The Press., 1896-11-26

Melbourne the lattar's residence on Staf- ford Street, and it is said that Mir. Green will take possession at once.
 Russell Colburn had the misfortune tC fall some fifteen feet in his barn last Sun: day night, injuring his side and. one foot slightly, but was at work as usual the next day. >~-. ..
 StanOrdville.
 The intermediate grade of the Stafford. vile school closed Friday, Nov: 2Oth Scholars not absent or tardy, Catherine Giltrop, Herbert West, Phoebe ,Vaslia Charlie Peel, Willie Rock, Ralph Con. verse, John Hewitt and Allie Cavanaugh. There will be a union Thanksgiving service at the M. E. church on Thursday at O3O a. m. All are invited to attend.
 The fall term of school closed on Fri day last.
 Homer Odell has commenced house keeping in the house recently occupied by Hiram Rathbun.
 There is a rumor that the Staffordville Woolen company will start on full time next month, and will make a finer grade of goods.
 About 80 partook of the harvest sup per at the M. E: vestry last Thursday night. .:<> -E.: / Abbie s. Fisk and May Fisk Clayton have gone to Boston, and expect to visit the Frost Spiritual Temple and elsewhere. Burt More, who has been employed for a number of years in a machine shop at Columbus, O., has taken a position in a machine shop in Hartford. y-- a We are pleased to see the genial face oi Edward Clark, of Hydeville, among ua again, and congratulate him on his recov- cry from the fatigue occasioned by fly ing trip to Spencer, Mass, and return.
 The primary department of the graded school closed Friday, Miss :Fl9rence5L L. Booth, teacher. Pupils neither absent nor tardy, Lizzie Rock, Mary A. Rock, Lot tie Converse, Bessie Duncan, Ruth Dun- can, Lillian Donahue and James Hynes absent one-half day only, Ethel Cavan- augh and Mabel Lock; absent one day only, Charlie Herbert. Prizes were award ed for spelling to Lottie Converse and Napoleon Lock. ...
 Newell Delphia has new barn nearly completed.
 Ezra s. Colburn's house is being re- paired. Russell Colburn and Paul Pas sard are doing the work. -
 West Stafford.
 Mrs. w. s. Shepard returned from Windsor Locks, where she has been visit ing Mrs. Charles Clark.
 Henry Luf1er, wife and son, from New London, were in town last week to at- tend the funeral of Mrs. Whiton.
 Miss Everett Markham was here from Monson Friday and Saturday. Postmaster Cady is in New Haven to visit his daughter, Mrs. Whitaker. ;. A. M. Shepard and wife were out of town the first of the week.
 c. w. Van Heynigen is in Hartford this week.
 c. H. Smith returned Saturday from a visit to friends in Mansfield.
 UNION.
 Union, Conn.,, Nov. 8, 1896. , To the Editor of The Press II have never before sent 8 signed article to a newspaper, and should not 50 do now were I not driven to it. A communica- tion recently appeared in your paper sub scribed "Non Politca." q am sorry to reproduce such Latin.) That letter quite generally has been attributed to me. Therefore, wish here to state to your readers, what yourself must know, that l did not write nor in any way suggest the production. '.f..
 As every statement, in the epistle in question, regarding the Union free-silveI ballots, is false, it may be we'll to try to state the truth now. The hidden hand writes that ''There are quite number of silver men in the town of UniOn." Now I am informed that all the democrats here, excepting two, repudiate the Chica- go platform. Of these two, one was re- ported as saying before election that he had not studied the question sufficiently to be able to state whether or not he be- lieved in free silver.
 This letter, headed "The Truth of the Matter" further asserts, "There were ballots sent by stage, but the parties whose business it was to have done so failing to settle the expressage, they were returned to Stafford" Now, in the first place, as there was no free-silver demo. cratic organization here, there were nc parties whose business it was to pay the expressage, and in the second place the Bryan ballots were not returned to Staf ford, but are still in town. -
 The free-silver ballots were offered to 6 sound money democrat, but he replied that he did not care to pay any money fol posing upon principle. The stage driver none of them cared for the tickets ol knew of any person who would take the package. Accordingly, the bundle was taken to the drivers home, less than two miles from the town house, and on cleo. tion day it was common report that the tickets were there and could be had by paying the fee. -.. ..-.~ ~.. Therefore it appears that not more thar two voters here would have cast ballots for Bryan, and that no one cared enough for the tickets to go two miles and carry the bundle to the town house. hope that your recent communicator's charges of intrigue and trickery" here are as mistaken as many of his other statements
 Yours in good faith,
 HARRY E. BACK.
 Mrs. Kinda Marcy. returned last Mon day to her winter home: at southbrtdge Mass. :.,
 Mrs. Hannah Whipple remains quite i'll. Her daughter, Mrs. Addie Bacon, O. Boston, is with her.: ~'-
 The funeral of Mrs. Sarah NewcomG was held at the Congregational churct last Saturday.
 MashapaUg.
 Mrs. David Hollingsworth, of FsI River, Mass, is visiting her daughter Mrs. F. H. Walker.
 Mrs. Gilbert Willis and daughter, O. Glastonbury, is visiting at Mrs. Willis parents, MT. and Mrs. J. w. Winch.
 HOLLAND.
 Clarence W, Hungerford and family. o