Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-06
MADE TOWN TAX I3 I-2 MILLS
Big Meeting of Citizens Voted Down Nearly All the Extra Appropriations Asked For-Tax i. 114 Mills More Than the Seectmen Asked d-No Changes Made in Regular Ap- preparations Asked for.

The annual town meeting with an attendance of from 500 to 500 men in the town hall on Monday evening set the town tax at 13 1-2 mills, which was l If mills more than the select men had recommended. All the ap- populations asked by the selectmen. and by the town school board were voted without opposition, but only
 three special matters survived the op- position thatsthe voters showed toward spending any more money than pos sible. These three extras totalled s1e 900. A. S. Spalding was elected moderator after First Selectman A. W. Lillibridge had called the meeting to order at s o'clock.
 Moderator spalding called attention to the tax of 12 If mills called for by
 the selectmen to meet the needs of
 the town. Of this 12 1-4 mills, mills
 are asked by the selectmen and 6 1-4
 mills by the town school board. The selectrnen had no desire to influence any vote on the various petitions, but they felt that they had right to e:s- plain their own needs. He called at tention to $24.035.12 state tax that had to be paid and the ss,S0o sinking fund item and also the SIS. 900 paid by
 the town to the city for highways
 These amounted to a two mill tax. Every estimate in tn elist, he said had been pared as low as good judg- A1CAI WhTIdILS.
 Reports Accepted. The reading of the notice for the meeting was dispensed with. The printed report of the selectmen was approved, as also all the other printed pamphlet form. The report of the town school committee and the Otis library | trustees were also approved. Salaries Voted. It was voted that the salaries of the l town officers be the same as last year and the tax collectors compensation was voted at 1 per cent. upon the tax
 collected, the usual compensation. Action on Estimates. Action on the amounts estimated and | asked for by the selectmen were next l taken up. The following were voted | without opposition:
 For the almshouse $7,500, for outside | poor S9,500, spent last year, sS,s29.51; | for insane S11,000. expenses last year | $1o,414.37; neglected and dependent | children s3,o00. last year s2.s71.54;
 highways. city of Norwich s1s.o00. same last year: highways, outside s12,-
 900, last year s4o.60o both items; mac
 adam repairs s4.ooo; oiling roads S1.50O, same as last year.
 | For Concrete Bridges. | Regarding the S10,2s604 for bridges
 on which last year s2,356.27 was ex-
 pended, Moderator Spalding explained | the wish of the selectmen to build ce- ment bridges, of which previously only
 two have been built. The old bridges were not built of a strength for pres
 ent day travel and repairs would re- quire a considerable amount of money. If this item Is voted there will be | quite a few cement bridges built. The
 sum of S10 .zs6.04 was voted. The mod l ro 60 T hn HpIi on a 1 bridges had already been received. Further appropriations weEe voted
 as follows:
 Contingent $e,Ooo, last year ss .2s2 s9 {:
 interest s12,000. last year expended
 s10.402: election expenses s4,000. last year expended s2,s324o: a greater sum l is needed this year because it Is a l state election; registry of vital sta ! tistics s1,600. expended last year | S1;543.7S; Chelsea Parade walks s1, 500. For Chelsea Parade. 1 The moderator said that if this l amount for Chelsea Parade were voted, new walks and curbing would be laid
 to conform to the views of the city | government. Other items appropriated were. na- l tionaI guard S4,500, town clerks office 1 $4o0, property tax account S6,500, sink l ing fund s8.SO0, same as usual;' tuber- culosis account s3,000: probate district |
 state tax s24,o35.32
 i This made a. total of s153,521.96. Public School Budget. | Action on the public school budget l was next taken up. They were voted 1 as recommended, as follows:
 | Salaries. s92,s24.; fuel, supplies, in-
 cidentals, s15, 500; repairs, ss,soo; in l suranee, $9o6; interest, $2,77S.90; eve 1 ming school. $500, a total of s122, ,5o2.90. Report on Technical School. Shepard B. Palmer, president of the 1 town school board. made a report for
 the committee on their investigation of I the matter of technical schools, which | they have been Investigating since the | town meeting a year ago. The full | Of the Bulletin
 | The report was accepted, but before
 t6e vote was taken, Albert Boardman,
 who had been a member of the orig
 inal committee on this matter, said 1 that the trade schools of Connecticut ] were the poorest ones of their kind
 from which to secure statistics. 1 He claimed that all the schools of Norwich today were doing was to pre- | pare the children to be doctors, min-
 isters or lawyers. The great mass of
 people are not getting the higher edu-
 cation. Tho speaker said he did not wish to see. the Academy or high 1 school abolished. but we should have \ & school to train for work. He in- | stanced textile and technical schools | as examples Of practical education. The l large proportion Of pupils who leave l the common school are not going to 1 the high school.
 MT. Boardman said he was sorry to l hear this report. but he was glad to hear something in it about continuation l schools and domestic science and man. l ual training,
 Eetras Laid en the Table. fhe special matters in the call were
 next taaten up and were read in order by Clerk Charles s, HoTbrook. The 1 first was an authorization to borrow s13s, ,666 for current expenses of the town. The matter was explained at 1 the request. of s. s. Thresher before an affirmative vote en the aPprepria- | tiea was taken,
 | MT. Beardman asked why some ar l engagement in the collection Of the l town tax through change in the law, 1 eeuld net be made to ebyiate this aa- | nuai beFfeWing.