Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-20
CITY NEWS.
skating at the rink to.night.

4ucdtei IlchRlS Tree WILL uAie~n bread.
 There will be rehearsal of the boys choir at St Patrick's church at 7:3o this evening.
 | Full line of dried fruit of all kinds | at Boylan's butter store, 194 South Main. Telephone csil 103-4.
 We give tbis week to all purchasing soc worth tea, coffee. etc, beautiful framed picture in oil color. The A. F. Tea Co
 Ida Hockert, aged 2 years and 3 months. wife of Axel Hockert, died yesterday afternoon at 3:3O. She leaves two children. Axei, aged years and l month, and Otto, fl months. The funeral will be held Sunday at P. n. at Pine Grove cemetery. | c. N. Cables. the real estate man, has contracted for the erection of two | large buildings. one to be built near the | corner of North Main and Spark streets. fronting on North Main, and ! the other will front on Park avenue. Each building will accommodate eight | families. John \. Carroll. whose home is i'll Torrington, will be ordained to the | priesthood tomorrow morning at St Bonaventure's seminary, Allegheny, N. '. His brother, Thomas Carroll. with other members of the family. left yes terday to witness the ceremony. The newly ordained priest will return to ! Torrington and celebrate his first mass in St Francls's church at 10:30 Christ mas morning.
 Court Hancock, No 24, Foresters of America. held q meeting last evening in G. A.. R. hall and elected the fol lowing officers for the ensuing year: Chier ranger. Luke Bowling; sub-chief ranger. Leo F. Bovalley; treasurer. W. H. Nolan: recording secretary, J. II. Butler: senior woodward. r. Cantillon; | junior woodward. b. Sullivan; senior beadle. J. Finnerty; junior beadle. J. i Bresnahan; lecturer, D. F. Murnane: trustees. John T. Mccarthy, J. A. Hynes and James Sutton; physician, Dr B. 4. 0'Hara; druggist. J. r. Dun- can.
 The Waterbury Mutual Sick Benefit and Funeral society held it's annual meeting and election of officers last 1 evening at the rooms of the society on 1 South Main street. The following ofti- cers were elected for. the ensuing year: lPresident. Samuel Nuttall; vice-presi- dent, William knibbs: secretary, Ed | ward G. Levick; treasurer. Thomas +. Guest; trustees. Henry Holmes, Mar 1 tin Hickey and Samuel Norton. The annual report showed the order to be in excellent financial condition, no deaths having resulted during the past year.
 The funeral of Andrew J. Hickey took place this morning from the resi- denee of his brother. D. J. Hickey. 101 South Leonard street, to St Pat rick's church, where a mass or re- quiem was celebrated by the Rev Father Gleeson. The bearers were William E. Bann6n, Otto Hermann, Daniel Cassidy, Thomas F. Derwin, Edward I Donahue and James F. Morris. The floral offerings included q beautiful wreath marked Brother Andrew from the brothers of the de- ceased. The intermeRt was in St Jo- seph's cemetery.
 The board Of finance met last night and approved the half monthly pay ments. On recommendation of the board of education the salary of Ed ward Mcdonald, ianitor Of the Elm street evening school. was advanced from 75 cents to S1 night and that of Janitor Kelly of the Merriam school from $50 a month to S55. The reso- lution introduced into the board of d. dermen's meeting Monday night rela- tive to the establishment of a sinking fund for the proposed Liberty street extension. and referred to the board Of finance. was received and laid on the table until the regular monthly meet ing.
 The bureau of assessment held eigh- ty-one meetings during the past two years This board is appointed by the aldermen and if not the most impor- tant is certainly equal in importance to any of the appointive boards in the city. It deals with all questions of benefits and damages arising from lay outs and grades of new streets, change of grades on sidewalks and accepted streets, 1evying assessments for pav- ing and handles all other work of that character. The present board is com posed of Mailer Kaiser, Eugene Clarkin and I. A. Spencer. Each member re- ceives Sj for each meeting. that is, provided they transact any business. Once in q while they come together and talk over one thing and another without making any charge.
 The small children who attend Bish- op street school were surprised during the week to hear that there was no such individual as Santa Claus and accordingly the prospect of receiving presents this Christmas was poor in- deed Their surprise was overturned to-day by another and more agreeable one, the actual arrival Of no less an in- i dividual than NIT Santa. bag and bag gage And precious baggage It was. There were trumpets that could make sweeter music than Sousa himself, and drums big enough for the biggest
 small boy. Dolls with rolling and coquettish eyes and cupid lips. Some
 were blondes and some were brunettes
 and all were beauties. And when
 school adjourned at noon there was
 more music in the air than has been
 heard since Santa's visit last Christ
 mas. Therefore anyone who desires = to convince the junior grade pupils in
 the Bishop street school that Santa
 Claus is q myth has a big contract on
 hls hands which is likely 10 result in
 failure.
 , Few persons have the least idea as
 to the number of Christmas trees sold i in this city. The number Is rather
 large and must aggregate 1000 or
 5000. Dalton S& Go have about ,O0O