clock. The ballroom was prettily deco
rated with palms. It is expected that as
last year the assemblies will be held at
Christmas, Easter and Washington's
birthday.
The Dwight-street underpass will be
ready for use some time before the win
ter is over. It is now possible to walk
through without much inconvenience, but
it will not be open to the public until the
very considerable ask of cleaning up the
debris of the work is completed. The
work on the Water-street underpass is not
so far along, but is progressing satisfac
torily.
Parcel post service has been resumed
with Germany aud Austria-Hungary,
thereby making it possible for Christmas
presents to lie sent to these countries.
Parcel post packages are now mailable
to all countries with which the United
States has parcel post conventions ex
cept Belgium. Turkey and northern
France, where military operations prevent
any service.
The Musical art society will again give
its Christmas production of Handel’s “Mes
siah,” probably in Trinity church, on the
evening of the 30th. The “Messiah." when
given last year for the first time by the so
ciety, received praise of the highest order,
and Director Arthur H. Turner believes
the production during the coming holidays
will quite equal the high standard set by
the initial performance then.
The new Commercial trust company
which is being organized in this city, Mon
day filed incorporation papers in Bos
ton. The capitalization is set at s3.io.0 I M>.
It was announced when the proposition M
organizing the bank was first made pub
lic that the capitalization would be $5<D.-
000. but it seems from the action taken
yesterday that the figure is not as high as
was originally contemplated.
The annual report of the United electric
light company tiled last week in Boston
with the public service commission shows
assets of $4.050,483.50 and liabilities of
$3,750,667.02, leaving a profit ami loss
account balance of $308,816.57. The balance
last year was $283,290.85. The ^capital
stock of the company is now $1,750,000
and its bond issues total $200,000. Dur
ing the past year the tax payments by
the company have been $65.114.21.
The shipment of clothes and other sup
plies for the relief of Belgian war suf
ferers and other European war sufferers
that has been collected in Springfield ami
vicinity by the Springfield-western New
England relief shipment is now on its
way to New York. Arthur D. Neff, adver
tising manager of the Steiger store,
through which the collection has been
made, went to New York yesterday to see
that the goods are properly transferred in
New York.
The Springfield Women's club are in
viting their friends to attend another lec
ture by Thomas Mott Osborne of Auburn,
N. Y., to be delivered in their club-house
on the evening of December 10. It is ex
pected that Mr Osborne will discuss some
phases of the prison reform problems to
which he is t.ow devoting Ins life. It will
be remembered that he has lately ac.-epted
an appointment by the governor of New
Y’ork to the wardenship of Sing Sing
Btate-prison
The first meeting of the season of the
Hampton club was held Monday with
Mrs James Stearns on Magnolia terrace.
The various committees were appointed
as follows: Social; Mrs James L. Fol
som: basket. Miss M. L. Crane; cutting.
Miss Eliza Piruie; packing. Mrs Oscnr
E. Fifield. The remainder of the morn
ing was devoted to sewing. The club
will meet again on the 14th when Mrs
George W. Parsons of Spruceland ave
nue is to entertain.
Berttis P. Pietersz. an artist, well known
in Springfield by former residence and not
infrequent visits, has come down from his
farm in Hancock, N. H., and will sojourn
here for the winter. He has made an ex
hibition of his recent paintings at Forbes
& Wallace's, in a front room on the fourth
floor, reached by the Vcrnon-street ele
vator. It will be immediately seen that
Mr Pietersz has gained iu his art a certain
depth and power which enhance the effect
of his strong coloristic gift, and satisfy
better than be has ever done before the
Sentiment that apprehends Nature.
Howard Whitney of Nashua. N. H.. has
been appointed engineer of maintenance of
way of the Springfield street railway com
pany and the Worcester Consolidated, ro
succeed Herbert M. Flanders, the newly
appointed manager of the Springfield street
railway company. Mr Whitney has for
merly been connected with the mainte
nance of way departments of the Boston
and Maine and the Missouri Pacific rail
roads and will take charge of the mainte
nance of the tracks and bridges of the
systems owned and controled by the New
England investment aud security company.
The republican candidates tor municipal
offices will be very busy for the rest of the
week. Nearly all the candidates to be elect
ed at large will participate in meetings to
be held in different sections of the city.
Aiderman Frank E. Stacy, the candidate
for mayor, ad .rv.-ie ; tue Negro civ; ■
league last evening, .mri this even
ing he will speak before the W; rd
1 republican club and the ward 3 repub
lican club. On Friday evening he will make
an address at a ward 6 rally and at a rally
to be held at Wight's hall at Indian Or
chard.
A joint meeting of the democratic city com
mittee and the Edward 11. Lathrop cam
paign committee was held in the Lathrop
headquarters in the I idler building Mon
day night. It was decided to leave the con
duct of the campaign in the hands of
the democratic city committee. The
committee will be assisted by the inde
pendent Lathrop committee. The work
of the two organizations will be carried
on jointly in every ward in *he city The
committee promised to conduct a vigor
ous campaign for the election of its can
didates.
Fire early Sunday morning on the top
floor of the building at 280-2.82 Main street
did about SIO,OOO damage to the buildings
and the property of its tenants. The
damage was mainly by water aud showed
once again the need of a salvage corps in
the local fire department. The entire
lipper floor of the building is occupied by
the Springfield Union, the space being
divided between the photo-engraving plant
and the store-room. The fire startea in the
latter room in a pile of metal chins and
wood scraps. It spread toward the rear
of the building, damaging the apparatus in
the engraving plant.
Herbert D. Paine of Belchertown and
Miss Harriet J. Alexander of this city were
married Thursday a. the r > ■■
Alexander's parents. Mr and Mrs George
Alexander of 382 Bay street. There, were
about 25 guests present, including some
from Avon, Ct., Easthampton, Belchertown
and Thorndike. Miss Mande Streeter
played the wedding march. The ceremony
was performed by Rev R. A. Colpitts, and
took place before a beautiful bower of ever
green and red berries. The bride and
groom were unaccompanied. After a short
wedding trip, Mr and Mrs Paine will live
at Belchertown, where Mr I'aine has a
farm.
