The Press., 1901-11-14
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STAFFORD SPRINGS.
FL. e. Burwell has returned from a
business trip to New York.
Miss Harriet LaRocque has returned
from visit In Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Dana Gary. F. F. Patten and F. q.
Sanford went squirrel hunting Saturday
and brought in 28.
A small audience witnessed the pre-
of "Grimes' Cellar Door" at
the opera house Monday evening.
The cantata, "The Galilean," will be
presented at the Congregational church
next Sunday evening by the choir, assist
ed by chorus and Mrs. Burnham.
DIR. George A. Moore of Palmer, who
has many acquaintances here, leaves Fri
day for Edinboro, Scotland. where he
will continue the study of medicine at the
university in thatscity.
The golf balls offered for the prizes at
the mixed foursome golf match on the I'd
were not all presented by Mrs. Needham,
as announced last week. G. F. Harwood
and G. G. Pinney presented part of them.
Paul Bennett had his hand badly hurt a
few days ago while engaged in moving a
large rock. He was helping Michael
Sullivan, and the latter was using pinch
bar, which slipped and went nearly
through Benefits hand, inflicting pain
full and dangerous wound.
The annual business meeting of the
town was held Monday afternoon at the
town house. j. r. Washburn acted as
chairman. It was voted to lay a two
cent tax. The three highway commis-
sioners, E. e. Pinney, M. w. Leonard and
d. L. Ellis, were reelected for another
term of three years. The petition for the
change of the highway at Crystal Lake
was allowed. provided that the new Sec
tion of road Is three rods wide and made
acceptable to the selectmen. The section
of highway to be discontinued begins near
the Crystal Lake hotel and ends at the
cemetery, near the outlet, at the north
cad. The new section to be built will
be located west of the present high
way, and will allow very desirable Sec
tion of the lake shore to be used for cot
tages, which is prevented by the present
road being so near the shore. The old
board of minor town officers were reap
pointed by the selectmen.
Rev. H. B. Roberts, secretary of the
Connecticut Bible society, at union
meeting held at the M. E. church Sunday
evening gave report of the religious sta
tistics of the borough just completed by
Rev. Mr.. Towle, who is making the can
vass. He called on 524 families. OF
these 298 are Protestant, 223 are Catholic
and three are Jewish. While there are
70 more Protestant families than Catho-
lie, the number of people OF each faith is
the same, since the Catholics have the
larger families. The Italians average 6 Q
children per family; the French, 5; the
Irish As; and the Americans 38. The
various churches have families In the bor-
ough as follows, but LET 1t be remem bered,
however, that these figures do not repre-
sent the number of families under the
care of these churches, but the number
that reside within the limits of the bor-
ough lines: Baptist 1, Universalist 8, Lu-
theran z, Episcopal 80, Congregational
101, Methodist Episcopal 122, Roman
Catholic 223, others (unclassed) 81, no
preference 4, Hebrew 8. One hundred
and twenty -four people own that they
never attend church. Thirty-one pro-
testant children are not In Sunday school.
The foreign population and the native are
of equal proportions; 475 people are
French, 13O are Italian, and the remain
der, including Irish, German and Swede,
number 486. The Italians and French
form 80 per cent. Of the foreign popula-
tion. The Protestant non attendance at
church is only III per cent. This means
that that number say frankly that they
do not attend, but large numbers report
themselves as church goers who are pres
ent only once in a great while, say at
Christmas and Easter, or perhaps at some
Sunday school concert or musical service.
ltis not possible to estimate this number
accurately. This makes 1t evident that
the percentage Of regular church attend
ants Is smaller than these figures would
seem to show. Nevertheless, the church
attendance is surprisingly good here as
compared with other places. The church
membership In the Protestant population
Is small, averaging only Il members to a
family. Mr.. Towle reports everywhere
courteous treatment, 4all homes being
open to him IN the kindest way. The
statistics of the town will be published
later. .....
One of the great industries of Swift 4
Co.'S. immense business is the packing, In
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