The Press., 1898-03-03

Il Elder Goodell has moved into the Hyde homestead, which he purchased several months ago.
 Miss Stella Squire of Willimantic, is enjoying brief vacation at home with her parents.
 Mrs. Clifford Kibbe and two children of Springfield, are guests of Mir. and Mrs, Cyril Johnson.
 Dr. DTuley'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. H. Pinney.
 MT. Burley was here over Sunday. Subject for the meeting of the Y. P. s. c. E. this evening--"Getting Close to
 Christi" All are cordially invited. Mrs. Steadman Williams picked last Sunday, Febuary 27th, 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-two, one of which
 weighed 8 pounds.
 Unclaimed letters in the Stafford post office Miss E. Hastirg. MT. Peter La- pouue, Mir Peter Banseville, MI. Richard
 William, MT. J. J. Driscoll, Mir. Cuzia- tisno Tamburo, The Standard Lock Co.,,
 Union Mills. |:
 Wm King, who was recently burned out near State Line, has bought the Mad ison Squier place, now occuied by Ernest
 Bissell. It is understood that MT. and Mrs. Blssell 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- joyment of the afternoon.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Baptist church will meet next Wednesday for
 work, and will serve their usual supper
 from 5.30 to 7 o'clock. The regular busi, ness meeting of the society should have been held January 18th, but was postpon, ed to Febuary 23d, when the following
 officers were elected President, Mrs. H.
 Wakefield; vicP-president. Mrs. Annie Hatch; secretary and treasurer, Miss l Mabel Belcher. The society passed 8
 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 hostPsses, 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. It appears that he smashed in one of the basement windows to gair 3 an entrance, and once inside, judging by a the number of burned matches left scat r tered about, he must have made a thor
 ouRh tour of the building. Fortunately
 for Miss Chella Cady, he overlooked hel
 watch which she had left in one of the drawers of the desk. In getting ready t for Tuesdays entertainment, Miss Cady had pushed the desk with the drawers
 back against the wall, and he probably
 thought it was simply a 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 a bed for himself,
 leaving them in a badly soiIed and mussed con dition. 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.
 fiection and little calculation. It called
 for five cents to be sent to a certain bene ficiary and for the writing to three other persons. Besides the labor of writing = four letters, the complying with this re- 8 quest would cost, including postage anC l stationery, fifteen cents. This seemed
 an expensive charity. A chain leltel , means that one person writes to thre, :, others, and each of these to three others so that the first link consists of one per % son, the second of three persons, tn, y third of nine persons, and SO on, each a link consisting of three times as man, persons as the preceding one. This lette
 was No. IS, being the thirteenth link oI V the chain. A little calculation will shov 8 that if the chain had not been broken
 this link would consist of 531 Al persons
 and the whole number reached th"s fal 5 would be 797 .O81. At five cents eacl - this would give the beneficiary $39, ,854. e 05 but 1t would also cost these person a $1 lg, 562 l5 to get 1t there. More thai
 this, the chain was to consist of twenty l. five links. The last link would consis ', of 349 ,643, AT ,4S1 persons, and the who'll II number reached, if the chain was no t broken, would be SIS, ,569, ,525 ,961 persons
 As the entire population of the globe i 5 estimated at IA. GOO. .000, 900, one thirtietl Q of this number, 1t can be seen how absur' n the scheme is. In view of the expensive
 ness and the absurdity of the scheme. tn > proper thing to do with chain letters is t. n put them into the stove as fast as the d come into the house.
 ' The following from yesterdays Couran Q will be of interest to people in this place
 Ernest Cady has resigned as presiden f and treasurer of the Pratt & Cady compa
 ny. His resignation is the outcome of $ growing disagreement between him an, Il the directors. Recently the books of tn h company have been undergoing an exam n ination by an expert accountant iron ,. New York, and while no shortage or mis n appropriation Is charged upon MT. Cady a the directors feel that the books hay q been carelessly kept, and that the bust l. ness has not been well managed. Flo
 many years the firm of Pratt x Cady di
 a profitable business, and the bushes was bringing in good returns when 1t wa u taken by the Pratt & Cady company i l- 1882. For some years past dividend n have not been paid on the stock. Rufu IF N. Pratt was president of the compan
 until two years ago, MT. Cady being the IT secretary and treasurer. The two ha 1' many disagreements about methods c N' doing business, and finally Mir. Pratt re tired and MT. Cady was made presiden .e a nd treaslrar Ahn,,t this tiran f kn ax,,-