Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-21
CITY NEWS.

night.
 Mrs Thomas Weston died this after noon at her home, 526 Baldwin street.
 There will be meeting of the O. operative Coal Go this evening in Hellmann's hall.
 The Rev Father Fitzgerald will con- tinue his series of sermons at the Sa- cred Heart church tomorrow evening at 7:3O.
 The changes in heating and lighting Dr Lodges office having been con- pleted, he will be doing business at his old stand, 337 East Main street, to- night.
 The funeral of the late Sarah Morton Merriman, who died at the family resi- dence on West Main street yesterday, will be held Monday at ? o'clock. The burial will be private.
 Mrs Anna Filming, wife of Frank F. Filming of 25 Brown place, died late last night, after protracted illness. The funeral services will be held at her late residence Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock and the remains will be taken to Washington, Conn, for interment Monday morning.
 Tomorrow will be the anniversary of Washingtons birthday, but the ob- servance of. the holiday will take place Monday. The Bronson library, the banking institutions will be closed all day and the offices in the City hall building and the postofdce will suspend operations at noon.
 Mrs Katherine Ecker, aged " years, died yesterday afternoon at her resi- | d cfr "a. "a a " ns son, Joseph H. Ecker. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at l 1:3O o'clock, with service at the house by the Rev MT Phiel and interment in Riverside cemetery. The bearers will be Charles Kapp, Charles Leisenring, Elias Erk and William Brickel, Jr. Miss Lizzie Osborne, thirty four years of age, died at the Waterbury hospital yesterday morning and the re- mains were removed to the residence of Patrick Gilmore, 80 Howard street. The funeral will take place tomorrow morning at s:30 from the Sacred Heart church and the body will be taken to Thomaston in charge of Undertaken Bergin for burial.
 The local teachers consider 1t rather strange that in other cities the anniver- sary of Washington's birthday, which occurs tomorrow, will be celebrated on Monday by the closing of schools, but i'll this city the schools will be ill session as usual. Lincoln day also was observed in other cities by the closing l of schools. but not so in this city. The 1 teachers think that the members of the board of education are real mean Mrs Catherine Lee, wife of Charles Lee of 1SO Baldwin street, died this morning. Besides her husband she leaves three daughters, Mrs Daniel Nc Evoy. Mrs Bernard Sweeney and Mrs John Butler, and three sons, Thomas, John and Charles. The funeral will i take place on Monday morning at S:30 from the Immaculate Conception l church. with interment in the new St Joseph's cemetery.
 Read the opening chapters of ''The Southerners'' in this issue. l People on lower South Main street hope that the aldermen will not make the mistake this time with the trolley l company that their predecessors did l when they approved plans for that street without compelling them to light | 1t. A Hopevllle man told Democrat reporter to-day that the Naugatuck l road has been little short of death 1 trap since the trolley started there. This he claimed could be avoided if l the company would install a few cleo l tric lights along the way. He wanted this little suggestion passed along to the city boards.
 R. N Blakeslee's big parade took place this afternoon and turned out to be greater success than anybody ex- 1 pected. There were about fifty large sleighs filled, while one could hang on by an army of boys and girls who cheered, jeered and shouted and ap- peared to be having a first class time of 1t. Mir Blakeslee rode at the head of the procession and never looked hap pier in his life. The line of march in cluded all the principal streets in the city. The youngsters and their chap erons were treated to oranges and other toothsome edibles and these, to. gether with the novelty of the ride made up day long to be remembered
 by all who took part in the affair, and that could not have been much less Aan 2,O00 souls.