Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-27
CITY NEWS.

Shoulder roasts, 8 cents: shoulder steak, cents; shoulders, 8 cents, at Castles to- day.
 Showers tonight, fair Sunday, station srg temperature; southerly to westerly winds.
 St Joseph's T. A. society will hold an important meeting tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock
 One hundred and thirty persons left here this morning on the New England road for Providence and Rocky Point.
 The funeral of Mrs Ellen Corr will take place from her late residence at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
 The New York < New England road will give another excursion to Boston on Fri day. August 2. Fare for the round trip $1'25.
 There will be an important meeting of the Catholic Literary society at 11:30 to- morrow. Besides the election of officers there are other interesting matters to come before the meeting.
 William Lawlor was sadly in need of socks to-day. for he appropriated a dozen pair from in front of a Jews store this af- ternoon. Officer John Sullivan arrested him later and locked him up.
 John Carmody, formerly of this city and now of Springfield, was married there this week to Miss Mary Murphy, popular young lady of that place. MT Carmody is well and favorably known to a wide circle of friends in this city. lie is brother of Sheriff Maurice F, Oarmody.
 Attorney O'Neill received letter from Architect Allen of New Haven to-day stat ing that the county commissioners could not be here until Wednesday. The open aE -e court house was then adjourned until Sat urday.
 A months mlnd high mass of requiem, for the late Mrs P. H. Reilly. will be said at the church of the Immaculate Concep- tion by Vicar-General J. A. Mulcahy at o'cl ,ck on Monday morning. The rela. tives and friends of the family are invited to be present..
 About five hundred persons went to Savin Rock to-day on the union excursion of the Senior Temperance and Catholic Literary societies. The railroad employees know nothing of the affair under this name and refer to it as the John Thomson excur- sion. The oldest employe about the Nauga- tuck depot never heard it called anything else.
 The Chowder club held an interesting meeting in their rooms at the New England hotel and elected the following officers for one year: President, Eugene Rowley; vice president, William O'Donnell; financial secretary, Jeremiah O'Donnell; correspond ing secretary, J. J. McAuliff: treasurer, John Sweeney; sergeant-st-arms. John Mo Namara; standing committee. James A Hynes, W. Shephard and P. H. Began.
 The board of education and the district committee held an executive session last NNrr1Nk -E -I.s I tects Smith and Jackson for the proposed new High school building. and adjourned without making a selection. After con- siderable discussion it was decided to refer the matter to the sub joint committee to ascertain more definitely the probable cost and other particulars and report back to 0 future meeting of both boards. The bakers and confectioners paraded through the principal streets this afternoon headed by Hellman's Advance drum corps The principal attraction was an impro- vised bake shop in wagon, from which different kinds of cakes were tossed into the street and were quickly snatched and greedily devoured by an army of small boys, The parade proceeded to the West End grounds. where baseball game, a running match and dancing made up an in- | teresting program of exercises. Dancing
  The selectmen have called town meet ing to be held in the district court room at 8 o'clock next Wednesday night for the purpose of taking action in reference to the matter of an appropriation of $3 900 for l improvements on the town roads This would put the selectmen in a position to ask for share of the $75, 1000 appropriated | by the state to be expended in the im- provement of roads under the direction of | the highway commissioners. The county also offers $3, 900 for the same purpose, so | that by voting an appropriation of $3, ,000 | there will in all probability chance to do | $9 GOO worth of work on the town roads and it is badly needed in different parts of the country roads.
 One of the largest funerals that has be- n st en in Waterbury in 8 number of years came to Waterbury from Waterville this morning and stopped at the church of the | Immaculate Conception, where a mass of ! requiem was celebrated for the deceased, Mrs Ellen McCarthy. by the Rev Father Lynch. The long line of CRIT 3es was filled with relatives and friends from Naugatuck, Union City, Waterbury, Wa terville and other towns. The rallbearers were: John and Ptt4r Hsrrigan, Timothy and John Keefe, John Cronin and Patrick Wallace. There was a large number of beautiful floral tributes, among them being large pillow of roses marked 'Mo.hpr ' from David and James Mccarthy and Mrs John Connors, sons and daughter of the deceased. Mrs Mccarthy was one of the best known and most highly respected residents of Waterville and, with the ex- ception of few years, while the family kept hotel at Union City. had lived all her life time in the town where she died. She was one of the pioneer members of the church of the Immaculate Conception and could tell some interesting stories of the hardships endured by the residents of her neighborhood iD making their way to church during the early days of Oatholicity in Waterbury. The remains were inferred in the family plot in St Joseph's cemetery.