F74 .S63 S64 ,- New England ! Worcester is beginning to overflow, although it has thirty-six square miles of territory, and some of the finest farms to be found anywhere. Its suburban towns are assuming impor- tance, and no one of them better deserves attention than Shrews- bury, which lies directly east, and is a beautiful farming town as well as an important suburb of a great and growing city. To Shrewsbury, then, we will go, but at the outset we are met by the stubborn, practical fact that as yet the town, although adjoining Worcester, has not within its borders a single mile of railroad ! Let us build an electric railroad, and show the world that Shrews- bury is abreast with the times ! 29 BRRNHRD, SUMNER & CO, The past two years have awakened us to the fact that Worcester was growing with great rapidity and that we were called upon to provide greater facilities. This has now been accomplished after six months of continued and tireless efforts and we have to-day a magnificent establishment five stories high, 165 feet deep, 75 feet wide, with every foot of space occupied by goods belonging to the realm of LEGITIMATE DRY GOODS. The first floor presents a beautiful and animated scene on any fair day when the life ot Worcester passes over its surface, stopping at each department to taste the delights ot lovely articles brought here for them from all the markets of the world. The Lace Department with double its former space has fitting accommodations tor the precious results of patient skill, and exhibits them to you under the very pleasantest con- The Woolen Underwear and Hosiery Deparment is simply superb in its accumulations of every good, every useful and every beautiful product that is fashioned for you. The DRESS GOODS Departments are as near perfect as long experience, earnest pur- pose and money can make them. •._„*„ In Silks no house pretends to excel our offerings. Our trade demands and our taste leads us to all that is best and most desirable, and with all this our relations with manufact- urers are such that we command the richest stocks at fairest price all the year round. On the third and fourth floors you will see one great maze of Carpets, culled irom the best and only the best made. , . ., .. . „ The ladies from out of town are cordially invited to visit us and inspect for themselves what we desire should be their shopping home. Ladies' rooms-facilities for caring for your packages-and all the comforts possible, we provide for you and to all which you are most welcome. -,.„,„, Write us for samples, or any information you may desire. Your letters will have our Pr We P have n a 1 department thoroughly organized to attend to all letters of inquiry, or for samples, or for the filling ot orders. We guarantee to please you. BARNARD, SUMNER & CO. ■WCXROESI-'EIEt, m MLAJ&&- H. A. MAYNARD, Centre Store and Post Office, SHREWSBURY, MASS. Dealer in DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, Crockery, Medicines, RUBBER GOODS, TOYS, STATIONERY, FLOUR, GRAIN, Hard'ware, AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Agent for the Celebrated Cumberland Superphosphate. 3Q S. B. BOUTELLE & SON, SHREWSBURY, MASS. Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots, Shoes, CROCKERY, PAINTS, OILS, PAPER HANGINGS, HARDWARE, FLOUR, GRAIN, FERTILIZERS. Usual Variety kept in a General Store. Tlie *** Old *** 3rL©lieLfc>:L©. T77"-<^.rjTE]X^ O. T7s7".A.^^:E]£T, Proprietor. Stage Leaves Shrewsbury for Worcester, 8.30 A. M., 1.30 P. M. Leaves Worcester, 24 Front Street, 10.30 A. M., 5.00 P. M. Commencing June 1st three additional trips will be made each way to the Worcester and Shrewsbury ft. R., narrow gauge, terminus at Lake Quinsigamond. TTTTT T1 T^T* "^"OXJ" buy goods that you see advertised in this pamphlet, please mention us. In advertising Shrewsbury it is important that our publication be known as a GOOD ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 3i REAL ESTATE. Wherever we go, a few miles from prosperous business centres, we find many who "want to sell." Within our manufacturing tOMms are many who would be much better off if they could be placed on the farms which the owners are anxious to leave. It is found easier to sell a run-out farm at alow price than to sell a good farm at a proportionately lower price. The maxim that ' ' the best is the cheapest" seems to be disregarded alike in purchasing real estate in the country, and the nursery stock which should be placed on the real estate now running to waste. These points need careful consideration, and the cardinal principal for all plans for occupying farms now for sale is that every choice spot should be improved for fruit till central Massachusetts is known far more than at present as a fruit-producing region. The fruit business and the real estate business, so far as the sale of farms is concerned, have many parts in common, and the dwellers in our populous towns may gain many useful hints by consulting the space we have devoted to a description of farms for sale. We are always ready to correspond with those desirous of purchasing farm property. