The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-23

Members of the republican
 party reelected the present town
 committee headed by pr H. H. Gorton as chairman at their
 caucus held last night in the
 borough court room. The other
 members of the committee are Emil Mannweiler, Miss Emily So- phie Brown, Clayton F. Davis, Vic- tor Peterson, Louis Schiller, Jr., Charles P. Rodenbach and George
 P. Young.
 ton to be held in Hartford on ton, Harris Whittemore, Jr, Emily sophie Brown and Mrs F. F. schaf- fer. The caucus was presided over by Walter D. Brown as chairman and Samuel Lyons was clerk. The meeting was of short duration. there being no contests. Grant Takes Championship. Erwin Grant was crowned the ping pong champion of the local Y. M. c. A. last night with his de-
 feat of Francis Moroney in the final game of the tourney in three matches out of four. The scores were matched in the final after they had defeated their two op- ponents in the semi-final, Grant winning over James Kiely 21, IA, 14?21, 21-15, while Moroney de-
 feated John Cummings 21-18, 21- II. All of the matches were bit. ter1y contested and the games
 were witnessed by a large gallery. John McGroary referred the
 matches and Fred Faust and Wal ter Hubbard were judges. origin ally there were 31 contestants in the tourney, but by the elimina- ton process this number dwindled
 down to the final match which
 brought Grant and Moroney to- gether.
 Rev Edward Hancc to Preach. Rev Edward R. Hance of the
 Congregational church will preach
 the sermon at the Lenten services | tonight at 8 o'clock. Weekly Luncheon. The weekly luncheon of the
 Naugatuck Rotary club was ad-
 dressed this noon hour in Halls
 Tavern by Elmer Schmitz, local hardware merchant.
 MT Schmitz spoke on By Voca- tion." Officers of the club will be
 nominated at the meeting to be held on April and the annual
 election will probably be held on April 13.
 Lenten Services at Swedish Church.
 The Rev Brolund of Chicago
 will preach the sermon at the Lem | ten services in the Sewdish Con- gregational church tonight at 8 o'clock.
 Tomorrow night there will be
 a communion service and on Good | Friday night a service in English will be conducted.
 Holy Thursday Services Holy communion win be dis ltributed at 5:30 and o'clock and
 at the 7:30 o'clock mass in St
 Francis church tomorrow morning. Confessions will be heard this aft
 ernoon and evening. Mass in St
 Mary's church will be 7:30 o'clock. Day Nursery Meeting A meeting of the Naugatuck Day
 Nursery association will be held to-
 morrow morning at 10 o'clock in the nursery rooms. This meeting
 was originally scheduled to be
 held March 25, but as this date
 falls on Food Friday the meeting date was advanced.
 Attended Degree Work I> Several members of Centennial
 lodge of odd Fellows attended the
 meeting of odd Fellows held last
 night in Waterbury and witnessed
 the complication of the first de-
 gree of the order put on by the
 combined degree teams of Nosha-
 hogan and Townsend lodges of
 Waterbury.
 Meeting Postponed The meeting of the auxiliary of Crusader post Veterans of Foreign
 Wars. which was to be held to-
 morrow night has been postponed
 until the second week in April.
 Mrs Catherine Dibble of Meriden.
 state president of the auxiliary.
 will make an ofiiciai visit at this
 meeting.
 Borough auditors Samuel !. Ly.