Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-13
DANIELSON
Special Town Meeting Appropriate. Extra $2,ooo for Repairs-Fire Dam ages Lighting PIant-Albert Black. mars tooth Birthday.

At the special town meeting held in the Town hall at 230 Wednesday aft ernoon $2OQO was appropriated for necessary repairs of highways, bridges and culverts in Killingly during the present year, this amount being in addition to the s5,O00 highway appro- priation made by the last annual town meeting in October, 1911.
 A proposition to leave with the se- lectmen the fixing of the rate for the hire of teams for town work (now s4 per day for pair of horses and a man to drive thern) was ruled as a matter which action could not properly be taken on, this after the point had been raised.
 The meeting voted to lay on the ta- ble the matter of increasing the com pensation of the tax collector from 1-9 to 1-2 of one per cent. of the amount collected.
 W. P. Kelley of DayviIle was mod orator at the meeting and Frank T. Preston clerk.
 Fire at Lighting Co.'s Plant.
 For the fourth or fifth time within period of 20 years the plant of the Peoples Light and Power company. on l Hutchins street, was damaged by fire to the extent of several hundred dol lars Wednesday.
 The alarm for the blaze came in within ten seconds after the noon test call, so close in fact that 1t is believ- ed that the test and box calls were re- | corded at practically the same time. When the fire department, which made specially speedy response reached the lighting station the root over the gas department was ablaze and great volumes of smoke were belching through. The firemen worked l for about thirty minutes to extinguist the flames
 One of the employees at the plant saiC | that the fire originated in the base ment room, under the gas generators and that it was caused by the accident 1 al igniting of a quantity of oil drip pings in pail while the fire was being | drawn.
 The loss is covered by insurance. Tht fire wall and freproof doors prevented | the blaze from getting into the cleo 1 trical department of the plant.
 Injured in Peculiar Accident. I Earl Kibbee. about Is, of Elmville was at the Day Kimball hospital il l Putnam, Wednesday, as the result O ! | night. Kibbe figured in a peculiar ac | cident. He was riding a bicycle on tn state road, near the William Sayle residence, when the happening occur red.
 l When asked about the matter Wed nesday, Louis A. Bradford gave tn ] following account: Mir. Bradford in hi | touring car with c. w. Flagg, also o Danielson, was driving along at abou F miles an hour when he heard young man on a bicycle shout Hello ! Bradford" and then two young me- on bicycles rode up behind the car an took hold of the top, protruding owe the rear of the tonneau, to be lowed.
 After a time the occupants of tn car heard something scrape, and late surmised that one of the boys ha
 been thrown. An investigation prove this to be true. After turning his ca around, Mir. Bradford saw the injure man walking, presumably toward
 home. He proposed to render any as
 sistsnce possible. but as far as h
 could ascertain by inquiry none wa
 needed.
 Wednesday morning Mr. Brador
 was surprised to hear the stories cur
 rent in Danielson that he had ru
 down a boy and badly injured hiT
 while driving his car at from 40 to $
 miles an hour. He indignantly denie any responsibility for the accident a
 he was neither speeding nor guilty c
 running into Kibbe.