Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-21
CITY NEWS.

Mrs Richard Brown is spending
 week in New York with relatives.
 Tutoring in college or high school
 work, H. S. Gulliyer, Yale A. M., 51
 Walnut street.
 A daughter was born on Wednesday to MT and Mrs William T. Savage of 6 Fuller street.
 Chickens Sc ID, shoulder roasts Sc
 market tonight.
 Mir Minor of this city has returned
 to live on the Joseph Rodier home
 stead at Mill Plain.
 The Daughters of the American Rev olution met yesterday at the residence of Mrs E. D. Wright, Idylwood.
 The First Baptist and First Metho- dist churches will hold picnic at Hanover park on June 27. The Mill tary band will furnish music. |. The funeral of Margaret B. McGrath will take place tomorrow morning at S:30 o'clock from the family residence on East Main street to the Sacred Heart church.
 | Tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock a months mind mass of requiem will be celebrated at the church of the Imma- culate Conception for the late Thomas Ferris.
 | Mrs Sarah A. Thomas of Los An | geles, Cal arrived in this city yester- day and will spend the summer with her daughter, Mrs George H. Kettle ton, 57 Ridgewood street.
 Hon George H. Cowell will deliver the address to the graduating class of Monroe's Business college next Thurs ] day evening The alumni will give the graduates lawn party in the near fu- 1 ture.
 Irna, the 5-year-old son of MT and | Mrs Max Weitzman of South Main street had the sight knocked out of one of his eyes yesterday afternoon by the accidental discharge of fire cracker.
 Two beautiful bay trees are now on exhibition on the sidewalk opposite T. | H. Hayes's cafe on East Main street. | They were bought in New York and are the finest specimens of the plant ever seen in Waterbury. | At a meeting of the shareholders of | the Mercantile Cooperative bank, last evening, w. J. Cassidy was appointed | a delegate to attend hearing for a permanent receiver for the bank, which is being held in Bridgeport to-day.
 The Mill Plain school district will hold its annual meeting a week from | tonight at o'clock. A full attendance is requested. Some of the residents are talking about making a few changes, but whether this will happen or not no one can tell until after the ballots have been counted.
 About o'clock last evening the l chemical engine was called to Cones drug store, corner of West Main street and Exchange place where the paper on barrel of alcohol which was being | tapped caught fire from a taper. and started to burn. The clerks had it ex- tinguished before the firemen reached the place. There was no damage. Waterbury and Durand companies, U. R. K of P, of this city are making extensive preparations for the Field day exercises which take place at Pawson park, Branford, July 5, will follow. The companies do not hold the three days encampment as inde- pendent bodies, but of course the field day will be held as a brigade. The band concert at Stanley park | last night by the American band at | tracted a large attendance and all en- | joyed the program. The music was of l a high order and it is hoped that the concerts will be continued once or twice a week in different parts of the town during the summer months. The platform worked all right and was moved to and from the city yard with very little trouble.
 Mad River grange worked the third and fourth degrees last night before large audience. Ih4s was followed by the harvest supper. The grange will hold memorial services next Sunday, when addresses will be delivered by the Rev Dr Davenport, pastor of the Sec ond Congregational church of this city; Prof David c. Porter, and others. Committees have been appointed to at tend to the decorating of the graves of deceased members in Mill Plain, Vol colt and East Farms cemeteries.
 At the regular monthly meeting of the German Catholic Sick Benefit so- ciety, held Wednesday evening, John J. Siefen was elected delegate to the forty-sixth annual convention of the German Catholic Central society of the | United States, to be held in Bridgeport | September s until 12. This is the na- | tional organization of the German Catholic Sick and Death Benevolent societies. organized in Baltimore, Md, \ in 1855, and for the first time in it's history will meet in this state. Mrs Johanna Dillon, widow of the late John Dillon, died yesterday after noon at her home, IT William street. She leaves three sons, Pierce, of this city, Thomas, of Boston, and John of New York; also three daughters, Mrs Lizzie Mccarthy, Mrs Thomas Shea and Miss Nellie Dillon; and one sister | Mrs John Mulville of Oak street Mrs Dillon has lived in Waterbury for years and was well liked by her neigh | bors and others who had an acquaint- ance with her. She enjoyed good | health until a short time ago. when she was stricken with stomach trouble and once she was forced to give up and remain in bed she said the end was about at hand, and that soon she would | be with them no more. The funeral | will take place tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, with mass of requiem at the Sacred Heart church and interment | in St Joseph's cemetery.