'fhe first debutante reception of the sea
aon took place Wednesday last w eek, when
Mrs James Leavitt Folsom formally pre-
sented her only daughter, Miss Olive F.
Folsom, to between 300 and 400 of her
friends at a charming reception at the
Women's club-house. This was the first
social event of importance, with the ex
ception of the large autumn weddings, to
take place, and the nature of the function
brought out a representative gathering of
women prominent in social and club circles
of the city. In addition to the friends of
Mrs Folsom there were present the debu
tantes of last year aud those who are
yet to come out.
Resolutions in favor of the proposed in
come amendment to the state constitu
tion and condemning the present system
of state taxation were adopted at the
meeting of the directors of the board of
trade held Tuesday night. The resolutions
were presented by the committee on taxa
tion, of which Robert Cleeland is chair
man. At the suggestion of the Connecti
cut river committee of which Charles H.
Beckwith is chairman, it was voted that
the board of trade become a member of
the national rivers and harbors congress.
The president of the board was author
ized to appoint delegates to the congress
which will be held in Washington, the 9th.
Dwight. L. Dustin of Dtis pleaded guilty
to a charge of breaking into the post
office at Russell Friday night, when he
I was arraigned before United States Com
missioner John L. Rice Monday uiter
noon, and was held for the federal grand
jury under bonds of SIOOO. He was un
able to furnish bail and was taken to the
East UambriCig.-jail Monday night. He was
arrested by Inspectors Manning and Met
calf in Holyoke while he was trying to
pawn a cheap watch which he had stolen
from the general store of T. H. Rogers,
in which the post-office is situated. He is
alleged to have stolen stamps, tobacco and
some cheap watches, the whole being val
ued at about S3O.
The 23d annual fair of the Hampden
county children's aid association will be
held next Friday and Saturday. Decem
ber 4 and 5, in the Auditorium. Mrs T. O.
Bemis, president of the association, will
again be in charge as general chairman
and she has practically completed all ar
rangements for Springfield's biggest annual
fair. Many of the churches of Springfield
ns usual will hare charge of booths, and
there will be booths in charge of commit;
tees representing the different churches of
West Springfield. Chicopee and Chicopee
Falls. In addition there will be several
tables and special features in charge of
local committees not representing any
church iu particular.
Col William C. Hayes of the 2d regi
ment issued a warning against too great
confidence in our days of peace in this
country at the hmchemf of the Publicity
club in the Hotel Kimball in this
city Tuesday noon. The present Eu
ropean war. he said, is undoubted
ly she greatest war over seen, but
we must not think that it is the last great
war. Some of our pacificist friends think
otherwise, but some of us who are ex
perienced in life and are sensible know
that this earth will never become heaven.
As long as individuals will fight, nations
will fight, and with selfishness ever present
in the world the strong will always be
tempted to overcome the weaK.
Eggs and poultry will be carried direct
from producer to consumer by the par el
post service, if the plans of Assistant Post
master E. T. Ballard work satisfactorily.
Mr Ballard has secured the names of a
number of egg and poultry dealers in this
city and West Springfield. Orders given
to these dealers will be filled by sending
the fresh produce directly by the parcel
post. Mr Ballard has also prepared a
list of manufacturers of packing boxes
and other containers for such shipment.
This plan is being tried in Hartford. In
this city the same system may be car
ried out unofficially by whatever consum
ers wash to secure Mr Ballard’s list and
order from the producers named there.
Joshua L. Brooks, president of the board
of trade, and Charles W. Bosworth, presi
dent of the Union trust company, have
been selected as members of the large ad
visory committee which will assist the
state board of labor, and industries in the
improvement of labor aud industrial con
ditions in this state. The selections were
made at a recent conference of the board
held under the direction of Gov David I.
Walsh. The participation of a body of
citizens in work of this kind is entirely a
new thing, and its results will be watched
with interest. The first conference be
tween the new council aud the board will
bo held at the state-house on Friday. At
this time Gov Walsh will make sugges
tions for carrying out the work of the
committee.
The increase of weight in parcels sot
the first and second zones to 50 pounds
and to 20 nonrids for other zones will
make the shipment of Christmas presents
by parcel post greater than ever. Both
New York and Boston come within the
radius of the first and second zones and
many, packages that formerly went by ex
press to those cities will be intrusted to
the mails this year. There is a simple and
easy rule for determining the cost of
sending packages within these two zones.
The weight in pounds plus four gives the
number of cents that must be paid for
the parcel in question. Thus a 12-pound
package would cost 16 cents. The rate
for panels going into other zones is high
er in proportion to the distance.
The second large reception of the week
took place Friday afternoon when Mrs
Francis E. Regal aud her sister-in-law.
Miss Mary L. Regal, leceived a large
number of their friends to whom they
introduced the former’s daughter. Miss
Margaret Regal. The large rooms of the
Regal home on Elm street in West Spring
field were a lifting background for a func
tion of this nature, and it was in the long
drawing-room of the home, which extends
along the entire Elm-street front of the
house, that the hostesses of the afternoon
received their friends. The many gift
flowers sent to tl.e debutante were massed
in every available place, and together
with the growing plants formed an artistic
background for the receiving party.
A musical department is to be added to
the educational work of the Young Men's
Christian association, and classes for men
and women in choral and instrumental
study will begin Tuesday. January 5. The
choral work will be under the direction of
Thomas Moxon, choir director of St Fe
tor’s church and Christ church. The classes
will meet weekly in the association build
ing and the course will run for 20 weeks.
