The Press., 1902-05-01

r. j. Sullivan has resigned his position
at Forestville.
Otis Chapman has opened his ice-cream
rooms for the summer.
Ohio Brown has returned from q visit
Of few days to his home In Holyoke.
F. Fl. Spellman Is adding two rooms
and bath room to his residence on High
land Terrace
Joseph Degran Of Boston and Edwin
Farnell of Woonsocket have been here a
part Of the week
Miss Hattie Tnthill is employed at NJ.
Browne bakery to give Miss Squires an
opportunity for short vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Meyers have COM
menced housekeeping in Mrs Lathrop's
three-tenement house near Grant-ave.
James Morris, who has run pool and
billiard room In Bakers brick block for q
number Of years, Is to discontinue busi-
ness.
Rev. F. J. O'Neill has been In New
York for short stay. Rev. P. Roux of
Hartford oficiated at st. Edwards last
Sunday.
The 1S-hole medal play at the golf
grounds was not held last Saturday on
account of the weather, and it will be the
program for next Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. e. A. Burnham has the honor of
being the only contralto engaged for the
Albany musical festival next week. There
will be five sopranos, but Mrs. Burnham
will sing at every concert.
Adelbert Needham will receive a car
load of first-class western horses Satur-
day. Business Is evidently rushing with
Mr.. Needham this spring, as this Is the
third car load he has received thus far.
The town clerk has been quite busy the
past few days licensing dogs. There are
over 800 dogs owned In town, and of these
there are about 1876 still unpaid. The law
Is that these licenses shall be paid on or
before May 1st.
]. 81. Reed, chairman, and w. Ell Black,
secretary of the town school committee,
decline to make any answer to the COM
munication in last weeks Press. We
would be glad to print any statement from
any one In regard to the matter II we can
obtain the same.
| There was a disastrous forest fire on
Village Hill Tuesday. About 100 acres
were burned over, and the loss is about
81, 900. The fire burned over land owned
by w. E. Demend, F. FL. Baker, Lee
Royce, VIM. D. Ruby, E. G. Dennis,
Mrs. N. d. Royce, Joseph Winn and 9TH
ers. 1t Is thought that the fire started
from sparks from steam saw mill.
At the regular meeting of the town
school committee Monday afternoon the
resignation of Rev. e. A. Burnham and
Alvarado Howard as acting school visitors
was read and accepted. The matter of
furnishing set of carpenters tools and
equipping room for the purpose Of in
structing the students In the use of the
same was indefinitely postponed.
Rev. John Talbot Smith, the well known
writer, will be the guest of Rev. Felix j.
O'Neill, pastor of st. Edwards church,
toward the end Of May. DR.. Smith is the
priest dramatist, whose play entitled, "a
Baltimore Marriage" is now receiving
universal comment in the newspapers.
He comes here for very brief rest from
his spiritual and literary labors in New
York city. DIR. Smith Ia very enter
tanning talker on a wide range of SUBJ
jects, and he has promised to prepare a
special lecture for his local visit, descrlb-
ing the plot, the characters and the stag
ing of his new production for the first
the opera house Tuesday evening, May
| Goth.
l (Communicated.)
To THE PUBLIo.-A story has been cir
culated around town within the past few
weeks to the effect that Fred Sweet de
manded the sum of five dollars to assis
In the presentation of the Citizens bane
minstrels at Stafford Hollow on April 10
Now / wish to state that this story Ii
false; that did not demand one cent in
dividually, and also that the whole affail
was caused through misunderstanding
between the business manager of the com
pany and myself. From the beginning o
! the affair understood that the minstre
was to be given for the benefit of the Cit
izens' band, and that IL was to be pre-
sented at st. Edwards hall at Stafford
Springs and that part of the proceeds wa
to go to the owners of the hall to defra,
the expense OF same. Later / found on
that half the proceeds went to the owner
Of the hall and half to the band Befor
the minstrel was taken to Stafford Hollow
! l made the proposition to the bushes
, manager to the effect that the proceed
taken there be divided among the mem
bers Of the company individually to repa,
! them for their services, and l was toll,
! that 1t was the understanding of the ma
jority that the proceeds taken there woul
be disposed of in the same manner a
, they were at the Springs. l had not un
!, derstood this before and considered tn
, owners Of st. Edwards hall amply repai
from the proceeds taken at the Springs
and positively refused to take part ii
the entertainment at the Hollow unlee
other arrangements were made.
FRED A SWEET.
stafford. - 2 - ss2s
Mrs. j. A. Simonds will be in tn
l city the first of next week and will b
9 pleased to execute any orders that ma
q be entrusted to her.
g Mrs. John Brown and daughter, Annie
Q visited relatives In Springfield Inst week
w. F. Myers of Norfolk has taken th
!, position OF boss carder at the Riversid
y mill.
II Mrs. j. E. Sullivan and child are
Palmer visiting Mrs. Sullivan's sistel