Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-29
CITY NEWS.

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 Drop in all cuts of beef from 2 to 1 cents at Walls meat market, S92 East Main street.
 Don't forget the midsummer con- cert and dance of Lallier's Military band at city hall Saturday night. This will be the first of series to be given by the band every Saturday night.
 Don't go looking shabby when you can have your clothes dyed or cleaned and finished to look like new at the Metropolitan Dyeing and Cleaning establishment, 167 South Main street.
 At a meeting of Camp No 8, P. o. F. A., William Cone was installed as assistant vice-president; Mrs Clara Hunt, conductor; Sadie Buckley, sentinel. The ceremony was per formed by Mrs F. NJ. Treat.
 The Pythians of Waterbury will be well represented at the conven- tion which opens in Boston on Au- gust 2 and will remain in session for a week. They will leave here next Sunday at S:S0 o'clock iii the morn ing about 100 strong.
 At a meeting of the Swedish Re- publican club held in the parlors or the Swedish church last night Victor Hedberg and E. A. Thunberg were chosen delegates to the annual state meeting of Swedish American clubs to be held September g, the place to be announced later.
 Bantam lake seems to be more popular this summer than it has been for several years. At present 1t Is almost impossible to procure accom- modations at the lake and the ma jority of the hotels and boarding house will have about all the patron age they can handle during August.
 The Bon Temps club, which was organized against the wishes of the Rev NJ. o. Lepley, pastor of St Paufs church, by several members of his parish, has disbanded The club was organized mainly to present The District School" to which MT Lep- ley objected and which he did not wish to have presented by a soci- ety connected with his church.
 The Leavenworth street firemen ly after o'clock last evening to ex- tinguish a blaze which had started in an automobile owned by Clarence Blackman of Thomaston. The auto mobile tank was being filled with gasolene when the liquid caught fire. Although there was a lively blaze for a few minutes there was no dam age to speak of.
 The following are the new officers of Court America, F. of A: c. R., William Roberts; s. c. R., Thomas Andrews; R. S., George Wildman; S. w., William Gillette; J. w., F. H. Welton: S. B., B. w. Johnson; J. B., B. J. Hilty: treasurer, J. D. Cash man; financial secretary, w. s. Mos grove; room committee, George Clark; secretary of sick committee, B. w. Johnson.
 A heap of rubbish in the cellar of a two tenement house at IS Jeffrey alley took fire about o'clock this morning. The families there were awakened by the smoke which filled the rooms and thinking the building was to be burned down they made a hurried exit The fire department made quick work of the blaze and the damage was very slight. The property is owned by Mrs Matilda Atwond of Uatortoun
 Mrs A. o. Mitchell, wife of the we'll known milkman who disap- peared last winter, has left her five children in Bethlehem and gone to friends in Nebraska. Three of the children are being cared for by the selectmen of that town and neigh bors are looking out for the others. Everybody wonders how Mrs Mitch ell could have turned her back upon the children. especially her months old baby. The oldest is a girl of :. Perhaps she was prompted 10 take this step in the hope of being able to do better for her children there after she gets a chance to look around
 Property owners on Wolcott street hope that the city fathers will do something for them this year. The street is one of the old highways of the town and yet very little has ever been done with 1t. They feel that people who live in streets that | have not been laid out over a few | years receive more attention and if l this kind of thing is to continue they don't know where they will get of One of them told a Democrat re- i porter to-day that the reason their 1 street has not been worked is be. cause they don't get together and put up a big "holler" about il. There may be something in that, although ! the man who makes the most noise 1 often comes out in the small end oi l the horn.
 The republicans are getting dowr to business and from now on there | will be war in the camp. Chairman i Church has called the primaries fOl August I. from , to o'clock p. m at the following places: First ward, City hall. in the city court room: Second ward, City hall. east side: Third ward. City hall. wes, side: Fourth ward. City Hall. alder. -,avFa chamber. Firth uard rFsv