Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-20
CITY NEWS

1 Views, Japan and Japanese, Polls,
 February 21; 25c.
 | The Curran Dry Goods Go wants
 experienced salespeople Monday
 morning. ..,t Monday will be Washington's $
 birthday. legal holiday. The banks,
 the public and parochial schools,
 Bronson library and some of the fac tories will be closed. ....s. Bernard Forman. a New York man
 who recently went into bankruptcy
 as stated by the Associated Press,
 never did business i'll Waterbury. Miss Flora Morris of Wall street, stenographer at the office of the
 Holmes, Booth < Haydens Co, will
 spend Sunday at the home of her paGants in Derby. The summary process casa of
 James. E. Martin vs Samuel Ander- son, which was heard by Judge
 Peasley in the city court yesterday,
 was decided this morning for the
 plaintiff.
 The Rev MT Reed Of Grace Bap- tist church will preach at A. M H. Zion church Sunday at 3 o'clock. All are invited to hear him. The Rev MT Edmondson of ! Waterbury will preach in the evening at 7;30 o'clock.
 Rev Father Fitzgerald, of the Sa- cred Heart church, will give q temper ance address at the yesper service ill the church of the Immaculate Concep- tion, at Terryyiije tomorrow evening at ' o'clock. This is the firstsaof Il series of sermons to be delivered in this church every " Sunday evening during Lent.
 Preparations have been made by the Sacred Heart drum corps to give a grand ball in the Auditorium Fri. l day evening. April 8. Drum corps l from all parts of the state will be l here and give a grand street parade l Everything will be done to make this I one of the most successful events ! they have undertaken.
 Mrs Margaret E. Johnson of Wa
 tertown was granted a divorce yes 1 terday by Judge Roraback in the su- ! perior court in Winsted from her hus band William. Intemperance was l the ground on which the divorce was l granted. Mrs J Johnson was also granted the custody of her seven
 years old daughter.
 Before the Waterbury Women $
 club at the First Congregational
 church yesterday afternoon, DrAnder-
 son delivered the first of series of illustrated lectures which will run through the Lenten season. His sub ject was Dante" whose works he
 advised the good ladies Of ,.the Wom- ems club to read and ponder over with great care.
 A Democrat reporter learned to.
 day on good authority that the troll ley company will soon present to the city government modified plans for the service on Baldwin street from Cole street to the Pearl Lakes road, a distance of about a couple of miles. If the company means business it is
 safe to predict that the city govern
 ment will not stand in the way on this project now no more than ill the past
 Ice ought to be sold at price next
 summer which will put it within the reach ,of the poorest family in the
 city There was an abundant crop
 of 1t on all the local ponds and the
 weather for harvesting it was all
 that could have been desired, so that 1t is hard to9see what argument the
 dealers can put forward in favor of
 high prices except that everybody is
 trying to get the most they can for
 their stock.
 The resolutions OH the death of General $. w. Kellogg. adopted by the local bar at bar meeting in the
 district court last Saturday, have
 been ordered filed on the minutes of the superior court. Judge Wheeler issued the order yesterday He also decided Attorney Carmody $ motion to strike out in the two cases of Julia Corbett and her minor son. Jo, seph Corbett, against the Colonial Trust Co for the plaintiffs, who are represented by Attorneys Kennedy and Cassidy.
 Half a dozen men got into a dis
 pute yesterday over the meaning of
 "Arrah-no-P -Pogue" show billed to
 appear here in the near future. Eacl, had meaning of his own, but after
 comparing notes all agreed that none of them was right and appointed q committee to look it up. An Irish. man who knows his mother tongue assures the committee that the Eng 1 fish of arrah-no-pogue is 'sciveame a 1 kiss" If this be true fellows who 1 take their best girls to see the perfor- l nance should be careful about men tioning the name of the play to their 1 companions lest they get themselves
 into peck of trouble or worse still
 be parties to an exhibition which i would attract more attention than what was being enacted on the stage | A joking remark by one of the 1 clerks has enriched a business firm
 on East Main street near the center ] to the extent Of ten dollars. One
 day during the past week the clerl
 was looking in the waste basket fo,
 an old bill which he found just a, 1 the men who collect old papers came | along. The clerk remarked jokingls as they took the basket of waste pa per away that if they found ans
 money in it. it was his. The mer