The Press., 1908-01-08
HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.


 A. H. Simonds of Hartford was in town New Years day.
 Francis Barton of Palmer was 8 guest of friends in the borough last week.
 There will be a meeting of the Ancient Order of United Workmen at the Hanley shoe store Thursday even ing.
 Deputy Sheriff Helm. Oonstable Hayes and Prosecuting Attorney lO'Connell made a raid Saturday even- ing on tO:' Crosti, at the Flaberty house on the Holland road. Four kegs and 15 bottles of lager were se- cured. At a special session of the borough court the same evening Crosti was arraigned and pleaded guilty. The defendant paid a fine and costs of $63.
 A CORRECTION.
 To the people of Stafford In jus tice to the town school committee, and especially to myself, wish to correct the misleading communication in The Press of January 1, 1908, over the signature of Eva N. Roberts. Miss Roberts addresses her communication "To the Board of School Visitors of the Town of Stafford. y Tn her first paragraph she says 1T hereby resign nay position as teacher of the district school in district No. for the fol- lowing reasons '' This would imply u at Miss Roberts held a. position. The fact is, that at the meeting of the school committee on the 30th day of December, 1907, it was voted to discharge Miss Roberts from further service as teacher iE district No. 4. and she was notified the. following day, although yon notice. she had tke tact to date her communication De- eember 2Sth The school committee has receive nn, notice of her resigna- tioD. Miss Roberts states that no suitable fuel was provided ny the school committee of said district until October 7th To explain tic wood question, will say that wood had been ordered, and supposed delivered till Miss Roberts lit on me at my house one morning. probably October z In reference to Miss Roberts statement that I used "abusive,' upgentle- manly and "profane'' language to her, will say that should consider it ungentlemanly to call Miss Roberts a liar. SO will modify my denial by saying her statement is lie. pure and simple. Miss Roberts has given her reasons for "resigning;" I wish to, give some of the committee's reasons for discharging her: Lack of disci-, pline |. short hours.. having seldom opened school at o'clock, and one morning l heard the bell at twenty minutes of ten; the afternoon sessions frequently opened as late as half-past one, and seldom continuing till 4; inability to give correct instruction, this I am told by parents of the scholars and saw it on my last visit at the school. Will give you but two of several instances to corroborate this statement, viz One of the pupils had been unable to perform 8 simple example, which the average ninth grade scholar ought to do in his head; the pupil was sent to the board. and Miss, Roberts suggested 8 method of solution. After making figures half acrnss the board they arrived at an answer which was wrong. The board was cleared, and under direction of Miss Roberts another lot of figures made and another answer obtained which was wrong. Finally the pupil stumbled on to the correct solution and obtained the correct answer by mak. ing just seven figures-no more. Do you think Miss Roberts qualified to teach Arithmetic? In, parsing the Harvard University was founded in 1886 ; Miss Roberts had the courage to tell the class that "1636' was noun Would you say that she was far above the kindergar- ten stage in Grammar? Fellow townsmen, your school committee does not wait for a teacher with these qualifications to resign. Am sorry to be obliged to give this affair a public airing, but am compelled to in self defense. Respectfully,
 John A. Foster,
 Acting Committee, Dist. No. 4.
 Stafford, Jan 6, 1908.