Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-25
CITY NEWS.


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 The millinery opening of Misses Reilly and Withey will be held Thurs day, Friday and Saturday.
 Miss Della T. Derwin has returned from two weeks vacation, spent with friends in Portchester and New York
 MT and Mrs c. P. Hayes left this afternoon for Tarrytown, N. Y., to at~ tend the funeral of Mrs Hayes's uncle
 Thomas c. Smith has been appointed business agent for the Carpenters un- ion to succeed s. A. Dudley. resigned
 A son was born, yesterday afternoon to MT and Mrs Frank Mccormack of Baldwin street. MT McC Cormack is the well known prompter. M s4
 The candidates fo rthe High school base ball team reported for practice but owing to the weather, which is \ rather cold for base ball, only few. \ appeared. s yI
 A stereopticon lecture on :sThe City of Washington" will be given by F. M Stelle, stenographer for the Bene- diet & Burnham Go, in St John,a nar- ash house, tomorrow night.
 Mary, the 1 year and 9 months old daughter of MT and Mrs Daniel Me- Donald of 57 Third street, died this morning. The funeral will be held to- morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, with interment in St Joseph s cemetery. sI
 The case of Devine vs Warner, which began in the district court yes terday before Judge Peasley and jury, may be finished late this after noon. Judge Peasley kept court in session yesterday until 6:8O o'clock. sha f, To vso1 nN of tobacco.
 There was very little done at short calendar in the city court to-day. The cases assigned for. hearing were C- Polita vs " Janula, for this afternooI; Upton & Go vs H. R. Durant ct al Af0n- day; Annie Johnson vs Flora Ebberts, Tuesday, and H. w. Kiesel ys L. Fl. French, April 4.
 Manager Momagan of the Co G bass ketbaH team is confident that his team will defeat the team of the North End Athletic club when they meet In the third and final game of "a series be- tween these teams. TLe game will be played at the arfnory. Both teams want the game badly and therefore will have their best players in the field The game will be commenced at 9 o'clock.
 A. w.. Castles clock whose faithful pair of hands point the time to people from a prominent place over his mar ket at the corner of South Main and Union streets, is enjoying a short va- cation, and in order that folks should not get the notion into their heads that 1t has gone for good, sign which readA as follows occupies the place vacated by the timepiece: Have taken few days off; will show up later"
 Aneta, the years old daughter of [ Baldwin street died this morning of this afternoon, with interfnent in new was pupil at St Mary's parochiaI school and was very bright child. The family made great effort to save her, but despite the efforts of four ors five physicians the malady carried her. away.
 The funeral of Miss Mary Ray took place this morning from the family residence on Charles street with a mass of requiem at St Patrick's church hy the Rev Father GleesOn and intermeut in St Joseph's cemetery. The bearers were Michael Hennessey, Dennis Lud- dy. Patrick Clark, Timothy DOnahue, William Finnan and James Rattersy The floral tribute included bouquets from Josie Ryan and Mary McGiM Mrs T. A. Phelan, Minnie and Annie Shee- han.
 During the week following Easter Sunday the senior debating club ofSthe High school will give promenade and banquet on the lower floor of the schoo4 building. Among the invited guests or the evening wiM be the members of the faculty of the school. At the ban quet. which will follow the dancing. John Gaffney, president of the club, will be toastmaster. Among those who will propably respond to toasts are Principal s. W. Wilby, Benjamin Fair brother and James Turley.
 Thomas Kelly, the baker and farmer. says this is going to be good year for the man with the hoe. The ground is thoroughly saturated with water and that means that the farmer will haVD something to show for his labor during the spring and summer. Kelly says $ that people are getting back on the land and believes that a few years from now it will not be as hard to get people to locate in the rural districts as it Is to-day. He claims that there is no happier man in the world than the owner of a snug farmhouse and props erty, and makes no bones of the state- ment that able bodied men make mis- take in settling in the cities.
 In accordance with vote passed last night, the committee on obstruc- tions, Commissioner Blakeslee. chair- man, called at the store of Goldberg & Winick on East Main street this after noon for the purpose of Investigating m application from the firm for permission to hang an umbrella sign over the entrance to the store. There was nobody in the place at the time, but the committee saw that the petitioners had already put out the signs, two umbrellas being tossed about from the end of a white birch stick and another dangling from a lath like the strips used in malx- ng hen coop, The committee didn't appear to have any special to the signs provided they were secured so that they would not ,a fin nSta Inf f7anpar of fratt - l<,<,<xr5S