Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-12
CITY NEWS

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 The board of finance will meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
 Regular monthly meeting of St Mary's T, A. society will be held in St Patrick's hall this evening at 8 o'clock.
 The annual meeting of the Masonic lodge of Connecticut will be held i'll Hartford next Wednesday, and Thurs day.
 John o. Rowland. superint tendent of the Masonic home, Wallingford, was in Waterbury to-day and made call upon Fl. w. Atwood of the town store.
 Dr Clarence Wooding has been ap- pointed time keeper ill the office of the superintendent of streets to sue ceed James H. Powers.
 Attorney Kennedy was one of the guests at the Bryan dinner in New Haven last evening. After the dinner he left for Washington. He will res turn Thursday.
 Harry Cassidy, Henry and Thomas McGrath, John Hutchinson. John Sui- livan and Charles O'Connor have re turned to Niagara college after a three weeks vacation.
 Mrs William J. Baker, wife of the jalitor Of the Odd Fellows building, was out yesterday after an illness that confined her to her room for five months.
 William Fingelstein, aged 75 years, died this morning at his home, IS Wood street The funeral took place this afternoon with interment i'll Mel-l chizedeck cemetery.
 The board Of safety will hold a spe- cial meeting this evening for the pur- pose of hearing charges against q number of firemen for being absent from duty without permission.
 Fishermen are warned to avoid Shell Hitchcock's ponds in the future as there will be few fish left there after to-day. Joseph Fitzpatrick Joseph Tracy and Joseph Gordon. three expert fishermen, are spending the day at the pond and they intend to capture all the fish.
 Mr Aborn, the crack pool player and winner of series of tournament games recently played at Woods tho winner of the Danbury tourna- y, Wednesday night, January 13, for the championship Of the state.
 The board of charities will hold a meeting tomorrow afternoon at I o'clock. It is probable that at this meeting superintendent of chari- ties and clerk of the board will be. appointed It Is reported that Super intendent Doran and Clerk McNIahon will succeed themselves They have been excellent officials.
 On account of the inability to secure q judge. though there are three of them in the city, the case of Samuel Fried neighbors on Bank street had to 20 over. It was to have been heard in the city court this afternoon. Judge Burpee was out of town and Judges CowelI and Peasley were engaged n the district court.
 Local military men are interested in the report. which has been revived again that the annual encampment of the Connecticut National Guard at Ni- antic will be done away with this year. Instead that the entire national guard of New England will be assemb, led for the holding of maneuvers in conjunction with the regular army as was done in Kansas, The local men will not be at all displeased with. the change although the weeks work will be more difficult that that at Mantle. It will be much more beneficial Be- sides the novelty of the plan will at tract for time
 The bureau of engineering is malz- ing surveys for the layout and grade Of George street, so called. Some of the residents always claimed that the numbers on their houses are the same as those on Hawkins street, and peo- pie who mistake both for only one street get badly mixed up. To avoid this confusion the name of George street has been changed to West flaw kins street. In running the lines it was found that although the old maps call for a forty foot street in many places the deeds allow for only thirty feet. but us the street is nearly forty feen inside the fences at all points it is not likely that there will be any trouble about it