Each month it is planned that all the
classes will combine in giving a concert in
which both students and instructors will
take part. There will be classes for teach
ing the piano, violin, mandolin, banjo and
guitar. In order that the many p<>ople of
limited means who would like an oppor
tunity to learn to play or sing may join the
classes the price of admission will be made
very low.
The many friends in this citv of Rev
Charles C. Conner, a former pastor of
the Second Universalist church of Spring
field, will be interested to learn of his
marriage in Hamilton. O„ to Miss Mary
Elizabeth Andrews. The wedding took
place Wednesday evening. November 25,
in the home of Mr and Mrs W. N. An
<J r ews. „ The officiating clergyman was Rev
A. B. Beresford, pastor of the Cincinnati
I mversalist church. Following the cere
mony. a wedding reception was held in
th^ parlors of the Lniversalist church,
where over 200 friends came to offer their
congratulations. The bride was formerly
a pastor of the Universalist church in
Hamilton and had Mso served as pastor
of the church in Kansas City, having
later taken up social settlement work in
the same city.
The property at the northwest corner'of
Chestnut and Taylor streta was sold by
Joseph Tuleja to Frank P. and Charles
A. Oonabue Monday, the sale being in a e
through the Harry F. Barrett company.
The price is said to be about $60,000
which represents n considerable rise in
the value, as the property was sold by John
Glynn to Mr Tuleja about four veers aco
for about $30,000. It has a frontage of 02
feet on Chestnut street and 08 feet on
Taylor street, and contains five stores and
a lodging-house. The Donahue brothers
now own all the property on Chestnut
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1914.
street between Lyman and Taylor streets,
and if the Taylor-strect extension is ac
complished it is probable that they will
undertake some development of the prop
erty. It is assessed for $44,000.
A continued rise in prices in America
during the war, a period of sudden ex
pansion and speculation at its close ana
a possible collapse about two years later
are what Prof Janies Walter t rook, pro
fessor of economies at Amherst college,
reads in the present situation as the prob
able economic effect of the war upon the
United States. In a talk to the Civics
club at the Highland hotel in Uns
city Friday night, he said that be
did not wish to make , a prophecy'
of panic following a period of spec
ulation at the close of the war. but
that his advice is that every man should
anticipate such a panic and act accord
ingly. with the result that its effect can
bo made much less serious. The questions
a fter Prof Crook's talk brought out sev
eral interesting points connected with the
subject.
Thanksgiving was observed generally by
the hotels Thursday, md lune n mliws
took advantage of the special holiday din
ners to dine with their friends. All the
hotels were decorated for the occasion and
the spirit of the day was entered into by
all. One of the chief interests in Thau '- 1 '"
ing day is to know how. those fared whose
dinners are an uncertainty’.. Very X?, w 11
any went dinnerless in Springfield Thurs
day. although many more than last
year applied for help from the charitable
organizations. Through the I nion .Relief
association hundreds were given dinners,
qnd the Salvation Army gave out 263
baskets in all. This was 103 more than
last vear. None who applied were refuse.;
aid. 'More than 100 of the jobless ate their
dinners at the Rescue mission on Willow
street and in addition 20 baskets were
given out to be taken home.
The citizens' charter commission of 100
will meet in the board of trade rooms on
Friday evening at 8 o’clock and it is
expected that a vote will be taken in
structing the drafting committee on what
plan of charter to proceed in detail. The
committee recommended the city man
ager form of government and at that
meeting this form of government and the
advanced federal plan were argued in
detail. Since that time City Manager
Henrv M. Waite of Dayton. 0.. and ex-
Mayor Henry H. Hunt of Cincinnati, 0.,
have been heard respectively on the city
manager and the advanced federal plans
of government. With the instruction re
ceived from these meetings it is hoped
that the commission on Friday night will
decide what plan of government they will
adopt. A large attendance of members
is desired that full and complete con
sideration may be given the subject.
The home of Mr and Mrs Nils A.
Dunear on Essex street, Indian Orchard,
.was the scene Th usday night of a quiet
wedding when their daughter. Miss Amy
Dunear, became the bride of George Haas
of this city. The ceremony took place
at 6 o’clock, and was performed by Rev
Frank L. Briggs, pastor of the Evange
lical church in Indian Orchard, in the
presence of only the members of the imme
diate families. Last week's bride is a
graduate, of the central high school iu
the class of 1906 and is also a graduate
of the Springfield hospital and the Wesson
maternity hospital. For some time she
was district nurse for the Springfield
hospital and of late has been the night su
pervisor at the same hospital. The groom
is a native of Pine Grove. Pa., and is
a graduate of Pennsylvania college, and
for the past 4% years has been a mem
ber of the editorial staff of The Repub
lican.
Municipal assistance to the thousands
of Springfield workers who are out of
employment was urged by several speak- ,
ers, representatives of charitable or
ganizations, at a hearing given Tuesday
evening by the special joint com
mittee of the council aud board of
aidermen that is investigating the unem
ployment problem. Work, not charity, is
what is wanted by the Springfield unem
ployed, who number, according to the
best estimates, from 4000 to 5000, or more
than one in seven of the workers in this
city. Never before in their history have
the local charitable agencies and the
overseers of the poor received so many
appeals for assistance. The futility of
tne resources of the overseers and
private relief organizations in the
face of the present demands was
expressed emphatically. The way out, in
the opinion of all who spoke, is for the
city to get to work at once on a number
of public improvements that have long
been planned. *
The days of “star-chamber” sessions of
the school committee will doubtless come
to an end under the administration of the
next mayor. Both Aiderman Frank E.
Stacy, the republican candidate, and former
Mayor Edward H. Lathrop, the democrat
ic candidate, declared themselves Tues
day as emphatically in favor of the “open
door” policy. Should the present method be
changed, the next mayor will have shaken
up a custom that has been iu practice for
many years. This stand for open school com
mittee meetings is a result of the disclosures
made in political meetings Tuesday night by
Julius Tuckerman, democratic candidatefor
the school committee from ward 6. Nei
ther Mr Stacy nor Mr Lathrop would give
an opinion on the merits of the discussion
between Mr Tuckerman and the school
committee in which Mr Tuckerman has
charged that the head of the science de
partment of the central high school is a
member of a company which sells supplies
to the scientific department of the school.
