Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-12
CITY NEWS.

on the cellar of the new Whittemore block at the corner of Bank and Grand streets.
 The regular business meeting of the Young Women's Friendly league will be held on Thursday evening, June 13, at eight o'clock.
 The bureau of assessment held a meeting Monday night and voted to hold several hearings on June 24. The board will visit Edward street to- morrow afternoon.
 The funeral of Louis Glastre will take place tomorrow afternoon at o'clock from the residence of John AIraz, S67 South Leonard street, with service at the house and interment in Riverside cemetery.
 Katherine, the 2 years and months old child of MT and Mrs Albert H. Mills, 119 North Main street, died last night. The funeral will take place Thursday afternoon at o'clock, with services at the house by the Rev Dr Anderson and interment in Pine Grove cemetery.
 This evening will occur the last re- hearsal of the Friendly league glee club for the season. MT Hallett re- quests all members to be present, as the final appearance of the club for the season will occur Friday evening at the concert to be given in Friendly league hall by MT Hallett's piano pu- pils
 The thirty-frst reunion of the Con- necticut Masonic Veteran association will be held at the Masonic home, Wal lingford, Conn, Thursday, June 27th, 1901. Dinner will be furnished at 50 cents. Return tickets at half price will be issued over the lines of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road.
 William Pryor, son of the we'll known constable who so resembles Major-G General Shafter, has arrived home from New York, where he had been to undergo an operation for ap- pendicitis. The operation was suc- cessful and MT Pryor's recovery is complete. Upon his arrival he was surprised by party of about fifty of his friends, who gave him a hearty welcome home.
 The funeral of John, the 16-months- old son of Mir and Mrs Frank Sheehy of Ridge street, who died Monday night, took place yesterday afternoon, with interment in St Joseph's ceme- tery. The floral offerings included the following pieces: Basket of roses, Miss Annie Stack; bouquets, Mrs George Hughes, Mrs P. Leary,o Miss Annie Fitzgerald, Miss Annie Leary, Mrs B. Keough and Mrs F. Murphy.
 The funeral of Mrs John Parker took place this morning from her late home on Baldwin street to the I'm maculate Conception church, where a
 
 the Rev Father Broderick. The bear CTS were Patrick Moynahan, Garrett Savers, Robert Parker. Eugene Sulli- van, Michael Cayan, Robert Parker. There was a large number of floral tributes. The interment was in the new St Joseph's cemetery.
 Many visitors were present at the annual exhibition of class work at the Lincoln school and they expressed the greatest satisfaction with the display A large number also attended the ex- hibition today. The work of the scholars in the various branches of | study. as seen by an inspection of the papers which, decorated tie walls, is splendid, The work has been neatly and accurately done It speaks won derfully of the abilities of the 'seho1- ars and their instructors.
 The funeral Of Michael White took place this morning from the residence of his daughter, Mrs William Hayes, corner of Burton and Beacon streets, with service at St Thomas's church and interment in St Joseph's cemetery.
 At a meeting of the Connecticut Pharmaceutical association in Bran ford yesterday John B. Ebbs of this city was reelected treasurer. John Blair was elected a member of the ex- ecutive committee. Several of the local druggists are attending the out ing of the association to-day. 4s1
 . Almost all the Staryiew street people who appeared before the board of pub l lie works last night were very anxious 4 to have the city take hold of the street and do something with it. But of course there were one or two object ors, Stephen D. Church stating in a communication to the clerk that he would have nothing to do with the place under its present name. He claimed that on the deeds was the proper name of the street, which is Michigan avenue, and that all the deeds of the property in the street read that way.
 Carpenters never were in greater de- mand in Waterbury than at the pres ent time, so that there IS no bother be- tween members of the craft and their employers, the only thing bothering the bosses being to know where to get men. There seems to be no question about wages or hours, these matters having been settled before the strikers returned when the snarl was on. After all it was too bad that so many of the l men left town. There was lots of work for them here and of course the strike would have been settled if they had remained here just the same. | Nearly all the bosses are looking for men, but they don't seem to be very successful in finding them. If there are carpenters in town who want jobs | they should read the want column in to-day's Democrat.
 Tonight is the last night for Water bury tug-of-war teams to practice for ! the pull at Division No As entertain ment tomorrow evening and the lucky star seems to shine in the neighbor- hood of Naugatuck. M. J. Ryan of the Rubber town has already chartered car to take his team and friends here and back home, and he says they will be entertained by the prize photograph | l,-