Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-20
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s-Ni-sS thNFsAlifi VI T EOistuFlNhA ir Atfts guest Of Miss Daisy Lord of Third st, eet. @s
 Rev Father Saurusaitis, pastor Of St Josephs church will leave town Mon- day for few days vacation. He wilt take trip to Shenandoah, returning perhaps Wednesday, evening.
 An interesting ball game may be expected tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 at the Rye lots when the St Thomas Cadets andN the Brooklyn A. C., face each other, Kinney and Ray will be tatiery for former while Pratt, Kelly and McNellis will i'll similar position for the B. A. O..
 "A surprise party wns given in hoIl- or of +. Lannon by number of his friends at his homo on Fourth street on Thursday evening. Music, instru- mental and vocal, recitations and va- rious other amusements formed part or the evenings program. Refresh- ments were served.
 -Another large audience was pres ent at St .Toseph's Lithuanian fair last night at City hall and everyone al,- peared to have spert n pleasant cyen- Ing. Tonight the fair will close. An excellent stage program has been ar- ranged and as usual dancing will be feature A large crowd will no doubt be in attendance,
 While playing in the schoolvard or the Bank street school yesterday af- ternoon. John Cronan of North Leon ard street was struck upon the head wi;i, stone which nnothor school hoy had thrown in the air in spirit of fun! The stone pierced deen gash in the bows head. which Dr Russell placed three stitches :n.
 --The Rev Charles E. Granger, pastor Of the Third Congregational church. will preach at 10:30 q. n. mud 2 D. m. tomorrow. Subject of morning ser mon "The Eleventh Commandment. Sabbath school at 11:45 n. m. Juvenile Temnle 3 D. m. O. E. meeting G:15 n. m. Subject of evening sermon "Thrce Steps ill Christian Experience.''
 "A large and merry gathering was present at the sociable and dance of the Brooklyn Athletic club Inst ryen- Ing Ialiier's orchestra Furnished mu- sic and Professor Herr did the prompt ing for the dancing which consisted of eighteen numbers. Among those pres ent were Edward Fleming, Thomas ton; John and James Rogers. Winstesi; and the members of the Olymnia cIul, which attended in n body. Tho fair was one of the most successful of it's kind given by the R. A. O.. and mulch credit is due to the members of fhr arrangement committee for the admir- able manner in which everything was conducted.
 --lfere is the latest contrlbntinn from one of the young bloods. There may be a few misspelled words and few grammatical mistakes but that does not detract from the ability of the writer as player. The Brooklyn people are very much pleased to hear that they. have a winning team in tho Gcogalies They having a record that there very proud to hold. They wish tn play any team in the city who are fifteen years old. They wish to play the Slashers of Scovill street. Anyone wants n game call at T. Stoaks' house on 25 North Leonard street. The lineuD is as follows. T Steaks, catcher: T. Bonchwich, pitcher; !. Hartz, first base. T. Wallace. second base; B To- bin. short stop; T. Dumphy, third base.. T. Burns. right field !. Schlosser, cen- ter field; w. Cronin; left field.
 For several years past residents of this part of the town have been talk ing of the need of gates at the Porter street crossing, but owing fo neglect on the part of somebody nothing ever was done on the premises until the present time when through the efforts of the board of public works the rail- road commissioners were induced to come here and listen to what the nen- pie have to say about 1t. They vill be in the superior court room next Monday morning nt II 80 o'clock and it is the plain duty of those who live ill this section to send big delegation to meet them. The court room should b0 crowded so that the commissioners may see that the agitation that has been going on about this matter was the part of the people for gates Ut tits point. It required considerable engin- .eering to get the commissioners nere, but the city officials have done their duty and now 1t is up to the people. X lady asked reporter of the Democrat to-day if 1t would be bad form for wO- ul0n to aIIeuu ltic sleufiHE. 1T ue Sft'-l porter said he did not think so and added that the women folks not only enjoy the right but that it is their duty 10 take hand in anything that $ sle- signed to insure hotter protection for their children. or course 1t Is a bad time of day for working people, hut they should make some sacrifice to be well represented at this hearing. Those n ftreA f4s person should get together to-mor- row and appoint committees to repre- sent them.
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