Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-09
CITY NEWS.

ll home after a visit with ThomastoI
 friends. t Tax Collector Frank Reeves lief , yesterday to spend a few days il New York.
 t Mrs Arthur Wingertsman of A 5 Luke street, who has been ill for some , time past, and who was reported or = the mend, has had relapse. Dr Carl E. Munger read paper - "The Early Diagnosis of Tuberculo sis,' at the Litchfield County Medica
 association meeting held in Torring
 ton yesterday.
 Among the floral tributes at the
 funeral of Miss Catherine Moran o1
 Gilbert street were a cross form MI
 and Mrs Thomas Reilly; bouquets
 Miss Ella Powers, Mrs Gennynti, Saxe
 & Floto.
 John E. Sewell was expected tc
 leave town this morning and go tc
 the Maine woods where he will use
 the rod and gun for the next few
 weeks. MT Sewell found politics a
 rather trying ordeal and is of the
 
 preciate a rest of a few weeks.
 Uncle" Horace Johnson of Mid
 de Haddam is again smiling from ear to ear and saying Il told you so" This grand old, man" in the
 weather prophet business predicted
 as far back as September 21 that on
 October ' and 8 an unusually heavy ! eli Tnnnnntinnt
 The Ajax Manufacturing Go of Waterbury has filed a certificate of incorporation in the office of the sec retary of state. The company will deal in wood and metal products and 1 is authorized to have capital of $7O,000. The incorporators are Henry Muller, M. J. Byrne and J. s. Neagle.
 Miss Bernice Burton of this city acted as bridesmaid Wednesday even- ing at the wedding of William Arnold Spencer and Mildred Lydia MacFar- lane at Oakland Beach. Miss Burton was gowned in light blue mousseline, trimmed with lace and carried a shower bouquet of violetS and lilies | Ol the Ndlley.
 At a meeting of the w. c. T. U. yesterday afternoon officers were chosen as follows: President, Mrs T. F, Cooke; recording secretary, Mrs Alice MoseleS; corresponding secre- tary, Mrs F. I. Baldwin; treasurer, Mrs c. o. Robbins. The vice-presi- dents. one from each of the Congre- gational churches will be chosen at the next meeting.
 Captain WeedOn's lions will, of course be the hit" of the Eagles fair, which opens here on October 18th, but there will be a lot of other features. There will be a band of Japanese dancing girls on the war path" as we'll as attractive side-shows and exhibits. Lallier's orchestra will supply its usual high grade mu- sic for the dancing, which will be free to all. The members are going to turn out in fine style in the opening night parade.
 Extra value in peg top trousers, S4, at Upson, Singleton & Co.'S.
 Mrs Julia Daly's suit against the estate of her husband. the late M. J. Daily, is down for hearing in the su- periOr court in New Haven to-mor- row. Mrs Daily claims that when she obtained a divorce from her husband she was entitled to far more alimony than she was given by him and that his estate was worth many thousands of dollars more than what 1t was re- presented to he at that time. Upon Mir Daly's demise his estate was found to be worth over S10O.OO0, while ac- cOTding to Mrs Daily at the time she was divorced it was represented to be worth no more than S6.00O. She claims it was worth at that time at least s50.OOO.
 \ man was found dead at about 6 o'clock last evening near Hancock's Station on the tracks of the Highland division. The body was identified as that of George Pleasant, who lived at Hancock and was employed by James l.. Scarritt there. He was seen alive hut a few minutes before by his friends and the man probably was accidentally run over by the | AA dAH AAihA H1s-1Eu Ailt llldNt dUbuA that time. This was the opinion of Dr 4. S Bracket sf Bristol. who. in the absence of Dr W. W. Yelling ton. the medical examiner for the town. was summoned. George Pleas ant was 27 years of age and has a brother. Joseph Pleasant. living at, Bucks Hill and another brother liy- ing in Waterbury.
 IL is said that almost all the men employed in the handcuff department of the Mattatuck Manufacturing Co in the eastern section of the city quit 1 work yesterday afternoon. claiming that the. price on the work had been 4 cut tO such an extent that they were unable to make a decent days pay. to one of the empIOyes the price has been placed sO low that try l as they would they were unable to get what they term a fair return for the work done. Consequently the men left their benches yesterday. In quirE at the factory to-day failed to throw any light upon the differences of the men The superintendent and the foreman of the department where the trouble was were both said 10 be away. while the man in charge said he could not tell anything about the matter.
 When you want a present for your sweetheart or wife. or your sister or your cousin or your aunt. just drop In the Upson Jewelry Co.'S and choose from the largest lines in the eitv of 5eweIrT. diamonds. erersIds. rubies