The Press., 1886-06-17

The healthy degree of interest in ed [ucational matters in Stafford was attested l by the presence at the high school gradu- l ation exercises last Friday of a large audi. ence of ladies and gentlemen, all parts of the town being represented Each of the five graduates read m essay, and inter- spersed with the reading was singing by l the pupils of the schools, showing that vocal music had been successfully taught among other things. The singing was ac- companied by Mrs. Campbell, organist l All of the town school visitors were present at the school exercises during the morn l ing. and all, except Judge Booth, were present at the graduation exercises. The | first essay was by Miss Sadie l.. Comins, ssShakespeare's Story of Julius Cesar" be- ling given by her next, George o. Fenton told of ssOur Solar System; ;" and the won ders unfolded by studies thereof; Jennie E. Orcutt's subject was Hannibal, a thoughtful analysis of his character, and leading incidents in his career Frank B. Sidaway treated of the Benefits of As tronomy :" Mabel w. Ellis of Literature of the Ancients, closing with the vale dictory address, paying a merited trib- ute to Principal Desper, and on behalf Lof her mates thanking all friends of the
 
 l the graduating and coming classes in the + Establishment of good graded school in Skaford. Diplomas were then presented the graduates by Rev. Mir. Batche!der, chairman l of the board, and brief addresses followed by MT. Batchelder, Messrs. Maxhan and Flaw | ley, acting visitors, and Principal Desper Mir. Maxham put in vigorous plea for con- t solidation of the town system of supervision Eof schools in lieu of the senseless double G 1a n high compliment to Principal Desper, saying that he had in his pocket 8 letter making in- quiries as to the. length of Mir. Desper's en- gagement here by parties who desired to se- cure him. By the way, it is now quite well known that committee from Torrington visited the high school on Friday, and before leaving made overtures to MT. Desper. The good reputation of Stafford Springs schools thus bring annoyances others of the teachers having been invited to take situations else ! where at different times The selectmen now offer $500 reward for evidence and arrest of incendiaries, which makes 1t an object for amateur de- tectlves to exercise their wits.
 Geo. O. Cleaveland is having the roof of his residence on West Main-st. slated Deslauriers of Southbridge doing the work. The rainy weather Sunday told upon the morning audiences, but the evening services brought out the children and their friends in goodly numbers. The churches were prettily decorated, and the children did their parts nleely, the choirs giving some especially good work in connection. Last Thursday J. M. Leach found some boys playing with package of pa- pers in the rear of the Foster Block, and upon examination found that they were those recently taken by burglars from the safe at Converse's grain store, and that the small inside till that had held them was lying under small shrub near by. Fix animation showed that the bulk of the pa- pers were there, though few of consid- erable importance are not yet found. A bank book was recovered later from young man to whom one of the children had handed the day before Leach's dis covery. On Saturday some boys found the inside till of B. A. Buck $ Co.'S. safe, rifed at the same time as CleaveIand's, near the bridge in the vicinity of Smith S Cooley's office. In it were the cheeks, notes and all papers lost, the finding of which IS great convenience, though no loss, save the trouble caused, would have resulted had they not been found.
 -Dr. F. l.. Richards now has telephonic communication from his residence to the central office, and may be summoned by wire.
 The salvation army opened their cam paign here on Sunday, emitting the out door meeting because of the rain. They held meetings at 2.30 and 8 D. m, with good attendance at each Two brethren from Rockville assisted during the day, but since then the captain and her two lady assistants have carried on the work laloneJ holding each evening a brief out door meeting and then adiourning to the rink. From the start the meetings were well attended, and though attended by a very promiscuous crowd, the degree of order has been quite good, and the ladies generally have had respectful attention, the only disturbance on Monday evening coming from young man who presumed much on his reputation for idiocy, and consequent license to do things that he knows to outrage decency. The ladies so far by their manner have made better impression than has prevailed here of the l army and it's methods of work.
 l When The Press few weeks since stated that the building of 8 railroad from Stafford Springs to Southbridge would ap- preciate real estate in StaffordYille 50 to 100 per cent, it very much understatea the fact, if we may believe statements made in the town meeting which voted to suspend for ten years taxation on new mill, If built upon the old Staffordville mill site. If parties who advocated that move spoke sincerely every property own CT in that village can afford to sink money in such a. railroad. There is no place in New England with more promising sites for mill building than StaffordYille would have with railroad The matter should be agitated outside of the newspaper offices. That the road will never be built, unless some one builds it, is very sizable chest nut. I Many of the residents of East Main street seeing that there will eventually be necessity for sewer on that street have petitioned the court of burgesses that the same may be laid at the same time with the Acqueduct Co.'S pipes, dividing the cost of the digging between the borough and the Acqueduct Go. Much of the cost will be covered by assessed bettermentslon on property owners. And the introduction of aequeduct water will increase the need of sewerage, and sooner or later sewers must be provided. However it is quite likely that piping could not be procured cured in time to lay with the water pipes, and t js quite certain that the present board of hufgesses contains majority op- posed to the scheme, anyway. ' v l --Citizens' Band, which occupies the rink every Thursday evening. tonight will