Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-28
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 street returned to-day from a short trip to New York.
 Photographs were taken to-day of the pupils of the various rooms in the Bank street school.
 The Brooklyn Athletic club IS completing great arrangements for q soclable to be given on April 19.
 Miss Katherine Nolan of Southing- ton, who has been visiting Miss Lizzie Russell of James street, has returned home.
 MT and Mrs John Hallihan of Gen. 'tral City, Col, are the guests of Mich- ael Brennan and family of South Fifth street. 4
 -Truant Officer Hurley has been per- forming good work in this section for several days in rounding up truants and consequently there are few chil- dren of school age remaining away from school now unless they have some good excuse.
 The Invincibles of the Crosby grammar school would like to arrange a game of base ball with any light grade team in the city, the Bank street school team preferred. NJ. Connor and J. Walsh, catchers; H. Webb, pitcher; c. Spain, first base; c. Wright, second base; F. Fitzgerald, third base; G. Rametti, third base; J. Courtney, left field; Joseph Guilfoile, center field; H. White, right field. All persons wish ing q game address communications to Manager Culligan, 49 South Elm street.
 Rev Louis Holden of the Second Congregational church preached at the special services at the Third Congre- gational church last evening, large audience being present. As said be- fore, there will be 9 different speaker almost every evening at the two weeks special meetings. which commenced Tuesday evening and will continue un- til Sunday evening, April :. Tue list of speakers for the remainer of the two weeks is as follows: Thursday, Rev Walter w. Winans. Chapel street M. F. church; Friday, Rev Charles E. Granger. Sunday, 1O:30, appropriate sermon by the pastor; 11:45 special sunday school service; ?. m.. address by Mrs William Clifford of Brooklyn District Missionary association. Holy week, Tuesday, General Secretary Rob- crt s. Ross of the Y. M. c. A.; We'd ncsday, Rev James X. Gardiner, Ad- vent church: Thursday, address by Rev Charles F. Granger, and celebra- tion of holy communion: Friday, Rev Charles F. Granger; Sunday, an ap- propriate sermon by the pastor, morn- ing and evening, with special music by the choir.
 Chicken thieves are commencing to renew their old hauls of poultry on Town Plot. Last Tuesday evening they visited the coop of Thomas French and carried away with them every chicken ill the place except one. They stole about twelve. Mir French is an old veteran and about a years of age. He resides with his wife on farm on Town Plot, neighboring to the Hellmann farm, which is tenanted by Hans Rasmussen. Mir French's coop appears to have charms for chick en thieves, as this is the third time in several months that they have paid his coop a visit and carried away with | them all of his poultry. Whoever are | guilty of such contemptible and 1 mean trick of robbing such an old cou- 1 pie as Mir and Mrs French-those peo- l pie are degraded enough to commit | any crime. It is fortunate that Mir French did not hear them while in the act, for as sure as the sun shines there would have been a dead person some | where, as he is crack shot and would l not hesitate to resort to little lead. It is the general impression that ho- boes or 1rampS are not the perpetrators l of these thefts, but that some person or | persons who are acquainted with MT 1 French and his possessions are the l real culpritS. It at least looks that i way. The people of this section and the neighbors of Mir French hope that in some manner the thieves may be discovered and that a severe punish ment may be meted out to them.
 The item in last evenings Nauga- | tuck column of the Democrat in regard to Naugatuck's version of the bottle l l,;I 1.I- | briefs on Tuesday night and in which q freshet q youth. q bottle, a note and a letter played prominent parts, was amusing and interesting even if it were 1 doubted. The three young men in the rubber borough may have picked up the bottle and they may have written the letter and signed the fictitious names, and yet there are some who question the veracity of this supposi- tion. If those youths had found the bottle. as they stated. and if they wished to perpetrate joke, it is doubt full if their exuberant spirits, their fondness and delight in jokes, their keen perception of fun, would permit
 them to wait q week or two before answering. And then they wrote so much and in such a boyish hand. Oh, yes; few lines and nice writing, char acterstic of girls, is the work of young
 men! If the latter had written the | letter the chances are there would
 have been five or six pages of nonsense instead of a few lines. Most people
 will have their suspicious of the veraci-
 ty of the Naugatuck version and will
 think that the reporters down there
 have received a pipe dream, until the
 have further facts in the case. Let
 the young men say to whom they ad- | dressed the letter, what it said and
 what were the names and addresses
 signed to it, not the initials, and then the. story will not be so doubtful