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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1908
Page
4
An ironic ad mocks local baseball fans and players saying some members are has-beens or lobsters. It promotes tea butter and buttermilk, praising freshness and price while urging readers to try Phelan’s tea and coffee. It ends with a civic claim that their word is their action.
A list of meetings and classes held by various civic and fraternal groups including the Boys' club at Amity castle, K G B Uhland Stamm, Court Fruitful Vine, Friendly League, and the Haymakers' association with activities such as domestic arts, summer gowns, lingerie waists, and school of housekeeping. Sessions run at 3 pm, 7:30 pm, and mornings with elocution courses for beginners and advanced speakers.
Dr J H Dillon returns from Boston visit. Military band dance at Good Will hall Waterville Friday. Mrs Anne Lydon of New York visiting relatives at 44 Wall Street. Exhibit of class work at C W A rooms St Patricks block this afternoon and evening. Methodist Sunday school picnic at Lake Componse. Rev J Emory Park transferred to Grace M E Bridgeport. Senior sodality meeting at Sacred Heart parish tonight. Horse belonging to Samuel Wilson fell on Cottage Place. Dr Beere treated. William Fingleton injured in trolley crash now able to go out. Dr James A Grady attended him. Universalist parish social at G A R hall tomorrow evening. Florence Corden undergoing appendectomy with good progress. Benson’s furniture store to open at 142 Grand Street around July 1. High Rocks beat Young Tornadoes. 24 wins this season. Paul Summa awarded $100 verdict in district court. John Andrew O’Connor to be ordained at Mount St Mary’s. first mass at Immaculate Conception Church.
Two women posing as Catholic nuns, Sister Mary Agnesa and Sister Mary Adela, were sentenced to six months in the Tombs workhouse after arrest on vagrancy charges. Magistrate Wahile condemned the fraud targeting religious sympathy, noting victims included Hebrews and commending Catholic charities for testimony.
John Burke of 152 Sylvan avenue was seventy one yesterday as friends from Burke city Watertown and Cheshire visited with gifts and kind words. A landscape gardener by trade he has long worked for families in Watertown and nearby towns. He remains hale and hearty and hopes to reach a century in good health.
White Plains reports a $345 lien filed against John D. Rockefeller by White Plains Hardware in Westchester County for work on a Pocantico Hills laundry. This is the second lien after a $200 claim by a New York firm for painting. Rockefeller contests responsibility, saying he paid the general contractor in full.
Chicago June 10 Ednad Billik the 10-year-old daughter of Herman Billik condemned poisoner of the Vizal family writes a letter to Miss Frances Deneen asking her to plead for her father. Father P J O Callaghan continues to insist on his innocence and circulates petitions for a reprieve.
List of discounted items with bold prices across women and men apparel home goods and fabrics. Includes Ladies shirt waist suits at 79c, silk skirts, lawn suits, white duck suits, silk net coats, belts, gloves, ginghams, linen, pillow cases, silk handkerchiefs, union suits, vests, hose, drawers, underwear sets, nightgowns, pillows, carpets, brooms, rugs, wallpaper, and washing powder with discounted prices.
Washington re letter boxes to be in vogue next. Boxes were gray then green and now cardinal is desired. Many boxes in Wash.
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