Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-13
CITY NEWS

A pleasant social gathering was held
at the home Of Wayne e. Claffey last
evening.
Rehearsal this evening at $50 in st
Patrick's hall for the singers taking
part in the charity bazaar given by the
Queens Daughters.
The art center canvassed on by
Brass City lodge, No $50, L. A., B. of
r. r., was won by ticket No 288, J. g..
Sugrue, 20 Hopkins street.
Mrs Mary Deely died this morning
at her home. 81 Brown place She
leaves five sons and two daughters, p.
f., John, Dennis W., Edward, Thomas
r., Mrs James Fleming and Miss Della
Deely: also two sisters, Mrs Anne Con-
roy of Hartford and Mrs Owen O'Don-
nell of Brooklyn, N Y. The funera
arrangements have not yet been COM
pleted.
At the Catholic churches yesterday
the pastors urged their congregations
to do all in their power to help make
a success for the entertainment in aid
of the Queens Daughters which will
open in City hall Wednesday night and
continue for the rest of the week. The
Holy Name society of the immaculate
Conception parish has donated SIS to
the cause, the Sacred Heart Holy
Name SO and the Third division $40 in
gold to be voted for.
So far the rush for the shore has
not been very great, although a large
number of people have fitted up cot
tages and intend to occupy them as
soon as the warm weather sets in. Wa
terbury folks are beginning to learn
that it does not pay to locate by the
bounding sea too early in the season,
and with a view to guarding against
making any mistake they first get
things in shape in their cottages and
then wait until the coast looks clear
before settling down in them.
The Connecticut Pharmaceutical as
ISOLATION Is holding It's annual meeting
in Hartford to-day and tomorrow ana
the Hartford Drug association are the
entertainers. The Allyn house will be
the headquarters. In the evening all
of the out-of-town people will be enter
tanned at a theater party at Polls the
alter. Tomorrow morning a start viii
be made for Lake Compounce, the party
leaving Union station at Ill o'clock BY
third rail. Dinner will be served at
the lake at 1870 o'clock and feature
will be q sheep bake.
Potatoes are quoted to-day at sixty
cents a peck for new ones and forty
for last seasons growth. This is
pretty steep, but it seems people are
bound to have them. for even at this
figure the tubers are in big demand
ana some of the dealers can hardly
get enough Of the new ones to fill
their orders. With everything else
that enters into the cost of living,
including house rent constantly crawl
ing up, it must be plain to everybody
that 1t is q battle royal for a family
to 1--we on a small income. and put
things on the table that are fit to eat
The second Sunday in June is al
ways observed by the Knights of the
Maccabees Of the World in commem-
Grafton OF their deceased brothers. In
every city or town where there is a
tent located the day Is observed in
some manner suitable to the occasion.
In this city yesterday Waterbury tent,
No 80, held appropriate services and
the grave of their deceased brother,
Sir Knight Walter Geraghty, was de-
corated In the afternoon by the follow
ing committee: Sir knight IL. f.
Coyle, J.. p Lyons, Il. Mansfield, w.
S. Gill and r. w. Logue. Mr. Geragh-
ty is the only deceased member Wa
terbury tent has Sir Knight w @.
Twittey of Torrington tent was pres
-ent at the exercises and visited the
cemetery with the committee.
The street department has turned
IT'S attention to Grand street and after
a short time it will be in as good
shape as Baldwin street or any of the
other macadam roads town. The
crown of the street has been taken
Off between Church and Leavenworth
streets and a bed of cobblestones laid
down instead. This is being covered
with crushed stone taken from where
the trolley company Is extending the
service and after the big roller makes
few trips over It. 1t will be In ex-
cellent condition. The rest Of the
street will be cut down, too, SO that
when the job is finished the grade for
the entire length will be even from
curb to curb. While thew are at 1T.
1t would be good plan to straighten
the curbing, fix some OF the walks and
remove the decaying trunk of the tree
removed from the library lawn some
time ago and just outside the wire
fence on Hall street