Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-20
CITY NEWS

l poTk r1DS Sc, at john +. GelSler s, SID Baldwin street.
 There is very bad spot in the road
 way. beside the crosswalk, at the foot
 of Pleasant street, on Baldwin street
 which should be repaired at once.
 l.. R. Garter has sold for Julius H.
 CoWles the three-family house, Nos 35, 37 and Al Elizabeth street, to Elizabeth
 M. Horn; also sold for A. W. Mitchell of Woodbury his two-family house cor her Orange and Cossett street.
 An important meeting of the local aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles will .be held in SpeedweH hall tonight l at s o'clock. Every member is re- | quested to be present. Tickets for the l coming fair will be distributed.
 An application for divorce has been | filed by Frank Pilgrim of Bank street from his wife Helen, who is supposed ! to be living in Torrington. Pilgrim all leges desertion in 1896. The case is returnable to the September term of l the superior court.
 The 1akSeau of assessment will have an outing this afternoon for the pur- pose of looking over the ground at l Dublin and East Main streets, where 1t has been decided to make a change | of grade, on petition of the ManVille | Machine Go.
 The Zion Literary association will hold a special bylaw meeting at Car penters' hadl Sunday, August B. at F D. m. sharp. Also, all Hebrews are invited to attend our open meeting which will begin promptly at p. m. sharp. We'll known speaker will ad- dress the meeting.
 Union men will be interested to know that Upson, Singleton & Go have a very neat folding leather pocketbook. made special to hold your union card, under a~ce1uloid cover always in sight when you want it, yet protected from wear and the soiIing that it gets by carrying in your pocket. When mak- ing a purchase of U. s. & Go ask for one.
 The Waterbury Military band went to Hartford yesterday with the local Hibernians and won great honors. They not only played great music, but had great feature in the band, and that was the way they carried their drum. It was carried on wheels and was the attraction of the day. The band will play in Southington Septem- Der ? with the Naugatuck fire depart ment.
 Tuesday evening about fifty or more persons surprised Mir and Mrs +. w. Doolfttle at their home in Hopeville. There was music. dancing. songs and refreshments, all of which made up quite an entertaining program which was kept up until the "wee sma' hours'' of the morning. Such gather | ings promote good feeling In communi- 1 ties and make very pleasant breaks in | the regular routine of life.
 Youngsters did considerable dam age about the premises of F. J. Coo l gan on Baldwin street last night and ] he states that things have reached a stage where he finds it out of the ques- tion to keep tenants in his houses if l the annoyance contina1eS. Last night valuable lot of plants belonging to one of his tenants was destroyed and the door bells kept banging until mid- l night. This has been going on for a long time and MT Coogan says that as last resort he will be obliged to make an example of somebody. He is tired looking for assistance from the author l ities to aIbate the nuisance and thinks 1 it rather strange that in a town where so much Is spent for police protection so little of it is used in his neighbor- l hood
 Lawrence Kinney died this morning at his home. 600 Baldwin street, after l couple of weeks sickness with ty- l pfrofd fever. Mir Kinney was born in l Ashland, Pa, August 13, 1869, and came to Waterbury several years ago. | Tn 1896 he married Miss Bridget De laney of this city, who with two chi1- 1 dren, James and John. survive him. l He also leaves his mother, Mrs Pat rick Kinney. four brothers and three
 sisters, J. F. Kinney, an undertaken l at South Bethlehem. Pa: Thomas. Mi
 chael and Miss Maggie Kinney of Phil
 adelphia; Mrs F. F. I've of Mt Carmel, Pa, Miss Gertrude Kinney of Water
 bury and John Kinney of West Vir- l ginia- He was a member of Mulcahy
 council, K. of O.. and of Court Shields, l F. of A. During his residence in Wa
 terbury MT Kinney formed a wide ac- 1 quaintance and was we'll liked by all
 who knew him.
 Gentlemen from the rural districts ] are commencing to make regular trips l to the city to dispose of their farm | produce, and it would seem from the number of competitors in the field and the size and character of their stock that farming is beginning to pay better than it has for some time past Pota- toes are very good and there is no req son why they should not be cheap bye and bye. The farmers are by far less troublesome callers than the profes- sional peddler The former knocks
 gently at your door and innuires if you want anything in voice just loud enough to make himself understood.
 so that one might be asleen in an ad-
 Joining room and not be disturbed by
 his presence. The other fellows make
 more noise than is necessary and prob
 ably this is one reason why half of l them do no business to speak of. There
 are three or four shouters in the busi-
 ness again and peonle who feel az
 erieved at their conduct hope tha no- lfce will see that they keen within the law without waiting to hear protests l from residents of districts where they
 make practice of testing the power Y 3Ne4 ,1sw. 1r-,Sr