Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-02
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS

The Naugaluck DaHu VIII SNo another of their popular dances on next Tuesday evening at Columbia hall. On August 8, at 9 a. m. in the | probate court, hearing will be given on the allowance of the executors on
 the estate of the late Mary Burke.
 There will be no game on Firemen's | field tomorrow, as the Fire Depart
 ment team will go to Torrington 10
 play the Coe Brass team of that place. The Robert Emmet club will hold
 special meeting in Hibernian hall, Saturday night. Every member IS
 requested to attend, as business or
 importance is to be transacted.
 Mrs Maria Hitchcock, one of Na"- ] gatuck's oldest residents, died at her home on Cemetery street, after an ,i!- 1 ness of several weeks. The funeral
 arrangements are not yet completed.
 Superintendent of the Poor Lang
 ford has made application to the pro bate court for the commitment of
 two minor children of Mrs Mary Grit
 fin to the county home The hearing
 on the above application will be held
 in the probate court, August 6, at
 a. n.
 The annual reunion of the Andrew
 family was held yesterday at the An'
 drew summer houme on West noun tain. There were about seventy-two persons present and the day was spent in discussing happy reminis- cences of past events, and also many games were played in which all took
 part. In the early evening number of balloons were sent up and these were of many different designs, and lin each was placed card bearing the inscription, Annual Reunion of the Andrew Family, held August l, 1907." .- The Naugatuck hose and hook and ladder company held its regular meeting at the Water street hose house last night. William F. Bar. rettt was elected delegate to the con- vention of the State Firemen's asso-
 citation to be held in New Haven, August 7-S. George c. Lambert was | elected alternate. The annual in
 spection of the company will not bs held on Labor day this year, but vii
 take place on Friday evening, Au' . gust 30. The Union City compan!
 will be inspected by the board of firt
 commissioners at o'clock and thu
 Naugatuck company at S:15.
 Warden William T. Rodenbach ha:
 appointed William Roche of Union
 City as the dog warden for Naugatuck
 Mir Roche is at present the truan
 officer, and his duties as such wil
 enable him to perform the duties oI
 his new office without much trouble
 as he is in the habit of covering al
 parts of the town, and will at al times be in touch with conditions il the various sections. That he wll give entire satisfaction no one doubts for while he will do his full duty a dog warden, he is man who als realizes that the owner of the dog ha = some rights. Mir Roche enters upo
 his new duties to-day and 1t is ex
 pected that there will be conslderabl @ business in the office of the town cler y for the next few weeks.
 !. Many complaints have been mad a to the police regarding the actions ( c the boys who go swimming in th l. new dam" It is said that they ar ), not at all particular how they expos s themselves to those who pass by an a | are, indeed, a nuisance by the in s proper actions practiced while on tn i, shore of the dam. These complaint ,. come in about every so often, and V is nothing new that complaints al - being made at this time, and 1t WI '' just such complaints as these thi y caused an old resident of that end { n the town not long ago to say that d. would be a good thing If the tow Ie would build bath houses along Il y bank of the dam so that there wou
 be no unnecessary exposure cause
 by the swimmers dressing and u
 dressing. He said that the great
 part of the land that surrounds Il lo dam is owned by the borough. ar re it is of little or no use at the pla m that could be used to erect these ba 70 houses. He pointed out the absolu s. necessity of knowing the art of swir se ming and said 1t was a commendab D. practice and that nothing should of done to prevent the boys from lear h. ing how to swim, and if the authol Ir ties would have the boys be mode ,e in this respect they should provi tr the means of making this possible.