Franklin Sentinel newspaper, 1900, Part 252

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Uncle Silas tells of a good ride the other morning. The car had started from Unionville for Franklin, when there was a pop and something was gone. The car returned to Unionville for a new car, and then, said he, we lined it for the centre without a break, except at Beaver

Labor Day is fast approaching, and something should be done in the way of street, faster than I ever took the trip getting pleasure, profit or fun out of the with the old mare. day. Who will make a suggestion?

Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Haslam and J. D. Sanborn spent the Sabbath at East Blackstone, where they were the guests of Rev. Frank Byron Adams, the Meth- odist pastor in that place. It is not im- possible that the reverend gentleman may be heard here later, and he has # number of interesting lectures which he may deliver here.

The M., A. & W. street railway has forfeited its franchise in Milford, sccord- ing to Solicitor Taft's opinion, since he claims that the company did not begin. the construction of its railway prior to and he recovered. The funeral of tbe lad

July 1, as required by the selectmen, al- though rails, etc., were strung along the

highways. It is not impossible that the

company will refuse to accept the de- cision aud appeal to the courts, although already they have asked for a new frau- chise.

Rev. J. P. Chadbourne will leave Med-

Fathers of this town with lodges of

other towns was held at Lake Pearl last Saturday, all enjoying a good time. Grand lodge officers were present.

in several states, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut being among the number. He reports a most pleasant trip.

Capt. A. F. Pendleton has taken the ] bis oldtime strength and energy.

Brown, Esq., of New York, the hoys will

enjoy a three days' trip this week, in- cluding Mt. Washington. Many courte- Bies have also been shown the camp by John G. Nicolay, ]Esq., former secretary

to President Lincoln; Admiral Bunce. U. S. N , stationed at Brooklyn, N. Y., and Miss Anna Longfellow, niece of the poet,

the non-arrival of girders ordered by the all being cottage owners in this God- New York, New Haven and Hartford given paradise.

railroad folks is the cause for the delay. The rails of the street railway have all been laid, wires strung and all necessary

details complied with for the opening of the road.

A Franklin business man who saw Mark Hanna at the Touraine in Boston last week reports him as being a vastly different man from what the caricaturista have pictured him, but is a clean, bright, thoroughly equipped man of affairs, looking not unlike a prosperous hanker. He has a keen eye, which gives one the impression that he has no time for non- sense, hut it is said he can taks and give a joke with the best of them. His trip to

cated only a few feet north of the rail- The Franklin grange accepted au invi- tation from N. B. Stone, superintendent road. Crossing over to return on the east of the Medway town farm, to spend the afternoon and evening of Thursday at bis place. About thirty went over, some hy way of the electrics and some driving. The guests were taken over the new almshouse, and all thought it very pleas. ant. The house is finished in uatural wood throughont. All the arrangements are modern, thus making the work as easy as possible. One side of the bouse is devoted to tbe meu, the other side to the women, and the centre is reserved to the superintendent and family. There are abont forty-two rooms in the house and sixteen inmates. The party then went

side of the street, the only two buildings near the railroad are the passenger and freight depots. At that time all trains stopped there, and it was called Nason's station. As we proceed north the first right. building we encounter ls a dry goods and grocery store owned and operated by C. W. Stewart, who was for many years and is atill the treasures of the Benjamin Franklin savings bank. Mr. Lyman Cheney, who is now iu town, was clerk in Mr. Stewart's store for several years between 1800 and 1860. Mr. Stewart's house comes next aud is in close proxiin- ity to bis store. We are now at Thayer's corner, where stands the "old boarding house," which some twenty years ago was remodeled and has since been desig- nated as a hotel and named tbe Franklin house. Previous to 1850 and up to about 1878 the front part on Union street was

Work was resumed at the Colonial rubber works yesterday after a shut down of a few weeks.

Miss Mary Fiorania of Cottage street has returned after a mouth's visit with relatives in Milford.

Miss Delia Morrissey of Emmons street

Dr. M. E. Pond started on his annual vacation Monday. His office will be closed during his ahsenes.

l'rof. O. C. Skeele officiated as basso in the Congregational choir last Sabbath in the absence of Dr. E C. Abbott.

W. C. Sherman returned from his west. ern trip on Sunday. He reports ex tremely hot weather in Chicago.

A number of the old Carter players, Supple and Dinvinger, have heen secured fur the strong Wounsocket Gym team.

