Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-11
.NAuGATUCK NUGGETS

A full rehearsal of the choral so-
 ciety will be held in the Salem school
 this evening.
 The Church Helpers will meet to-
 morrow afternoon in St Michaers shapel.
 l A daughter was born Sunday to
 MT and Mrs Michael Fitzpatrick of Galpin street extension. The funeral services of the late
 Rufus M. Gillette will be held at the home of Mrs Andrews tomorrow at l p. m. The interment will be in Prospect.
 Expressman Nodine lost valuable horse Sunday by collie. The Rev c. s. Ball. pastor of the Methodist church, will deliver lec- ture Wednesday evening, January 2, In the church. The subject is Peter Cartwright, the American Backwoods Preacher"
 There will be a special meeting of the St Francis T. A. B. society drub corps this evening.
 The drill team of the Ladies' aux Hilary to the A. o. H. will give dance at Columbus hall Friday evening. Geary's enlarged orcnestra will fur ,nish music and Prof T. O'Brie4 will prompt.
 Herbert Hard, who is employed at the G. l. R. Glove Co.'S carpenter shop on Maple street, met with a painful accident yesterday morning. While working at buzz saw, the saw cut his left thumb nearly in two.
 The annual meeting of Ojeda coun- Gil, K. of O., will be held tonight in Pythian hall. Officers for the en- suing year will be elected and the proposed change in the bylaws will be1 acted upon. The business meet ing will be followed by a social ses- sion
 Rufus w. Lewis, who owns proper ty on the corner of Maple and Water streets, piece some ,9x27 feet, was asked by ex-Senator Kennedy, who represents Messrs Ryan and Sullivan, at the hearing before Commissioners Arvine, Moran and Wheeler yester- day, as to the value of his own prop erty. MT Lewis answered without hesitation, Twenty-Five dollars" He was then turned over to Attorney Spock, who moved to strike out the testimony as it had no bearing on the value of the land in question; that it was totally dissimilar land; that the testimony had been drawn out unfairly, for the witness had not been asked the value of the Ryan or of the Sullivan land. The testimony was finally allowed 10 stand, Attor- ney Spock making an exception. George w. Andrew testified that the land of Messrs Ryan and Sullivan was worth $200 per front foot. and that Water street, south of Maple, was the principal business street of the borough. Burgess Reidy agreed with this testimony. Warden Rob- erts also thought the land worth $200 a front foot. Town Clerk Hearns | thought Water street had been the business street for the past | twenty years. that the lunch room, tailor shop and livery stable were | factors. Ex-Warden John J. German said that to replace the Ryan property the following | prices would be necessary. allowing, of course, a certain percentage to the House, $1 ,544.60; saloon, $559.09; office building, $359.S3; barn. $271.35; shed. $199.47. On the Sullivan property he figured 1,776.S0, for the saloon, $566.10; for the barber shop, $672.50: for the carpenter shop. $263.0S; for the $S67.61, and $245.90 for the tailor shop. The cost of re- placing them to-day he fixed at from ten to thirty per cent greater than these figures. Engineer Estabrook testified that the Sullivan property | contained 17.724 square feet, and the Ryan property 12,007 square feet, exclusive of the tail race, which covered 901 square feet. The hear