The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-08
HOLIDAY ODDITIES

tonight" he pleaded. There's a $100,000 deal waiting for me there tomorrow"
 So far as the clerk knows, the deal was held up indefinitely.
 Everett, Mass, March s-(UP)- Whats this?" demanded the cashier of an Everett Square Res- taurant, lingering a scrap of paper. Scrip" replied the customer, dash ing out. the door. The scrip was a relic of the panic of 1907. Lisbon, N. H., March 8-(UP)- An elderly farmer who came here from the remote Lyman district tc do his weekly shopping handed g grocer's clerk $5 bill which ap. peared brand new. The bill was dated 1905.
 Watertown, Mass, March g. (UP)-"What are you doing?" Po- liceman Walter Flaherty called to a friend who appeared to be dis mantling his front porch with a claw-hammer. The friend explained and Flaherty helped him rip up the OOoA ucs AhdAAy tiCy LOSAdAllSu e quarter and two dimes.
 Daytona Beach, Fla, March B. (UP)-A laborer who had spent more than day trying to cash a check on John D. Rockefeller had the benefit of groceries today-but no cash from the check.
 A groceryman, like all other merchants, refused to cash the check for $6O but granted him credit on it.
 New York, March 8-(UP)-The Hotel McAlpin, which advanced a guest enough money to have a tooth pulled. found itself involved in a mercantile deal few minutes later. Another guest, it seems, had negotiated for $1,500 in goods but did not have enough cash to close the transaction. The hotel provid- ed funds.
 Des Moines.--A realtor was con- fronted by man who wanted to buy a house and laid down in pay ment shoe box containing $3,000 in gold coins. The realtor, unable to bank the money, stayed up all night.
 New York, March 8-(UP)-At the Hotel White breezy westerner from Denver pulled a leather pouch from inside his shirt and counted out SIS silver dollars to pay his bill. There was hardly room enough in the cash register for the huge ''cartwheels."
 Middletown, Conn, March B. movie goer found the rate, of exchange all in his favor here. He proffered $2.50 gold piece for a ticket. The ticket seller, who never had seen such a coin, con- suited the manager, who told her to give the man $3 for it.
 Portland, Ore, March s.-(UP) A pink lamb, a white rabbit, canned spinach, corn, tomatoes, and fresh vegetables even includ- ing scauliflower were turned in at the box office for admission to Promoter Joe Waterman's Mora torium" prize fight card. Able Israel of Seattle won a tame six round match from Whitey Neal of Portland in the feature event.
 New York. March s.-(UP)- Gamblers who usually operate along Broadway on a strictly cash basis were placing minor bets on credit to-day for the first time since the depression began.
 I've are taking the checks of professionals up to $500 and grant ing credit up to that amount" a large bookmaker said. After they DISTRICT OF WATERBURY, ss.
 Probate Court. March Sth, A. D.
 ESTATE EST. OF Mary W. Atwood. said District. deceased. The Ad- ministrator, having exhibited his account with said estate to this Court for allowance, 1t is
 ORDERED, That the 14thsday of March, A. D. 1893 at 10,30 o'clock, in the forenoon, Standard time, at the Probate Office in Waterbury. be and the same is, assigned for . hearing on the allowance of said account, and the Court directs the Administrator to give notice there- of, by publishing this order in some newspaper having a circulation in said District, at least 8 days before said day of hearing.
 Attest:
 MARGUERITE M. FAHY,
 Asst. Clerk.