The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1904-09-21

ness trip.
Mrs. N. d. Murphy of Broad Brool
is visiting friends in town.
Mrs. r. ]. Cardinal is in New Yorl
attending the millinery openings.
Mrs. Hannibal Alden and daughter,
Ruth, are visiting in Geneva. Ill.
Twenty were received in full mem.
bership at the Methodist church last
Sunday and one by letter.
The quarterly meeting of the +. OF
A. will be held Thursday evening.
There will be an initiation.
Attorney w. FL. Reed was in New
Haven yesterday, serving on the grand
jury of the q. 8. district court.
The call has not been issued for the
republican caucus, but it will probably
be held next week Thursday evening.
II. s. Abel, G. s. Baker and J..
M. Larned attended the republican
congressional convention at Hartford
last Saturday.
The appearances indicate that the
democrats intend raising q banner.
A pole of sufficienk length has been
provided and will soon be RAISED.
Mrs. Frank Lambert of Worcester
died Monday, and the body will be
brought here for burial. this after
noon. The deceased lived in town
for years and was we'll known here.
Besides other children she leaves two
daughters, Mrs. Frank Bolieau OF the
Springs and Mrs. John LaBonte of
Wellington.
Leo King of Vermont visited us
yesterday, and after he was properly
loaded became quite boisterous.
Sheriff Helm had quite a struggle
with him before he took him down to
the lookup, but as is usual in such
cases he went. This morning he was
before the borough court, and Judge
Parkess made it 30 days.
Mrs E. A. Burnham will be one
of the soloists at the WORCESTER festi-
val this week, appearing in The
Dream of Gerontius, Sir Edward
Cigars famous oratorio, Thursday
evening, and rendering Gounod's
Aria from the Queen of Sheba Friday
afternoon. Mrs. Burnham will sing
at the st. Louis exposition late fn
October.
IAN outside spectator who witness
ed the Stafford Monson baseball game
played at Stafford Springs, Ct., Satur-
day takes exception to the statement
that the umpire gave the visitors the
benefit of the doubt. From, start
to finish. he says. there was no doubt
every close decision and several which
were not close were made in favor of
the home team. The spectator also
witnessed the throwing of missiles, at
Monson's manages by the crowd. ~
The above, from to-day's Springfield
Republican, is in answer TO the write
up of the game in the Sunday Re-
publican. The outside spectator must
be Monsonite who left his specks at
home. It is admitted that the umpire
gave number of decisions 20 both
mines. which 60 9he spectators looked
to be q little off, but the position of
an umpire is hard to I'LL and it is i'm
possible 70 please ALL. In the close
decisions it seemed to many of the
Stafford watchers Of the game that
the Monsons received their share.
Certainly the Stafford nine did not
get all of them As Monson only had
two safe hits to Stafford's seven, it
looks as if the Monsons were hard
losers. AS far as the throwing of
missiles is concerned, this must refer
TO the usual guying of the players
that takes place at all ball games.
The idea is too preposterous to need
attention ?. -
Fair Notes n <
Ben Dodge. the popular announcer,
will be here again this year. =
There will be a running horse race
the last two days of the fair fd1
parses of $75. One of the competi
tors in this. race will beea lady. /
The management has not completed
arrangements for the balloon ascen-
sions, but there is not much dou bt
that this feature will be presented as
usual.
The seating capacity of the grand
stand has been increased 500. This
will be appreciated ON the big day,
as it has frequently happened that
people had to be turned away.
Too much cannot be said of Will
liam Hill, the high wire artist. i: Mr..
Hill was one of the attractions at the
famous Brockton fair three years in
succession at aD expense of $500 pei
year Mr.. Hill has been one of the
star attractions at Lunar park, Coney
Island, this summer. where he has
performed ON a wire 40 feet in the
air. At this dizzy height he does
the tricks that seem wonderful, even
when performed on stage but fen
feet from the floor. He uses no nets,
and if he ever makes a mistake II
will be all over. Mr.. Hill has no
equal for skill and daring.
One of the features worthy of men,
tion is 'Wallace,,'' one of Bostock Is
fiercest lions. Wallace has established
record as man eater second to
none. This lion would cheerfully
eat q man each day Of the fair, and
if it could be arranged it would GER
tainly prove q great drawing card.
The difficulty of getting men for this
exhibition will probably prevent Wal
lace from showing up at his best. A
man will be sent here, however, to
enter this lions dem the. first day OF
the fair. It is impossible to guaran-
tee that he will enter more than one
day. Life under the most favorable
conditions is uncertain, and with
Wallace as n factor the uncertainty Il