The Press., 1910-01-05
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

ciety of the NJ E church VIII mee with Mrs Charles c Ellis on Friday afternoon at o'clock.
 James Crane of Boston, who has [ number of local friends. has been 1T town this week. Mr. Crane has just recovered from an illness of si1 months.
 There will be a meeting of those interested in forming an Eastern Sta1 degree, a ladies' auxiliary of the Masons, st Masonic hall this evening at 8 o'clock. Considerable interest is manifested in the plan and it is thought that favorable action will be taken.
 Peter Roberts. the ice dealer. 1il filling his houses with tan-iuoh foe. and Jones Bros are preparing to harvest. Bidwell 6 Go. are filling their house from Warren's pond. A number of private ice houses have been filled.
 The high wind of Monday night caused some uneRsiness and did con- siderable damage. around the borougb to the blinds and shutters. The gale and the zero weather made yesterday morning the most uncomfortable of the year for those who were out carly.
 The building record for the past year is not as large as 1908. Mrs. O. E Butterfeld has a fine residence nearly completed at an estimated cost of $9OOO Cyril Johnson has built a sizable brick storehouse on Furnace avenue and has also com- pleted a four-tenement block A one story brick addition has been built to the bank block for the Howard store, and a small addition for the use of the bank. John Sena has expended about $35OO iu building Q brick ad- dition to his Main street block. A. O Garvais hopes to complete his brick block on Main street by the first of February at a oost of $4SOO. Mar shsI Bolieau has built 8 house at the corner of Grown street and Westford avenue. Angelo Oassegrsnda has built a double tenement house on Furnace avenue, and A. D. Bernardo has just completed 6 new tenement house on Gold street. D. H Curtiss has a new cottage almost ready for occupaney in Fox Village. and Ed mund Welch now occupies Q cottage which he had put up on Stafford Flights Michael Corcoran has built another new house in the rear of his Center street property. Alfred Scott occupies a new residence on she macadam road, which was erected by his brother, Walter Scott. During the early part of the summer Charlie Warzeka had a two-story wooden structure built adjoining his property on West Main street, the lower floor of which Is used for a grocery store and meat market, and tenement In the upper story. John White has put on a large addition to his property on Center street The first story is used for a grocery store and barber shop, with a tenement upstairs. Theodore M. Lyon of Staffordville recently moved into his new store which was erected on the site of his former store, which was burned.
 The attempt of Phelps Hyde of Springfield to break into the Stafford library fund is not viewed with much uneasIness locally. The trustees of the fund, Edwin O. Pinney. Charles Warren and F. H. Baker, have con- suited the best legal talent in the state from time to time, and have been informed they were within their rights. They have never refused to build a stone building. and if the attorney general should decide it Co be necessary the masons will be con- suited at once. Just where Phelps Is to get any part of the estate seems problematical to the best lawyers. A bill of equity has been filed in the circuit court of the United States, and the case will come up the first Monday in February. The complaint alleges that on April 26, 1890. Arba G. Hyde executed a will, the fifth paragraph of which is as follows: ''The entire balance to the Stafford Library Association, in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, a portion there of to be used by said speculation in the erection of a suitable stone building, with sufficient accommoda- tions for the library, and with a hall for lectures and such other purposes as the association may elect; the re- maining portion to be invested and used at the discretion of the associ- Ation in the maintenance and support of the building and library of the as- aociasion. The above paragraph constituted the residuary clause of the will. It is alleged that in May, 1899, she library association came in- t9 the possession of the residue. which consisted of stocks of the value of $S1, 1000. and that on May g, 1899, Edwin 0 Pinney, Charles Warren and F. H. Baker were elected trustees of the fund for the library association. It is further alleged that the associ- ntion has done nothing with the trust, and Ehat the trust is not sufficiently declared because it does not specify what part of the $81. 1000 is to be used for the erection of a building and what part is to be used in the maintenance and support of the build ing. It Is alleged also that the trust has failed by reason of the failure of she trustees to exercise the powers granted. The fund includes 182 ahnzas of B. 6 A stock, the income frnm which Is $1155 annually.