Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-21
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 How are you going to spend Thanks giving day? Butchering a hog or try ing your skill as a marksman at chick ens7 No; these are things of the past in Waterbury. The people of to-day are too proud to own porker, and the law has long since set its seal of con demnatio upon the brutal work of killing innocent fowl with shot for the amusement of men, who for the tune being at least appear to forget that chickens were not made for that klhd of treatment. It was a humane act to do away with chicken shooting, but to have practically abandoned the raising of pork in the rural districts was pig mistake, and many think that the tlme is not far off when the position taken some time ago by the Hon F. E. Gross relative to the ptg business will De more popular in Waterbury than it was when MT Cross took up the cudgel Tor the pig and wanted the city to collect fts own garbage and feed 1t to swine on the town farm. Who knows but Mayor elect Elton may decide to give MT Cross another trial on the depart ment of public health with a couple of other members Of his way of thinking, and by this means open up clear field to the starting of hog raising again in Waterbury. -l
 A good story is told of well known alderman by one of his colleagues. The alderman in question was present short time ago at a wedding of some what more than the ordinary splendor. As the carriages drove up to the house where the wedding took place and the guests entered the house, large crowd of curious onlookers was attracted. The crowd consisted chiefly of Ii tie boys and, girls. As children will do, they made whole lot of noise, so much so that the principals in the marriage were hardly able to hear the words Of the clergyman as he was about to per form the ceremony. The din of noise was very annoying to the guests. The alderman said that he would fix mat ters. He went out to the front veran- da and told the boys that they should 20 home As the city father finished his command some little tot shouted, What's the matter with - --F In stantly a hundred threats yelled He's all right" 'sWell, bows and girls. he won't be all right when sleighing time comes unless you stop your shouting and go home" Two minutes later there wasn't a boy nor a girl standing anywhere near the house.
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 The New York editor and his corps of special writers. who have been at work on the Democrat souvenir for the past five weeks speak very highly of the character of the men they have come in contact with while making their rounds of the city, To be sure 'they didn't do business with everybody they called up. this was not to be ex- pected. five succes sful hits out of ten tries being considered a good average, and they came pretty near doing this, 20 that they are very much pleased with their efforts They also express much satisfaction with the reception accorded them at the different stores and offices and state that on the whole Waterbury has an exceedingly cot1r- teous army of mon at the head of it's various commercial, mercantile and professional houses. to say nothing of Its charming public officials. cheerful and apparently ,prosneraus private cfti- zens But this is not all What ma kes one feel prouder than anything else Is the admission on the part of these men who have had amnle mpnortun'tias to studv good and ad tvpos cf the human family in almost every, town and ham, let fr the country, Is that the women of Waterbury excel in beauty and de poTtment those of any other place they have vet visited, Petter still every mothers. son they talked with reads the Democrat with ono exception md while some folks didn't like it's politics, ai1 pronounced it bright, breezy news paner mp to date in every particular, and clean enough to entit'e it to place in the most retired family in this or any other community