Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-24
CITY NEWS

Olx Il NIVO
 A son was born to Attorney and Mrs D. !. Slavin last evening, and this morning all the lawyers at short calendar had a cigar on the heir. There is new Santa Claus in town. During his stay here he will speak to the public from the show window of the Hampson- -Sellew Furniture Co. on Bank street
 Dana Albee Patten, well known in Waterbury on account or his newspa- per work here. was married in Brook lyn, N. r.. this afternoon to Miss Flor ence Gilman McCollom.
 Mrs Fred Brennan of Forestville and her son Robert. have returned home af- | ter a two weeks vacation with Mrs Brennan's parents. Mir and Mrs John l O'Connell of East Main street.
 Property owners sattention is called | to matter of listing their property at | the office of the assessors. Ten per cent will be added to the bills of those
 who neglect this matter until after
 July.
 Mir and Mrs James Smith of Tar mouth, N. S., are the guests of Mir and | Mrs J. c. Whiting of Round Hill street
 Mir Smith is second engineer on the
 steamship Port Arthur of the marine
 department of the Dominion and At
 lantic Railroad company.
 Senator Kennedy will preside at the
 Hebrew mass meeting in City hall to-
 morrow afternoon at o'clock. The Rev Dr Hayward of the First Baptist
 church. will be the principal speaker.
 Several prominent Hebrews from New
 York and other places will be present. some of whom will make short ad- dresses. The meeting should be large ly attended.
 r' Dr Maioney and Dr Graresaowere called yesterday afternoon to attend five years old son of Mrs Julia Corbett of 35S West Main street. Young Cor
 bet and companion named Fate were playing in the backyard of their home when Fate is said to have lighted a
 fire cracker and threw 1t into the other
 boys face. The powder lodged In his eyes and at first 1t was feared that he
 would lose his eyesight. but the doctors
 do not look for such serious results. The graduating exercises of St Thomas parochial school took place In the Auditorium last night and was largely attended. The program was
 rendered in a manner which proved to the entire satisfaction of the audience that the school work Of the past year at this institution has received careful attention. The members of the class who were graduated last evening were Francis Werzinger, Daniel Ryan, George Blackall. Miss Marjorie Ken yon. Miss Sarah Fitzpatrick. John De fancy, John Phelan. Miss Mary Me Kane, Miss Elizabeth Butler. Miss Katherine German, Francis keaveny, Miss Ruth Tanning, Miss Elize Plum CT, Joseph Dwyer.
 Yesterday was the eve of St Johns day and the Italians of Waterbury ob-
 served the occasion by concert on the
 lot on Bank street south of the electric
 light station. This afternoon the Ital-
 ian marine band toured the principal
 streets of the city and this evening an- other concert will he given in the same
 place as last night. The program also includes display of fireworks
 which the committee claims will be
 well worth seeing. This is big day
 among Italians not only here but m all
 parts of the world Tn many places
 they don't work at all on June "A and after they become stronger and better organized it is quite likely that they will make the feast a general holiday
 Through the courtesy of the board of education. a room on the second floor of the Barnard school has been offered to the Bronson library as branch sta ton for the circulation of books. Dur ing the past week. selection Of popular
 volumes has been placed there. and the room will be open to the public every Friday from 2:3O to 5:30 in the after noon. One of the library assistants will he present to help people in their selections. As an added convenience for the people of the Brooklyn district
 books which have been drawn from the main library may he returned to the Barnard branch. and applications
 for other volumes will he received. In this way the long trip across t1e river will he saved to those who wish to take advantage of the new privilege
 Charles D. Nye. chairman of the Fourth of July finance committee. said today that the committee is a few hundred dollars short of what is needed and that he was somewhat surprised why people who can affori fo contribute a dollar or so to the fund have not come forward He believed it would he good plan for those who may not find it convenient to >sa mem bers of the committee to leave their donations at the newspaper offices Several have contributed generously. hut Mir Nye thinks every citizen should do something towards meeting the ex- pcnse of the demonstration Mr ksis- CT of the music committee said every thing is running smoothly with his committee and he expects to he able to announce the conaplete musical pro errm soon. probably next Monday One hy one the societies gre voting fo turn out. snd it is thought fhsf within aposher week CT @ slmoef all the or mnaned bulIee in the cify wiu hnve can {mGm