The latter denies the charges made, and
Superintendent Van Sickle says that pur
chases have been properly made.
Springfield had 16 suicides during the
year 1913, which is an average of 16.3
per 100,000 population, a decrease over
the past of .4. For the period of 1903 to
1912 the suicides in this city numbered
136, or a rate of 16.7 per 100,000 popula
tion. These figures have been prepared
by The Spectator of New York, a weekly
insurance journal, and are rhe result of
the study of the problem of suicide in its
relation to life insurance. Ont of 100
cities taken, the total suicides in the period
from 1903 to 1912 were 40,760 at an
average rate of 19.7 per 100,000 popula
tion, while for the year 1913 the total
was 4470 at an average rate of 18.7.
San Francisco had the highest rate in both
cases of any of the cities. For the 1903
to 1912 period this rate was 49 per 100,000,
while for 1913 the rate was 45.1. Augusta,
Ga., had the lowest rate with only 20 sui
cides in *he 1903 to 1913 period, the rate
being 4.9 per 100,000, while Somerville
i nd Fitchburg were tied in 1913 for the
lowest rate at a mark of 4.9 per 100,-
000. In that year Fitchburg had two
suicides and Somerville four.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
HOLYOKE.
The property of the Holyoke steam
boiler works was sold Monday under
foreclosure of mortgage, the purchaser
being P. _J. Kennedy, whose hid totaled
about $25,000, a small increase over the
incumbrances. George H. Allyn was the
auctioneer.
John Reid, Jr., of Holyoke, doing busi
ness as the “Holyoke machine works,’’ has
filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabili
ties of $3532.58; assets of $2650.
WESTFIELD.
Miss Alice E. Wheeler has retired as
local manager of the Western Union tele
■ graph company after a service of about
40 years. Miss Wheeler is regarded as an
unusually skilful (iterator and she served
the company faithfully and efficiently.
She was always ready to serve the pub
lic at all hours of the day or night, and
her work was marked by remarkable loy
alty to the company. Miss Wheeler is re
tired on a pension.
The new hall of the Slovak St
Stephen’s Catholic society on East Silver
street was dedicated yesterday afternoon
with appropriate exercises. The struc
ture has been entirely rebuilt after the
disastrous Are of last February. Th®
represents an outlay of
about $15,000 and is a credit to the so
and to the town. It is two stories
and bmlt of bri< . k
took U P th P matter of a
SI ns Pa j * hn stmas tree at their meet
“*i, Tn<?B f ,ay moining. They feel that
“‘,ij a , tree with appropriate exercises
™ « a thin ? for ttie town and
met tte j of ,o ? kin S into the details was
y w ’th a committee consist-
G - Clark - J - Chambers
Dewey and William H. Barnes.
CHICOPEH.
Three foxes were brought home by the
Dewey club in tl.eir annual Thanksgiving
hunt last week. The hunters. John Sears,
Joe Burdette and Fetor J. Robinson, start-
M in the cool of the morning and hunted
through Granby and back of Indian Or
cnara. The ways were miry and hard to
travel, but the dogs found the trail of
“ J 0 * ln good time and gave tongue as
. nl> foxhounds can. The hunters count,
it good luck that so many foxes were
brought m. l As t year the club brought
home four foxes, but that was an unusual
record, and the hunt last year was made
with a larger pack of hounds and on a
better day.
Two parades and two mass-meetings of
Polish people were held m Chicopee Sun
lnv ^i^iPmljon of the 84th anniver
*je „ ^oi’Pmt’or insurrection in
i nland and for beginning the collection
of a fund for the relief of sufferers from
C°i an, i- It had been the in
tention to hold one large meeting, but a
a> round impossible to reach an agree
hl eD Li 1“ f mu place ’? which it was to
be held. The two factions into which
Chicopee Poles are divided therefore held
separate meetings and parades.
Accordinr to the records of Chief John
K I omphret. there have been 288 alarms
luring the year. It has been n year -if
surious fires. The largest was that of the
tioiyoKe box and Limber eompanv, but tin?
hres of the Belcher Taylor eomnnny, the
A. H. Armstrong store and S. Levison’s
store on Alain street were also the cause of
serious damage.
SOUTHWICK.
The prospects tor ice cutting in South
wick are not bright this season. The fine
big ice-houses at < 'oncamond were filled to
their capacity last winter. The past sum
mer little ice has been shipped. There was
not a demand for it from different points
?l° n fp , To J k ’ Xpw Haven and
Haitrord railroad. Some of the icehouses
have not been disturbed. This means that
there will not be nearly the usual amount
of ice cut this winter.
WEST SPRINGFIELD.
The home of Mr and Mrs A. J. Hamil
ton on Bliss street iu West Springfield was
the scene of a quiet woddimr lust week,
when their daughter, Miss Bessie Olive
Hamilton, became the bride of David Al
bert Ross of Holyoke. The ceremony
was performed by Rev Dr George S. Rol
lins, pastor cf Hope church in this city.
MONSON.
The Ricketts & Shaw woolen mill in
South Monson, which has been on four days
a week for several weeks, has received
orders sufficient to run the plant on full
time.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
NORTHAMPTON.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Northampton society for the prevention
ana control ot tuoerculosis was ue.u
Monday afternoon at the Young Men's
Christian association. President W. E.
Shannon presided until his successor was
elected. Mr Shannon reviewed the work
of the past year briefly. TTof Isaac
Bridgman, secretary, read the report of
the last meeting, and the treasurer. Harry
E. Bicknell, read hiS’ report. This report '
showed that the Booiety had at the begin
ning of the year $1304, and had received
$272 from the sate of Red Cross stamps,
$47 from contributions and $35 from in
terest.. making a total of $1759. The
amount expended was $177. leaving a to
tal of slsßl. The report of the nominat
ing committee was read by Rev Dr H. G.
