The Press., 1893-11-16
MANSFIELD.

Mansfield had democratic town off, cers in 1892-3, because the democrats claimed some infol mality in the makeup of the republican ballots, and Judge Hall sustaining the claim, the minority ticket was declared elected. Last month the democrats again contested the election, and the officials refused to turn over the offices to those having a majority vote, passing their refusal on three grounds. First, that the moderator, after reading the result did not declare the election of those having the greatest number of fvotes; second, though this point seems not to have been pressed, that the republican ballots had upon them punctuation points deemed to be distinguishing marks; third, that the republican ballot had upon it the name of an agent for the school fund, an office which the democrats claimed had no legal existence. A trial of the case has just closed, in which w. A. King was counsel for the republican petitioners, and John l.. Hunter for the democratic hold overs. Pitt Barrows, the democratic in- cumbent of the office of treasurer, testified that there was no school fund in the treas urer's books of Mansfield except the town deposit fund. This was followed up by an effort to vitiate the late October elec- tion by claiming that the registrars of electors had never qualified as required by law for the year 1892. On cross-examina- tion it was discovered that only the re- publican deputy registrar had failed to qualify. MT. Barrows testified that the town meeting had adjourned without day before the hour for closing the polls, the moderator at the time being N. P. Perkins, who had been called to the chair by the regular moderator, J. B. Morrow. It turned out, however, that the meeting adjourned was only the business meeting outside the enclosure where the voting was going on, and that the regular moder- ator was in charge of the voting at the time and really no adjournment was had. MT. Barrows said that no money was re- ceived by the town as an income from any local school fund, and what appears on the treasurer's books as receipts from such a fund did not represent any cash trans actions, but only g little matter of book keeping. The way it came about was that the custodian of certain school funds brought the orders to him and he indorsed the interest on the back as received and then entered the amount on both debtor and creditor side of the treasurer's book. The fight seems to be over the character of certain funds, amounting to $67O, which have from time to time been called the South Society local school fund and the North Society school fund. The plaintiff claimed that 1t was just such fund as the statutes denominated local school fund, and could be called nothing else. The defense didn't call it that and couldn't call it anything else.
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 (Correspondence)
 -Hereafter owners of domestic animals can have them examined, prescribed for by Dr. George A. Waterman, veterinary surgeon at the Agricultural College, by taking them to him at the college in Mansfield on Saturdays at 1 o'clock m. This is intended to be a public clinic ee- cry Saturday for the mutual benefit of the classes in veterinary science and the own CTS of the animals. Dr. Waterman is in structor in veterinary science at the col lege.
 The Storrs football team went to Rockville Saturday, where game was played on the fair grounds with the Rock will high school team. Score-Storrs, 6 /; Rockville, 4. It was matter of no small surprise to the visiting club that the resi- dent players were men of so mature age and heavy weight, t,-neverLheless the re- suit was satisfactory to Storrs.
 Next Saturday the Wi]limantics are to play the s. A. C.'s, near the college. Mansfield Depot.
 A rare treat is in store for the people in this vicinity Wednesday evening, Nov. g, when Edwin F. Laubin and c. w. Lee, Jr., of New Britain, will give piano and violin recital at Hillside Hall. MT. Laubin is pronounced by competent critics of high standing in the musical world to be among the best pianists in New England. His playing is easy in execution finished