Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-10
CITY ' NEWS

ClI1 NEWS
 A SOD was born last night to MT and Mrs James E. Smith of Morning side. as
 Di yito's orchestra will give a con cert. and dance in Concordia hall this evening. :
 Last night several members of St Joseph,s T. A, society gave a private dance in Music hall.
 an anniversary high mass will be celebrated Monday morning at : o'clock at St Patfick's church for the late Mrs Catherine Walsh of Charles street.
 The children of the city are joEfni with the expectation of getting their annual sleigh ride from Ralph, N. Blakeslee now that there is sufficient snow on the ground. :
 The funeral of Thomas Degnan will he held from his late home on Union street to the Immaculate Conception church at 80 o'clock o-morrow aftef- noon. The interment will be in new St Joseph's cemetery.
 The assignments made. in the dis trict court to-day of cases for hearing next week were Mccarthy against the city. for Thursday. and the city against .O'Loughlin and Fabricant against Silver for Saturday
 Attorneys Church and Reeves, com. missioners on the estate of the late Mary Phelan, will hold a ahearing Mon day on the contested claim of SlOeO for millinery. The claim covers a period of about sixteen years. sss
 Philip Johnson of Waterbury, em- ployed in the press room at Bevin Brothers Manufacturing company at East Hampton, lost the first joint on his right index finger and had his second finger crushed by getting them caught in the machine.
 The postofice will close at noon Mon day, but this does not mean that there will not be anything doing in that building on Lincoln day. The carriers will make one trip, commencing at 3 in the morning. All the regular mails will go out as usual.
 The members of the Queens Daugh- ters will hold a reception and whist on next Friday evening at Eagles hall The committee in charge of the affair are working hard to make it one of the memorable events of the season. Whist will start promptly at S o'clock so as to give those who de- sire to dance enough time.
 C. A. Jackson & Co have been kept pretty busy during the past year and among others have erected monuments for Timothy Brennan, Daniel Cassidy, Roger Connor. Marcus Hellmann. John F. Hackett, Terrence Downey, Mary Phelan. Michael Shea, William Dln- can, Thomas Butler. Patrick Boyle, Chris topher Dunphy. Maurice Healey, Lucien Pratte and William Stafford.
 Since the closing of the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Go of Sangatuck last week because of the scarcity of work. many of the former employees are com ing to Waterbury looking for work. Many of the young men of the Rubber city because of the dull. season there the past few months have taken posi-. tions ip this city. and the cars carry a very large number between the city and the burg daily.
 At a meeting of the stockholders of the Scovill Manufacturing company next Tuesday evening. the directors will recommend that the capital be increased about S1,O00,ooO in order to have money to carry on Improvements which the growth of the concern de- mands The American Pin company will also increase its capital from S20o0O0 to S300,0o0. The company has been advancing rapidly and the amount of business demands the in- crease mentioned. r'-
 There were about fifty couples pres. ent at the reception given by the young men of the junior and senior classes of the High school in LeaEenworth ball last evening The affair was return dance to the girls of these classes ror the delightful treat they gave the boys in Odd Fellows hall about two months ago. An excellent program had been arranged for last nights event [ 1d the encores were many. The following members of the faculty were present. Principal $. W. wilby, Joseph kenue. dy, l.. Field. Miss Etta Hagar. Miss Harriet Abbott and Miss Elise Garrett.
 At the annual meeting and banquet of the Monitor Hose Veteran assocln- ton officers were chosen as follows; President. Robert C. Barker: vice president. Kendrick H. Nichols of Brooklyn. x. r.: secretary. W. H. Precht; treasurer. O. B. Parker; exec. utiye committee, George F. Roberts. octave Petiuean. Robert Wolf, s. O. 1 KlobedaDz and [. E. Stone. About forty-four persons were in attendance including the following from out of town: Kendrick H. Nichols of Brook. lyn, Judge F.. P. Nobbs of Bridgeport, Captain Johnson of No l engine eoiD- pany of Bridgeport, Elson Wright of New Haven. Homer n. Bronson of Beacon Falls, L. C. Bronson of Beacon Falls. George Waters of Milford and | William A. Holman of Brooklyn. V. |. who acted ss tosstmsster.
 Mrs Susan J. Burpee. widow of Captain Henry L. Burpee. died yes. | terday afternoon at the home of ter son. ] Frederick Burpee at | HartfOpl aged 4 years. She had ! been il for about six weeks. her sick ness being due to old age. Her death occurred on the same day os the ucnth as that ot her husbaod. who died torty-two yezrs ago. Mrs Bur pee was the eldest daughter of Daniel 1 and Susan Hale of West Springfeld. | Mass. in which town she was born. | hut she had been s resident af Hart.