Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-01
CITY NEWS.

Buy his Christmas present now. g and $3 fancy vests $1 at Upson, Singleton & Co.'S.
 There was very little change in the condition of Mrs Edith French at the Waterbury hospital during the past twenty-four hours.
 The funeral of Mrs Herbert B. Smith will be held from the resi- dence of W. G. Smith, 17 First aven- ue, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.
 An anniversary mass of requiem will be celebrated at the Immaculate Conception church Thursday morn ing at o'clock for the late James Claffey
 F. H. Grant formerly with the lith- ographing department of Ringing Brothers circus, is now in the out door advertising department of the new Empire theater of Waterbury.
 Louis Hull who was shot Satur> day by Game Warden Wylie is im- proving rapidly at the Waterbury hospital and is expected to leave there within short time. As yet no arrests has been made in connec- tion with the shooting.
 The floral offerings at the funeral of John Bolton of 397 Emerald street included two crosses marked Uncle Florrie" and Uncle Alfred; bouquets Mrs Joseph Dougherty, Sallie Brus- sic, Catherine, Margaret, Sallie and Sylvester Large, Rosaline Price and a piece from children in the neigh borhood
 A spring day in December does not seem half bad. The weather was such to-day that some people with winter wraps on found it much too warm while others though the weather was ideal. Anyone who had to do much walking thought it trifle warm, but the majority of the people seem to be elated with the beautiful weather.
 Contractor Soborg has commenced operations on new block on Louns- bury street, between Baldwin and South street, and says he intends to keep at 1t until it is ready for oc- cupancy. Besides the tenements the block will contain one large store and barber shop, both of which are already rented to enterprising par ties who will make them pay.
 The board of charities has not yet furnished the new hospital ward which was recently built at Brook side home. It was expected that the charity commissioners would go right on with the work as soon as the fire escape was installed, but nothing as yet has been done. The board seems undecided at present whether to make it a general hospi- tai or simply ward for persons af- ficted with tuberculosis. It was planned originally to have it for persons suffering from the white plague but since so much has been done by the eAnti-tuberculosis League in this city. the charity board now seems 10 favor making 1t a general hospital.
 One of the oldest readers of the Democrat says he came near having row with his wife about it yester day. X harmless little item regard ing the money there is in raising hens and selling eggs was what caused the trouble. It appears that the woman has eighty chickens, but none of them is laying and as chicken feed is $1.S0 a bag she couldn't see where the money was coming from and told her husband she thought the paper was joshing the farmer. who. although prices are high, is engaged in an up- hill battle to make ends meet Of course this is the other side of the 1 matter. The people who buy eggs i now and pay three times as much for | them as they used to in the good old | days when hens didn't need anything l but what they could pick up in their i wanderings around the barn yard, i never bestow thought upon what it | costs to keep them and imagine that the difference between the price now | paid for eggs and that of ten or fif- | teen years ago is all prodt