The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-12
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 to leave us. and Nellie Leary. who re- mains in the lookup waiting for orders -rom her medical attendant. These are the nucleus of our miniature insane asy- lum.
 Beginning last Tuesday, and for the remaining evenings save Saturday. re- vival services are being held in the Der by M. E. church, the first of series of union evangelistic meetings or FHhich the Methodist churches of Shelton. Derby, Ansonia, and Seymour are inter- ested.
 Invitations to the extent of 200 have been issued for the fifteenth wedding anniversary of Mir and Mrs. Frank c. Woodruff of Orange this Saturday eve ming. Derby people have been largely remembered.
 Tramos are no longer annoying the town as they once did. They do not speak or stop as they pass by now, for they pass by on the freight cars, where they steal a ride The police have most creditably frightened these loafers to parts unknown. These nuisances were experienced a few weeks ago in the out skirts of Derby, barns being their spots of rendezvous, but they have suddenly migrated like birds of prey in a night.
 The Blumenthal mills a few weeks ago closed to await new orders. They have started operations. The new wool en goods enterprise and the silk velvet business promises well again.
 The golden wedding of Mir. and Mrs. O. L. Rowley of Huntington is to oe celebrated on Friday of this week.
 The new registrars appointed by the board of aldermen at recent meeting held last week are Dr. c. B. Nettleton, ] a veteran in the service, but who for the past three years has not desired to serve, and John Hurley, the latter peinS the democratic nominee.
 MT. and Mrs. John Peterson leave for California this Saturday for a six weeks absence.
 The German Hall Clock company of Ansonia declared last week its first div idend, $1 on each share. This society is certainly now in fiourishing condition and deserves great praise for it's perse- verance in its enterprise of maintaining 1 desirable concert hall and assembly room.
 The vital statistics for the town of Huntington show eight deaths as it's record for January.
 Derby has two very accommodating city officials. truly not selfish. A few days since the poor conn1issioner,Ja James D. Casey, who has served one year at selary of $500, made a swop of his office with the police commissioner, John l.. O'Deel. O'Deel, too, has fill ed his berth for the year gone by, but | only for glory. Now O'Dell is to get | the shekel and Carey is to find the re- nown. This may have been an ante election understanding or political deal. All the essame, its not every official who is so kind to an associate as Carey surely proves to be.
 Two youthful burglars now in the 1 tolls await their fate at the bar of New 1 Hsyen justice, and there seems not a little pity bubbling up among those con- versant with the record of one of the daring breakers -Talnadge. Their acts deserve a big rebu6e, but in the case of Talmadge his guilt, confessed, 1 does not seem the expression of 2 really | tough character, but the fooiisi1fless, an easily influenced and miscfievous youth. The case is one for probation.
 The wrestling bouts held now and l then in the armory are reported not clean altogether. Dirty work is not en- loved by sports Of the best cloth, and the referee needs to put an end at once l to any such unsportsmanlike perform anee as the star bout between Billy Crake of Bridgeport and Ed. O'Connell of New Haven last Thursday evening. | No one charges the encounters as not l square, but altogether at times too l vicious
 1 In one of the show windows of Allis & Go. of Derby is an elegantly mounted Canadian russett fox. This fox was killed in Bathurst, New Brunswick, l Canada. by Miss Agnes Baleman who has the reputation of being an expert in 1 using a rife. Some years ago Miss Bateman was patient Of Dr. George l.. Beardsley, and was hepelessly sick from consumption. She completely re- covered and returned to her home in ! the north. This fox was shot about | Christmas time, when the temperature was 8 degrees below zero, and sent as a present to pr. Beardsey to be added to l his fine collection of stuffed birds and animals.
 It is not an instance of fulsome praise to sDealz of the Benedicts' ball in the 1 Ansonia opera. house last Friday night,
 as the finest event of it's kind ever wit messed in this vicinity. No dance has ever eclipsed this in the many appoint ments that go to make such a social treat grand. The music was the best ever heard at an assembly, the decora- tions were the most elaborate and the 1 gowns the richest. A gentleman, who is a sort of a Ward McAliister for Der by, is the authority for a statement ex- ltensively quoted that visitors from other cities to Derby say that dancing in Derby has reached 8 fine art, and that
 few are the places where all acquit 1 themselves so gracefully on the waxed floor as the Derby and Ansonia lads and
 lassies. This may not be true, but this is true, that there is big effort among those who attend the assemblies to do