Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-14
CITY NEWS.
There was no city court today.

Special forecast for Connecticut Generally fair tonight and Sunday fresh north to east iWnds.
 The funeral of Kathleen Gertrude
 O'Neill will take place tomorrow af ternoon from the family residence or South Main street at 1 80 o'clock to the
 Immaculate Conception church. The different divisions of the A. O
 H. will hold memorial services to morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in St Patrick's hall. After the exercises in the hall the societies will march to St Joseph's cemetery.
 The strawberry festival given by the
 St Thomas temperance society closed
 last evening. It was a very successful affair and gives the society much en-
 coura cement for another venture be fore the summer season closes.
 The union committees of the Holy Name societies of the city will hold q final meeting Sunday afternoon at , o'clock in the basement of the Sacred Heart church to complete arrange ments for the Decoration day exer- cises which take place Sunday, June 9.
 The funeral of Mrs Ann Kennedy took place this morning from her late residence on School street with mass of requiem at the Immaculate Concep- tion church and interment in new St Joseph's cemetery. The bearers were Charles Kipphut, William Quinn, Ed ward Howard and Michael Cronan.
 The office of the superintendent of schools will be open Monday, Tuesday 1oxr Oc June 16. r. IS and 10. from to s, for the issuance of labor certificates to children who may desire to work in factories during vacation. During the months of July and August certificates may be secured at the office on Wednes- day mornings from to II o'clock.
 The funeral of John NJ. Claffey took place this morning from his late home on East Main street with mass of requiem af the Immaculate Conception church by the Rev Father O'Brien and interment in St Jqseph's cemetery The bearers were E. D. Rush, James Donahue. John Friend Frank Hove, William Darling and W. Derwin.
 Several ex-members of Company A, Chatfeld guards, met last night in the armory and orga2ized what will here after be known as Company A Chat field Guard veterans. Officers were elected as follows: President, F. K Woolworth; vice-president, Sergeant George A. King; secretary, Henry J. Reynolds; treasurer, EX-Capt Charles B. Hall; executive committee, Sergeant William Keavney, Sergeant NJ. c. Hay nor, Sergeant J. l.. Stanley. Corporal Henry Baker and Private Willis Up- son; committee on bylaws and con stitution, Messrs Woolworth. King Reynolds, Hall, White, Warner and Pettigean.
 The Waterbury Ice Corporation is tearing down one of the buildings at its plant on Brook street and intends to use the space it occupied for yard room. The structure was removed without much expense. It got noised around that the wood was free to all corners and soon men, women and children came from different quarters of the city and carried every vestige of the barn away in a day or so. One big woman who wielded an axe. ap- peared to be able to do more work with the weapon than half a dozen of her competitors. It was surprising to see how quickly she could chop long beam into short pieces.
 There will be meeting of the ma chinists of Waterbury tomorrow morning at 9:30 in Franco-American hall. At this session the general feel ing of the men will be made known. So far nothing definite is known as to what arrangements will be made in the several factories regarding wages after the nine hour day goes into effect. It is thought that with very few eX- captions there will be no reduction in wages, provided the rules accompany ing the new order of things are lived up to. Some of the conditions are somewhat arbitrary. but after a time the sharp corners will be rubbed off the conditions and everything will move like clock work.
 The local lodges of Odd Fellows will hold memorial services tomorrow In the forenoon the graves of deceased members will be decorated by a com mittee consisting of F. K. Woolworth, W. M Cottle, w. W. Munson. D. L. Perry of Nosahogan lodge; John Guth- rie, G. l.. Merrill. John Charles. H. w. Haynor and Charles of Townsend lodge. The memorial services will be held in the lodge rooms at o'clock in the afternoon and will be in charge of District Deputy Frank L. Woolworth The Rev K. B. Stockdale, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church. will be the principal speaker. Other ex- ercises include music by the lodge or- chestra and readings from the scripture by Chaplain William M. Cottle.
 Branch No 2, socialist party, held a largely attended meeting last evening and received the report from dele gates who attended the state conven- ton held at New Haven May 3O Among the important matters that came before the convention was the state and municipal platforms, copies of which will be printed and given to the public later The state central committee reports show an increase of TOO members, also the formation of four new branches with the prospect of several more. The present number of branches affiliated with the nation al socialist party of America is seven teen with total financial membership of 3,S72.
 s'The best thing people can do is come in and talk with us about the value of their property said Assessor CJohaccnu to-dau ssTf +hou dnn,f 10 fhics