New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1923, Page 2

| VALENTINES VALENTINES VALENTINES VALENTINES Valentines The Dickinson | | Drug Co. STATIONERY DEPT, 100171 MAIN STREET Horsfall Better Shoesfor Women Famed for Perfect Titting Horsfall Oxfords hug the foot and give it that trim, smart ap- pearance so desirable. They are recognized as standards of re. fined style and quality. We are now showing two new styles in Pigskin Oxfords for ‘Women at $9.00, | See them in our Women's Shoe Department School Board Cool Toward Mayor's Offer to Help in Making Survey | oblain from the city witheout increas- Turns Letter Over to Subs |{. 0 G5 e, : P “I am as deeply int ted in th Committee—Mrs, Kimball| vl st thrncin raet bt g |1 am ealling your attention te this| Wants Absent h‘fmhl‘j“m..mmn of affair, because 1 believe Dropped—State Pay Dis« |apprised of what s faclug us if the 'nh!\\(‘ building program is ecarried out. ('ufiied- | “I think a survey should be made in my duty as mayor te have you fully {of all the present school buildings to {meost to Mayer A. M, Paonessa's written re= | ohildren. est that the school committee make | vigability . complete survey of present school | ommodations before expending any money on scheel buildings, and at cooperation be given in that he names special mmittee to that end, met with a reception on the part of the - board yesterday afternoon at a regular meeting I'he mayor's letter follows: “February 9, 1923 “To the Members of the Behool Board, City of New Rritain Dear Sirs—I1 understand that you may consider this afternoon taking steps towards the erection of several “Yours very truly, additions to our school bulldings, 1 - oua wish to present to your attention the | A M. ""“-‘,,‘;'“"N . essity of a careful survey of the| Mayor. needs of the city for such additions or When Becretary E. M, Pratt read new school buildings before any|the letter, Committeeman E, O, Kil- iitions or new bulldings are con-|bourne moved that it be placed on the tracted for, 1 do not doubt that you |table, prefacing his motion with the have considered this matter, but I be. |f0llowing remarks: jleve that it is worthy of reconsid- Without any discourtesy to the eration and I earnestly urge upon you | ™ayor, 1 feel we rihnflh! luy this mat. to do so before in any way obligating |ter On the table, I don’t sco what the the city. mayor has to do with this board, We “Lfeel compelled to bring this mat. | ¢ elected by the people “""' it they ter to your attention because of the[don't lke what we do they ~know increase tax rate facing the city, not what to 4-lo, We owe no ullhmlrr;n;o to merely for this year, but for the next|th¢ mavor. 1 think it would be a good idea to have the charter amend- year and, so far as I can see, for & ed to make the mayor a member, ex- number of years, if schools are built( T & T L st Eas et as contsthplated, “The school accommodations com- “The revenue of the city will be in- mittee has spent days, . weeks and creased this year through ralsing the |, ;s fnding out the needs of the grand list $3,000,000, about $75,000, school system. The mayor doesn't if the tax is 26 mills, This was done know what the noeds are, Why should largely by increasing the property as- he try to dictate?” sessments of about four thousand peo- | Chairman B. F. Gaffney’ thought it ple. . This increase was largely in the | ., 1q he a hetter course to pursue way of equallzation of assessments |, ;. the communication over to the and such increase cannot and should | ., 01" aecommodations committee not be made each vear. A smaller| . it wag so voted. Receipt of the portion of the $3,000,000 increase rep- | sommunication will be acknowledged. resents new buildings. Many new | wgpo Mangan Champions Teachers buildings were erected or partly erect- A petition was received from school ed during the year, such as the Pol-(.acners who have taken normal ish Children's Home, hospital, schools, | sohool girls into their cluss rooms for ete., which come under the head of |trjning, asking that they be allowed non-ta: property and do not s collect the $50 offered by the state tigure in the $3,000,000 increase. for this service. The matter was laid “Your increased program for|over to the next meeting. Those schools based on increase in bulldings [ gigning the petition were: Misses will require a much bigger expendl-|\arian White, Doroth Mayer, Ruth ture each year than $75,000, and the|].arson, Catherine O'Brien and Isabel indications are we cannot hope to in-|Carey. crease the grand list of the city the|. Mrs, Mangan championed | next few years to the extent of $3,-{the school teachers recommending | 000,000 a year. As far as we can see|that they be allgwed to collect the at present the increased growth of the | bonus since they had done extra work city during the next few years v\iniand the state stood ready to pay fer not warrant it, |it. In reply to Judge Gaffney’s argu- “In addition to the increase de-|gment that in that event