The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-08
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ic of christianity and the Professional Life" The doctors. lawyers, teachers, and Journalists, will be his sub-topics- The medical man was discussed for the first evening and the legal fraternity was to fall under his scalpel last Sum day.
 Russia is not without at least few synpathizers in this neighborhood twenty-six men of that nationality re- siding in Ansonia left their friends and families and are now on the deep, deep sea, en route for home to enlist, they are truely very patriotic for the amount they receive for fighting to defend their country is very insignificant com pared with their risk of life. These loyal sons of the Northern Bear, an- swered summons from the other side.
 The sum of forty-eight thousand dol lars has been voted by the Board ot Appointment of Ansonia to run her schools for the ensuing year.
 A good deal of talk is heard and not little literature is being circulated among local Democrats by Parties booming Hearst for the Presidential nomination. No club nor formal lin- ing up of his friends has occurred yet, but the craze is on many who have the yellow journalist.
 A capital instance in proof of the real need of District nurse in Derby and confirmation of the value of such work is a case now in charge of Dr. Geo. c. Beardsley. An infant four days old whose mother was attended by midwife was discovered sick with in- famed eyes. The family is very needy and of course could not employ nurse for constant attention to this disease, so violent with infants, it required pr. Beardsley to call in the District nurse, Miss Hall, and the baby's eyes are now under vigilant care. If the inf1ama- tion is arrested, the good results will be largely due to the kind services of the Association's representative. Ansonia's Tax-rate for the ensuing year has at last been definitely an nounced, nine and one half mills is the high water mark.
 The last report of the Bureau of La bor Statistics has some very interesting figures for those concerned in Derby. This pamphlet tells of the total capital invested in Derby enterprises as $4,- 0O0OOO, is sound figures, and reports the number of wage-earners as 2311 The annual earning per each employe is $4S2. There are eightly-four indus trise listed.
 The winter with it's chill has barely passed ere combine is the talk among the market and saloon-men to get ice at a lower figure, the approaching sum- mer. A cooperative ice association may be started. It is astrange history of the ice consumption that the price does not vary with the quantity housed. There is no reason, why every available I nook, corner and crib should not now | be packed with unusually thick ice, tons and tons ought to have been handled and yet the price it is pre- stunned will be the same as last year. The supply of most commodities usual- ly affects the price, not so however, with ice. It must be the trust hab- it's have possessed the ice merchant.
 The new city hall of Ansonia Is to cost $2S692. At least this is the bid fig ure the lowest of thirteen, by which the I Beardsley Building Company of Shell ton won the job. The project of muni- l cipal headquarters took form early 1 in 1901. Considerable discussion and 1 difference of opinion as to the site and
 delays among the architects In submit | ting plans have deferred the final | rounding up of matters and now it is l announced that work on the building will surely be commenced by the first of April
 When the new Gamewell (fire alarm)
 boxes are in place and the testing con cluded, Derby will be furnished witE eighteen, of which five are private, the property of the factories locating them It is rumored that the old operatta
 "Pinafore" will soon be staged in Der.
 by by the same ladies and gentlemen
 who acceptably presented Priscilla last fall in behalf of the econd Con. 1 gregational church. The same aim o the musical venture will be the realiz
 ing of funds for the surch's outlay an
 nually in music.
 I Church suppers sometimes are profit 4 able even if they do we'll, nigh kill tht T willing ladies who volunteer harder I work for their church than they could 'l be hired to do within the precincts O
 their own homes. At the recent Martha ! Washington supper and entertainment
 given by the Second Congregations
 Church Ladies' Aid Society the sum O
 $65, was netted.
 That the travel on the steam-railroat
 between Derby and New Haven ha.
 been in a marked degree cut ever since
 the trolley cars commenced their regu
 lar trips is the comment of all travel
 CTS. Many a, coach comes into the de
 got with less than a half dozen pas
 sengers and no one unless a business
 man or some traveller in a real hurry
 now patronizes the Berkshire division:
 cars. Trolley parties are becoming : l tea-table topic and there is no busi
 ness to1day so finely assured as tn,
 certainly heavy travel on the jumbo S
 throughout the coming summer Imonths.
 Several of the factories are receiv l ing the attentions of a company Whicl makes a business of appraising tt thoroughly estimate the value of an, plant, the present work of the buildins machinery and stock, several men ar,
 now engaged in writing up the con ; dition of the various properties, tn , undertaking requiring many weeks fo the job. At the conclusion of the ef
 fort figure is thus intelligently givel as the bases for an eighty per cent ) insurance or a bonding of the concern