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. We desire to thank the many friends who have loaned photo- graphs or engravings for this pamphlet, especially Messrs. F. S. Blanchard & Co., 154 Front St., for the views at the Lake. Mr. Pollard of the Engraving Company has favored us with many valuable suggestions, and to a pupil in the Worcester High School, a skillful amateur, we are indebted for photographs made at Shrewsbury. The printing speaks for itself, but the patience of the foreman and compositors in deciphering bad copy occasioned in part by the present difficulties of travel from Worcester to the eastern borders of the county deserve grateful mention. 32 z < m DC < ui u O o LJ o ^ o 13 ^ 3 v a> „ o t* >, o ho «S <« £■" c >>s S «T3 O So- Ci 5t3 Sb«*^ '^'Sh-* hBot- 1 -* 3.3 c w c 'ex «.H = ±1 OB 3 > tJ . „ « > ZT3 EE E 5 EtS 03 W E oocSJi \>'- 3 • " {?•<« 3-2 1) c ** .2 d.3^-S a'* a." - : ft « "2 „ 2 ,£ .y s = o! .a _ .y ib " °> ob «> .y ^ - IB Hu 1> 1- O £ OS STAVELEY FARM NURSERY, Northboro, Mass. RUSSIAN APRICOT TREES. Perfectly hardy and healthy. Insects do not attack them. Admirable substitute for the Peach. Charles W. Felt. E. W. KIMOWLTOIM, Shrewsbury, mass. Dealer iu Beef, Pork, Mutton, Lamb, Poultry, HAM, SAUSAGES, LARD, Tripe, Pigs' Feet, Canned Goods, &c. Also, Vegetables of all kinds in their season. Goods delivered promptly free of expense SUPPLEMENT To "The Town of Shrewsbury, its Location, Advantages and Attractions as a place of Residence and for Business. Illustrated, Price Ten Cents. Published by the Bailroad Com- mittee, 1890." Supplement gratis. LAKE VIEW, ' LAKE QUINSIGAMOND, AND VICINITY. Seventeen years ago the pro- ject of building a Railroad to the shore of Lake Quinsigamond and Shrewsbury was carried out as far as the Lake. The Shrewsbury end was abandoned on account of the want of necessary interest and lack of funds. At that time there was not a house at Lake View, only one or two at Bloom- ingdale, and no others near enough to in any way aid a railroad. At first the railroad started with small cars, about the size of tram-cars, and in consequence about six thousand dollars was practically thrown away in experimenting ; as to carry the small cars full was not a paying investment. About twelve round trips were made daily. Building started in every direction and has continued very rapidly up to the present time. Three years ago city water and hydrants were introduced in both of the villages (Lake View and Bloomingdale), and in the last three years Lake View has increased nearly sixty houses, Bloom- ingdale sixteen or eighteen, and Draper's Station and Putnam Lane Station fifteen. Business has grown on the line of the rail- road and now eighteen round trips daily are made to the Lake in winter and twenty-two regular in summer, and about every day four to six extras. Early trains carry all to their work, and the last train at night leaves the city at n.oo o'clock P. M., thus giving the residents much better accommodations than any other suburb around Worcester. The present equipment of the railroad is four locomotives, two fifteen tons, two thirty tons, also eight cars. The capacity of the railroad is about two thousand people per hour. Lake View has the advantage of a south and east aspect and is, therefore, from two to four degrees warmer than in the city. The wind is broken by a large hill at the west. A post office with three daily mails, two stores, church, good schools and play grounds, Lake Park and Tower are all at Lake View, besides many boat-club grounds and summer cottages. In summer a full military band gives concerts every afternoon and evening, and fireworks and many other attractions are given to the people gratis. A building association has just been formed, and they have at the present time thirteen houses under way for the spring, and many more in contemplation. A visit to Lake Quinsigamond and Lake View will convince any one of its advan- tages as a place for a home. The railroad has also been a great help to Shrewsbury. All along on the shore of the lake south of the causeway are nice residences and club houses, which do a great deal to help the treasury of the town. MARLBORO AND WESTBORO. Many believe that an electric street railway connecting with Mr. Boyd's Marlboro line at the Y, and taking the most direct route parallel with the Old Colony road to Fisher's milk station, thence by Gilmore's brick yard directly to the centre of Westboro, could be made to pay. The total distance would be only about five miles, and the line could be built at very moderate cost. Such a road could easily be equipped for freight as well as passenger business, and mail and express matter could be handled without difficulty. The track would follow the most direct highway between the two towns. For a mile or two it would be along the edge, and within the town limits of Southboro. At the nearest points loops could be run to right and left from the main track to connect with Southboro Centre, Northboro Centre, Insane Asylum, Lyman School and Chauncy picnic grounds. In due time the road would be continued through Woodville to Hopkinton. This would make a most delightful series of pleasure rides, as well as aid much in advancing the business interests of all these sections. At the outset, of course, few cars would be run per day, but in a few years the whole line of track would be developed by bringing many building lots into occupancy. Every real estate owner along the line could afford to subscribe liberally for building such a line, because it would increase all values and would in effect move all contiguous farms within a few minutes of the four town centres of Marlboro, Westboro, Northboro and Southboro. — Marlboro Mirror. 