Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-23
CITY NEWS.

A daughter was born on Sunday morning to MT and Mrs Frank Cruess of 52 Wall street.
 The annual meeting of the First Congregational church will be held this evening at s o'clock.
 The Rev Timothy M. Crowley pastor of St Thomas's, returned Sat urday from the south where he had been the past few weeks.
 The Rev Edwin P. Farnham, D. D., superintendent of church extension work on Long Island, occupied the pulpit at the First Baptist church yesterday.
 Mrs Edith Babson Balsarno, aged P years, died last night at her home, 121 Locust street. The tu- neral will be held tomorrow after noon at 2:30 o'clock.
 Frank McGowan, Patrick McDon- aid and John Blade were arrested this morning on a charge of vagran- cy. They were arrested by Officers
  them lettering in the freight yard.
 Harvey Stout an employe of the Waterbury Clock company and a well known ex-member ofCompany A, has been engaged to sing with the Con cordias at the state saengerfest which will be held in Meriden on June 15 and 16.
 The local association of the State Liquor Dealers association entertain ed a number of friends at a smoker in G. A. R. hall yesterday afternoon. The guests included State President Frank P. Quinn of Hartford, and Martin J. Hanlon of Meriden.
 Yesterday morning at St Francis Xavier church Father Curtin gave an interesting and instructive talk on the order recently issued regarding marriage and reminded his people that it will be in force in his parish after Easter. He also assured them that it contains nothing new, some thing which is quite apparent to any body who reads it.
 Special value-boys' knickerbock- CTS 59c at Upson, Singleton X Cos.
 An extremely bright solar halo was visible nearly an hour yesterday morning from II o'clock to noon. Be- fore the days of official forecasters a solar halo was considered a fairly sure sign of a coming storm. The lunar haloes are more frequent than the solar haloes and rarely is one Of the latter class as bright and as well defined as was that of yesterday.
 The forty hours devotion to the blessed sacrament started at the 1O:3O mass of the Sacred Heart church yesterday. There was a pro cession in which a couple of hundred boys and girls participated. Con- fessions were heard last evening, to- day and will be heard this evening, several priests from other parishes being in attendance. The services will close tomorrow morning with a high mass at 7:30 o'clock.
 To-day the city was made defend- ant in a suit for s1.500 brought by the Manville Bros Machine Co for sand alleged to have been taken from the company's property in South Brooklyn some time last year. The matter was brought to the at- tention of the department of pubuc works. but the board was rather slow in taking it up and finally the com pany decided to take 1t into the courts. Constable Carmody served the papers on City Clerk Sandland this morning.
 Saturday a handsome cross was raised on the dome of St Mary's hos pital. Work on the roof will soon be completed and after a short time the plumbing will be taken hold of and pushed. Yesterday at the Immaculate Conception church announcement was made of a donation from Frank P. Brett and Miss Mary Minahan to furnish a ward in memory of the Slater sisters. It was also announced that the family of the late MT and Mrs Dennis Shannahan will furnish a room in memory of the late John and Margaret Sweeney.
 Mrs Charles W. Teller. whose hus- band was partner with James StickIes in the management of the South Main street club. raided re- gently by the police on a charge of selling liquor without 8 license. called at the Democrat office to-day and stated that there is no truth in the allegation that the raid was in- spired by her husband. It appears that Mr Teller got through with the club before the trouble. and this prompted some one to circulate a story to the effect when he got ont he vas short in his accounts and re- taliated by having the place pulled. Mrs Teller denies this and claims that her husband owed the club nothing and vas in no way responsi- bIe for the visit paid tO the place by the officers
 One day a couple of weeks ago ions wanted to start a fire They were in the rear of TrUtt-s bakery on East Main street and not having any material handy. one of the trio vent t8 the store yard of the Cur ran Dry Co tO get some WOOd. He returned ufth the buX all rigi "a box fuII of shoes It is said that IsooHsIIi took g pair of shoes frOv the box and then threw the rst.sain- der into a brook nearby There were seysrsl pairs of shoes ysiu z al s5a. Nick fs said t0 have made the remark as he hurled them intn the brook. No one wFT ever Ez1s