The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-19
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Steve Mihalakos son of MT. and Mrs. Harry Mihala- kos of 15 Walnut Street. has decided that two live cheaply as one he and comedy Helene Angel daughter of Mr. and Mrs Athan Angel of Meriden, will hear the preacher pronounce them and wife, Sunday after noon Nov. 10, at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Meri den at P M Steve is honorably discharged veteran of World War II with long record of overseas service Here's hoping he and his brdeto-be enjoy years and years of matrimonial bliss George Morgan, pianist, and Kathryn H. Fenn, contralto, with Helen L. Heebner as accompans will present evening of music at the Bunker Hill Congregational Church Tuesday, Oct 29. Mrs. Chester Clark is chairman of the First Methodist Church committee which is seeking donations for the Methodist Home for the Aged in West Haven The local church will observe it's annual donation Sunday for this worthwhile Oct. 27. Lowell Thomas radio com, mentator will be featured at the Second Congregational Church Forum Sunday night Oct. 27 His subject, "A Flight Around the world" will be Kodachrome record of world tour by plane with highights of Bkni Fourth of July in Manila, Japan and China. Nelson J. Bou- anger 15 Watertown Avenue Waterbury attained honor grades in all his at Hobart College Geneva, N Y and has been named to the Deans Lst it announced today by Dr. Walter H. Durfee dean. Boulanger is 194o graduate of Crosby High School and of 657 vet erans on the Hobart campus. He of 38 men to win the academic honor.
 In connection with the ong-standing dispute over the reserving of the City Hall driveway for of city officials the following story from Hartford is apropos City Treasurer George Gabb of Hartford doesn't like the rule restricting certain streets the Municipal Build
 ing for city officials, saying that it is ridiculous and that it denies parking privileges to taxpayers whose payments make possible the salaries of the officials But he says the Public Buildings Commission of Hart ford supports the ridiculous system by issuing official seals to ofcehoders that policemen won't tag their cars MT. Cobb, as it happens, has two automobiles and since he can't slice the seal in half he has found his tagged time after time It finally got too much for MT. Gabb this week lie pasted on the windshield of his second lengthy typewriter statement explain ing that he has two and only seal decryng the exclusive parking and apoogizng to the police for any inconvenience caused them. Mr. Gabb said he will continue to park his either the with the seal or the with the windshield notice, "as long such continues to be reserved for of city officials to the exclusion of those who pay their salaries"
 
 Our Waterbury Back in the days when lanes and turnpkes hereabouts negotiated by coach horse trucks and station the towns and countryside had goody amount of inns of the olde type True there not many today but local history books tells us of noted There calling by tee phone make reservation for four to include steak dinner and all the xngs Travellers simply arrived and stopped for meal to spend the night enroute to Boston or Albany the might be- brochure published not long ago compiled by the Mattatuck Historical Society states that the history of inns and hotels began here in 1712 when the inn keeper was appointed by the town authorities Bishops Tavern located in WatertoWn the Litchfeld-New Haven turnpike ano there an other north of Bishops which was Simeon Smiths at Morris. Naugatuck had Terrips, and the Plymouth road Samuel Judds small towns of today well provided for in oden days At one time the only inn at Waterbury Burtons. Later we had Judd Tavern situated distance north of the Green and Centre Square, and this for long time also, was the only inn in the village We told that it red with accompanying horseshed. Following the era of Burons hotel situated at the corner of Exchange Place and East Main Street started by Horace Porter and 1t was named "The Tontine, later becoming the Frank lin House. and this historic eventually became iden ted the Brown Block Browns Hotel little south of the started in 185O Many porches across the front of this property thought to be the it also called the Arcade Certainly the village tav- in those days must have been important as pie tured in fiction historical accounts of New England Shortly following the rules for nnkeeper John Hopkins named to that important position in Decem ber 1712 Slightly less than 200 years later the Hotel Elton was opened since that time the citys leading hotel
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