Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-18
CITY NEWS.

The annual report of the Colby Sherwood Shoe Co shows that John C. Sherwood is president and treasurer, Charlotte Colby secretary.
 The officers of the Hotchkiss Paper | Co.,, according to the annual report, are: President, w. E. Hotchkiss; treasurer, F. & E. Douglass; secretary. l Floyd l.. Andrews.
 Charles A. Colley is suffering from a severe sideache, the result of fit of laughter at the idea of the board of public works instructing John F. Kellogg to sue the railroad company.
 John Fagan's Sons have been award | ed the contract for the construction of four miles of the WOOdbury Water bury trolley road. Their contract be- gins at Quassapaug and runs through Woodbury Center.
 Yesterday afternoon one of tue trolley cars coming in from the Dall grounds almost collided with 2 horse near the corner of Phoenix avenue. The driver drove his horse on the track and the car just missed it by inches. Umpire McCloud was about to get off the front part of the car, but drew himself out of harms way in the nick of time.
 Last evening trolley car ill charge of Motorman Snow, crashed into a hack belonging to George Far tree at the corner of Phoenix avenue and East Main street, knocking the driver, Joseph NJ. Gordon, from his seat and putting the hack out of com mission. There were couple of per sons in the vehicle. but fortunately they escaped without injury. Corden was thrown to the pavement and re' ceived bad shaking up.
 Word has been received of the deatf at Far Rockaway, of Victor Spies, an' til recently a resident of this city Spies was a woodChopper and iiveG on Lounsbury street. He went to F'al Rockaway on July ?, apparently in hl' usual good health and the next da! he was found dead at that place. H' was .thirty-five years of age and wal we'll known in Waterbury and neigh boring towns, especially Middlebury where he had worked for some time.
 Don't forget the Prom and concer tomorrow night at Good Will hall Wateryille. Lallier's Military Bah' will be there with the goods and tn Y program will start at S:30 p. m. After a long silence residents c lower Baldwin street have decided { say something about the unfinlshe trolley in that district. The compan is under contract to go to the Peal Lakes road, but it stops 1,700 fee , north of that point thus causln great hardship to employees of tn Smith x Griggs Manufacturing con pany and many others to whom would be a great convenience. Tn = cars have lots of time to go to Pea Lakes road and return to the Ston street switch on time, but it is ev dent that the company is satist1e with the present arrangement E long as they get the nickels eve though folks have to walk sewers a hundred feet. One of the speaker J said something the other night at th meeting of the board of public worl I. about Town Plot "bombast" but th V speaker should remember that the . neighbors across the river are COT ducting an uphill fight and it 't harder to get the trolley to nov D against mountains than it Is to TO D along level land, Simonsville shoui sec that the trolley runs to tho Pea " Lakes road before saying Inotht J. word about anything else.
 South Brooklyn property oNner made good sowing at the meetin Tuesday night The only mistal they made was that they didn't kee calling upon the board right aIon - since the spring opened. but prol ably they thought one or two visi 4 sufficient. Some years ago the Tow N Plot school district. of its own vol ' tion voted to abolish the old svste aUG come into the full taxation di tl'ct. Prior to ths: they hal a schO of their own and got something the way of improvements from Il town. As soon as the department
 education got its hands upon the . 1t closed their school and obliged Il = children to hOOf it all the way fro 0 the extreme end of the dIstr.c: Por'er street. It was thought tb this would be only a tempOr1ry a s flir end that after a year or 90 T city would do better by them. but
 this they were very much mistake Tncy don't receive half the attrn-i, gwen to the town school distTic thst were cute enough to remain Ou / sidc the full taxatitn district al as a consequence no other distTi with the experience of the Sou Brooklyn people will be likely - come in uninvited. Town Plot sa it intends to rap for admission
 soon as people up that way can ri down town on the trolley~but the is danger that they will forget ; about this after their wants are su L. piled. although 1t wouldn't be ia ," to charge the residents of that al h trict with saying one thing al meaning another. for so at least. tn have been straight up and down vi Mayor Thoms and his boards
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