New Britain herald., 1921-09-09
PLAMHzLLE NEWS
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE HEAVIER THIS TERM
 Nearing 800 Mark With More Coming
 LOCAL PITCHER RETURNS

Mrs. F. \. Gillette of Canal Street Has Blooming Cereus-BasebaIl Games Scheduled for Tomorrow Election Notcs-Othcr Items.
 From all indications, the Plainville | Grammar school will have one of the | largest enrollments this term that the | school has ever witnessed in it his 1 tory Principal Orrin l.. Judd and the | teaching force, have been taxed to the | utmost getting the pupils in theil | proper classes. The first day school | started, there was an attendance of
 755 which has increased to TBS to date
 and there is no doubt in the minds of
 the officials but that this will be
 over the 500 mark and even higher, | For a comparison. the figures last year were much lower. On the open ing day. there was an enrolment of about 745 pupils.
 | Although there are more children at the school this year than any other term, it is not thought but what suita- ble accommodations can be found for | all of them. Some of the teachers have l as many as 40 and 45 in a class and | this is considered high. There have been many out of town pupils enter l ing and several youngsters have been enrolled for the first time. Town Clerk
 Usher has been kept pretty busy mak- ] ing out birth certificates and there have been about l 5 or 20 issued so far.
 The school building can easily ac- commodate 500.
 The force of teachers is complete and there are few new ones among them. The exact number of town pupils has as yet not been ascertained | but will be made out by Principal | Judd next week when his reports are | handed in. The usual routine will be | followed when the conditions at the
 school are all finished and the pupils | will have an opportunity to see their
 much loved moving pictures in the
 miniature school theater A successful
 year is looked forward to by MT. Judd. Baseball Tomorrow
 | Tomorrow afternoon. the Aces will not play as there is no game sched- uled. However. on Sunday afternoon, the team will journey to Avon to play I their fast opponents of that town. The players will take the trip by automo- bile and will leave Plainville center at 1 o'clock. So far, each team has
 
 and this game will be the deciding one. The local mana cement will have its best battery for the occasion and Kalish and Marine will be seen at the pitching and receiving ends It is also rumored that the mana cement of the Aces is striving to secure an- other series of games with the Plain vile Athletic club. The Aces are still of the opinion that they can defeat them and intend evidently to show them that they can.
 The Plainville Athletic club will | play Portland tomorrow afternoon. Portland is in the lead in the Inter league and will be the fastest team the locals have ever been pitted up against. This will be the first of a series of three games between the | two teams and will be for the cham pionship of the Valley league. The | local team "copped" the pennant of the Hartford County league and are
 now after that of the Inter league
 Portland has some speedy ball play CTS on their lineup and the locals | will have their favorites with them. On Sunday afternoon. the first of a series of games with Collinsville will be held in that town. There is
 nothing definite, however. about this series as a side bet is understood to be under consideration. When the sea- | son started. Collinsville was in the | league with the locals but never seemed to be anxious to play the Plainville team and they will now have an opportunity to show their mettle. The management for the
 P.ainville team has raised a sum said ter reach s2o0 and are willing to place it on their team.
 Has Night Blooming Ccreus.
 Mrs. F. A. Gillette of Canal street, Is proud possessor of a night blooming Cereus, probably one Of the best in this vicinity. There are at present four blossoms in full bloom on it. This makes a total of six the plant has borne so far. The four blossoms srrouted out last night shortly before 12 o'clock and were seen by many people. Some of them came from as far as Bristol. Unionville and New Britain. Mrs. Gillette had the occa- sion as sort of family reunion. Just as the clock in the Congregational church was slowly tolling the hour Of 12, Charles Fisher, also of Canal street, took a fiashIight picture of the beautiful plant and this morning. took another snapshot of it. The flowers are the largest that have ever heen seen in this section of the state.
 Mrs. Gillette has had the plant for some five or six years and it has al- ways bloomed heavily. It had eight blossoms on it but two fell off For a cereus plant to have eight blos- soms and six of them in bloom is wonderful by many florists. The majority Of the plants have a tendency to drop about half the buds. | During the time the plant has been |