Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-29
MEETINGS TONIGHT.
Brass Workers union, No 1S6. Wadhams post, G. A. R.
CITY NEWS

evening for initiation purposes.
 The Mattatuck R ,d and Gun club held a shoot on it' s,n.Eds off the Watertcwn road lis aH:.. 'hMrr
 A special meeting of Court Rose Hill, F. of A., will be held in Forest CTS reading room tomorrow even ing. The James F. Meagher monument committee will hold meeting Sun day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in A. o. H. hall.
 David Hunter of Simonsville was operated on at Mount Sinai hospital. New York, yesterday. He is reported as doing nicely.
 The sixth shirt w;;s5 class that has been formed this spring at, the Friendly league vii. begin wo."i this evening at 7:30.
 The committee on abatements he'd meeting last night and heard sever al parties who think they should not be asked to pay military or any other kind of tax
 On next Tuesday there will be a union meeting of the several courts of the l. O. F. in Fraternity hall, 109 Bank street. The officers of the high court will be present.
 The funeral of Phillis McCluskey will take place from the family res idence on Taylor street to-morrow morning at S:30 o'clock to the Sa- cred Heart church. A. F. Cowles' spring millinery opening will commence on Saturday and will continue for four days. He will have grand display of choice and tasty millinery.
 Great Sachem Plumly of Bridgeport. Great Chief of Records Saunders of Naugatuck, Great Keeper of Wani- pun Charles Blake and Great Guard of the Forest Partheney, were guests at the meeting of TOantic tribe, l. 0. o. R., last night. .''t
 At the meeting of Amity castle. K. q. F., last night songs and recitations were given by Miss Eleanor Bryant. Robert Evans. Charles Alexander. Mrs John Evans. Joseph Bryant. Miss Edna Bowen. Miss Julia Bowen, Mrs Rochon and David Miller.
 The recital of Lilla Wigmore Squire, Mrs Wilbur G. Squire, so- prano soloist, and Miss Helene Cecil Fuller, monologist and reader, that was postponed from March 15 owing to the snow storm on that date. will be given at Friendly League hall on Thursday, April ,. Holders Of ad- vance admission tickets are advised that said tickets will be accepted on next Thursday evening.
 The hearing on the motion for q temporary receiver for the Apothe- caries' Hall Co, which was to have been resumed next Monday, has been indefinitely postponed as Judge Shumway will be unable to hear it that day. It is said there is no pos difficulty between the contcnding stockholders and that it will HOW be fought out to the limit of the law.
 Winonah Rebekah lodge entertained the officers of the assembly in 0dd Fellows hall last night. Among those present were the president of the as sembly. Mrs Ellen Foote of Danbnry. Vice President Mrs Myra Douglass of New London. Grand Warden Mrs Martha Cady of Plainville. Past Pres ident Mrs Johnson of Torrington, R. $. r. Mrs Carpenter of Torrngton and Past President Mrs Charlotte Brown of this city. Other visitors were Mrs Johnson of Stratford and Mir and Mrs Thomas Waite of Naugatuck.
 There is a new wrinkle in town. but how long it will last there is no telling. A young lady, since she can obtain no license to practice clairvoyancy in this city, that Is, to open an office, is soliciting patronage from door to door. She claims to be first-class fortune teller and reads ones palm for the small sum of s1. The police of this city have given for tune tellers and palm readers very little opportunity to practice in town and in all probability they will get after the palm reader and soon com pei her to discontinue her work.
 The arrangements for the big ball of the Knights of Columbus are be- ing carried to continuation by the committee which has charge of the affair. Lallier's augmented orches- tra, playing the most popular hits of the musical comedies now running in the leading New York theaters, will furnish the music. The decorations will be of an unusually elaborate nature. The other features essentia! to a monster social event of this na- ture will be present on every hand and those who attend will undoubt- edly have cause to remember the af- fair for a long time afterward.
 Josiah Quincy of Boston. who lec- tured on Municipal Ownership" at New Haven last night didn't make 1t quite clear whether he favored It or not theoretically" said Mir Quincy. 'T favor the idea and I fa- vOr it's application as fast and as far as city service develops in efficiency and in honesty. To make a sgccess Of municipal ownership we must make considerable progress in non- political development. Better leave public utilities in the hands Of pri- yate corporations and hold them up to a full and fair service to the pub lie at reasonable cost than make ownership of such utilities par Of political machine. N0Teoye-. a rigid enforcement of civil service is necessary to success in municipal ownership. and political machines are still able to find ways and means to get around enforcement of civil