Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-16
CITY NEWS.

A daughter was born yesterday to MT and Mrs Fl. G. Dodge of 72 Fair view street.
 There will be a battalion drill at the armory tonight. The gallery will be open to visitors
 There will be no superior court this week, unless specially called ill, it hav- ing adjourned to next Tuesday when the grand jury will consider the case against Vincenzo Sanzivaro who stands charged with the murder of Antonio Ciminera.
 In the ~city court this afternoon Judge Burpee heard a motion to open non-suit in the case of Sackett versus Fitzgerald. The plaintiff traded one horse for a pair of horses and claims the two were not as good as the one. Decision was reserved.
 The committee in charge of the an- nual ball of the K. of O., which will be held in the City hall on Easter Mon day, April IS, expects that the coming event will be the biggest in the his tory of the organization. Tickets are out and meeting with a ready sale. There will be meeting of the Irish American Athletic association tonight at their rooms at 8 o'clock sharp. Ev- cry member is requested to be present as some new business Is to be brought before the club at the meeting. After the meeting is over there will be a very nice entertainment and sociabIe given by the club for the members only.
 Mrs Theodore A. Hooker. teacher of typewriting and stenography in the New Britain High school, who former. ly held 8 similar position in the local High school, rendered a reception to the pupils of her former classes at the High school on Saturday night at her home, 335 West Main street. It was very pleasant gathering and Mrs Hooker proved herself to be a charm ing hostess.
 The sermon at the 1O:3O mass at the Sacred Heart church yesterday morn- ing was delivered by the Rev Father Lynch of Gainesville. Florida, who Is at present travelling in this part of the country for the purpose of procuring funds to pay the debt on the property of hds congregation in Gainesville Father Lynch will deliver panegyric on St Patrick at the Sacred Heart church tomorrow night at 7:3O.
 Manager Harrington of the Holyoke team says that he will try to sign Jack Miriam, who pitched for the Nashua team last year, for this season. Miriam, it is said, has secured his release from Nashua. Manager Harrington also states that he will be able in all proba- bility, to arrive satisfactory terms with "Kid'' Mccormick. The only hitch, now, is that the crack third base man wants $15 more than the amount offered to him by the manager. This week will be rather busy one for the Rev Father Fitzgerald, assist ant priest at the Sacred Heart church. Tonight he will speak at the Rev Father McGurks church in South Manchester tomorrow night at St Patrick's day celebration which will be given by the Lawrence O'Toole par ish of Hartford in the Lyceum in that city. On Thursday night he will speak at banquet which will be given by the Knights of St Patrick in New Britain. Among the invited guests at this banquet will be Speaker Ke- nealey of the lower branch of the leg 1ElaturG. On SUuudy HlSuC fdUnoE Fitzgerald will speak in Columbus hall in Naugatuck under the auspices of St Francis parrish. The subject of his addresses will be sThe Life of St Patrick"
 Now that the backbone of winter is broken it is in order to call attention to the need Of cleaning up backyards and alleys so that every possible pre- caution may be taken to guard against an epidemic of sickness of any sort. Waterbury has been sorely tried in one way and another during the past year and is still suffering, so that every ef- fort public officials can make should be used in order to maintain good san itation Whatever comes, people will have use for their health and after the trouble now on hand is over probably 1t will mark the end of Waterbury's trials for another century. It is cer- tain that there will be some lessons to draw from what is going on and 1t is not at all unreasonable to believe that everybody will be wiser for the experiemce. g