3 THE STORAGE BATTERY. It is now just sixty years since the question came up in England when railroads were being introduced, whether locomotives or power derived from stationary engines should be preferred. At that time the locomotive engine had been experimented with in a small way for fifteen or twenty years, but the possible use of steam for land transportation had been much longer considered. In 1829 the Manchester and Liverpool railway was built, and a prize was offered by the directors for a locomotive that would fulfill cer- tain necessary conditions as to cost, speed, duty, etc. The experts of that time were disposed to favor some one of several methods suggested for employing stationary power. George Stephenson was one of the competitors for the prize, and having tubes in his engine boiler, while his competitors did not, he was able to fulfill the conditions, and the use of the locomotive rapidly spread over Europe, but much more rapidly over the United States. Electricity has been on trial in an experimental way as a means of transportation for more than fifty years, and at this moment the practical question is, is it best for a car to convey the source of power within itself for a certain number of miles, or have power supplied by connections with an overhead or underground wire? Is it best that the child should go alone or be led by leading strings? The comparison will ultimately reach this point, though the state- ment of it in this form seems possibly too strong as judged by the experiences of the past few years- It seems hardly possible that the storage battery car can as completely supersede those requir- ing connection by wire as the locomotive in 1829 superseded all the methods proposed for employing stationary power, and yet it may do so. We are able, however, to see that, while cities may find an advan- tage in the use of overhead wires at present, the country towns have many reasons for favoring the storage battery. Like all other practical questions it must be worked out practically. There is ample opportunity for a trial of both systems, and the storage battery car has this one great obvious advantage — it can run under the overhead wire without making connection, but cars depending on the overhead or underground wire can only go where the proper wire is supplied. In other words the storage battery car starts off at once on any street railway track while no other electric car can do so. The storage battery car appears just like any street car without horses. The power is under the seats and the motor under the floor. It will be first adopted for extensions, and soon will pass over the tracks of the city street railways and seems likely to make its way as time and a few simple improve- ments produce its complete practical development. — Westboro Chro7iotype. 4 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. These institutions are worthy of all the encouragement we can offer them, but we do well to remember that they have been organized under an act of Congress of 1862, for teaching "such branches of learning as are related to agricultural and the mechan- ics arts in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." The intention, certainly, was to give equal prominence to the mechanical and agricultural indus- tries in the great work of diffusing more generally the blessings of "liberal and practical" education. Out of Massachusetts, this idea has been taken up in earnest. There are 46 of these institutions in the country, including the Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute of Virginia for the Indians. Only ten of these are styled simply agricultural institutions, as in Massachusetts. Eighteen oi them have the word "Industrial" or"Mechanical" in their names, while fifteen imply that others than agriculturists are included within the scope of the institution. Georgia, which has five such colleges, includes the word "Military" in one case. Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia have each two institutions. It is true that in Massachusetts the Institute of Technology is mentioned as answering the call for mechanical training, but that will not do. Massachusetts farmers are not commonly considered an enterprising class; in this case, however, they have the advant- age over the carpenter, painter, mason, machinist, shoemaker, tailor and hatter in the fact that the farmers' sons get a fair college education that more than makes up for the deficiencies, or the absence of town high schools, while mechanics' sons are only offered the facilities of a high-grade, "toney" Boston scientific institution, with high expenses, and neither time or opportunity for earning money as at the agricultural colleges. We do not question that the Institute of Technology is fairly entitled to its share of the appropriations, but the farmer's son can earn money enough by the time he is eighteen years of a?e, to give him a start, and then he can earn or borrow enough, if he is of the true mettle, to keen him four vears at Amherst, and give him a good education. The mechanics' sons in our various manufacturing centres need to be told that they have the same opportunities ; and also to be reminded that they have been very much more back- ward in coming forward to improve their opportunities, than their "greenhorn" country cousins. We trust our town youth will wake up to the advantages of these popular colleges, and crowd them till they rival Harvard or