Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-18
CITY NEWS.


 The board of finance will meet to- night.
 The young Eagles defeated the James streets yesterday by a score of IS to ,.
 MT and Mrs William Haskin have re- turned from a six weeks trip in York state.
 turned from a five weeks trip spent at Saugerties, N. Y. MT Kleeber's form CT home.
 The weather affected the morals of the people yesterday, and in league with the police, it made no business for the city court to-day.
 Special forecast for Connecticut; Local showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and probably tonight; Fri day fair, cooler, light variable winds, becoming northerly.
 The First division. A. o. H., has changed it's meeting night. Instead of the first Tuesday and third Thursday of every month the society will meet the first and third Thursdays.
 Ruth A., the 21a months old daughter of Mir and Mrs N J. Daniels of Kala- mazoo avenue, died yesterday. The funeral will take place tomorrow morning at 9:45 o'clock. The remains will be taken. to Thomaston for burial in charge of Undertaken Stewart of J. NJ. Burrall < Go.
 Louis Weisbecker, first fielder on the Waterbury baseball team, had $S4 talk en from his room at the Earle house last night. There is no clue to the theft. The money was in pocket book. Weisbecker belongs ill New York and is regarded as one of the best men on the local team.
 This morning some one threw mat tress into the ash chute at the block owned by Mrs Sarah J. Hayes on North Main street. Soon after some live coals went down and the next things the occupants knew they nad q fire on their hands. An alarm was rung in from box 216, corner of Cooke and North Main streets, but when the department reached there the blaze had been extinguished. There was no damage.
 T. P. Hutchinson and family are at the Sanford house, Sayin Rock. MT Hutchinson, who makes occasional trips to Waterbury to look after his property, told a reporter to-day that Sayin Rock is about the best place within miles of Waterbury for people to spend the summer. It is near home. he said, and the expense of living is as reasonable if net more. so than it, is at home The only difference is the cost of a house to live in.
 Mrs Carrie Andrews BIackmar, agsd % years. wife of Daniel E. Blackmar, died last night at her home, 253 North Willow street. Funeral services will be held at the house tonight at S:30 o'clock by the Rev MT Holden, assist ant pastor of the Second Congregations al church. The choir of the Second church. where Mrs Blackmar used to sing prior to being taken i'll, will render appropriate selections. The remains will be taken to Housatonic for burial tomorrow in charge of Undertaken TomlinSon.
 The electric lights at the foot of Burton street on Bishop street and the light at the junction of Summer and Beacon streets played q game of hide and-seek last evening that was anus ing to the residents ill the vicinity if at the same time it reminded them that these two lights are lighted only every other night and some times wink themselves out for hours. But last night the antics of the two lights was Imaginable. When one flared up, tue other went out and so they kept on un- til it was too late to sit up watching the game of hide-and-seek. Bishop street is never too well lighted and when the light at the foot of Burton is out, which, as has been said is almost every other night, the place is as dark as wood.
 Charles Barnes, the livery keeper, went fishing the other day and re turned with the usual story. This story he told in Wilson's hardware store yesterday afternoon. It was to the effect that he was in the vicinity of Bantam and his bait giving out, he tried a mosquito. These insects are so numerous and large that the applica- ton of one to his hook was not q sud den inspiration, but the gradual dawn of new idea, arising out of the law. of necessity. It turned out to be quite q taking idea with the fish, as Mir Barnes's basket testified to on his re turn. But the mosquito was made an- other use of MT Barnes's luncheon having disappeared, undoubtedly through the means of a tramp, he caught a few of the largest specimens | (this is his own story) and fried them. He found them more palatable than | frogs legs and somewhat more difficult to catch than frogs, but worth the I trouble He thinks a great market could be cultivated for this epicurean dish.
 The Uunion Rescue Mission Sunday school held their annual outing at | Boulder grove Wednesday and though the weather was threatening at times the alternating of sunshine and clouds only added comfort for the occasion
 Mrs Shepherd, the school superintend
 ent, had arranged an elaborate pro l gram of speaking and singing by the friends of the children and recitations by the scholars, and then, that not un
 important part of picnic, kind hearts
 are always so thoughtful of-the table | what loads of cakes and good things
 how eagerly it is devoured, and theI to the swings and other recreation: forgetful of all but the moment to gei
 all there is out of it, for this day come:
 but once a year for many of these chil
 dren, and under the direction of thos,
 who have at heart the future wellbe
 ing of the little folks as we'll as theil
 present enjoyment the outing afford:
 instruction as well.
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