Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-10
CITY NEWS

The bottom has dropped out on prices at Castles market for Saturday.
 The Economic league will hold an important meeting in Congress hall at $ o'clock Sunday night. ..-.
 City hall tomorrow night, Military Band popular Concert Promenade. Good music. See program in another column. -
 Deputy Sheriff William Higgins of New Haven was a caller at Sheriff Doherty's office to-day. Sheriff Hig- gins won distinction here during the strike by his genial disposition.
 The funeral of William Mcclure will be held tomorrow morning from his late home on Round Hill street at S:30 o'clock, with a mass of requiem at St Thomass church and interment in Gal vary cemetery.
 The members of Division No 5, A. o. H., are urgently requested to be present at the meeting of their divi- sion tonight in A. 0. H. hall, as busi- ness of the greatest importance will be acted upon. A social session will follow the business meeting which will include an exhibition of the cup won by the Irish-American football team in Charter Oak park July A.
 Attorney Francis T. Reeves, son of Commissioner Reeves of the board of public safety, has opened an office in room 52, Apothecaries Hall building. Attorney Reeves studied law at the Southwestern university in Tennessee and at the Washington Lee university in Washing gton. He was one of the several Waterburians who passed the recent examinations for admission to- the state bar. Of a bright nature he ought to prove shining light among the local followers of Blackstone.
 Tomorrow, on the Lucania, Luke and Frank Stapleton of this city will leave for trip to the land of their birth, their first visit since coming to this country. Both will spend six or seven weeks going over the scenes of their boyhood. Luke says that Frank | will create a sensation when he lands | in the old country because he has pre- l pared a regular swell suit for the oc- casion and when his parents see him they will no doubt banish him from l the old home. Both will hold open house tonight at their respective cafes. There was big time at the meeting of the polishers and buffers last night l in their hall on Grand street. The l principal feature of the session was the 1 presentation to the society by the troll l leymen of handsome gavel stone, MT l Horigan of the executive committee 1 making the presentation speech in the l course of which he hoped that the or | ganization would outlive the stone and l continue to grow and prosper and do good in Waterbury in the future as it l has in the past. President John q. | Daly accepted on behalf of the Buffers and Polishers in few remarks which pleased everybody. Both speakers were enthusiastically applauded. The stone was purchased at Jackson's and is a very neat pattern.
 The funeral of John Stokes took place this morning from the residence of his parents, MT and Mrs William Stokes, on South Leonard street exten- sion, with mass of requiem at St Patrick's church by Father Sullivan and interment in new St Joseph's cem- etery. The bearers were William Fin nan, John Temple, Richard Dunphy William Conley, Wharton NJ. Grubb and James Holran, the two last named from Court Fruitful Vine, F. of A The floral offerings included pillow from the employees of the soldering de partment of the Plume & Atwood Man. ufacturing Go; cross, employees of NJ
 l.. Keefe's room at Steele & Johnson's S wreath, Miss Nellie O'Brien; bouquets T Mrs Edward Kiely, Mir and Mrs F. H Carroll, Mir and Mrs O'Brien. @
 The berrying season has opened and from now on crowds of people can be seen hurrying to and from berry lots in different parts of the town. They include all ages and sexes and they carry all kinds of receptacles from tir pans to huge water pails to hold the fruit in. Frequently crowds start out early in the morning, taking a Lunch with them, and remain out until after noon, when they return with consid t erable booty. Lounsbury's farm or Prospect mountain is considered the
 best place in that part of Waterbury r for berries and the number of people that visit there shows that this is nc
 secret. Once in a while the crowds ge
 chased, but they don't mind that ant
 after being driven out at one end of ;
 lot think nothing of crawling in a
 some other point. Many work at tht
 business regularly and make goot
 money at it for a couple of months. . There is talk of the strike being set
 2
 tied in Bridgeport by the men, throw
 ing up the sponge, but so far as any
 body can see there are no signs of
 cave-in here. It is true that many ar.
 using the cars, but the number is rslnal
 compared with the regular patrons o |, the road. It. is said that half dozel
 local men are thinking seriously 0
 purchasing automobiles and runnin,
 them along the routes covered by tn
 trolley cars, and that the only reasol they are not in the business now i 2 through fear of the, strike being de
 clared off. This does not appear to b
 a very good objection to the automo
 piles. Supposing the strike should b
 settled, it is not likely that anythin
 would be done which would deter folk R from patronizing the automobiles they preferred them to the cars, so tha no matter what way the strike nnigb