Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-03


 Eugene J. Sullivan has sold for Louis Raffel his block at the corner of South Main street and Pratt place to Thomas O'Connor of East Main street The building contains six tenements and three stores. The price paid was in the neighborhood of $20,000
 Celia, aged three years, daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Vigeant of 30 Dover street, died last evening. The funeral was held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with services at St Anne's church and interment in Cal vary cemetery.
 Mrs r. k. Mclaughlin and sister, Miss Marie Wells, of Pierpont street have returned from East Orange, N J., where they attended the wedding of their brother, r. Herbert Wells, and Miss Edith Vanderoef, daughter of MT and Mrs D. E. Vanderoef of East Orange.
 The officers and teachers of the Trinity Sunday school held their annual banquet in the music room of the parish house on Tuesday evening. The Rev F. D. Buckley, rector of the church. was toastmas- ter. Remarks were made by Messrs Church, Gulliver, Riggs. Davis and the Rev F. E. Buck, assistant rector of the church.
 A reception will be held tonight at 7:30 in room 35, 43 East Main street in honor of Emil L. D. Hob enthal, chairman of the Connecticut prohibition executive committee. MT Hobenthal is one of the states most energetic no-license workers and many will avail themselves of this opportunity to meet him personally. This is the first of series of month ly rallies, preparatory to next falls local option fight.
 Tomorrow evening at , o'clock the children of the Universalist church and Sunday school and their friends will hold socia, in the rar- ish hall, corner of North Willow street and Wildwood avenue Each child will bring 8 box and a; 7:30 the parents are invited to join them for stereopticon lecture by Dr Dickerman, chowing many beautiful pictures of especial interes. to chi" dHen. No admission will be charged and the children of all who are inter. ested in the parish, as well as all the children in the neighborhood, Of all denominct.cn are inv:tei
 Mrs Mary F. Brophy, widow of the late Patrick Brophy. died at o'clock last night, after short illness, at her home, corner of Pequot and Grand view avenues, Warren park. She leaves four sons and two daughters, William J., James P, Edward, John, Elizabeth and Mary; one brother, James Gleason of Woodbury, and four sisters, Mrs William WhiNe, Mrs John P. McGrath, Mrs James BNrnes and Mrs Edward Tracy, the last men toned of Roxbury. The deceased came here twenty-two years ago from Woodbury. She was we'll known woman and her death is source of much regret to her family and friends. The funeral will be held at S:45 o'clock Saturday morn- ing to St Michaels church. The burial will be in St Joseph's ceme- tery.
 The Foreign Missionary society of the First Methodist church held their third thimble tea of the season at the church parlors yesterday afternoon Mrs G. c. Merriam of Meriden, vice president of the New York East Mis- sionary conference and president of the Western Connecticut Missionary association, was the speaker of the afternoon. Her niece, Miss Ruth Merriam, also of Meriden, was with Mrs Merriam, and spoke on Flash lights from the Annual Meeting at Melrose, Mass" Mrs 1mri Spencer, president, presided at the meeting, and Miss Helen Coe played the piano for the hymns. Mrs Pierre c. Cowles rendered two vocal selections. 70 Worry Not My Heart and "Slumber Song" Miss Jennie May Spencer gave a talk about the convention re- gently held in New Britain and the treasurer reported the sum of s7O all ready brought into the society this fall
 The board of finance met yester- day and wrestled with the annual es- inmates for a couple of hours and then adjourned until this evening. They find it pretty hard job to come near satisfying the demands made upon them by the different depart ments without pushing the rate of taxation up to Is or 17 mills on the dollar, and this neither the mayor nor the board is willing to do. An effort is being made to keep down to 15 mills, and in order to do this con siderable pruning will have to be done. This will not suit in certain quarters so that no matter which way the board turns they are bound to run afoul of somebody. The public will make a scene in case the rate is higher than they think it ought to be and the boards will be after them if they don't get what they want, so that the only thing for the commis- sioners to do is to go ahead and make the best job they can of things as they find them and take what comes IA -.-