Smith and the list presented was unan
imously elected, as follows: Honorarj
president, Mrs C. E. Childs: president,
Dr W. J. Coilins; first vice-president. W.
G. Bassett; second vice-president. Mrs
Dana Pearson: secretary Elbert L.
Arnold; treasurer. H. E. Bicknell, execu
tive committee, Dr 1,. H. Lopeiauu.
C. H. Pierce. Mrs Frank Lyman.
Marcus Cohn and W. E. Shannon.
The meeting was addressed by Dr I’.
E. Perry, superintendent of the Hamp
shire county tuberculosis hospital. Dr
Perry said that the society had the honor
of having suggested and brought to reali
zation a, plan for county care of tuber
culous patients which would be undoubt
edly followed by other comities.
The architecturally attractive, com
modious. handsomely finished and luxur
iously equipped new home of Northamp
ton lodge No 1'97 of the benevolent and
protective order of Elks was formally
dedicated last week in the presence of
about 7W members of the order from
the lodges of this jurisdiction by ap
propriate exercises, followed by him h
and an entertainment program. The
new home of Northampton lodge of
Elks is a large and attractive building of
dignified architecture. The conspicuous fea
ture of the facade is the deep portico, be
neath a pitched roof, supported by four
great columns. The walls are of light
stucco, and at the rear there is a broad,
inclosed veranda. In the triangle above the
second-story veranda at the front is the
emblematic clock; set at the mystic hour
of 11.
The Northampton players gave their first
performance of "The Man of the Hour.”
by George Broadhurst, before a fair-sized
audience for opening night in the academy
of music Monday. The play is one of
those robust politicaj dramas in which
the Northampton players have been espe
cially popular, and a week of much en
joyment and large attendance may be ex
pected. There nre four acts, each having
a different setting from the others, and
calling renewed attention to the uniformly
good fortune of the academy in its scenic
department. The play has a compelling
nlot and there is much vigor and enter
tainment in the conversation.
SMITH COLLEGE.
Copies of the official bulletin of Smith
college for the year 1914-15 are now avail
able at the office of the dean. Owing to
the numerous changes made in the bulle
tin last year, few alterations have been
necessary in the new copy. The list of fac
ulty contains many new names., for sev
eral professors and instructors did not re
turn this year and certain departments in
creased their number of members. Un
der the department of French the courses
have oeen divided into three mam groups
as follows: A. courses in language; B,
courses in literature; C, courses intended
primarily for graduates. (1). old French,
(2). modern French.
AMHERST.
Prof John E. Ostrander, meteorologist,
has announced the following weather re
port for the month of November. The
weather during the month was generally
seasonable and presented few unusual fea
tures of interest. Nearly all precipitation
and wind movement occurred near the mid
dle of the month. A snowfall of nearly
six inches occurred on the 19th and 30th.
The monthly range of pressure was IA2
and the monthly range of temperature 67,
the maximum pressure being much higher
than the normal. The mean temperature
was about 2% degrees below the normal,
in fact, the lowest November, record, and
the maximum considerably higher. The
total wind movement was considerably
more than usual and a comparatively Inrgc
number of galea were registered. Ihe
mean barometer was slightly higher than
the normal tiw maximum barometer
I on the 29th was the highest November rec
ord since 1896. The total precipitation was
about five-sixths of the normal and nearly
all of it occurred during two well-defined
storms. There were only three clear days,
10 fair days and 17 cloudy days.
Mrs Jeannette Edgertown Stearns re
ceived congratulations Sunday in her
home at North Amherst on her 89th birth
day. She is now the oklest member of
lie North Amherst church and has lived
in North Amherst about 40 years. She
is the widow of Henry Stearns. She was
horn in Northampton, and lived in M 111-
iamsburg before coming to North Am
herst. She is active in the work of the
church and attends the missionary meet
ings and is a member of the Woman's
Christian temperance union. She lives
alone and does hex own housework.
A very pretty marriage ceremony took
place Thursday night in the home of Henri
D. Haskins on Amity street. Amherst, when
Miss Margaret Chapin and Harold M.
Warner, both of Sunderland, were united
in marriage by Rev L. B. Chase of Sun
derland.
WARE.
The new home of the Social Science club
of Ware was officially opened Monday
with a reception and dance which was at
tended by 600 people. A reception was
held between 8 and 10, at which Mrs J.
H. G. Gilbert, Mrs Henry K. Hyde. Mrs
Joseph T. Wood, Mrs Andrew' Bryson,
Mrs James E. Clark, Miss Carolyn Tuck
er, Mrs James E. Allen, Miss Mary Hitch
cock, Miss Mary A. O’Reilley and Miss
Ellen Gould received. The new house
was tastefully decorated with smilax,
evergreen and red berries. The new
club-house was started the middle
of last May and was completed about
the middle of November. The new home
was designed by Joseph Gay of Gay &
Proctor of Boston and was built by Philias
H. Provencal. The house is of stucco
material, with stained shingle roof and
of bungalow type. The building faces
Pleasant street and is approached by a
double set of granite steps. The entrance
is of colonial design. The main hall is 42
feet eight inches by 39 feet six inches
and has a seating capacity of 300.
The Ware board of trade announced
Sunday that there will be a municipal
or community Christmas tree in Ware
Christmas, and that it will be held un
der the auspices of the board of trade.
The idea is to have a large spruce tree
erected upon a platform in front of the
town hall, to be decorated with many
colored lights after the fashion of smaller
home trees.
Mrs Sarah L. Lawton of Pleasant street
celebrated her 90th birthday Tuesday,
and many neighbors and friends called to
extend their congratulations. Mrs Law
ton was born in Thompsonville, Ct. De
cember 1. 1824. and has been a resident
of Ware for over 60 years. Mrs Lawton
is at present in good health and walks
around the house with little effort.
