Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-27
CITY NEWS.

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 Everybody was good last night SC good that there was no city court this morning.
 Clerk of the District Court L. F. Root returned home last evening after a three days visit to friends in North ampton, Mass.
 Special forecast for Connecticut Fair tonight and Friday: warmer to- night except in eastern Maine; fresi southwest winds.
 General Secretary Ross and Physical Director Clapp of the local Y. NJ. c. X are attending a conference of the New England Y. NJ. c. A. in Springfield to day.
 The singers of the Concordia society are requested to meet tomorrow at l D. ni., at their hall to attend in q body the funeral of the late William Kirsh. l baum
 be closed all day. As stated herein 1 before, the town store will not open tomorrow, but people who have busi- l ness there will be accommodated Sat | urday forenoon.
 Tomorrow will be Good Friday, 2 legal holiday, and in consequence all the banking institutions will be closed. 1 The post office and nearly all the stores will close their doors at noon. The offices in the City hall building will
 All classes in the school of house. keeping and other departments of the Friendly league will be omitted dur ing Easter recess. The building will be closed on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Saturday, also on Easter Monday. Work will be resumed on Tuesday, April l.
 Our Easter souvenir free with all purchases of 50c worth Of tea, coffee baking powder or extracts. A beauti- full imported English porcelain blue flower Keswick salad dish. festooned edge, rococo finish beginning Monday March 24 The Ct 4. and F. Tea Go, % East Main street.
 In pursuance of an old time statute notices informing owners of dogs that the annual tax must be paid on their canine on or before May were post ed up yesterday by Constable Pryor on all the country roads in the town The circle marked by these notices is about forty-fve miles.
 Mrs Mary Holohan-Jackson, who broke her right leg several weeks ago by falling on an icy sidewalk, is able to move about on crutches. In q few days the broken member will be relieved of the plaster cast in which it has been for some weeks and it is not expected that any i'll effects of q permanent nature will result.
 The class from the New Britain Normal school which will begin its course of training at Manchester st the next term includes several Water bury young women, among them being Mabel 4. Powers, Mary I Carroll, Nellie NJ. Freney, Jennie G. Hayden, Agnes A. Quinn, also Hannah E. c ish of Naugatuck.
 The Hellmann Brewing Co follows this year its invariable custom of placing it's "Bock'' beer brewing on the market on the same date. The com pany is confident that its ''Bock'' brew for '92 will equal any of it's previous unsurpassed brews. It will prove a pure, healthful and delicious malt bev- craze. Telephone orders for home use will be promptly filed Telephone BIO.
 A bowling game will be played at the I. NJ. c. A. bowling alley to-mor- row afternoon at 1:30. The New Ha- ven and Waterbury Y. M c. A. teams will be the opponents. It will be the second of a series of games for the championship of the state The first game was won by New Haven about two weeks ago. If New Haven loses tomorrow afternoon the third and final game will probably be played in Meriden. Waterbury's team will be composed of Bostwick, Curtis, Neal. F. Jaeger and Hodges.
 Derby lodge of Elks held q meeting Tuesday night, at which the nomina- tlon and election of officers took place. The officers elected are: Exalted ruler. John w Larkin; esteemed leading knight, Edward J. Condon; esteemed loyal knight. James Flood; esteemed featuring knight, Fred s. Valentine: secretary, A. F. Howe; treasurer NJ. J. Reardon; tyler. T. C. Hoerle: trustee for five years, Colonel w T. Miller: for 1 four years, James T. Smith; for three years, James F. McNamara. The off, cers will be installed at the next meet i ing
 l Last evening marked the twenty l CiS-1lh t1hh1NClSdAy Ol lu6 DlIlu Ol Clinton W. Pond. proprietor of the Ey- change hotel, and a number of his l friends got together and made the event a memorable epoch in the career of this popular hotel man. A banquet was served with -Dr Galley as master i of ceremonies. This was followed by 1 the rendition of an interesting musical and literary program. Several ad dresses were delivered. During the evening Mir Pond was made the re cipient of a beautiful rocker with leather covered seat and back.
 Yesterday afternoon the work of drawing off q portion of the water i'll 1 the Branch reservoir was commenced as a preliminary to starting the sea- sons operations, which will include the completion of the masonry dam and the stripping and cleaning of the
 basin Lathrop & Shea expect to start on the dam in the early part of next week and NcNiece will set men to work stripping in the latter part of l the week. It is understood that the 1 masonry dam will be finished by July 1 l of this year. Mayor Kilduff, Engi l neer Cairns and Commissioner Ma nancy of the board of public works 1 the committee appointed to consider l the best plan Of bridging the Morris