Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-24
CITY NEWS

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 Division {, A. o. H., will not hold its meeting this evening. but will hold a meeting Saturday evening at z o'clock.
 Get your job printing done at the Democrat office. New type and up- to-date ideas prevail at this modern printing plant
 Lauretta, the i weeks old child of Mir and Mrs Michael Keefe of 15 Bron- son street, died this morning. The fu- neral took place this afternoon, with intcrment in Calvary cemetery.
 Mrs Keough, 194 Baldwin street. Everything in holiday goods to be closed out at cost prices. Specials in children's and ladies' shoes, ladies kid gloves, ladies' dressing sacques.
 The teachers in the primary depart ment of Washington school arranged three we'll laden Christmas trees for their pupils, and each child was made happy this morning by a visit from Santa Claus.
 Edward Herr. student at Dartmouth college, is spending the holidays in this citys He was member of the crack Dartmouth football team which de- feated Harvard and won third position in the standing of the eastern colleges. Herr played star game at right and had this position cinched until the game with Princeton, in which he was injured.
 Porter L. Wood of this city and Miss Estelle Sanford Curtiss were married to-day at the home of the brides mother. Mrs Mary H. Curtiss, in Southford. Connecticut. The Rev Grant l.. Shaeffer officiated. Only immediate relatives of both parties were present. After January Is MT and Mrs Wood will be at home on Highland avenue in this city.
 What promised to be an exciting run away was nipped in the bud by Police Officer John Claffey this morning about Il o'clock. A coal team belonging to Frank Miller Ss Go was standing on East Main street near ID. B. Wilson's store. A passing automobile frightened the horse, which started at a lively gait through Exchange place. Officer Claf- fey rushed out and succeeded with much difficulty in stopping and holding the frightened animal
 Miss Josephine Butler, aged IT years and 8 months, died this afternoon at the home of her parents, MT and Mrs John Butler, 287 Bishop street. Al though being sick for some time, her death is great blow to her parents and friends. She was bright, prom ising young girl, loved and respected by her friends and shopmates. Besides her parents she leaves two brothers and two sisters. Frank, John. Mary and Elizabeth. The funeral will taKe place Saturday morning at S:30 o'clock to St Thomas's church. 4.
 There was much excitement in and around the Apothecaries' Hall Co.'S drug store last evening shortly before o'clock. Some of the Xmas decora- tions in the display window became ignited from the lighted gas jet In an instant the window was an entire mass of flames. A clerk in the store pulled the decorations down and stamped out the fire before much dam age was done. A large crowd gath cred about the store. thinking that the whole place was on fire. Fireman Wilton of the Chemical Hose Go ar rived on the scene with small fire extinguisher, but his services were not needed.
 There has been wholesale robbery of Christmas wreaths wherever the thieves could get at them. Hillside avenue, Prospect street and there abouts have particularly suffered. Wherever q wreath was suspended on the outside of a window it was taken and complaints from all parts of the 1 city reached the police station today. Of course the thieves are supposed to have been boys who sell the wreaths and in some cases make a good deal of money in that way at this season. l While this is not a new departure in crime of this kind. it was never so prevalent before. The police say that 1t Is the meanest kind Of thieving
 and those guilty of it would steal
 flowers from newly made grave. Mrs Margaret Hayes, widow of the late Charles Hayes the well known
 hackman, died this morning at 10 o'clock at the home of her niece, Mrs Christopher Garrity, 412 North Main | street. Mrs Hayes was resident of l this city for almost a half century and the greater part of her life was 1 spent on Summit street in the Brook lyn district She leaves two brothers and two sisters. John H. and James J. Fruin, Mrs James Hennebry and Mrs Edward McGrath.r She was a woman of exemplary character, living l and pracHcing the true Christian life. l She was quiet and unostentatious in l her deeds of charity and piety and l pracHced those virtues which go to
 make the perfect woman. true friend and kind neighbor. She will be l missed by a very large circle of friends The funeral will take place on Saturday morning at half-past eight from the residence of her niece to the Immaculate Conception church.
 Frederick Maingrett and Miss Err mimic Triniday were married this af- ternoon in the town clerks office, Jus tice of the Peace H. R. Durant tying the knot. Miss Merth Maingrett of ! Torrington, sister of the groom, and Charles Boudet, of Torrington, acted AT