Tickets good from August 27 to SI are tral street. A fellow hoarder naured now on sale at the station here for the Antonio Simonelli aud a companlou are Flowers for the Alden club mission races at Narragansett park, the price for

may be left. with Mrs E. K. Hay in Unionville and with Mrs. James F. Ray | grand stand helug but $1.45. The tickets

their arrest. Simonelli was found at the here.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A Geh, William B. trip, good from August 21 to 27, $1.55.

Milliken and Miss M S Field are spend ing a week at Bales' grove, Webster Inke.

Chester Corbin and Miss Jessie Corbin

week's vacation with relatives in Hyde Park.

at the opening of regular meetings next;

mantlı

Rev. Aquilla Webb occupied the Con-

An unapocessful attempt was made to rob the grocery store af MeCabe & Cody on Union street late Saturday night or

Kev. Ixuinh W. Sneath, D. D , is enjoy- ing the Northfield meetings tlus week, and will he joined by others from here gingational pulpit last Sabbath in the early Sunday morning. The would-be absence of Rev. Dr. Sheath and preached | intruders removed a window in the cellar

with the intention of gaining an eutrance to the store above by the cellar stairs, holding the closest attention of his audi. but their way was blocked by empty tors to the end. Rev. N. T. Dyer of Aab burnbam will preach next. Sabbath.

barrels and hoxes which are stored in the basement. They were thus obliged

carries him back to those . good "old attention to the window in the rear of times" It seems but as yesterday, and the store, which they reached by piling boxes underneath. They did not succeed in getting the window open, however, and evidently retired in disgust. This store was burglarized about a mouth ago, when several dollars in cash and a quantity of tobacco and cigars were carried off.

A number of national banks through out the country are furnishing their pa. trons with personal receipts, by whilch the depositor is enabled to withdraw his money upon the receipt in the same man- ber as with a check, without being obliged to put on the revenue stamp. This is ouly permitted where the receipt is made out in the drawer's name and the money taken from the bank by him. This has been decided to be a perfectly legal procedure, and is generally taken advantage of in places where the custom bas become kuown. 'The government insists that checks shall be stamped, but makes no provision for ordinary receipts, upon the snpposition that the passage of money between parties, not in payment of debts, were not subject to revenue, a simple receipt heing all that is necessary. as between private parties.

An extremely sad case is that of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Palmer, who lost their young sun Walter, aged seven, by spinal meningitis yesterday. With other lads he had been exercising vigorously on Sat- urday forenoon at hall, and in the after- woon went in bathing, remaining in much too long. A quantity of nuripe apples also aggravated the case, and he was taken quite sick that night, A doctor was called on yesterday morning, but it wns too late, as' that dread disease had secured too firm a hold to be shaken off and medical skill could not save him. A lad who bad heen with him during Sat-

will be held from the house tomorrow at 2 o'clock. The blow is a severe one to bis parents and young mates. He will be hnried in Sheldonville.

At the annual water sports given Aug. 9 on Asquam lake, N. H., by members of Camp Algonquin the first junior prize for swimming, a silver-mounted fishing rod and reel, was secured by Master Rol- ert Thayer, who also scored a high per

block. Leaving Mr. Adams' house, the next is the "old Pratt place," 80 called. Then we arrive at the house and "hlock shop" of the late Lowell B. Cleaveland, where for nearly twenty years he made The poor man's carriage offers many obances "for recreation trips at small ex. centage in fancy diving and 'canoeing. all the plaster bonnet blocks used by the | pense, and the limit can be according to The shores were crowded with spectators | six straw shops then in operation. Next from the hotels and cottages that abound in that region. A subscription party

way in a few days for Concord, N. H., where it is his purpose to remain until January 1 and then to go west. He has accepted a desirable position with the G. 1. l'artridge returned on Saturday Scribner publishing country and will in- from a two weeks' visit with relatives troduce one of its uew works among the clergymen in that section and at the

same time try to regain his health. Mr. Chadbourne's friends here aud elsewhere unite in wishing him an early return of

contract to transport children from the Northwest district to the town schools railway liue from Bellingham Four Cor. ners to Milford is hecause of the bofin-

for the ensuing-year, and has fitted him- self up with the necessary horses and barges to do the work.

A number from here are looking for-

ward to the celebration of the que hun- dred and fiftieth anniversary of the Con- gregational church in West Medway ou Wednesday, October 3, as it can hardly fail to he a notable affair.