they wiuld manded by the schools, other depart-|be serving two masters, Mrs. Mangan ments of the city will also require|pointed out that under the present ar- accommodate the 1 am considering the ad- of appointing a committee to make such a survey and ask if J may receive your co-operation, if such a committee & appointed by me, 1 do not feel at the present time as if I could approve of the issue of the $625,000 bonds that the eity meeting authorized until such a survey as I have indicated has been made, "L feel sure that 1 will receive the greatest cooperation possible from your board to the end that all depart- ments of the ecity government may have fair allowances for meir work and that the taxes of the city may be confined to a reasonable rate, Hory sking th event “ Taura | rangement they are already serving [8ee if they are being used to the ut-| school | General Ramont, left, commanding the Fourth French Cav- alry Division which led the French forces into Essen, is shown here with General Lamport in the square awaiting the arrival of Oberbuergermeister Luther whose presence he had demanded. Father Wants Son Reinstated The father of one of 20 High uhool_FlNE flF Iw EABH students who fafled to keep up in hisf studles at the High school’ and was | - INLIQUOR CASES — | | Wikintkonis Sings “Ain’t Got Nothin'” Song in Police Court board, after a discussion, gave him leave to withdraw, The young man will be allowed to take up his studies in September, Commenting upon the wisdom of the policy of dropping students, Mr, Holmes said: “Something must be done at the High school to stiffen up and create an atmosphere of work. Too many students regard it as a nice, warm, comfortable place to loaf around and have a good time.” Commissioner E. O. Kilbourne re- ported that the school accommoda- Patrolman John C. Stadler, William §. Strolls and William P, Hayes who |are carrying on the police depart- ment's drive against liquor trafficking, tions committee plans to have the|found “stills" in operation in two of architeetural work on the Stanley and |three houses they visited yesterday Osgood Hill schools thrown open to and in a third they found a “still” competition an dwill ask the board|that they had reason to believe had to rescind its vote giving the work lLeen in use. All three were confiscat- out to tavo architects. Would Drop Absent Members. {court for trial this morning. Mrs. Kimball wanted some action| At the home of Mrs. Michael taken on the resolution relative lo;.\nolmvlonls of 97 Hartford a\r-nuu.} High school “frats,” but in the ab-|the “still” was turning out its product | sence of some of the committeemen | in a bedroom in the front of the| it was voted to lay it ovar for anoth€f house, A woman present at the time meeting. | of the visit had a bottle of moonshine | Mrs. Kimball said there should be|whiskey in her pocket. She told the | a Dbetter attendance at meetings and |police she had purchased it for a bag| suggested that members who absent|of chicken feathers. Patrolman Stad- | themmelves for several. successive|ler told the court he had information meetings be automatically dropped. |that liquor was being sold on Friday ed and their owners summoned into| | Following a lengthy discussion, it|and Saturday nights between the was voted to allow pupils in the do-|hours of 7 and 9 o'clock. Mrs, Mich- mestic science classes of the Central|aelonis, who said she made the stuff Junior High school to hold cake and|cnly for her own use, was fined $100 (food sales. They will offer their own and costs by Judge George W. Klett. | City It y larger appropriations, so that we face 8 an endless chain of tax increase. You Sonoras at C. L. Pierce & Co.—advt, Miss Anna Welch has left the em- ploy of the Corbin Screw cofporation. Dance, Bungalow, I'eb. 12, Rex- mere Orchestra.—advt. Miss Stella Stahelek has taken a po- be so, unless our increased expendi- tures are confined to our increased revenues due to the growth of the city. “The proposed school budget for can readily see that this is bound to| products and the money will be used| to buy equipment. There was some discussion ahout the .ability of the o fav aving the| children to finance sudh a movement, ‘c:x}:i}-cl\xmball a\orodfip;. ¥ and it was finally referred to Mr. ) h | ¥ M, Eratt, & memhr ot the wm.