Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-22
WATERVlLLE.
Foresters' Committee VIII Meet at
 Mill Plain Tonight.

Mill Plain Tonight.
 The committee appointed by Court Welch to meet the residents of Mlll Plain, who are planning to organize court of ForesterS through ConfS Welch, will be present at q preliminary meeting which will be held at Grange hall in Mill Plain tonight. The coin- mittec consists of T. B. Carney, w. II. Davis and Alexander Haxton.
 Waterville has been in a fever of ex- citement and anxiety for the past two weeks over the dreaded invasion of The so called kissing bugs If an unusual sized mosquito ragged fercely on the delicate proboscis of some visiting city youth or maiden, immediately the hue and cry was raised against the unkind and ferocious insect. Trolley men along the line running into Wateryille have also been among the number of those to increase the enormity of the kissing bug invasion. Great oaks from little acorns grow, and so it was that people became convinced that the pop ulation of Waterville must indeed soon be totally annihilated. Several trolley men went in person to the Democrat office and appealed to the newspaper fraternity for aid in bringing to light some means to subdue the antagonistic attitude of the "bugs that bite" Some wanted consultation of medical men, others the sanitary inspector, the health department, and one or two voted to let the fire department loose. After the excitement of the moment had subsided to fairly comfortable degree of temperature, some one asked for specimen of the pest. All started out for proof of their assertions, 0 rod rx-if hae hnI1 hot 1o1f .sNys gloves, mosquito nettingS and the like, to avoid evil consequences from the stings of the pests. The next morning the same aggregation returned with q kissing bug" secured in two ounce tin tobacco box tied with small sized cable. The rope was strong enough, and so was the box. There was no getting away. and the proud captors set the box down carefully on the office safe with a sigh of intense re- lief, yet with a look of triumph and quiet satisfaction. Carefully the box was opened, disclosing to the view of dozen pair of eyes q helpless, harnl- less, winged hellgamite, better known as bloomer, often used by fishermen tp entice the willy bass from their lairs. The kissing bug fad received an awful blow and the captors of tine hellgamite retreated.
 Another interesting ball game was played at the local grounds yesterday afternoon. when Uthe Jeffersors were defeated by the Brooklyn A. 0. by a score of , to f. The pitching of Brown for the Jeffersons, who struck out fourteen men, was the feature of the game. f 3tls 4 tNu
 Irregular meeting of Goodwill lodge. k. of F., will be held in Pythian hall tonight
 Drs Crane, Goodenough and Hol- royd performed an operation Saturday upon Miss Viola Stepney of Main street, who is suffering from appen- dicitis.
 The American Pin Co ball nine de- feated the Y. NJ. c. A. team of Wa terhury on Saturday afternoon by q score of to '. The game was close and warmly contested throughout, and 1t was only when the last man had been retired that the game was won. The battery for the winners was Bar ker and Lachance, while Barnes and II. DeWs ofticiated for the visitors.