Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-22
CITY NEWS.

Walter Mabbott, president of the class of 1908, Crosby high, has enter ed the Boston Tech.
 The Friendly league opens to-
 morrow evening at ' o'clock to al- low registration for classes.
 ,t The. active members of Waterbury Turn Nerein will give an exhibition and dance on Thursday evening at Turn hall. 4s f .ss
 Miss Rosalind M Brownell. of Hill- side avenue left this morning to- re- sume her studies at Trinity college, Washington.
 Have your dance tickets, pro- grammes, show cards, etc, printed at the Democrat office. Quick work. Prices reasonable.
 Superintendent H. L. Wales of the Waterbury division of the Connecti- cut Go has returned from a business trip of several days. No changes will be made in the running schedule of. the local trolley cars at present, although later in the year the cars on the Woodbury line will run hour ly instead of half hourly. This change will not be made right away as the patronage on this line contin- ues to be large.
 Attorney D. J. Slavin has brought two suits against the city, one for William Kirshbaum and one for Jo- seph T. Smith, each for damages of 1 Il fra{e At rf h that the city took unlawful possess sion of land on Easton avenue, be- longing to the plaintiffs and set it out for a highway and now oceli- pies 1t as such. They claim that all this was done without due process of law. The cases are returnable to the district court and the papers were served to-day by Constable Lannon.
 The hackmen have had a tilt and from now on it will be cheaper to rent carriage than buy one. If the trip is not too far, nearly any of them will take you to or from the depot for quarter, and the funeral and christening prices are back to the old figure, $3 and $2. This is encouraging. The ordinary mortal cannot pay $4 for a hack to attend funeral no more than he can afford to buy milk at 10.cents quart. The hackmen have seen for themselves and the milkmen should learn from the experience of the cabbies.
 Miss Agnes McElhone, formerly of Nyat fpn hut <,f Nnf and William Claffey of Watertown were married yesterday at the church of the Immaculate Conception in Wa terbury by the Rev Father Broderick. Miss Mamie Donnelly of Naugatuck was bridesmaid and Charles Wilkin. son of Watertown was best man The brides gown was of cream ba-. tiste over white silk She wore d. white picture hat The bridesmaid was similarly attired. Among those present at the wedding reception were the Misses Loretta and Frances Baxter, Mary A. Burke, Margaret | Sullivan, Bessie Prall and Mamie | Donnelly, all of Naugatuck.-
 Brass City lodge. N. E. o. P. at heir regular meeting in Columbus nall Monday evening. balloted on wo candidates. Many expressed | heir intention of visiting Teutonic odge in Naugatuck Thursday of this week. At the regular meeting off he supreme executive committee which was held in Boston the 14th [ instant. reports were made which | hows the order In a fiourishing con- lition. Gains In membership during he last year was 7.430, the largest i 'ver made in one year. Working for } .000 this year. During the past I've years eighty new lodges were in- net gain of 22,000. En- husiastic meetings are planned for he twenty-flrst anniversary. ;.