C. F. Nye was the first golf player in the Franklin club to beat Col. Bogey, that famous gentlemen's best record be- ing 42, while Mr. Nye covered the course

is spending a vacation with friends at here Friday evening in a brilliantly illu- publicans of Massachusetts and make Revere beach, Boston, arrangements for securing funds for the minated open vestibuled car over the Medfield aud Medway electric line. 'Tbere campaign. He says the funds will be

were thirty-five ladies and gentlemen in needed this year, aud there is little doubt hut that Mark knows how to get them.

the party and they spent half an hour here viewing the town.

'The Bassett Bros.' straw goods factory Louis Malatesta, who keeps a fruit party to the village to take the 9.40 car [residence is that of Eli M. Richardson,

stand at Fisher's confectionery store in

is busy ou felts and a good fall season is Metcalf hlock, and who sells fruit on the expected, except such depression as is road, was robbed of $230 in cash and a more or less evident in a presidential year. Other factories engaged in the gold watch valued at $43 on Saturday night, the money and timepiece being taken from his clothes in the room where he boards in the Whiting honxe on Cen-

same line of business are reported having a goud demand for goods. .

for Readville are also for sale; round

boarding house yesterday morning by Special Officer Connor and locked up to

Workmou are engaged in renovating awalt a hearing today, when he was dis- 'sigus well made up at Slade's gi. n- Roses iu small or large quan- tities. and redecorating Masonic hall. Electric lights may be put in in place of gas, and

charged hy Judge Doo iu the district court, there being insufficient evideuce with the new carpet to be put down the to warrant his being beld. The other man

have returned home after spending a | Masonic bodies expect to have a beauti-

wanted has disappeared and the police Inl as well as comfortable headquarters ! are searching for him.

Fresh cut flowers at Slade's green- bouso.

1850-Franklin-1900.

The writer, at present feeling in a sort of reminiscent mood, looking backward

The students who have heen attending the summer school at Hyannis returned last week and report a most profitable session.

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Perry and two children of Waukegan, Ill., have been guests of her sister, Mrs. C. B. Juhuson.

The Hung club held a clambake at Hoag lake last Sunday, the menu attract- ing quite n goodly number of lovers of the bivalve.

Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Fisher left this morning for an outing. Mrs. Fisher will accompany Mr. F. ou one of bis business trips from town.

Manager Enegren has secured the Americau band orchestra for dancing at Lake Pearl this evening, Thursday and Saturday evenings.

Word bas been received from Rev. S. A. Cook and Charles H. Prince, who are doing the Paris exposition, that they will 23-Arlington street, near corner Wachn- sail for home August 21. Bett street,

The Epworth league of the M. E church will hold a basket picnic at Lake Pearl Wednesday evening, August 15, if pleas- ant. Lunch served at 7 30.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Searle of New London, Conn., have returned home after spending the past few weeks with Mrs. Charles Corhin of Central street.

The motormen and conductors of the M., A. & W. street railway company are planning a clambake in connection with the Woonsocket men in the near future.

Frank Wells has been confined to his home on Central street with throat trouble, having recently had an opera- tion performed, which relieved the diffi- cilty.

Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lesure, Mrs. K. R. Jewett and two children, Miss Emma Clegg and Mr. and Mrs. Difl of Boston left yesterday for a two weeks' outing at Squam Creek, Me.

Miss Annie Irene Croston of Auburn, Me., who has heen a guest of the Misses Lizzie and Nellie Croston of Chestnut street during the past two weeks, re- turned home Friday.

The union picnic of the Pilgrim

The delay ju opeuing the direct street

ished state of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad bridge at Belling-

ham. The bridge has been In an unfin- ished condition for over two weeks, and

given in the evening at the boys' club- house proved a fitting close to the most successful field day the camp has ever held. Through the generosity of R. G.

in order is the Col. Cleaveland "old place," purchased about that time or a little later by the late Caleb T. Nye and occupied by him and his family up to the time of his death, some eight years ago. Next is the cottage bullt about 1830 by Nathaniel 'Tbayer, one of the oldtimers. The cottage is now owned and occupied hy Mr. Fitzgerald. Next in order is tbe cottage now owned by Mr. Thomas B. Allen, but huilt previous to 1850 by Mr. Luther Dean, who for several years prac- ticed the custom tailoring business. Leaving his place we eee no other house on that side of the street uutil we arrive at the George W. Nason homestead, lo-

14 Mileage hooks to let on Bostou and. Maine aud N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., trip tickets to Boston, Milford and Provi. dence, all at a saving from regular fare. At Calkın's Studio, over SENTINEL office, I shall be pleased to greet all old occupied by the late C. T. Nye, who kept | friends of the hotel and many new oues, a general store of dry goods, groceries, and will treat them right. Table first. ~ hooks and eyes, etc., for more than thirty years. As we proceed north the next huilt about 1850. Then comes the estate of Miss Emily Pond, a malden lady of mature years, that being the last on the class "All the comforts of home," at Hotel Windsor. J. B. MCKINNON, Agent. east side of Union street, and making in all sixteen buildings on l'olon street be- tween Beaver street and the railroad crossing, while now there are torty-four buildings.

