Connecticut western news., 1908-10-22

tant q between-tue-actS feature can probably persuade the doctor to come before the footlights and pnll tooth or ] Ewo from his head. First come. first served for the supply of teeth is limited. Scurrilous and CowardlY Letter.
 A few days ago landlord Baker of "The Garfield" received an anonymous communication of the ''black hand" order. It is doubtful if any other Ca. naanite ever received through tho mails anything more cowardly or insulting than this. It consisted largely of pictures cut from magazines, pasted on sheets of paper and lettered in a disguised hand This woman writer, (yes, 1t is n woman, shame on her) claims to be on the side of temperance (although there IS some doubt about it)aud seems to believe that the sending of such scurrilous, un- signed communications as the one men- toned will change local conditions after the majority voted for license which must endure for at least one year. And this IS not the first contemptible letter this woman is supposed to have written. She is credited with the authorship of a letter recieved by certain young lady in this village last Thanksgiving day, the intent of some evidently being to persuade that young lady not to take part in home talent drama In this instance the letter was written on a typewriter, purposely mis- spelled etc., and to 1t was attached the initials of one Of the young lady's best friends. As this woman was immediately suspected, all suspicion was removed from the per- son whose initials were signed In the case of the Baker letter there were several clues to the iudentity of the sender and MT. Baker finds the evidence so conclusive that he plaas to call thu woman to account.
 Town Hall Rentals. .. The announcement that the sclcctmen ] proposed to charge S4 co each and every time the town hall is opened for any pur- pose other than town business caused u 1 ball players, the local people who pro- i duce dramas and members of various or i ganizations who have occasion to lease the hall occasionally. In view of this fact. the selectmen have delayed the making of schedule and are at their wits end to know what to do. They wish to adopt a schedule that will be fair to everyone. They do not wish to turn the town hall into money making proposition but, at the same time, they do not believe it is fair to the taxpayers that it should not be made to pay ex- penses. Selectmau Reel says that he does not consider it fair to charge one party four dollars for two hours use of the hall and make the same charge to the party who uses it four or five hours. He believes charge by the hour should be made rather than to adopt the arbi- trary rate. According to the report made by the selectmen, the hall expenses during the past year were about $500 which amount was $173 more than was received. Since making the report $50 ill cash was received from the Choral Union for last years rental and about $22 worth of scenery, turned over to the town by local people who presented Nevada" was not accounted for, there fore the net losslast year was about $l00. The selectmen will probably reach con clusion at an early date as various plans arc standing ill abeyance until such conclusion can be reached. If the four dollar rate is decided upon, some of the contemplated entertainments and sports will have to be abandoned inasmuch as the receipts from the same will not be sufficient to pay hall rent and other ex- penses. No one believes the hall should be maintained at loss and the question confronting the selectmen is what shedule of rates to adopt in order to "break even" and still not impose a charge that will be prohibitive.