EASTH AMPTON.
A banquet of the Easthampton high
school alumni association was held Satur
day evening at Payson hall, aud was at
tended by 130 members. After dinner
there was speaking under the direction of
the president of the association. C. IL
Johnson. The .speakers were Superinten
dent W. D. Miller, Dr O. W. Cobb of the
school committee. Superintendent A. B.
Morrill of the Wallingford tCt.l schools,
former principal of the Easthampton high
school, and Principal E. K. Boak.
A pleasing in' idetil of the farewell re
ception to Rev F. C. Wheelock Thursday
evening was the presentation of a gold
watch to Mr Wheelock by the parish, the
presentation speech being made by Prof
B. B. Snowden. The girls' friendly so
ciety presented Mr Wheelock a replica of
the Delia Robbia Madonna and child.
Rev Mr Wheeler will leave Monday for
his new pastorate in Illinois.
BELCHERTOWN.
An event of interest to Belchertown was
the celebration Saturday of the s<>th anni
versary of the marriage of Mr and Mrs
Thomas Dewgy. Mr and Mrs Dewey had
Imped to have a general reception for
their friends, but owing to the ill-health
of Mrs Dewey aud the fact that Mr Dewey
has not yet entirely recovered from the
effects of a broken hip, the occasion was
quietly observed. A number of friends
called to extend their congratulations and
a number of gifts were received.
ENFIELD-
Gertrude Marceha. eldest daughter of
Mr and Mrs Amos Hough, and Fred K.
Thayer, son of Mr and Mrs Jerome
Thayer, were married by Rev Mr Ulman
of the Paekardville church Wednes
day last week at the home of the
bride in Enfield. The bride wore
white silk voile trimmed with blue satin.
Only immediate relatives were present.
The couple left for a wedding trip and
on their return will make their home
with Mr and Mrs Carlton Kimball.
WORTHINGTON.
By invitation of Worthington grange,
the agricultural extension school, under
auspices of Massachusetts agricultural
college, will hold a five-days’ session at
Worthington Center, beginning on Mon
day. the 14th, and closing Friday, the 18th.
Everyone is invited to attend and bring
basket lunches. Coffee will be served at
a nominal price.
GRANBY.
Mrs W. A. Taylor has bought of Mrs
W. E. Phillips her place at Granby Cen
ter. Dr and Mrs Phillips will soon re
move to Springfield.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
GREENFIELD.
Announcement was made Tuesday that
the hotel business at the Mansion house
has been transferred by Alice' G. Wood,
the widow of the late William E. Wood, to
Herman L. Wood, who has been the man
ager of the house for a number of years.
The license, which stood in the name of
Alice G. Wood, was transferred by the
selectmen at the regular meeting Monday
to Herman L. Wood, who now has full
charge of the hotel. The new- proprietor
of the hotel haa been connected with the
establishment for many years, and has
demonstrated that he is possessed of the
necessary qualifications for its successful
and proper management. He has been as
sociated with Mrs Alice G. W r ood in the
management of the house since the death
of the late William E. Wood, and before
that time he was in the employ of Mr
Wood.
Treasurer Frank H. Snow of the Frank
lin County agricultural society has an
nounced that the society will run behind
about $750 as a result of the fair held
this fall. The falling off is attributed
very largely to the threatening weather
which prevailed on both of the fair days.
In an effort to increase the agricultural
exhibits the officers made an increase of
about S4OO in the amount of premiums
offered, and this, with the deficit of about
S4OO that occurred in the gate receipts,
as compared with the 1913 showing, will
leave the loss at between S7OO and SBOO.
The officers of the New England poultry
association, which holds his annual show
in Greenfield, have completed their plans
for the show, which will be held in Wash
ington hall on the Bth. 9th and 10th.
From the indications this year they will
probably display nearly 1000 birds, and
exhibits have been promised by some very
prominent raisers.
The officers of the Greenfield mothers’
club have started an active campaign to
provide for a municipal Christmas tree
In Greenfield.
SOUTH DEERFIELD.
Charles B. Patch, for 28 year* the sta
tion master at the Boston and Maine rail
road station nt South Deerfield, is
to be transferred to a similar posi
tion for the Boston and Maine railroad
in Winchester, N. H. Mr Patch was bom
in Northampton and is the son of the late
John R. Patch and of Mrs Patch of
Springfield. Almost all of his early life
was spent in Springfield, with the excep
tion of a short time in California. When
a young man he worked in the Springfield
office of the Boston and Maine station
and went to South Deerfield in 1886. en
tering upon his duties as station master
on December 6. During the intervening
years the business done at the South Deer
field station has kept increasing until now
it is considered one of the busiest sta
tions on the Passumpsic division, and it
is for this reason Mr Patch has felt
obliged on account of his health to seek
an easier field of labor. The sta
tion has been transferred to John
Manix, who has ably filled the office
several times during Mr Patch's ab
sence on a vacation or short leave of ab
sence. Mr Manix is the son of Mrs El
len Manix of South Deerfield, and has
been recently station master at the Deer
field station.
ORANGE.
Bnrt W. Cooley who was arrested Sat
urday morning after he had entered a
house on North Main street and driven
Town Clerk T. W. Bridge out at the
point of a revolver, was before the district
court Monday morpin;:. He was hold
upon two charges, one for disturbing the
peace armed with a revolver, and for as
sault on Maxwell E. Cooke, with intent
to murder. He pleaded not guilty to both
charges. The only witnesses were Mr
Cooke and Officer D. G. Horton, who made
the arrest In their testimony they stated
that Cooley fired at Cooke when he was
within three or four feet of him, but that
his aim was poor. On the first charge
Judge E. S. Hall found the defendant
guilty and sentenced him to a year in the
reformatory, and on the second, probable
cause and bound him over to the grand
jury. Cooley appealed both sentences and
was placed under bonds of SISOO, which
were furnished by' his mother, Mrs Luella
E. Smith of West River street.
NEW SALEM.
