Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-18
CITY NEWS

IHe American Dand prom at Audi torium Saturday night. Carl Smith of South Brooklyn left to-day for Providence on business trip.
 A son was born Wednesday to MT and Mrs Edward Hayes of 21 Wall street.
 Prof B. F. Fenellosa delivered an in teresting lecture last night at St Mar garet's school on Japanese Art.v
 The Talma club has decided to re- peat its minstrel performance at Poli's theater some time next month.
 Miss Annie Newman, popular young lady of St Thomas.s parish, is soon to enter the convent of St Eliza beth at Convent. N. J.
 The committee on sports on the com ing big field day of the temperance so- cieties of the state will meet this even ing in the St Joseph's rooms at s o'clock.
 John Treean of CT James street died yesterday. His funeral will take place at o'clock tomorrow morning to Our Lady Of Lourdes church
 The meeting of the Gold and Blue Whist club of St Mary's alumni as- sociation which was to have taken place this evening has been postponed till next Thursday.
 The American band will give one of it's popular proms at the Auditor ium tomorrow evening. New and popular music prepared for the occa- sion will be played for the first time.
 F. H. Carroll has sold the business block at 776 North Main street to Mrs J. c. Barnes; also a dwelling house at the corner of Rose1and avenue and Columbia boulevard for w., F. Jar rett to U. G. Church.
 A man who gave his name as John Bedford was arrested this afternoon by Detectives Keegan and Kennaugh for theft. He had with him an oyer- coat which he was offering for sale, and as he could not give a satisfactory account of it he was taken into cus- tody.
 At a meeting of the Bucks Hill school district the other night those taxpayers who are in favor of having a new school erected on another site, were unable to muster two-thirds vote and consequently suffered de- feat. The new school, therefore, is blocked temporarily.
 Thomas B. Windsor, a section fore man in the employ of the Consolidated Railroad Go has brought suit for di- yorce against his wife Frances. Some time ago this woman was arrested with Irving Regal for bigamy and on account of pressure of business in the superior court the case was continued to the next term. Attorney E E. Kelley appears for Windsor.
 The annual convention of the state association of carpenters and joiners will be held in Carpenters and Join CTS hall in this city oil next Monday at 10 o'clock. It is expected that about eighty delegates, representing unions in all parts of the state, will be present. Reports will be received from the different locals and acted upon. In the evening the visitors will be entertained at Turn hall on Jefferson street, where a smoker will be held.
 The rate bills as prepared by the board of assessors were signed yester- day by the board of finance and turn ed over to MT Hunt for collection. In another month or so there will be mu- sic in the air. With the increase in values and the added rate of taxa tion the rate bills have taken q bound upward which will make some people wonder where they are at. And the worst thing about this matter is that the powers that be tell us that we are still long ways from the high water mark in the matter of taxation.
 The fine weather of yesterday held out long enough to give everybody who was out celebrating an opportun- ity to get home, but that was about all. People who retired praising tho 'soft night" and thinking the sum- shine had come to stay were some what surprised when they looked out this morning and saw the ground GOV cred with snow, and the white flakes falling thick and fast. The storm didn't amount to much, however, but it did enough to make walking about the streets quite disagreeab1e to-day and furnished some work for the street department cleaning gutters gutters and sidewalks