Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-24
CITY NEWS.

James A. Knox will leave here to morrow for New Haven, where he vii establish headquarters as grand re corder of the A. o. U. W. MT Kno1 will not remove his family for tn present.
 The committee in charge of tht social evening in the rooms of tht C. w A. tonight desire to remind tht members that the whist will begir promptly at 8 o'clock. Prizes will DC awarded. All members are cordially invited to be present.
 Harry J. Morse of Norwich an' Miss May Maud Duley of this cit. were married yesterday afternoon a the home of the brides parents, M and Mrs ". H. Duley, 54 Elizabetl street, by the Rev F. D. Buckley. Tn couple will reside. in Norwich.
 A certificate of incorporation of tn, Mattatuck Lumber company of Wa terbury has been filed with the sec retary of, state. The capital stock i. $25.0 .000 The officers are: Presi dent. Thomas D. Barlow; treasurer Watson M Hur1burt; secretary Charles W. Hurlburt.
 A number of the teachers of the pub lie schools are numbered on the sick list at present, so many, in fact, that the number of substitutes has been too few to supply the vacancies thereon. It has been necessary to call upon sew eral senior pupil teachers of the Train ing school to show their ability as in- structors.
 The funeral of Richard Lucid took place this afternoon from his late home on South Main street, with services at the Immaculate Conception church by the Rev Father O'Brien and interment in Calvary cemetery. The bearers were Michael Brick, Florence Sullivan, Patrick Stack, John c. Cotter, Edward O'Brien and Michael Devine.
 The .Washington Hill Favorites,' comprising about thirty little girls, will furnish the entertainment at St Francis fair, Naugatuck, this eyen- ing. The children have been re- hearsing for the past two weeks un- der the direction of the organist, Miss May German, and promise to give very fine specimen of Waterbury tai ent in the rubber town tonight.
 John McHale and Miss Josie Me- Carthy were married this morning i'll St Thomas church by the pastor, the Rev Father Crowley. Miss Mccarthy lived on Summer sreet and McHale is a bartender employed by Patrick Sta pleton on Cherry street. After the church ceremony a brief reception was given at the brides home to few friends. The welded couple then started on a short wedding tour.
 John F. Calvin has gathered to- gether some good talent for the re hearsal of 'tTitania,'' which will be put on the city hall stage on the evening of December 29 under the auspices of the Second division. A. o. H. The play deals largely with fairies, spooks, ghosts and various other mysterious beings which are represented to good advantage by members of the cast.
 While on his way home from the Crosby grammar school this noon a little boy was knocked down and run over by team driven by a farmer The accident occurred on East Main street. near Polls theater. The driver of the team did not stop to see if the boy was injured. but drove right on as if nothing had occurred. Forum ately the little child was not hurt se- verely.
 St Cecilia's fair drew a large crowd last evening. The stage program was all right. as was heard remarked on all sides. Tonight and tomorrow night the hall is engaged by other par ties. The fair will close Saturday night with distribution of prizes, stage entertainment and dancing. It is prob able that the orchestra will be in- creased in number as it was last night. The awarding of articles will take but a few minutes as there are but eight cen canyassers.
 Thomas Moran, superintendent of the almshouse has his farm in better shape this year than ever before, the condition of some, of the fields being the wonder of people who pass that way along the Watertown road. The rye lots are rolled so neatly that one would think the superintendent had been over them with level His po- tato crop didn't pan out very we'll, though, and the cause is mystery to the superintendent and his large num- bet of employees, every one of whom knows a thing or two about potato AoNA'AuSs dhd uOt ScelhS lu0 SCdlKS rail in the early fall they cannot under stand why the tubers did not thrive better.
 Pilgrims at the Holy We'll at Gau- zane Barra'' is the title of a picture which has occupied good deal of at- tention the past week or so in the show window of Pollak's art studio m Bank street. Gaugane Barra is about forty miles from the city of Cork. Ire land. and is one of the most romantic places in that country. Its wild gran deur has been made the subject of some very exquisite stories and poems and in this way it has become so fa- nous that all tourists to the Emerald Isle have this charmed spot in their itinerary. 1t was immortalized years ago by James Joseph Callahan and others who found in it inspiration for their best known literary efforts in prose and poetry.
 Coach Durant of the High school eleven is rather disgusted at the lack of interest manifested in practice by the candidates for the football team. The New Britain game is less than two weeks distant, yet the boys do not seem to possess enough of school spirit to even attend practice every other day. Half of the candidates