Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-30
CITY NEWS.

The board of charities met last night and approved the payrolls and miscellaheous bills.
 The ladies will find at the up-to- date millinery store of Mrs o'Brien- Newell fine line of trimmed hats from $3 to S5 and upwards.
 The committee appointed to con sider the taxation question will meet in the aldermanic chamber at $ o'clock tonight.
 Mrs Helen Garlick was elected ( director in the International Sun shine society, which met at New London yesterday.
 D. B. Wilson has some very fine pumpkins on exhibition in his show window on East Main street. They ought to bring a prize at the Vol, colt fair.
 s, J. Walsh, formerly with Wallace & Walsh, has opened a store at 1l3 South Main street with a complete line of mems and boys clothing. Cash or credit.
 Beginning after midnight to- night postage on letters to England and Ireland will be reduced from 5 cents to cents. Letters posted be- fore that hour will have to pay the old price of cents.
 St Mary's hospital is nearing com. pletion. At the meeting of the board of public works last night an application from M. J. Daily & Sons to connect the building. with the water system was granted.
 Colonel Geddes, Major Norton and Major Isbell, the officers committee of the c. N. G., held a meeting at the New Haven armory last night and examined the different candi- dates for the office of lieutenant.
 Patrick Creeden of Burton street accidentally fell down an embank- ment at Riverside park last night and received several bruises. He was attended by Dr Dwyer after which he was removed to the hospi- tai. A..
 Lallier's Military band will give a big prize dance at City hall on Sat- urday evening. As this will be the first prize dance ever given by the band in this city large crowd is expected to attend. The dance pro- gramme will start promptly at 8:30' and continue till midnight.
 Miss Anna Hanley and Edmond McGrath were married yesterday morning at the Immaculate Concep- tion church by the Rev James E. O'Brien, Miss Margaret McGrath, the brides sister, was maid of honor, and Edmond McGrath, cousin of the bridegroom, was best man.
 Thomas Fenton, who for a num- Der of years was engaged in the tea business on South Main street has yentured out in the real estate business and has opened an office at room IA, 65 Bank street. MT Fen ton will buy and sell real estate, care for property, collect rents, etc, and will also represent some of the strongest fire insurance companies in the world.
 Superintendent Kennedy is ex- tending the East Mountain water supply through the city as far and as fast as the circumstances will permit. In case the public should De supplied from East Mountain, MT Kennedy says that it would meet the demand for about 20 days. There is lots of water at the Branch, but it cannot be used for drinking pur- poses and housekeepers say they don't like it even after it is boiled.
 In order to expedite the hearing of the case against William Hayes and Fred Blodgett for highway rob bery of Herman Greweng on Vol colt road last Thursday morning, the case against them for breach of the peace by stopping Charles De- Bishop of the Meriden road the same morning, was nolled in the city court to-day. The young men were immediately taken into custody by Deputy Sheriff Emil Steinmann and with their counsel, Attorney Kelley. were taken to Wolcott in a buggy
 The directors of the Waterbury Business Mems association held a meeting last night and elected dele gates to the state convention at olelueTL Hall, NeW ftdNeH, OctODeT 15: Rohrrt P. Lewis, George Camp, P. R. Cummings, John c. Sherwood, L. L. Lewis, W. W. Holmes, Benja- min R. Kelsey, B. w. Tinker, Dr w. o. Beecher and c. Fred Trott. An invitation was read from the Busi- ness Mems association of Danbury extending an invitation to the local organization to attend the Danbury fair on October [. A special tent will be on the ground for the ac- commodation of such visitors All who intend to go over on that date are requested to notify the secretary as soon as possible.
 The game law will be off to-mor- row and from now on folks will pick chestnuts at great risk to life and limb. It is said that nobody has a right to discharge firearms in- side the city limits, b2s If this be so the law is winked at by the police and everybody else for some of the jokers who carry guns think notn- ing of blazing away at anything that makes a go0d sh0 avan thouoh tho