Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-22
BRooKLYN BRIEFS

Miss Louise Malone of Bank street left yesterday afternoon for New Ha- ven in order to be present to-day at tic funeral of an uncle, who died Tuesday in that city.
 There will be a meeting of the members of St Thomas Drum corps at the Lyceum tonight at 7:30. Every member is requested to be present as practice will at once be commenced again. The drum corps has several engagements in view for which they wish to be in fine trim, consequently they have engaged an instructor to teach them the fine points of music
 A pretty wedding was celebrated this morning at 7:30 at St Patrick's church by the Rev Father Gleason, the contracting parties being Arthur EfoWn or Bridgeport, a popular em- ploy of the Wheeler 6 Wilson Co and Miss Stacia McGrath, daughter of Mir and Mrs Patrick McGrath of 46 Poplar avenue and one of Brooklyn's popular young ladies. Thomas McGrath and Miss Mamie McGrath. brother and sis ter or the bride, acted respectively as best man and bridesmaid. The bride was handsomely gowned in tailor made suit of grey while the bridesmaid was nattily attired in steel blue The groom'S gift to the bride was a dia- mond brooch in the shape of cres- cent, while handsome diamond ring was his gift to the bridesmaid A wedding breakfast and reception at the home of the brides parents on Poplar avenue succeeded the marriage ceremony The wedding presents re- ceived by the young couple were many ana beautiful, atteSting the esteem in which they are held by their many friends. Guests were present from NorwaIk, Hartford. South Wilton and other places. The bridal pair left on the 10:oO train for a wedding honey moon to be spent in New York On their return they will reside in Bridge port.
 In few days there will be start ed course of study in fiction, travel, history. biography, religion anu poetry for the season of 19O0-19U1, under the direction of Rev Charles E. Granger, pastor of the Third Congregational church. The course will be opened to each and every person in Waterbury who wishes to avail himself of this ex- cellent opportunity of increasing his store of knowledge, etc. Books for the course may be drawn from the
 Free Public Circulating Library' connected with the Third Congrega- 1 tional church. Books must not be re-
 tained more than two weeks except 1 by special permission of the librarian. 1 The course must cover at least two 1 books of fiction and one each of the | others. Examinations will be held | during the first week in June, 1901. | Diplomas will be given to the success 1 ful contestants in the examinations. | The following is the list of books 1 offered for the course: Fiction.
 Great Expectations" "Dombey and
 Son. Tale of Two Cities" Dickens;
 Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush." Ian
 Maclaren: The Little Minister J. NJ. 1 Barrie: Ben Hur," Prince of India" | Wallace. Travel, "Livingstone's
 Travels and Explorations in South
 Africa David Livingstone. L. l.. D..
 -Four Years in the Old World" Dr | and Mrs Palmer: "A Lady's Life in the l Rocky Mountains.' Isabella L. Bird.
 History. Turkey and the American Atrocities the Rev Edwin M. Bliss: History of the United States 1S14-G1." :" F. Benjamin Andrews: "The Scandi-
 navian Races" Paul C. Linding. Bio l G1aphy. Life of George Washington = John Marshall; Life of Napoleon | Ponaparte," John l.. C. Abbott: Life
 of Paul Jones'" James Hamilton. Re
 ligion. Life and Words of Christi pr
 C. Geikie: "The Pilgrims Progress"
 John Bunyon: Familiar Talks on | Themes of Christian Experience"
 Henry Ward Beecher. Poetry any five
 hundred lines of Longfellow or Tenny- l son.