Mr. Thayer's new straw factory, an it. was theu called, was erected in the sun- mer and autuinn of 1864, holng opened for business in January, 1865.

Starting ou Main street at the H. C. Fiaber old place and taking in all the buildings on both sides of the street he- tween there and the railroad bridge, we find, including dwellings, stores, etc., there were twenty-one in all. Now there are fifty and upwards. We have neither time nor space to refer to each one sepa. rately. At that time (1850) there was one chureb in town, Congregation 4, while now there are five, uamely, Congrega tional, Universalist, Baptist, Catholic Episcopalians

Crossing the railroad bridge and going

Sweet peas at Slade's greenhouse.

suspected of having committed the theft | the round trip and admission into the and Malatesta awore out warrants for my dental office will be closed until fur- My patrons are requested to uote that

urday was also taken ill during that night, but timely remedies were applied

In 1850 the town contained ahont 1,800 people. Now (after a portion of the town

The Country Club Entertains.

THE SENTINEL, TUESDAY EVENING, AUG. 14, 1900.

Che . Franklin . Sentinel.

Poblished Tuesdays aod Fridays.

CARL B. JOHNSON, Editor and Proprietor, MRS. C.B. JOHNSON Associate Editor.

Subscription Price $2 a Year lo Advance.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1900.

1850-Fraoklin-1900. Continued from Just Pane.

nf business, there are forty-seven to fifty. Just east of the bridge on the north side nf Central street in INm was erected what was then considered a large straw goods factory, which was owned by the late Mr. Elisha Foster, and occupied sud operated in 1807 and part of the spring Reasonof''s by the firm of Foster, Day & Pratt. They did a very successful husi- ness in 1867, but in 'os met with severe losses and reverses, their factory being burned to the ground in April and caus- ing their failure. The factory was never rebuilt. Both Mr. Foster and Mr. Day long since passed over to the "great ma- jority," while Mr. I'ratt, the last the writer heard of him, was a resident of a western state.

Cottage, East and West streets have all been opened to the public since 1260, and nearly every lot on each street has a building upon it. Several other streets have since been opened and are nearly covered with bulleings their entire length, namely, Alpine, Crescent, Gar- field, Queen, Fales, and School and Em. mous streets extensions, l'eck, Wachit- setts, Dale, Winter. Mel'arthy, Thayer, Fisher and many other streets not men. tioned. Several of the old streets not yet mentioned, namely, Summer, Cross, Pleasant and Beaver. with others, have all, more or less, comparatively new buildings ou them.

One of the oldest landmarks of the town and still in evidence, and which ix an ornament to the town and a standing monument to the truly progressive treas of the voting population, is the old town hal. Strangers in the town, when pass- ing it, stop and view it with curiosity. and upou learuing that it is the only town hall are struck dumb with amaze- ment and truly remark that it is really a curiosity to see a town hall like that standing directly opposite a ¿35,000 high school building.

The greatest aud principal growth of the *own occurred between 1-72 and 1>>7, in a space of fifteen years. In 1:50 there were no m'as In operation in the centre of the town. During the past twenty years and at the present time there are six init's in operation, employ ing about 1,000 hands, possibly more. There are slao two straw goods factories, employing. when m full operation, about 500 people. In 1850 there were in stores and local business of all kinds eight or ten. Now there are betweeu forty five and fifty.

The writer of this sketch. in the autumn of 1551, theu a callow youth puder 16. left this town and was absent six years, except during the summer months, when beretnined to renew his acquaintance with the few boys and girls-now, 1 sup- pose, would be called young ladies and young gentlemen. But things have changed "since Hannab died," and times now are not as they were then, when we used to have more real enjoyment and pure, unadulterated fuu to the square inch than can now be obtained to the square acre. There were in the village proper then only about a dozen nr fifteen of both sexes between 16 and 20 years of age. But didn't we at times "make Rome bowl" Think of the old time berry rides, so called, wben G. W. Nason would bitch up his four borse express wagon, take aboard about twenty people, with plenty of milk, bread, etc., and about thirty to fifty people more would follow in single teams, proceeding to the farm of Cyrns Allen (now occupied by his son, C. Milton Allen), pick several quarts of berries, then camp upon the groncd. take our fill of berries, bread and milk. After a social bonr or more ramping and a good time generally, # majority of those with private teams aud their very best A 1 girl proceed to Wren tham, the nearest way home, there tu visit Uncle Jerry Cobb, as be wax called hy everybody, and partake of about four glasses (to each person) of his ice cream. It was generally very good, but as he was a great sanff taker we would occasionally find w speck of yellow snuff in our cream. However, that only served to make the jokes and fun still more bilarioux thau usual. Leaving there about duxk w+ would extend our drive some six miles or more extra, arriving home in the "wee sma' bnuts" of the morning, with nei- ther of us as tired as the poor horse, which had "toted ' us from 15 to 20 miles since 2 p. m.

