Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-03-29
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nearly stationery temperature.
"McKenna's Flhtation" at the opera
house this evening.
The Waterbury Baking company are
Today selling bread for one cent loaf.
Trimmed hats for Easter, at l. Chase's.
Arcade building. All styles and prices.
City Engineer Weld left this after
noon on three weeks trip to Indian
Apolis.
Ben Harrison and Hampden Beauty
iced potatoes, and onion sets, at F. B.
Folds, 81 South Main street.
The forty hours devotion of the bless
ed sacrament will commence at the
church of the Immaculate Conception
IN Sunday April 6.
F. L. Wilson was called to Waterbury
Yesterday to see his brother Sam, who IS
very ill. Sam is F. B. Crofut's partner
in the hat business. News.
Cut flowers, funeral designs, and
seeds of all kinds at w. J. Shows, SO
South Main street.
| Alexander Dallas this afternoon
opened his branch store, SO Bank street
with a large assortment of seeds, bulbs
and flowers.
Yesterday noon, John McGrath, a
| New York & New Eegland brakeman,
I fell from the top of big refrigerator
car at Hartford, and sustained serious
injuries.
| NJ. II. Was is preparing to remove his
cigar mandatory and store from 80
South Main street to the building on the
corner of Grand and Canal streets. He
will occupy his new quarters April IS.
J. H. Madden and J. H. Frenzy have
been elected delegates from Court
Shields, A. o. F. of A, to the high court
convention. The alternates will be
Thomas Moran and Daniel Hackett.
The thunder storm yesterday played
havoc with the telephone wires. Several
of the wires at the local Office were
burned out, but telephone communica-
ton was not interrupted.
Mothers who intend to buy new
Easter clothing for their children, are
invited TO call and inspect the large
stock of Epson, Singleton & Co. Beau
tiful souvenirs given to each lady patron.
Tomorrow will be Palm Sunday, the
last Sunday in lent. 1t is so-called from
the custom in the Catholic church of
blessing branches of palm in commem-
Grafton OF the triumphal entry of our
Lord into Jerusalem.
Wyman took place this afternoon, the
services being conducted by the Rev A.
&c. Eggleston. The pallbealers were
N. ID. Grannis, Walter L. Atwood, G..
w. Gillette, DR. F. l.. Griggs. E. 7. Root
and Charles Perkins.
At the Simonsville NJ. E. church to-
morrow, the pastor, Rev II. B. Munson,
will preach at 1920 a. m. and p. M.
Sunday school at the close of the morn.
ing service. Prayer meeting at 5:45 d. m.
Prayer meeting Thursday evening and
| Ec.l e
week.
The friend of First Baseman Dan
Phelan, who left this city to Join his
team at Louisville few days ago, ar.
anxious for his safety. They have heard
nothing from him since the tornado oc
Cured. Dams name does not appear in
the list of victims and he will probably
turn up all right.
D. H. Tierney to-day reports the fol
lowing sales of real estate The house
barn and land on the Naugatuck road
owned by Edward Q. Smith, to B. II
Bristol of Platt's Mills the brick ;blocl
No 30 Spring street, to Michael Woods
building lot on Division street, part OF
the land mapped out by Henry c
Griggs, to John E. Agnew.
A meeting of the alumni of the High
school was held yesterday afternoon anc
: organization. The meeting was called
to order by Supt Crosby and was largely
attended. Rollin A. Curtis. class of 80
was elected temporary chairman anC
, Augustus J. Smith, 80. secretar, Or,
tenn. A committee consisting of thes,
l officers and Miss Emma j. Mccarthy
7 Miss Alice Mailer, Miss Lizzie Kirk
e Lewis Fitzsimons and William Beeche
were appointed to draft a constitution
and bylaws.
A Winsted correspondent writes tina
, the proceedings of the ice mems conven
ton, held in New Haven, Thursday ,reat
j., q good deal like a fairy tale. From thes,
proceedings people were led to infer tina
only 4 900 tons of ice had been cut IN tn
state this winter. The popularity of tn
matter was that all the returns mad
were from localities where no ice hat
been cut. If these icemen had taken tn
: trouble to gather returns from New
Hartford to Twin Lakes, they woult
' have made the discovery that not fla
from 10000 tons of ice were cut in west
. ern Connecticut alone this winter.
0 Edward Dingwell of Thomaston be
came saturated with Brass City sod
= and languished in a prison cell las
night. He was allowed to depart thi
morning. Marshall Cain, a gentleman
of color, who is the possessor of hors
OF doubtful value, was endeavOr
ing to mount his wagon last night ant
was playing the contoItion act mount
3 ing on one side and tumbling off tn
other when Constable Rigney took hin
to prison cell. He was fined IS an,
: costs this morning and wished to Ieav,
] his horse as security, but the cour
could not see it in that light. Cain wa
allowed to depart on his own recogni
zance.