Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-17
CITY NEWS.

of the Town" company was VISITING
at his home in this city yesterday.
Royal Wray of New York, who has
been visiting Mrs r. D. McNally OF
| Crescent street, has returned home.
Christopher ketchen, a student at
the Pratt institute. Brooklyn, n. Y,
spent Sunday at his home in this
city.
At the First Baptist church yester-
day, the pastor. Rev Oscar Haywood
D. D., took for his theme, us the
Church Failing?'
Miss Grace Kelly of Bridgeport, who
has been visiting the Misses Butler OF
Spark street the past few days, re-
turned home to-day.
| The Good Roads association will
| hold Il meeting tonight in the rooms
of the Waterbury Business Mems as
ISOLATION, Bank street.
A months mind high mass will be
! celebrated tomorrow morning at s
o'clock at st Michaels church in Wa
terville for the late Charles Dierdon.
The New England Watch factory
proposes to increase it's capital stock
from $75O,000 to 100000. A
meeting for this purpose has been
called for February "a.
B. A. Peck, editor of the Naugatuck
Enterprise, has had his name taken
off the republican primary list. Al
| though Mr. Peck has always been a
democrat, a year ago, he was regis
tered with the g. o. p.
Father Mcmahon of st Mary's Home
for The Aged in West Hartford. is at
st Thomas's church during the abb
! sence of the Rev L. NJ. Crowley. Fa-
Their McNahOn was at one time curate
at the immaculate Conception church
in this city.
Two men entered the police station
this morning and asked Captain Ban
non to put them to work. The cap
tan informed them there was no work
to be had there. He said there was
so little doing at present in the city
it was difficult to find enough to dc
for the patrolmen.
The manufacturing business in the
local shops continues to improve.
The Plume & Atwood shop ran six
DAYS last week and will continue to
do so as before. and part of the ma
rine department OF the clock shop
ran five and a half days, which is
half day over the usual run of the
past few months.
Property owners on the Frost road.
Mill Plain, are making arrangements
to call upon the city fathers to find
out if they ever intend TO do any more
work on that highway. The only
thing done there in five years. so one
of the residents declares, was the
dumping of two loads of dirt in hole
where somebody came near being
killed
James Hanley of Wood street. a
Waterman employed at the Chase
Rolling mill. was badly scalded yes
terday while trying to cool and over
heated kiln. The metal scalded Han
ley frightfully and his right leg was
severely burned. He was taken Ia the
office of DIR John + Hackett on North
Main street. who gave him consider
able relief. To-day he is resting very
comfortably.
Henry O'Connor. democratic reg
istrar of voters. has given ont the
following figures of registration at the
two last sessions of the registrars:
First ward. 10: second ward. 10:
third ward. ~: fourth ward. 100: fifth
ward. 120: sixth voting district. -.
George VI. Chapman, republican reg
istrar states that about 2Jn had reg
isterpd with him in the third. ward.
He found hut little interest in the
other wards. not over forty or fifty
coming i'm from the whole Of them
The board of education will hold
an interesting meeting this evening
If the programme of business ar
ranged is carried out. The new rule
relating to teachers salaries is to be
acted upon. a ianitor may be sp-
pointed in the place of William Rob
insOn. janitOr of the Bishop street
school. who has rendered his resig-
nations: plans for giving adequate
fire protection in the old high school
building on School street are to be
inspected. and the contract for fur
nishing suppeils to the schools is To
be awarded.
A neat little sum Was Melted at the
Queens Daughters sale which was
held at the Curran Dry Goods cOm-
pany on Saturday and the members
Of the organization are extremely
grateful to all those who helped in
any way TO make the affair $ sue
ceSs. They wish to thank the CJrTan
Dry Goods company. all those who
donated articles. and all who made
purchases The pry-eeetls viii 20
towards furthering tire good work II
the sisters Of the Holy Ghost aud n
the Queens Daughters In this S;ty.
beginning to-day and confirming un-
til further notice. the New England
Watch factory will give its hands an
hour and . half for dinner. They quit
at II - and report for duty al l.
Usually il required four trolley car
20 meet the demand Il the factory help
at the n0ar hour. but to-day two extra
cars went down there and picked up
only about = dozen passsngers. The
help having gone to dinner On f0ot-
Tie shop + running eicht hours AMI
the management thinks il better 70
give the hands an opportunity to save