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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1908
Page
8
Waterbury readers lament the decline of baseball as payers struggle and players drop to last place. A boy warns harsh talk behind the bench harms performance, while a store ad promotes good tea coffee and butter and touts 2 cent buttermilk at Phelan’s store.
Tonight in Waterbury several groups hold gatherings including Boys' club and Burns club events. Also listed is Waterbury Company No 20 and U R National Association Stationary Engineers meeting, with announcements of local affiliations and schedules.
Upson Singleton ad on page seven runs boys sale. Kellogg lodge will hold a service at A B Zion tomorrow night. Sermons at Third Congregational church at 10 30 a m on Giving the Best. 7 p m special sermon for O U A M and Daughters of Liberty. Prayer meeting Friday 7 45 p m. A O A M lodges attend Third Congregational church. Memorial address by Rev C D Chunn. Universalist services at 10 30 a m by Rev Willis A Moore, Bible school at noon at G A R hall 108 Bank Street. Rev W E Smith DD resumes charge three days weekly. Holy Name committees meet at Sacred Heart church tomorrow afternoon 4 o clock to plan memorial day services. Jacob Jacobusky charged intoxication in city court fined 7 dollars. Barcelona Cornell K of C meets tomorrow at 2 p m. Readjustment of insurance fund report to be given. New officers of Court Rose Hill F of A listed. Board of Public Safety to Springfield Monday for outing funded by Victor Automobile. Auto hose wagon bid eyed by city. Rev Dr Charles McLean Schlatter to preach at Grand Army hall. Memorial service by Knights of Pythias tomorrow with cemetery decorations and address by Rev Mr Stansfield of Waterville. Taps to be sounded. refreshments after at Pythian hall. Walter Schietauer narrates labor escape story. Mitt Plain sebon district elects officers. four mill tax proposed. school principal Miss Peek chosen. district finances noted.
The column notes a children’s day at the Advent church to morrow, a birth at 735 Baldwin Street to Mr and Mrs Charles Brown, Edwin F. Field and Mrs Field leaving for Stonington for summer, a Notre Dame Alumni meeting at the Convent, a mechanic’s lien against Driggs school by Barlow Bros via Granite Construction, St Joseph’s T A society in Torrington for CTUA events, plus a rattle snake with eleven rattlers killed in Berlin at Colonel Jarvis’s firm.
For Rent notices describe seven rooms with improvements at 282 South Main corner Grand Street. 55 Johnson Street offers five rooms on second floor with verandas and modern features. 96 Fairview Street lists three rooms at $3 per month.
A dense catalog of items with reduced prices for ladies suits coats skirts petticoats waists and accesso ries plus men and children wear. Includes fabrics linens rugs carpets linoleums umbrellas and teas with many prices and sale from 0.25 to 6.50 and outlets for 9x12 mats and hammocks.
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