Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-23
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS

lue hlnS $ DduSHIeTS VIII HuSot this evening in the parish house at 7:30.
 The pool match tonight at the Waldorf is between Perry and Coy nes.
 | A daughter was born Friday to MT and Mrs Samuel Rubin of Bridge l street.
 Richard Cragg of Oak street is visiting relatives in Provincetown. Mass.
 MT and Mrs John Hetherington of Maple street are visiting relatives in Setauket, N. Y.
 1 Henry Hyman of Church street, is spending a few days with relatives in Port Jefferson, N., Y.
 Miss Lillian Yale, of Fairview avenue spent Sunday at the home of her parents in Guilford.
 Mrs Mary Healey of Meadow street has returned from Thomaston where she has been visiting friends.
 Fred Schmithausser of Bridgeport spent Sunday as the. guest of MT and Mrs Richard Almond of Lines 1 court
 The Misses Ida, Florence and Lillie O'Rourke of Bridgeport spent Sunday with MT and Mrs Thomas Clancy of North Main street
 Mrs Samuel Hewitt of Derby has i returned home after a short visit with her parents, MT and Mrs Pat rick Brennan of Church street.
 A group picture of the employees of John M. Page and companys store was taken this morning. The picture was taken just outside the main en- trance to the store.
 The funeral of John Howard, the ? years old son of MT and Mrs John Began of North Main street was held yesterday afternoon from the home of his parents. 1nterment was in St Francis cemetery.
 The Mems dinner, to be given Wednesday evening at the parish house by the women of the Congre- gational church will be served promptly at 7:3O. The out of town speakers are to be Rev H. c. Me serve of Danbury and Lewis s. 1 Welsh of New Haven.
 Alex Swanson, the well known wrestler, who conducts cafe on Arch street, expects to leave to- morrow for Albany, N. Y., where he will wrestle Charles Kaiser, with whom a match has been arranged. l Kaiser is well known welter- weight wrestler of New York. On next Friday night the second game of basketball in the series be- l tween the Films and the high school l team will be played in the Gem 1 Opera house. As the first game of the series was won by the Films, it is thought that the High school boys will make a supreme effort to win this game.
 The pile driver that was brought here a few days ago was put to work last Saturday and the build ing of foundation for the platform was begun. The length of the stakes that are being driven is about thirty feet and this is neces- sary in order to obtain a solid foun- dation, as it will be recalled by many that this spot was used as a dumping place for the Glove com pany's scraps and that even under that there was lots of sand that had been washed in there by the water when the river was high. and con- sequently it required that to reach a solid basis, the stakes would have to be of considerable length.
 The Naugatuck club which oecu- pies rooms in the Rubin block on South Main street was raided Sun day morning about o'clock by Prosecuting Agent Thomas Bowen. He was assisted by Chief Schmidt and Officers Malone, Fruin and Murphy. The raid was made because of so many complaints having been made to Attorney Bowen by people because of the way things were being con- ducted at the club rooms. When the officers arrived they found men play ing cards and Albert Pager was be- hind the counter. The names of the eight men were taken and Pager was placed under arrest, and was later released under bonds; when the case came up this morning in the borough court it was postponed until Tuesday, March 31st. Attorney J. NJ. Sweeney has been engaged by the defendants
 III fate seems to follow those who dare attempt to conduct a moving picture theater in the Curtiss block on Church street, for those who first made the adventure abandoned the scheme because of the financial loss which it entailed, and a few weeks ago it was opened again by some New York parties. They offered the place for sale and one night about al week ago when a prospective buyer was inside the theater so as to get an idea of the way the place wasI patrOnized. the manager was on theI outside distributing passes free to all those who would go inside the pros pective buyer bit and he paid s40O for half interest in the business. and after about a weeks trial decided that he had bought a gold brick. and decided to jump the town and go tol his home in Paterson. V. J.. but he was going to leave without paying his hotel bill. but was caught before he could get away and settled his sc- counts with Landlord Hinekley of the Commercial house After this bill was paid he was allowed to go. and he took the next car to New Haven and put up for the night at the Hotel Garde in that city. But the nevsl spread quickly that he was gone and