Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-09
CITY NEWS.

The '. NJ. c. A. will hold it's an nual meeting ill the association build ing on next Monday night.
 There was no school at the Bishop, West Side and Clay street schools to- teachers.
 The Merrimac Athletic club will give a reception and baf1quet to it's lady canvassers Wednesday evening, May 14, in Knights of Columbus hall.
 There will be special meeting of Court E. R. Crosby in Foresters read ing room at o'clock tonight to take action on the death of John J. Mur- phy.
 Yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, in the rectory of St Patrick's church, the Rev Father Gleeson joined il wedlocI George Dunphy and Alice Ladd. The attending couple was Mary Williams and Edward Flood.
 The funeral of Michael Mccarthy took place this morning from the fam fly residence on Mill street with a mass of requiem at St Patrick's church and interment in St Joseph's cemetery. The bearers were Timothy F'itzmaurice, Cornelius Sweeney, Pat rick Barry, Cornelius Moriarty, Thom- as and John Hanrahan
 The order prohibiting crowds from attending the regular morning seS- sion of the city court has been with drawn. How the crowds that usually attend rain or shine, hail or snow got to hear of the suspension of the order is mystery. This morning the court room was crowded showing that word had been sent abroad that the small pox scare was over and that the city court officials no longer dread tLe con tagion.
 Box 261, corner of Cooke and North Main streets, was pulled at noon to- day, calling the department to a new building which F. B. Rice is erecting on North Main street Timers were at work on the roof and went to din ner without putting out the fire in their cans. The wind scattered some of the sparks about and soon the place was on fire. The department re- sponded promptly, but the fire had been extinguisned before it arrived on the scene. The damage wasn't worth mentioning A spark from the fire set the Decorating Co.'S awning on fire, but pail of water put that out before it got a good start.
 The Master Barbers' association held q largely attended meeting last night at it's rooms on North Main street. The meeting was addressed by members of the Master Barbers' association from New York and Hart ford. Several applications were re- ceiyed. It is expected that by June 1 every master barber in the city will be enrolled in the association The next meeting will be held Thursday evening, May 9. at s o'clock Mem bers of the association i'll New Haven and Hartford have promised to attend this meeting and to address the mem bers and explain the object and neces- sity of being enrolled under the ban ner of the Master Barbers association. Any master barber wishing to join the association can get full particulars concerning it from the secretary. F. J. Cavanaugh, 421 East Main street.
 The wind cut up all kinds of capers about town to-day and in consequence everything that could be stirred by it was kept moving. Among these things were peoples hats, which were rolling here and there at the rate of half dozen or more at a time Dust flew i'll all directions. It didn't make any difference which way one hap pened to be going. sand and dust man. aged to meet you square in the face and i'll trying to save their eyes many collided with telegraph poles and ran afoul of other Instructions. A Meadow street man came into the cen ter about o'clock and after looking at things about Exchange place he said | it was nothing compared to the con- ditions that existed about the High land division station. where he claimed that large cobble stones were flying thick and fast and the dust was so binding that pedestrians could not see q foot ahead of them and were foundering about like lot of human beings that had been deprived of their eyesight and then set upon and pelted with stones.