Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-26
CITY NEWS.

club will entertain their lady friends at Knights of Columbus hall to- night.
 Mary A. Lawlor has peiitioned the probate court for letters of adminis- tration oh the estate of the late Mi chael McGivney.
 Every married man in the employ of Ralph N. Blakeslee was reminded last night that Thanksgiving day was near. Each one received from his em- ployer a fine turkey.
 A Thanksgiving dinner will be given at the Boys club on Harrison avenue tomorrow aftrenoon at 2 o'clock for those who have no home, not for all the poor of the city.
 There will be q social gathering of all the former pupils of St Mary s school in MuIcahy Memorial hail on Thanksgiving evening at 8 o'clock. All who have ever attended St Mary s school are cordially invited.
 The great auction sale of building | lots on Edgewood avenue will take place tomorrow at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and 2 o'clock Friday and Sat urday afternoon. 1t is thought that all the land will be disposed of during the three days sale.
 List of letters remaining unclaimed in the postoffice: Peter Arashartis, Miss Bridget Donnelly, Hester Ed mondson, J. G. 1Gorham. Miss Harriet Jackson. Wm Maddigan. James Means, John Miller, Miss Ida Thrall Hiss Lila Vance, Miss Ethel B. Williams. P Attorney E. F. Cole was today ap- pointed administrator on the estate of the late Theodore James Griffin of London MT Griffin owned some real estate and life insurance policy pay able here His heirs are Hugh Reid Griffin. William Hall Griffin Of Lon don: Walter k. Griffin of New York, and Ethel Griffin Lucas of London. <,
 The Thanksgiving party at the Friendly league will be held on Thanksgiving night and will take the form of family reunion for mem bers and their fathers, mothers, broth CTS and sisters. Tickets of admission will be required, members using their season entertainment tickets and spec ial ones for the guests may be secured at the league office.
 Those who wish to spend Thanks giving night at the rooms of the Gath olic Women'S association. will find the superintendent and some of the officers there to welcome them. The new magazines for the month of De cember. will be in, the library open, and refreshments will be served. Cards and music will also help to en- tain the members in real Thanksgiving spirit.
 Tomorrow will be Thanksgiving day and if the weather is favorable many will take advantage of the op- l portunity to make a call upon old friends and acquaintances. The fac tories will be closed and while most of the stores will be open during the forenoon all will suspend operations at noon for the rest of the day. The employees of the different city depart ments will have day off, the Bronson | library and the banking houses will be closed and the postoffice will shut down at noon. The carriers will make one trip, commencing at o'clock l in the morning.
 I The local bar is agitating the ques- ton of getting from the next legisla- ture a larger appropriation for the court house library. At present the annual appropriation is only few hundred dollars and this sum the law I yers claim will not enable the commit tee to complete the library for years. There is now due from the state to the committee about $500, but this, or the greater part of it, is due the Bron- l son library. The lawyers think that about $1.000 would put their library in a condition that would make it of some use. At present only the reports of a few states comprise the library.
 Anson A. Root, an uncle of Clerk I l.. F. Root, is seriously i'll at hisN home in Woodbury. MT Root is very we'll 1 known here. His parents were among the very early settlers here when the place was a mere hamlet. Mr Root was born in the old Hayden home stead on the WatertoWn road in 1921. He took up the trade of carpenter and moved to New York state when he was able to shift for himself He is minus one arm, the result of an explo- sion during one of the military train- ing days, an institution of the old, old times, when the men of the communi- 1 ty used to gather together a few days in each year and train in military tac- ties. Only to few is MT Root known now.
 Mrs Wilhelmina Katherine Nuhn, | W1UOW OI sIHo IdIe Henry aNuln, Q1eO suddenly at the home of her daughter Mrs Thomas Guest, 14 Chestnut avenue at 11:45 a. m. yesterday Al though she had been an invalid for 2 few years, her death was unexpected
 Mrs Nuhn was natiev of Germany
 but had lived in this country about forty-five years, and most of this time in Waterbury. Although she had beer a great sufferer she had endured hel affiictions with patience and fortitude and she will be greatly missed by hel family and a large circle of friends
 Three children survive her, William
 Nuhn of this city, Mrs c. O. Cham
 bers of Southford, Conn, and Mrs
 Guest. Funeral services will be held at Hall Memorial chapel at 2 D. m. or
 Friday. Interment at Riverside.
 Foxy Grandpa was the offering
 which attracted good sized audience
 to Polls theater last night. The play
 or farce, or combination of vaudevill,
 specialties, with mixture of comedy
 is based upon the widely known pie
 lures which have appeared in Nev
 York papers. "Foxy Grandpa, is. o
 course, present and who could bette
 enact the role than Joseph Hart IF,