The Press., 1892-09-08

Wm. H. Smiths house on Crown-st., now occupied by W. E. Demond, and will re- move to it. MT. Demond will remove to Grant-ave.
 Rev. A. J. McLeod's topic next Sun- day morning will be Electricity" the long delayed electric light fixtures being now in place. It ought to be said, to cor rect report that has been published, that the local electric light company is not at all responsible for the delay, the makers of the fixtures alone being blame worthy.
 The flag on the high school building is at half-mast to day in memory of the poet Whittier's death.
 The public schools opened on Monday of this week with large attendance. The enrolment in the primary and high schools greatly exceeds that of last year. The high school room is taxed to it's ut most to furnish seatings for the pupils.
 As stated recently, the exhibit of Myrtle Peek, the renowned horse trainer, with her stud of twenty of the most valu- able trick and speed horses in the United States, surpasses anything ever seen at a country fair in New England, and costs much more money than any attraction ever before offel ed at an Eastern Con- necticut fair. Nothing like it can be seen anywhere else in the vicinity, as Miss Peek has engagements in other parts of the country up to and immediately follow ing the date of the Stafford Springs fair, so that any announcements of her appear ance elsewhere in this section are entirely unwarranted. In view of the great cost much risk is taken by the fair managers in this engagement. The exhibits will be made often during all three days of the fair.
 Stafford wheelmen were well repre- sented at the Rockville "bike' races last Saturday.
 Personal.
 Andrew A. Converse, of Warren, Mass, wife and two children, visited in town this week.
 John B. Eaton, of New Haven, was the guest of his brother, Burt Eaton, this week.
 Ms. Lewis Mclaughlin attended reunion of her class-Holyoke high school at Bear Hole, near Springfield, last week.
 J. Carl Converse was in town during part of last week, returning to New York on Monday.
 Mrs. E. L. Burr and son are visiting in Hartford.
 Miss Mary F. Lathrop is this week visiting in South Coventry, and next week returns to Lasell Seminary at Auburn dale, Mass.
 Miss Alice Walker and Dennis Mo Carthy, $. s. H. S., '92, are attending Monson academy. Frank Newton of the same class next week enters the academy at Norwich.
 Maggie Anderson and Nellie Lawlor, of Florence, Mass, have been visiting Miss Anderson's aunt, Mrs. D. F. Mullin.
 HI. T. Small is in town for few days. See personal under "local notices"
 Mrs. L. A. Horton, longtime resi- dent of Stafford and Willington, left town last week, and after spending short time with friends in Lee, Mass, and Ilion, N. Y., expects to make her home with her brother, Joseph L. Read, of Walnut, H.
 Miss Wilhelmena Adams, who has been spending several months in Cobra do, returned home last week.
 West Stafford.
 Fall term of school opened on Mon day. Miss Mary Smith, teacher.
 Repairs on the church are not con- pleted. Services will be held in the vestry.
 Edwin c. Davis, delegate to the re- publican state convention, could not at tend his regimental reunion being held in Hartford same day. His colleague, Herbert Glazier, attended, as did also Dr. P. R. Watts and J. Carl Converse.
 Stafford Hollow.
 The republicans open the campaign by flag raising this (Thursday) evening, at 73O, to be followed by an address by P. Davis Oakley, Esq.,, of Hartford, from whom stirring presentation of the cam paign issues may be looked for. Citizens band will furnish music.
 (Correspondence.)
 -"The town clerk is the victim of a ludicrous joke, as the result of recent woodchuck hunt. Some children playing near the residence of the town clerk, found woodchuck hole, which they showed him. On examining the hole the clerk thought he saw an animal. He at once sent for a gun while he stood guard over the hole. When the gun was brought the clerk, by this time fully worked up to the spirit of the occasion, seized it, and was about to discharge the contents into the hole, when one of the children begged him not to shoot at her overshoe, and further informed the disgusted hunt CT that it had fallen in there and she could not get it out." The above item, which appeared in the Sunday Republi- can, will bear some slight correction The facts of the case are as follows : while out for his usual morning stroll, Town Clerk Black, accompanied by his wife and their guests, discovered what proved to be woodchuck hole, and ap- parently inhabited-some of the party thought by a woodchuck, while others thought it must be skunk, as they ar gued woodchuck would not stay so near the mouth of the hole and in. plain sight. The town clerk rather inclined to the skunk theory, but as some of the party had never seen either, he determined to secure the prize, and hastily securing a pole, he set to work to rout the animal from it's hiding place, but repeated and vicious jabs only drove it further into the hole, without even a chattering protest And now, being thoroughly warmed up to his work, he vowed he would secure