Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-23
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS

from Hartford where he has been | attending minister's meeting. Henry Steele has taken posi- tion with Andrew Hine of the Nau- gatuck and Waterbury Parcel eX-
 press.
 Fred Happy, clerk at w. F. Bren- mans grocery store, has resigned
 his position to take effect Saturday
 night. ., The Highland Avenue Euchre club
 met last night with MT and Mrs
 Louis Nichols at the home of w..
 E. Brown.
 At the Waldorf pool rooms last evening a very one-sided game was
 played between Goynes and Olsen, the former winning by score Of To- 31. Tonight Neary will cross cues with Conlon.
 Miss Helen Foy of Oak street,
 who was taking course of study in the St Francis hospital, Hartford, to become a professional nurse, is
 confined to her home with a severe attack of infammatory rheumatism.
 The Naugatuck high school base ball team defeated team from the Waterbury Business college yester- day afternoon on Firemen's field. The local team won. The score was Naugatuck H. S. p, Waterbury BuBsiness college 10.
 The original St Francis's Drum corps will hold their annual dance tonight in Columbus hall. A short
 street parade will take place pre- vious to the opening of the dance in which a number of out-of-town
 drum corps will take part.
 The town clerk and selectmen
 were in session yesterday for the purpose of making voters. During the day the total number of applicants
 admitted as electors was 5S. The!
 will be in session again next Satur- day from 9 a. m. until p. m.
 Borough Attorney John NJ. Sween-
 ey is in Hartford to-day, where he
 appeared before the railroad com
 missioners to relate to them the
 condition of South Main street
 caused by the way the trolley com
 pany has done work at that point and which makes the highway dan
 gerous for travel.
 A very pleasant surprise was ten dered to Peter J. Foley last night at
 his home on Scott street by party of his friends. After recovering from his surprise MT Foley proved very genial host. The evening was pleasantly spent by games, vocal and instrumental music. which was followed by refreshments.
 Charles, Chic" Lawson, who is to wrestle to-nigh- in the Tongue opera house, Seymour, is in fine form and his friends feel confident that he will not encounter any diff ficulty in adding another one to his large number of victories. His opponent is A. H. Alden of Sey- mour. A large number from here will attend the exhibition.
 The republican borough convention for the purpose of electing delegates to the republican state convention was held last night in the court room The following deelgates were elected: Frederick F. Schaeffer, Charles F Hungerford, Thomas Bowen and l.. Carlson. The borough convention to nominate a ticket for town and borough officers will be held tonight and it is expected that some one will be also named as burgess from the first ward to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Burgess Stahl
 The democratic borough conven. ton was held last night in the board of education room. X town and bor- ough ticket was nominated A town committee was elected and five dele gates to the state convention were also elected. and they were instruct. cd to procure a delegation from Con necticut to the democratic nationa which would be favorabl. to William J. Bryan for president William Kennedy |. was chairman of the convention, and Mi | chael B. Reidy was clerk The fol | lowing ticket was nominated: War den. Thomas o'Lnughlin: selectmen | Joseph Reynolds, Patrick Scully l treasurer. George T. wigmore; high I school committee. James Penrose Kennedy; bailiffs. Frederick l W. Walsh. Patrick J. O'COnnor. Rich | ard Durkin. Henry Rempfer; board | Df education. Charles T. Mccarthy: | tax collector. John P. Hogan: auditor Robert D. Beardsley: registrar oi vofeFs. Thomas P. Reilly: tree warden George C. Ham: town committee Kennedy. Amos Culver