Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-23
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

-Alphonse Do Ligouri of North
 Riverside street has entered the Yale
 Medical school.
 John Lyons oi Philadelphia,
 who has been visiting relatives on
 Poplar avenue, has returned homo.
 The St Thomas Cadets have. or ganized football team this year. All candidates are requested to be present at the Lyceum tomorrow night for
 the first practice.
 Some of the wells In South
 Brooklyn have become very low be- cause of the long drought and the owners are wondering what they will do If some rain does not fall soon.
 At q. meeting of the Brooklyn Athletic club on Sunday the follow ing officers were elected for the com Ing six months: President Michael Madden; secretary. Michael Carroll; treasurer. Daniel Mccarthy; captain, John Madden; trustees, Matthew Caldwell, Eddie. Cahill and John Duane. Considering the condition of business at present the report of the committee which had charge of tho fair recently held in City hall was very good.
 Tt begins to look as though John Henderson. Jr. was not sincere when he said that he wanted the exten- sion of Clark stret put through. Moreover. many of the residents of this section are now of the opinion that MT Henderson is not nearly as enthusiastic about the Town Plot trolley as they were led to believe. His action In failing the committee appointed by the board of aldermen shows that he Is not very eager for settlement.
 The members of the Pioneer basketball team. which had such successful season year ago, met in the rooms of the Brooklyn Athletic club last evening and elected Patrick Donahue manager of the five for this season. Donahue has held the posi- tion since the formation of the team and has been rather successful in the managerial capacity. Edward Claffey, who formerly played with the Telegram Square team, was the choice for the captaincy. The can- didates for the team will begin prac- tice immediately and expect to play about all the junior teams in the city and some in the state before the end of the season. The Pioneers will hold their annual dance some time next month.
 Hans Rasmussen, who was one of the prime movers in the forma- tion of the milk dealers association, says that there is no reason why milk should sell for more than cents a quart the coming winter-9 for bot tied milk. Hans says the idea of milk selling at 10 and Il is prepos- terous. "If the public were acquaint- ed with existing conditions they would not be so ready to make a howl" he said. Last winter the producers received "A cents per quart and this winter they will ask the wholesalers to pay only a quar- ter of cent more. They must do to get enough money to meet their bills. Grain and food of all kinds has increased to such an alarming extent that some of the farmers are almost starving. Go into the country and see the condi- ton of the farms whose owners de- pend upon their sale of milk for their living. The farms, houses. barns and everything connected with the places are badly in need of repair ng. Do not think that am making l holler for myself for I am not. I nm a retailer as well as producer and get whatever money there is in it. But I am speaking for the producers who do not retail; those men are the ones that are suffering. Why, I know for fact that many of them Ire unable to pay their bills, yet here is big howl because they are .rying to make few more dollars" Hans was asked why such dealers as Rogers and Oviatt of Watertown were going to fight the association if he producers were having such lard time of 1t. He did not give a 7ery satisfactory explanation as to why large number of the dealers ilso refused to af1x their signatures 0 the roster Hans ended by saying l man was foolish to devote his life Q farming in this age because the conditions are such that there is no money in it.