Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-12
CITY NEWS.

$15 and SIT suits now $11.50 a Upson, Singleton X Co.'S.
 The journeymen carriage makers held smoker in A. o. H. hall las night. --
 The new officers of Court Oregon and Court Hellmann were installed last night.
 Congressman Lilley will be one .o1 the speakers at the midsummer meeting of the Connecticut Editoria association in Greenwich next Mon day.
 A dance will be given this even ing by St Mary's Alumni association in their hall in the Mulcahy Mem orial building. An orchestra vii. furnish music for dancing.
 The members of the Holy Name so. ciety of the Immaculate Conception church will go to holy communion l Sunday morning at the o'clock mass. The members will meet at St Patrick's hall at 6:45 and go to the church in a body.
 Solomon Freedman of the Bargain Millinery has purchased the building at 265 Bank street from the Franco American Coal & Wood company, where he expects to make his busi- ness wholesale and retail for the ! coming fall season.
 Commencing next Sunday and con- tinuing for two weeks conductors on the Naugatuck and Highland divi- sions of the New Haven road will be required to give daily reports of the earnings of their trains. The object is to get at encouragement Of the trains which will meet public ocn- venience at less cost than 1t takes to operate under the present schedule. The berry season is now on and for the next few weeks people who make a practise of earning money handling them will have all they can swing into. Those who follow the business should bear in mind the law in relation to trespass is pretty strict and that they enter upon private property at their own peril. But there does not appear to be much objection to the picking of berries on the part of farmers, hence the danger of get ting into trouble is slight provided one does not knock down fences, leave gates open and trample over crops.
 Governor Woodruff has approved the following bills: Norwich hospital for the Insane for the month of July for $1,67640; Mystic Oral School for the Deaf for the quarter ending June 30 for s2,250; for clothing for the inmates of the school, $S93.S9; Con- necticut School for Imbeciles, ST. 656.40; Grand View sanitarium of Norwich, $52. He has approved the requisition of the soldiers hospital board for S12,000, for the care of the sick and wounded soldiers and an ad- ditional requisition for $5,000 for the care of disabled soldiers, sailors, ma rines and their wives and widows.
 The sixth annual meeting of the Barnes Family association will take place Thursday, August 15, at Mans field grove, East Haven, in connec- tion with a general reunion of the Barnes's family This will be an all day gathering on the basket picnic plan. No l of the publications of the association will be ready for dis tribution at the August meeting. It is pamphlet of about sixty pages. It will give a list of the Barnes an- cestors coming to America three gen. erations of the descendants of Thom- as Barnes of Hartford, 1636. Thomas of New Haven, 1640. and of William and Joshua of Long Island, 1644. II will give the Barnes ancestral line of portion of the members, life sketches of prominent persons, list of fractional records.
 The board of public safety held special meeting yesterday afternoon to take action on a recommendation of Fire Chief Snagg to add another story to the projected fire drill tow CT. The recommendation was accept ed by the board and the work will proceed with all available dispatch. The additional cost will be about $175. This will bring the tower un- der the original plans. The total cost will amount to s1.1s5. Patrick En- his was elected a member of the fire department and William McKenerney a supernumerary was given three weeks of owing to illness In his family. Peter Rice, who was elected a supernumerary some months ago will do duty in place of McKenner- ney. Patrolman John F. Donahue was granted eight days liberty. Com missioner Minor presided.
 A Waterbury man who was the owner of a very nice linnet says he has been robbed of the singer by sharper who took it from the cage and left a sparrow in place of it. There is some slight resemblancembe- tween the small gray sparrow and a linnet, but not enough to deceive one who is familiar with both but it seems it worked all right in this case. Since the real warm weather set in the bird was left outside in a cage sus- pended from a clothes line. A week or so ago the owner wondered why it stopped singing and upon investi- gation he discovered that the sweet voiced warbler had been exchanged for a female sparrow. The man de- clares that he has no idea in the world who did 1t. but he does hope that the offender will think better of the matter and change the birds again. Meanwhile the old sparrow Is living on the fat of the land and