Ah, as the writer's memory reverts In those good old days, he almost wishes

After the execu' on of Charles I. and that he could agalu enjoy a repetition . f | the restoration r the stuarts to royal those delightful hours. But alas! auch power Edward Whalley and William Goffe. tw of the judges thal con- demned the unhappy monarch to the scaffold, were compe led to fler from Enpland. They came to America, aad for a time they hid in a rock envern near New Haven. ( onn. This hiding place has since been known as the "regi- cides' cave." and is on . of the interest Ing spots in that locality - Detrolt Free Press. happiness cau never again be realized in this mundane sphere, as we are all each day drawing nearer the end of om earth- ly pilgrimage. Let ux hope that in oor expectations of future enjoyment we may not be disappointed. Possibly there may still be living three or funr of my former intimates, whom, if they chance to peruse this sketch, wil readily recog nize the author and remember, as he does | w th pleasure, those happy days of long ago.

Fearing I have already wesried those who have attempted to digest this »keteb. I will close it without further comment. AN OLD TIMER.

Franklin, August 6, 1 MM).

A LASTING EFFECT.

This Evidence Should Prove Every Clalm.

Relief from the pains and aches of a bad back is always welcome to every hackache sufferer, but to cure a lame, weak or aching back is what's wanted. Cure it so it will stay cured. It can be done. IIere's the strongest evidence to prove it.

Mr. H. P. Smith, blacksmith, nf Elm street, Amesbury, Mass., says: ""Mrs. Smith, from a cold wbich settled in her Inins, suffered so severely fram backache that she was unable to attend to the nr- dinary household duties, often finding it Impossible to even make a bed for three months. I had read a great many stste- ments of residents of Amesbury who pos- itively declared that Doan's Kidney Pills had cured them of backsche and nther symptoms of kidney complaint. This led me to make some inquiries, and as a re- snit Mrs. Smith took a thorough course of the treatment. It cured her. It is so

Avarice starves its possessor to fat- long ago that I am confident the results | ten those who come after, and who are permanent. We never lose an nppor- are eagerly awniting the demise of the accumulator .- Greville. tunity of advistag others who suffer from either weakened or over-excited kidneys to procure Doan's Kidney Pills, and we know of scores in and around Amesbury who have taken our advice and were not Ambition has one reward for all- a little power, n little trunsien> fame, a grave to rest in, and a fading name. -William Winter only surprised bnt gratified at the bene- fits received. "

Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers; price 50 cents a box, Mailed nn receipt of price hy Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the U. S. Remember the name, Dean's, and take nn substitute.

Empresses In Contrast.

The present czarina of Russia goes to extremes in the simplicity of her court apparel. and in this respect forms a great contrast to the famous Eliza- beth Petrowna, daughter of Peter the Great. The latter while empress, says the New York Ilerald, had earned the title of "Elizabeth the Good," because she never approved of any executions In her empire. On the other hand, she w .- much criticised for her extrava- gance and eccentricity in dress. After her death the fact became known that she h.ul 13, VA costly gowas in her wardrobe. none of which had ever adorned her royal person. Now, when the dress of court is a more serious matter with the royal and noble wom- eu, Russia has a czarina who observes the strictest simplicity in her gowns, and requires the same from her guests and attendants. This has caused end- less dissatisfaction. The ultra fashion- able lady must bear the chagrin of ap- pearing at court functions in a very plain toilet, for'otherwise the seruti- nizing eyes would piek her out as a mark for disapproval. This extraor- dinary plainness baffles her admirers all the more, because it is a well-known fact that the czar is extremely fond of chic and has often expressedl bis ad- miration for elaborate, costly ladies* toilets,

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Franklin Sentinel newspaper, 1900, Part 252

Author: Publication date: 1900 Publisher: Number of Pages: 436

Author:
Publication date: 1900
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 436