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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1908
Page
9
The finance committee notes misclassification of high school expenses. Sprinkling and street items should be charged to streets and street lighting, while much outside-building cost belongs to parks. Insurance is unusually high this year, comprising over half of premiums for three years. Net expense totals 16 265 18 with 2 338 27 credits.
Tax Collector J. P. Hogan has sent out the 2 mill tax bills on the 1907 grand list for the Union Center school district. The tax is due now. Pythian hall notes dancing and refreshments after the card playing. Letter Carrier Fairbanks returns from vacation in St Michael's Canada.
Edward Dunn and family returned from Unionville while Dr Carl Marggraff came home from Boston. Arthur Hotchkiss leaves for Valpariso Indiana to attend business college. Elliot Hamiston, 14, fractured his collar bone playing football. Republican caucus for town offices held with Oakville strong showing nominating J G Skilton and F C Slade for selectmen among others. Treasury balance 89 cents. $19.80 raised. Standard Oil Co contribution appears limited.
The Red Special socialist train carries Eugene V. Debs through the eastern and southern states after a Western campaign. More than 3,000 greeted him in Convention Hall as Debs denounced Roosevelt and Bryan. The train, laden with fruit and meals for supporters, covers over 20 000 miles since August 31 and arrives in the East with no funding issues.
Chicago report details more than 50 people evacuated as a blaze tore through the Columbia livery on Rueh Street and burned adjoining structures including the Home Hotel Buarned. Value of property destroyed estimated at 75000 dollars with extensive damage reported in Clarsburg West Virginia where the Home hotel and buildings were leveled causing about 50000 dollars in losses.
Farmington: Dr Bera of New Britain fined 26 dollars and 32.50 costs after speeding. Danbury: Rev Walter J Shanley to receive Doctor of Letters at St Marys College centenary. New Haven: Medical Examiner reports Miss Kate Ramsdell's death by carbolic acid at 65. Hartford: Boxing permit issued for next Tuesday. public mood recalls Young Corbett vs McGovern. Portland: residents question tolls on bridge awaiting free status January 1. Bridgeport: suit against Yale official Curtiss with attached Greenwich property. Mrs Curtiss posts 5000 bond. Bolton: Robbery trial. Brick and Dudex bound over. Middletown: 24th Connecticut Volunteers reunion held. officers elected. Middletown: Joseph J Smith stabbed by Polish patient Mulaski. serious abdominal wound. Bridgeport: Cooper ordered to pay 25 to Pushinski for slander. Hartford: city wakes to Cyclone aftermath. street department workers suspected in damage.
At daybreak the city engineering head, protected by police, enforced a street commission order to remove all embankments. Work was executed at night to evade injunctions and ensure swift clearance.
A Globe dispatch from St Petersburg reports that Maxim Gorky recently wed Mia Andrieff, previously married to Leonidas Andrieff. She is believed to be the woman who accompanied Gorky to New York two years ago and sparked social ostracism in America when it emerged she was not his wife.
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