The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-03-03
Elder Goodell has moved into the Hyde

homestead, which he purchased severa
months ago.
Miss Stella Squire of Willimantic, il
enjoying a brief vacation at home will
her parents.
Mrs. Clifford Kibbe and two children
! of Springfield, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Cyril johnson.
DR.. Druley's wife and children of Mont
vile, were at the Universalist parsonage
over the Sabbath.
Mrs. Reuben Burley of Holyoke, is the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. E. FL. Pinney
Mr.. Burley was here over Sunday.
Subject for the meeting of the Y. P. s.
G. E. this evening" Getting Close to
Christ" All are cordially invited.
Mrs. Steadman Williams picked last
Sunday, FEBRUARY 9th, bunch of full
blown Arbutus-not buds, but good full
blossoms.
E. H. Pinney and Oscar Colburn went
out after pickerel yesterday and succeed.
ed in getting just what they went for,
bringing home twenty-five, one of which
weighed 81 pounds.
Unclaimed letters in the Stafford post
office: Miss E. Hastirg Mr.. Peter La
William, Mr.. J. J. Driscoll, Mr.. Cuzia-
tisno Tamburo, The Standard Lock Co..
Union Mills.
VIM King, who was recently burned
out near State Line, has bought the Mad
ison Squier place, now occuied by Ernest
Bissell. 1t is understood that Mr.. and
Mrs. Bissell are to move into the Lamb
house, opposite Myron Leonard's house.
An unexpected large audience of about
fifty of the friends of Miss Cady's school
were in attendance Tuesday afternoon at
| the Mother Goose' entertainment
They were, one and all, much surprised
at the excellence of the work done by the
little ones, and give Miss Cady great
credit for her skill and patience in drilling
them to that degree Of perfection. The
costumes, which were so pretty in design
and construction, added much to the en-
| ioyment of the afternoon.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Baptist
|
work, and will serve their usual supper
from $50 to o'clock. The regular bust
ness meeting Of the society should have
been held January 18th, but was pOstpon-
ed to FEBRUARY 23d, when the following
officers were elected President, Mrs. H.
| Wakefield vice-president. Mrs. Annie
| Hatch; secretary and treasurer, Miss
| Mabel Belcher. The society passed a
vote of thanks to Mrs. o. T. Hulett, the
retiring president, for her faithful services
| during the past two years. The social
| held last week Wednesday, of which Miss
| Mabel Belcher and Miss Christine Olson
were hostesses, is spoken of as one of the
most enjoyable gatherings in the annals
of the society.
Some poor, wandering, Weary Willy"
not having the fear of the law in his
heart, made himself very much at home
in our new school house building Satur-
day night. 1t appears that he smashed
in one of the basement windows to gain
an entrance, and once inside, Judging by
| the number of burned matches left scat
| tered about, he must have made thor
ough tour of the building. Fortunately
for Miss Chella Cady, he overlooked her
watch which she had left in one of the
drawers of the desk. In getting ready
| for Tuesdays entertainment, Miss Cady
| had pushed the desk with the drawers
| back against the wall, and he probably
thought it was simply plain desk. In
| a closet were stored all the costumes and
paraphernalia that was to be used for the
Mother Goose" entertainment, and these
he utilized in making bed for himself,
leaving them in badly soied and mussed
condition. Aside from these clothes and
the broken window, it was not learned
that any other damage was done. A man,
supposed to be the same one, was hang
ing around the village for some time Sun
day morning, and evidently trying to pick
a quarrel with some one.
A family in this village received a chain
letter last week, which aroused some re-
Election and little calculation. It called
for five cents to be sent to certain bene-
f1ciary and for the writing to three other
persons. Besides the labor of writing
| four letters, the complying with this re-
quest would cost, including postage and
stationery, fifteen cents. This seemed
an expensive charity. A chain letter
means that one person writes to three
others, and each of these to three others,
SO that the first link consists of one per-
| son, the second of three persons, the
| third OF nine persons, and so on, each
| link consisting of three times as many
persons as the preceding one. This letter
was No. 10, being the thirteenth link on
the chain. A little calculation will show
that if the chain had not been broken,
this link would consist of sol AL persons,
and the whole number reached THIS far
would be 797,081. AT five cents each
this would give the beneficiary $39, 854.-
05; but it would also cost these persons
81 19, 562 10 to get it there. More than
this, the chain was to consist of twenty
five links. The last link would consist
of 349, 643, AT ,481 persons, and the whole
number reached, if the chain was not
broken, would be 519, 569, 525, 1851 persons
AS the entire population of the globe is
estimated at IA 600, 00O, 900, one thirtieth
of this number, it can be seen how absurd
| the scheme is. In view of the expensive
ness and the absurdity of the scheme. the
| proper thing to do with chain letters is to
| put them into the stove as fast as they
come into the house.
The following from yesterdays Courant
will be of interest to people in this place /:
Ernest Cady has resigned as president
and treasurer of the Pratt & Cady compa-
ny. His resignation is the outcome of a
growing disagreement between him and
the directors. Recently the books of the
company have been undergoing an exam
ination by an expert accountant from
New York, and while no shortage or mis-
appropriation is charged upon Mr.. Cady,
the directors feel that the books have
been carelessly kept, and that the bust
ness has not been we'll managed. For
many years the firm Of Pratt Il Cady did
a profitable business, and the business
was bringing in good returns when it was
taken by the Pratt & Cady company in
1882 For some years past dividends
have not been paid on the stock Rufus
N. Pratt was president Of the company
until two years ago, Mr.. Cady being then
secretary and treasurer. The two had
many disagreements about methods Of
doing business, and finally Mr. Pratt re-
tired and Mr.. Cady was made president