The house owned and occupied by Mr
nnd Mrs E. G. R. Lloyd in New Salem
was totally destroyed by fire Wednesday
last week. The smoke was discovered by
Mr Lloyd and some men who were work
ing in the woods not far away, but by
the time they reached the house the roof
was blazing. Help was summoned from
New Salem Center, about a mile away,
but only the furniture on the first floor
could be saved. Nothing was saved from
the second floor or from the cellar, which
eqntained about 75 barrels of apples and
7a bushels of potatoes. The barn was
not burned. The cause of the fire was
unknown. ■
WARWICK.
A bequest in a will made over 30 years
ago has made SSOOO to buy books availa
ble for the Warwick library and the ques
tion has arisen as to whether this money
cannot be diverted from this purpose to
that of providing a library- building. The
library has over 6300 volumes nt present,
but the quarters in the town hall where
they are placed are inadequate for this
number of books. It is understood that
courts have in some cases ordered a be
quest of this kind used for other than the
purpose specified in the will and some War
wick people feel that it would he of great
help to the town if the bequest could be
legally used for a building fund.
TURNERS FALLS.
The marriage took place at Turners
Falls Saturday noon of Miss Alice Clapp
Abercrombie, only daughter of Mr and
Mrs Daniel Putnam Abercrombie of High
street, and Louis Thayer Merriam, son
of Mr and Mi's John P. Merriam of Cor
nish. N. H.. formerly of Greenfield. The
house was tastefully decorated with palms
and cut flowers. Only immediate relatives
witnessed the ceremony, which was per
formed by Rev Alfred Free of Winchen
don. formerly pastor of the Unitarian
church in Turners Falls.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
PITTSFIELD.
Miss Corrinc B. Weston, daughter of
Mr and Mrs Franklin Weston of 135 East
Housatonic street. Pittsfield, made her
debut, in society Saturday afternoon,
when a reception, followed by a tea dan
sant, was given at the Weston home from
4 until 7 o’clock. The affair was the first
debutante’s party of the season in Pitts
field and there were about 350 guests, in
cluding all of the important and prominent
people of Pittsfield, Dalton and Hinsdale.
Miss Weston was assisted in receiving by
Miss Marjorie Robbins of Springfield, Miss
Elizabeth Beach of Hartford, Ct., and
Miss Emmalena Siver of New York.
NORTH ADAMS.
A quiet wedding took place at the Uni
versalist church at North Adams Tuesday,
when Miss Mildred C. Grant, daughter of
Willis F. Grant of Boston, and Dr Rob
ert John Carpenter of Church street, son
of Mrs F. F. Carpenter of Winchester,
were united in marriage by Rev G. M.
Gerrish, pastor of the church. The cou
ple were unattended. The bride was
charmingly gowned in a suit of tete-de
negre. Following a reception held at the
home of Mr and Mrs Ezra Whitaker of
Quincy street Dr and Mrs Carpenter left
on a short wedding trip. Upon their re
turn they will make their home in North
Adams, where he is practicing medicine.
Dr William J. Lally of Pittsfield was se
verely injured when Ids automobile was
run into by a Berkshire street railway
'trolly car on Ashland street, North Adams,
Sunday. Dr Lally was alone in the auto
mobile and was on his way from Pitts
field to his former home in North Adams
when the accident occurred. When he
reached the Ashland-street overpass, for
some reason or other his runabout swerved
directly in front of the trolly car, which
was going in the same direction. Dr Lally
was thrown several feet by the collision
and was picked up unconscious. His au
tomobile was completely wrecked.
WORCESTER COUNTY.
The foot and mouth disease has at last
appeared in Warren and Tuesday there
were tour eases diagnosed on the farm of
Horace B. Parker in South Warren. The
premises were inspected by Dr Pierce of
Springfield in behalf of the bureau of ani
mal industry. He found one cow. two
heifers and a calf all suffering from the
disease in some form or other. Mr Par
ker has purchased no cattle since last
February, when this cow was bought from
H. F. Freeman, his nearest neighbor.
There seems to be no way the disease
could have been communicated except by
the possibility of meal bags.
Philip Le Valley. 18, son of Mrs Albert
Secord of East Brookfield, was arrested
Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Warren E.
Tarbell and locked in the detention room
at the engine-house, charged with break
ing and entering the home of Harry
Lucius Chase on Howe avenue. Podunk
district, on Thanksgiving afternoon and the
larceny of over SSO worth of goods. The
Chase home has been closed since Sep
tember 15, at which time Mr and Mrs
Chase left East Brookfield to spend the
winter in Honolulu, Hawaiian islands.
A dispatch from Paris says: “Grand Duke
Michael of Russia has presented to the
French army 1,000,000 pairs of shoes which
had been ordered from 'Webster (Mass.)
factories at an average price of $3 per pair.
Some enormous orders for shoes for the
Russian army also have been placed in
America."
