Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-15
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS.

The Evening Democrat is for
 sale in Naugatuck every evening at 5 o'clock at the stores of Swee- ney, Birdsall and Stapleton. It
 will be sent to your address by mail for $5 a year or 42c a month. John Sweeney, Jr, has entered Taft school at Watertown, where he will take a course of. study
 The Y. M. c. I. dance tonight.
 Paul Johnson will officiate as coach of the High school track team.
 Rubber City lodge, N. E. o. P, win meet tonight.
 Mrs Hard has returned from a blsi. ness trip to Boston.
 "Wednesday night the board Of war den and burgesses were obliged to sit for nearly three hours and hear charges against two police officers for alleged conduct unbecoming an officer. For some months past people have been complaining to police headquar- terS about the crowds of young men who hang out on and in the vicinity of Main street, and the charges pre- ferred against the two officers grew out of the efforts of the police to remedy the evils now prevalent in that sec tion. Whether the police officer had any right or any cause to strike the young man whose father complained Against the officer or whether the ar rest of another young man by two po- licemen was a false arrest or not. is not for us to say. The evidence intro duced at Wednesday nights hearing will be carefully gone over by the board of warden and burgesses, who will render just verdict. The public may hold different view of the case, but withal the finding of the board will be delivered only after all the con ditions and facts have been carefully gone over. And with the finding of the board will undoubtedly come some severe measures for correcting the state of affairs that now exists on Main street.. And it is high time con ditions on Main street were changed. From the trolley terminus to the bus barn on any fine night can be seen young men and young wonen, yes, more often young boys and girls, carry ing on in a shameful manner. One need only walk up that way to be fully convinced that something is radically wrong somewhere and that somewhere too often is the home or rather the par ents. How many fathers and mothers are there In the borough to-day who know where their cons and daughters are every night? True those who work in the shop or store all day cannot re- main indoor all the time, and if par ents allow their children to go out in the night with the strict injunction to be in at such and such an hour. and then consider that they have a watch full eye over their loved ones. they are many, many miles off the right road. and their children are not the better for it. If the parents of most of the young men who make this section their hang out knew of their actions they would be shocked beyond a doubt, and more than that. would have to see be- fore they would believe. There can be no doubt but what the police will stop the gangs from hanging out on Main street and it would be caution for those who in the past have made them' selves a nuisance there to stop right now before some of them spend night in the police station.
 The Evening Democrat is for
 sale in Naugatuck every evening
 at 5 o'clock at the stores of Swee-
 ney, Birdsall and Stapleton. It
 will be sent to pour address by
 mail for s year or 42c month.