Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-19
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS.
FIRE AT THE RESIDENCE OF
 WILLIS PAYNE.
One Fire Alarm Box Out of Order and Would Not Respond, Thereby Giving
 the Fire Considerable Headway.

Would Not Respond, Thereby Giving
 the Fire Considerable Headway.
 There was one prisoner in the Dor ough court this morning. Clarence GrOssman of Plainyille was arrested yesterday afternoon in the act of beg ging on the streets. Chief Smith made the arrest and when the prisoner ap- peared in court this morning he told a hard luck story, and the judge sus- pended sentence on the prisoners $ promise to return to his home immedi- ately.
 James Maher of TolIes square left this morning for few days visit with friends in New Haven
 The Young Mems Catholic institute will meet tonight All members are requested to be present.
 Mir and Mrs NJ. P. Coen and Miss Mamie CrOnan are in Litchfield today attending the reunion of the Fifteenth c. VI.
 A number of candidates for the local football team turned out on HOtchkiss field this morning for the preliminary practice The local management has a whole lot of good material to pick from and Naugatuck will certainly put q strong team on the gridirOn this sea son to lay claim to the championship hOnOrS of the season, as they have done for few seasons past
 The members of the Pan-American minstrels are working hard to make a grand success of their benefit for their manager. John J. Burke. on next Monday night The program as ar ranged is q fine one and there will uE- dOubtedly be q large attendance Tick cts may be obtained of any of the members of the company and may be exchanged for reserved seats on and after Friday. the 2Oth. at McCarthys s news store on Church street.
 Court Minerva, I. O. of F., will meet tonight in FOresters hall. All mem bers are requested to be present, as business of importance is to be trans acted.
 James SkelIey of Providence, R. l.. is spending few days with friends in town
 About 4:45 last night the fremen were called to the residence of Willis Payne of Park avenue by an alarm of fire from box 24. The people in the vicinity of the house claim that The alarm on the corner of Hillside and Millville avenues was tried and found wanting and that is why the other alarm had to be used. The firemen quickly responded and extinguished the fire in short order, but not before con siderable damage had been done by fire and water. The delay in sounding the alarm was the real cause of most of the damage. as the fire had gained considerable headway before the alarm was sent in on account of the first fire box tried being out of order.
 The town has the appearance of a holiday today, all the places of busi- ness being closed. This morning at 9 o'clock a solemn high mass was ceie brated at St Francis'S church. with iEe Rev Father Sheridan as celebrant and the Rev Father Tanning as deacon and a strange priest as Sub-deacOn, and the Rev Father Higgins as master of cere- monies Services were held in all the other churches and the different min- iSterS preached lengthy eulogies on the dead president
 The Salem Spring Ice Co have sold all the surplus supply of ice which they had stored to Waterbury concerns (sOme 600 or 500 tons in alD. and they will commence delivering the same to- morrow morning.
 Frank IT. Judd. proprietor of the drug store on the corner of Water and Maple streets. has a souvenir in his window which is attracting consid erable attention The souvenir is a copy of the New York Herald of the day of the assassination of President Lincoln The paper contains an ;c- count of the assassination and the To- cation of the different troops of The north and south at that time.