The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-10
WALLINGF0RD HAPPENINGS
LARGE CROWD AND INTERESTING
 RACES AT THE FAIR.

Winners in the Various Events-Real
 Estate Transfers-Stricken With Para
 lysis-Personal Mention.
 There was a large attendance at the fair yesterday afternoon and the racing was quite interesting, especially so in the 2:SS class, as it kept everybody guess ing as to which horse would win and those who stayed until the close of the races were disappointed in not sat isfying their curiosity, as the race was postponed until to-day. The summary of the races was as follows;
 2:3O Class-Purse $200. Little Jack, b g, A. J. Penney,
 Branford .......... .......... l l l Ben B., b g, W. A. Booth, Wal
 lingford .............. ........ 5 C., H. F., oh h, c. H. Fletcher,
 Westfield, Mass. .......... .... 2 Mabel, ch m, c. N. Appel, Wal
 lngford ................ 4 Starmont, g, J. H. Shield,
 Wallingford ........ .......... 5 Thomas Warford, oh g, J. A.
 Warner, agent, Tylerville.... 6
 Time-2:257a, 2:251s, 2:26.
 2:3S Class-Purse $200. Leo Wilkes, b g, J. H.
 Beach, Branford .... 2 2 4 2 1 Little Fred, b g, E. N
 Robinson, Durham .. 3 1 2 1 2 Able, oh g, James Me-
 Farland, Branford .. 1 i 2 3 4 3 Pinkwood, br m, w. T.
 Smith, New Haven... z Clara, C., br m, D. Hig-
 gins, Meriden ....... 6 Ben Star, oh g, T. E.
 Donovan, Shelton.... 5 5 Bep Wilkes, oh S. J. A. Warner, Tylerville .. 5 6 Time-2:31%, 2:311a, 2:3O1a, 2:3111a, 2:34, 2.36.
 A half mile race for four wheels for a purse of $5 resulted as follows: Eldon, c. H. Tillinghast, New Haven i Garnet Rock Flynn of New Haven. 2 Starmont, J. H. Shields, Wallingford 3 Time-1.19.
 This race was made up to fill in time between the other heats and was open to all who wished to enter. The 2:3S class race was postponed un- | til 2 o'clock this afternoon, as 1t was 6:45 when the last heat was trotted and three horses had won first place in two heats
 In the first heat J. H. Beach was taken off the sulky and James Durkee of Berlin was put in his place and drove the rest of the race. Yesterdays recorded real estate changes were: Henry Saunders to An nie Thomas of Cheshire, lot 50x150 feet on East street. This piece of property was recently bought by Saunders for | s150, and some time after his purchase | Saunders found that the lot, with sev- eral others, was sold for unpaid taxes | in 1888, and was purchased by E. F.. | Cook. The last transfer from Saunders is to the original owner, in which he gets the money back he paid for the lot. | Mrs. Benjamin Doollttle of North Elm street was stricken with paralysis, yes i terday, her entire right side being af- l fected.
 | DoWney and Gardner will be the bat | tery for the Walingfords in the game with the New Londons tomorrow af- | ternoon on the Colony street grounds. The grange will take it's exhibit, "The Old Woman That Lived in the Shoe," | to the Merlden Idlr next week. "The Cotton King" which is booked | for the opera house next Tuesday eve- ] ming, is a worthy presentation of a l real English melodrama and the com- pany is first class. Yesterday was one of the hottest of ] the summer. The mercury was up in | the nineties.
 Charles Downey is in Pittsfield, Mass, attending the funeral of his father. | Lewis G. Adams, a tramp was taken | i'll here with pleuro-pneumonia and yes- | terday was taken to the Meriden hos pital.
 | The insurance on the fixtures and stock of Francis Finnegan, who was | burned out Sunday mornin, was ad- justed yestedday by the payment of