Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-29
CITY NEWS.

and Mrs William Brown of Center street.
 Mrs Louis Baker and Miss Jennie
 York city.
 Friday, January 1, large class of boys and girls will receive their first l communion at St Patrick's church.
 Miss Williams of Hartford is the
 guest of Miss Margaret Bowes of
 Hamilton avenue. Both are stu.
 dents at Mt St JOseph's in Hartford.
 Mr and Mrs J. J. Gleason and
 daughter, Helen of Bridgeport, spent Christmas at the home of Mir Glea- sons parent, l.. F. Gleason of IS Catherine avenue.
 Henry Gerard, secretary of the Waterbury Typographical Union, was
 removed from his home in Middle bury to-day to the Waterbury hos 1 pital, suffering from pneumonia. Mrs Elizabeth J. Pelmear Davis has brought suit for divorce against her husband, Samuel c. Davis. She | alleges habitual intemperance during the past five years. The couple were married in June, 1897. Davis is now supposed to be living in Wilkes barre. Pa.
 Clifton James Corcoran of Baldwin street, and Miss Florence Barlow of Waterville were married yesterday at the parsonage of the Simonsville Methodist church by the Rev w. F.. Smith. D. D. After a wedding tour the couple will reside at 1861 Bald win street.
 Attorney D. Slavin, acting for James Walsh, a carpenter. has noti- fled the city that MT Walsh sustained certain injuries through a fall on a slippery sidewalk on West Main street, and that unless due compen- sation is made suit for damages will be brought.
 Dr Frank w. Thompson. son of MT and Mrs w. H. Thompson of Wal nut street, left yesterday for New York to enter the naval hospital He recently passed the examinations at Washington, D. C. Dr Thompson was graduated from Crosby high in 1903 and finished at Yale in 1907.
 Good assortment. all sizes, ? F to | in cut price sale of boys suits at Cpson, Singleton & Cos.
 Friday night the Goodwill social club will hold their annual dance at Buckingham hall The committee has spared no expense to make this dance social and financial success. Galipeau's orchestra of six pieces will furnish music and dancing will start promptly at nine o'clock and continue till one.
 Misses Florence Owens. Edith Munson, Edna Drois. Christiana lily land, pupils of Mir and Mrs John F. Kicks dancing academy. 43 East Main street, will give exhibition dancing of the Spanish dance and the double Highland Fling at the Sacred Heart church fair. East Main street, tomorrow evening.
 l must vacate premises on account Of improvements and will sell the building I am now located in near the railroad station cheap. All my stock will go at cost as find it cheaper to sell it on the premises than to move it. Come down and see the bargains. Luke Stapleton, cafe, near the new railroad station, foot of Grand street
 Mrs Margaret Webb of the state of Washington is visiting her mother. Mrs Mary Whalen of Aurora, III, who is temporarily living on James street, pending the hearing of her appeal from the superior court on her contention that her sister, Mrs Catherine KillOughey. was of un- sound mind when she willed away all of her property.
 About 1 o'clock this morning fire was discovered in a two family house owned by F. l.. Tyrrell at the corner of Robbins street and the Water town road The house was occupied by Michael McMullin and Ernest C. TomlinsOn. The blaze started in the rear of the house and before it was eXtinguished had done about $500 damage. It was caused by a defective fue.
 Thomas Larson, Lehman Harvey and Thomas Ryan of the east end. who have been playing polo in tic New York state league. have re- turned home. The league disbanded q few days ago. Harvey, Ryan and Larson played with the Hamilton Park team in the amateur league in this city last year and went with the Cohoes ieam at the beginning O. this season. For a few weeks the league prOspered, but then the ar- tendance started 10 fall off and there was nothing for the managers 10 dc but call it off
 Waterbury is not the only place where electric lights refuse 10 rnn- der service once in while. In Roch- ester, \. Y, 945 Outages were report ed during the month of November, 1908. as against 1.S46 for the corre- spending month in 1907. The i'm prOvemeht in the service was brought about after considerable fault find ing on the part of the public which finally resulted in a demand for more men to look after the lights. That was all they needed and this is all the lights in Waterbury require to keep them in running order all the time. The service here is better than it used to be, but there is room for improvement.
 Almost all the protestant churches in this city will hold watch night