Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-23
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS

A son was born Wednesday to MT and Mrs Bruno Gessner of Beacon Falls.
 A meeting of the new board of trade will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the borough court room.
 A new upright piano has been placed in St Michael's chapel. It will be used during rehearsals of the. choir.
 w. K. Birdsall yesterday put in new plate of glass in one of the win dows in the high school. It is five feet square.
 The sixth and last of the lectures of the University Extension course was given in the assembly hall of the high school last evening.
 A Pullman ventilator is being tried in the Salem school building. It was put in this week in what was former ly the office of Superintendent Eaton.
 Miss Blanche Thompson, formerly employed as bookkeeper at w. F. Brennan's grocery store, has taken position as bookkeeper for Stoddard & Gilbert, wholesale grocers of New Haven.
 The fourteenth annual outing of St Michael's choir will be held at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, in July. This beach is located on the ocean side of Long Island, and it has the finest surf bathing in this coun- l try.
 The Naugatuck High school bas- ketball team will play the Bristol High school five in Bristol Saturday afternoon. They will be accompan- jed by the freshmen team. who will play team composed of Bristol High school boys. Miss Lillian Dow, teacher in the sixth grade of the Salem school, has resigned her position. She will go to one of the western states to teach. She will receive considerable more salary there than is being paid her in Naugatuck.
 Dr J. N. Norwood has received a telegram informing him of the death of his son, Dr Arthur N. Norwood, which occurred Tuesday night at .dn Juan, Porto Rico. The deceased was 25 years of age and was mem Der of the United States navy.
 MT and Mrs George Bronson of Beacon Falls will celebrate the twen- tieth anniversary of their marriage on the evening of March 31 at Browns hall. They have invited the Rathbone Sisters and Knights of Pythias of Beacon Falls to be their guests.
 Work on the new trolley line be- tween Naugatuck and Beacon Falls is progressing as rapidly as possible. A few small cars are used to cart away the gravel, but they are moved by the laborers and not as much can be accomplished as will be later on when the "dinky" engine is put to work there. This engine is now on the west side of the Naugatuck river and will be moved to the opposite side after a trestle is built across the , river. +i ,>!."" Au4 @-..if ,-s
 Mrs Mary.A. Gibbhd. widow of the late Israel T. Gibbud, died yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock at her resi- dence on Prospect street. She has been in failing health for some time. She was for many years a member of the Congregational church. There will be prayer at her late residence Saturday afternoon at 1:45 and the funeral service will be held in the Parish house Saturday afternoon at 2:30. It will be conducted by the Rev Sherrod Soule.
 The funeral of Patrick Murray took place yesterday morning at St Francis's church, where a requiem high mass was celebrated by the Rev Father Tanning. The pallbearers were William Dooling, George Lam- bert, John Denniney. William Free- man, William II. Kehoe and William Kerr. The remains were taken to Westerly, R. l., for interment. Among the out of town people pres ent at the funeral were James Burke of Milford, Mass, Thomas Murray of Woonsocket, R. l., Mir and Mrs Mich ael Murray of New Haven, Mir and Mrs Charles Murray and Miss Mar garet Murray of Derby. The floral tributes were a wreath of galax leaves, Minnie Murray, carnations, the Baurer dry goods store; sheaf of wheat. Margaret Mccarthy: galax wreath. Charles Murray and family of Derby; wreath of carnations, Mrs k. D. McNally and family of Water