Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-15

l Chief Schmidt has received com i plaint that set of pool balls has i been stolen from the '. NJ. C. 1 rooms The trick was very mean one and it will go hard with the cul, prit if he is caught.
 Enrolment of School Children. Following. is the enumeration of l the children between the ages of four and sixteen years in Naugatuck on the first Monday of October, 1905: Union Center 2,106, Union City 7S5, Millville 9f, Pond Hill 8, Middle 80, Straits vile IS, making a total of 3,13S. Num- Der attending public and private 1000, not attending, under five, 203; five to seven, 93; seven to fourteen, 70; four teen to sixteen, 173; making total of 539.
 Games Arranged.
 There was no meeting of the Blue Front basketball team last evening. as the hall was in use. and as there is a rehearsal of the company that is to produce Eileen Oge at the Gem Opera house tomorrow evening, there will be no practice this evening. Manager Klein and Captain Rilma have arranged games with Ansonia and the Sterlings of Waterbury, and also with the South Norwalk team, to be played here in the next two weeks and some good games may be expected.
 Lawson and Sharkey Matched.
 Chick Lawson, the 115 pound cbam- pion of America, who is one of our local boys, has been matched to meet Frank Sharkey at the Gem Opera house on December p. Lawson is as usual in the best of condition and a first class match can be looked for. Manager Stapleton has arranged d couple of fast preliminaries for the same evening. The first go will be between Peter Connolly of this place and Thomas Fitzgerald of Waterbury, and the second between Albert Pagan of this town and Jack Gahill of Wa terbury.
 The State Overcharged.
 Secretary Weary of the board of ed ucation has discovered that the bor- ough has been overcharging the state for school children and the board will take the matter up probably at its next meeting. According to Secretary Neary's views on the matter the state has been charged for children who are sixteen years old whereas they should only pay for children from four to sixteen years. The overcharging, it is thought, has been going on for the past 1J or 20 years and if the bor- ough pays back to the state the money which belongs to it, the sum will be about 5000 or S4,000.
 Laurel Temple.
 At a meeting of Laurel Temple, E. g., held last evening in Pythlan hall. there were about 125 present A class of candidates were initiated and the drill team introduced a new drill for the first time. There were guests present from Myrtle and Ivy temples of Waterbury. Golden Rod temple of Beacon Falls and Evergreen of Sey- mour. The following grand officers were present: Past great chief. Ida PalmertOn of New Haven; great chief. Jessie Allen of Beacon Falls: Lille Rice, manager of WaterviIle. c. O. c. Fanny Johnson of New Haven: Su- preme representative. Jennie Devine of Seymour: supreme outer guard. Mrs David Beecher of Naugatuck. After the meeting a social session was held and an excellent supper served.
 Hit By Car.
 This morning as one of the cars that come down on the early morning trips and not very particular as to the rate of speed which they use at certain places where they should be careful. hit a large Newfoundland dog. One of the local milk peddIers was coming around the corner at Bridge and Main street and the dog ran from under his team and across the road directly in front of the car. It is not known if both or only one of the wheels went over the dog. but after the car had passed it was found that one paw was completely Of and that the other one was nearly SO. The milk peidler whose name could not te found cat. picked up the dog,and put tt in his team and drove away amid the pitiful cries and yeIps of the dog To many of the people that were witnesses of the scene it was thought that 1t would have been great deal better to kill the dog than to try and do anything for it