Yale. Massachusetts provides a Labor Fund to aid deserving students — both farmers' and mechan- ics' sons. We believe in co-education, and hope that farmers' and mechanics' daughters will obtain a "liberal and practical" education at Amherst, as well as at the Normal Schools. We desire to see thrifty management of the farms connected with all these institutions. If farming can be made to pay any- where it should be upon these farms, for they have every appliance which capital can furnish. We are ready to make due allowance for the fact that much of the work must be of an experimental character, but we must urge that the line be carefully^ drawn between that which is merely experimental, and that which is up to the standard of the best farming. If, for instance, hay is sold, which we presume is seldom done, it should command the highest market price, because presumably the best. But in the line of nursery stock, nearly all will be of an experimental character, and of course, will not command the full market price. In case, how- ever, any standard varieties are propagated that will equal that produced by experienced nurserymen, the institutions should have the advantage of full prices. We have some knowledge of attempts to "sponge" these institutions which the public should frown upon. %^^ This cut shows how the armature shaft-pinion of an electric street car motor was worn away in four months at a speed of 900 revolutions a minute. See Scientific American, July 13, 1889. "The short life of the gear is the weakest point in electnc traction " (Mr. Harris, engineer Brooklyn Street Railway.) The Union Electric Car Co. gears run in oil and last indefinitely, SYSTEM OF UNION ELECTRIC CAR COMPANY. 18 P. 0. Square, Boston, Mass., as shown by the Equipment of the Beverly and Danvers St. Ry. Co., Bever.y, Mass. The weight of the cars, with batteries ready for service, is about six tons, or the same as those of the overhead system on the West End Road in Boston. Each car has two sets of batteries, which enable it to do eighty miles of service — forty to each charge. The batteries are charged on the tables in the car house, and these tables being on the same level as the car floor, the batteries are easily removed from one to the other. It takes a 30 horse power electrical and mechanical plant to charge the double set of batter- ies for six cars, from which it would appear that the system "takes only a fraction of the power required by the present overhead lines. ELECTRIC CAR SHOWING STORAGE BATTERIES. The difference of power is largely accounted for in the gears, as the open gears of the overhead system, being exposed to dust and dirt.grind out in from two to four months, the loss of power in grind- ing up the steel being what costs. The Union Electric Car Co. 's gears run in oil and last indefinitely; two years' use having shown no material depreciation. Another important point to which this company lays a claim is that they charge back into the batteries or line when slowing, stopping or going down hill. The car being controlled entirely by the electric switch, no hand break being used, the saving on this road exceeding ten per cent, of the whole power expended. As each car is self-contained and independent, any one car breaking down only affects that car. This system is certain in all its action, and a car equipped with it has run in the heaviest snows. One car alone has taken care of five inches of snow before the plow was pul on. The Union Electric Car Co. claim that a ride over the Beverly road will convince the most skeptical that the system works in every way and does all that is claimed for it, and that while it has always been said that the stor- age battery was the ideal system, but would not work, that it now does work any one can see. They say the cost can also be shown to be what it is claimed, and they invite inspection. CHARGING TABLES. THE UNION ELECTRIC CAR CO. The electrical development of this country is something wonder- ful. Every week brings new surprises to benefit and bless human- ity. Enormous fortunes have already been made by investors in electrical inventions. Among the most recent developments to which our attention has been called is the rapid transit street car electric system, as perfected by the above company. A street railway has just been completed from Beverly to Dan- vers Port, three miles. Hon. John I. Baker is the president of this local company. The rails follow the natural surface of the highway, which is very uneven, climbing over many hills, in some cases with 8 per cent, grade.* Indeed, r the grade is so steep in spots thatjone pair of horses'could, hardly haul a single car. With'this difficult problem, the Union Electric Car Co. took the contract to furnish the most economical motive power that has yet been discovered. The road is now in successful operation. The cars, owing to the grades, could not be operated by horses without an average cost per mile, per car, of from 15 to 20 cents. This is for power alone. By the overhead electric system, this cost might be reduced to 10 cents per mile. By the Union Electric Car storage system it costs but 5 cents per mile. We had the pleasure recently of going over this line with a party of experienced electricians. From all we had been able to gather, we went there greatly prejudiced against the storage sys- tem. A practical test convinced us that this company has success- fully solved a very