The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-26

and HOOK ana 1alucF company or All sonia closed Saturday night. It is sell dom that the citizens have responded so liberally and enthusiastically to any de- mand for their dollars as they have to the needs of this branch of Ansonia's lire department. The occasion for the bazar was the call for money to pay for furnishing the new quarters of the Ea- gles, and it looks as though the sum re- |alized would be many hundred dollars |net.
 The republican primaries for Derby are to be held this Tuesday evening. 4 very proper attention is now being paid by Street Commissioner Colwell to | the roads in the outside sections of the city. The freshets on the river road have caused that thoroughfare 10 be far. from comfortable or safe for teams, and l the New Haven turnpike since the trel- 1 ley improvements has not been too free l from rocks and small holes. The Woman's club and the Daughters of the American Revolution chapter will conclude the season after the May meeting. There has been no period in Ithe history of these two societies as the lpast eight months. which has chroni- | cled better programme nor better
 Attendance.
 A chicken-thieving epidemic has
 started in section of Ansonia, and the lowners of hen-coops are beginning to
 contemplate a night-patrol.
 l The class of 1904 of the Shelton High lschool cleared about ninety dollars from %oiy ,a1af ceeds are to be used to defray the ex- lpenses of graduation. It is now quite the custom for the graduating classes in the three High schools in this neighbor- hood to earn a little money to pay their graduation bills, and the public always lsecond the ventures of these young peo- lple on the stage by filling the hall or the lOpera House to its limit.
 On Sunday last in the afternoon the Todd Fellows celebrated the eighty-fifth lanniversary of the founding of the Der by lodge by planting sturdy young loak in Riverview Park in Shelton,
 Conn. The tree was procured by the
 grand master and was planted with quite a ceremony.
 The Street Department" muddle in Ansonia continues and an injunction is liable to be the next proceeding in order to put a halt to any more illegal issue \ of checks for work done on the streets. Ansonia is verify distinguishing itself in municipal fireworks. and she pur- poses to be also marked, with q few lother settlements in the state, by send ling a solid Hearst delegation to the lstate convention.
 ! The annual musical of the Derby Cho- ral club was the sixth of the concerts this association has given since it's Estart, Its membership represents all the 9prominent musicians and durable voices
 in this neighborhood, and the pro
 gramfne they sing is invariably of a high order. The leader this year has been Mir. Marsh. who is the director of the Christ church choir of Ansonia.
 The plot formerly occupied by one of iDerby's district schools, known as
 Academy hill, belongs to no one, as a
 New Haven judge has decided, but Judge Clark, of the city court, wishes to turn the tract into a park and has all ready ploughed the Commons. An interesting bit of history has come to notice In the construction of the old
 school-house It was built so that the
 corners pointed just as the four points lof the compass do. The Academy has a record in the educational line, as lit was a. popular school. It was built before Yale college was.
 Big strings of trout carried through the streets indicate that last years freeze didn't harm the denizens of the hillside streams
 The recent decision in the case of the New Haven jeweler against Senator
 Whitlock Is warning to all who con- template marrying, that the fellow may Ehave to settle for the beautiful jewels This lady-love orders to be charged to liner intended. Whitlock's total was
 s946.
 l A Howe avenue (Shelton) tailor has lin bottle of alcohol a four-legged lchick The freak was matched on his premises.
 Those passing up the Naugatuck road cannot fail to discern the location of the
 Farrel foundry. A sign Is being paint I ed on the rear of the foundry building
 with letters as tall as the painter. 
 l A club called the "Carnation" gave a
 dance few nights since in Gould armo- Try which the citizens do not desire to be repeated. Rag-time dancing, brawls land a free flow of fire-water distin- 1 guished the event as of too low grade to be patronized by decsrt people.
 An official of the Japanese navy was lin Derby on Thursday visiting theshop of the United States Rapid Fire Gun &
 Power company. This call makes stir lin work and more activity at the plant. The Young Mems Christian associa- ltion has a plan for out of door Sunday afternoon meetings which will be mate Irialized just so soon as the weather will Epermit.
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