The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1946-02-02


School have sent descriptive lines describing the
picturesque snowstorm of January % The spokes-
for the class says of the eighth grade boys made
the suggestion Miss Mazuaitis teaches that grade and
here's the prose poem entitled Snowand submitted by
pupils from grades 5 to &:
While you and slept,
Nature covered the world with snow.
We woke to find before eyes
Amazing scenes of winters glory.
Snow-laden evergreens
With branches hanging low,
The earth bedded with soft deep snow;
Pillows of down hiding rocks and boulders,
Smooth roads with treacherous icy curves,
Willowy bushes bending a sivery stream.
Roof tops and automobiles blanketed
With fluffy snow,
An old garage clothed like splendid castle
mist of powdery glistening in the sun
Cloheslines frozen with heavy coats of snow,
Lacy brches swaying in background of blue sky.
A wire fence decked in crisscross of snow,
Then when the wind begins
To blow away picture of winters wonder,
You and must wait until another winter
For more picturesque scenes of snowland.
The National Federation of Music Clubs of which
the Mattatuck Musical Art Society of Waterbury is
affiliate, recently received the acknowledgment of the
receipt from Athens Greece of several thousand
placement parts which had been sent by the National
Federation to the Athens (Greece) Symphony Orches
ira, according to announcement of the State Publicity
Committee of the Connecticut Federation. This gift
of many in music equipment provided by the assO-
ciated music clubs of the country made it possible to
resume symphony concerts in Athens. Mrs. Guy Pat
tersOn Gannett of Portland Me-. national president
ceived the acknowledgment from Consul General Mich
Olas G. Lely in New York.
Bill Meehan and Sue Guarrera are hoping for SRO
at the cabaret dance which Scov Employees Rec
reaton Association will sponsor this evening at the SERA
Center on Hamilton avenue Previous parties have scored
decided hit and the co-charmen cf tonghts program
claim that something will be added to the diversified
program. Bill Smith, genial gas station manager who
has satisfied customers at the Of Baldwin and Edin
streets for years. been forced to vacate and is plan
ming to build his station in the very future at
the of Baldwin and Stiles streets. Sgt Sidney
D. Davies and Marjorie Matuls married January
in Bennington VT. Ronald w. Bsset son of Mr. and
Mrs G. Walker Bisset of Fleming street. has enlisted in
the Army and is at Fort Devens Mass, awaiting further
orders Elizabeth Macdonald, soprano, and Arlene Bau
der contralto will present recital next Wednesday
ming Davenport Hall under the sponsorship of the Sigma
Alpha Phi sorority of the Second Congregational Church
It. Walter L. BarrOws, Jr has received honorable
discharge from the Coast Guards.
Our Waterbury. AS you ride along country
roads the vicinity of Waterbury it interesting note
that many and brooks have the original
assigned them way, way back Hop Brook in Middlebury
instance still bubbles along bearing its original
The other day when stranger in town asked where
Hop Brook was we gave an evasive but little
thought and perusa of local histories brings to light
that it and is tributary of the Mad River which in
turn is tributary of the Naugatuck Hop Brook joins
the river between Union City and Naugatuck it rises east
of Lake QIassapaug, Mddebury, runs through Cedar
Swamp, meanders along for about fifteen miles is joined
by other tributaries, eventually makes the Naugauck at
the above mentioned location. For men may come
and men may CO. but go on forever. :" So you will
find from your history pages that nearby streams are
still sallyng along though at times the Naugatuck and
other trbutara streams have been drained off with the
advent of factories dried up during dry
Great Brook flowed merrly through the town. an
open brook that began of Grassy Hill to the north OF
us, passed between Long and Burnt Hills, making the
Naugatuck between Bank and Benedict streets. The
countryside hereabouts rich with swamps and brooks
Tributaries of the Naugatuck to the north and west
of furnished good fishing, still do Great Brook and
Little Brook which recalled by many, have been
ered would you say close to fifty years, is it longer
And if you picture it, Great and Little Brooks were
crossed by bridges within the town limits little bridges
we imagine. These English place names for such brooks
we have mentioned and have not mentioned may not
be the original at the start OF the Plantation but
they used in the early history according to DR.
Anderson great many brooks, hills, swamps mea-
dows and so on were named for the early propreors and
settlers and also described the territory such as
Great Hill, Grassy Hill Cedar Swamp and Cranberry
Brook.
Good Night.