Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-18
CITY NEWS.

$4 gold filled glasses, guaranteed for ten years, reduced to S1.5o for | this week only at F. I. Slavins, eye sight specialist, 167 Bank st. There will be a months nina mass at 7:30 Wednesday morning at St Francis Xavier church for the late Mrs James E. Cahill.
 A very interesting address was giv- en last evening at the German Luth- eran church by the Rev c. Won Nich- elli who has travelled extensively ln South Africa.
 The Celtic Medical society of this city will meet at the residence Of LIT Delaney of Naugatuck this evening. Dr Joseph Higgins of New York will read a paper on Surgery"
 Erwin Wardman, editor of the New York Press, who delivered an ad- dress at the banquet of the Water bury Business Mems association at the Elton on February II, has an article entitled New York and the Presidential Election" in the March number of the Broadway.
 Funeral services were held over the remains of Mrs Sarah B. Marks at the home of her daughters on the Watertown road yesterday after which the body was taken to Plants vile. Services were held in that town to-day over the deceased where interment will also take place.
 A meeting of the Woman's satur- day Afternoon club will be held In the Congregational chapel at Wethersfield, Saturday afternoon at 8 o'clock. Rev Charles A. Dinsmore of Waterbury, who lectured before the club a few years ago will give an ad- dress on "Washington's Military Genius"
 The funeral of Mrs William Flana- gan took place yesterday afternoon at ? o'clock from her late home, at 99O East Main street. The services were conducted by Rev Frederick D. Buckley, rector of Trinity church. The pail bearers were Joseph Degnan, Edward Mills, William Peck, Edward Meehan, Edward Gull lum and Francis Hannon.
 The annual banquet of the Chat field guards will be held at The Elton on Friday evening ana it is expected that about 125 will be present in- cluding delegations from hartford. Bridgeport and New Haven. It was intended to have Rev John N. Lewis, Jr, rector of St Johns church de- liver the address of the evening but because of lenten services in his church, Mir Lewis will be unable to attend. During the evening speeches will be delivered by Colonel Burpee, Colonel Geddes, Colonel Doherty, and Captains Goodrich, White, Hall and Cowell.
 The hay, oats and feed trust is now after the livery stable keepers Or at least the livery stable keepers say so, and they give this as an ex- cuse for raising the price of board. For some time they say, that the bus mess of boarding horses has been merely a waste of time and trouble for there was absolutely no profit whatsoever in the business. They have not raised the price of board yet. but they are taking steps to have it done, so with an appearance of unanimity. The price of grain and hay is so high, they say, that there is no longer any profit in the business of boarding horses at the present time.
 The latest contributions to the fund being raised for the purpose of building a new hospital are Charles l.. and Walter W. Holmes who have given s25,000 towards the s300,O00 which the directors hope to raise. It is also said that the old Holmes estate known as Westwood on Rob- ins street has been purchased for the new buildings. John H. Whittemore started the ball rolling when he made the hospital the recipient of the Buckingham as a permanent endow- ment provided the hospital collected s30O.G00 for a set of new buildings. F. J. Kingsbury, H. H. Peck. J. s. Elton. the A. z. Chase family and the Futile family of Naugatuck have also pledged s25. 900 each.
 Uncle" Horace Johnson, the ven- erable Middle Haddam weather prophet. issued a prophecy that should cause great worriment. Here's what he has to offer now: Prom the 26th of February to the 1st of March. a disturbance from the southeast will put in an appearance. which will be fierce: most likely to be downfall of rain. With the great amount of snow in the valley of the Connecticut. look for serious trouble, Should there be such breakup, as was witnessed by the people along the banks of the Connecticut river about sixty-nine years ago, it is doubtful about the noble structure at Hartford with standing the mighty pressure. Should the ice gorge at the bridge. it must either yield to the pressure. or the How of water must be on either side of the river at the ends. Should that De the case. the damage 10 Hartford city and East Hartford could hardly be in the line of computation
 How annoying Is t to have a watch that is out of repair frequent Iy and in the care of the watch Goc- tor one third of the time. Buy a watch of known reputation. of un- questioned reliability and save your self much annoyance Get a watch -,<n .r r-n<oo --~r-rx~ Tho r-,.