The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-18
Washington Hill
InVeStiture  Scheduled
 Troop g to Witness
 Exercises Tomorrow
 Night

Exercises Tomorrow
 Night
 Troop 9, Boy Scouts. will hold in- vestiture ceremonies at Washington Park Community House Wednesday evening from ' to o'clock, for six tenoerfoots, four boys who will be advanced to first class. and three to second class, as well as F ad- vancements. who will be awarded ribbon merit badges. Parents ot the boys are all invited to attend Immediately after the business transactions are completed, the troop will hold their annual Christ mas party.
 Instructions
 Religious instructions for gram mar school pupils of St. Francis Xavier parish will be held in the parochial school on Thursday after noon at 2:30 and at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning.
 Instructions for the high school pupils will be held on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, in the parish hall, followed immediately after ward by a meeting of the CYO.
 Final 1945 Meeting
 The last meeting of the year 1945 for the Washington Park Con- munity club will be held tonight at the Community House at SIS o. clock. President George Lynch will preside. The regular meeting night which would be next Tues day night being Christmas, 1t was decided to meet this week instead.
 A Christmas party for the Teen agers, will be held Saturday night, December 22nd, at the Community House.
 Holy Name League
 St, Francis Holy Name 45 tour- nament played their regular game of cards last evening in the base ment of the parochial school, with the following scores: J. Fitzmaurice g ODonnell 19; T. Conway 18, J. "A; D. O'Neil "A, T. Cough Ian 18.
 The standing of the teams shows: John Fitzmaurice's "Shamrocks" is still in first place with a total of 1G4. J. McHugh, second place with 172. E. O'Donnell in third place, with 167, and fourth place is tied with D. O'Neil and T. Coughlan, both with the same total of 161. T. Conway-last but not least-in fifth place with total of 150.
 Owing to the Christmas recess, the Holy Name AS Tournament will not play for two weeks. The next game VII be on Monday night, Jan. 7th-the same time, same station!
 Bus Service
 With the extremely cold spell o1 the past week, and the poor driving conditions, much can be said, pro and con, for the bus service on Sylvan avenue. While it may seem unjust to people not knowing the as they rightfully stand - coming up on the Sylvan avenue bus last evening at about $50 the driver had quite a hGtle set too" with a pasSengre who wanted to get off at Pleasant street. The bus was marked very plainly Tor everyone to see-"Express to sylvan Avenue"
 Now the Baldwin street people have excellent service, a ten mln- ute one. while Sylvan avenue ana Hill-still in the busy hours IS only every fifteen minutes; and people using up space on a Sylvan avenue bus-who caters to people way out in the sticks''-are just hinderlng some poor man or woman rom getting on the bus at the regular svops because the dryer can't poS- sibly squeeze another soul in.
 We noticed the driver insisted on taking the passenger to the first regular stopping place, the corner of Baldwin and Sylvan avenue much to the mans disgust, while the rest of the passengers were de- lighted.
 Time and time again, men and women getting out of work at Sco-- wills have to stand and wat, and wait, and wait for chance to get on the bus, when they are regular customers, because the room is talk en up at the center, and there be- ing no more room, they have to wait their chances for bus that will take them on.
 You hear the driver telling peo- pie to move down to the rear-but seldom if ever, the word is passed out from the traffic starters in the Center, that another bus is coming
 and it isn't necessary to crowd on to one bus"
 "45" Tourney
 The tenth session of the Ear blenders "45" tournament ended with the following scores: Grimes g vs Ruggles 20; O'Donnell 16 vs Lally 26: Reynolds 23. Fitzmaurice 19.
 The standing to date is: Fitzmau- rice 228; Lally 216; Grimes 209; Reynolds POS; O'Donnell 206; Rug gles 193.
 There will be no games for the next two weeks on account of the holidays. The next game will be played January 9th.
 The standing of the Earbenders League is: Evon 24; Lally 24; Grimes 22; Cuddy 20; Leach ,9; Ruggles 19; Donovan IT; Dulac IS.