Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-23
CITY NEWS.

St Patrick's fair at Lyceum tonight. A son was born to Mir and Mrs AL fred R. Drescher of Grand street last night.
 Moriarty's undertaking night calls answered at store or at District Tele- graph office
 The Washington Hill Athletic club will give it's annual sociable at Speed well hall this evening.
 The case of the Eagle Lock company Of Ierryyille against Carl Noak was resumed before Judge Coweu in the district court to-day.
 The funeral of Charles Parsons took l place this afternoon from Bergiu's Inorgue with service by the Rev Mir Grabher and interment in Riverside cemetery.
 The Lannon place at 30 Hawkins street will be sold by order of probate court at public auction to-morrow af- ternoon at 7 o'clock. by John NJ. Muis vile. the administra tor
 At the Salvation Army hall tonight q welcome meeting will be held. Cap tain Elgie Harker, who has been wis lting her mother in Ohio. returns to assist in the oversight of the local
 
 Admission is free and all are cordially invited.
 The girls glee club of the High school will give a musicale this even ing at the Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium. The musicale will be of rare merit, as the members of the girls glee club have established an enviable reputa- ton as artists of high degree in the musical line. Miss Dee is their eff fcient instructor.
 The Oriental Quartette composed of Messrs James Downey. J. Ryan, Thomas Driscon and William Ghent are making name for themselves as singers of q high degree. They have offers of several engagements, but at present they have not accepted any They are rehearsing daily and include in their repertoire all the latest songs.
 The funeral of Mrs Marcella Har- ford took place this morning from the family residence on Kingsbury street, with q mass of requiem at the Immaculate Conception church and interment in the family plot in Cal vary cemetery. The bearers were F. D. Rush, Dennis Havican, Michael Me keon and John McDonough
 The members of the St Thomas l.. and D. society have invented q novel scheme to advertise their sociable and dance at City hall. Friday evening. January 31. Tonight, dressed ill funny, quaint and queer costumes, they will form band and render the best of martial music in perfect har- mony along the principal streets of the city.
 Nellie Carty, aged 16 years, died this morning at the home of her par ents, Mir and Mrs Thomas Carty, 46 Lafayette street. Besides her par ents she leaves three sisters and four brothers, Sister Mary Matilda of Park vile, Lauretta. Irene, John, James, Thomas and Charles. The funeral ar engagements are not yet completed.
 It is understood that there will be q lively hearing on the consolidation question Friday night and that before all who want to be heard get through the hour will be so late that the board will not have much time to devote to q discussion of the subject in execu- tive session. Whats the sense of this proposed executive session, anyway?
 The need of typewriting machine in the office of the clerk of the super for court will be made known to the
  they can find time to drop wire pulling in the lobby of the legislature for day or two. In the offices of the clerk of the superior court ill all other coun- ties in the state typewriting machines are supplied by the commissioners, but somehow the commissioners of New Haven county do not seem to care three straws for this end of their jur isdiction. They are gradually becom- ing unpopular.
 Before the Waterbury Women's club yesterday afternoon. in the parlOrs of the Second Congregational church. Pro- lessor Frank NJ. Chapman, assistant curator of vertebrate zoology in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, delivered an interesting lee ture on "Why We Should Study Birds" Professor Chapman will speak on How to Study Birds in Leaven- worth hail some time later in the sea son. Before the lecture opened Miss Margaret Granniss rendered q solo ,ac- companied by Mrs E. L. Frisbie. Mrs J. H. Hart presided.
 In another column is published an order of the adjutant-general giving q number of discharges from the military service of the state. Among those dis charges is that of George \. King of this city as color sergeant of the See ond regiment. From the reading of the order it might appear that Ser geant King was dishonorably dis charged, but this is not so, as his dis charge was an honorable one. He did not send in an application to be re- tained as color sergeant and necessari- ly he made way for some other appli- cant His discharge was as it should be, an honorable one. after many years of service in the Connecticut National Guard.
 The will of the late Robert Davison, who was g watchman at the Benedict & B1rnham company's plant, was filed for probate today. All of decedent's estate is left to the widow, Ellen Day. ison After her demise the estate shall be divided into four equal shares. Two shall be given to the daughter. Mary Davison and one each to the. other daughters, Ellen Hallock, wife of ~1-N Nf.< urr