Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25
CITY NEWS.

ana eat dinner III comfort.
 The members of the Merchants as- sociation have decided to close their stores at noon tomorrow.
 The New England Watch factory will close tonight until Monday, thus giving It's help lots of time to enjoy Thanksgiving.
 An old fashioned Thanksgiving dinner will be served at The Elton tomorrow. Have table reserved for you. It costs no more.
 Mrs B. Mulcrone of 40 Cherry street, who has been at the New IIa- ven hospital the past nine weeks and was operated on by Dr Ramsay, has returned home.
 The purchasers of the Bronson property in Cheshire met yesterday and elected officers as follows: Presi- dent. T. H. Hayes vice-president, Walter Scott; secretary, Kent Full ton; treasurer. A. E. Lord. The company will be known as the Che shire Land Co of Waterbury.
 The case before Judge Cowell in the district court to-day concerned a cargo of twenty-thre cars of grapes, worth $500. The plaintiff, George Russo claimed damages for the loss of the cargo, while the defendant. John Pace, contends there was partnership existing between him and the plaintiff, that it was impos- sible for him to ship the grapes any way on account of frost, and fur thermore, that the partnership should have borne the loss. The plaintiff claims there was no partner ship on this deal.
 Mary c. Shannahan died yesterday afternoon at her home, Wall ave nue, after lingering illness. She is survived by three sisters, Mrs John Condon, Mrs c. Mullen and Miss Catherine Shannahan, also five broth CTS, Dennis and John of Waterbury, Robert of Bridgeport, Thomas of Philadelphia, and Philip. who resides in the middle west. The funeral will be held Thursday morning at S:30 o'clock with services at the Sacred Heart church and burial in the new St Joseph's cemetery.
 St Cecilia's fair will close to-mor- , row evening and all awards will be | made. The programme for tonight will include Malley & Murphy in
 grape vine buck and wing dancing,
 vocal duet by the Misses Loretto and
 Adeline Moss accompanied on piano
 by Miss Magic Moss, Bernard Erwin and John Flaherty in popular songs,
 Piano trio, Charles Lord, Loretto
 Mclean and Viola Zell, vocal selec-
 tions by Miss Margaret Phalen. The
 parlor suit which is to be awarded
 tomorrow evening is now on exhi-
 bition in the window of A. E. Ben-
 son the furniture dealer opposite the
 post office.
 Frank Allen of Woodbury came
 near being killed late last evening
 on West Main street. He was on
 his way home when his team got
 mixed up with a trolley car and the
 horses ran away and kept going un-
 til somebody caught them on the
 Watertown road. Mir Allen was
 thrown from his team and lay where
 he fell without moving muscle so that those who saw him though he was killed outright. He was picked
 up and removed to the Waterbury
 hospital where 1t was found that while he was badly shaken up his injuries are not necessarily serious The horses were cared for at one oi the barns and word was sent to the injured mans family.
 The county commissioners com- } pleted their two days work here this afternoon, receiving from all but a $ very few of the liquor dealers thei, r license fee for the ensuing year. The
 total amounts to about $70,000. Ol 3 this sum all but 15 per cent goes tc the city, while 10 of that 15 per cent r goes to the county and the other [ r to the police pension fund. Under
 the old system of town and city gov. t ernment this money would go entire . ly to the maintenance of town roads and bridges, but under the present g system 1t is turned into the genera , city fund along with the money
 raised by taxation on property, anC 6 is in turn paid out in wages to city s laborers, policemen, firemen, schoo f teachers and the other city officials
 as we'll as for new work in the city's 3 development and the maintenance oi c the schools
 Cases of diphtheria are developing 7, at an alarming rate in this city, ant \ 1t looks as though an epidemic O
 the disease would occur if it's spread is not soon stopped. Three new ! cases were reported to the charit! , department to-day, while two of tho = pupils of the Margaret Croft schoo ' were stricken with the disease tho
 past twenty-four hours. Anothe, ' one of the pupils of the Walsh schoo was reported as having the disease
 to-day. On Fuller street there 1!
 said to be two cases within half 1
 dozen houses. Although the author ' ities say none of the cases Is seriou:
 nevertheless all the schools will II
 all probability be thoroughly fumi - gated during the Thanksgiving va 9 cation. There must be betweer . twenty-five and thirty cases in thu ? city at present and during the pas {, week, they have been developing 2 fast.
 :. Stephen W. Wilby, principal of the 7 high school, entertained an apprecia [ tive audience last night at public ' meeting held under the auspices oi : Mulcahy council, K. of C., at Colum bus hall. Mir Wilby spoke for over 3 an hour during which time he fol . lowed the subject of his sketch from