difficult problem. A street railway can be equipped at much less expense by this system, we feel confident, than by any other. All cost of over- head construction, and the wiring of the tracks is avoided. Much money is saved in the steam and dynamo equipment. The con- ductor and driver change the batteries when necessary, at very short notice. — Marlboro Mirror. GRADE CROSSINGS. If there was danger that a highwayman would jump out of the thicket as we pass along, to rob or murder us ; if there was dan- ger that a cannon would belch forth its contents upon us ; or, if it were likely that a wild animal would spring upon us, like the tiger from the jungles in India, a sufficient remedy would be promptly found, but for the similar and more terrible evil of possible death at the grade crossings of common roads by railroads, no one seems to be very active in our country towns. It is true that in the worst cases a watchman is provided, and usually gates are provided also. But no vigilance can provide for all contingencies, and many acci- dents have happened when gates have been provided, and even gate-tenders have been killed, while numerous narrow escapes at the best protected crossings are upon record. Look both ways whenever you cross a steam railroad at grade ! Every such crossing, so far as is possible, should be abolished. Sometimes two crossings can be united. It is usually cheaper to cross over or under the railroad than to maintain gates or flagmen. But the outlay of money in the first case is a considerable sum, while in the second it is a continual expense, usually much more than the interest on the large outlay. In the vicinity of cities very large sums are necessary — sometimes a million of dollars — to change the grade of a single street. In the country towns it is frequently easy to make the change for a small sum, and every such opportunity should be improved in season. Towns can hire IO money at three or four per cent, interest, and they should liberally aid the railroads, which in turn can furnish better accommodation in proportion as they are freed from obstructions, and grade- crossings are most serious obstructions, as locomotive engineers well know. It is understood that railroad men desire the complete abolition of grade-crossings, as such crossings really dispute their "right of way, ' ' and farmers who have been struck by trains want all grade-crossings abolished. Last winter a whole school on a sleigh- ride barely escaped destruction. Crossing over or under the rail- roads is the only safe method, for there are extra trains which no human vigilance can provide for, and the flagmen or gatemen fre- quently are not on duty nights and Sundays ; then it is customary to give more attention at the crossings to passenger than to other trains, while one is as deadly as the other to the farmer who may be struck by them. RAILROAD HOGS. We recently noticed a train-load of hogs passing over the Albany railroad, to be slaughtered at the large establishments of John P. Squire or Charles H. North at East Cambridge. But we allude to another kind of railroad hogs. A passenger went to a station on one of the five great railway systems of New England, which have stations within a few miles of Shrewsbury, to take the 9.30 P. M. train. The train had been taken off, and there was no train till 12.01 A. M. The passenger was known, or could easily have made himself known to the station master. There was abundant evidence that he was not a tramp. He was told that if he waited he " must stay outside — we don't keep open all night." There was a fire in the waiting room ; the station master's family lived in the station, and he had to be up when the train arrived, and seems to have been wholly without excuse. It would be easy to call upon the railroad authorities to slaughter such hogs, but fre- quently men, otherwise efficient, show these weak points, and we desire rather that these officials, " blest with a little brief author- ity," wrestle with themselves, that they may finally slaughter their own hoggishness and treat delayed passengers decently. A sec- tion boss last year dug a trench about six inches deep across the pathway from a signal station to the town road, and proposed to leave it without covering, although it was necessary to use the path after dark, and sometimes when trains were moving on the track near by. A passenger pointed out the difficulty in a pleas- ant way, and the section boss acknowledged his mistake by filling the trench, but he said to the passenger : "If you will mind your business I will mind mine." This year another section boss has again dug the trench and neatly covered it. II FARM for SALB IN SHREWSBURY. The Farm contains 130 acres, suitably divided into Mowing, Tillage and Pasture, with plenty of wood for fire, two-story house with L, new barn with two floors, hay all taken in on upper floor, will keep 40 head of stock this winter and have hay to spare. This is one of the best watered farms in Worcester County. The farm is in a good state of cultivation, cut the last season 80 to 90 tons of hay. Running water at house and barn, a grist mill is on the place in good running order, an ice house at the pond which supplies the town with ice. Come and see It. For further particulars inquire of 0. B. WYMAN, Shrewsbury, Mass. AEChoiee Line of Guaranteed Mortgages, Certified Debentures, Etc. ONLY RELIABLE COMPANIES REPRESENTED. BEST OF REFERENCES GIVEN. J. P. DUNN, Room 9, Burnside Building. - Worcester, Mass. Goburr/s ©oat ©House. COME AND SEE US. The Largest Letting and Building Establishment in New England. FANCY BOATS AND CANOES Of Every Description To Let or For Sale. Also, Complete Stock of Oars and Boat Fittings. Bargains in Second-Hand Boats. A. A. COBURN, Proprietor. 