Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-11
BROOKLYN BRIEFS

John Murphy of Providence is en- toying a visit with John Temple of South Leonard street.
 Miss Bertha Reuter-, teacher in the Watertown Center school district, will spend Sunday at her home on Lawrence street.
 -Business must be booming at Holmes, Booth & Haydens factory since it entered the brass combine Nearly every department in the shop went on a five-day schedule this week
 At the Third Congregational cnurch to-morrow the Rev Benjamin Y. hoot of Bridgeport will occupy the puipit Ill the morning at 10:30 and in tne evening at o'clock. Sabbath schooi will be held at 11:45 a. m. and tne Juvenile Temple will meet in the afternoon at o'clock.
 "A surprise party was given in hohor or Benjamin Erck at his home on Ihlrd street Thursday night. The gathering of large number of his friends at his home was complete surprise to him. He, however. assist. ed Ill entertaining them in a deliEht- rul manner. Refreshments were served
 -Carl Gutenberg, a little boy about two or three years old, whose home IS ~ o99 south Riverside street. met Wltn very painful accident this morning. The child's mother was ont ana his sister was doing some chores III the cellar, and thus the little child was ieIr alone He journeyed to the .,sn oli ana commenced to play around IL. III some manner he received a ueep gash in his hand. An artery was severed. The child was taken to walkers pharmacy where a temper ary bandage was placed upon the in- Jury, from which blood was pouring pro1usely Later Dr Russell placed several stitches in the cut It is be- neNed that the child's hand came in c0itact With q piece of glass in the ash bn
 There was considerable excitement on Bank street about 6 o'clock Thurs uay night The cause of the excite inent was two Italians who were also greatly excited. The two Italians met on Bank street i'll front of the school one was a big, tall, gruff looking fel- low, the other was of shorter stature ana ms countenance was somewhat more pleasant. The two men entered mo dispute about some work. Words grew not and the men grew angry. Ihe smaller man was enjoying the honors of victory when his opponent drew knife The young man took 70 ms heels and his taller countryman flew after him. The latter was over taking his prey when the pursued shot into Weddings meat market. The | nfI fo1io fO11 to thrust his dagger ino his enemy when the clerk in the market seized his hands and elected him from the store. That was the end of the trouble, for the time being, at least.
 At the annual church meeting of the Third Congregational church last night, there was a large attendance. Rev Charles E. Granger presided The annual reports of the pastor, clerk, treasurer and Sunday school superin- tendent were read and approved. The reports were most favorable and show ed that the church is in good condition i'll every way. The following officers were elected: First deacon, Charles 1 Tyack; second deacon, William Broughton; superintendent of the Sun day school, T. E. Walker; assistant su- perintendent of the Sunday school, William Morgan; assistant of the pri- mary department, Miss Marion Hrn- 1 ter. The standing committee will be composed of the pastor, deacons, clerk, treasurer, Sunday school suparintend- ent and the following: Fred Chap man, Mrs Edgar Chipman, Mrs John Henderson, jr, Mrs Thomas Jackson. 1 The officers elected at the meeting of fra cooperative sense last week were as follows: Clerk, Samuel w. Chap man: treasurer, Miller c. Hayrxor; ex- ecutive committee, John Callan, John Wallace. James Tyack. E. J. Carver, Gilbert Henderson, William Walters and William Broughton.