Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-25
CITY NEWS

Tonight is the night for American band prom at auditorium.
 Miss Clara McAllister of this cit, has been granted state teachers cel 1 titicate
 The regular monthly meeting of S JOSeph's T. A. society will be held to morrow afternoon.
 l Miss Kate McMamara of i2l5 Banl street has accepted position as book | keeper with William H. Brennan tE, Naugatuck grocer
 There will be a final meeting of the creditors of Pasquale Genova neXt Friday before Referee Newton. Geno va kept saloon on South Main street
 When in need of help try 25c ad ir the Democrat. One business man ad vertised for clerk in our columns anC received 92 written answers, besides nearly as many more applied in person. It only costs 25c.
 Fire did considerable damage in De- laney and Dipplc's cigar shop on West Main street last evening. While they were at supper the drier caught fire
 
 ed a few hundred dollars worth of to- bacco had gone up In smoke. There was n pleasant party at Mrs George l.. Jenks on Friday afternoon Whist was played, there being five tables. Mrs G. F. Bates and Mrs Will liam Dyson Won the first prizes and Mrs Fred Pretat and Mrs David Sprague the consolation prizes. Lunch was served to the party.
 Reserved seat tickets will go on sale at Duncan's drug store on next Mon day for the big championship game of basketball between the AIiddletown Y. M. C. A. and the Winsted T. A. X E. society which will take place at Eagles Hall in this city next Friday night. Special trains will run from both Win sted and Middletown on the night of the game and the contest is sure to afford great excitement.
 At a largely attended meeting of court Shields, F. of A. last night in G. A. R. hall, John k. Duane and James J. Fitzgerald were chosen dele gates to the state convention, which meets here May 10 and H. Patrick Barry and E. F. Riortlan were elected alternates. J. J. Mcdonald, James !. Fitzgerald and John R. Duane were elected members of the several room committees for the coming year.
 The fate of the school pension bill is said to be very much in doubt Indeed some very prominent republicans say it is doomed. The principal objection to the measure at Hartford is the clause which deprivas a teacher the right to a place in the schools unless she belongs to the association. This is regarded as coercion and the legisla- tors don't quite like that and many of them make no bones of saying so.
 If you want to see the Baldwin street trolley extended to the Pearl lakes road this year you should get after the aldermen and request them to hurry along the hearing so that they may be finished up in d few weeks and give the company no loophOlc to crawl out of it. They say they will do it as soon as they get the grade and the proper thing to do is take them at their word and then hold them to it.
 James Donahue of North square re- turned home last evening from four weeks trip through the south. Mir Donahuc was in Hot Springs when the great contia grafton happened in that place. On account of the intlammable material of most of the buildings the town was on fire in all parts in q short time and to save it from entire de- struction it was necessary to blow up many handsome structures. To see q huge building rise in the air amid flame and smoke and then fall to pieces with an explosion that seemed to rend the very earth. was one of the sensations he experienced during the fire.
 The drenching rain of last night helped knock the frost out of the ground and put people in fair way to cleaning up their yards without too much labor. As soon as it stops rain- ing everybody should do a little cle;il- ing inside and outside and thus put themselves in position to welcome an officer anytime he may call. There is q lot of bad feeling towards the police men over the order to clean backyar,ls. but there is 1Io reason in the world why this should he so. People should try and put themselves in the officers place and then see what they would do. The police would like to be re- lieved of this job. so that nobody need think that they are doing it as a mat ter of choice.
 The physical director of the New Haven Young Mems Christian associa- ton. q. M. Martin. will he the speaker at the mems meeting in the Y. NJ. C. X. lecture hall next Sunday afternoon at f o'clock. Mir Martins talk will bc of especial interest tO athletes and gymnasium members of the Y. NJ. C. \. He is man of exceptional ability in the directing of physical activities of many hundreds of young men of New Haven. Mir Martin has also had long and varied experience in other cities. Physical Director Martin has also had charge of the Morris Cove Outing club Of the New Haven Y. M. C. A.. where many young men have en- joycd the out t-tlOor sports of tennis. hand lall. base hall. swimming. etr. \ cordial welspWe k extended ia Water bury young men to hear and meet NIT Martin. Physical Director GoOiyear of the loral aSSoriation will have charge of the meeting.
 Why not have at d,hle right: There are all kinds of clOrkmakarS who ,Io all kinds of work. We have only one ind artsI that k fh.. Is..St t0 t... had