The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-02-14
srAFFoRp SPRINGS.

Miss Cora Bnrwel rs nome from
Mt. Holyoke college.
Miss Ruth Walker was home over
Sunday from Hartford.
The Odd Fellows will work the
first degree at the meeting tomorrow
evening.
Maine NJ. Royce is working in
Northampton. Mass. for his aunt,
Mrs. A. NJ. Stone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Rawitser
sailed last week for a visit of few
months in Europe.
Joseph Reed has resigned his posi-
ton at the Springs House. and gone
to the Riverside mill at the Hollow
TO work.
8. A. Mitchell. formerly with the
Riverside company. il TO succeed W.
4. Tucker n superintendent at the
Patton mill.
A dance will be held at Memorial
hall, Stafford, next week Friday even
ing for the benefit of the high school
baseball team.
Frank Whitaker. who has been
working for the Star Worsted Co. at
Fitchburg, Mass, has taken a position
with Folwell Bros, worsted manu-
fackurers of Philadelphia.
About Is from here attended
ohicken-pie supper at E. A. Bates in
Moose Meadow Monday evening.
These gatherings are always popular.
and the one this week was no ex-
ception.
There will be meeting of the Cur
rent Events club Monday evening.
The regular program has been post
poned, and in place of it the subject
of Language, it's use and abuses"
will be considered. Quotations and
anecdotes from George Washington
and Abraham Lincoln. Musie-Miss
E. s. Brown will play a violin solo.
Romance by Mrs H. H A Beach
Hostesses, Miss Wilhelmina Adams
and Miss Sadie Comins.
A change has been made in the
program for Washington birthday at
st. Edwards hall. Instead of the
entertainment proposed last week
there will be an exhibition of moving
pictures Wednesday and Thursday
evenings. 1t will not be big bluff
performance. such as the last picture
show. This one will be given by a
thoroughly known company, under the
direction of s. E. Sherman, who has
exhibited in Parsons theater, Hart
ford, to q crowded house for the last
% successive Sunday evenings. Mr..
Sherman puts ON new pictures every
week, with appropriate noises and
illusions. No reserved seats. Ad-
mission, % and ID cents.
Arrangements are about completed
for the annual banquet of the Stafford
Business Mems association, which |
will take place this evening at the
Springs House. The speakers will be
Richard W. Ellis, president of the
Stafford Business Mems association,
Attorney General VIM. A. King of
Willimantic, Mayor Charles F. Thay
g. Of Norwich and President Edward
l. Atwater of the State Business Mems
Rufus Fl. Jackson of the
Hartford Times may be one of the
speakers, but it is not absolutely GER
tain. With the array of talent Sc
cured the after-dinner period ought
to be replete with interest. Landlord
Scott has arranged an attractive menu,
and the committee has neglected no
detail to make this one of the most |
attractive meetings the association
has held.
Stafford Springs, Feb. IA, 1906.
Mr.. Editor With your permission |
/ will state few facts in regard to
the infamous scandal which has of
late been going the rounds through |
our town, and in which I have been
the principal target. 1t is a we'll
known fact, and has been for many |
ysars, that all small communities
have an abundance of scandal mon
gers, q treacherous element, whose
great delight and seemingly principal
object in life is to degrade and fight
to recognition anything which may
be unfortunate enough to fall into
their ears Their ever-wagging
tongues are more dangerous than the
numerous arms of the octupus, and
more dangerous also then an untamed
beast. However, think it safe to
say that good people are not the ones
who peddle such rottenness, but rath-
er those who have themselves been
implicated in such scandals, and in
their frenzy have thrown aside every
thing reasonable with an effort to
pull others down to their level. 1t
seems that this scandalous affair has
been discussed and peddled around for
some time, but not to my knowledge
until short time ago. / have heard
other people tongue-lashed right and
left, ripped up the back. everything
mean aud unkind said of them, and
have thought had some sympathy
for them in their trouble, but never
before have / known what it meant
in any sense of the word. My fam
lily name has been known in Stafford
and vicinity for 80 years and more,
and challenge any person to cite me
one instance when the stain of dis
honor has ever been daubed upon it,
nor do propose to have it through
any act of mine, for have too much
respect for myself, my family and the
other party implicated. It has been
naia that have paid from $25 up
ward to $500 hush money. Now 1
wish the public to distinctly under
stand that / have never paid, have
never been asked to pay, nor do /