Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-28
CITY NEWS.

out his l901 calendars Saturday.
 Mrs F. F. Gallagher, of Central ave nue, is visiting at her old home in Dan bury.
 Martin Connor, of Sylvan avenue, will leave tomorrow to visit relatives in Springfield.
 The Ladies' auxiliary, A. O. H., will hold an important meeting tonight. Every member is requested to be pres ent.
 The fifteenth annual ball of the French Canadian Institute will be given at Leavenwor hall New Years eve.
 The Hellmann Brewing Go. as is its custom about this time. is sending out q handsome calendar to the customers and friends of the concern.
 William Farrell aged 20 years, died last night at his home on Hill street. The remains will be taken to Cheshire for burial tomorrow morning.
 A. w. Castle. the marketman. is sending out his 1901 calendars. He is always in the front TOW with novelties ill this line. "Pig-a-back'' is quite ap- DroDriate.
 An unruly lamp came near being tine cause of a destructive fire at the resi- uEHtE Ol AIIS NllcliuSl l)ulu OIi DuOIlIl street last evening. During the ex- citeneNt the curtain on one of the win doUs started to blaze and fearing that the fire might spread it was decided to send in an alarm. It was eXtinguiShed when the department reached there The damage did net amount to much.
 Yesterday afternoon Chief Bowen re- ceiVed telephone message from Wa terbury that stated that Louis H. Will liamS had died in the almShCuse there and instructions Were asked regarding the disposition of the body. May ,. 1889. Williams was married ill this city to Nellie Shea by the Rev P. P. Sha-> han. About nine years ago Williams disappeared from Norwich and his whereabouts were unknown to his wife. She was divorced from him last week and was given the custody of her 9-year-o old son. Williams was born in EssSt Haddam thirtyseven years ago. His father was a well-to-do farmer. For a number of years the deceased lived in Colchester. During the time he resided in Norwich he was employed in stables. Williams has a widowed mother, Mrs Frances Williams. and a sister. Mrs Harry E. Downer. and they will probably take charge of the body.-Norwich Record
 The following is the program ren- dered at the Christmas exercises given by St Mary'S Literary circle at St Mary'S convent last night: Prologue Edward NcElligott: "The Christmas Home" Miss Alice O'Connor: dialogue, "Lucina and Paneratius,' Miss A. Kiely. Master c. Coyle: vocal trio, 70, Restless Sea- the Misses J. Dillon. J. Froney. Mir T, Healey: character sketch of Fabiola. Miss Jennie Gull hane: dialogue. '-FaDiola and Syra, the Misses NJ. Dillon and NJ. Keenan,: sketch of Agnes. Miss Aglfas Quinn: dialogue. "Fabiola and Agnes the Misses NJ. and J. Dillon: description. Miss Emma Boyle: solo, "Cllristmas anthem" Miss Jennie Culhane; read ing. John Grady: dialogue. ''IIaXimian and Sebastian." Messrs T. Sullivan and I. Butterly: reading. Thomas Savers: conclusion. mandolin. violin and piano. the Misses Nellie Calvin. NJ. Culhane. A. Hcaley. NJ. Kelley and Masters J. Gaffney and P. Luddy.
 At q meeting of the High school alumni last night ill the High school building final arrangements were com pleted for the annual promenade and concert on New Years night in City hall. Reports were received from the various subcommittee showing that everything was in readiness for the event of the season. Those who are engaged in selling tickets stated that there was an unusual demand for such and that they had disposed of almost all of their tickets. As the tickets are limited it would be well for in- tending purchasers to procure their tickets at once and thus avoid the pos sibility of being disappointed in the end. As the affair is almost at hand it was deemed fitting to choose the members of the floor and reception committees last evening and accord inelv the following were selected James McDcnald. Dr J. D. Freney, Otto Hellmann. John Grady. Theodore Nuhn pr w. O. Beecher, Joseph Calf nev. Thomas Savers. Joseph Lawlor. Walter Barber. Frank SDellman. Har- ,.v Burnes, Alfred Pollak and John Dallas.
 i Some of the milk dealers feel sorry | that the courts have rendered declS- ] ion which knocks out the provision of | the ordinance compelling dealers to 1 take out a license. because, as they 1 state. it is serious blow to consum- CTS. and big setback to dealers who have been in the habit of doing the right thing and who were delighted to l see a law in operation which made it rather risky for sharpers to pawn off | inferior stock on their customers The standard of the milk put on the mar ! ket. they claim. during the past two years. has increased considerably and | an effort should be made to keep it at i that. The men with filthy barns and
 dirty milk cans are reported as hay
 ing q wholesome dread of the inspec
 tor and hope that the decision regard
 ing the taking out of licenses will De
 the means of rendering his visits less
 frequent than usual. Thomas Kelly ! is very anxious to have the work ot
 inspection, continued and contends thar
 it would pay supposing there was nc
 end in view but to save children iron
 being fed upon milk that is not prop
 erly handled, to say nothing of the dan
 ger of adulteration.
 The Naugatuck Valley Ice company
 yesterday filed with Town Clerk Web
 CT, Bridgeport. certificate for tht
 increase of capital stock from $40,0Ot
 to $100.o00: from 1,600 to 1000 shares
 Following is the list of new subscrib
 CTS: NJ H. Belknap, Ansonfa, Sl shares; D. F. Ellis, Bridgeport,
 shares: E. A. Upson, Bridgeport, SG-
 shares; F. &. Beach, estate of Charle: | Do eI,o prnnl-c