Independence party speakers to visit Naugatuck this evening
The Wedge speakers will speak at Main and Maple streets starting at o'clock. A large crowd is expected for the Flying Wedge debut in Naugatuck as residents prepare for the event.
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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1908
Page
7
The Wedge speakers will speak at Main and Maple streets starting at o'clock. A large crowd is expected for the Flying Wedge debut in Naugatuck as residents prepare for the event.
A daughter was born yesterday to Mr and Mrs Fred Keilty. Mrs Lucy Platt and son plan to spend the winter in California. Church front grading nears completion and improves the area. Today is the last day to register to vote before 8 p.m. Anti Lilley campaign literature is circulating, but most residents have formed opinions. Lilley likely to trail Taft.
Short notices report a New Haven plumber surviving a near fatal drink, Shelton company paying doctors bills for 600 to 700 workers, Hartford suit for 10000 against the city, Niantic strike by eighteen Polish workers, Cheshire school board ballot confusion, Camp Atascadero honor for Sgt Seth Weld with Medal of Honor and Philippine Scouts appointment, and Weld’s prior rescue of comrades on Leyte.
The Duke of the Abruzzi arrived in Turin and met his brother the Count of Turin and Queen Margerita. No fixed departure date for his planned journey to the United States was announced.
New York October reports final preparations for the Vanderbilt Cup race. Strang and Lytle, rivals over the same course, race Italian and French machinery while Robertson, American, offers bold, flatly engineered car and daring driving.
L Edward of Oklahoma national organizer for the Socialist party will lecture at the corner of Bank and Grands streets Saturday at 8 o'clock on A Message From the West by a Typical Western Man. The Sicilian League articles of association were filed in Waterbury with Giovanni Mell as organizer and C P Lanza among five Waterbury men of Sicilian birth as subscribers. One week later the Algonquin club plans a Buckingham Music Hall dance with Gallpeau orchestra and a short concert before starting the program. The Hamilton Park Athletic club annual dance returns to Buckingham Music Hall on Wednesday November 4, aiming to surpass prior years after past venues in Hamilton hall and Leavenworth hall due to ticket demand.
Chicago, Oct 23. Mrs Rosie Alberta 41 shot and killed baker Zito Frappampino near the saloon run by her husband Joe Alberta. She says Frappampino threatened her. he died at county hospital. Albertas face murder charge. business partner Partipilo cites a long standing grudge.
New York reports a two and a half week old baby girl named Mary found in a church pew after a woman in black knelt and prayed before leaving. The infant was sent to Bellevue Hospital as Mrs Ellen Fagin located the child and a note attached described the baby as Catholic and blessed. Indianapolis items note Taft arrival plans for speeches with Fairbanks and Overstreet at multiple sites including University Park and the Columbia Club. The Ora Cabessa steamship arrived in New Orleans battered after a Caribbean hurricane, with repairs under way and fears for coast damage and further wireless outages at Bluefields and Crotonland coastlines.
The Massachusetts Christian Endeavor Union meets in Lynn for the 20th convention with a forenoon series of workers conferences and a biennial business session. William Shaw of Boston led the conferences along with Mrs C W Kincaid, Miss Amy C Leacock and Miss Grace Young as featured speakers.
Lieutenant Edwin E. Dodd who commanded the submarine flotilla at Mare Island will appear before a court martial next Monday on neglect charges. He allegedly failed to move submarines into the stream before pumping gasoline, allowing the inflammable fluid to gather around floats and ships. The fire killed machinist C. T. May and local peddler Paul Martin.
Two wildfires in Bennington vicinity remain uncontrolled as of Oct 22. One blaze on Bald Mountain near Searsbury and another on Green Mountain crossing Shaftsbury and Glastonbury threaten nearby properties. Officials say rain is needed to suppress them.
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