Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-20
CITY NEW 5.

rSkekSlOAA campment of Odd Fellows will be held at Odd Fellows hall tomorrow.
 The forty hours devotion opened yesterday at St. Ann's church. The service will close at 9 o'clock to-mor- row morning.
 Mr and Mrs F. J. Phelan of High | land avenue, celebrated their china wedding anniversary Saturday. An interesting program was rendered.
 The steamer William o. Payne, day. boat from Bridgeport, will resume her trips again beginning today, leaving Bridgeport at z 45 a. m. or on arrival of morning train from Naugatuck di- vision stations.
 Michael vogt 60 years old, died yes terday afternoon at his home, 94 Maple street. H leaves a widow, three sons, Jacob, George and Louis Vogt of this city, and one daughter, Mrs R. E.. Foley of New York The deceased was born in Germany and came to this country in 1874. He was member of Concordia Singing society, the Haru- gari and the New England Order of Protection. The funeral will take place at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
 to know that the parishioners held the school in good esteem, and if they con tinue to give him the support they have been giving him, he promised them the school would be the finest in the state. In many respects the system at present eXcels the methods in the public schools, as is shown by the great improvement in the pupils, but the pastor said he did not intend to stop at that, but will make the school the finest of its kind i'll the state.
 A very appreciatiye audience heard Father Slocum of Waterbury in the town hall Sunday night, under the aus pices of the Catholic club, lecture on the subject, 'The Young Man. It was an ably delivered lecture, full of good sound advice to young men, that should have been heard by all of the rising generation. Father Slocum is a most eloquent speaker. He said the responsibilities for young men were greater to-day than thirty or forty years ago, and that there many im- portant questions to come up in the future that will devolve upon the young men of to-day to solve.-Meriden Record.
 The Metal Trades council of, Water bury was formally organized at Buff CTS and Polishers' hall yesterday aft ernoon. The council consists of five delegates from each of the following metal trades unions: Buffers and Pol ishers, Brass Workers, Lithuanian Buffers and Polishers Stampers, Cas- tors Helpers and Wire Drawers. 1t also constitutes an executive board to unions represent a total membership transact outside business. These unions represent total membership of about l 1,600, which is constantly being added | to. These officers were elected: Presi- dent, James P. Donahue of the Stamp CTS; yice-president, Thomas F. Seery l of the Brassorkers; treasurer, financial and corresponding secretary, John T. Daily of the Buffess and Polishers.
 William w. West, butcher living at No 305 Market street, Hartford, dropped dead at o'clock Saturday af- I ternoon at the corner of Windsor and l Avon streets. Afedical4 Examiner Fuller decided that heart disease was I the cause of sdeathg West was. about I 40 years old. His body was taken to the morgue. MT Vests wife, who lives in Waterbury, went to Hartford yes terday and told the police that she was 1 without means. She said her hus bands sister, Mrs Joslyn, kept bakery in Holyoke and she would come there and help to pay the funeral expenses | Vests mother lives in South Windsor ] and his father is in a home He die l not have any children. West was once a Mason and a member of the Butch ers' union, and the police learned that he did not belong to either organiza ton at the time of his death.
 On Saturday night next the annua fair of St Joseph's T. A.. society vii open at City hall. Preparations havt been made to make this the mos
 unique affair of the kind ever held il this city. Among the many attraction
 will be the 'Bijou" vaudeville circus representing in an elegant manner one ring circus, introducing combina tion of ideal entertainers, Miss Nelli
 Wilson, ring directress; introducin;
 finest single trapeze act in America Joe, wonderful trick pony only fort, inches high and weighs only 2S
 pounds; William Lowande. the grea
 acrobatic clown; Dewey. the greates
 of bareback riding dogs: and Burtc
 master of ceremonies, with just a fiasl
 of neat juggling. The dancing will b
 another feature of this fair, as an o1 : chestra of six pieces has been secured
 and, in fact, everything is on bigge
 and greater scale than ever before.
 Mrs Ellen Degnan died yesterday af
 ternoon at the family residence ol
 Luke street after brief illness. Be
 sides her husband, Thomas Degnan
 she leaves a brother Frank Conwa,
 of this city; also her father, Thoma
 Conway, three brothers and two sis
 ters, John, Patrick, Thomas and Mis-
 Bridget Conway, and Mrs Philip Gal
 ligan, all of whom reside in Ireland
 The deceased was born in Drumheel
 near Virginia, farming district ol l the borders of Meath and Cayan. thir 2 ty-fve years ago, and came to tn l United States in 1889 and settled il l Naugatuck. where she worked in on Q of the rubber shops until about fiv
 years ago when she married MT Deg
 nan and took up residence on Lux
 street, where the family have live
 ever since. She was an honest. in
 dustrious woman and was well like, by her neighbors. The funeral wi