The Press., 1885-02-26

EhursdRy Evening, Feb. 26. fs3so.
 JAMES MCLAUGHLIN, e.UBLisHER
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 HERE we are again. This issue is made from room filtered with shavings and sections of boiler, engine and printing i'm plements scattered about, cased. and un- cased. We ask indulgence for short caEn- ings. Rapidly as possible the office is be- ing fitted with the best. The new Grams ton book and news press is by far tie best piece of newspaper machinery i'll use in Holland County, and as good as the best country or most any city office can boast Engine and boiler after this week will take the place of human muscle ia its propul- sion And we hope by another week to get down to working system in place of the hubbub of carpenter and machine work now ruling.
 THE outrageous misrepresenta;iou ions aad misstatements copied on first rage have awakened indignati )n not ohly in 5 afford but in all manufacturing celters of New England, the more SO that the writer Is at pains to say that Stafford IS ''not exception al in the respects stated" No paper not ,l,, nf f,,fR Jo ton ould- have use1 au article so mani festly honeycombed with improha ble state ments. Before the New York Evening Post degenerated into becoming the mouth piece of soldier of political fortune, it was above descending to such base uses. It not only eagerly srizes upon such. senseless diatribe, but hedges about the replies which i.dignant citizens send 1t with quot ntions from criticisms made by other pa pers which have acc pted its correspond enc as reliable, and commented upon it accordingly, using these as endorsements of it's contributor. Treasurer Howard of the Savings Bank of Stafford Springs has ably answered the writer in the colum:s
 
 church, who as almoner of a missionary fund has opportunity to know, denounees the statements as baseless, and selectman Newton writes as follows to Cooley's Week. ly, which printed the article with all ap- pearance of its being original in that paper :: We are very glad to be able to report that the account is an infamous exaggeration from Lo1 1oc4 Nuol loxyn l,o1, oc- tion. There is no unusual sickness, perhaps less this winter than usual. am also posi- tive that a majority of young women the writ CT alludes to have homes here and those hav- ing homes in other towns have either gone there or remained here working in the mills. Quite number of the mills have run right through the hard times. Those running on short time and using only part of their ma- chinery employed a part of their help, paying wages according to the number of hours work, while the unemployed have gone to other places; our villages are short distances apart, and it's not @ difficult walk from one to the other am over the roads almost every day and have never seen this "crowd of hun gry, homeless girls'' going from town to town" and no one else has seen them. The agent for the care of the poor employs phy- sician by the year, as is the custom of other towns, aho when notified, visits them and sees that their wants are provided for The mills in this part of the town are running, though some of them on short time. We do not have larger number of unemployed than other manufacturing villages No oneshas seen young men and women skulking in rags or shivering in tatters like spectres of pover- ty." The grocers are selling goods to opera tives as they always have done, on monthly payments, and those who were for time idle were given credit. A responsible person is hired each year to provide for the poor, and is under heavy bonds to feed, clothe and fur nish suitable house for these people, and the sum per year is sufficient to fully meet their wants. There never has been twenty-five in- mates in our poor-house at any time during the past twenty-five years, nor half that mum. Der At the time allnded to there were only seven instead of twenty -four persons as false ly stated There is no idiot at the poor-house About ten years ago there was an idiot whom the superintendent for the poor used to tie tc an apple tree in mild weather so he would not wander off, but he even was we'll fed an6 had clothing sufficient and was humanelJ cared for. ."-once an unfortunate penny lin CT, perhaps, who had broken down mentally writing sensational articlef for the press. Al the poor house at the present time there arc seven persons and four beds with plenty ot bed clothing. The house is a new story-and a-half house good enough for any one to live in. have been at the house frequently and certainly never saw any shivering from lacl of food, clothing, or warmth. have asked each individual if they had enough of these and they all answered .yes." MT Cady who cares for the poor lives near and his family see that their food is cooked properly and we feel quite sure provides for all their wants The mad old crone of eighty years who tool to the woods, 1" we know nothing of her; nc one ill the town has yet heard of such cast from any reliable source.
 c. B. NEWTON
 Chairman Board of Sciectmen Of stafford
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