Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01
NUTMEG CRAVINGS
Interesting Items Boiled Down for the
 Benefit of Our Busy Readers.

Interesting Items Boiled Down for the
 Benefit of Our Busy Readers.
 Forty girls of the striking 400 at the L. Candee Rubber Co.'S factory, New Haven, went back to work yesterday, and it is expected that more will re- turn in a short while. The girls who returned did so of their own accord, and the company claim that more will return. The other departments de- clined to go out in sympathy with the girls. The girls are organized and an attempt will be made by the leaders to continue the strike. e,--g.
 A number of people from Hartford and West Hartford, who went to Southern California to locate last fall, have not found conditions altogether to their liking. Some have already re- turned and others are preparing to do SO. w. L. Shepard of Elmwood, who was interested in the production of olive oil and fruit syrups. has decided to come back and it Is understood that he is negotiating for real estate In Madison. MT Shepard was a prime mover in the westward movement. 1t is understood that the Robertson fam ily of Parkville are also about to re- turn. J. c. Moulton and family are To- cated at Pasadena, where MT Moulton is engaged in the tea and coffee busl- ness. MT Mou1ton formerly conducted a feed business in Hartford.
 William Hicks, an inmate, of the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane, has during lucid periods, composed and arranged marches which he has sent to William Fitchtl. the leader of the Seecond regiment band in New Haven. One is named British Isles" and is dedicated to Davenport council, Royal Arcanum and. the other is Sounds from the Alps" dedicated to the New Haven Symphony orchestra. The manuscripts are beautiful examples of music copying and can hardly be dis tingufshed from print. MT Hicks was chief trumpeter in one of the reg u1ar bands of the British army. He came to this country and joined 8 band in Bridgeport. He afterwards went to Hartford where he played with Colts band. He stayed there but short time and left, to go to New Ha- ven. He played in the New Haven opera house orchestra and in Reeves band of Providence, R. I.
 Ac DlloGOpOIC 14lCL III COluIuCAl- ing on the resignation of William H. Comley from the judgeship of the po- lice court in Bridgeport and the ap- pointment of his son to succeed him, says that the average age of the off, cia1s of the court is 30 years. The present judge, William H. Comley, IT, Is 27 years, Deputy Judge Stevenson %, Prosecuting Attorney Pullman 30, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Bart lett 35, Clerk Hull 35, and Assistant Clerk Delaney 25. The Farmer reports the retiring judge, Comley, as saying: 1T have been on the bench for almost nine years and this is the proudest and happiest day of my life It has been the dream and hope of my life to see my son judge, and now see it, am content have spent fourteen years preparing him for the position of judge and he is now ready. He has studied law, he has worked on a canal boat and has been in one of the 1arg- est department stores in Boston All this was done for the purposee Of studying humanity. He can now tell for himself when men and women come before him now howdthey are placed and circumstanced in 1ife.''