Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-24
'NAUGATUCK NUGGETS

The Alpha Deltha Chi society will hold reception and dance on Frl- day evening, September 6. in Colum- bus hall.
 The Union City drum corps will lead the parade that will be held in Union City tonight, previous to the holding of a dance in Linden park that is given by St Peters society.
 The Maplewoods and the Brown ies of Waterbury will play game of ball next Sunday in the rear of the old shop The Brownies defeated the Maplewoods in the last game that was played in Waterbury a week ago.
 The work of painting the iron bridges belonging to the railroad company will begin next week. The car that is used by the men who do the painting is on the siding in front of the local passenger station and 1t is in this car that the men make their home during the time that the sea son for painting is at hand.
 A few nights ago Oficer Murphy took in a stray dog that he found on the street. The chief was ready last night to put him out of existence when the owner happened along. He said he had been searching for the dog for the last ten days and was very profuse in his thanks when he found out that the chief had spared the life of his pet.
 The rain that fell last night caused considerable trouble for Contractor Johnson, who is putting in the Wal nut street sewer. The sides of the excavation caved in on stretch of about sixty feet, and as the ditch is about ten feet deep where the cave in occurred, it will cause considera- ble delay now that this part of the word will have to be done again.
 A mass meeting of the Daughters of Isabella of Connecticut will be held in the New Haven opera house in New Haven on Sunday, September l at 2 D. m. Every member of the Daughters of Isabella is invited to attend and also the members of the Knights of Columbus Supreme Re gent Miss Mary McKeirnan and Ma tional Secretary M. F. Kelley of Uti. ca, N. Y., and Dr John c. Coyle oi New York and William J. Neary oi | this town, will address the meeting It is expected that large number from here will attend.
 The present dry spell has set many minds thinking as to whether ol not they can recall a time in the past when rain was needed as badly as 1t is just now and one old residen, ventures to state that the summer of 1879 was worse than this ane. He says that people in the town had padlocks put on the chains of the wells and that Patrick Conran and others went through the town selling water by the barrel, and 1t wat eagerly purchased by the people al this was the only way some people had of obtaining their water supply for the family washing.
 Dog Warden William E. Roache was a busy man last night. He spent much time yesterday afternoon look. ing up parties who were keeping un. registered dogs and two persons whom he found agreed to come to the town hall last night and make things right. but at g o'clock had fciied to put in an appearance, so the officer decided he would pay them another visit. and went and hired . team to look up the delinquent dos owners, and now when they come tc settle they will find charged in the bill the cost of hiring team made necessary by their failure to live ur to their agreement.
 The borough clerk has prepared q form of vote for the board of warden and burgesses that will call special meeting of the freemen of the borough for the purpose of author izing the board to expend certain sum of money to be used for the purpose of building more of the SO | called state road the law relating tc the building of these state highway: ! has been changed. so that instead oi the town giving out the contract tc build the road The state highway commissioner picks out the road tc be improved and when finished ealli upon the town treasurer to pay one | fourth of cost of building. This brings the work directly under ths supervision of the highway commis sioner. and better results can be ac complished. The amount appropri ated by the state annually for thiI