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
The recent tentative appointment by
Mayor Curley of Mrs Anna T. Steinauer
as the city’s first policewoman was in
valid, according to a ruling of Corpora
tion Counsel John A. Sullivan, submitted
Saturday at Boston. After the mayor had
named Mrs Steinauer, he delaved sending
,„u«^° mina n- on to the Civil-service com
m>ssion pending an opinion from the cor
toM Sullivan yesterday
that r the ^*8 is lature intended
? Police officers should be np
pointed only in those cities where the
mayor was responsible for the conduct of
intend to that it did not
ton si f 'ide the jurisdiction in Bos
ton as between the mayor and the police
eommmsioner appointed by the governor
leimnssion to attend the chapel services
at the state prison, after 20 years ab
™^'i raay be wanted to the life pris
ton! Pomp roy. But he must be at
worahip by “ SPWIaI gU “ rd while at divine
CONNECTICUT.
the Shakers feel inclined
to spendtheir remaimngdays in the vieinitv
of their old settlement, and the new own
ers have set apart a small section of land
th^r cemetery where the bodies of
Im old companions are buried, and suit
th?h^ 1 a ,nSS ol 11 he huilt for «ae by
the half-dozen Shakers who are averse
to going .away from the place. The sale
marks the passing of one of Enfield’s most
remarkable institutions. For more than
a century it has been an object of inter
est to all people traveling in the vicinity,
^no^ an A. la oa ? een the Parties that have
gone to the Shakers for the enjovment of
Pfrc^dod dinner, which
fee D„Hn~ to 11 tlmeS for a n °miaal
cx'i During the long residence of the
Shakers in Enfield they were never
known to mingle with the people in anv
“ a ? Der -, e J en in. Public affairs, as they
preferred to remain strictly by themselves
in the enjoyment of their simple life Dur
ing the past few years the Shakers have
disposed of hundreds of acres of their
splendid land, some of which has alwavs
been kept in a high state of cultivation,
although the great bulk of the property
sold has been the kind known as wood
land. .Some of our new foreign residents
have succeeded in buying up parts of the
tillable land, and by their own energy
have developed splendid little farms va
rying from a few acres to 100 or more.
The new owners take over all of the build
ings, and 1600 acres of land, and needless
to say, when they become firmix’ estab
lished on the extensive tract, renewed en
ergy will be awakened, and there will be
more life and activity in the northeast
section of the town.
Mrs Katherine Blake was granted a
divorce at Winsted. Friday from Dr
Joseph A. Blakp. a prominent physician of
New York and Litchfield, by Judge Mar
cus H. Holcomb in the superior court for
Litchfield county. The decree, which was
given for desertion, was granted on rev
ommendation of John Addis, judge of pro
bate at New Milford, who was appointed
by Judge Holcomb as a committee to
take testimony in the case when the suit
was brought at Litchfield several weeks
ago. The report of Mr Addis was filed
with the judge Friday. Nothing was
said as to alimony or the custody of the
Blake children.
The Rockville woolen mills have not
secured much benefit from the European
war, as yet in the way of orders, with
the exception of the Rock manufacturing
company which is running full capacity
and working over time on a big war
order. The order is for cloth for the
armies of the allies, and will probably
keep the mills busy until about January 1.
Mrs Sumner Root. 98, the oldest resident
in Somers, celebrated Thanksgiving day
with a turkey dinner, at which all her chil
dren were present. J. G. Cornier. Mr and
Mrs Henry A. Root, Mr and Mrs Alonzo
B. Root and Mrs Laura Root Pease. She
is very bright and enjoyed the day with
her children immensely.
The Somersville manufacturing eompanv
has received an order for 500,000 yards of
cloth to be delivered before Christmas to
the allied nations. The mill is running
both day and night, but finds that they wifi
be unable to fill the order alone so it has
requested the Rockville and Broad Brook
mills to assist it.
VERMONT.
Shipment of 1,000,000 Christmas trees
from Vermont to city markets in other
parts of the country has begun. Within
the past two or three days several ear
loads of evergreens have been started on
their way- to points west of Chicago, and
during the next two weeks the cutting
and packing of the trees will keep many
men busy. The farmer has received
six or seven cents a tree from the ship
pers this year. In the retail markets
the trees may bring 50 cents and up
ward. New York. Philadelphia and
Baltimore are the chief cities to which
trees are shipped from Vermont.
About 10<t Brattleboro voters turned our.
Saturday to attend the special meeting of
the incorporated ’ school district called to
act upon the question of buying the Hines
property on Green street for a site for
a future school house. The meeting was
called to order by Moderator A. F.
Schwenk and the warrant read by Clerk
Will B. Smith. The need of another
school house site was explained by Rev
E. Q. S. Osgood, chairman of the pru
dential committee, and it was voted to
buy the property for $25,000. It includes
four houses and a large amount of land.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Forty-five years ■ after his death, the
memory of Franklin Pierce, the only New
Hampshire man ever elected president of
the United States, was honored last week
by the dedication of a memorial statue
in the state-house park at Concord, N.
H Opposition on the part of many citi
zens who believed that President Pierce
showed too active sympathy with the
South in the days immediately preceding
the civil war frustrated several previous
attempts to provide such a memorial. Last
year the Legislature appropriated $15,0(10
for the purpose.
MAINE.
What may be Maine’s last open season
on moose for a number of years ended at
midnight Monday. A total of 54 moose
have been received at Bangor. Me., since
the season opened a month ago. compared
with 49 for the corresponding period
last year and 60 in 1912. The fish and
game commission has recommended to the
Legislature that moose be protected for
several years.
TROLLY HEARINGS ENDED.
Western Massachusetts Transport*-
■ tlon Board Busy Preparing Report.
The research work of the Western Mat
sachusetts transportation commission is
nearly at an end and the members are
getting ready to turn their attention to the
preparing for their report. There remain*
only a conference with the governor, and
private conferences with a few railroad
officials before the report can be pre
pared. The commission expects to have
its report in the hands of the Legisla
ture before January 15. 1915. the time
appointed for the completion of this work,
and the clerk of the commission is al
ready preparing data for the members.
MOTORING ON LINCOLN HIGHWAY.
New 3400-Mile Coast-to-Coast Road
Now Open.
Telegrams were received at the Lincoln
highway association headquarters in
Detroit. Mich., Saturday stating that
every foot of the new 3400-mile transcon
tinental read was covered by automobiles
Friday between 6 o’clock in the morning
and G in the evening. The Lincoln high
way consul at each important point, drove
to the next point west and return. The
record-breaking run was promoted by Lin
coln highway officials to verify the an
nouncement that the const-to-coast road
is now ready for automobile traffic.