Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-14
DANUS.
WAsHINeTON. May II. 1S7!


 cone extreme follows another" A very short time ago we were shiving with wint- cry coldness; now heat as of mid-summ- CT is willing our energies and awakening the torpid vegetation, the latter ''a con- summation devoutly to be desired"
 With the natural growth we have anoth- CT kind, and new buildings are in all stages of progress; carpenters, masons and painters, all have their hands full. We understand Mir. Gum on Saturday bid off the old Academy, the centre school house and the old hearse house, all of which he will cause to be moved to other situation. The old Academy and school-house are to .s'get out of the way" of the new hall. A new school-house is to be built down on Brinsmade Avenue. Near the depot W. J. Ford's cigar factory is glistening with new paint, Baker and Brinsmades new barn looks as neat as quakeress. Their new store house, to be capped with a ma sonic Hall, is getting good foundation laid. Shea's house is progressing, and every thing in that quarter indicates thrift and prosperity. Farmers begin to look happier, and smiles to take the place of rueful visages.
 MIR. EDIToR:-Can I make suggestion to the Directors of the Savings Bank through your paper? First allow me to state fact and then to ask If their cash fer ought not to have more discretionary power. Between the first and the middle of Oct. 1872, an old lady, childless and widow, deposited one hundred and ten dol lars in the savings bank, receiving in re- turn a pass book on which the sum was receipted, and from which she learned that her money would draw no interest till the next January. Being then in good health she did not take the disap- pointment so much to heart, but submitt- ed to it, although two dollars q month. aside from that, was almost her sole in- como. Last Jauuury her wants and in- -.-.~'s IuoEenpi.e,. -,-----7
 Coooity 0f s--I--o for vaarS In'eIos' and ten dollars of the principal, which left inst one hundred dollars in the bank. A few weeks ago, she was seized with se- were illness and obliged to ask for the re- mainder of her money, receiving in re- sponse, May 9th, just the one hundred dol lars. A friend asked the cashier if in view of the circumstance that her money had been in the bank more than one year and half he could not pay her interest on the last four months, and was told that he knew of no way for her to get that interest except to put her money back, and let it stay till the first of July. As the poor wo- man will probably be in her grave before that time, and needs all she has for the present emergency. that plan is out of the question. and so she loses nearly seven months interest. As the professed object of the Savings Bank is to help poor peo- pie, we think the public should knew that according to their bylaws, if a person should deposit sum of money there the third day of January and have to drew it out the twenty fifth of December he would lose the use of his money nearly year, getting no interest at all, for Mir. Colt says ''no power is given me to make any allow ance of interest except on deposits which remain here on the first of January and first of July" We submit that in cases like the foreging he should have discretionary power to pay a part at least of the inter est, which equity demands.