Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-16
CITY NEWS.

Military band dance at Goodwill hall. Wa,erville, Friday night.
 A daughter was born to MT and Mrs William Grady of Ann street on Tuesday.
 The board of finance me this af- ternoon and approved the mid monthly payrolls.
 An anniversary mass will be cele- brated at St Thomas's church at s o'clock Saturday morning for the late Miss Mary Fitzpatrick.
 At meeting of Excelsior council, No ,, O. U. A. M, last night William Holgate, Jr, was installed as financial secretary of ex-Chancellor c. w. Fox. During the evening former Chancel- Tor Partiss was presented with a jewel emblematic of the order, Chancellor c. T. Clyre making the presentation speech.
 The Brass City Quartette is going strong at Jacques this week and it would seem as If the boys would have no difficulty in getting an ex- tended engagement at the opening of the vaudeville season. Manager Clancy of the house thinks the quar- tette is excellent material and is pre- dieting big things for it.
 The members of Companies A and c will receive S15 apiece for their ten days stay in camp. The state pays the militia one dollar per day during their encampment and the government gives the men fifty cents per day. The soldiers received one third of their pay on Sunday when every man at camp drew $5. The local companies will in all prob ability receive the balance of their money the coming week.
 Napoleon LeClair of Dover street was charged with breach of the peace The complainant, John Bergin, had big patch of plaster on his head, the result of a row in a saloon on Pond street Tuesday night. LeClair said the trouble had its origin in his inabality to sufficiently explain him. self in the language of the country. He had some difficulty in doing so to the court. Sentence was suspended. A peanut peddler named George Spir- idopowlos, charged with peddling without a license, settled for s5.
 The Rev Martin O. Lepley. pastor of St Pauls NJ. E. church. has re- fused to lend his approval to the Juvenile Dramatic club of the parish to present the playlet. "The District School under the name of the church or any organization connected with it. Some of the boys show disposi- tion to go ahead in opposition to the pastor, but it is thought that after they think it over they will see that the pastor has good reasons for his position and will want to fall into line with him. Now and then young men get it into their heads that they know more than their pastor, but when they grow older they readily admit their mistake and wish they hadn't been so self willed.
 As you look in the window of the Hallet & Davis Piano store one can see wonderful piece of work. fresh from the artists brush. The painting is one of Edward F. Harwood of the Hallet & Davis Piano Co holding & violin. The pose is very lifelike and the beautiful blending of colors show the artist, Joseph Trotta, to be a gen. jus of the first water. Mir TrOtta is but boy being just past IS years. He developed his love for art when but child and from most of his work it appears that the time is not far when he shall gain the success which is due him. Mir Trotta in- tends spending four years abroad to study under the different masters when he then shall return to Water bury where he intends to ply his genius.