Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-26
JEWETT CITY
Annual Town Meeting Votes mill Tax-Statistics From Town Reports Rally Day at Baptist Sunday SchooI-Tracy-J Johnston Wedding is Set for Oct. IA.

IL was voted to accept the reports of the selectmen and town officers.
 E. M. Anthony was appointed a
 member of the Daniel s. Anthony Trust Fund.
 A tax of 12 mills was laid to meet the current expenses of the town and support the common schools and meet the state tax The seleetmen were em- powered to borrow money for tempor- ary use, and to pay any part of the town debt that can be paid. The salaries of town officers was not changed. The matter. of medical service for the towns poor by the lo-
 cal physicians remains the same as | last year.
 l It was voted that the board of se- | lectmen be in charge of all arrange ments relative to repairing the high ways of the town.
 Town Reports Statistics. The town reports, which are to be l distributed to the voters town meet 1 ing day, show that for the year end 1 ing Aug. 1. 1915. the running expenses i of the town were $1S,316.S7; for the | year just closed the running expenses show S22,055-36, if the amount paid | the state for road repairs $5,04043 is dedicated it shows the running ex- | penses to be $17.014.93.
 | The increase of indebtedness of $9,- | 4s6.52 of the town, over last year. is | found in the two. now fixed items, l SLdl6 TCdO S0O4U.45 ana CdX6S to the 1 state $4,433.17, a total of $9,473.60. This l year the damage by dogs was $146.70 l as against $279.70 last year.
 In 1915 forest fires cost the town i S76O.62 this year only $26.70. No dam 1 age reported by deer this year and no 1 expense for removing snow or break l ing out country back roads. 1 Outside poor cost the town $28,- i P less than in 1915. | Health Officers Report. George H. Jennings, health officer, 1 reports:
 There were three cases of scarlet i fever, two in November Gin one fam ! ily),. and one in December. There l WI four cases of measles, two each in 1 January and March. Three cases of | typhoid fever, one case in September 1 and two cases in March. It appeared i certain that the disease was taken 1 from water drunk in Plainfield. where 1 the disease was prevalent. There was | one case of diphtheria. All cases were 1 quarantined, the rooms occupied dis
 infected. No spread of disease from ! any case.
 Samples of water taken from a well
 used by the family where there was | typhoid fever and sent to the state i laboratory was found to be not fit to 1 be used for drinking though no ty- i phoid germs were found. Two samples i of water from a spring used by a ! , the laboratory and found to be very | good.
 1 The collections of milk made were l not so satisfactory as of some previous years. The number of bacteria was l larger, in some cases very much larg- 1 CT. Five of the 36 samples were sour 1 when they reached the laboratory; this 1 was partly due to the excessive heat i and delay in transportation and also, 1 as was the largo number of bacteria, l tn the 19N ok of C1ni6lU n0Olincr fhn liz after milking.
 l The school buildings in the several 1 districts were inspected and the con ! dition reported to the several com
 Many families with small children I were hastily leaving places where in | fantile paralysis was prevalent and i entering this state. To meet this dan l spreading to new points many of the | health officers of New London and 1 Windham counties decided to forbid
 the entrance into the towns. boroughs i or cities under their Jurisdiction. from i all places where this disease was epi- | denlic, Of all children under Is years 1 of age. This to take effect at noon, July 21. 1916. There has not been
 case in this town this year.
 Baptist Rally Day.
 Sunday was rally day in the Baptist ! Sunday school. The feature of the | celebration was the graduation of ] eight members of the primary depart 1 superintendent of the class is Mrs. E. , NJ. Swift. Her assistant teachers are Mrs. w. H. Whiteman, Mrs. H. T 1 Wilcox, Mrs. B. R. Gardner and Miss Ida I. Foster. The class graduated included Morton Brown, William Franklin, Marguerite Spidell, Kathleen l DearnIey, Nora Eaddad, Violet Har- ris, Grace Jenkins. Gertie Wilbur and l Minnie Mager. Superintendent A. M. 1 Brown presented each a diploma. The class motto is Always Speak the Truth 1 Under the direction of Mrs. Gardner
 the class gave an exhibition in part of their knowledge of the Bible which
 was most remarkable in vie wof the
 fact that they are all under ten years
 of age. Morton Brown and little
 Misses Marguerite SpideI, Kathleen Dearn1ey and Nora Haddad were pre-
 sented pictures as prizes in recogni-
 tion of special faithfulness and pro-
 iciency. Morton Brown gave an ac-
 guerite Spidell told of The Bound
 Foot She had made up form to il-
 lustrate what her story signified
 There was an essay by Richmond P , Gardner in which he gave a clear and
 interesting outline of the work of the first year of the intermediate depart
 ment
 Five members of Mrs. G. H. Prior, | class told some of the prominent
 women mentioned in the book ot
 Judges. These five little girls were
 Nettie Haddad. Enid Spidell, Vera Me , 1 BroOme, Anna Littlefield and Verns Tarboz. Three members of Mrs. A. M
 Clarke's class, Albert Brewster, Johr
 Hraris and Albert Franklin told of si1
 prominent Bible characters and Mis-:
 Ellen Wilcox gave a recitation. There were 190 present.
 Tracy-Johnston Wedding Invitations Invitations are out to the wedding
 of Miss Marian Knight Tracy of thi
 place, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Johr . Howard Tracy. and John Robert John 2 ston of Hartford, to take place in tht Congregational church Saturday ev.
 ening, Oct. IA, at 8 o'clock. } Seven Blossoms a Record. Mrs. Augusta Ray has nigh 9 blooming cereus which put forth sever 9 perfect blossoms Sunday night ant s Monday morning. a record in this sec 3 tion.
 : Heard About the Borough.
 Miss Mary Whee1ock returned tt
 New Britain Sunday and today re- sumes her duties as kindergartenel
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