New Britain herald., 1920-09-17
REPUBLICANS NAME
 ELECTION TICKET Nominate ". ]. Johnson and C. H.
 CalOr for SeleCtmen OLD ASSESSORS RETIRING

A. A. Mcleod Witnesses New York
 ExpIosion-Attendanc at School
 Large-To Leave for G. \. R. En-
 campmcnt-ReSistra Complete
 The republican caucus held in the Plainviile Town hall last evening was we'll attended and there were about 70 in all that were present. William H. Wilson presided. The meeting was called to order at o'clock and re- suited in the following nominations:
 Assessors, s. P. Williams. for three years. to succeed John B. Miner, and John Simpson, for three years, to succeed Frank T. Wheeler. Both the retiring assessors are too busy to handle the position.
 Board of Relief, A. H. Condell for three years and Walter w. Seymour for two years. Mir. Seymour sue ceeds James Simpson.
 Selectment. William J. Johnson and Charles H. CaIor. Both of these men have served for several seasons
 Grand Jurors. Stanley S. Gwillim and s. P. Williams.
 Town School Committee, Frederick Buiien for three years.
 Library Director. Ralph L. sey- mour.
 Collector of Taxes, William J. Hem- mingway.
 Constables. Phillip Moreno, Henry Davids, Carl W. Anderson and Ed gar ". Furrey.
 Registrar of Voters. Joseph M. Mo Herman.
 Baseball Tomorrow.
 One of the features of the Fire mems field day tomorrow will be the final baseball game between the Plainville Athletic club and the Peck, Stow and Wilcox team of Southing- ton. The game will be played at AL lens field and will be called at 3 o'clock. Oakes and Wadsworth will appear for the visitors. This will fin ish the series between the two teams. The Plainville team has won two of them already.
 Mcleod Secs Explosion.
 A. A. Mcleod. treasurer of the Plainville Trust company. while in New York yesterday on business trip was one of the hundreds that were near the explosion that happened on Wall Street in front of the Morgan building. Fortunately Mir. Mcleod escaped unhurt although according to his story he was very close to tbe explosion when it went off. MT. Me Leod had entered the Hanover Ma tional bank, a short distance from the Morgan building and on entering, left his straw hat on one of the tables in the hall downstairs. He was on the second floor when the explo- zion came. which he claims shook the h.i RnchinU a he picked up his>hat only to find that a large piece of debris had struck it full on the crown. crushing it to pieces. The, sight of the wreckage was terrible. MT. Mcleod said, and the crowd that gathered was 90 large that 1t was impossible to approach very near.
 Attendance at School.
 Principal Orrin l.. Judd, of the Plainville Grammar school. in making his report upon the attendance this year. stated that it is one of the lare- est the school has ever ha6Sx the present date ther0nU
 enrolled. New pun ILL with 50 new enrollM1 the Kim dergarten. Practically &@ery seat in all of the rooms is occup1ed and some rooms seat as many as 4S pupils Much credit is given to the teachers for the efficient way they handled the large number of children despite the crowd ed conditions, and there was little confusion. if any. in directing the pro- noted ones to their proper classes. There were four new teachers added to the teaching force this season. f-
 G. \. R. Encampment.
 Local veterans of the Grand Army have received notice to attend the en-