Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-20
-CITY NEWS.

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 The will of the late Amy A. Russell was filed with the probate court to- day by Judge George II. Cowell. Tes- tatrix bequeathed her entire estate to her sisters.s Mariette Scott and Lucy Jane Curtiss and, her brother, David English Russell. and nominated Judge Cowell' her executor. The weather prophets made anoth- CT miss last night. They predicted rain. but all we got was some high wind and big drop in the tempera- ture. Meanwhile the reservoirs are going down and to make matters worse many of the wells about town have gone dry and their owners have to buy spring water for drinking pur- poses.
 Mrs Mary Wakefield White, aged
 seventy-eight years, widow of the
 late Lewis White, died yesterday at
 the residence of her daughter, Mrs
 H. T. Allen, A Linden street. She Is survived by three children, Frank
 R. White. Mrs H. T. Allen and Mrs Arthur Griswold, also several grand children and great-grandchildren The funeral will be held from her late residence, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
 By invitation of the Mary Silli- man chapter, the fall meeting of the Connecticut Daughters of the Amer. ican Revolution will be held in the South Congregational church of Bridgeport. October 29. It. is ex- pected that the programme of the meeting will include some interest ing addresses and several attractive musical numbers, and that the at- tendance will be large. To insure admission to the. church, D. A. R. badges must be worn.
 Since 1859 there has not been such dry four months as these be- tween July.1 and November 1, 1903. At present there is a shortage of a full inch between this four months and the same in 1870, the record drouth. Unless It. rains this amount in the next two weeks, the year 1903 will come up to stand next to 1859. At the same time it cannot but be noticed that the drouth referred 70 in 1859 occurred when the forests were not destroyed, which is now given as the cause of the trouble.
 Sunday evening of next week will be one of the biggest nights for the Holy Name soicety of Waterbury which the organization has had in number of years. On that evening big rally of all the Holy Name socie- ties of the city will take place at St Michael's church in Waterville. There will be solemn vespers at 7:30 o'clock after which a sermon will be delivered by a we'll known speaker. The reception of new members will then take place and persons from all over the city who wish to join the organization will be received at this recention.
 The jury drawn for business in the superior court which will be in ses- sion from now. till about Christmas time, consists of the following: Flu gene c. Adt, E. D. Melton, Water bury; David M Plumb. H. s. Clark, Prospect; Silas Jerralds, Fred W. Doolittle, Cheshire; R. B. Loomis Thomas Northrop, Naugatuck; John l.. Rice. William B. Bradley. Bea- con Falls: HenryS. Judd, William B. Townsend, Middlebury; Smith C.. Wheeler, Henry B. Treat, Oxford; AL bert K. Wheeler Eben c. Wheeler, Seymour: John R. s. Todd, Edward P. Woodin, Wolcott.
 After the meeting of the aldermen last night Alderman Walker had a chat with his colleague, w. J. Larkin. who had found fault about meters while the board was in session and assured him that he has four meters in his houses and he wants them left there. "Ha. ha," replied the nestor of the republican camp. you're not paying enough for them. We'll, sir, if that be so there is no reason in the world why it should continue We want to treat all alike" Judg- ing from this 1t would seem that the public has experienced change of heart about meters since the price was dropped.
 At the meeting of White Oak camp, No 3, w. O. w., held last evening in Pythian hall, ten applications were received and six were initiated The new degree team appeared last even- ing for the first time and not any too much credit can be given to our new captain, A. W. Darley, and his team. A new feature which was tried last evening and which proved to be a I great success was the addition of two buglers and two drum majors to the degree team. Council Commander A. H. rWaner passed a few remarks to the new degree team and wished them success. A social and smoker was held during which the degree team was presented with box of ci- gars Songs were sung.
 Last week was the hottest week ever recorded for the month of Oc. tober. The heat beats all records both in intensity and duration. On Friday the heat reached its highest point when the thermometer went up as high. as Ss, which is. three points higher than has ever been reached in October before. The highest records previous to this year was S6 degrees in 1S97... Weather | Observer Tarr of New Haven says that there were only few days even in the hottest part of summer that went above this point. MT E Tarr said that. yesterday would probably be the last day of the hot spell and that after that the real fall weather will sci in again. One weather pro- 1