Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-06
CITY NEWS

N The property of Mrs Elizabeth Kill
 bride and D. F. Carroll on Mattatuck
 street and the Patrick German place on
 Judd street have been sold to the rail
 road company.
 IA Eugene M Boughton and Miss Der tha Strohacker. both of this city. were married June 1. at Southern Pines, \. C.. the Rev Herbert F.. Floss, D. D.. or !, that place officiating.
 The Rev Dr Anderson. warden of the borough of Woodmont. entertained a number of the Naugatuek Valley As sociation of Congregational ministers at his home yesterday.
 The police are looking for fellow \ who stole a horse from Frank O'Don- II nell of Oakville. Saturday, and sold him at Peter Kelly's for $25. The ami nal was taken out of the pasture. At last we are having the rain. It
 came last night, accompanied by loud peals of thunder and sharp flashes of lightning that made timid folks think the end of the world was at hand. The rain was needed very much and everybody appears to be glad that It has come to lay the dust and save the crops from being almost total fail ure.
 Mrs Theodora Ames Hooker, who taught in the Waterbury high school two and one-half years ago and left to take charge of the typewriting and
 stenography department in the New Britain high school has been engaged
 as bursar in the business department
 of Bryn Mawr college. Philadelphia. Mrs Hooker will receive a sizable in crease in salary Her daughter. who graduates this month from the high school at New Britain, will enter this
 college in the fall.
 The pupils of the ninth grade of the
 Bank Street school held meeting yes
 tertiay afternoon and elected the fol
 lowing officers: valedictorian, Florence
 Stage: salutatorian. Anna Skehan:
 class speaker. Roger Clark: president,
 Francis Regan: vice-president. Joseph
 Hanlon: secretary. Nellie Perella; treas
 urer. Mary Kearney: class prophet. To-
 retta withey: prophet on prophet. Jen-
 nie Meehan: class will. Helen Shanna-
 han: historian. James O'Connor. Pin
 committee, Joseph Hanlon and Hugo
 Lang.
 X ripple wedding will be held on
 June IA at the residence of George H.
 Gillette on Camp street. when his
 three daughters, Helen Maude. Mabel
 Electa and Anna Laura. will be mar
 ried. the first mentioned to Pearl
 Julius Skilton of watertown. the Rev
 F. D. Walters of the First Baptist
 church officiating: the second to Mor-
 ton R. Chipman of this city. the Rev
 Oscar Haywood of the First Baptist
 church performing the ceremony. and
 the last to dward ]. Ranslow of
 Naugatuck. lr Haywood will also ofieiate at ceremony.
 There will U merry war on East
 Main street from Silver street to the
 Meriden road as soon as the property
 owners in that locality hear that
 they have been assessed for the
 change of grade and layout between
 these points. It was supposed that \ the S3,J0O paid by the trolley com pany would meet this outlay. but this was mistake Although practically all the work has been done the report of the bureau of assessment did not come before the aldermen until last night It was approved and the grade end layout adopted. The property owners on the north side are assessed in the neighborhood of sI5 or sso each with the exception of Martin \. Pond. who will have 10 come down with over
 &2lO.
 The board of public works will hold
 q meeting at o'clock tonight. Among
 the matters to come up is the contin-
 uef hearing on the trunk sewer in
 South Brooklyn. This has nothing to
 do with the petition now before the
 city government asking that a sewer ] be constructed in Railroad Hill street \ from Washington avenue to the ] point where the Meriden railroad crosses that street and against which c remonstrance has been filed. There was some misunderstanding about this
 last night the aldermen thinking that
 fl the order as submitted to them should be adopted it would he case of ordering the work done before the pepple had been heard and as q re- suit the matter was held up and no date has yet been fixed for a hearing on the petition.
 At the meeting of the Business Mems
 association last night plans for
 Fourth of July celebration were dis
 russe-i and in a measure. outlined The
 sy,eakers included the Rev John Y.
 Lewis. Rev Charles A. Dinsmore. !. ].
 NcDonzld. Major Hall. NJ. I. Thomp-
 scnL and Charles D- Wye While every
 thing will l,e left to the discretion If
 committees enough was agreed to last nieht so warrant the public in looking
 forward to a big display If fireworks.
 . patriotic crzticn by ex-Governor Nc
 Lean if he can be had. and if not some ef5er speaker. . monster rarsde of all she or<1nfresf bodies iB fuwn- ball rsn~ under tie dirrrf5rn cf N- J- Thpnp<oa and a land eenrcrf in the ereuink. ABcfber neefipg will be head Ihuudar niGhf fer ske puFDsR sf ap- 0u0u1ng 0o oDvuD1 olDGum1nA