The Press., 1909-02-03
Mru. Frank Cardinal ia i'll with

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 Mrs Wm. Burwell is recovering
 from an illness.
 K. O. K. A. Notes: The Conclav,
 due this evening will be held on Sat
 urdAy, at 4. 15 P. m., for work in ths
 degree of esquire Woodcraft Indian
 meet this afternoon at 4.15.
 Miss Katherine Smith left Monday
 for a visit of some weeks with friends
 in Lawrence, Kansas. She was Rc
 companied as far as Chicago by Rev.
 Charles Luke and family of Billing,
 Montana, who have been visiting ir
 Hartford.
 The Stafford Law and Order League
 has issued . statement, published
 elsewhere in the advertising columns
 of this paper. showing a' remarkable
 decrease in arrests and commitments
 under no-license. There are no
 prisoners from Stafford in the county
 jail to-day, and there have been no
 commitments since Nov. 1. Last
 year, in the same period, there were
 21 commitments.
 Wm. Powers. employed at the
 Rhode Island plant, was painfully in-
 jured a few days ago. A large case of goods was tipped on to his leg. and
 he was badly bruised before he could
 be released. It was at first thought that the ankle was broken, but such did not prove to be the case. He is still quite lame, but is able to drive.
 The annual dinner of the local -business men will be held Feb 10 at the Springs House. Hon. Joseph L.. Barbour of Hartford, Hon. J. E. McDonald, state road commissioner. Hon. E. s. Banks, speaker of the -houss, and A. R. Jones of the state association are among the list of speakers. Tickets are limited to one hundred. Each member of the local association will be solicited, and any member who desires additional tickets should make immediate application, as the extra tickets are being rapidly taken up. .,
 The four act drama, "Kathleen Mavourneen. will be presented March 17th at St. Edwards hall, and the following evening at Memorial hall at the Hollow. The cast follows Bernard Kavanaugh, James Warren i; David O'Connor, Edward Shea; Father Cassidy, Joseph Shea; Terence O'Moore, John Sullivan; Bill Button cap, John Fitzpatrick Captain Clear field, Wm. B. Hanley; Black Rody, Burt Mullins; Red Barney. Nicholas Ash; Darby Doyle, Mir MoCubbon Florence McCrohan; Dennis, John Gary; Turnkey. M. J. Burke; Kathleen Connor, Miss Bessie Hamp- ston; Dorothy Oavanaugh. Kitty, Miss Ella Browne; Meg Marclough, Wm. Delligan.
 Grace Church Notes: There will be no celebration of the holy con- rnunion next Sunday, but the 10 45 } ID. and p.m. services will be held as usual in the guild room of the ,hurch. The decorators and others ire at work on the renovation of the nain room There was a good con- regation at the Sunday schoo! service unday evening. and their Feast of tights has drawn very appreoiative omments from a number of those resent A large proportion of the unday school received at this service be solid silver pins, which are a adge of distinction and honor for in attendance during the ear just closing. A new system of lonor credit will be introduced soon, different from the one just 
 The case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which Dickens SO interestingly de- picts in Bleak House, has rival in | Tn 1892 Julius Con- verse died, leaving @ substantial es- tate. Since that time, owing to dis agreement of the heirs, the case has been constantly in the courts and thousands of dollars have been spent in legal processes. The case has gone twice to the supreme court, and the chances are that it will go again. After the death of Mir. Converse, AL varado Howard and James Sheehan were appointed administrators. The hard times came on, stocks went down, the estate shrunk. | Their report to the probate court and | she finding of the judge of probate was taken exception to by Mrs. Mathews. a daughter of MT. Converse, and the case was first in the superior | court, then in the supreme court, later referred to John R. Buck of Hartford as 8 committee to hear the l evidence. again carried to the supreme l court, and finally Mrs. Mathews se- ,ured judgment for SIS, 152 62. The ,ase has again come before the public | owing to a decision of Judge Case in | the case of Eugenia o. Mathews of | Chicago against Mira L. Converse, Lillia A. Lee. Charles G. Ellis, J. Allen Mix. Fred Wildey,, Wm. san- lord. Mary T. Russell, Isabelle Rus Iell, all of Stafford, Louis S. Converse | and Jeanie S. Converse of Salem, Ohio, J. Carl Converse of Springfield, | Mass, and the Eastern Connections | Realty company of New York city The court finds for the plaintiff and awards her judgment for SIG, ,744.7 72, and orders the transfers of certain I belonging to the Converse estate, to the Eastern Realty company set aside. In September, 1905, Mrs. | Mathews procured judgment against Mira L. Converse, Lillia A. Lee and Louis s. Converse for SIS, 152 62 damages and $67. O6 costs. but of this amount only $1, ,474 96 was collected On October 19 1905. Mra MathaRs