Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-03
|NAUGATUCK NUGGETS

Gertrude, the 7-year-old daughter of Thomas Leary, Is i'll with typhoid fever.
 A daughter was born to Mir and Mrs Ambrose Daley, of Coen street, yesterday.
 John Renehan has returned to Ball timOre Medical college where he will pursue q course in pharmacy. William Coleman left Monday for the University of Maryland. where he is taking course in medicine.
 Oscar Warner has purchased four horses and strip of land bordering on Millville, Walnut and Hillside ave- nues, from Mir and Mrs Joseph Bren- nan. Ii MsIal "A 0hn R,NW WNfl Harry Laidler, student at Wes- leyan university, Middletown, will deliver and address on socialism at socialist headquarters, Lilley block, on Saturday evening.
 | Highway Commissioner J. H. Macdonald has awarded contract for 6.37O feet of grading in Nauga- tuck to Donahue Brothers of Aiid- dletown, for $1O9 a linear foot, the amount of the contract being $6,943.30.
 Adam Sinkewich, barber from Union City, and his assistant Stephen Vittick, held m argument yesterday over their respective abilities argument so heated that Officer Nc Kiernan was hurried to the scene to quell hostilities. The men were ar rested.
 The priests of St Francis church be- gan yesterday the work of making census of the Roman Catholic pop ulation of Naugatuck It has been estimated that the census ought to show between $500 and 4,OOO indi- viduals as communicants of the parish.
 The evening schools will open Mon- day, October 8. A meeting of the board of education will be held Thursday evening to elect teachers and to adopt course of study. The schools open earlier this year, as it Is thought the attendance should be be better during the period before Christmas than after. The sessions will be continued for seyenty-five nights.
 Liberty lodge, No IA, Order of Sons of St George, has organized ''soc- cer" football team and travelled to Waterbury to meet a team from Hawthorne lodge. On their arrival there Sunday they found team of ringers" awaiting them. they claim. Believing 1t to be in the interest of sport to play rather than to claim victory by default, they played and ETere defeated by the close score of , Fto4. They claimed another score but the referee refused to allow 1t as he said he saw .an offside play. The Naugatuck team line up as follows: Goal. A. Clay; backs, J. MlllwOOd, c. Platt, F. Williams; forwards. c. Nell, H. Woodfieh, c. Marsden (captain), J. Humphreys, H. Williams.
 The Neville case was settled at long conference attended by Richard Denung. who represented the Ameri- can Surety Co; George H. Johnson, their contractor; Villain E. Neville, administrator of the estate of the late William Neville; Borough Clerk Beardsley. Burgesses Stahl, McCar- thy, Schofield, Reidy; Borough Attor- ney Sweeney, Warden Roberts; MT Hess, mortagor of the Neville estate, and the representatives of the press. It was finally agreed that Mir Johnson should assume the contract and Mir Neville, after assigning 1t, should as- sume all the liabilities and receive $172.5O for the consideration.
 Were you acting for the borough or as a representative of the railroad company when you let this thing go by default?" queried Burgess Nc Carthy last night of Borough Attor- ney Sweeney. My chief ordered me to withdraw my appearance in the case and I obeyed."
 Your chief. your chief! Who Is your chiefr This board is your chief and you have no business to take or ders from anyone else, exclaimed the burgess from the second ward. "YOu were attorney for the borough and you failed to look after our interests
 That statement Is not true. sir" replied Borough Attorney Sweeney. q cannot enter into personal dis cussion of this question here. The facts are that the borough entered claim to an equity in the Ruben prop erty and an appearance was entered but withdrawn by order of ex-Ward- en Rodenbach. who desired to treat Warden Roberts fairly in the matter"
 The argument arose before the board of warden and burgesses when with Burgesses Linsky and Isbell ab- sent, they attempted to discuss the borough's rights in the condemnation proceedings brought by the railroad company against property owners on Water street It transpired that the borough claimed rights to the proper ty between Water street and the river but fin the Ruben proceedings their rights had been last by default and in explaining the matter the above con froyersy arose.
 The report of Chief of Police John E. Schmidt showed that there has been tweEty-seven arrests during the month.
 rpon recommendation of Health Ofirer Baker. Mrs Mary Conron was ordered to appear before the board and show cause why she should not be compelled to connect with the sanitary sewer.
 John F. Sullivan and Mir Ryan sp- peared before the board to question what rights the borough had to claim title to land on Water street other than the borough boee property. Ihe