Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-21
BROOKLYN BRIEFS

Miss Minnie J. Simmons of Catskill, N. Y, is the guest of Dr and Mrs $. E. Mum of Leavenworth street.
 Miss Mary Ivory of Winsted Is the guest of her uncle, F. J. Carroll of South Leonard street.
 Miss Rose Starr has returned from weeks visit with friends in Bridge port.
 James Luddy, formerly bartender at D. J. Mahaney's cafe. is now work ing in a shop at New Orange, N. J.
 Nicholas Lavatte died last night at his home. 2S1 South Leonard street. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon.
 Mrs Welch and family of North Leonard street have returned from Thomaston, where they spent the past three weeks with friends.
 William Luby has returned to his home in New York after enjoying short visit with MT and Mrs Patrick Donahue and family of Bank street. Lewis Bersig, the champion bowler of Brooklyn, N. Y, is spending short vacation with Fred Schmidt of Porter street.
 The funeral of Joseph, the B. months old son of MT and Mrs Peter Skehan of Simons street took place this afternoon with interment in new St Joseph's cemetery.
 Mrs Lena Meyer entertained a num- Der of her friends at her home on Bank street last evening. Among those present were the ladies Of the Turner and Hermann societies. The evening was spent very pleasantly. Refresh ments were served.
 Daniel Sullivan and Mrs Cashman l of Troy have returned home after spending q weeks vacation with MT and Mrs F. J. Lynch of Lafayette l street.
 --The lawn tennis court which Is sit- uated on the north side Of St Patrick's l church is i'll great demand these days. Each day number of games are played there and they are very in- l teresting and exciting. Of course the players do not put up the same quality l of q game that professionals do yet some of the boys are good at the game. Among them are Jesse Devine and Ar thur Mcdonald. who are considered the best. The former is said to be the l champion of Brooklyn.
 Charles Savage of 62 Green street l is minus little sum of money and is nursing badly cut hand to-day as result of slight misunderstanding l with q couple of fellow countrymen who succeeded in extracting some money from his pocket. When he be- came conscious of the fact, he let go I straight from the shoulder terrific right hand swing for the nose of one of the men. But the latter ducked and Savage's hand went through the glass of show case His hand was badly cut and Dr Russell had to place a ,l number of stitches in the cuts. The pickpockets escaped with the money. At regular meting of the St Thomas Cadets A. A. on Monday night Edward Dunphy was elected manager of. the football eleven for the coming season. This make his third or fourth consecutive term as manager of the l Cadets football team and each term has been successful one. No more capable or efficient manager could be selected He is fully familiar with everything that tends to make a suc- cessful manager. To substantiate this statement it is only necessary to look over the eleven's record for the past seasons. The club has stood among the foremost eleven in the state. For the past three or four seasons the team has lost but few games. Their last sea- sons record is one of which they may we'll feel proud Manager Dunphy in- tends to have fully as strong team this year. A number of the old play CTS will be back in the game and sew eral young bloods will be added. Games will be arranged with all the crack teams in the state, indeed sev- eral have already been agreed upon.