‘}{ocl'::isr.man Traut of the finance com: i 4 d asking the ) g mittee that recommended asking the .00 oported that his committee two masters and allowing them to col- lect what she felt was due them would not make ‘the situation worse. teachers to take girls in training, be- | A similar penalty was meted out in | the case of Thomas Wikintkonis of | Putnam and Wiilow streets, who ve calmly replied: “Fine me anything: 1| haven't got anything, so you can't get| anything.” M | He admitted selling liquor to any-! one who wanted to buy, at the rate m‘} the He said Cyphers Incubators We have been agent for ti\e Cyphers Incubator and Brooder for 20 years. We know of none as good. CHICKEN AND POULTRY SUPPLIES Member New Britain Poultry Club HERBERT L. MILLS " 336 MAIN ST.. WALL PAPER — 1923 STYLE — The new year’s newest patterns in WALL PAPER are here, We invite you to come in and see them now. Never before in the city has such a remarkable array of Beautiful Decorations been shown. We can show you Papers as low priced the United States, We can show you Papers which will be used in the finest homes in the city this year. STOP IN AND LOOK THEM OVER QUALITY DOMINATES . PRICE NEXT The JohnBoyle Co. — Paint Engineers — . The City’s Leading Decorators 5-5 FRANKLIN SQUARE as any.in TEL. 359 “There is an old saying that you can’t get something for. nothing, but yowll come as close to it as you ever will, right now, during— B-a.rgain Week | G0 cents a half pint. family was sick and liquor had been| prescribed. He could not afford the| durgstore price so he made Lis own, selling enough to buy mash. He had| a “still” operating in a bedroom yes- | the ! terday. | Prosecuting Attorney J. G. Woods | turned over Mrs. Joseph Adamowicz to State Policeman E. Hanson for ar- | raignment in federal court on a charge | of illicit manufacture of liquor. . 5 | considers it inexpedient to make sug- lcl:;l‘l:?t they should not be allowed m"gested changes in the layout of the| oA i ot | Central Junior High school this year.! Commissioner P. F. King submitted | ~"pp ¥ | e hoard voted to have 10,000/ § tion. regular line of teaching duties and in 9 l{g;n' srrec(‘:n}?x:lcndatlnn of addition had, at the request of the|g,,p00 committee, bills to the amount school committee, assumed addl!ionul:or 4,335 were ordered paid. dutfes.” Now that the state is Willing| * mhe gchool attendance bureau sub- | ;o”pTyx for’ those (-:tr:ném:‘\:;“fi- m‘;: mitted the following figures showing ailed to sce any reas vhy Y attendance at the various schools: should not collect. He qualified this| magt, 1,089; Smalley, 1,178; ]i'a?}':asn statement later by saying that, if the|yaje, 1,334; Smith, 8; Rockwell, schapl board had found in the past| 441; Northend, 316; Lincoln, 456; |3 that the practice of allowing teachers| Monroe, 307; Camp, 521; Bartlett,| to carn money oitside of their regu-|732; Stanley, 211; Osgood Hill, 2 lar line of school duties had pro\'t‘d:Op!\n Air, 74; Elm street, 101; Cen- undesirable, then it might be a strong| tral Junior High, 989; Elihu Burritt, them to|908; Academic High, 511; Vocational | High, 348, this year is as follows: “*Appropriation for year “Deficit last year sition at the Hoffman bakery. IFrench Hat Shoppe Professional Bldg. —advt. John entered the employ Screw corporation. Gulbransen Player Pianos, Morans'. ~advt. the 909,000 83,000 Cronin of Spring street has of the Corbin *School bonds due . “Interest on bonds . - Besse-Lelands “DAIRY SUNDAY SPECIAL" This week is Cherry Ice Cream and | Macaroon Ice Cream. At N, H. Dairy | dealers onl »! $1,145,405 “At the last city meeting a bond ue of $625,000 for new buildings was authorized. Expenditures of this money in the coming year or in the next three years would mean in- creased expenditures for running and maintaining schools and increased ex- penditures for interest on bonds and for retiring bonds, which increase would be a much larger sum than any |argument against allowing additional revenue we eould hope xo'collm‘h CONTRIBUTED New Britain Herald, New Britain, Conn. Gentlemen: At the final meeting of the Christ- mas tree committee held last evening, a vote of thanks was passed to the| New Britain Herald, for its kindness and cooperation, in making this year's tree a success. Assuring you of our sincere appre- | [ff ciation, we are I Yours very truly, New Britain Chamber of Commerce, Mary Curtin, Secretary. E AMOUNT you save is more im- portant than the amount you earn. FIGHTING 1 I)l" BLIN. City Hall Guard Attacked—Rebels | s Shoot Alleged Spy. | Dublin, Feb, 10.—(By Associated Press.)—A brisk exchange of shots occurred in Dublin last night when the city hall guard = was attacked. | Machine guns dispersed the assailants. | Later a lorry-load of troops was fired on. | The body of a bullets was found on the tween Ballingarry and yesterday. A card attached body hore the words: “The 50 spies.” —————— riddled with | road be-| Mullinahon to the first of Save systematically by opening an Interest Account for regular weeklv deposits. man The Man for the Ages “If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves'I would do it, but if 1 could save it by freeing all the slaves, 1 would do it and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, 1 would also do that.” Every Day In Every Way Our Pictures Are Get Better and Better 12—STARS—12 ! i l g { Lincoln’s whole desire was to save: “this Nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” . — N — “Quincy Adams Sawyer” Don’t Fail To See It!! FOX’S Next Mon., Tues,, Wed. The desire to save should guide us all. Lincoln thought of the future of the nation—planned to save it. 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