12 STAVELEY FARM NURSERY, NORTHBOROUGH, MASS., Combines the Advantages of a Local Nursery, where Choice Varieties of Fruits and Flowers can be seen growing in their season, with one of the largest nurseries in the country, for which the proprietor is the local agent. FRUIT DEPARTMENT. YELLOW TRANSPARENT APPLE. The largest early apple known. The handsomest early apple known. The best flavored early apple known. The earliest ripen- ing apple known. The best shipping' earlv apple known. The trees are the hardiest, the most proline, and the youngest bearing of anv apple known. SUTTON BEAUl'V APPLE, the pride of Massachusetts. McINTOSlI RED APPLE, (might be called "The Improved Kameuse." LONGK1ELD, a new and valuable hardy Russian winter apple. M1LDING APPLE; a lovely apple. RUSSIAN APRICO IS, a substitute for the Peach; but a case where the substitute is better than the original. The trees are unqualifiedly hardy, while the fruit is delicious. For eating from the hand or preserv ing, it is of exceeding rienness. For the market it is of extraordinary value. Neither the Trees nor the Fruit are ever troubled by Insects or Disease of any ki id. The American varieties of Apricots are loo tender for New England. The Kussi in sorts were first introduced into the United States a few years ago in the Northwest, where they proved h;irdy and every way disirable. The fruit is not surpassed in flavor and beauty by any fruit that can be grown in the temperate zone. Those who are the first to plant largely of the Russian apricots will be wise and will surely reap their proper reward— in cash. Our stock is KUUDED; that offered by some firms is simply seedlings, grown from pits planted in the open ground and allowtd to remain until the tree is large enough to de.iver. Stock grown from pits may produce good fruit, but sel- dom does, — no man can tell just what the fruit will be until it bears. When delivered the trees will be one year old from the bud and about three feet in height. They, usually begin bearing the second year after transplanting, and produce heavy annual crops. There are several varieties of the Russian apricots, the best of wnich are described in our catalogue There is less difference in the various varieties, however, than is common with other fruits. THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST. West Wareham, Mass.. Nov. 26, 1888. "My Russian apricot has borne three seasons. Last season it ripened about half a bushel. My family esteem it above every fruit in the orchard." EDSON BLAKE. Preston, Conn. Hugh King says:— "The Russian apricots I had of you bore some the second year, and the trees were loaded the third year. The fruit is magnificent. No insects or anything of the sort trouble them." Lowell, Mass. Mrs. Edwin Lamson, 133 Wilder St., says: — "My Russian apricots have grown rapidly and are now in bearing. The fruit is equal to the finest peach. As yet no insects have troubled them." Antrim, N. H., Oct. 21, 1887, "I see no reason why the Russian apricot will l.ot be a fine fruit to raise. My trees have fruited. My fruit looks like the peach, but in flavor resembles the plum— very fine." C. F. HOLT. 100 Wilder St., Lowell, Mass., May 3, 1888. "We esteem the Russian apricot fruit very highly. They are of medium size, and delicious flavor. My tree has borne but once." MRS. C G. BUTTERICK. FRANCESTOWN, N. H., Oct. 27, 1887. "My Russian apricot tree is about 15 feet high. It is four years old. The fruit is line. I think it will be profitable to raise. 1 should advise every one to try it." P. L. CLARK, (Postmaster). LAWSON OR COMET PEAR. WINDSOR (Canadian), and OSTHEIME (Russian), CHERRIES. The Windsor is the best sweet black cherry grown. The Ostheimewas brought to this country some years since, and its hardiness has been thor- oughly tested and proven in even the Arctic climate of Minnesota. EXTRA FINE PLUMS. Plant plum trees where the fowls can run about them, and you will be surprised because of the abundance of fruit tney will produce. If you have a hen-yard, by all means plant plum trees in it. By so doing you will lose no ground, the trees will make shade, and the fowls will destroy all insects, thereby insuring a fine crop of fruit annually. 13 PRTNCE'S YELLOW GAGE. PRINCE ENGLEBERT. UNION PURPLE. SHIPPER'S PRIDE. MIDDLEBURG. STANTON. The time of ripening of these six sorts covers the entire season, from the first of August until the middle of October. PEACHES. APRICOTS. NECTARINES. QUINCES. THE GENEVA, a new pedigree White Grape. There are already several good white grapes, and we should not introduce a new sort if we did not believe that we had secured a variety combining more good points than anv white grape now known. With many varieties of fruits, appearance has been considered rather than quality, but in the Geneva we have the happv combination of good quality and great beauty. WOIfDEN GRAPE. Perhaps perfection in a black grap<- is not attained by the Worden, but cenainly up to the present writing- it is the best black grape for out door cultivation grown. QUERN CURRANT. The wonderfully productive new French Currant. GOOSEBERRIES. WACHUSETTS THORNI.ESS BLACKBERRY. We claim that the Wachusetts Thornless combines more valuable points than any blackberry ever offered for sale. GOLDEN QUEEN RASPBERRY. A large, handsome, productive, fine -flavored, HARDY yellow raspberry. What more could be asked for? ASPARAGUS. RHUBARB. ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT. UPRIGHT ORNAMENTAL TREES, (those varieties which do not retain theit foliage during the winter.) WEEPING ORNAMENTAL TREKS. EVERGREEN TREES. EVERGREEN SHRURS. HARDY FLOWERING SHRUBS. HARDY CLIMBING VINES. CLEMATIS. ROSES. HARDY PLANTS, BULBS, ETC., for either spring 01 fall seting, and every variety of NURSERY STOt K. TRANSPLANTING AND AFTER CULTURE is the title of our sixteen-page pamphlet, giving directions for the transplanting and proper care of fruits and ornamentals. It is practical in everv department, and we believe it to be the most complete work of the kind ever published fur free distribution Every cust mer is entitled to a copy free, and others cm secure it by sending a two-cent stamp to pay postage. As Strawberry Plants do not bear transportation for long distances, we shall do a strictly local trade in a few choice vat ictus. A few Dewberry Plants from a local grower who claims marked success, are offered to those who wish to experiment. Those who wish to compare notes in practical horticulture for profit will always find the latch-string out. CHARLES W. FELT, Staveley Farm, Northborough, Mass., U. S. A. H.A.MITCHELL, R.E.ALLEN, 31 flPKSM TH Civil Engineer s Surveyor, FIRST-CLASS SHREWSBURY, MASS. SH0ETO and JOBBING. 8at of Town OSsrk Selicited Custom Work Made to Order. SHREWSBURY, .*. MASS. Promptly Attended to. SAMUEL B. NOYES, shoe 3vr_ j^. ik: dej ifu Cor. Wesleyan and Grafton Sts., SHREWSBURY, MASS. Fine'Repairing Neatly and Promptly Performed to Order. 14 fforcester Consolidated St. R. R. Co, MAIN STREET SOUTH. Color of Light, Red. m., then every 15 minutes Car Color, Straw. Leave Perkins St. 7.27 ntill0.42p. m. Leave Li ncroln Sq. for Webster Sq. 6.55 a. m.; then ,10 and every 7 minutes until 10.33 a. m.; then every 15 tinutes until 11.48 a. m.; then every 7 minutes until .05, then every 15 minutes until 10.48 p. m. Leave Market St. 6.20 a, m, and every 7 minutes till .05 a. m. Leave Front Street, South, 6.25, a. m.; then every 1\ liuutes until 10.39 a. m. ; then every 15 minutes until 1.54 a m., then every 1\ minutes until 8.11 p. m., then very 15 minutes until 11.10 p. m. MAIN STREET NORTH. Leave Webster Square 6.05, 6.20 a. m. ; then every 7| ainutes until 11.05 a. m. ; then every 15 minutes until 2.27 p. m. ; then every 1\ minutes until 8.05 p. m. ; then very 15 minutes until 10.50 p. m. Leave Grand St. 6.15, 6.30 a m. ; then every 7\ min- ites until 11.15 a. m. ; then every 15 minutes until 12.37 i. m.; then every 7^ minutes until 8.15 p. m.; then every .5 minutes until 11,00 p. m. Leave Front Street, North, 6.29, 6.44 a. m.; then svery 1\ minutes until 11.29 a. m. ; then every 15 minutes intil 12.44 p. m., then every 1\ minutes until 9.14 p. m. ; ;hen every 15 minutes until 11.14 p. m. ADAMS SQUARE. Going South— Leave Adams Square 7.23, 7.53, 3.23,8.53,9.23,9.53, 10.23, 10.53, 11.23, 11.53 a. m.; 12.23, 12.38, 12.53, 1.23, 1.53, 2 23, 2.53, 3.23, 3.53, 4.23, 1.53, 5 23, 6.08, 6.23, 6.38, 6.53, 7.23, 7.53, 8.23, 8.53, 9.23, 9.53, 10.23 p. m. Going North— Leave Front St. 6.59, 7.29, 7.59 8.29,8.59,9.29,9.59,10.29,10.59, 11.29, 11.59. a. m.; 12.14, 12.29, 12.59, 1.29, 1.59, 2.29, 2.59, 3.29,3.59, 4.29, 4 59, 5.29, 5.59, 6.14. 6.29, 6.59, 7.29, 7.59, 8.29, 8.59, 9.29, 9.59, 10.44 p. m. Sunday Time. — Leave New Worcester for Adams Sq. at 9.20 a. m., and every half hour until 9.05 p. m., pass- ing City Hall 2 16 minutes of the hour and 14 minutes past the hour. Returning leave Adams Sq. at 10.06 a. m., then every half hour till 9.51 p. m. UNION STATION.-North End. Car Color, Blue Plaid. Color of Light, Red and White Car leaves Adams Square at 6.30 a. m. for Depot. Leave Lincoln Square 6.15, 6.40, 7.10, 7.33, 7.45, 8.28 8.40, 9.10, 9.33, 9.55,10.37, 10.55, 11.25 ,11.40, 11.55,a. m. 1.05, 2.00, 2.10, 2.55, 3.13, 3.40, 3.58, 4.25, 5.13, 5.43 6.45, 7.03, 8.03, 8.40 p. m. Returning, leave Unio: Station 6.37* 6.55, 7.25, 7.50, 8.03, 8.40, 8.45, 9.30, 9.5( 10.14, 11.00, 11 10, 11.40 a. m.; 12.03, 1.23, 2.20, 2.3( 3.15, 3.33, 4.08, 4.18, 4.45, 5.08, 5.33, 6.10, 7.00, 7.2( 8.20, 9.00, 9 45, p. m. Cars marked * run to Grove Street. South End. Car Color, Red Plaid. Red andWhite Light. Leave Webster Square 6 15, 7.20, 10.25, 11.30 a. m then every 15 minutes till 5.00 p. m., then 5.30, the every 15 minutes till 7.45, then 8.15. Returning, leave Union Station 6.42, 7.50, 11.00 a. n 12.15 p.,m., then every 15 minutes till 8.20, then 9.00. Leaves Union Station at 9.30 a. m. for Claremont S Returning, leave Claremont St. 9.40 a. m. So. Worcester & Chadwick Square Color of Car, Red. Color of Light, White. Leave Auburn Square 6.00, 6.25, 7.00 a. m. and eve half hour until 8.30 p. m., then 9.20 and 10.00. Leave Chadwick Square 6.35, 7.45, 8.45, 9.45, 10.1 10.45, 11.45, a. m. Then 12 15, 12.45, 1. 15. 2.15, 3.1 4 15, 5.15, 6.15, 6.45. 7.15. 7.45,9.15, 9.50, 11.10 p. m. Sunday Time. — Leave South Worcester at 1 p. i and every 20 minutes till 9 p. m. Leave Chadwick Square at 1.40 p. m. and every minutes till 9.40 p. m. WEST SIDE. Color of Car, Blue. Color of Light, Blue. Cars leave Park Ave. for Union Depot and Lincc Square 6.20, 6.30, 7.00 a. m., and every 20 minutes t 10.00 p. m., then 10.40 for Lincoln Square. Cars leave Fair Grounds for Union Depot and Lincc Square 6.20, 6.30, 7.00 a. m. and every 20 minutes t 10.00 p.m. 6-30 a. m. car runs to Wire Mill. Cars leave Lincoln Square for Park Avenue and F: Grounds at 6.40 a. m., and every 20 minutes till 10. p. m., then 10.20 and 11.00 p. m. for Park Avenue. Cars leave Union Depot, 6.40 a. m., and every 20 m utes till 10.20 p. m. QUINSIGAMOND. Color of Car, Green Plaid. Color of Light, Green. Cars leave Market Street at 5.45, 6.20, 6.43 a. m. Leave Lincoln Square at 7.13 a. m. and every half he until 12.43 p. m., then every 20 minutes until *10.33 p. Returning leave Quinsigamond at 6.20 and half hou till 1.50 p. m., then every 20 minutes till 11.10 p. m. I. B. CHAPIN, SUPT. Nov. 1st, 1889. 15 chief *a_^eo:ltgs- teu THO-crs-A.iNriD i DR. THOMAS HARRISON PERKINS' (Of Oldtown, Maine), INDIAN BLOOD BITTERS. The Indian Doctors, of Oldtown, in the State of Maine, were noted all over New Eng- land for their wonderful skill in the treatment of disease. From earliest years the Indian child is taught the name and medicinal value of all the Herbs that grow in the field or are found on the rugged sides of the mountains, and the skill with which these medicinal virtues are extracted has been the marvel of regular practitioners. Amone the most noted of all the skillful Drctors of the Indian School was THOMAS HARRISON PERKINS, whose theory was simple but sure. He traced nearly all forms of disease to INDIGESTION. He argued that with Digestion perfect, good action of the LIVER, good BLOOD, good HEART CIRCULATION and GOOD HEALTH were the sure results. Rending every energy and all his skill to the production of the BEST BITTERS ON EARTH for the regulation of the Stomach, he succeeded so mar- vellously that no case of failure has ever been known where instructions have been faith- fully carried out. Indigestion, Liver Complaint, Headache, Drowsiness, Blood Humors, Skin Diseases, all yield to the faithful use of the PERKINS' INDIAN BLOOD PURIFIER. So sure are the proprietors of the perfect success of this medicine that they have put up a large size TRIAL BOTTLE, for which they charge ONLY 25 CKNTS. LARGE BOTTLE, $1.00. We never yet sold a trial bottle at 25 cents but that the buyer returned for a larger bottle or half a dozen. Go to any first-class Drug Store and get the Best Blood Bitters ever produced, or send direct to F. H. PERKINS, Proprietor, Shrewsbury, Mass. PERKINS' INDIAN PAIN CURE. A Most Valuable Remedy. In the rough lite of the North American Indian, Sprains and Bruises are of daily occurrence. Dr. Perkins discovered the most wonderful remedy for the complete mas- tery of all Aches and Pains ever known before his day. Perkins' Indian Pain Cure will destroy Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pain in the Stomach, Back, Limbs, Bowels, Cholera, Cramps, Colds, Tooth- ache, Earache, etc., etc. Trial Bottle, 15 cents. Large Sizes, 35 cents and $1.00. DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE PAIN CURE FOR HORSES. For Horse-Ail, it is the best known remedy. Give a teaspoonful in the morning, in cut feed, and at night the same quantity in half pint of warm water. When the throat is swollen, bathe with cold water; afterwards apply the Pain Cure freely, and cover the throat during the night with several thicknesses of cloth — flannel is preferable. Obstinate cases are often permanently cured in two or three days. For Rheumatism, give a tablespoonful in two gills of hot water, twice a day, and apply the Pain Cure externally to the part affected, rubbing briskly for ten minutes. In Colic, or any internal pains, give two teispoonfuls in a pint of hot water, sweet- ened; and continued at intervals of one hour until relief is obtained. In Water Colic, treat the same as for wind colic, and in addition, bathe across the loins with hot water, for five minutes with sponge, then apply the Pain Cure vigorously for ten minutes, after which lay a blanket over the parts. N. B. In such cases it is invaluable. For a Cough or Cold, give a teaspoonfnl twice a day in cut feed. For Inflammation or Congestion of the Lungs, give two tablespoonfuls in a pint of hot water, sweetened. Rub the ears, and legs below the knees briskly for fifteen minutes, applv the Pain Cure freely ; cover the head and body with blankets. Repeat this course in an hour, which is usually sufficient; but if necessary it may be continued at in- tervals of four hours. PERKINS' INDIAN BLOOD BITTERS will cure you of all we claim. IT IS the Best Blood Purifier in the world. IT IS the Best Stomach Medicine known. IT WILL give New Life to your Organs of Digestion. PERKINS' INDIAN PAIN CURE is simply invaluable. FAR AHEAD OF ALL PLASTERS, because it reaches the seat of trouble at once and removes the cause. Try one bottle — that will convince you. «3- If you wish to be richly rewarded try PERKINS' HOUSEHOLD COUGH SYRUP. It will cure your cough or cold. Large Bottles, 25 cents. FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS AND GROCERS EVERYWHERE. *"" Large 1 (Pint) Bottles ;Sent by Express (Prepaid) on Receipt of Price, $1.00. F~H. PERKINS, Proprietor, - SHREWSBURY, MASS. JUN 13 1907 16 E. T. SMITH & CO., WHOLESALE GROGERS, Coffee Roasters, Special attention given to grinding Pure Spices. 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